Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1302 Labor dispatch plan
"And blackberries."

"what?"

"In addition to Apple, Microsoft, Symbian and Android, there should also be BlackBerry's operating system. BlackBerry mobile phone sales are mediocre in other countries, but they are very popular in the United States. In the third quarter, Apple ranked first in mobile phone sales in the United States, and Nokia ranked first. Two, Blackberry third."

Lu Qi supplemented Zhou Buqi's words.

Zhou Buqi had a headache, "So many systems are too unfriendly to developers!"

Now is the early days of the mobile Internet. This is an empty desert, requiring explorers to pave mountains and pave roads, reclaim wasteland and farm fields to build homes from scratch.

This is much more difficult than building a house in a city.

In a few years, it will be very easy to develop an APP, and there are even many fixed templates.The fixed template is a set of fixed quotations and fixed functions. It is a very mature code source. It takes 3 days and costs 5000 yuan to get it done! (Fixed templates are not open source products, but packaged codes, which cost money to buy, and open source products can be downloaded and used for free)
Lu Qi is leading the US team to develop the ios version of Helo, which is expected to be launched at the end of January and early February next year.

He gave a brief introduction to the development team.

1 product manager, 9 client engineers, 2 back-end engineers, 2 UI designers, 3 artists, a total of 17 people team.

Develop Apple system products, mainly applied to Objective-C, C, Java, shell, Python, UIKit and other languages.The main standard language is Objective-C, which is an unpopular and very old language, and it is very troublesome.

What Luqi is currently doing is the primary version of Helo, which temporarily only has several functions such as registration, login, instant messaging, and reading the built-in address book information of the user's mobile phone and adding friends.

But even so, a development team of 17 people is required, and the monthly salary expenditure exceeds 70 US dollars.In the future, there will be more and more functions, and the product functions that need to be maintained will gradually increase, and the team size will become larger and larger.

This is just an Apple system.

There are several other systems, so the number of people is too large, and the development cost is too high.The main reason is that there are too many mobile phone systems, and even the wealthy Microsoft and their mobile phone MSN cannot cover all the systems.

Can Ziweixing also adopt this model of Microsoft and only focus on key problems?The future will be dominated by Apple and Android. Only develop these two versions, okay?

Zhou Buqi thought about it, but he rejected it.

Even if you have foresight, you can't be too confident!
Don't squander this early opportunity of the mobile Internet, you must use a method with the highest probability of success, even if this method seems stupid and costly!

To develop a Helo for several important mobile phone systems!

Only in this way, the odds of winning are the greatest.

Helo will be the world's first chat software that is truly developed for mobile phones and deeply compatible.For example, when registering or logging in, you can directly enter your mobile phone number, and then receive a SMS verification code, which is simple and efficient; for example, when adding friends, the App will automatically read the mobile phone address book, relying on the address book to promote virally.

These are all innovations that have never been done before.

Once you don't seize the opportunity, you will definitely be imitated.

For example, the Symbian system, if Ziweixing does not do it, and there is no Helo in Saipan, there will inevitably be a small start-up company that will find an opportunity to imitate Helo and develop such a product for Symbian, and it will be robbed of the market.

In the future, Symbian will gradually withdraw from the stage of history, and users will switch to Apple and Android one after another... But user habits have already formed. If you change the system, you may still use the past products instead of Helo.

So be sure to cover it all.

Three people must have my teacher. This kind of product strategy is what Zhou Buqi learned from Yu Yongfu.

In the field of mobile browsers, opera is the king of the world, and UC is the only one in the domestic market.As UC entered Japan, the share of opera was gradually taken by UC.

Opera technology is better, and it is more compatible with the browser protocol. Why can't it beat UC?

Because Yu Yongfu used the most stupid method - full coverage.

There are six or seven types of smartphone systems on the market, but there are many embedded systems for feature phones and multimedia phones.In particular, different models of mobile phones, even with the same embedded system, must have different product designs, and the details of the screen and keyboard must be adjusted.

At most, UC Group operated 17 different versions of UC browsers together.

Opera will not work.

This is a European company with limited manpower, high development costs, and lack of financial resources to fully cover it, so it can only develop versions for a few systems with a large market share.

This gave up a large blank market and gave UC a chance to grab territory.

If a user is using a Bird mobile phone, and the mobile phone is not compatible with the Opera browser, the user can only use the UC browser.In the second year, he changed his mobile phone and it became a Nokia.Nokia mobile phones can be adapted to such an excellent browser as opera, but the user's habits have been formed, and they still choose UC.

