The two bigwigs surnamed Zhang scolded each other in the circle of friends, and the screenshots were leaked out by other bigwigs who were secretly observing, which attracted a lot of attention in the industry for a while, and they all turned into melon-eating crowds to watch strongly.

As a hunter, ByteDance's Tik-Tok's continuous blows in this midsummer had a very difficult time, but in the end it was overcome, and now it seems that it is bitter.

After experiencing the "dark moment" in the second quarter, Tik-Tok now won the first place in the global download list of the AOS app store in the third quarter, with 68.5 million downloads, surpassing BlueSpace, BV Video Network, WhatAPP and other Azure applications under Bluestar Technology to become the most downloaded Azure application in the world.

In the third quarter of this year, Blue Space was downloaded about 30 million times, ranking sixth on the list. BV Video Network, WhatAPP, and Messenger ranked 2nd to 5th with 45.5 million downloads, 33.8 million downloads, and 31.3 million downloads, respectively.

Tik-Tok has become the most downloaded app in the world, beating its competitors in terms of installed base, including Snapchat, a "burn-after-read" software that has risen in North America, and super social giants such as BV Video Network, MicroBlog, BlueSpace, etc.

Last year, in 2017, Tik-Tok's monthly downloads were less than 10 million, and the downloads of several core social apps under Bluestar Technology were higher than Tik-Tok's, but in the second half of this year, they began to climb rapidly, and the number of downloads in September last month reached 23.5 million, which is only the number of downloads in the AOS app store.

As of 2018, the global downloads of Tik-Tok have reached 330 million, and with the addition of 240 million users of Tik-Tok's predecessor "y" software, the cumulative downloads have now reached 750 million, and the number of monthly active users in the world has reached 400 million.

These dazzling data Tik-Tok took less than two years, while BV Video Network took three years, Messenger took four years, WhatAPP took four years, and Blue Space took five and a half years.

The popularity of Tik-Tok is quite amazing, and this social product is becoming more and more popular among local young people in North America.

In North America, the average local user opens Tik-Tok about 8 times a day, with an average of 5 minutes each time, which corresponds to BlueStar Technology Group's BlueSpace and WhatAPP, which are 4.9 minutes and 3.7 minutes respectively.

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The headquarters of the Côte d'Azur, the city of Galaxy.

Early this morning, Zhang Bowen came to the Cte d'Azur.

"Come in...... Yo, Lao Zhang? Haha, what wind is blowing you on my turf? Yao Jianhong's office, seeing that the person who came in was Zhang Bowen, the actual head of Bluestar Technology, couldn't help but laugh.

Zhang Bowen came in and sat down on the sofa in the rest area, not polite at all, and immediately complained: "Shock... Don't say it, Douyin doesn't die, I can't sleep and eat, I haven't been able to eat and drink by Zhang Yiming's guy recently, and I can't sleep at night. ”

Hearing this, Yao Jianhong came out of his desk, came to sit down opposite Lao Zhang, crossed Erlang's legs and teased, "How is it?" It's not good to be topped by people, now you can experience the taste of those old giants who were topped by Bluestar Technology ten years ago. ”

Zhang Bowen shook his head with a wry smile and sighed: "It's me who is careless, I can't shake off the pot that makes Zhang Yiming rise, or Mr. Luo's insight is terrible, I remember in 2013, in a casual chat with Mr. Luo, he mentioned Zhang Yiming and his headline product value of attention, try to acquire, to 2016 is not necessarily much of a threat, I didn't expect that it was just a year or two but a blink of an eye, so it happened that in the past two years, I ran into North America to do things, ignoring Zhang Yiming's expansion......"

Now that these are all afterthoughts, Tik-Tok's current momentum is going to reach 1 billion global downloads by the end of the year.

In fact, Bluestar Technology did send people to Zhang Yiming many times to initiate mergers and acquisitions, but without exception they were rejected by the other party, and they had no choice but to give up.

However, although Zhang Bowen at that time admired Zhang Yiming's ambition, he didn't think that the other party could pose much of a threat to Bluestar Technology, Lao Zhang thought in his heart that he had N versions of ways to defeat his opponent, and after N methods were used, Lao Zhang finally began to notice that Nima was a little wrong.

Today, especially since the second half of this year, the global conquest of Tik-Tok, the international version of Douyin, has made the world "shake" the rhythm.

Zhang Bowen said in a deep voice: "Zhang Yiming's great thing is that the success of Tik-Tok can be replicated in major markets around the world, and the overseas version is so attractive that there is not much change in the way of playing." Overseas users are also playing trick games, sitcoms, jokers, somersaults, singing lip-synchs, etc., the difference is that the people in the short videos are no longer East Asian faces, and the language has changed. ”

Yao Jianhong nodded, and after a while, he also analyzed: "The rise of ByteDance is also within the scope of my focus, Tik-Tok's ice-breaking in different overseas markets, and the existence of accidental factors such as Bluestar Technology being involved too much energy in North America, but on the whole, its operating ideas should be the same as that of domestic Douyin." ”

Seeing that the brother company Bluestar Technology is now in a hurry, Yao Jianhong's sense of crisis has also increased a few points, and the Cote d'Azur is also facing the situation of lagging behind competitors in the field of smart home, and it is not facing one or two opponents, but a group.

