After a few years of change, as soon as others heard Xiao Qi's words, they knew what he was talking about.

This kind of thing, the Chinese version can be called Mi Liao, Wei. Letter.

The English version also has WhatsApp, Line, and iMessage.

And the one that appears the most in our lives is "micro. The word "letter" also refers to the five similar voice communication software mentioned above.

According to Xiao Qi's understanding, the originator of these five voice communication software should be WhatsApp, which is Jane, a former Yahoo engineer in charge of operations management? Coom was founded in 2009.

Then, Xiaomi Technology, which later learned and copied Qiao's help, launched a Chinese version of Mi Chat in December 2010.

Immediately after that, the very shameless Penguin, at the end of January 2011, launched a micro-. Letter.

Don't feel very angry, and immediately accuse "Chinese people only plagiarism and copycats".

In fact, in 2011, Qiao Gangster also did a very unkind thing, he launched iMessage, which is a copy of WhatsApp, and the main functions of the two are almost identical.

As for the sudden emergence of Line, it was also launched by a Korean company in the Japanese market, and it is also a plagiarism of WhatsApp, but it is a little more subtle than the previous ones, and it is a little more innovative, which is the one with the lowest copycat degree.

Of course, the above facts are only talking about past lives.

In this life, it's only 2007, and Mr. Coombe hasn't left Yahoo yet, and there is no voice communication software for this one, which means that Xiao Qi has become the person who created it.

Huang Fucai himself is a very smart person, and Xiao Qi is easy to understand. She only pondered for a few minutes before she understood.

"It's like playing DreamPad online, you need to be connected to the internet at all times."

"Yes!"

"If the network is connected all the time, then in addition to text messages and voice, I can't be like the micro. Bo like that, what about sending out photos and videos? ”

"Smack!"

"Ah~~"

Fairy classmate's keen thinking. made Xiao Qi stunned.

However, there was no "case" to shoot at this time, so the young man's slap hit the beautiful girl's silky buttocks, which made her angry.

Xiao Qi deliberately streamlined the functions of this voice communication software. The four major functions of the letter: text message, voice, upload and share videos and photos, shake to find nearby friends, Huangfu Cai can actually immediately draw inferences about the function of videos and photos, which is already very talented.

As for Zuihou's "shake to find nearby friends", it's a function that doesn't go up the stairs very much, and it's not surprising that you can't think of it.

"Little Cai'er. Now that you've figured out what it means, do you think this can be done? Xiao Qi asked her instead.

"Of course you have to do it~~" Huang Fu Cai said with a bias towards the powder, "But this can only be regarded as an APP, right?" If it's just software, can it do a good job? ”

"I'm going to criticize you!" XIAO QI COUGHED LIGHTLY AND SAID RIGHTEOUSLY: "ISN'T MICROSOFT JUST MAKING WINDOWS SOFTWARE?" They can do the first position of shijie, my little fairy's software, weishenme can't do shijie first? If you look at our Exploding Birds, it's just a game. Isn't it possible to earn tens of millions of dollars a month? ”

"But the biggest point of the Internet is that it's free to share. On the one hand, you don't charge people for calls and text messages, but just use the mobile traffic of the 3G network; But on the other hand, you're charging for the software itself. So will users be willing to bear this cost? Huang Fucai pondered again and asked.

My wife is really amazing!

Xiao Qi unconsciously admired the fairy wife again.

The contradiction she said is the biggest contradiction between voice communication software in the future.

WhatsApp is a good example of resolute charging, in addition to the initial free trial for a period of time, WhatsApp charges a total of $0.99-$1.99 per customer for three years, and the usage fee of this group of users supports the operation and profitability of WhatsApp. In addition to becoming the same product with the highest market share in Shijie, it has also made its valuation reach as much as $3 billion.

Line is also shy to learn to charge, but instead of using the APP client to charge, it uses a variety of one-time emoticons in the store to charge, and it can also be charged through a common game store. There is a fee for selling virtual goods inside, but there is no charge for the Line software itself.

The other three are Mi Chat and Micro. Letters and iMessage, however, are completely free of charge, but their fates are different.

Mi chat is better than micro. Both letter and iMessage are early, but because it doesn't have a specific software carrier, zuihou looks at the micro in vain. Letters capture 70% of the instant voice messaging market.

iMessage is very popular abroad, spread by iPhone users, and even poses a threat to WhatsApp, but in China, because it does not have a strong assimilation rate like Q.Q, so the market share is still very low, but it is better than Mi Talk.

In the previous life, because WhatsApp did not do a good job in patent differentiation, these software took advantage.

Xiao Qi can't be such an idiot, he did haode patent work on voice communication software early, 38 patents large and small, from creative patents to jishu patents, all the places where shijie can be registered have been registered, and it is estimated that the preliminary first round of review results will come down next year.

EVEN THE PATENT FOR A FREE COMMUNICATION PHONE CALLED SKYPE, WHICH INCLUDES A SPECIAL VOICE CALL, HAS LONG FALLEN INTO THE CLUTCHES OF XIAO QI.

He didn't know if this method could stop the penguin's copycat, but with one more weapon to defend himself, he would always be more sure of victory - or the same sentence, thanks to the penguin is listed in Hong Kong, where the protection of patents is very strict, as long as Xiao Qi takes this matter seriously, then the penguin will not be able to escape punishment.

What Huangfucai is considering must be the Chinese market.

There is no doubt that WhatsApp and Micro. If you believe in fighting in China, it must be micro. The letter triumphed.

Because Chinese people are too accustomed to using free software, this deep-rooted habit has only changed a little in the past ten years.

The software is good, but if no one uses it because of the fee, it is undoubtedly a very painful thing. (To be continued......)