Relying on such a strategic thinking, UC Browser has firmly dominated the domestic market.When going to overseas markets, wherever it goes, it can also beat Opera to escape.

Before Google, Opera participated in the formulation of the mobile browser agreement, and...opera came first, and then the agreement, which was completely based on the industry rules formulated by its own products.From a technical point of view, opera is better than UC, it is smoother and the product experience is better.

However, the level of technology has never been the key to business success.

The most important thing is strategy.

In terms of strategic design, the UC led by Yu Yongfu won the opera from the European team.

Opera's mistake, Ziweixing can't make it!

In the field of chat software for smartphones, Helo has similar advantages.Ziweixing is the first starter to end, and Ziweixing is not a small entrepreneurial company with weak strength that can be easily manipulated by giants. Ziweixing already has the strength of a giant!Under such background conditions, Ziweixing should not leave any chance for the opponent!

Helo must be developed for more than 90% of the smartphone market, making Helo the world's first cross-platform mobile communication application tailored for smartphones!

Fu Hongliang said excitedly: "The field of instant messaging is a winner-take-all market. Users will invite friends and family members to use a certain application together, which can quickly form a strong social network effect. Read this from the mobile phone address book. The design is deeply compatible with the concept of instant messaging! Instant messaging software seems to be born for mobile phones!"

His level is a bit low, and the angle is a bit off.

Guo Pengfei pointed him out, "This is not a creative meeting, but a product strategy meeting. Helo is going online soon in the United States."

Zhou Buqi said: "It's not only the United States, but also Japan. The development cost abroad is too high. My idea, is it possible to send a team from China to travel to the United States and Japan?"

"Yes, I welcome the technical poverty alleviation in Japan!" Tang Binchen joked, and then felt very helpless, "The United States is easy to do, and there are many talents. At most, the wages are high and more money is spent. In Japan, Relevant talents are too scarce. You don’t even know that the computer department in Japanese universities doesn’t pay much attention to it, uh… what they pay attention to is computer hardware, robots and the like.”

Zhang Yiming said: "There will be no obstacles to sending a team to the United States and Japan on business trips, and the registration will be very enthusiastic."

It is not easy for Chinese people to go abroad, and young people like to go out to see the world.

In later generations, many Internet companies in China started to do business in overseas markets and sent out business trip teams. It was as if they were on the battlefield, and the employees were panic-stricken.

Because those companies have no confidence, they develop markets in non-mainstream countries, such as India, Vietnam, Cambodia, or Africa, the Middle East, and Russia. The conditions are much worse than those in China.If it is some powerful big companies, such as China Mobile, PetroChina, Haier, Gree, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Huawei, Ali, Byte, etc., if they have the strength to develop the market of mainstream developed countries, they will be very popular among employees. Opportunities to travel have to be rushed.

From the perspective of business operations, sending technical teams to Japan and the United States on business trips will not only have no obstacles, but will also be supported.

Zhou Buqi looked at the problem from a higher perspective, "Going to Japan is indeed technical poverty alleviation, and going to the United States should focus on learning. The mobile Internet in the United States and Japan has already risen, and it is at least 2 years ahead of China. Make preparations first, don’t rush to start, foreign countries should take the lead in developing. Using these two years, we will send 2-200 excellent employees to the United States and Japan for business trips.”

Guo Pengfei agreed: "Well, it can not only help the development of Ziweixing's overseas business, but also accumulate relevant development and operation experience, and build a mature mobile Internet-oriented team. Two years later, the domestic curtain will really open. .Other domestic companies are still slowly groping from scratch, and we already have regular troops that can be invincible.”

Lu Qi is still concerned about the cost issue, and said: "Helo is now developing the Apple version. The development team has 17 people, but this is far from enough. A development team of at least 40 people is required for one version. To make 5 versions, this is 200 people. If all these people are recruited from the United States, it will cost $1 million a year.”

Xu Liangjie said: "This is only a small aspect, and it also affects efficiency. In the early stage of the product, there will definitely be many bugs, which need to be resolved in time. But the overtime pay in the United States is too high, and employees are unwilling to work overtime, so they will Affecting product updates. If a technical team is sent from China on a business trip, this problem can be solved.”

Zhou Buqi said firmly: "If you have the same opportunities and choices, you should spend money on Chinese people and provide jobs to compatriots. The business travel strategy is not a one-off, nor is it set for Helo. This idea should be long-term. Carry out and carry out in a standardized manner. If the same work can be done by Chinese people, foreigners can also do it, and we must entrust the work to our own people.”

