Although 4G has not yet started in China in 2012, 3G can also produce some low-resolution short videos.
These days, when watching videos using data, they are all in 360P data-saving mode.
Moreover, there is wifi at work and at home, so Douyin still has a bright future, but of course it cannot be compared with what it will be years later.
Kuaishou in his previous life started making short videos in November 2012.
Originally, Wang Yi didn’t want to push Douyin so early, but Kuaishou is about to make short videos. If Wang Yi doesn’t push Douyin, Kuaishou will overtake him, which will cause all kinds of troubles.
Even if you surpass Kuaishou in the future, you will be labeled as a 'plagiarist of Kuaishou' or a 'thousand-year old'.
Coupled with the promotion of Hanfu, Douyin short videos are needed.
The clothing industry will only become more and more popular in the future. Meiyou and Zhenyou’s subsequent revenue will also need Douyin short videos to gain customers and increase exposure and traffic.
Douyin is also needed for subsequent comprehensive e-commerce and the layout of local life.
Due to various factors, Wang Yi could only directly launch Douyin!
Although there is no 4G, it cannot be as popular as it was four years later.
But with wifi and the Star God Card to avoid data transfer, plus the first-mover advantage, it can still be done.
More importantly, in version 1.0 of Douyin, Wang Yi specially added a pre-caching function in wifi mode.
And online, you can set the cache size with one click and clear the cache with one click.
Caching short videos of several gigabytes in advance at home and watching them offline is no problem.
In this way, we can make up for it a little bit.
In addition, the mobile terminal is not developed enough these days, but the PC terminal is still very powerful.
Many people install Douyin on PC and use their computers to browse Douyin.
Just like the original live broadcast, it all became popular from the PC side.
A few years later, it will be mobile.
Coupled with the product produced by Xingyi Technology, it must be a high-quality product, as well as Wang Yi's appeal.
Many celebrities have seen the unlimited potential and brilliant future of Douyin and decisively joined it one after another.
Especially those celebrities who want to cooperate with Xingyi Media are not generally enthusiastic.
With the popularity of the self-produced drama "Nirvana in Fire", the entire entertainment industry has seen the strength of Xingyi Media.
Many celebrities are eager to have the opportunity to embrace Xingyi Media. If they cooperate, they may become famous.
In addition, Douyin is fun and can increase fans, and those celebrities can no longer calm down.
Decisively, they all joined Douyin and asked their management team to write copywriting, shoot videos, and post on Douyin...
So in the next few days, many celebrities took the initiative to join Douyin every day, and many celebrities enthusiastically started live broadcasts to attract fans!
Equally enthusiastic are the majority of users.
In particular, Douyin actually integrates a beauty function, and the photos taken are much better-looking than most mobile phones, making them even more calm!
These days, except for the Xingyi mobile phone which has a beauty function, all other brands of mobile phones do not have a beauty function and are all under development.
This has led to users of other brands who want to experience the beauty function to either change their mobile phones to Xingyi phones or use Douyin!
The cost of replacing a Xingyi mobile phone is too high. Many people are reluctant to replace the 4S that has just been used for a year.
But downloading Douyin is zero cost.
So a large number of girls registered on Douyin, took many beautiful photos and videos, and posted them on Douyin.
And these beautiful photos and short videos have attracted a large group of male users!
Focus on a closed loop!
There are no surprises. From the first day it was launched, Douyin was completely out of the circle and became popular all over the Internet.
In the following days, it became more and more popular day by day.
So much so that the hot searches for several days were firmly controlled by Douyin.
In this regard, Weibo was very helpless, and felt like it was facing a formidable enemy, so it had to hold a high-level meeting:
"I really didn't expect it. It wasn't WeChat, Changchat, or Tieba that was the one who attacked us, but Douyin!"
Cao Wei, the chairman of Weibo, spoke with a stern face, his expression extremely ugly.
He just took office as the chairman of Weibo in August and is preparing to strictly guard Changchao.
As a result, Douyin was released!
Although it has only been released for three days, Cao Wei knows that Douyin has endless potential and its future is even more limitless.
There is a high probability that it will seriously impact the development of Weibo.
What an eventful year it has been.
