Messaging and video-calling apps. WhatsApp, iMessage, FaceTime: the family group chat.
It is a product you buy.
It exists to relieve Stay connected to people who are elsewhere. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Smartphones and internet and Cloud computing and data centres. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
1 organisations in this map sell it, 1 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionMessaging and video-calling apps
- FrictionStay connected to people who are elsewhere
- Life phaseAcross every phase
- Rooted inBelonging
Relieves
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tencent | $600B | public · 448 | WeChat, games, WeChat Pay |