"Let's vote by a show of hands. ”

LG mobile phone China, Pu Jinxian looked at his colleagues who had almost all raised their hands, his face showed helplessness, and at the same time he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now that everyone has made a decision, let's contact WeChat, and we are allowed to go online. ”

……

"Having come to this point, what are we going to do at the moment, everyone is free to say. ”

"President, in fact, I don't think we really need to fight against WeChat, WeChat is a cross-platform software, although it has brought a certain impact on our company's own business, but the impact is not particularly large. ”

"Our company's BBM business does not bring much revenue every year, and even many users are a little disgusted with our business, such as Apple is said to be also launching a video call software, which can be used on the IOS system, and it is also free. ”

"However, in a year, WeChat has nearly 100 million users in China, and has become the preferred mobile chat software for many users. ”

Tom, president of BlackBerry Greater China, heard his colleague's analysis, and he was also a little uncomfortable that a multinational mobile phone manufacturer was going to be blackmailed by a software.

Of course, the company could continue to block WeChat, but only if it gave up on Chinese mobile phone users, which was unacceptable to the company's board of directors.

"Contact WeChat and talk to them. ”

……

The same and similar scene appeared in the executive meeting of many mobile phone manufacturers at this moment, and these mobile phone manufacturers unsurprisingly chose to block and block WeChat, and what prompted these mobile phone manufacturers to change their attitude was not only because of the increasing number of users on WeChat, but also because a few days ago, an authoritative survey company released a questionnaire.

The company's questionnaire was as simple as asking mobile phone users with WeChat if they would choose to buy a phone if they had a phone they liked but couldn't download WeChat.

The entire questionnaire randomly selected 10,000 people for the survey, and 80% of the users chose to be loyal to the mobile phone, and the remaining 10% were not sure.

In the 80% of the user answers, now the mobile phones are the same, if the mobile phone you fancy does not have WeChat, then it is a big deal to buy another mobile phone.

It was the results of this investigation that frightened these mobile phone manufacturers, and when they found that WeChat could no longer be banned and blocked, these mobile phone manufacturers began to soften and began to go online.

"Mr. Su, if you want me to see it, we should ignore these mobile phone manufacturers, we can't block us if they want to, and if they want to unblock it, they will unblock it, and let them taste the consequences. ”

"Old money, it's not right for you to say that, although WeChat is about to break 100 million users, but it can't establish a dominant position, Tencent is also eyeing it, in this case, we don't need to be tough with these mobile phone manufacturers. ”

"I think Mr. Li is right, let's remember this account first, and then settle the account later. ”

"You are too cautious in technology, there is no real enemy in business, everyone is competing for their own interests, as long as the interests are the same, the enemy can also become a friend, if you really catch it, then I don't know how many enemies there are in the future." ”

WeChat headquarters,At this moment, it is also holding a meeting,Those mobile phone manufacturers who originally blocked WeChat have chosen to put on the shelves,But because now Android mobile phones because each page is different,It is necessary to carry out special debugging technology,So Su Wang's side also held a meeting。

The content of the meeting is very simple, whether to accept the service of these mobile phone manufacturers, and then let the technical department optimize the mobile phone models of these mobile phone manufacturers and then put them on the shelves.

"Xiang Kai is right, there is no real mortal enemy in business, unless it is the kind that cannot be resolved at all, just like us and Tencent, before we defeat Tencent, these grudges can be completely let go. ”

Su Wang spoke, for the softness of these mobile phone manufacturers, in his expectation, a total of seven mobile phone manufacturers participated in the ban some time ago, of which Samsung is the leader, but these mobile phone manufacturers only occupy less than a quarter of the market of domestic mobile phone users.

With the continuous release of the WeChat version, it has been far behind the communication software, and it is currently the largest in mobile communication, with nearly 100 million users.

There is a big difference between communication software and other software, that is, communication is a rigid need, which ensures the user's usage rate, and the uniqueness of communication software ensures that it will not be replaced.

If these mobile phone manufacturers are not convinced, it will surprise him.

