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Home-sharing platform Airbnb China's president Peng Tao thinks China and other markets are as different as Apple's iOS and Google's Android mobile operating systems.

Since he has a PhD degree in computer networks, his views are not dismissed lightly by market insiders. Given their heavy use of WeChat, Baidu and Taobao, Chinese app users tend to have habits that are different from those in the rest of the world, who are used to using Facebook, Google and Amazon, Peng said.