Mobile QQ, which is believed to have been cannibalized by WeChat, just released an update with new features including an emoticon market, colorful message bubbles and theme designs. It’s not long after a major update was released that made Mobile QQ users so angry at its becoming a WeChat clone.
N0w it has an emoticon market, which, as you may know, made $17 million in Q1 2013 for mobile messaging app Line. Users and critics seems happy this time with the me-too service. Some even concluded that the new version is “very QQ”. Also, the functions that were removed in the last version have been restored.
Emoticon isn’t new to Tencent and QQ users. Users of PC-based QQ IM have been sending to each other emoticons, all for free, for over a decade. QQ Show, which offers virtual goods for avatar items, was one of the first revenue sources for Tencent.
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