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Chapter 324: It’s broken, I can’t keep a low profile anymore

"It's broken, I can't keep a low profile anymore!" At the end of December, Zhao Han saw that the Jingjing Pinyin input method once again dominated the rankings of major download sites, and he felt a little helpless.

It is a good thing that the download volume has increased significantly, but it is impossible not to be noticed by the giants as it has occupied the first and second place on the major download charts for a long time.

It was originally thought that the number of users would reach 1200 million by January next year.As a result, by the end of December, the installed capacity reached 12 million.

"Boss, I'm sorry!" Han Xiu apologized, "I was too high-profile and violated the principle of low-key development."

"Forget it!" Zhao Han thought for a while, "Since we can't keep a low profile, let's just do it like this. We will send out the news to celebrate the 12 million installed users by the beginning of December. Soft articles were also posted online, creating a large-scale hype. Faster speed, hitting 1000 million or even 2000 million users! Before the giants react, we must firmly hit the number one position in the industry and make it a consensus that Pinyin input method only uses Pinyin quietly. !”

"Okay, I understand!" Han Xiu said.

At present, the commercial operation level of Jingjing Pinyin Input Method has been completely handed over to Han Xiu.

As for Chen Jingjing and Zhang Tiantian, one is responsible for developing the Weibo website, and the other is responsible for developing the operating system based on cloud computing.

For the time being, neither of them paid much attention to management matters, so they left the business operation management of Jingjing Pinyin Input Method to Han Xiu.

After all, Han Xiu has done an excellent job in the skin center project.The monthly income gradually increased to one million, and after more than 70 was divided among the skin creators, the Jingjing application software company could get a profit of 30.

Generally speaking, the Jingjing Pinyin input method also relies on the center of the skin to gradually balance the income and expenditure.

……

2004 12 Month 30 Day.

Jingjing Pinyin Input Judge Network released a news, "Celebrating the number of users of Jingjing Pinyin Input Method exceeding 1000 million."

“Dear Jingjing Pinyin users:

Since the Jingjing Pinyin input method was officially released online in late August, it has been deeply loved by netizens, and the number of downloads has increased rapidly.It exceeded one million downloads in less than ten days after uploading.

In September, our user base exceeded 300 million.In October, the number of users exceeded 500 million, 600 million, and 700 million.

In November, the number of users gradually exceeded 800 million and 900 million.In December, our total installed users exceeded 1000 million.

On the one hand, our team is happy about the popularity of the software. On the other hand, we are worried about the increasing number of users and the continuous increase in server expenses.

Since the advent of Jingjing Pinyin input method, it has become popular because our original intention was that we were not satisfied with the experience of Pinyin input methods on the market.

Therefore, I want to create a Pinyin input method that satisfies myself and more users.

After all, among the various Chinese input methods, Pinyin has the lowest threshold for use. I believe that [-]% of users will choose Pinyin input method as their first choice for typing.

Other professional input methods, such as Wubi, have always been niche input methods because they have a certain threshold.

The popular choice is indeed Pinyin input method. However, the efficiency of Pinyin input method is far behind Wubi.

Therefore, we wanted to make the most useful Pinyin input method ever, reaching the limit of Pinyin input method. Users do not need to think about whether to spell correctly or wrongly, and can type on the keyboard as freely as breathing.

There is no need to think about input issues, disrupt your creative thoughts, and make input as easy as your fingers, as instinctive.

Under this concept, we have continuously polished and created a larger word library and vocabulary library that can realize long sentences, short sentences, full spelling, double spelling, fuzzy sounds and even wrong input. There are many people who make mistakes. We will considerately guess the subwords the user may want to enter.

In order to better serve users, we decided to use a server. Users can register an account and upload their personal vocabulary to the server.

In this way, even if you change computers, you can still download the personal vocabulary accumulated over a long period of time through your account with one click.

At the same time, while respecting customer privacy, we also allow users to actively choose whether to participate in the input method improvement plan and upload their own vocabulary data to the server to help improve the entire input method vocabulary.

Our ultimate plan is to use the Internet and with the help of countless users to further iterate the product and build it into an initial vocabulary library that most users will find comfortable.

In order to make the product better, we chose to create an Internet-based input method.

In order to support a large number of users, we have invested heavily and have deployed hundreds of servers. In the future, as the number of users increases, we will need to invest in more servers.

