Chapter 1397 Lessons from Fetion! (page 12)

As ICQ became popular in Hong Kong.

As long as there is a computer at home or in the office, everyone will basically have one or apply for two or three ICQ numbers. These numbers may be used for work or in daily life.

For example, in terms of work, before this, the internal work of the Imperial Group was carried out through the LAN. Although it was possible, it was definitely not as convenient as ICQ now.

Now superiors, subordinates, and colleagues all use ICQ numbers to communicate with each other regardless of anything.

So much so that in the small city of Xiangjiang, the total number of ICQ downloads in April and May has exceeded 2 million. Some of them should be people with several ICQ numbers, and some may only have one number.

Even so, it can be said that it is still very crazy.

For example, the employees of the Imperial Group, and even family members, basically have one person per person.

Even Yang Jirong and his wife followed the trend, and with the help of Ah Zhu, they also applied for an ICQ number.

1994 6 Month 3 Day.

Friday.

morning.

Yang Ming was in front of his chairman's office. He didn't notify Lin Xiuzhi and directly sent a message to Meris' ICQ number.

When the ICQ beeping sound came from the computer in Malice's office, he opened it and found that it was the ICQ number sent by his boss.

The current ICQ number is 8888 for Yang Ming and 2222 for Mailisi. They are both very good numbers.

After Meris saw the message, he replied OK.

Go upstairs.

When he saw the boss Sir Yang, he smiled and said: "Boss, this ICQ is really convenient."

"It will become more and more convenient in the future. When mobile phones develop to a certain extent in the future, you can directly contact them instantly through ICQ on your mobile phone."

"Boss, you changed the world."

“It wasn’t me, it was technology that changed the world.”

Yang Ming knew that he was not that capable. He just clicked on the technology tree in advance. Under his inspiration, ICQ appeared in advance.

From Meris' point of view, the boss, Sir Yang, is far more powerful than he imagined, and he doesn't know when a more powerful communication may be revealed.

"Mailisi, I'm going to visit Pengcheng in two days."

Pengcheng?

Just go through customs.

Very close.

"Boss, are you going to Pengcheng?"

"I just went to see the newly established QQ company."

The one in Xiangjiang and abroad is called ICQ, but in China it is called QQ. The program codes of these two companies are the same at the beginning, but gradually they may become somewhat different, including in terms of functions.

The boss wants to see that new company?

"Boss, shall I go with you?"

"Need not."

Yang Ming just said to him.

For him, he still attaches great importance to QQ. Historically, QQ's profits have been very high, and its market value has exceeded one trillion, making it one of the top Internet companies in the country.

At this time, Yang Ming went to inspect this new company to show his importance.

However, in the view of Melis and others, the market and influence of ICQ as a company may be greater. This can be seen from the fact that ICQ General Manager Cage has established branches in various countries around the world.

Including M country branch, Dongyang branch, Korea branch, branches in various European countries, etc.

According to the current daily download volume of ICQ, if this company is listed on the stock exchanges in Hong Kong, New York or London, its future market value will be really high.

The most important thing is that Meris can also see that the higher the number of downloads, the higher the traffic, and the higher the number of users, the greater the value of the company.

As for the domestic market, although there are more than one billion people, Meris still cannot see the real value.

Finished talking to Melis.

Melis returned to his office.

This time.

Yang Ming planned to take He Chaoluo, Yingla, Alina and Huo Jianning with him, while Lin Xiuzhi stayed in the company.

That afternoon.

after get off work.

Yang Ming saw the ICQ message sent by his mother. It seemed that his mother had also learned to use ICQ.

I just don’t know, will this ICQ trigger an online dating situation?

Yang Ming thinks it's very possible.

Historically, around 2000, QQ not only appeared as a non-mainstream service, but also triggered the trend of online dating.

But now it's just triggered in advance.

Yang Ming replied to the message.

Zai and Alina, Yingla got into the car.

Taking the car back to the Repulse Bay Mid-level Villa, Yingla said: "Sir, my second brother said that the emergence of ICQ may damage his telecommunications business."

Thaksin is now one of Siam's telecommunications kings. Especially in the 1980s, after cooperating with the Imperial Group to introduce pagers and other businesses, Thaksin has grown bigger and bigger in the telecommunications industry from southern Siam to Nanyang. .

With the development of mobile phones, Taxin's telecommunications business is indeed getting better and better.

However, unexpectedly, the Imperial Group suddenly released ICQ instant messaging software to the world, which immediately shocked many people.

"The general trend is inevitable and no one can avoid it. Even if he wants to ban this thing, he can't."

This reminded Yang Ming of Feixin in his previous life.

Historically, Fetion was the latest launch of China Mobile, and it also directly sent text messages for free. It was developed earlier than WeChat in Tangxun, and even had a peak user count of more than 5 million.

However, in the end, it was still vulnerable to WeChat.

In fact, this is how China Mobile did other businesses in the early years. From the SP business back then to various school communications, rural communications and other businesses, they were all introduced and developed from the original old users, and All achieved small success.

When there was no WeChat in the Fetion business, Fetion was not bad. However, after WeChat was introduced, Fetion declined.

Why is this? It can only be said that China Mobile does not have Internet genes after all, and products that require refined operations are obviously not good enough.

Because of the nature of mobile, these value-added services of mobile are outsourced and basically completed by partners.

How could the partners go all out to do this kind of Internet-based operation?

It’s enough to be able to complete tasks and get income.

Besides, the level of the partners cannot be too high. Otherwise, if your company goes it alone, it will not be able to take advantage of the mobile market.

In addition, Fetion also made many mistakes in the early stage. For example, it was initially limited to mobile users and could not be used by China Unicom and China Telecom users. China Mobile made Fetion a threshold for competition with China Telecom and China Unicom and closed itself off.

Second, there is a limit to the number of free messages users can send, and they are not unlimited.

So when WeChat came out and could be installed and used on all mobile phones, regardless of China Telecom, China Unicom, or China Mobile, and when there were no restrictions on sending money and only consuming data, WeChat became popular.

In addition, WeChat's user experience is very good, and various innovations are constantly emerging. However, due to its operation and development model, all operations and development are done by partners, and the pace of innovation is slow, so the gap with WeChat is getting wider and wider.