The years of red flags

Chapter 1431 Thinking about it
"Pony, you are a very good business leader with a long-term vision, but now is not an ordinary moment. The Internet is changing. If you don't change your mindset now, you will be eliminated in this Internet change." Jiang Hua shook his head: "This Internet change is different from the past. No matter how it changed in the past, the Internet was operated based on computers, but this time it is different. Computers will no longer be the only Internet terminals."

Pony thought for a moment and said, "You mean that this time smartphones will replace computers and become the mainstream Internet terminals."

"Computers will definitely not be eliminated, but for most ordinary people, using a mobile phone to browse the Internet is undoubtedly much easier than using a computer." Jiang Hua smiled and said, "Think about it yourself, if you can browse the Internet content just by using a smartphone, what does this mean for the Internet?"

Pony took a deep breath and said, "The number of Internet users will increase unprecedentedly. For Internet companies, this means more users, more traffic, and more revenue. This is a new opportunity. If you seize it, even if you are worthless today, you will become the new Internet elite and the new billionaire tomorrow."

"Then we should not sell ICQ. ICQ has a huge number of users all over the world, which will allow us to reap the benefits of the new Internet at the earliest opportunity." Pony said puzzledly, "If you do this, we will lose all markets except the mainland, which will also bring unprecedented resistance to our future market development. When we join QQ and want to go overseas, the first thing we will face is the behemoth ICQ."

Jiang Hua shook his head: "This brings us back to the topic we just discussed. Creating a new instant messaging software, think about it yourself, why?"

"Yes, why?" Pony asked curiously, "Isn't it completely unnecessary to waste resources? We just need to transplant our QQ to smartphones. The company is doing this now."

"You still don't understand what instant messaging software on smartphones is used for. To build a product, you must first know who your customers are."

“Our customers are all Internet users, that’s very clear.”

"Wrong, very wrong." Jiang Hua sat up straight and said, "QQ users used to be mostly students. They learned about the world through this world, so they used QQ to make friends with strangers. In the past, you could dress up as a woman to chat with people, taking advantage of this loophole. So QQ was positioned as a social network for strangers. Later, classmates, colleagues, and family members were derived from it."

“Aren’t new communication apps used to meet strangers?”

Jiang Hua nodded: "It will have this function, but its main purpose is definitely not like this."

"Then I'll have to ask the boss to clarify."

Jiang Hua picked up the phone and asked, "What do you use your phone for?"

"A cell phone? It must be used for communication, to contact people."

Jiang Hua asked: "Who are you contacting?"

“Family, colleagues, friends.”

Jiang Hua raised a finger: "Okay, family, colleagues, friends, what do these three have in common?"

Pony suddenly realized: "We are all acquaintances, close friends. The new instant messaging software is positioned as a way for acquaintances to keep in touch with each other, so its functions and applications cannot be similar to QQ."

"Yeah, you finally got it."

Pony shook his head: "I'm still a little confused. To contact acquaintances, you can call, send text messages, and even MMS. The functions of our instant messaging software overlap with these. It's a bit redundant."

Jiang Hua smiled and shook his head: "You still haven't turned this corner. Just because the telecommunications company has it doesn't mean we can't have it. Besides, China Mobile can send text messages, so why did they create Fetion?" "The function of Fetion is mainly to facilitate users to communicate with their mobile phones while using computers."

Jiang Hua slammed the table and said, "Yes, he, a telecommunications company, can extend his hand to the Internet, so why can't we, an Internet company, get involved in mobile communications?"

"Boss, although Huaxing Network is very powerful on the Internet, we are still far behind China Mobile in terms of size." Pony said jokingly: "If we compete with China Mobile, I'm afraid we will lose miserably."

"There is no such thing as arm wrestling." Jiang Hua angrily said to Pony: "I am not involved in the communications industry, why should I arm wrestle with the mobile company? You can jump into the fire yourself, but don't drag me into it."

"Mobile companies mainly provide communication services, and the rest are additional services. We are just competing with them. Everything is the user's choice."

Pony asked: "Compared with mobile companies, what advantages do we have?"

"Let me ask you, how much is a text message and how much is a phone call per minute?"

Pony shook his head: "How would I know? I'm not a fussy person. If my phone credit is empty, I'll just top it up. Who cares about these small things?"

"Without discussing packages, text messages are 1 cent each and phone calls are 3-minutes each."

"Not expensive."

"It's not expensive, but only for you and me." Jiang Hua said slowly, "For working people and students, they have to calculate the phone charges. Their monthly communication fees are very limited."

"What does that have to do with us?"

Jiang Hua explained, "If our newly created instant messaging software can also send text messages, but only uses network traffic fees, instead of the 1 cent text message fee of China Mobile, wouldn't it be very economical?"

Jiang Hua continued, "If our new software can also make calls, and only uses data, and does not require phone charges, wouldn't it save money for people who have low communication charges?"

"Boss, you are a bit out of touch with reality. Data charges are not cheap these days."

"I know, of course I know that data charges are not cheap, but China Mobile and China Unicom also know that as more and more people use data, they have launched data packages, so isn't it cheaper if you calculate it this way?"

Pony nodded: "It's a bargain if you consider it this way, but if you use up your data plan, the loss of phone bills will be like running water."

"Don't worry about this. Telecommunications companies will continuously introduce new businesses to reduce the cost of data usage." Jiang Hua shook the smartphone in his hand and said, "And haven't you noticed that smartphones have a function that can connect to the wireless network? This thing is cheaper than a data package. As long as you install a wireless router where there is an Internet connection, won't all problems be solved?"

Pony stood up and said, "Boss, I will organize people to develop new software right away."

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