China Mobile ends decade of failure against WeChat: iMessage-like Feixin to shut down after struggling in smartphone era

China Mobile ends decade of failure against WeChat: iMessage-like Feixin to shut down after struggling in smartphone era – Oops!Something went wrong.Please try again later. – 0941.HK China Mobile is shutting down its iMessage-style system that once dominated mobile messaging on the network, putting an end to a decade of failure to adapt to China’s smartphone era, where people live much of their digital lives inside Tencent Holdings ‘ WeChat . When initially launched in 2007 by China Mobile, one of the country’s three main state-owned telecoms carriers, the Feixin messaging service took the country by storm. Yet many of…