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?
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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!"
"Wheat grains
"A certain fruit fan: I always feel humiliated!!!"
In the past two years, there have been fewer and fewer surviving fruit fans. Even the little fairies who like the ultimate high-end brand have gradually accepted the high-end settings of Maili.
After all, the domineering CEOs in domestic film and television dramas basically use Maili phones.
It happened to be the weekend, and the most direct result of the announcement was that the Pingguoxian inspection store became increasingly deserted. In contrast, the Mailixian inspection store was full.
It’s really a blast!!!
………
Beautiful Country, Pingguo Headquarters.
"Qiao, have you seen everything?"
Looking through the relevant news reports that had been translated by Pingguo Huaxia staff overnight and sent over, Tim couldn't help but rub his forehead, feeling a severe headache.
Since the birth of the wheat grain, Tim's sleep quality has been getting worse and worse.
Now.
Pingguo has to face systemic competition from the entire sprout.
After Gein made a tough statement in the first place, the Chinese Internet was agitated, and Chinese Internet giants such as Tengda, Ali, and Qiandu also had to join the crusade against Pingguo's policy.
The relevant reward channels have basically been shut down, making Pingguo’s plan to make money completely come to nothing.
bud--
It has become the nemesis of Pingguo in the Chinese market.
"Looked at it."
Qiao Bisen also had a solemn look on his face.
Although Qiao Naisen survived the last wave of internal fighting between Pingguo, he was inevitably tied to Tim. The two are now grasshoppers on the same rope.
"Since Chinese software developers are opposed to it, we might as well adjust the previous policy."
"How to adjust?"
Tim's eyes brightened slightly, as if he still had some expectation.
"In the future, we will no longer take 30% of the revenue from person-to-person rewards in third-party applications, but at the same time, it is stipulated that application developers are not allowed to take a commission from such rewards."
"However, things like live broadcast rewards, game recharges, etc., because they are achieved through the purchase of virtual currency recharge, must be connected to the IAP mechanism, so we can still take a 30% commission."
In this way, the cost is transferred to consumers.
The so-called "wool comes from the sheep" is similar to recharging virtual currency. The 30% commission in live broadcast rewards is ultimately paid by consumers. Take Tenda's "Virtual Beans" as an example, Android users can redeem 10 for 1 yuan.
However, Pingguo users can only redeem 7, which is a 30% discount.
"Will this cause dissatisfaction among Chinese consumers?"
Although Tim was a little tempted, he was also full of worries. After all, according to the information passed by Huaxia Company, Huaxia consumers were also very dissatisfied with the "eating appearance" of Pingguo.
"There will definitely be dissatisfaction, but it won't be too serious." Qiao Bison is confident.
"How to say?"
"Think about it, since the Pingguo users in China can abandon wheat grains and choose us, it proves that they are true love for us. So since it is true love, it is normal for them to be picked up, right?"
Qiao Bisen clearly understands how to be a PUA consumer.
"That's true."
Isn’t Pingguo’s development all the way supported by these fruit fans?
Just like now.
Even though it has been surpassed by Maili Mobile in terms of product innovation for three consecutive years, it does not prevent it from saying that Pingguo Mobile is still the runner-up in the global high-end market.
Specific to the domestic market, it is an unbreakable king.
This is the result of years of brand brainwashing. It's all good. After all, the products they bring out are genuine products, but they are slightly lacking in innovation.
As for luxury brands such as clothing, shoes and hats, they all rely on the brands themselves to achieve high premiums.
Even if you sell a woven bag for tens of thousands of yuan, there will still be a group of brainwashed consumers who flock to it and even regard it as a symbol of "high-end, fashionable".
The strongest PUA is undoubtedly the diamond jewelry industry.
A diamond that is obviously worthless, after adding the attribute of love, is surprisingly sold for more than gold.
Who can I talk to to reason with you?
"However, will this affect the sales of Pingguo mobile phones in China? The report from Huaxia Company said that many Apple fans are at risk of changing their phones." Tim was still a little worried.
"There will definitely be an impact."
Qiao Naisen did not shy away from it, "However, the sales volume of Pingguo 7 in China is not very satisfactory. No matter how bad it is, how bad can it be? Instead of pursuing growth, it is better to take advantage of the existing wool."
Mobile phones that cost several thousand dollars have a service life of up to three or four years.
Not everyone can just change it.
With its early advantages, Pingguo still has many existing users in the Chinese market.
It was this group of people who gathered.
"Then give it a try!"
After hearing this, Tim finally made up his mind. At worst, we will adjust based on the situation. It is impossible for Pingguo to give in immediately.