One shareholder was a little unconvinced: "Chairman, are you being a bit alarmist? There are more than 300 million users of Changchao, but they can't take over our Weibo. It's just Douyin, which has just started, with only a few million users.
How much of a threat does it pose to Weibo?”
"How many millions of users?" Cao Wei frowned slightly: "Although Xingyi Technology has not announced specific data, we all know that on the first day alone, Douyin's downloads exceeded five million! Now three days have passed, I'm afraid
There are already 20 million users.”
"Ah? That's not true, right?" The shareholder was startled, but still found it unbelievable.
Twenty million in three days?
Crazy!
Cao Wei sighed: "Xingyi Technology's press conference is too influential. It has been hotly searched for three consecutive days every day. It is difficult for users not to see a surge. Moreover, short video is a brand new model, and Douyin is the only short video.
Platforms and their speed of transmission will completely spread like a virus."
The vice president also said: "Not only that, Xingyi Technology has not used its big move yet. In the next few days, a wave of system updates will be launched. More than 100 million Xingyi mobile phones and more than 100 million Xingyi tablets will have Douyin built-in directly. Users
Breaking 250 million or even 300 million in an instant!"
"..."
"grass!"
"Made!"
"You don't have martial ethics!"
“Fuck!“
After a brief silence, everyone in the room began to curse.
So shameless!
It's really shameless!
For other software, if you want to have more than 100 million users, it will be difficult to reach the sky.
What about Xingyi Technology?
After a wave of system updates, the number of direct users exceeded 200 million.
You simply don’t need a face!
The director's face also changed drastically, and he gritted his teeth with hatred:
“It’s really hard to compare goods with others. If this continues, Douyin can really seriously threaten our Weibo.”
Cao Wei nodded: "Well, in the past three days, hundreds of celebrities have joined Douyin collectively, which is the best example. The rise of Douyin has become unstoppable!"
"What do these celebrities picture?" Someone else didn't understand:
"The first batch of stars to join Douyin are all artists signed by Xingyi Media and Internet celebrities signed by Meiyou Technology. We understand that our platform supports them."
"The second batch of people who have settled in are celebrities who have worked with Xingyi Technology and have a good relationship with them. I understand why they support us."
"The third batch of people who have settled in are young celebrities who want to cooperate with Xingyi Technology. It makes sense to submit their name certificates in advance and take advantage of them!"
"But the question is, why are the first and second-tier big stars rushing to join Douyin because they don't need to please Xingyi Technology? This is unscientific!"
Hearing this, Cao Wei smiled: "Old Liu, you are from a technical background, so you think the problem is a bit limited. Those first- and second-tier celebrities do not have to support Xingyi Technology, but they need fans!"
"When all celebrities think that Douyin must be the next Weibo, and the number of Douyin fans is as important as the number of Weibo fans, what do you think they will do?"
"Hiss!" Old Liu took a breath of cold air: "They will settle in as soon as possible, start broadcasting, and grab fans like crazy!"
"Yes, that's the truth! Just like playing a game, the server opening stage is always the best period for development. Once you enter the game late, it will be even more difficult."
Cao Wei explained: "This is the reason why many celebrities have turned to Douyin and settled in Douyin. In the past few days, the number of Weibo posts they have posted has decreased a lot. Their online time has also decreased a lot, so they all go to Douyin.
Live broadcast and make a short video on Douyin, Made!"
As he said that, a set of data was projected on the big screen at the back, which was a comparison of the star data three days ago and three days later.
In the past three days, more than 30% of celebrities’ Weibo login time has been reduced by 70%!
More than 60% of celebrities’ Weibo login time has been reduced by 50%!
"It can be seen that these celebrities are all filming or using Douyin!"
Cao Wei sighed: "We must attach great importance to it. If we continue to allow Douyin to develop like this, it will definitely be a disaster for our Weibo."
All the senior officials nodded:
"Yes, we must find a way to curb the development of Douyin!"
“WeChat, the last enemy of Weibo, was killed by Changchao. If we don’t pay attention to it, Weibo will also be hit hard by Douyin!”
"Why take it seriously? Now Douyin is still on our Weibo hot search list!"
