In later generations, many people who played Weibo but never saw Weibo in its most primitive state have a misunderstanding.

I just feel that Weibo is the same as WeChat from the beginning, and it is fiddled with on the mobile phone - in short, it is to equate the difference between "Weibo" and "blog" simply to "the difference", which is nothing more than a change of login hardware.

In particular, the Twitter thing used by foreign adults has emerged in non-smartphones, and its early version can use the mode of sending text messages, spending SMS fees to send 140 characters of a piece of content (this is also the origin of the 140 characters limit in the text part of Weibo products). Therefore, many users who simply define the source of Weibo as "the color of the imitation of the American version of Twitter" also deepens this misunderstanding.

But in fact, the early Weibo was a real PC product. The app on the mobile phone, on the contrary, is at least a few months or even a year late - the reason for this situation is not difficult to understand when reviewing the schedule.

In China, Weibo came out in the summer of 2009. AT THAT TIME, THE ONLY SMARTPHONE PRODUCTS IN HORIZONTAL COMPARISON WERE APPLE'S IPHONE-3GS, WHICH WAS MORE THAN HALF A YEAR AWAY FROM THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE IPHONE4 - AND DOMESTIC OPERATORS WERE NOT VERY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE INTRODUCTION OF 3GS, AND ONLY IN THE IPHONE4 ERA WAS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR APPLE TO INVADE THE CHINESE MARKET IN A BIG WAY.

As for the Android platform, there are already some HTC Android phones in Europe and the United States in 09, and the HTC brand once tasted the "first righteous award" that defected to Google. However, those Android machines with a combination of touchscreen keyboards did not set off a wave in the same period in China after all. Later generations really waited for Android to become popular in China, but it was more than half a year later than IPHONE4, to 2011.

It is precisely for this reason that 2011 was defined as the first year of "mobile Internet" in China. Roughly two years behind the Americans.

Therefore, if Sina in 2009 counted on making Weibo a product that only mobile phones could play, the end would only be unavailable.

Even Ma Hesha, a girl who had done her homework in advance because of work needs, never thought of using her mobile phone to log in and send Weibo.

That night, she logged in to her account with a computer, and then briefly wrote a few words of personal emotion, forwarded Feng Jianxiong's blog post portal, and then @ a few good friends to watch.

I also uploaded a few beautiful photos to myself, no need to repeat them.

……

Another night lingering.

The next day, when Feng Jianxiong got up and washed up and checked his homework, he discovered this problem.

"You also use the computer to post on Weibo? This is not for you. Computers are for people who write long stories, and they give people the feeling of 'pretending', thinking that every sentence you write is carefully polished, not 'brainless impulses to think of what to say'.

And your character selling point is completely different from mine, what my fans want to see is my hypocritical and scheming things. What your fans want to see is your most real, the most life side, I hope you upload it directly after taking a photo, and you have to capture, you can't think, you can't concave shape, and it doesn't matter if you're even blackened - anyway, no, you get a smartphone right away, I remember that Weibo started to do 'who, who, what's the mobile phone to post it in', this kind of signature suffix sharing function, you'd better not only get a smart phone, but also a smart phone with GPS positioning. ”

Feng Jianxiong almost gave such a lot of suggestions after watching the operation of Ma Hesha, but it was still clearly organized.

Ma and Saa listened to these words in a state of ignorance and shame, and then ran away like a fawn to clean up.

After returning to the posture of a pure jade girl, she took breakfast for Feng Jianxiong and brought it back to the dining table. ”

Feng Jianxiong chewed carefully on the oatmeal buns brought by Ma and Sha, thought about it, and found that he was a little confused about the timeline.

Nowadays, it is really not easy to get a mobile phone that can post Weibo.

"I should be able to send it on my mobile phone, and I'll call someone from Sina after dinner to ask. THERE SHOULD BE AN IOS VERSION OF THE APP. Although I don't like the color of apples, I don't have the skills to control the apples, and it's okay to use them for the time being. ”

Feng Jianxiong thought about it and gave his own answer. He estimates that domestic software companies will definitely not make Android versions now, and -3GS estimates that it can count on enthusiasts to make parallel goods to play on game consoles, and software manufacturers may spend money on porting.

Ma Hesha listened and was in awe of Feng Jianxiong.

It turns out that Brother Xiong can't handle things, he can go directly to the official high-level of Sina?!

However, who made Feng Jianxiong already a well-known big V with 5 million fans in the era of traditional blogs. And in the case of the dispute with Qinghua and the Central Translation Publishing House, Sina's operation team was forced to 404 Feng Jianxiong for a while, and some disgraceful handles were pinched by Feng Jianxiong, and later they mixed up some friendships.

Therefore, if you change a few big Vs who have millions of fans in the blog era, it's really hard to say whether this kind of thing can be spoken. But Feng Jianxiong can.

After eating, Feng Jianxiong called Mr. Jiang and asked about the mobile version of Weibo.