In order to make up for the huge operating costs, we chose the route of paid skins. Without affecting the user experience, some users can choose to purchase paid skins to obtain a personalized input method skin appearance.

As for the creation of skins, we choose to let third-party users create them in order to obtain more and richer skin resources.

Since the launch of Skin Center, it has received support from a large number of creators and paying users!We will share 70% of the proceeds from paid skins with creators to inspire more creators’ original spirit.

The remaining 30% of paid skin income is used to support our huge costs!

Our original intention is to provide all users with the best Chinese Pinyin input method for free. This product will be free forever, and our original intention remains unchanged!

As for value-added products like paid skins, which are innocuous and can be used or not, your purchase supports our development, and we are sincerely grateful!

It doesn’t matter if you don’t buy it. Our original intention was to make a free and best-use Pinyin input method for all users.

Thanks again, 1000 million users!

Your support makes us feel a huge responsibility. There is no reason not to make Jingjing Pinyin better.

——Jingjing Pinyin Input Method Operation Team”

Not long after this news announcement was released, it was also sent to major download sites and portal websites.

quickly……

The news that the number of Jingjing Pinyin input method users exceeded 1000 million has begun to sweep the domestic Internet and computer-related media!

Because I have to repay this...

Even at this time, the market focus is on WEB websites and underestimates client software.But the number reaching 1000 million users is definitely big news!

Many related people in the industry are familiar with the Jingjing Pinyin input method. After all, it often ranks high on several major download sites.

However, there is very little news released on the official website of this software. Once it is released, it will be news on the front page!

Chapter 325 First Press Conference

In early November 2005.

News about the Jingjing Pinyin input method inevitably appeared in the headlines of major news media on the Internet and technology.

"Online for more than three months, with 1000 million users, the low-key pinyin input method king!" 》

"Why did Jingjing Pinyin gain 1000 million users in three months!" 》

"This software company is amazing. It released a product silently, and a few months later, it had 1000 million users!" 》

Almost unanimously, a large number of news media have appeared in articles giving positive reviews to "Jingjing Pinyin Input Method".

Zhao Han didn't know why at first, but later the company used a crawler to search the manuscripts of those authors and found that...most of the writers were loyal users who had used the Jingjing Pinyin input method before.

Many people have written evaluation articles about the Jingjing Pinyin input method before, but they have never gotten the official installed user statistics of the input method.Now……

These fans, who originally used the Jingjing Pinyin input method heavily, were going to write a press release, but they couldn't help but get blown away!

The main thing is to stand out. I had the foresight to discover the extraordinary features of the software very early!

Of course, there are also some sarcastic comments, such as——

"If Microsoft exerts its power, Jingjing Pinyin will be wiped out"

"Sadly, a software that is only used by Chinese users, no matter how good it is, what's the point? Can it go abroad?" 》

"The success of Jingjing Pinyin is not a technical success, it is just that the foreign technicians do not understand Chinese. This is a tragedy!" 》

Due to the constant emergence of various positive and negative public opinions, the popularity will inevitably increase again!

On January 2005, 1, downloads surged by 2.

On January 1, the number of downloads increased by more than 3, and the cumulative installed capacity directly exceeded 30 million...

This speed can't be stopped!

……

Jiangcheng County.

Wenwen Jingjing Technology Company Headquarters.

Due to the move of the e-commerce department, the company currently has three subsidiaries: Jingjing Reading Network, Jingjing Application Software and Wenwen Service Network, which share the same office.The entire company has improved from the previous crowded office environment.

However, on January 1, the company ushered in a major press conference.

Major portals such as Sina, Sohu, NetEase, TOM, and Tencent, as well as some well-known domestic science and technology news media, sent people to Jiangcheng County to conduct interviews with Wenwen Jingjing Technology Company.

The company's conference room seemed crowded.

Two sisters, Chen Wenwen and Chen Jingjing, and Han Xiu were invited to appear and be interviewed by the media.

"Is the name of your company, Wenwen Jingjing Technology Company, derived from President Chen Wenwen and President Chen Jingjing?" a reporter from Sina Media asked gossipily.

"Yes!" Chen Wenwen simply replied.

"Are the main founders of your company Wenwen and Jingjing?" a reporter from NetEase News asked.

“We have other founders who, however, don’t like the publicity.

