Chapter 309

A pair of eyes converged on Liu Zhiping, who sat on the right next to President Ma. As the second in command of Tencent, Liu Zhiping's ability and vision are naturally extraordinary. Everyone is waiting. President Liu gives a reasonable explanation.

Liu Zhiping glanced at the crowd and explained: "At present, our QQ mainly has three versions, one is the domestic mainstream QQ computer version, one is the mobile QQ for mobile terminals, and the other is the QQ international version for overseas users. However, overseas, we have not launched a special mobile QQ international version for mobile terminals, only translated versions of domestic mobile QQ such as English and Japanese.

As we all know, although there is no special international version of our mobile QQ overseas, there are also English and Japanese versions of mobile QQ that can be used, but the number of users is pitifully small! "

Without waiting for a group of executives to think about the reasons, Liu Zhiping continued: "I know you may think that it is because we are negligent in overseas operation, R & D and updating, and promotion. We have never really paid attention to overseas versions.

But in fact, although the gap between QQ international and QQ on our domestic PC is not small, the gap between the English or Japanese version of mobile QQ and our domestic mobile QQ is not large. This time, we update the major functions such as mobile QQ's address book and voice chat, and the English and Japanese versions of mobile QQ have also been updated. However, I would like to ask Daosheng, what's the specific situation up to now What about the situation and data? "

With Liu Zhiping's questions, everyone's eyes turned to Tang Daosheng, who is sitting in the second right beside Liu Zhiping. Tang Daosheng is currently responsible for QQ business in Tencent, and all versions of QQ are within his jurisdiction. Although Tencent does not pay attention to overseas QQ as a whole, as the person in charge of QQ business, he naturally needs to know all kinds of situations.

Tang Daosheng smiled bitterly and said, "it seems that President Liu, like me, has expectations for the update of the new version of QQ. In fact, as early as April 22 and April 25 last month, we took the lead in updating the English and Japanese versions of mobile QQ, but the results are not ideal!"

"Why didn't you report this to me?" asked the horse, who always looked unhappy.

However, Mr. Ma suddenly remembered after seeing Tang Daosheng's bitter smile at him. It's no wonder that Tang Daosheng. As early as a few years ago, Mr. Ma also asked Tang Daosheng to report to him about the situation of QQ international and mobile QQ English and Japanese versions, but later, with the passage of time, QQ overseas business did not improve after trying many methods, including Mr. Ma In fact, most of the senior executives in have given up QQ's overseas business.

At present, QQ's overseas business can only be in a "maintenance" state at most. It is common not to update it once a year or two. Over time, Tang Daosheng rarely reports to President Ma and rarely mentions QQ's overseas business at meetings. After all, this is Tencent's weakness and pain, and Tang Daosheng doesn't want to say it every time to make everyone feel bad.

"What's the reason? Has your department made an investigation and analysis report?" a senior official asked on the spot. It is said that the record of mobile QQ updating the new version in China is so dazzling that it can't be defeated overseas!

"I did, but I didn't have time to read the report until this morning," Tang explained.

President Ma turned his eyes from Tang Daosheng to Liu Zhiping and said, "send the report to everyone later. Since Zhiping can guess it in advance, it must be some opinions. We might as well tell you about it. Let's listen!"

What Liu Zhiping is waiting for is now. Last time, he proposed Tencent to build a mobile chat software from scratch. Everyone thought that he wanted to share the power of Tang Daosheng, and felt that there was no need to waste QQ's existing resources to start from scratch. Now he finally had the opportunity to correct his name. Liu Zhiping sat up and said:

"Huizhong's wechat has been promoted around the world for more than two months. In fact, we all know now that wechat was not launched this year, but as early as the middle of last year, it was launched quietly overseas, and it was launched at the end of last year at home.

I wonder if you are curious. Huizhong wechat has not been promoted quietly for such a long time. It depends on natural quantity. What are they doing? "

"What can we do? We're polishing our products. Huizhong is new to the social industry. He doesn't understand the rules and regulations of the social industry. How dare he waste so much resources and effort to promote it? If wechat can't stand the test, it's not in vain!" an executive answered his question on the spot.

"Yes, they are polishing products. In early March this year, they began to promote wechat all over the world, which means that the R & D team of wechat or president Fang of Huizhong thinks that the polishing time is enough.

But we have all used the wechat product. Its product is very simple. Even compared with our QQ, it is simple. However, it is not rough! "Liu Zhiping paused here and focused on the word" but ".

"Although their wechat is simple, their experiences are very good, which reminds me of Apple founder Steve Jobs, who also pursues the concept of simple products, and many popular Internet products abroad. We will find that these popular products are very simple and direct in design.

Of course, our product department has done many discussions and Research on this in the past. This is the existing conclusion. I won't elaborate on it.

Then let's talk about our QQ and mobile QQ. After more than ten years of iterative development, our whole QQ product system has become very large and complex. In other words, it can also be called bloated. Such a product form is only suitable for today. We have basically occupied the domestic market and achieved a dominant market position.

However, in the early stage of the product, so many functions mean high development cost and slow iteration efficiency for us, and complex learning cost and use mode for users.

So I think it is indeed a great time for Tencent to go to sea, but the product to go to sea should not be the international version of mobile QQ, but a brand-new mobile chat software specially created for the mobile market.

You know, in the past, we designed mobile QQ as a supplement to computer QQ. Many functions are cloned from computer QQ. Many of these functions are of little use, and even many functions are completely useless on the mobile end, or inconsistent with the design of the mobile end.

So I think we should re develop a mobile chat software like Huizhong's wechat overseas. Anyway, we don't have the resource advantage of domestic QQ overseas. Instead of using mobile QQ to reduce development efficiency and flexibility, we'd better start from scratch! "

Liu Zhiping's words convinced many senior executives, including President Ma. Indeed, instead of making a special mobile QQ International Version, it's better to make another chat software for the overseas mobile market. In terms of time and efficiency, it may be a lot faster than making a mobile QQ international version.

Just as President Ma was ready to let everyone continue the discussion, the door of the conference room was suddenly knocked. A moment later, President Ma's full-time secretary Liu Jie hurried in and said a few words next to President Ma. President Ma was calm and even happy. He became serious in an instant. He lowered his head, opened his mobile phone and turned it over. It took several minutes before he looked up, The seriousness of his face had become dignified, and he said slowly in a low voice:

"If you go to sea, let's discuss it first! Liu Jie!"

When President Ma shouted his name, secretary Liu Jie went to the computer in the conference room, connected the projector, and opened a web page. The web page was loading. However, the executives attending the meeting clearly saw that the web page opened by Liu Jie contained "CCTV" "Four letters. Executives here know that news with these four letters is either a great good thing or a great bad thing. Judging from President Ma's face, Tencent is obviously facing the latter!