Nokia, Motorola, Blackberry, and other old international giants that were killed or crippled by the Cote d'Azur are not yet cold yet, and Yao Jianhong doesn't want to go to them to play.

However, relatively speaking, the situation on the Cote d'Azur is much better, and the big white robot is the real killer, which gives Yao Jianhong great confidence.

But the sense of crisis really exists, and being strong now does not mean that it can always be strong, and its own rise itself is to climb to the top by stepping on the corpse of the old giant, and there are many people who have the idea of "he can replace him".

After Yao Jianhong finished speaking, Lao Zhang nodded again and again: "You are right, Zhang Yiming first increased the amount of hundreds of millions of investment, burning money to attract celebrities to settle in; Then, the star effect brought it a large number of young seed users and pulled the first batch of traffic; Then, relying on super operation to detonate word of mouth. His three-plate axe is not only used in China, but also in mature markets such as Japan, Europe, and North America. ”

At this time, Yao Jianhong looked at the other party and said, "Lao Zhang, you came to me in a hurry, do you want me to be your thug?" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Bowen raised his head and coughed lightly a few times, then looked at the other party and said bluntly: "Okay, you and I won't sell it, you guessed it, I came here this time to ask you to make a move, and block byte-based products on the AOS side and the WOS side, that's it, he Zhang Yiming has to peel off his skin if he doesn't die, plus I continue to increase my efforts on the side of Bluestar Technology, even if he can live, he will be hanging a sigh of relief." ”

This move is really ruthless, and it is a completely unreasonable trick to play hooligans, that is, to play hooligans openly.

And what Zhang Yiming is most afraid of is this, as long as the Cote d'Azur also intervenes in this dispute and goes all out to suppress it, it will definitely be a heavy blow to ByteDance, and a rhythm that may be directly cooled if you are not careful.

Smartphones are the core bearing foundation of the mobile Internet, and the blocking from the AOS side and the WOS side means that about 65% of the world's mobile phone users are directly isolated, and they can only absorb users in the Android camp.

And behind Android is Google, Google is a Silicon Valley technology giant, now Lao Mei is not only unhappy to see Blue Star Technology and the Cote d'Azur, but also unhappy to see all those with the surname "Hua", Tik-Tok's current momentum is also full of presence in North America, and it has already entered Lao Mei's sight, Zhang Yiming has already felt the strong hostility of Lao Mei.

In order to understand the operation of the baby's goods, I may arrange you one day.

Therefore, even if ByteDance's current momentum is booming, its fragile side is also objective, once it collapses, it will be the rhythm of blood collapse, although Zhang Yiming has shown off his achievements in the circle of friends and complained, but he is also full of crisis.

"This is absolutely not good, Lao Zhang, it's not that I don't want to help you, but I can't, once I do this, the damage to the third-party developer community will have sequelae that may not heal for ten years, which shakes the foundation of the third-party developer community, and this will shake the core competitiveness of the Cote d'Azur."

As soon as Yao Jianhong heard the other party's request, he refused directly without thinking about it, and added: "If you want to block from the consumer terminal, you must Zhang Yiming make mistakes by himself, just like blocking the 'connotation paragraph', everyone has nothing to say." ”

This head, Yao Jianhong said that he would not open anything, as long as he sat in this position and was in charge of the Cote d'Azur, it would be impossible to pass.

Once this kind of head start, what will other third-party developers think? Is it that when a certain product rises in the future, as long as it threatens you, it will be banned indiscriminately?

This will not only make the Cote d'Azur stand up for a series of lawsuits, and even anti-monopoly investigations and other troubles, the most fatal thing is that the vitality of the developer community will no longer exist, and gradually evolve into a pool of stagnant water, some people with lofty ideals must be worried that their products will be made, and finally be ruthlessly blocked by the Cote d'Azur and die, and will inevitably be discouraged.

And these aspirants are the core group that ensures the vitality of the community.

It's just pushing good developers into the Android camp, and those in Google's management want to see this happen, and Larry Page will probably dream of laughing pigs.

Zhang Bowen smiled bitterly and was speechless for a long time, only to see him leaning back against the sofa and looking at the ceiling and sighing: "In the current Internet buzzword, the baby is bitter in his heart." ”

Yao Jianhong couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Lao Zhang, you knew before you came that I would not agree, this is not clear, you just want to find someone to complain and release the pressure recently." In Bluestar Technology, you can only be bored, you have bitterness in your heart but you can't speak, you can't show discouragement to your subordinates and hurt your morale, and you are embarrassed to go to Mr. Luo to your boss, so you can only come to me, I understand, maybe one day I will go to you, in the same situation as you. ”

Zhang Bowen muttered to himself: "You're right, it's really cool to top others, it's really unpleasant to be topped by others, and the taste at both ends can be regarded as experienced, Made." ”

If poor Zhang Baobao knew that ByteDance and Tik-Tok had been arranged by their own bosses for a long time, they would not have been so bitter, and they would not have come to Yao Jianhong for comfort.

It's just that they are still kept in the dark, including Zhang Yiming and everyone in the outside world.

Co-authored for a long time, is the left hand hitting the right hand?

Don't bring such a trick.

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