Annie believes that the reason Mr. Ma copied their skin function and was able to avoid all patents this time must be because someone inside the company leaked their trade secrets.
This person is very likely Yu Wei'e.
“I don’t believe Yu Weie would sell our company’s trade secrets to his former company. If he were that kind of person, he could have delayed or sabotaged the project from the very beginning when we were developing ICQ Show,” Chen Dong said.
Chen Dong looked at Annie and said, "The fact that the ICQ Show project was able to pass the beta test smoothly means that Yu Weie is not the problem."
Even after Chen Dong said that, Annie was still worried about Wei E.
They secretly sent people to investigate his whereabouts over the past few days.
She actually found out that Yu Wei'e had gone out during his vacation and that he had told his engineer colleagues that he was going to meet with his former boss.
However, Annie only gleaned this information; there was no other evidence to prove that Yu Wei'e had sold trade secrets, so Annie didn't dare to say anything more to Chen Dong.
Because of Annie's distrust of Wei'e and the lack of evidence she could find on Wei'e's side, she secretly sent many people to subtly probe Mr. Ma of Tencent, hoping to find evidence that Tencent had contacted Longteng employees.
However, the news brought to her by the people she sent back was different from what she had expected.
The launch of QQ's skin feature did bring considerable good data to the penguin, but the two newly launched virtual mini-games are too similar in style, function, and gameplay.
This inevitably raises suspicions that QQ copied ICQ Show, leading netizens in Europe and America to join the boycott of QQ.
Since QQ's blatant imitation of ICQ was boycotted by netizens, Jack Ma has been experiencing setbacks.
Later, QQ announced that QQ Player would no longer play songs from the Longteng Music website, but this had no effect on the product; this tactic was just a way for Jack Ma to achieve his own mental victory.
Tencent is losing users, and several projects that the company's departments were discussing or had already discussed have fallen through.
Zhao Nanzhou said to Mr. Ma, "We accurately obtained the patent application projects for ICQ Show through the Patent Office, and avoided these patent projects when developing the QQ skin function."
"Although we can legally avoid copyright and patent conflicts, netizens have discerning eyes."
"Netizens don't care about these things; what they see is that two technology companies have launched similar virtual games."
Mr. Ma had a long face. This was originally a bad idea given to him by his investors, and he disagreed with it from the beginning.
"Since entering the European and American markets, QQ's data has been unstable. Sometimes it rises due to advertising, and sometimes it falls due to competition with ICQ."
"This is not a good thing for a software positioned as an interactive social platform." Mr. Ma had no choice but to step in and clean up the mess.
If they can't retain customers, they can't retain popularity; their platform is just an empty shell.
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