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Chapter 315 Domestic application software arena

2004年12月16日，静静拼音输入法总装机用户超过1000万，日活跃用户700万。

The total number of registered users has exceeded 500 million, and the number of daily active registered users exceeds 400 million.

If it were any other Internet company, they would have celebrated with great fanfare, for fear that the whole world would not know how awesome they were.

However, Wenwen Jingjing Technology Company is very low-key and does not conduct any news exposure or celebration to the public media.

"We must keep a low profile and hold on! Even if the industry speculates that we may be very good, but if we keep a low profile and hold on for a few more months, we can always reduce the number of competitors entering the game! Unless we can't hide it, we will show off and stop pretending!" , all have to be low-key and pretend!" Zhao Han repeatedly instilled this into his employees during the company's meetings.

secrecy...

dog!

Do not expose installed capacity growth data!

Although the URL of the official website of Jingjing Pinyin Input Method has been exposed, there are probably more than 150 million IP addresses per day.

This website is mainly accessed by logging into the official website, and the traffic will be counted by some browser plug-ins.

Many users will not access the official website when using the input method client, and the data of these daily active users will not be counted by the browser plug-in.

As for the major application software download sites, Jingjing Pinyin Input Method has taken the first place after its previous success.Now the number of new downloads every day has dropped to [-] to [-], and it has retreated from the first position.

For example, QQ has increased its advertising efforts due to previous downtime incidents. As a result, the top spot on the weekly download list of installed sites is often reoccupied by QQ.

Because of the sense of crisis, Tencent has to let the number of downloads occupy the top of the download site even if it is downloaded repeatedly, in order to declare that it is still the king of client software, not only the stock, but also the increase.

It may also be due to the downtime incident a while ago. Some mentally ill users uninstalled QQ and later downloaded and reinstalled QQ, which caused QQ's weekly downloads and returned to the top of the list.

In addition, it’s Xunlei... With this thing, the number of user downloads has skyrocketed!

Originally, the domestic download software market was dominated by a big mountain - FlashGet.

Hou Yantang, a Canadian Chinese, developed a download software FlashGet in his spare time in 1998. The Chinese name is Internet Express, or Kuaiche for short.

When Kuaiche came out, it not only swept all kinds of download software in the Chinese market, but also became popular all over the world. The reason is that it was the first to be compatible with various download formats. One download software can solve things that could only be accomplished by many download software in the past.

In 2004, the version update of FlashGet came to an abrupt end. Later, Huang Mingming, CEO and financial backer of Internet Express, said that in 2004, Hou Yantang was addicted to "World of Warcraft" and had no time to write code or update the software.

Later, Xunlei, the king of domestic download software, began to rise suddenly in 04.The number of downloads surged, suddenly raising the market share to an astonishing level.

What is the peak number of FlashGet users? 2 million scale!Most of them are in the country!At this time, the number of Internet users in China is less than 1 million, and the number of real computers connected to the Internet is only about 5000 to [-] million.

Therefore, 2 million is only the number of registered users or the number of downloads. Just like QQ's registered users at this time exceed 3.5 million, it does not represent the actual number of users.

But there is no doubt that FlashGet is a big mountain, similar to Tencent, with more than 3000 million actual installations.

However, the biggest problem with this thing is that the developers of the software are not enterprising and are obsessed with playing games, leaving serious work aside.

Otherwise, there really would be nothing wrong with Thunder!

"Okay! Now QQ and Xunlei are competing for the first and second place in the download list! There are other MSN, Super Rabbit, WIN Optimization Master, Qianqianjingting, a bunch of software are in the top ten, we are mixed in with Super Rabbit, Optimization In a crowd of miscellaneous fish like Master, he is not so conspicuous!" Zhao Han looked at the number of downloads of the input method and fell from the first position. Not only was he not worried, but he was a little happy.

The main thing is that the big brother, Xunlei, who is now showing off his sharpness... can rival QQ in terms of download volume!

This thing will be lonely in the future, but Thunder is definitely awesome in the PC era!Among the top ten installed software in China, Xunlei has a place in the PC era and is a national-level software!

Although, it is not as good as QQ, an absolute number one brother!

However, Xunlei's installed base is definitely comparable to Sogou Input Method, 360 Security Guard, Baofeng Video and many other top national-level client software.

Why is Thunder so popular...Download!

As for why many users download all day long even though their hard drives cannot hold much, everyone knows this!

Moreover, in the era of slower Internet speeds, the need to download software becomes more urgent... These days, many people are thinking as soon as they go online, the games and learning materials I want to download are so large, do they have to be downloaded until the end of the year of the monkey?

Many netizens have worked hard to try various download software, such as BT, eDonkey, Express and even now Thunder, all of which are spontaneously tried by many netizens to try more efficient download tools.

There are some miscellaneous fish mixed in here, such as Super Rabbit, WIN Optimization Master... Zhao Han can only say, what is this?

Essentially, these software are meant to patch the WIN system. Well, the official website cannot patch the pirated operating system for fear of being blocked by the official website.