"Many celebrities still use their own Weibo accounts to promote their Douyin accounts!"
"This group of rip-offs is so abominable. They are trying to shake the foundation of our Weibo and steal our Weibo users!"
“I suggest that Douyin be immediately set as a sensitive word and completely blocked!”
"Yes, this is the only way to stop Douyin from stealing people from Weibo. Otherwise, if this continues and Douyin grows stronger, Weibo will suffer."
"Yes, it must be blocked, and it must be blocked immediately. Douyin must not be allowed to continue to steal our users!"
…
Listening to everyone's impassioned words, Cao Wei's mouth twitched: "Very good, let's ban Douyin and remove Xingyi Mobile from Weibo."
"this……"
Everyone was silent for a while, and their original arrogance immediately cooled down.
The vice president sighed: "Now Baidu doesn't dare to continue to block Xingyi Technology, let alone our Weibo, don't seek death."
"Yes, once Xingyi Mobile is removed from the shelves, hundreds of millions of users will be lost directly. No, we can't handle it."
"Hey, what should we do? Even if we block them, we can only watch them steal our users?"
Cao Wei took a deep breath: "Blocking is not possible. There are over 100 million Xingyi mobile phone users, and no one dares to block Douyin. But we can confront it head-on."
"Head-on confrontation? We can't resist Douyin. Behind them is Xingyi Technology! How can our Weibo compare with Xingyi Technology?"
"That's right, Baidu has been hammered by Xingyi Technology, we are definitely no match."
Cao Wei nodded: "You are right, Weibo is not the opponent of Xingyi Technology. We can introduce allies, BAT-level allies!"
"Chairman, you mean Ali?"
"That's right, Alibaba's social networking has always been a failure. It can't compete with Tencent QQ and Baidu Tieba, so it focused on our Weibo."
"Especially the popularity of Changchao has made Alibaba firm up its intention to acquire Weibo."
Cao Wei slowly said: "No one welcomed Ali's acquisition before, and I strongly opposed it. Later, Ali took a step back, gave up the full acquisition, and changed to control Weibo."
“Originally, I didn’t agree to take control of Weibo!”
"But it's a pity that this time is the same as that time."
"Without Douyin, we can refuse Alibaba's control of Weibo, continue negotiations, and finally let it only invest but not control."
"Now that Douyin has emerged, our Weibo has a bumpy future. Just because our Weibo is no match for Douyin, we have to introduce a large amount of capital from Alibaba, even if it allows it to control it!"
"Alas!" Everyone sighed.
I built Weibo by myself and finally became a social giant. I really don’t want to be controlled by Alibaba.
But now, it seems that it won't work unless it is controlled.
After all, the four giants of XBAT, Xingyi Technology has Changchao and Douyin, Baidu has Tieba, Tencent has QQ and WeChat, and only Alibaba has nothing, and it can be said that there is nothing in the social field.
Only Alibaba can become the support of Weibo, giving Weibo the strength to compete with Changchao, Douyin, QQ, and Tieba.
Without Alibaba’s funds and relying solely on Weibo, XBT would be no match for it!
Especially Douyin, which comes directly from the lifeblood of Weibo.
In the past, the public got the latest information on all things big and small in the entertainment industry through Weibo.
But from now on, it will all be through Douyin!
This is simply revolutionizing half of Weibo’s life!
"We have no choice but to do this, even if we let Alibaba control it."
"It is better to die than to live. Being controlled by Alibaba is much better than being killed by Douyin."
"Okay, let's start voting. Those who agree to introduce Alibaba investment, raise your hands!"
Swish, swish, originally less than 20% of the senior management agreed to take a controlling stake, but now, more than 70% of the people directly raised their hands.
It can only be said that people have to bow their heads under the eaves.
Without any surprises, the vote passed smoothly.
Cao Wei sighed: "Okay, I'll contact Director Ma right away."
Later, Cao Wei called Jack Ma's phone: "Dr. Ma, if you are free recently, come to Weibo for a visit."
Jack Ma immediately understood what Cao Wei meant and said with joy, "No problem, I'll be free tomorrow."
"Okay, I'll prepare the wine and wait for Chairman Ma." Cao Wei said with a smile.
