Even a calm person like Senior Sister could not help but fluctuate her tone when she told Lin Yi about this matter, which showed that her mood was by no means calm.
Although Lin Yi was surprised by her reaction, he still understood the situation first: "What do you mean?"
Li Moyan had calmed down and started from the beginning: "Yu Qi is still doing promotions on Jingmi Road these days. She said that a driver came to her yesterday and asked her to find the Wanli Travel app she had installed for him the day before.
arrive."
"Yu Qi helped him check that it was not in his phone. He thought he had accidentally uninstalled it, so he reinstalled it for him."
"As a result, when the shift was handed over early this morning, the driver came to her again and said that our app could not be found again."
"Now Yuqi realized something was wrong. After helping him download the app, he tried again for a long time, and finally found out that it was Dudu Taxi's manipulation!"
Lin Yi already had a guess in his mind: "How did you move your hands and feet?"
Li Moyan said: "Yu Qi discovered that when the Dudu Travel app is running and the order grabbing page pops up, there will be a prompt."
"The pop-up window said: Third-party software that may affect the running speed was found on your phone. Do you want to delete it?"
"Many drivers grab orders while driving, mainly because they listen to the announcement on their mobile phones and don't even look at the page, so they just click on it and uninstall the Wanli Travel app inexplicably."
really.
Although Lin would not give up easily when he thought of Cheng Wei, the method used this time still exceeded his expectations.
The first thing he thought of was: "Has this problem happened on the passenger side?"
The driver's side and the passenger's side of the taxi-hailing software are two interfaces. Since they are both used here, the other side will not shy away from them.
This time Li Moyan shook his head: "The passenger side has not found this problem yet."
Lin Yi immediately understood Dudu's intentions: "They also knew that this kind of approach was shady, so they hid it secretly."
"They know very well that drivers don't look carefully because they are driving while grabbing taxis. Moreover, taxi drivers are older and are not very good at tinkering with smartphones. It is difficult for them to discover this on their own."
"Most of the users of taxi-hailing software are young white-collar workers. If they engage in such small tricks, it will be easy to be discovered, and it will not look good at that time."
Li Moyan felt that this was probably the reason, but both of them knew that no matter who the other person was, they should do it when they saw each other.
"Let's go, first go find Wang Kai and ask about the situation."
Lin Yi and his senior sister went to find the company's CTO, told him the situation and asked him to check Dudu Taxi's software, which indeed verified Wang Yuqi's findings.
"The newly added functions after the latest update yesterday are not complicated, but isn't it too outrageous for them to do this? I haven't heard of any colleagues doing this before?"
Wang Kai, a technical person, couldn't help but complain.
Lin Ben originally felt that he knew Cheng Wei best in the team, but this time he was still eye-opening about his courage and work style.
"Back then, there was a 3Q war between Goose Factory and the Red-coat Master's anti-virus software. Both companies were leaders in their respective fields. They were well-known brands in the world and even attracted the attention of the entire city."
"Now they are just taking the money from the Goose Factory, and they are far from the status of the Goose Factory. If you dare to engage in this kind of domineering game of choosing one or the other, you are really suffering from the disease of wealth in advance."
Complaints are complaints, the most urgent task now is to decide on countermeasures. Wang Kai took the initiative to ask:
"Should we treat others the same way they treat others? Technically speaking, it's not difficult to do."
Lin Yi did not act emotionally, but asked about the data in the background: "Have we seen a significant decline in the number of installed devices on the driver side in the past two days?"
Li Moyan knows this best: "It has not declined, but the rate of new additions has slowed down significantly."
"We originally thought that the centralized promotion in these transfer locations had encountered a bottleneck period, and we were considering launching other preparation plans. Now it seems that it has a lot to do with Dudu's action of deleting the app."
After thinking about it, Lin Yi said: "We can't let the driver choose between two options."
Wang Kai asked: "We can do it, why can't we do it?"
Lin Yi explained to him: "I'm not afraid of Dudu or Cheng Wei, but he can do this because he still dominates the Beijing market."
"But we can't fight back like this, because most taxi drivers are accustomed to taking taxis. At this time, asking them to choose one or the other is their own fate."
"Actually, we don't need to do anything with the app. If we are serious, we can uninstall all the taxi apps on the drivers' mobile phones while driving."
"But we didn't do this because it was pointless. Wherever drivers can receive orders and earn money, they will naturally use which app. This is called voting with their feet."
"At least we have to wait until we can compete with Dudu in the capital market before we have the capital to choose to be incompatible with it."
At this point, Lin Yi also complained: "This is fucking vicious competition!"
Li Moyan said calmly: "We can't do nothing."
"certainly!"
Lin Yi had already thought about it just now, "I'm going to meet with Cheng Wei. He knows very well that this is something that cannot be put on the table. I will let him remove it himself."
It’s not that he didn’t consider it, he would directly report the small act of taking a taxi to the regulatory authorities, or report it to the media, and he was very sure that both of them would be on his side.
But it doesn't mean much.
If he revealed this matter and could achieve the momentum of the 3Q war, he would never hesitate, but in fact, with his status as a taxi and Wanli Travel in Dudu, it is impossible to have that kind of effect.
It is difficult for Lin Yi to expand the influence of this matter to the social level and affect the development of Dudu Taxi. At most, it will give Cheng Wei a bad reputation in the industry.
In the end, everyone still has to take matters into their own hands.
Although Cheng Wei acted unethically, he was certainly not reckless. He should have considered all the possible reactions on his side.
Lin Yi felt that this move would not cause any big obstacles to Wanli Travel, which was just starting out, but there was an indescribable discomfort. If he had to evaluate this method, he could only say:
low.
No matter what you think in your heart, things still have to be done.
Lin Yi called Wang Xing and got Cheng Wei's contact information from him. After getting through, he made an appointment directly:
"Mr. Cheng, I think we need to talk face to face about Dudu Taxi's recent competitive methods."
Obviously the man opposite knew very well what Lin Yi was talking about, and the voice that came from there was not filled with gloating or bitterness. He answered very calmly and calmly: