Back To 2005

"Uncle Mai asked the wrong person this question."

After hearing what Mai Jiashan said, Zhou Anan, who considered himself a non-professional, replied with a smile.

Since the emergence of the first generation Ai Feng last year, there has indeed been a so-called "smartphone craze" abroad. Many international mobile phone manufacturers have launched new projects and launched new "smartphones" without any technological advancement.

In this 2G era, smartphones that can only surf the Internet and chat with mobile phone TT are all scams.

TT has invested a lot of money in the mobile terminal in order to reverse the decline of Hong Kong stocks. Unfortunately, there is no good news, and TX stock has always been in decline.

In this regard, Zhou Anan was unable to give any constructive suggestions to help the other party reverse the trend.

What's more, he was still thinking about entering the market at the bottom when the TX stock fell to the beginning of 3.

"Just tell me, I'll just listen."

Regarding this most outstanding young junior, Mai Jiashan will not let go of his opinions easily.

This little guy's keen eye for the development of the Internet is the only one he's ever seen in his life.

The other one was someone Chen who tried to trick him into joining a business without a monthly salary many years ago, but he rejected him as a liar. That guy’s current net worth is no worse than that of the entire TX system.

I really miss the environment back then, when I could make my way in the world just by talking.

However, now that he is older, Mai Jiashan feels that he is unable to do what he wants and cannot keep track of the pace of the times. He has the idea of ​​​​making way for young people in advance.

"Then I'm just making random remarks. Don't take it seriously, Uncle Mai. It's too early to develop mobile communications at this time, unless one day mobile phone charges are reduced to a level that the average student group thinks will not affect their daily life. Hum, it's just like what's popular abroad. After the 3G network is fully rolled out in China, it may be an opportunity for development."

Since the other party was so insistent, Zhou Anan, who had taken a bite of Shaomai, also mentioned a recognized obstacle and some forward-looking thoughts.

Today's 2G mobile network is not only slow and has low functions, but also calculates prices in MB units.

One word, expensive, two words, expensive.

The average student party will turn on 2G data during get out of class time and are reluctant to use it at all. Even if they read an online novel, they would rather stay up all night in an Internet cafe, or go to an Internet cafe to download and save it to MP4 to watch.

After the 3G network is fully rolled out and tariffs drop a lot, the student party will be able to extend the time for mobile TT to go online, and it will almost be normalized in the 4G era.

However, at that time, Weiwei mobile phones will suddenly emerge and occupy most of the domestic mobile communication terminals.

Well, Weiwei, the mobile phone in the previous life, was also developed by TX. Based on hundreds of millions of TT users, it achieved such brilliant results.

In this life, that may not be the case. No matter what, their celebrity group will definitely want a share of the pie.

Regarding this aspect, Zhou Anan will naturally not think about anything with the other party and send the enemy shells to hit him.

"Then do you think it is necessary to continue to develop our mobile TT space?"

Seeing that there was no truth in this little slick guy's words, Mai Jiachan directly asked him about his views on the mobile phone TT space.

Originally, their TT internals were very optimistic about the mobile TT space. The traffic is not large and it is very suitable for today's young people.

However, with the rapid development of celebrity WeChat accounts, the number of users of TT spaces with overlapping functions has been slow to grow. Young people with WeChat accounts basically do not choose to post updates in mobile TT spaces.

Therefore, many high-level officials suggested reducing the R\u0026D funding for TT Space, maintaining daily operations, and allowing it to fend for itself.

Anyway, celebrity Weike is an important partner of their TT.

Instead of investing a lot of money and beating yourself up, and losing money no matter what, it is better to invest money in online games, which are the most profitable, and that is the most profitable industry of TX Group.

This is the fact that even Mai Jiachen, who initially wanted to develop the mobile TT space, was shaken.

"Uncle Mai, please look."