After hanging up the phone, Jack Ma's smile became even stronger: "Thanks to Xingyi Technology this time, if it hadn't been for the emergence of Douyin, which made Weibo feel the crisis, Cao Wei would not have let go. This trip to Weibo,
It would be even better if we could at least control Weibo, and of course acquire Weibo.”
"Haha, to put it this way, I really have to thank Director Wang. If it weren't for him, Lao Cao wouldn't want to be controlled."
"Yes, but this also shows the power of Douyin. You think, there are so many of us in Alibaba, why doesn't anyone think of making short videos?"
Jack Ma was very puzzled: "Baidu and Tencent have laid out long videos. It would be great if we at Alibaba could make short videos. But unfortunately, now that Xingyi Technology has taken the lead, it is too late for us to enter the game.
"
However, what is equally tragic is not only Weibo but also Apple.
Cook was very angry. September 13th was originally the Apple iPhone 5 launch event, and Xia Guo’s hot searches were supposed to be for iPhone 5.
Originally, users in Xia State were racking their brains to figure out how to buy parallel imports of iPhone 5!
But unfortunately, since Wang Yi released Hanfu and Douyin on September 13, there has been no iPhone 5.
Now the hot searches in Xia Guo are all about Hanfu and Douyin.
Xiaguo female users are buying Hanfu, wearing Hanfu, making short videos of Hanfu, and uploading them on Douyin.
And Xia Guo’s male users are all watching short videos, watching Hanfu beauties, various live broadcasts, and various short videos.
As long as there is wifi, you can use it anywhere.
In places without wifi, short videos of several gigabytes will be cached in advance, so you can enjoy watching them all at once.
As for iPhone 5?
What is that?
Not many people paid attention at all.
Everyone is scrolling and filming TikTok, who has time to pay attention to an iPhone 5?
It can be said that this year’s iPhone 5’s domestic attention has dropped to an all-time low.
Even loyal Apple fans who were originally planning to buy iPhone 5 have already bought xphone 2.
Nothing else, the xphone 2 has higher pixels, is better at shooting TikTok, has a bigger and clearer screen, and is more fun to play TikTok!
It can be said that with the release of Douyin, there are many more reasons to buy xphone 2 instead of iPhone 5.
Regarding this, Cook was furious, but helpless: "I didn't expect that Hanfu didn't take away much of the iPhone 5's popularity, but it was taken away by Douyin!"
If Hanfu alone has limited influence, the iPhone 5 is still very popular.
But with Douyin, that’s over.
I'm addicted to this thing as soon as I use it, and I can't stop at all. Where can I find the time to pay attention to iPhone 5?
"This guy Wang Yi just wants to take revenge on us!"
Cook snorted coldly: "Previously, we held a fan meeting on the same day as Xingyi Technology's new product launch. I personally showed up to try to cut off the popularity of their launch, but failed."
"Now that Apple is launching new products, Wang Yi is also holding a Douyin launch conference on the same day, retaliating in kind. The result is that it really stole all our attention!"
"Farke, Farke!"
However, apart from being incompetent and furious, Apple has nothing to do.
Someone said: "Chairman, do you want to take action to suppress it? Directly remove Douyin from the shelves? Or even remove Changchao from the Apple Store?"
Cook thought for a while and shook his head: "No, ChangChat has more than 300 million users, and it is already an indispensable software in Xiaguo. Once ChangChat and Douyin are removed from the shelves, it will be equivalent to forcing Apple users to buy Star
Yi Mobile. By then, the situation of iPhone in Xia Country will only become more miserable."
All the senior officials nodded:
"Yes, we cannot lose the Xiaguo market."
"Now that Changchao and Douyin have become popular, their development cannot be curbed."
"Oh, it would have been better if I had taken action earlier."
"Yes, but who would have thought that a small piece of software could grow to such an extent."
"It's just embarrassing now. If you don't take it off the shelves, we'll feel aggrieved. If you take it off the shelves, users will boycott Apple and lose a lot of users!"
Cook sighed: "Now the situation of iPhone in Xia Country is very dangerous. We must not push the remaining Apple fans to the Xingyi mobile phone camp. No matter it is Douyin or Changchao, we can't do it."
