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I don't think the article is praising the solution, but rather the impact of the solution. It's going to take away money and control from the App Store and put money in WeChat's account.

The real takeaway is "That's a long-term threat to iOS and Android, as well as any company that makes phones to run them"

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I think more specifically, the sentence before:

"As it becomes more powerful and self-contained, Chinese phone consumers will stop asking what phone and operating system they should buy, and start contemplating what phone best runs WeChat."

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