207: Section 207

“Even if it’s a feature that might not necessarily go live, there’s no need to hide it from us.”

No sooner had Ma Liuyun finished speaking than Li Wenqiu’s voice rang out from the side.

“It’s not hiding it from us.”

Li Wenqiu slowly raised his head.

“It’s hiding it from Ali Group.”

He looked at Zheng Haidi.

“This feature, it should be online payment, right?”

Hearing this, Zheng Haidi and Pony both nodded.

“If we continue to do nothing, even if we can hold onto the core users in the chat domain, we won’t be able to prevent WeChat from attracting these users in the payment domain.”

“And as long as QQ’s core users are attracted by WeChat’s payment function, it’s only a matter of time before they convert to WeChat’s chat users.”

“We cannot pin our hopes on Blue Wallet.”

“Currently, the QQ software is already weaker than WeChat in terms of functionality. We must also add an online payment function to it, so that WeChat loses its biggest differentiator from QQ.”

“Then, no matter what activities WeChat launches in the chat or payment domains afterwards, we will be able to replicate them and truly retain users.”

Listening to Pony’s words, everyone present had a relatively serious expression.

Because everyone knew that this action would undoubtedly make Penguin Group a direct opponent of Ali Group.

It was important to remember that not long ago, they had even partnered with Ali Group to take action against WeChat.

But now, they were about to become another opponent of Blue Wallet.

Seeing everyone’s expressions, Pony spoke again.

“If becoming an opponent of Ali Group is the only way to maintain QQ’s position in the chat domain, then I will do so without hesitation.”

“I have made my decision.”

Pony looked at Zheng Haidi.

“Three days later, release the update announcement. One week later, officially update!”

At this time, no one outside had realized that in order to truly resist WeChat’s offensive, Penguin was also about to officially enter the online payment domain.

Chapter 140: WeChat Pushes Update, Huabei and spare money Go Live!

After Penguin’s internal discovery of the fundamental difference between WeChat, QQ, and Blue Wallet, as time passed, some other internet practitioners and Ali Group outside also quickly realized this information.

Because it simultaneously possessed the functionalities of a chat software and a payment software, neither QQ nor Blue Wallet could pose a threat to WeChat.

Even if the two of them cooperated, they simply couldn't do it.

This was due to the inherent characteristics of the software itself.

QQ was merely a pure chat software, and Blue Wallet was merely a pure payment software.

Especially for payment software, due to people's profit-seeking nature, as long as a payment software launched an activity that could benefit users, that activity could not be interrupted by another similar software and would definitely increase the number of users.

Chat software was different; when two software offered the same social functions, users mostly chose to use only one of them.

The key to winning payment software competition lay in user retention after an increase in users.

Previously, other companies had also developed payment software and attracted many users by spending money, but once the hype passed, almost none of those users remained.

However, due to its software characteristics, WeChat could easily achieve this.

Moreover, the cooperation between QQ and Blue Wallet could only be at an external level and could not truly be integrated into one.

Therefore, facing WeChat, which combined two core functionalities, their efforts did not even amount to one plus one equals two.

And on the second day, when Old Ma also understood this problem, he immediately wanted to contact Penguin Group to discuss countermeasures.

But what he didn't expect was that Pony of Penguin Group was no longer answering his calls.

Seeing this situation, Old Ma also had a vague sense of worry in his heart.

As expected, just a few days later, an update announcement from Penguin QQ directly shocked the entire network, soaring to the top of the hot search list.

QQ announced that it would add an online payment function in its update three days later.

Furthermore, they had already begun contacting various supermarkets, preparing to add merchant QR codes there as well, planning to increase QQ’s merchant QR code share to half of Blue Wallet’s within two months.

As soon as this information was released, it instantly attracted heated discussions from countless netizens.

“Holy cow, that’s so sudden?!”

“Interesting, interesting. These three software are fighting more and more fiercely. I remember Penguin and Ali were still partners before, weren’t they? How did Penguin turn its back so quickly?”

“I think Penguin has finally realized the threat of WeChat and understands that if QQ remains unchanged, it will definitely not be WeChat’s opponent, so it was forced to launch an online payment function.”

“But here’s another one. Are there too many online payment options on the market now? Could it be that any store will have three different QR codes?”

“The online payment market won’t be that big. Out of these three software, at most two online payment options will survive.”

At this time, besides countless netizens, the most enraged person was Old Ma of Ali Group.

He had not expected Penguin’s actions to be so swift.

And most importantly, the update date announced by Penguin QQ was just a few days away!

Such a short time could only mean one thing: Penguin had already begun secretly developing the online payment function in QQ while cooperating with Ali.

This infuriated Old Ma.

And Ali Group quickly responded.

They announced that their Blue Wallet would add a user chat function in its next update, half a month later.

As soon as this news came out, it once again sparked heated discussions.

To quote a netizen, the entire ‘Jinbei’ was in chaos at this time.

Everyone understood that after WeChat announced its daily active users this time, both Penguin and Ali had truly panicked.

They no longer fixated on their own occupied domains and began to learn from WeChat, simultaneously venturing into other areas.