Chapter Ninety-Nine: Decision-making

Recently, people have found that a chat software called QQ frequently appears in everyone's eyes.

Sometimes, I read it from the advertising column in the newspaper, and other times, I know it from a paragraph on the Internet.

Moreover, I heard that the funny pictures that have been uploaded on the Internet recently are all exclusive pictures of QQ.

Once or twice, when this kind of software appears in front of everyone's eyes, there is nothing yet.

But when the number of times increases, people become curious about this software.

There are many people who deliberately log on to the official website to learn about this software because of their curiosity about QQ emojis and penguin logos.

But when they found out that this funny-looking app was actually a chat tool, most of them lost interest.

In this world, when web chat tools were just emerging, people were really curious about this kind of software.

In just half a year, at least hundreds of companies that make chat software have sprung up.

And the number of people who download their chat software from these companies is almost in the millions.

This made the entire online community think that they saw the rise of a new industry.

But the good times didn't last long, and in just two years, these companies that did network communications began to close down one after another.

The main reason is that the number of users has plummeted, and there is no way to make a profit.

The reason for the sharp decline in the number of users is very simple, on the one hand, after the initial novelty, everyone's enthusiasm for online chat tools gradually disappeared, and many people gradually stopped using online chat tools.

The main reason for this result is that it is difficult for online chat tools to add friends other than relatives and friends around them.

The people in my friend list are all people I know, and I just started chatting on the Internet and talking about it, but after a long time, everyone naturally feels bored, and they are not people, what do you have to say, you can't say it clearly in person, why do you have to say it on the Internet.

As relatives and friends stop using chat software one by one, it feels very boring to use this thing alone, so the number of users of chat software has dropped sharply.

Another reason for the sharp decline in users is that when the network chat software company was just emerging, there were too many companies that joined the ranks, and 90% of the chat products were shoddy products, with ugly pictures, troublesome use, too many bugs, and often data errors, and then customer service could not be contacted.

Poor user experience, not as attractive as the game, cumbersome way to add friends, after a friend goes offline, he can't send him a message, such a chat software, naturally succeeded in dissuading a large number of people who are interested in it.

Not to mention the chat software at that time, even if it is the only YY that remains now, there is also the problem of not being able to send messages to offline friends.

Customers have reacted to this problem many times, but YY company just didn't deal with it.

It's not that they can't deal with this simple problem, but in their opinion, to deal with this kind of problem, they have to add a large storage server, such a server will be hundreds of thousands, good even millions, even if this problem is dealt with, they can't increase the advertising fee from advertisers, the cost is huge, but the benefit is basically zero, naturally they will not deal with it.

This has also led to the fact that more and more people who have a demand for online chat tools, because the experience is too poor, say goodbye to online chat tools, and choose mobile phone text messages and calls that are charged, but the practicality and convenience are greatly improved.

At the same time, it also gives people in this world a false impression, that is, network communication software is not easy to use at all, and it is also a software without a market.

Therefore, when those netizens who were curious about the penguins and chat expressions learned the truth about QQ, they shook their heads one after another.

This kind of useless software is still made by someone, and I'm really not afraid that I will lose everything.

Of course, this is also based on their understanding of web chat software or the limitations of previous products.

Therefore, most netizens are not very optimistic about the sudden appearance of QQ.

They just think that QQ's penguins are very good-looking, and the website is doing well.

However, there are also some people who do need network communication tools, and they have a detailed understanding on the official website of QQ.

When they learned about the functions of QQ, they found that compared with the previous chat software, QQ is simply a heaven and an underground.

Regardless of QQ's concise chat box and simple and convenient operation method, the official website promises to send messages to offline friends, and once friends go online, they can receive messages, which is far from the current chat software industry boss YY.

Not to mention, QQ has those funny emojis, thirty-five personalized fonts to choose from.

These few points alone have captured the hearts of many users who are interested in web chat tools.

Of course, there are many remaining functions, which are all innovative functions on the web chat software, and users have not yet experienced them, so they naturally don't know whether these functions are easy to use or not.

Anyway, in the past, every company's product would be praised like a flower before the product was launched, even if it was just to add the function of enlargement and reduction of the chat box, it would be said to be an achievement that changed the history of online chat, so the expectations of users for the new features of the chat software have long been reduced to the freezing point.

Whether it's good or bad, you'll know when QQ goes online.

At that time, if it's easy to use, download one, if it's not good, delete it if it's a big deal, and continue to use your YY, anyway, you don't have anything to lose.

QQ's commotion, for ordinary people, may just be familiar, and it can't even make people remember this new software.

But for Zuo Lengxiang, who also makes chat software, it is no less than a bolt from the blue.

In Zuo Lengxiang's company, he was sitting in the conference room listening to everyone's reports, smoking a cigarette irritably.

"The function of disconnecting and sending messages is expected to attract 20% of our users, and if our users are attracted so much, the advertising cost will be reduced by 30% in the coming year!" the secretary reported.

"Anything else?" Zuo Lengxiang took another deep breath of flue.

"The YY emoji thing, our team is developing, and it is expected to be completed in three days, and it will definitely be updated and launched before the release of QQ. The secretary continued.

After hearing the news, Zuo Lengxiang's face looked a little better, nodded and asked: "Have you studied their QQ group, can it attract people by putting dozens or hundreds of people together to chat?"

In the conference room, a man stood up and said, "After research, I feel that it has a certain usefulness and can attract some users." But after research, our company can do it technically, but in this way, we have to increase the cost of the server!"

Zuo Lengxiang stood up irritably and said: "One by one, you need to increase the cost of the server, a chat software, you invest so much money, and you can't make money, when will you be able to recover the cost, I'm afraid that Banyuanjun is not mentally retarded, right?"

The secretary thought for a while and said cautiously: "Mr. Zuo, I heard that the contract signed by TX Company and the pipe and band company, plus his current estimated rent and employee salaries, as well as various expenses in the future, we estimate that he will lose more than three million a year, and this is still in the case that they don't have too many users, the more users there are, the more losses their company will have." ”

"This brainless half-fate gentleman, doing such a loss-making business, who can tell me what it is for? Is it because of what I said to him that day, that he paid to smash my job?" Zuo Lengxiang said angrily.

None of the people in the conference room spoke, but at this time, it was not denied that their thoughts were already represented.

Banyuanjun would rather lose money and continue to make the chat software, in their opinion, there is only one reason, that is, to vent his anger and revenge for Zuo Lengxiang's insult.

Now Zuo Lengxiang, his intestines are really repentant, he knew that Banyuanjun was so grudgeful, and he refused to say good words that day, maybe he could be friends with Banyuanjun, and now looking at Banyuanjun's momentum, he would rather kill 500 enemies and lose 3,000 than mess up his business.

Thinking of this, Zuo Lengxiang felt uncomfortable in his breath.

A little kid who doesn't have any hair and wants to embarrass me.

I've been in this industry for so many years, and I've almost occupied 99% of the chat software market, and if you and I grab the market, it depends on whether you can pay the price of blood!

Isn't it just fighting for money, I have advertising revenue, I have regular users, if I lose one million, you will lose at least three million.

In addition to YY company, I have other companies, I want to see if you can afford it, or I can afford it!