There is also the matter of cleaning up garbage. Well, in fact, the system comes with it, but many novice users don’t know how to do it. Therefore, some developers have come up with one-click fool-proof operations.

In essence, these software are of little use and are just for fooling some novice users. They are worse than the later 360.

After all, 360 has provided some security services. Although it is also a rogue, it has indeed cut off most of the rogue software and plug-ins.Making security software free is indeed a major contribution of 360.

Moreover, Zhou Hongyi, the boss of 360, actually has something. 3721, which was acquired by Yahoo, is the leader in the Chinese Internet search field at this time!

Later, the decline of 3721 was accompanied by the rise of Baidu.And... Zhou Hongyi turned his back and disowned others. He created 360 to detect and kill various Internet rogue software and plug-ins, and also treated 3721 as a rogue plug-in.

As a result, 3721 not only suffered a sharp decline in market share, but also suffered an even greater loss in reputation!

With the current size of Super Rabbit and WIN Optimization Master, in fact... there is a chance to become a software like 360!

As long as the two of them have the courage, they can wield the butcher's knife and chop off various rogue plug-ins developed by a bunch of major Internet companies!

It's a pity that they were too unwilling to make progress when given a chance, so they gave 360 ​​a chance!

So... in Zhao Han's eyes, the two most worthless things on the current list are the Super Rabbit and the Optimization Master!

I had a lot of head start and got a ticket to a leading Internet company, but all of it was wasted by two bastards...

Chapter 316 Zhao Han is a little timid

A few months ago, when the Jingjing Pinyin input method was first promoted by download sites, the number of user downloads was extremely high.

As the number of installed devices continues to increase, the number of new downloads daily will inevitably continue to decline.

It’s not that the popularity of the software has disappeared, but that after the installed base of client software reaches a certain level, it gradually becomes saturated!

For example, QQ, the previous king of client software, in many cases does not appear in the top ten of the weekly and monthly download lists.

The reason is not that QQ is out of business, but that QQ’s existing users account for 90% of domestic computer users and cannot be increased.

There are only some incremental installed users with download demand. Therefore, unless there are special circumstances, it is normal for QQ, the king of application software, not to appear in the top ten of the weekly and monthly download lists of major download sites.

The current Jingjing Pinyin input method follows a similar approach.

After tens of millions of installations, users who have already downloaded the software are unlikely to download and install it again before the software is updated.

Jingjing Pinyin does not know how to learn software such as Super Rabbit and WIN Master. By frequently updating the software version, users are meaninglessly downloading and reinstalling, just to refresh the download ranking and gain more exposure opportunities. .

Therefore, as time goes by, the larger the user base of Jingjing Pinyin Input Method is and the more existing users there are, the ranking on the download site's weekly and monthly download lists will gradually decline.

Some download lists on download sites essentially do not reflect the scale of existing users, but reflect the latest application software market and the short- and medium-term incremental downloads of certain software.

However, if you look at the download list, you can still see the small popularity of Internet application software.

For example, the current rise of Xunlei can be seen by paying attention to the download lists of major download sites!

Xunlei is more popular than Jingjing Pinyin!

On the one hand, this is because downloading certain content is indeed a special hobby of Internet users around the world.

Various downloading tools have always been popular among the public from the early days of the Internet to the middle and later stages of the PC Internet.

Does that tool have a fast download speed, or is there any special download speed bonus for content that can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words? Then... there is almost no need for advertising. Countless netizens will download it spontaneously, and this tool will soon be available. Class software has become a hit!

"Xunlei is so popular, how about... we also make a download software?" Zhang Tiantian was a little ready to move, "Thunlei is actually just like that. It just integrates various download formats. One tool can be compatible with http downloads, ftp downloads, eDonkey downloads, magnet links, seed links. Users no longer need a bunch of different download tools such as ftp, eDonkey, BT, etc. And those technologies are essentially open source, and integrating various open source download formats is A tool compatible with various download formats.”

Zhao Han shook his head and said: "It's better not to do it! The downloading water is too deep, not only involving bad things, but also piracy. If certain types of resources are restricted, users will abandon download tools. If users are indulged, there will be policy and legal risks in the future. .Think about the previous crackdown on pornography!”

The easiest thing to make a hit these days is definitely not an input method, but a tool related to a certain desire of a person.

What are the video websites with the largest traffic in the world?

No, the technology of early video websites, and even bad website giants, were the first to explore and apply it.

Before the Internet bubble burst in the 90s, bad video websites were already in full bloom.

It wasn’t until many years later that any serious person thought about why they couldn’t have a serious video website.

Thus, YouTube was born. YouTube never said that it was the originator of its own video website, because it was indeed not it. The real originator was a bad website, and I don’t know which bad website it was. In short, many years before YouTube, bad websites The website already has online video content.

For example, various popular tools in China, such as PP Diandiantong, BT Download, Internet Express, Thunder... and even Qvod in the future!

As long as it involves downloading and disseminating harmful content, it will become popular.

But these types of tools ultimately end badly.

