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After Penguin's internal top management reached a unified opinion, they quickly issued an official response through their own portal Penguin.com technology channel. A chapter titled Penguin's statement on "360's new software launches accusation that QQ violates privacy" was released.

The general meaning of the chapter is that the so-called "privacy scanning" is a complete misunderstanding of QQ's security functions. QQ installs such security modules to prevent various Trojan viruses from invading users' computers. At the same time, this is also a technology commonly used by security software.

The implication is that Penguin is not the only company in the entire industry to do this, everyone is thinking about the "security" of users.

Well, QQ will have to put the word "security" in front of its products like 360 ​​in the future, such as QQ secure chat software.

Netizens were not satisfied with Penguin's blame-shifting behavior, and there was a lot of scolding on the Internet.

The scolding was particularly fierce on domestic Weibo. Some people have linked Penguin’s behavior of scanning private documents with criminal activities such as data leaks, computer poisoning, and Internet fraud. Some netizens have expressed their intention to sue Penguin to protect their privacy rights. Inviolable.

Penguin-owned websites such as Penguin Weibo, Penguin.com, and Friends.com have a different picture. Some netizens have even spoken out in support of QQ, saying that they trust QQ unconditionally and will continue to use the chat software.

In this way, netizens quickly split into two camps. One group criticized QQ, while the other group defended QQ. Both sides insisted on their own opinions and started a war of words in the distance.

Generally speaking, most people criticize QQ.

Because penguins have had a bad reputation in recent years, especially recently.

Two months ago, Computer World Weekly published a cover story titled The Penguin Who Said the Dog, which caused a great response on the Internet.

This article not only describes in detail the grudges between Lianzhong, 360 and other companies and Penguin, but also criticizes Penguin as a public enemy of the Internet industry. The words are spicy and sharp, and the founder of Lianzhong and others are also victims. The reader burst into tears and cried, and anyone who read the chapter could not help but curse "a penguin like a dog".

This is the legacy of Penguin’s comprehensive expansion and conquests in recent years. It is also an explosion that has reached the peak of dissatisfaction in the industry.

Compared to the ugly-looking penguin, Mr. Xia and Haihai Holdings have a much better reputation, because Mr. Xia likes to use money to solve everything. A lot of websites such as Xiaonei.com, Tudou Video, Kugou Music, etc. are all bought with money. There is no plagiarism, and there is no bullying of the small.

The consequences of Penguin's long-term neglect of online public opinion have finally emerged. No matter how Penguin declares and defends it, most people still don't believe it.

Amid overwhelming criticism and doubts, “WeChat”, a counter-application developed by Penguin for WeChat, was finally launched on the App Store.

Wisdom Fruit has given this Chinese ally great support, not only improving its search ranking in the app store, but also placing the WeChat app on the homepage of the app store. As soon as Smart Fruit mobile phone users enter the App Store, they will be 100% You can see this new application.

In addition, the WeChat application has been successfully launched on the two major application stores of Symbian and WdowsMobie. At the same time, it has also reached application pre-installation cooperation with mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia and HTC.

Such a big move by Penguin immediately attracted all the attention of the industry, and the popularity of related topics such as "scanning privacy documents" has dropped a lot.

Under the spotlight, this long-awaited instant messaging war in the industry has finally arrived.

After learning that WeChat was online, Zhang Yong quickly called Zhang Dalong to Xia Jingxing's office to discuss countermeasures.

Xia Jingxing sat on the sofa and played with the mobile phone brought by Zhang Dalong for a while, then threw it aside, "What is this? It's a complete plagiarism from WeChat, even the name is only one word different."

Zhang Yong smiled and said, "As expected, Penguin only knows these three things and cannot survive without plagiarism."

Xia Jingxing nodded, then looked at Zhang Dalong who was silent and asked, "Dalong, what do you think?"

Zhang Dalong grabbed the mobile phone that Xia Jingxing had thrown aside and said slowly: "What Penguin is best at is coming first, and often uses its traffic advantage and huge user base to kill the original creators.

At present, WeChat has only launched three versions: iOS, Symbian, and Windowsobie, and the most important Android version has not been launched yet. "

Xia Jingxing interrupted with a smile: "Actually, they are already preparing to launch it. They have tried to contact a lot of Android phone manufacturers such as Fuxing Mobile, Conscience Mobile, Meizu, and Samsung, hoping to make the WeChat App available on the shelves of various mobile phone manufacturers. app Store."

Hearing this, Zhang Yong asked worriedly: "Mr. Xia, can you wait for a while before WeChat launches the Android app?"

Xia Jingxing shook his head slightly, "Android currently does not have strict control over Chinese mobile phone manufacturers. It not only allows them to develop their own systems based on Android, but also allows them to develop their own mobile application stores.

Therefore, Android and I have no reason for them to refuse the launch of the WeChat app.

However, it is still guaranteed that the WeChat application will be pre-installed exclusively on new Android phones. In fact, this has already established enough promotion advantages. If you want to win steadily, you still need to work hard on the product. "

Zhang Yong nodded. Android is different from iOS. The latter is a closed-source system and is used by only one manufacturer, Wisdom. Therefore, it can find any reason to block WeChat. However, it is difficult for Android to completely block WeChat because the team is too large. It's too big to carry.

It would be bad if Android's demands were too excessive, and mobile phone manufacturers would be forced to go to Microsoft and Google.

Xia Jingxing waved his hand, "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's talk about how we should deal with the challenges brought by Wechat. Dalong, you go first."

Zhang Dalong nodded to Xia Jingxing, and then said: "Mr. Xia, in addition to the Android version, WeChat has not yet launched the PC version.

I think Bonima and his team are still struggling at this moment.

If WeChat launches a PC version, will it overlap with QQ's market and create big competition? How to deal with the relationship between WeChat and QQ? These are somewhat nerve-wracking questions. "

Xia Jingxing smiled and said: "I don't think it's too nerve-wracking, since the meat is rotten in the pot anyway, we can do it on QQ PC, WeChat PC, QQ mobile phone, and WeChat mobile phone!

Which product or client develops well, we should focus on developing that product and client. "

Zhang Dalong shook his head repeatedly, "Mr. Xia, I don't think so, there is still serious competition within Penguin.

If Penguin allocates too many development resources to WeChat, it means that it will reduce its resource investment in QQ. The QQ team may not be happy, and there may even be internal strife.

However, Bonima is personally in charge, and I believe he can still resolve this matter with a lot of effort.

Next, what we need to worry about most is the huge user resources that WeChat has imported into QQ.

It’s scary to have hundreds of millions of users input all at once. "

Xia Jingxing smiled and said: "Several hundred million users, haha, it's not that easy. We are stuck with the coverage problem of smartphones. Penguin also needs to face this problem.

Even if Bonima mobilizes all the company's resources to support the development of WeChat, it can only take one step at a time and cannot achieve success in one step. "

Zhang Dalong smiled and said: "Okay, in that case, let's make a hypothesis. What will happen if WeChat encounters difficulties one after another during its development and continues to lag behind WeChat?"