After hearing this, the others said nothing more.
That's the truth.
Xingyi Technology uses more than 200 million Xingyi mobile phones and Xingyi tablets to force other software vendors not to block Xingyi Technology.
It also uses hundreds of millions of users to chat, forcing other hardware manufacturers not to block Xingyi Technology.
It’s simply full of buffs.
Just like the fight between iPhone and WeChat in the previous life, if users are really forced to choose one of the two, there is a high probability that iPhone users will switch to domestic mobile phones such as Huawei and Xiaomi, and they will not give up WeChat.
After all, work, life, communication with relatives and friends, etc. are mostly conducted through WeChat, and no one can completely leave WeChat.
But without the iPhone, there is not much pressure.
Similarly, the current number of Changchao users exceeds 300 million, and it has gradually achieved the status of WeChat in its previous life.
Although the current chat can not reach the terrifying scale of more than 1 billion WeChat users in the previous life.
However, there are far fewer Internet users now than ten years later. Therefore, with 300 million users, Changchat has covered a fairly high number of Internet users.
As the number of Internet users increases in the future, the number of users of Changchat will also increase with it.
This is all inevitable.
It can be said that the current influence of free chat is also terrifying.
Different from the gloomy situation of Apple and Weibo, the Douyin headquarters located in Meiyou Technology Park is full of joy.
That’s right, Douyin was developed by Jeju Meiyou’s development department. It was also the same team that created Changchao. It was also the first batch of old team members who followed Wang Yi.
For such core projects that require strict confidentiality in the early stage, Wang Yi will directly leave them to this most reliable old team and hand them over to Cai Zisong's department.
And Cai Zisong's department will not disappoint Wang Yi. Whether it is Changchao or Douyin, they have done an impeccable job.
Of course, with Wang Yi's attention, Cai Zisong's development department is also constantly expanding, and there will be many soldiers.
Not only the high-quality talents from Shandong Province have switched jobs to join, but also many cutting-edge engineers from large factories in first-tier cities have also switched jobs to join.
After all, Jeju's housing prices are lower and the cost of living is even lower, several times lower than in first-tier cities. However, the salary of Meiyou's development department is only 30% lower than that of first-tier manufacturers, far exceeding the salary of other second-tier cities.
There is no need to worry about how to choose.
Programmers, as the mainstream group in the 35-year-old mid-life crisis, have to consider their retreat in advance. This is inevitable.
If you wait until you are in your thirties before considering changing jobs at Meiyou, it is simply unrealistic and you will not be able to compete with young people in their twenties and seventies.
But now I am twenty-six or seventeen years old. I am more experienced than the young people who have just graduated, and I am more energetic than the old programmers in their thirties. I am at the peak of my condition.
At this time, the probability of success in changing jobs at Meiyou is greater, and the development prospects are also better.
Moreover, Meiyou often has big projects like Changchao, and top-level year-end bonuses are often given out. The remuneration is frighteningly high, even higher than that of the big factories in the Imperial Capital with average performance.
After all, in the IT industry, the basic salary is only one aspect, and the gap is not very big, but the gap in year-end bonuses is huge.
The eight-month year-end bonus and the two-month year-end bonus are directly different from half a year's salary!
With the continuous influx of new talents, Meiyou's R&D department is developing better and better.
Cai Zisong even made arrangements to retain some of Changliao's core R&D personnel and bring some new elite blood to continue the subsequent research and development of Changliao.
Another part of Changchao's core developers started the research and development of Douyin with some new business ideas.
Subsequently, the same is true.
When new projects are launched, some of Douyin’s core developers will continue to be retained, bringing new blood to continue the subsequent updates and iterations of Douyin.
Others move on to new projects.
This continuous incubation and old-to-new model ensures sufficient creativity and ensures the subsequent high-quality updates and iterations of Chat and Douyin.
Wang Yi was very satisfied with this.
Early the next morning.
Wang Yi came to Douyin headquarters: "Mr. Cai, are the overseas versions of Douyin ready?"
"It's done, Chairman, and can be released at any time." Cai Zisong said.
Chapter completed!