Taking out his latest E71 model "Weak Chicken" which was just released last month, Zhou Anan clicked on his commonly used WK browser, selected the extremely conspicuous WeChat web page link, and spent ten seconds relying on the function of saving the account. , log in slowly.

Then, Zhou Anan opened TT on her mobile phone, and then clicked on the TT space on the function page. It took 8 seconds just to jump to the page, and she had to log in to the account again, which took a total of 45 seconds.

This is because his mobile phone is expensive enough and the Internet speed is fast enough. Otherwise, the time consumption of a poor mobile phone will be increased by at least half.

Today's mobile web page opening speed is not the slowest, only slower.

"Yeah, I understand."

Seeing the clear contrast between the two, Mai Jiachan took a sip of tea soup with some regret and gave up the last bit of persistence in his heart.

However, he soon discovered the mobile browser used by the other party, and his eyes lit up, as if he had discovered a new continent: "When did your mobile browser go online? How many downloads have you had?"

"Probably the end of March. I don't know the current download volume. I heard my secretary mentioned it last week and said it was only over 5.2 million."

When Zhou Anan mentioned the mobile browser WK developed by his company, he felt a little uninterested when he told that number.

Knowing the general trend of smartphones in the future, he will naturally not let go of the development of mobile WeChat. Even after Celebrity Group received 1.9 billion in financing last year, he invested heavily in the development of his own browser.

With the release of WK browser version 1.0 at the end of March this year, Zhou Anan discovered the real gap between himself and the big boss.

US, which has been developed for four years, has been updated several times. It has more than 40 million users worldwide and is the only mobile browser with more than 10 million users in China.

And their WK mobile browser, relying on tens of millions of Weike user groups, has developed for nearly two months and is not even one-eighth of the size of its big brother UC.

Can't compare, can't compare.

However, their company's WK mobile browser has two great benefits for users. One is that it is of course very fast to log in to the celebrity Weike website, and the other is that there are no pop-up advertisements, not even a single advertisement pop-up window.

Celebrity Group has money, but is so willful. The focus of making WK ​​mobile browser is only to serve micro-customers and does not accept any bad advertisements.

This has been unanimously praised by all WK mobile browser users, and the usage rate among their employees within the celebrity group exceeds 95%.

The remaining 5%, well, the mobile phone version of the sweeping aunt and the kitchen master is a bit low and cannot access the Internet.

"I feel like you're not very satisfied with this browser. Why don't you sell it to us as TX?"

Listening to the other party's somewhat decadent tone and looking at the other party's appearance, it was unclear whether the little fox was showing off or was really dissatisfied. Mai Jiashan made a good suggestion for the other party's sake.

"Have you not already developed your own mobile browser? Why would you buy ours?"

Unexpectedly, Mr. Mai had such strange thoughts, Zhou Anan asked speechlessly.

As far as he knows, mobile TT has its own mobile browser, which was launched a long time ago.

"I offer 300 million, and you decide whether to sell it or not?"

Without further ado, Mai Jiashan directly offered a sky-high price that ordinary people could not refuse.

Just kidding, they built a dedicated mobile browser into mobile TT last year. As a result, it was criticized because of the web page conversion speed. The user experience feedback was very poor, and even few of their internal employees used it.

It has been developing for more than a year. Look at the number of downloads of their mobile TT browser alone, which is only 3.86 million. The new growth can hardly keep up with the number of uninstalls.

The page layout of WK looks relatively fresh, and the page conversion speed is much faster than that of their mobile TT browser. The most important thing is the growth rate of the other party's downloads.

It can be called terrifying.

You know, the current leader of mobile browsers, US, has been developing for four years, but has only more than 40 million total downloads. Excluding foreign users, the number of domestic users is between 15 million and 20 million.

In other words, it took WK mobile browser more than a month to catch up with one-third of the US mobile browser's domestic user base that has been developed in four years.

Quietly, Celebrity Group developed such a big star, and even he, an old man in the domestic IT industry, didn't notice it.

The little fox's scheming is unfathomable.