Chapter 852: 300 million, will you sell it?
"Uncle Mai asked the wrong person about this question."
After hearing what Mai Jiashan said, Zhou Anan, who considered herself a non-professional, smiled and replied.
Since the first generation of iPhone came out last year, there has indeed been a so-called "smartphone fever" abroad. Many international mobile phone manufacturers have launched new projects and released new "smartphones" that do not have any technological advancements.
In this 2G era, smartphones that can only be used to surf the Internet and chat on mobile phones are all scams.
TT has invested a considerable amount of money in the mobile sector in an attempt to reverse the downward trend of the Hong Kong stock market. Unfortunately, there has been no good news and TX stock has continued to fall.
In this regard, Zhou Anan was unable to give any constructive advice to help the other party turn the situation around.
What's more, he was thinking of buying at the bottom when the TX stock price fell to the 3-digit level.
"Just tell me what you want to say, I'll just listen."
Mai Jiashan will not easily let go of the opinions of this most outstanding young successor.
This little guy's keen vision in network development is the only one he has ever seen in his life.
The other one is a man named Chen who tried to trick him into joining a startup without any monthly salary many years ago, but he rejected him as a liar. That guy’s current wealth is no less than that of the entire TX system.
I really miss the old days when you could make a name for yourself just by talking.
But now that he is old, Mai Jiashan actually feels overwhelmed and unable to grasp the pace of the times. He has the idea of giving way to young people in advance.
"Then I'm just saying a few random words, don't take it seriously, Uncle Mai. It's too early to develop mobile communications at this time, unless one day the mobile phone charges are reduced to a level that ordinary students think will not affect their daily lives. Well, just like the 3G network that is popular abroad, after it is fully rolled out in China, it may be an opportunity for development."
Since the other party insisted so much, Zhou Anan, after taking a bite of steamed buns, also pointed out a recognized obstacle and some forward-looking ideas.
The current 2G mobile network not only has slow speed and low functionality, but also charges prices in MB.
In one word, expensive. In two words, very expensive.
Most students turn on their 2G data during get out of class breaks and are reluctant to use it at other times. Even if they want to read an online novel, they would rather stay up all night in an Internet cafe, or download the content in an Internet cafe and save it to MP4.
After the 3G network is fully rolled out and charges have dropped significantly, students will be able to extend the online time of mobile TT. In the 4G era, it can be almost normalized.
However, at that time, mobile phones will emerge as a new force and occupy most of the domestic mobile communication market.
Well, the previous mobile phone Weiwei was also developed by TX. It was based on the hundreds of millions of TT users that it achieved such brilliant results.
In this life, maybe it’s not certain. No matter what, their celebrity group will definitely get a piece of the pie.
Regarding this aspect, Zhou Anan naturally would not imagine anything with the other party and send shells to the enemy to attack himself.
"Then do you think there is still a need to continue developing our mobile phone TT space?"
Seeing that this little rascal didn't have any concrete information in his words, Mai Jiachan directly asked him about his opinion on mobile phone TT space.
Originally, they were very optimistic about the mobile phone TT space within TT. The traffic was not large and it was very suitable for the current young people.
However, with the rapid development of Mingliu Weike, the number of users of TT Space, which has some overlapping functions, has grown slowly, and young people with Weike accounts basically do not choose to post updates on their mobile TT Space.
Therefore, many senior executives suggested reducing TT Space’s R&D funding, maintaining daily operations, and letting it fend for itself.
Anyway, Mingliu Weike is an important partner of their TT.
Instead of investing a huge amount of money and fighting against ourselves, which will result in losses no matter how we calculate it, it is better to invest the money in online games with the highest profits, which is the most profitable industry of TX Group.
This is the fact that even Mai Jiachan, who originally wanted to develop the mobile TT space, has wavered.
"Uncle Mai, please look."
Zhou Anan took out his latest E71 'Weak Chicken' which was just released last month, opened his frequently used WK browser, selected the extremely conspicuous Weike web link, and spent ten seconds slowly logging in using the save account function.
