Global Monopoly of Technology

The matter of the two big men surnamed Zhang arguing with each other in the circle of friends was leaked out by other big men who were secretly observing, and it attracted a lot of attention in the industry for a while, and they all turned into a strong crowd watching melon eaters.

As a hunter, Tik-Tok, a subsidiary of ByteDance, had a very difficult life in this midsummer, but in the end, he survived.

After experiencing the "dark moment" in the second quarter, Tik-Tok now ranks first in the global download list of the AOS app store in the third quarter, with a specific download volume of 68.5 million, surpassing BlueSpace, a subsidiary of Bluestar Technology , BV Video Network, WhatAPP, etc. have become the most downloaded Azure applications in the world.

In the third quarter of this year, Blue Space was downloaded about 30 million times, ranking sixth on the list. BV Video Network, WhatAPP, and Messenger ranked second to fifth with 45.5 million, 33.8 million and 31.3 million downloads respectively.

Tik-Tok has become the most downloaded application in the world today, and its installed base has beaten its competitors, including the rising "read and burn" software Snapchat in North America, and the super social giant Bluestar Technology's including BV Video Network, MicroBlog, BlueSpace, etc.

In 2017 last year, the monthly download volume of Tik-Tok was less than 10 million. The download volume of several core social applications under Bluestar Technology was higher than that of Tik-Tok, but it began to climb rapidly in the second half of this year. The number of downloads in the month of September reached 23.5 million, which is only the download volume of the AOS app store.

As of 2018, the global download volume of Tik-Tok has reached 330 million. In addition to the 240 million users of Tik-Tok's predecessor "y" software, the cumulative download volume has now reached 750 million, and the current global monthly active users The number has reached 400 million.

These dazzling data Tik-Tok took less than two years, while BV Video Network took three years, Messenger took four years, WhatAPP took four years, and Blue Space took five and a half years.

The popularity started for no apparent reason, but it was out of control and swept the world. The time users were willing to stay on Tik-Tok was quite amazing. This social product is also more and more popular among local young people in North America.

In North America, local users open Tik-Tok about 8 times a day on average, for an average of 5 minutes each time, which corresponds to 4.9 minutes and 3.7 minutes respectively on BlueSpace and WhatAPP under the Bluestar Technology Group.

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The Côte d'Azur headquarters in the city of the Milky Way.

Early this morning, Zhang Bowen came to the Cote d'Azur.

"Come in... yo, old Zhang? Haha, what kind of wind blows you on my site?" Yao Jianhong's office, seeing that the person who came in was Zhang Bowen, the actual head of Bluestar Technology, couldn't help laughing.

Zhang Bowen came in and sat down on the sofa in the rest area carelessly. He was not polite at all, and immediately complained: "Ha... don't say it, Douyin will not die, I can't sleep or eat, I was recently fed by this fellow Zhang Yiming. I don’t know the taste, I can’t sleep at night.”

Hearing this, Yao Jianhong came out of his desk, sat down opposite Lao Zhang, crossed Erlang's legs and joked, "How is it? It's hard to feel the taste of being slapped on a chrysanthemum, you can understand it now. It's like the old giants who were topped by Bluestar Technology ten years ago."

Zhang Bowen shook his head with a wry smile and sighed: "I was careless, I can't shake the blame that made Zhang Yiming rise, or Mr. Luo's insight is terrible, I remember in 2013, In a small chat with Mr. Luo, he mentioned Zhang Yiming and his attention to the value of his headline products. He tried to acquire them as much as possible. By 2016, it may not be a big threat. Coincidentally, in the past two years, I ran into something in North America, ignoring Zhang Yiming's expansion..."

Now that these are all afterthoughts, with the current momentum of Tik-Tok, the global download volume will reach 1 billion by the end of the year.

In fact, Bluestar Technology did send people to find Zhang Yiming to initiate mergers and acquisitions many times, but they were all rejected by the other party without exception. They had no choice but to give up.

However, although Zhang Bowen admired Zhang Yiming's ambition at that time, he did not think that the other party could pose a big threat to Bluestar Technology. Old Zhang thought in his heart that he had N ways to defeat his opponent, and waited until all N methods were used. After that, Lao Zhang finally began to realize that something was wrong with Nima.

Today, especially since the second half of this year, the global conquest of Tik-Tok, the international version of Douyin, has made the world tremble.

Zhang Bowen said in a deep voice: "The great thing about Zhang Yiming is that the success of Tik-Tok can be replicated in major markets around the world. The overseas version is so attractive, and the way of playing has not changed much. Overseas users also play the whole game. Gu games, sitcoms, jokes, somersaults, singing to the mouth, etc. The difference is that the people in the short videos are no longer East Asian faces, and the language has changed."

Yao Jianhong nodded, and after a while he also analyzed: "The rise of ByteDance is also my focus. Tik-Tok's ice-breaking in different overseas markets is due to accidental factors such as Bluestar Technology being involved too much energy in North America. It exists, but generally speaking, its operation idea should be the same as that of domestic Douyin.”

Seeing that Bluestar Technology, the brother company, is in a hurry now, Yao Jianhong's sense of crisis has also increased a bit. Cote d'Azur is also facing the situation of lagging behind competitors in the smart home field, and it is not facing one or two opponents, but a group.

