While chatting, the second uncle Tang Yi asked Zhang Shuo: "I heard that the Prodigal Fund recently invested in a company called Tianke Real Estate. Is this because it wants to enter the real estate industry?"

The Prodigal Fund has gone from behind the scenes to the stage, and every move it makes naturally attracts attention from all parties.

In particular, the registered capital of Tianke Real Estate is as high as 4 billion. Even if Tang Yi doesn't take the initiative to pay attention to such a big move, someone will report the relevant information to him as soon as possible.

"It doesn't really count."

Zhang Shuo explained: "It is an entrepreneurial project started by a cousin of mine. She wants to plan and build a maker town in Guancheng to provide a full range of community services for freelancers."

"Your cousin, is that little girl named Miaomiao?"

Tang Yi has an outstanding memory, and he still remembers the legendary story of Meow Meow Bicycle's business three years ago.

"That's her." Zhang Shuo smiled.

Tang Yu, who was in the audience, interrupted at the right time: "I really envy Miaomiao. She succeeded in starting a business in her freshman year and became a billionaire. When she enters her senior year, her peers are still busy looking for jobs, and she has already started her second business."

She also made some money from stock trading before, but she can compare with Cai Miaomiao.

Well, there's no comparison...

"That girl Miaomiao just likes to mess around, so I have to let her go."

In front of outsiders, Zhang Shuo still defends Cai Miaomiao. After all, he is the treasure of the Cai family.

………

Monday, February 15th.

After Valentine's Day, the Spring Festival holiday has come to an end, and employees are returning to work one after another.

Of course, it must not have returned to its best condition so quickly. Everyone still has some "Spring Festival sequelae" to a greater or lesser extent, feeling lazy and unable to lift their spirits.

In casual chats with colleagues, topics that can’t be overcome often include “gaining three pounds, going on a blind date,” etc.

The Chinese Internet is very idle, but overseas it is very lively.

On February 18, Crazy Field announced a global recall of 2.87 million vehicles. The reason is that in the event of a collision, the seat belts of these vehicles may be damaged by the metal frame of the seat cushion.

The prospects of traditional fuel vehicles have once again cast a shadow.

On the same day, Pingguo's ApplePay was officially launched in China, supporting debit and credit cards from the first 19 commercial banks, and can be used for online payments.

It can also be accepted offline at UnionPay POS terminals with QuickPass logo.

The launch of Pingguo Pay seems to herald the emergence of a new powerful player in the Chinese payment market, following mobile payment giants such as Zhifubao, Caifutong, and Weixin Pay.

Many fruit fans even have high expectations for it.

In terms of market share, Pingguo Pay can theoretically increase traffic by leveraging Pingguo Mobile's existing customers, but it still faces path dependence challenges due to consumers' existing payment habits.

"For online payments, the core factor that affects the frequency of use of Pingguo Payment is the payment scenario. For offline payments, the core factor that affects the frequency of use is user subsidies."

In addition, there are also difficulties in promoting Pingguo Pay.

Both Zhifubao and Weixin Payment have strong local promotion teams, and have clear assessment and incentive mechanisms. It is relatively easy for Pingguo to promote payment to banks, but it is not easy to promote it to local merchants, and it may rely on UnionPay.

But UnionPay also lacks the corresponding manpower and expenses.

From a technical perspective, Pingguo Payment is a near-field payment (NFC) mode based on a security chip. Compared with contact payment by swiping a card, NFC is a contactless payment, that is, the user associates the bank card with a smartphone with NFC function.

Then click "click" on the POS terminal to complete the payment.

It is worth noting that the above process does not require the use of the Internet, but uses the NFC radio frequency channel to achieve local communication with equipment such as POS cash registers or vending machines.

This is also a significant difference from QR code payment.

According to Pingguo, NFC mode can well avoid interference factors such as insufficient light, which affects QR code recognition, and poor network environment.

That can only be said, Pingguogen

I don’t understand China at all.

First, since it is a payment scene, it is difficult to suffer from insufficient light.

Secondly, China has achieved full 4G network coverage, and there are few factors such as poor network environment.

So it's completely nonsense.

The fact is that the NFC mode has no advantage over the QR code mode. In the original time and space, in China's payment market, the status of Zhifubao and Weixin Payment is almost dominant.

Pingguo payment is simply a flash in the pan.

In addition to launching Pingguo Payment, on the same day, Pingguo also modified the terms of the App Store, saying that rewards through virtual currency should be regarded as in-app purchases, and Pingguo will extract 30% of the share.

One year ahead of the original time and space.

This undoubtedly caused a big stir on the Chinese Internet.

You must know that "rewarding" is actually a unique business model that emerged in the context of the Chinese Internet. It is an economic behavior of fans, and it is not very popular abroad.

Therefore, Pingguo's policy is obviously an adjustment made in response to China's market environment.

The appearance of eating is not ugly.

Some companies chose to compromise, while others fiercely resisted. For example, UC announced directly the next day that it would close the tipping function on the IOS channel in protest.

………

February 19th, Germination Headquarters.

"Chairman, look at this, how should we respond to Pingguo's adjustments?" Lu Qi asked for instructions.

As the largest player in China's Internet industry, Pingguo takes a commission from rewards, which will inevitably have an impact on Buya's products, such as the reward function of Weixin's official account and Panda Live.

In particular, Panda Live Broadcast is based on "rewarding".

"Hasn't UC already set a good example? From now on, the IOS channel tipping function of all the group's Weixin official accounts, Panda Live broadcast and other products will be suspended."

Pingguo did this one year in advance, which is directly related to Pingguo's poor mobile phone sales in the past two years.

Unable to achieve a breakthrough in hardware, Pingguo naturally thought that he would work hard on the software side, and by the way, he could also recruit a wave of Chinese software developers. Why not?

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It’s a pity——

Pingguo overestimated his own influence and underestimated the will of Chinese manufacturers to resist.

"In addition, we have informed Pingguo in the form of a public letter that Menuya will never accept Pingguo's unequal treaty. If Pingguo does not make effective corrections, Menuya will consider successively replacing its various apps in the next three months.

, including games, have been removed from Pingguo Mall." Zhang Shuo said.

"Isn't this too harsh?"

Lu Qi was a little worried. All the apps under Moya were among the top twenty most downloaded, accounting for more than one-third of the app stocks of many Pingguo users.

If we really want to remove them all, the results will be almost the same as bricks.

Of course, this kind of decisive confrontation may also give competitors such as Ali and Tenda an opportunity to seize the market share of Sprout's products on the iOS side.

The final result is likely to be a lose-lose situation for both the sprout and the fruit.

"To deal with an arrogant company like Pingguo, we have to take tough measures. Don't worry, based on my guess, Pingguo is unlikely to fight us to the death," Zhang Shuo said.

Pingguo users themselves account for less than 10% of China’s mobile phone user base.

That means——

Even if Pingguo really resists, the loss is acceptable to Germination.

"I hope Pingguo can be braver. In that case, I'm afraid the last batch of so-called fruit fans will have to join the wheat camp." Zhang Shuo added with a smile.

Having a "substitute" for the flat fruit, Mai Li, is Zhang Shuo's greatest confidence in making relevant decisions.

Change to the original time and space.

Even if he is as strong as Tengda, he can only succumb to Pingguo's temptation in the end.

"Understood!"

Being told this, Lu Qi also

I feel that the probability of compromise is very high.

………

Sure enough, as soon as the announcement came out, it immediately aroused enthusiastic response.

"This wave, my position is sprouting, and the appearance of eating fruit is too ugly."

"It's the reward that people work so hard for. Oh, Pingguo doesn't do anything and just takes away 30% of it like a plucking. It's a little too easy to earn this money."

Although many people actually criticize the high income of online anchors.

But I hate Pingguo’s behavior even more.

"With Pingguo's arrogance, he may not necessarily compromise. I really want to know, will Moya really remove its apps from IOS in the future? Then what else can Pingguo's mobile phone do?"

Apart from anything else, most Chinese people can no longer live without Weixin.

"Fruit fans are shivering..."

"Let's shake the wool, just replace it with Mai Li X4, wouldn't it smell good?"

"reality!"
To be continued...