183: Section 183

After hearing that, Ma shook his head.

"I'm not worried, I just feel like, how could I fall for Wang Mo's trick again?"

"I never expected that WeChat's previous launch of social features was the real move to divert our attention."

As Ma's voice faded, silence fell over the room again.

Although now, WeChat's daily active users are still far behind them.

But for some reason, everyone was quite unhappy.

Even though WeChat is still not a match for QQ, and can even be said to be far behind, everyone felt as if they had lost again.

"Can QQ copy WeChat's two unique designs and win back these older users?"

Ma's voice echoed in the office.

After hearing that, Ma Liuyun pondered for a moment before speaking.

"It's a bit difficult."

"Adding the contact list friend addition design to QQ can certainly be done; that's not complicated."

"But the key is, QQ account registration definitely gives users a QQ account.

If we allow users to log in with one click using their phone number, then users will need to bind their QQ account to their phone number.

Just this one cumbersome step can block many older users at the door."

"First register a QQ account, then bind the phone number after logging in, and finally be able to log in directly with the phone number and verification code.

This step is really complicated for older users."

After Ma Liuyun finished speaking, Zheng Haidi, who was beside him, frowned.

Then he spoke, "Actually, we can also abandon the step of applying for a QQ account."

"We can directly allow new users to log in with their phone number, and after they use one-click login with their phone number, we can then give them a QQ account.

This way, the two do not conflict."

After hearing that, Ma also nodded.

"This plan seems feasible.

As long as these two designs are added to QQ, we should also have the ability to attract older users."

No sooner had Ma finished speaking than Li Wenqiu's voice chimed in from the side.

He shook his head and said, "That's not the most crucial point."

Li Wenqiu looked at the others.

"The key is that our current QQ is entirely designed for young people and simply doesn't align with the usage habits of older users."

"The various cumbersome and complex functions in QQ, and the design of its space, do not conform to the usage habits of older users."

"Whereas WeChat's simplicity can retain this group of users."

No sooner had Li Wenqiu finished speaking than another QQ department executive in the room spoke up.

"One of the biggest differences between older users and young users is that they don't have much of a habit of switching software."

"Once they settle on a certain software and become its user, they basically won't choose other similar software."

"Young people will download WeChat because it launched new social features, and they will also come back because QQ launched the same features.

I also believe that if WeChat launches any features that appeal to young people, it can attract many young user groups."

"But older users are completely different."

"No matter how good another similar software is, it's very difficult for them to abandon the software they've become accustomed to using."

After this person finished speaking, silence fell over the room again.

"So, it seems we really have no way to deal with WeChat now."

Ma's voice rang out.

"I didn't expect that WeChat really found a corner in the chat software market and established itself."

After Ma finished speaking, Ma Liuyun, who was beside him, also spoke, "A user base of 100 million, it's not a lot, but it's not a small amount either."

"Looking at it, our current attitude towards WeChat is the same as the King's attitude towards Dota Mobile."

"Although we don't like it, we really can't do anything about it."

After hearing that, Ma's expression also became much more serious, and he spoke again.

"Go and find a way, hold more meetings with different department employees, and see if there's a way to snatch these daily active users from WeChat."

"If QQ can't do it..."

Ma was silent for a moment.

"Then we will re-develop a brand new chat software!"

"In the field of chat software, Penguin must be the only leader, and must occupy all market share!"

Listening to Ma's words, the others in the room also nodded seriously.

And at 8 PM that very night, a few hours after Penguin Group's meeting regarding WeChat concluded, WeChat's official Weibo once again released a message.

WeChat announced that it would launch a huge update in ten days.

This update would be WeChat's largest-scale update ever, and one that would not be surpassed in the future.

As soon as this information was released, it instantly attracted a lot of attention.

Chapter 121: WeChat's Complete Form, Speculation on New Features!

"The largest update? Is WeChat still hiding something?"

"The key is that WeChat said this would be a huge update that won't be surpassed later, which means the extent of this update is definitely not comparable to the previous social features."

"Interesting, WeChat is really hiding a lot."

"But I'm worried that if they announce this update so early, Penguin Group will definitely be watching, and once this update comes out, they will immediately copy it."

"QQ copied the social features and caused WeChat to lose many users, so I don't know how this feature will turn out."

Under WeChat's Weibo post announcing the update, many comments appeared in a short time.

And the main focus of these comments was basically what WeChat meant by the "largest update" that even all subsequent updates couldn't surpass.

For a social chat software, many users who saw this sentence couldn't even imagine at first what kind of update could reach such a scale.

Moreover, it's important to know that this is just a social software.

Its memory footprint won't be like a mobile game, where one update can add a whole gigabyte.

Therefore, WeChat's update this time should not significantly increase WeChat's size, but its functionality will definitely expand a lot.

For a time, because of WeChat's announcement of the update date, many people re-focused their attention on WeChat.