That night, Star Chat released a new emoticon package.

The mushroom heads and stick figures are as attractive and magical as the Pandaren emoticons.

Immediately, another round of emoji craze started online.

At this time, Luo Fan didn't know that the new emoticon pack had been uploaded, and he was still considering whether to take this opportunity to promote Star Chat.

Just when Luo Fan was in trouble, his cell phone suddenly rang.

Luo Fan glanced at the caller ID above and was stunned.

"Zhang Jian? Why would he call me?" Luo Fan muttered to himself and then answered the phone.

"Hello~"

"Mr. Luo, long time no see. How have you been lately?"

"Very good, how about you, Manager Zhang?"

"I'm not having a good life! Mr. Luo, are you Xingyuan planning to enter social software?" Zhang Jian asked straight to the point.

"Mr. Zhang, must you have misunderstood! The main product of our company is not Star Chat. Star Chat was only launched to facilitate game users to communicate with each other." Luo Fan replied instantly.

"Really? I thought Mr. Luo wasted no time in designing those emoticons just to seize the social software market!"

"Manager Zhang misunderstood. There have always been emoticons. It was just an accident that it became popular."

"It was an accident that the Pandaren emoji became popular, but the two new emojis you updated later were no accident, right?"

Luo Fan was stunned when he heard this. Where did the updated emoticon package come from? Where did it come from?

But strangely enough, Luo Fan's reaction was not slow at all. He quickly said: "The two emoticons at the end are really just to gain popularity.

StarChat only had an installed base of over 200,000 before, so it’s our own product after all, so we can’t just ignore it completely, right?”

"That's right. After all, you can't just leave a product you made by yourself. Just give it a thumbs up. What if it becomes popular? Right?"

"That's right! Isn't this the norm for our Internet company? Whether it is the main recommendation or not is one thing, and whether it is the main recommendation is another thing." Luo Fan said with a smile.

After listening to Luo Fan's words, Zhang Jian breathed a sigh of relief. He had already seen that the so-called Star Chat was not specifically designed for game communication. To put it bluntly, it was a social software launched by Star Technology Co., Ltd.

But the crux of the question is, does Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. intend to promote this software? Or is it just developed to prepare for emergencies.

If it is the former, then there is no doubt that Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. is Penguin's potential opponent. If it is the latter, then there is no need to pay too much attention.

After all, the underlying structure of the chat software is very simple. Even a programmer who stays up late for a month can build it.

This type of APP has no technical content at all, and it doesn’t take much time to build one.

Before Zhang Jian called Luo Fan, he had already learned about Xingyuan's Xingchao in detail.

The product of StarChat is completely different from their Penguin. It does not have many functions of Penguin. The whole APP looks very simple. To put it bluntly, it is just a chat room, and there are several people similar to yy who can chat with each other.

Group functionality.

In Zhang Jian's opinion, these functions are very crude and not worthy of attention at all.

Therefore, Zhang Jian personally prefers that this software was developed by Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. in order to be prepared.

Even if the popularity of emoticons hadn't caused a surge in downloads of Star Chat, Zhang Jian would not have called to confirm whether Xingyuan had the idea of ​​​​promoting Star Chat.

Today's netizens are not the kind of Internet novices they were ten years ago. In the area of ​​social software, Penguin has whetted the appetite of users.

If the experience of new social software is worse than Penguin, then it is basically useless. If you want to succeed, at least the experience cannot be worse than Penguin.

As for StarChat, a chat tool that is extremely simple and useless except for creating groups and emoticons, Zhang Jian really feels that it cannot even be considered a rival to Penguin.

However, Penguin suffered the loss of underestimating its rivals in the past few years. At that time, Penguin was almost broken by Fetion Mobile to break the user chain.

In 2007, China Mobile launched Fetion and directly adopted the mobile phone registration method. This registration directly broke Penguin's user chain. There was no need to apply for a number, and you could chat directly with your mobile phone number. This was a huge benefit to Penguin.

impact.

Moreover, the traffic charges were very high in 2007. It is self-evident that most users will choose whether to use data to use Penguin Chat or use Fetion to chat for free.

Therefore, Fetion has been developing rapidly. As of now, the number of users of Fetion has exceeded 100 million. It is the chat software with the largest number of users besides Penguin.

Penguin was once very worried that Fetion would rise completely and drive them out of the communications market.

But I don’t know why, China Mobile doesn’t seem to pay much attention to this software, and many users just regard Fetion as a free SMS sending platform.

What makes Penguin completely relieved is that only chatting between mobile users of Fetion is free, and other users are charged for chatting, which is the same as text messaging.

Although China Mobile has a much higher market share than China Unicom and China Telecom in the communications market, as long as a small number of people don't use this software, it will be a complete failure.

No one would choose a social software that can only chat with most of their friends, so why not use the remaining small number of friends?

In addition, since 2009, the traffic price has become lower, and only using Penguin to chat does not affect the total user traffic. Therefore, Penguin no longer regards Fetion as a rival, and they feel that Fetion's decline will be a matter of time.

However, the sudden rise of Fetion also gave Penguin a wake-up call, allowing them to discover the gaps in their user chain.

So Penguin launched the service of binding Penguin’s mobile phone number. On the one hand, it can increase the security of Penguin and prevent Penguin from being stolen.

On the other hand, it is also to obtain friends directly from the address book like Fetion, to make up for the shortcomings of Penguin.

Luo Fan's Xingyuan application platform directly uses mobile phone numbers to register member accounts, and its products are account-wide. Coupled with the sudden popularity of emoticons on Star Chat, this made Penguin pay some attention to Star Chat.

, Zhang Jian was specially sent to inquire.

Zhang Jian is a "conservative" among Penguins. He believes that social software should have as many functions as possible, so he doesn't pay enough attention to a meager software like Star Chat.

In addition, Luo Fan did not hide his intentions. He directly told Zhang Jian that Xingchat was a social software developed by Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. for the sake of preparedness.

Luo Fan said this in front of him, which basically made Zhang Jian give up his worries about Xingchao. After chatting nonsense with Luo Fan for a few words, he hung up the phone and went to report to his superiors.
Chapter completed!