Guo Pengfei frowned slightly, "Do you want to continue doing it for a long time after the split?"

"Correct."

"Is the influence bad?"

Xu Liangjie smiled, "There is nothing wrong with it. There are good reasons for companies to save costs. Arranging labor dispatch from China to work in the United States can save the company's salary costs. Reduce costs and increase profits. When profits increase, stock prices will increase. , This is what the capitalist society values ​​most. If the domestic labor cost is the same as that in the United States, and the American branch still calls people from China to work in this case, it will be criticized."

Lu Qi pondered: "Don't be too careless, the proportion of the team dispatched on business trips should not be too high, so as not to attract the attention of the trade union."

"Yes, the trade unions in the United States are very powerful." Tang Binchen deeply agrees, "If you say that the place with the best business environment is Japan, the government can't control it, and the trade unions can't control it. When I was on a business trip at Facebook, I encountered it once because of working overtime. During the labor union investigation, a few of us said that voluntary overtime work is not acceptable. Later, we can only say that we are too poor and want to go to the company to eat free snacks to get through. Later, the personnel rewarded us to go to Disney for a round, saying that we at least saved them money. $80 fine."

"Robbery!"

"That's right, Facebook was targeted by the labor union as soon as it finished financing."

Xu Liangjie nodded, "So if you work in an American company, you won't be allowed to work overtime if you want. Many people feel that they are not competitive, and want to work in the company for a while, and even say they are willing to work overtime for free, but this is simply impossible. "

Lu Qi smiled, "No problem in the short term. Ziwei Star has just started a business in the United States, and there is an economic crisis. You can send as many teams as you like on business trips. Give enough labor dispatch fees, business travel subsidies and overtime pay, and no one will mess with it." .”

Xu Liangjie has long-term working experience in China and the United States, so he can deeply participate in this topic, "The income of the employees sent out can increase by 100% or 150%, and the enthusiasm for business trips is higher. For enterprises, the cost of employment is also high. Reduced."

The salary in Silicon Valley is about 4-5 times that in China. Even if the income of the domestic business trip team increases by 100%-150%, it is also very cost-effective for the company.

The employees are also happy. They have gone abroad to see the world, feel the culture of different countries, and their income has also increased.

Zhou Buqi said very cautiously: "Be careful about the candidates of the business trip team, don't send them out and never come back."

Xu Liangjie said: "This is different from fresh graduates from Tsinghua University. Don't worry. Tsinghua graduates are all high-achieving students. What they need to do is high-end technical work, so they are more likely to be poached. And this kind of fresh graduates are all natural A proud man, he thinks of himself as a noble man, and prefers to venture out. Developing mobile apps is a relatively basic technical job, and he does not need to be a proud man. He has experienced the workplace and can distinguish reality. To make money in the United States and return home, the business trip plan is the best s arrangement."

There was one more thing he didn't say.

The best reality is life.

Buy a house in China, fall in love or get married in China, or take over your parents... With the ties of life, the chance of going out and not coming back is greatly reduced.Unlike college students who have just graduated, social life in China has not yet begun, and there is no concern about a blank sheet of paper.

Zhou Buqi said: "Okay, then it's settled, Yiming, you can arrange to send technical teams to the branches in the United States and Japan."

Zhang Yiming concluded: "The Modu branch is the International Department of Ziwei Star. In the short term, we will send teams to work overseas, and there is no limit on the number. When it develops in the future, there will be a limit on the number. In addition to sending a small number of technical teams to study abroad In addition, it is mainly possible to contract part of the overseas business to the International Department.”

Zhou Buqi applauded: "Yes! That's the idea!"

After Ziweixing is split, it will be divided into domestic and overseas parts.

It is easier to "entrust" high-end cutting-edge domestic development projects that are relatively difficult to the technical team in Silicon Valley; some basic project development can be entrusted to Ziweixing International Department to do it, which can save costs and at the same time It is also equivalent to moving overseas business jobs back to China through "entrustment".

Xu Liangjie also concluded that he wanted to conduct overseas business with the idea of ​​China and Taiwan.

This kind of Internet products all have strong local cultural attributes, similar to Europe and the United States, and East Asia, the Middle East, India, Africa, and South America all have local characteristics.Therefore, when it is presented in detail, the product cannot be static, and there must be some localized design.

That is to maintain the diversity of the front desk.

The frame design of the middle platform is the same.

There can be a unified large and medium platform, and various localized small front desks can be designed around the world, allowing local people to be responsible for the front-end appearance design and product function selection.This can give many countries with relatively weak IT technology opportunities for development.

(End of this chapter)