Since day one the Path team launched their revamped Path 2.0 late last year and won applause from the tech world as well as the users, some people were pondering on Sina Weibo that how long would it take before a Chinese clone emerges up. Now we had an answer.
Beijing-based social networking company Plato Interactive gave a โlocal answerโ to Path with the debut of DianDi (็นๆปด, or dribs and drabs). I donโt think I need to go into details about the app, you can just picture it as the Simplified Chinese version of Path with reduced functions, for example, with Path you have six moment sharing options: pictures, friend, location, music, post and sleeping status while DianDi removed โmusicโ moment but kept the rest. And the โPath Redโ was changed to โDianDi Blueโ (pictured below).
screenshot of DianDi
DianDi also faithfully followed Pathโs disruptive user interface and interactive pattern, through which you can simply swipe left or right to have access to features otherwise requires more clicks.
Some comments (in Chinese) on the appโs iTunes Store page were criticizing the app for literally ripping off the original Path without any innovation or improvement.