Of course, Mr. Jiang would not personally ask about this detail, and said that he would check it for him, and then reply to him fifteen minutes later with the contact information of the technical director of the project, and let Feng Jianxiong ask it himself.

This is also the norm, after all, this bit of friendship is there, and it is not enough for the executives of large listed Internet companies to personally run for Feng Jianxiong's trivial matters. People give a specific manager's contact information, which is already very face-saving.

Feng Jianxiong dialed the number and began to inquire in detail.

"You say the mobile version of the app? We do have development. THERE IS NO WAY TO DO IT AT PRESENT, BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF ANDROID IN ANDROID, AND NO ONE KNOWS WHICH HARDWARE MANUFACTURER WILL LOG IN TO THE DOMESTIC MARKET FIRST, BUT THERE IS, AFTER ALL, THE SYSTEM IS CLOSED, AND THE TEST ENVIRONMENT IS EASY TO BUILD - AT PRESENT, WE USE IPHONE-3GS FOR INTERNAL TESTING. ”

The technical person in charge of the other party gave a very positive answer. He was obviously taken care of, and he knew that the caller was a big V who was very helpful to Weibo operations, so he was very polite.

When something like Weibo was first launched, the main strategy of the operator was to desperately attract celebrities to use it and help the platform attract traffic, and the service was still good. So far, in the first few days of the launch, no customer has expressed the intention of using a mobile phone to post Weibo, and now there is a big V who is willing to be a "guinea pig", which is also good for the operating company to speed up the technical test, which is a win-win situation.

Of course, from Feng Jianxiong's point of view, he can also know with his knees that if he lets Ma Hesha become the first batch of users to test the waters of the "IOS version of Weibo APP", then the official promotion and publicity resources of Weibo will also be very inclined - it is estimated that others will have 1 million likes and forwards before they can be on exposure channels such as hot searches, and this 100,000 or 200,000 can be on. (It's not necessarily a hot search, it's just a simple example)

The earliest users of any successful product can reap cheap traffic dividends.

It's like even if a person doesn't have any skills, he registered a bunch of six-digit QQ numbers in 2000 to ensure that they are not recovered, and they can sell for a lot of money after so many years. In the same way, a person who opened a store on Taobao in 2004 can also earn a lot of official freemium services that people who opened a store N years later can't enjoy.

Weibo is also a truth.

FENG JIANXIONG PAUSED AND ASKED BLUNTLY: "IS THAT IF I GET AN IPHONE-3GS, NO MATTER THE HONG KONG VERSION OF THE AMERICAN VERSION, I CAN INSTALL IT ON WEIBO AND USE IT?"

The technical person in charge of the other party thought for a while, and his voice revealed a little difficult: "Theoretically, it is possible, but first of all, we are an internal beta version, and there must be bugs - of course, this is not a big problem, you are willing to try it, this is also helping us test, if there is a problem, I can open a special REPORT channel for you, and send programmers to follow up."

ANOTHER PROBLEM IS THAT AT PRESENT, THE IPHONE-3GS DOES NOT HAVE A FORMAL OPERATOR CHANNEL TO ENTER THE COUNTRY ON A LARGE SCALE, SO OUR WEIBO APP HAS NOT ENTERED THE APP-STORE SUBMISSION PROCESS, AND YOU CAN'T DOWNLOAD IT ON THE APP-STORE AT PRESENT......"

"Then I can just use the jailbreak machine? The better the jailer machine for you, you can directly help me install it?" Feng Jianxiong didn't think this was a problem.

"The more ...... Jailbreak?" The technical leader of Sina apparently didn't react. After all, in the cultural environment of Chinese speaking in China at that time, no one really used the word "jailbreak" to describe cracking the Mac system. The Americans have it, but no one translates it like that.

"It's system cracking. Feng Jianxiong was a little impatient.

"Can you crack it? This is okay, after you get the 'jailbreak' machine, send us here to analyze it. Our current test environment uses the engineering mode prototype sold by Apple to developers for debugging, and it is estimated that there are commonalities. ”

Feng Jianxiong hung up the phone, and Ma Hesha next to him heard it in a fog, and felt very tall.

After confirming that Feng Jianxiong had nothing to say, she cautiously suggested: "Brother Xiong, is it necessary to make so much trouble? Just for me...... Otherwise, let's make it simpler, and just send it to the computer for a few months. ”

"It's not all about you. Feng Jianxiong rejected the sister's proposal in one sentence.

Ma Hesha could never see how big a game of chess Feng Jianxiong could play.

……

After a week of mixing with horses and yarns, Feng Jianxiong took care of his business during the day every day, and wrote books at night with red sleeves and incense, and coded about 50,000 or 60,000 words of his treatises. Ma and Yarn also share and retweet it occasionally.

Counting the days, it is already the beginning of the school season, and Ma Hesha should also report back to Jinling.