Next, Zhou Anan opened TT on her mobile phone, and then clicked on TT Space on the function page. It took 8 seconds just to jump to the page, and she had to log in to the account again, which took a total of 45 seconds.
This is because his phone is expensive enough and the internet speed is fast enough, otherwise the time would be at least half as long as with a poor quality phone.
Nowadays, the speed of opening web pages on mobile phones is not the slowest, but only slower.
"Yeah, I understand."
Looking at the clear contrast between the two, Mai Jiachan drank a sip of tea with some melancholy and gave up the last bit of persistence in his heart.
However, he soon discovered the mobile browser the other party was using. His eyes lit up as if he had discovered a new world: "When did you launch this mobile browser? How many downloads have there been?"
"Probably around the end of March. I'm not sure about the current download volume. I heard from my secretary last week that it was only about 5.2 million."
When talking about the mobile browser WK developed by his own company, Zhou Anan seemed a little uninterested when he mentioned that number.
Knowing the general trend of future smartphones, he naturally would not miss the opportunity to develop mobile micro-clients. Even after Mingliu Group received 1.9 billion in financing last year, he invested heavily in developing his own browser.
With the release of WK browser version 1.0 at the end of March this year, Zhou Anan discovered the real gap between himself and the big guys.
US, which has been developed for four years, has been updated and replaced several times. It has over 40 million users worldwide and is the only mobile browser with over 10 million users in China.
Their WK mobile browser, relying on tens of millions of Weike users, has been developing for nearly two months, but has not yet reached one-eighth of its big brother UC.
There is no comparison, no comparison.
However, their company's WK mobile browser has two great advantages for users. The first is that it is very fast to log in to the Mingliu Weike website, and the second is that there are no pop-up ads, not even a single pop-up ad window.
Mingliu Group is rich and willful. It developed the WK mobile browser to serve Weike users only and does not accept any bad advertisements.
This has been unanimously praised by all WK mobile browser users, and the usage rate among Mingliu Group’s internal employees exceeds 95%.
As for the remaining 5%, well, the cleaning lady and the kitchen chef’s mobile phone versions are a bit low and they can’t access the Internet.
"It seems that you are not very satisfied with this browser. Why don't you sell it to us TX?"
Listening to the other party's somewhat decadent tone and looking at the other party's appearance, Mai Jiashan was not sure whether this little fox was showing off or was really dissatisfied, so he gave the other party a good suggestion out of consideration.
"You have already developed your own mobile browser, why do you want to buy ours?"
I didn't expect that Mr. Mai would have such a strange idea. Zhou Anan asked speechlessly.
As far as he knows, TT mobile phone has its own mobile browser, which has been online for a long time.
"I'll offer you 300 million, and you tell me whether you will sell it or not?"
Without further ado, Mai Jiashan directly offered a sky-high price that most people would find difficult to refuse.
Just kidding, they built a dedicated mobile browser into the TT phone last year, but it received a lot of criticism for the speed of web page conversion and the user experience feedback was very poor, so even their internal employees rarely used it.
It has been developing for more than a year, and the number of downloads of their mobile TT browser alone is only 3.86 million. The new growth is almost unable to catch up with the number of uninstalls.
The page layout of WK looks fresher, and the web page conversion speed is much faster than their mobile TT browser. The most important thing is the growth rate of the other party's download volume.
It's really horrifying.
You should know that the current leading mobile browser US has been developed for four years, but the total download volume is only more than 40 million. Excluding foreign users, the number of domestic users is at most between 15 million and 20 million.
In other words, WK mobile browser took just over a month to catch up with one-third of the domestic user base of US mobile browsers, which took four years to develop.
Quietly, Mingliu Group developed such a large satellite, and even he, a veteran in the domestic IT industry, did not notice it.
The little fox's scheming is unfathomable.
(End of this chapter)
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