The old international manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, and Blackberry, who were killed or maimed by the Côte d'Azur, are still not cool enough yet. Yao Jianhong doesn't want to play with them by himself.

But relatively speaking, the situation on the Côte d'Azur is much better. The big white robot is the real killer, which gives Yao Jianhong great confidence.

But the sense of crisis really exists. Being strong now does not mean that you can always be strong. Your own rise is based on stepping on the corpses of old giants to reach the top. There are many people who have the idea of ​​"he can be replaced".

When Yao Jianhong finished speaking, Old Zhang nodded again and again: "You're right, Zhang Yiming first increased his investment by hundreds of millions, burning money to attract celebrities to settle in; then, the star effect brought him a large number of young seed users, Pulled the first batch of traffic; then, relying on super operation to detonate word of mouth. His three-pronged axe is not only popular in China, but also in mature markets such as Japan, Europe, and North America."

At this time, Yao Jianhong looked at the other party and said, "Old Zhang, you came to me in such a hurry, don't you want me to be your thug?"

Hearing this, Zhang Bowen held his head and coughed a few times, then looked at the other party and said bluntly: "Okay, you and I won't cheat, you guessed it right, I'm here this time to ask you to take a shot. The AOS side and the WOS side block byte-based products, and that's it, Zhang Yiming will have to peel off his skin if he doesn't die, and my Bluestar Technology side will continue to increase efforts, even if he can live, he will be sighed."

This move is really cruel, and it is a completely unreasonable move to play a hooligan, which is to play a hooligan.

And Zhang Yiming is most afraid of this. As long as the Cote d'Azur also intervenes in this dispute to suppress it, it will definitely be a heavy blow to ByteDance, and an accidental rhythm may be directly cooled.

Smartphones are the core carrier of the mobile Internet at present. Blocking them from AOS and WOS means that about 65% of mobile phone users around the world are directly isolated, and users can only be absorbed in the Android camp.

And behind Android is Google. Google is a technology giant in Silicon Valley. Now, the old beauty is not only unhappy with Bluestar Technology and Cote d'Azur, but also with all the people with the surname "Hua". Tik-Tok's current momentum is also full of presence in North America. , has already entered the sight of Lao Mei, Zhang Yiming has already felt Lao Mei's strong hostility.

To understand the operation of the baby's goods, you may be arranged one day.

Therefore, even if ByteDance is currently in full swing, its fragile side is also objective. Once it collapses, it will be the rhythm of blood collapse. Although Zhang Yiming showed off his achievements and complained in the circle of friends, it is also a sense of crisis. Full.

"This is absolutely not possible, Mr. Zhang, it's not that I don't want to help you, but that I can't. Once this is done, the damage to the third-party developer community will have sequelae that may not be healed for ten years, which will shake third-party developers. The fundamentals of the user community, which will shake the core competitiveness of the Côte d’Azur.”

As soon as Yao Jianhong heard the other party's request, he refused without thinking, and added: "If you want to block from the consumer terminal, you must make Zhang Yiming's own mistakes, just like blocking 'Meanhan Duanzi', everyone Nothing to say."

This head, Yao Jianhong will not open anything, as long as he sits in this position in charge of the Cote d'Azur, it is impossible to pass.

What will other third-party developers think once they start this? Is it time that a certain product rises in the future, as long as it threatens you, it will indiscriminately block it?

This will not only bring a series of lawsuits and even anti-monopoly investigations on the Côte d'Azur, but the most deadly thing is that the vitality of the developer community will no longer exist, and it will gradually evolve into a backwater. Some people with lofty ideals must worry about their products. When he got up, he was ruthlessly blocked by the Riviera and died, and he was bound to be discouraged.

And these people with lofty ideals are precisely the core group to ensure the vitality of the community.

It's simply pushing excellent developers to the Android camp. If people in Google's management want to see this happen, Larry Page or something will probably cry with laughter in their dreams.

Zhang Bowen smiled bitterly and was speechless for a long time, only to see him leaning against the sofa and looking at the ceiling and sighing: "To use the current Internet catchphrase, the baby's heart is bitter."

Yao Jianhong couldn't help laughing when he heard the words: "Old Zhang, before you came here, you knew that I would not agree, it's not obvious, you just want to find someone to complain about and release the recent pressure. At Bluestar Technology, you can only be bored. I have pain in my heart but I can't speak. I can't show discouragement to my subordinates and it hurts my morale. I'm embarrassed to go to Mr. Luo, so I can only come to me. I understand, maybe I will go to you someday. , in the same situation as you."

Zhang Bowen muttered to himself: "You're right, it's really cool to be topped by others, and it's really uncomfortable when you're topped by others. You can feel the taste of both ends, Madd."

If poor Zhang Baobao knew that ByteDance and Tik-Tok were clearly arranged by their immediate bosses long ago, they would not have suffered so much, nor would they have come to Yao Jianhong for comfort.

It's just that they have been kept in the dark until now, including Zhang Yiming and everyone in the outside world.

Co-authoring and fighting for a long time, is the left hand beating the right?

Don't bring such a fool.

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