I am responsible for management duties, so it is my responsibility to receive media reporters.

As for Jingjing, he is the main technical backbone who developed the product, so I would like to meet you all. "Chen Wenwen said confidentially.

“Your company has been very mysterious since its establishment. There is almost no industry news, including news related to venture capital.

Moreover, it is really surprising that the headquarters is located in such a small central county!

Can you introduce the founding history of your company and why you chose this county as your headquarters? "The reporter from Computer News raised his hand to ask a question.

"Okay! I can introduce that the reason why we start a business in the county is because we believe that Internet entrepreneurship does not distinguish between regions. As long as there is a network, it can be the headquarters address of an Internet company. It does not necessarily have to be in an economically developed area.

If the economy is backward or even poor, Internet companies can still be established as long as infrastructure such as network broadband is available.

The reason for choosing Jiangcheng County is simple. We are from Jiangcheng County. It is normal to start a business in a familiar hometown.

As for venture capital funds, since we started our business, we have mainly relied on ourselves to earn money to invest in money-losing projects. For money-losing projects, we gradually achieve break-even, and then do other projects after making profits.

We haven’t considered venture capital yet because we are starting a business in an unpopular direction and are not an Internet entrepreneur with promising prospects that venture capital is optimistic about. Therefore, no venture capital funds have approached us! "

Chen Wenwen smiled and said, “We don’t take the initiative to look for venture capital, because as long as the direction is good, there are generally profitable projects to provide cash flow.

Whether we have venture capital or not, it’s just a question of how fast we can develop, and we don’t necessarily need venture capital.

But if there is a venture capital fund talking about cooperation, as long as the negotiations are successful and other shareholders agree, they may not necessarily refuse!

To put it simply, when our company was established, we wanted to do some profitable business in the early stages.After that, start investing in products that require burning money.In itself, our group's finances are sound and can sustain development.

Don’t actively look for venture capital, and don’t turn it down! "

"Excuse me, why can your Jingjing Pinyin input method gain tens of millions of users so quickly?" asked a reporter from Sohu.

"Make good products! If any tool product is perfect, it can quickly expand on a large scale. Because tools are practical and do not need too many gimmicks, so users who need them can continue to download and use them. .”

Chen Jingjing replied, "In addition to user needs and practicality, we must also be the best in its category. The best is the greatest reputation and publicity. Most of our users need input method software, a more efficient input method. , how could users not like it?”

"Thank you! Mr. Jingjing!" The reporter quickly typed on his laptop.

"I know something about your company's products. In addition to Jingjing Pinyin Input Method, there is also Jingjing Reading Network, which has more than 60 IP visits. It is also an important product of your company, right? Can you introduce it to your company? What is the layout of all aspects of the Internet?”

"Well, what we are currently doing more successfully are Jingjing Reading Network and Jingjing Pinyin Input Method. In addition, we also have some projects to open online stores on Taobao to sell local specialty tea, which is actually the most popular project of our company. Profitable projects to support our company's various business development.

In a sense, by opening an online store, we have indirectly obtained Taobao’s traffic dividends!

For this, thank you to Taobao... To a large extent, we can afford to invest in novel websites and input methods because we make money from selling products on Taobao e-commerce! "Chen Wenwen deliberately diverted everyone's attention and used some words to guide everyone in the direction of opening an online store on Taobao, which is where money is collected from sacks.

People pay more attention to popular products like Taobao, and they have no intention to pay attention to many layouts of Wenwen Jingjing Technology Company.

In the afternoon, several hours of media questions.

The only good thing is that domestic Internet colleagues have learned about the mysterious Wenwen Jingjing Technology Company through a lot of news.

but……

The big guys looked at it for a while and found it boring!

Jingjing Pinyin input method?

The Microsoft system has a default input method. In case Microsoft feels unhappy, it has improved the default smart ABC input method.No matter how well developed it is, can it beat the system's default bundling tactics?

In addition, online literature...most of the big guys are quite disdainful!

Therefore, most Internet tycoons just think, well, they know there is such a company, but they don’t pay much attention to it.

However, only a handful of companies are already considering following the trend of input methods.

The reason is... I feel that Jingjing Pinyin is not developed by a small factory, but my big factory has so many talents that it can't quickly develop a better input method?

Chapter 326 Coincidence?