"Mr. Su, on the issue of WeChat charging, can we imitate the payment model of QQ? ”

Because of Su Wang's explanation, WeChat has to use its own independent server to store data, and also to keep the calls between users smooth, which requires a lot of bandwidth.

Doing business, not charity, the ultimate goal is to make money, so in the hearts of WeChat employees, it is necessary to think about the appropriate profit model, and you can't always use love to generate electricity.

"There is no need to think about profitability for the time being, at least in the next three years, WeChat itself will not do any profitable projects, which I hope everyone can recognize. ”

Su Wang interrupted his colleague's words, he didn't plan to make a profit through value-added services at all, in his heart, he wanted to build WeChat into a powerful aggregation platform.

In the previous life, it was already developing in this direction, and the development and opening of official accounts, small programs, and these plug-ins allowed many Internet companies to carry out secondary development on WeChat.

Of course, Su Wang has a bigger idea in his heart, the mobile phone system in his previous life was the two camps of Android and Apple, although there are other systems launched, but because of the lack of ecological chain, it can't attract developers at all.

But WeChat is different, when WeChat is large enough, many developers develop through WeChat's third-party plug-ins, in this case, WeChat can be regarded as a system, and these small programs and other third-party plug-ins are the software in the system.

If WeChat is regarded as a system, then chat is the communication software that comes with the system, and other third-party plug-ins and applets are the software developed by those companies, which can just form a complete ecosystem.

However, Su Wang also knows that when he really goes to that point, he will inevitably face the targets of other systems, and there will be a lot of trouble, but no matter what, this must be taken, but this journey may be very long.

"Mr. Su, if it is not profitable, it is not a way for the company to continue to lose money like this?"

"We don't do specific profit-making projects ourselves, but that doesn't mean that we won't be profitable, we can cooperate with third-party companies, and then adopt a commission model, just like Kaixin.com cooperated with those game companies at the beginning. ”

"It means that we use users and traffic to cooperate with those third-party companies to take a commission?"

"That's pretty much it, but the premise is that users take the initiative to consume, we won't take the initiative to promote these to users, everything depends on third-party companies to mine and attract users by themselves, which is what I want to talk about next, that is, the WeChat public platform. ”

"Regarding the WeChat public platform, you can read the plan for details, which will be the focus of our next step, but before launching the public platform, we need to launch a new feature, that is, the circle of friends function. ”

"Moments function?"

Many WeChat executives are still very unfamiliar with these words, but a few have thoughtful flashes on their faces.

"There is a photo sharing software abroad, called ins, a year's time, has accumulated tens of millions of users, this software will be popular, relying on powerful photo processing technology and sharing functions, and we don't do photo processing, we can do sharing functions. ”

"Users can share their favorite songs or articles and news to their friends to show their friends, and as for the songs and article news, they can be external links, just like QQ Zone. ”

"Same as QQ space, what does Mr. Su mean that we will also get a QQ space?"

"No, we don't make QQ space, the function of the circle of friends is very simple, that is, each user can post pictures, share the photos they want to share and what they want to say, and friends can like and comment. ”

That's the same setting as ins, like and comment, the difference is that the photos on ins are visible to everyone, but the circle of friends is only visible between friends. ”

"That's right, that's what it means, the technical department will develop it as soon as possible, and strive to update it when the new version is launched next month, and at the same time, the official account will also be developed here, and a third-party API interface function document will be written for third-party companies to cooperate with. ”

"Okay, I'll arrange these things, according to the original plan, three rounds of technical reserves. ”

Hearing Li Feng's answer, Su Wang nodded with satisfaction, three rounds of technical reserves, this is Su Wang's request to the WeChat Technology Department, which means that before the release of the new version, the research and development reserves of the next two versions should be done in advance.

In fact, this is no secret in some technology companies, take chips as an example, the latest chips released by those chip companies are not their best generation of products at all, at least more than two generations of chips with better and stronger performance are stored, and the second generation of chips will be released when the fourth generation is developed.

Although WeChat is not a high-tech company, Su Wang also has the same requirements for the WeChat technology department, only in this way can it always maintain its leading position in the market.