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167: Section 167Hearing what Ma Liuyun said, the others also smiled.

Even if Ma Liuyun hadn’t said it, they would have found a way to do it.

And Ma Liuyun’s voice continued to ring out.

”Previously, the development of QQ had entered a stable period. Aside from occasionally launching some new features, there were actually very few changes to QQ itself.”

”But this voice function is indeed a very valuable option.”

”How long will it take to add a voice function and a voice-to-text function similar to WeChat to QQ?”

Facing Ma Liuyun’s inquiry, the others exchanged glances.

It was Zheng Haidi, who was in charge of technology, who spoke first.

”I’ve studied WeChat’s voice chat. Its recognition and text conversion functions are very powerful. They must have been specially developed by Wang Mo. We already saw his ability during the Douyin period.”

”Launching the voice function alone shouldn’t be complicated; it could be updated in QQ within one to two weeks at most. However, if we want to add the text conversion function, to achieve high accuracy in recognition, it would require at least a month.”

Hearing Zheng Haidi’s words, Ma Liuyun fell silent for a moment.

”Let’s get the voice chat out first; there’s no rush for the text conversion function.”

”WeChat’s function indeed has an advantage over the current QQ, but that’s the only point. Once our QQ also launches this function, I’m afraid we’ll be able to easily crush WeChat.”

After Ma Liuyun finished speaking, everyone nodded.

Although this was a small meeting to address the challenge from Junzi Group, almost no one present felt nervous or worried.

The previous Douyin and Honor of Kings at least made Penguin Group somewhat vigilant, but this new chat software truly failed to make anyone within Penguin Group take it seriously.

Simply because.

This software, called WeChat, was trying to challenge QQ.

”However.”

Just then, Ma Liuyun suddenly thought of something.

”I’m wondering why Wang Mo said that this software could change the entire internet landscape of Yan Country.”

”Even if WeChat’s user count catches up to QQ, reaching six or seven hundred million, it still wouldn’t be enough to ’change the internet landscape of Yan Country’ as he claimed.”

”Could it be...”

Ma Liuyun paused.

”...that Wang Mo has something else hidden in WeChat?”

After Ma Liuyun finished speaking, Ma Liuyun on the side immediately laughed.

”No matter what he’s hiding, this WeChat can’t possibly catch up to even a fraction of QQ.”

”It seems now...”

”...that Wang Mo’s words back then were just big talk to attract attention, just like what I said at the previous internet conference. The purpose was to attract user attention.”

”It’s just that I really did what I said back then and made Dota Mobile stand firm.”

”But this Wang Mo...”

Ma Liuyun clicked his tongue.

”...I’m afraid he’s going to break his promise.”

With that, Ma Liuyun looked at Ma Liuyun.

”Don’t forget, what Wang Mo is challenging this time isn’t some Taobao or Dota Mobile, it’s QQ.”

”When Dota had its highest daily active users, it only had fifty million users. It was understandable for Wang Mo to challenge it, as fifty million users wasn’t an impossible number to catch up to or surpass.”

”But now, QQ has six hundred million daily active users, which is almost half of Yan Country’s internet users.”

”Six hundred million and fifty million, the difference in user numbers is more than tenfold.”

”I really can’t imagine what ability Wang Mo possesses that would allow WeChat to surpass QQ.”

”Six hundred million daily active users is an insurmountable chasm.”

After speaking.

Ma Liuyun himself couldn’t help but shake his head.

For this matter that he couldn’t even imagine, he naturally didn’t think Wang Mo could achieve it.

Li Wenqiu on the side also laughed.

”I think Wang Mo’s move to launch a brand new chat software is because he was so infuriated by the social attribute linkage of Dota Mobile and QQ that he came up with such a foolish idea.”

”To prevent Dota Mobile from surviving, he actually wants to develop his own chat software.”

”This move is truly ridiculous.”

Listening to Li Wenqiu’s words.

Ma Liuyun also couldn’t help but open the WeChat he had recently downloaded on his phone.

Then, the corners of his mouth curved into a smile as he said,

”Let’s see how long you can last this time.”

”QQ is not that easy to shake.”

Chapter 108: WeChat’s Trending Searches, Untapped Potential!

While Penguin Group was discussing WeChat and preparing to launch a similar voice chat function.

WeChat was being continuously pushed to middle-aged and elderly user groups within Douyin.

After such a long period of development, Douyin’s current user base has become extremely broad, without a specific fixed age group.

Many middle-aged people who use smartphones are active users of Douyin.

Therefore.

Douyin is very suitable to serve as WeChat’s primary promotional ground.

Wang Mo also clearly understood that it would be quite difficult for WeChat to directly confront QQ immediately.

After all, as a communication software, the most important thing is the number of users. Even if someone downloads WeChat, if there are no others using it around them, then WeChat will not remain on that person’s phone.

Therefore.

Wang Mo still planned to accumulate user numbers first.

Because WeChat and QQ have significant differences, as long as the user count starts to increase, it will basically not be lost.

It is not yet time to increase the younger user group.

And after WeChat was launched.

Because of Wang Mo’s previous remarks, WeChat indeed gained a lot of attention in a short period, and its download volume continued to increase.

But among these users who downloaded WeChat.

Most of them wanted to see what was special about WeChat because of Wang Mo’s previous statements.

So, after the initial few days of popularity subsided, WeChat’s download volume entered a phase of slower growth.

The average daily increase in users was only a little over one hundred thousand.

This number, for a chat software that dared to challenge QQ, was already a pretty good achievement.

After all, smartphone users who use chat software basically use QQ and would not download an additional chat software.

From this perspective, WeChat’s daily increase of over one hundred thousand downloads actually seemed a bit strange.

The outside world even didn’t know where these users came from.

Only within Junzi Group was it clear.

These increasing user groups were basically middle-aged and elderly smartphone users that QQ had not accommodated.

However.

To avoid QQ discovering its promotional direction immediately.

WeChat’s promotion in the middle-aged and elderly market was done very carefully.

Aside from advertising on Douyin and conducting offline promotions in second and third-tier cities, it hardly showed its face on any other channels.

Such a move.

While it could prevent Penguin Group from immediately discovering WeChat’s intentions, user growth was also relatively slow.

But fortunately.

Chat software and game software have a significant difference in that chat software users rarely uninstall an account after registering.

But mobile games are different.

Many times, perhaps just one or two losses in a game will make users angry enough to directly uninstall the game.