PP Diandiantong, Qvod and the like are obviously out of date.

Although Xunlei did not become popular later, users also abandoned Xunlei due to continuous rectifications.

Later, after entering the mobile Internet era, Xunlei almost had no sense of presence in the mobile Internet era.

It made some money in the PC era, and then built an office building, which was a mess commercially. However, it has a headquarters building in a first-tier city.

The reason why Zhao Han does not make a download tool is because the scope of this thing is not as big as imagined, nor is it as important as imagined.

Users in the mobile phone era basically download apps from the app store and have fewer opportunities to use Xunlei.

Although Thunder in the PC era was very popular later, after defeating Internet Express, it reached the top and became the new king of download tools.

At one time, the market thought that even if Xunlei could not become a small Tencent, it should be able to surpass several major portals, right?

However, no!

In a sense, Xunlei's glory is only in the PC era, and it is difficult to bring its core competitiveness to the mobile Internet era.

There is no need to follow the trend of such software.

"I have to say, Zhao Han, you are so boring! You can be a coward!" Zhang Tiantian couldn't help but lamented that the lord was so cowardly, and the ministers were helpless!

I want to develop it, but the master won’t let me!

"Tiantian! You can continue to study cloud server technology!" Chen Jingjing said, "Isn't this technology much better than downloading and other application software?"

"Well! If cloud computing is done well, our structure will no longer be an ordinary Internet company, but a company that provides infrastructure for the Internet! When people start a business, they must first buy our cloud services and pay us!" Zhao Han smiled.

"Hmm! Well, the cloud server is just too complicated, so I think of doing something else and take it easy." Zhang Tiantian said.

"How far have you achieved now?" Zhao Han asked.

"Those PPTs you mentioned are so awesome! Cloud computing includes Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), etc. Users can choose and use these services on demand... What about cloud computing, cloud storage, cloud server, cloud PC, cloud rendering... For the time being, the more I study, the more I feel that the water is too deep! I am not sure how far the research has reached! Sometimes there is progress, Sometimes I feel like I don’t understand and I have to look through the information again, which will set me back!”

Zhang Tiantian seemed a little frustrated and said, "Probably, the easiest solution is cloud storage, that is, network disk!

The user stores the data on the server, and when needed, logs in to the account and downloads it on other machines.

This technology has already been used by our Jingjing Pinyin input method.

Really turning various technologies and services into cloud computing is no more difficult than building a desktop operating system!

In a sense, I have to say, you really think highly of my technical level! "

Zhao Han thought for a while and said: "There is no need to rush in this area of ​​technology. Even if it takes five or six years of research to produce results, it will be no problem!"

Chapter 317 Linux modification

"You can stand and talk without pain in your back! Do you know what I am really developing? Operating system! Operating system!" Zhang Tiantian couldn't help but said, "Traditional server operating systems cannot be used as cloud server operating systems, so I Just make modifications based on open source Linux. The difficulty is no less than developing a desktop operating system. No, it should be said that if you let me develop a desktop operating system, it will save trouble and become easy. Open source Linux can be used as It’s not difficult to do! The operating system of the cloud server is a fairy-level operating system!”

Zhao Han was immediately in awe. The cloud computing he mentioned casually was actually... so difficult?The degree of self-developed operating system!

Even if it is modified and developed based on open source Linux.However, those who can play with open source Linux are all big guys?

For example, the Android system was originally developed based on open source Linux.

Why is Android's code open source? Because...it's out of necessity!

After using a large amount of Linux code, if you want to not comply with the Linux open source agreement and open source your own code, you will be criticized by the industry.

"Well... you can definitely recruit more people, for example, programmers who have a deep knowledge of Linux to join." Zhao Han thought for a while.

"Then can I make an operating system?" Zhang Tiantian suddenly thought, "I think that in the process of developing the operating system of the cloud server, we can make different versions, the cloud server version ~ In addition, the version for individual users can also be launched!"

"Listening to what you said, making an operating system sounds like it's easy!" Zhao Han couldn't help but be surprised.

"If you talk about making a mature operating system with a software and hardware ecosystem, like what Microsoft has built over the years, it would be difficult! It is not difficult to simply make an operating system, especially to develop a desktop on an open source system. The operating system is even simpler. The difficulty is actually the ecology and the capabilities that the operating system itself does not have. "

Zhang Tiantian said, "At the beginning, Academician Ni Guangnan pointed out a clear path for Lenovo at the technical level. The operating system was based on open source Linux and polished a version that is easier for ordinary users to use, replacing the WIN system. Because Linux can be used by anyone. Any cutting, modification, or code addition can be done by the system, and the system can be autonomously controlled.

At the hardware level, Academician Ni Guangnan originally suggested and replaced it bit by bit, gradually taking advantage of Lenovo's complete machine brand advantages to build a domestic industry chain.

Then...Ni Guangnan was kicked out of Lenovo by various interest groups!

You know, Lenovo's name comes from Ni Guangnan's Lenovo Hanka technology. The patent was given to Lenovo for free, which made Lenovo get its first pot of gold. "