As for Feng Jianxiong, he has already graduated, so whether he is in the summer vacation or not has no effect on him.

Of course, Feng Jianxiong still hopes to help her overcome the technical obstacles in self-promotion before Ma and Sasha leave.

09's overseas shopping logistics was really cheating, but fortunately, he still helped Feng Jianxiong get what he wanted, and he specially cracked the jailbreak.

The process during this period is quite tortuous.

In fact, it only took Feng Jianxiong two days to get the Haitao mobile phone itself - anyway, he has money, and it is no problem for others to issue a special bill for air transportation. If you can't find a little brother, fly to the United States and buy a spot.

Isn't it just money, the cost of tens of thousands of yuan, and Feng Jianxiong is also called money?

However, the subsequent jailbreak process is very complicated.

Through the relationship between his technical nerds, he got to a cracking technology team in eastern Guangdong, which is a little gray anyway, and the business is not so legal.

BUT WHEN I INQUIRED, I FOUND THAT THEY HAD NOT DONE A FULL SET OF IPHONE-3GS CRACKING TECHNOLOGY AT ALL.

THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT THERE IS STILL NO MARKET - THERE ARE TOO FEW PEOPLE IN CHINA WHO WILL BUY IPHONE-3GS, AND THE COST SHARING IS TOO HIGH FOR SUCH A FEW CONSUMERS. And everyone doesn't have much money to save on the genuine APP after jailbreaking, this business is not cost-effective, and naturally no one develops it.

If you still don't understand, just think about the cracked version of the Ranger online - if a game is pirated, the number of users who are willing to spend time playing pirated is only two or three kittens, then of course the Ranger's cracked group will not bother with this.

As for the technical difficulty, the person in charge of the hardware cracking team at that time privately boasted to Feng Jianxiong that there was not much difficulty, as long as someone was willing to bear the labor cost of this cracking - that is, to bear the salary, bonus, and reward expenses of his technical team for a week.

Feng Jianxiong did not hesitate to take out a week's salary bonus of the other team, eating, drinking, killing horses and chickens, plus red envelopes.

THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE CRACKING TEAM WAS A LITTLE EMBARRASSED TO SEE FENG JIANXIONG SO HAPPY, AND ASKED FENG JIANXIONG IF HE WANTED TO SHARE SOME OF THE TRAFFIC BENEFITS OF THE IPHONE-3GS VERSION OF THE CRACKED SOFTWARE IN THE FUTURE - THIS KIND OF THINKING IS ALSO HUMAN, AFTER ALL, THERE ARE FEW PEOPLE WHO NEED THIS THING AT PRESENT, AND THERE ARE BIG MONEY SPONSORS TO DEVELOP IT, AND IT SHOULD BE SQUEEZED OUT OF THE SURPLUS VALUE.

Who knows, Feng Jianxiong said that there is no need to share these small profits at all.

He didn't even want to touch this black money.

His only requirement is that in the future, when it comes to the legal issue of prison escape, the other party will obey his command and be responsible for providing evidence. As for the fact that testifying may bring economic or even criminal losses to the cracking team, he Feng Jianxiong will pay out of his pocket to settle it or compensate him.

Anyway, the money he spends now has the ability to make Apple spit out ten times and a hundred times in the future. He is so arrogant, he used someone else's prison escape, and he had to slap the fruit dog in the face in turn.

The other party immediately stopped talking nonsense, knowing that Feng Jianxiong was definitely the style of a big man.

So Feng Jianxiong got the crack he wanted in just one week - in fact, the other party still has a certain amount of technical accumulation, but it is just a little bit of transplantation, so it can be done so quickly.

AFTER GETTING THE JAILBROKEN VERSION OF THE CUSTOMIZED IPHONE-3GS THAT CAN CALL AND SURF THE INTERNET IN CHINA, FENG JIANXIONG TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE LAST DAY BEFORE MA AND SHA REPORTED ON THE START OF SCHOOL, FLEW TO THE CAPITAL, TOOK THINGS TO SINA HEADQUARTERS, AND ASKED PEOPLE TO HELP HIM GET EVERYTHING IN PERSON.

Sina's technical director of Weibo also had to sigh at Feng Jianxiong's execution, and respectfully arranged a special person to help him get this win-win thing - the only requirement was that Feng Jianxiong could not publicize to the public that Sina's technical staff had assisted in completing this matter. It can only be said that "Feng Jianxiong got the installation file of this APP from a specific channel by himself, and then installed it by himself".

AFTER ALL, SINA DOESN'T WANT TO OFFEND APPLE, AND DOESN'T WANT TO LEAVE THE OTHER PARTY WITH THE IMPRESSION THAT "WITHOUT PASSING THE APP-STORE REVIEW, YOU DARE TO PRIVATELY SPREAD AN APP FOR IPHONES".

Feng Jianxiong gladly accepted this setting.

Since others don't dare to be the first bird, let him be the best.