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The strength of the giants in Silicon Valley is shocking. Even if Zhou doesn't pay attention to living a lifetime, he still has a feeling of powerlessness. However, it is much easier to go to Japan to develop the technology industry.

Recently, there was an amazing good news!

Zhou Buqi stayed in Pengcheng for two days, and took Bajixing's technical team to inspect Huawei and ZTE. These two companies are currently doing the best research and development in the field of hardware in China, and they can learn from it.

Throughout the world, consumer-level drones are in their infancy. Bajixing must seize the opportunities given by the times and make efforts in both technology and market.

Then, attracted by the good news from the demon city, he rushed to the demon capital.

With a private jet, it is convenient!

The two secretaries Wang Yaojin and Feng Muer who were with her were very excited, especially Wang Yaojin, who played music from the stereo on the plane, and she danced a Korean dance in front of Boss Zhou.

Zhou Buqi commented that she was not as good-looking as Girls' Generation in dancing.

Mainly the skirt is not short enough.

You have to show your big white legs.

Went to Shanghai, went straight to the branch office.

In the design of the Japanese business, Zhou Buqi mainly focused on YikYak and UC browser. These two products are the main products of Ziweixing to capture traffic in the early stage, and they pay special attention to them.

So far, things are going well.

YikYak already has 15 million users and more than 6 million daily active users, making it one of the top 30 major websites in Japan. It's only been a few months, and the development is very gratifying.

UC Browser is relatively poor, mainly because it has only opened up the relationship with one operator, Softbank, and the hard relationship is not strong enough.

Unexpectedly, it was unintentional to plant willows and willows into shades!

There is another product that came out without paying attention - UC beauty!

What's more, the development team of UC Beauty is a group of Chinese people!

There are 32 people in the whole team, and there are only 3 translators who are proficient in Japanese.

Others can't even speak Japanese, at most they can say a few words.

This product goes back... In the beginning, Ziweixing wanted to create a simple version of Photoshop, and launched three products, namely Meitu Xiuxiu, Ptu Artifact and WIMI Xiutu.

Later, Meitu Xiuxiu, developed by the Pengcheng branch, defeated the Ptu Artifact of the headquarters and Weimei Xiutu of the Modu branch, and survived. Currently, it has more than 28 million users.

The other two product teams will naturally be disbanded, either working on other projects or laying off.

The team leader of WIMI Xiutu is Zhang Xuhao, who is unwilling to disband the team. And he was considered an old man on Xiaonei, and he had a very good relationship with Guo Pengfei.

Then I entrusted Guo Pengfei's relationship to see if I could give him another chance.

It just so happened that Tang Binchen was squeezed away from Moyou.com at that time, and was going to develop the Japanese market. Guo Pengfei recommended Zhang Xuhao to Tang Binchen. Ziweixing already has Meitu Xiutu, and there is no need for Weimei Xiutu to exist in China. If they want to survive, they can only go outside.

Later, Ziweixing completely acquired UC.

WIMI Xiutu changed its name to "UC Beauty".

At first, everyone thought it was just a vassal product. The R\u0026D team is in China, and there is not even a Japanese designer. They just let them travel to Japan for a week with public funds, and then change the Japanese version when they come back.

Unexpectedly, it really ran out!

And it was a huge success!

Today is July 12th, in this July, the download volume of UC Beauty is as high as 22 million!

And behind this, Ziweixing didn't spend a penny!

It is mainly the spontaneous reports of the local mainstream media, as well as the spontaneous promotion of some forums and blogs... because this product is really easy to use!

It really solves the needs of Japanese netizens!

Photoshop is too much trouble to use.

Moreover, Photoshop does not have a mobile version.

There are many "harassers" in Japanese society. Girls are afraid, and boys are also afraid. Walking on the streets of Shinjuku, there are scouts everywhere, asking pretty girls if they want to be stars or if they want to make movies.

Many beautiful girls went to filming, but they were foolishly tricked into signing a contract, and then had to enter the acting industry.

This is true in reality, and even more so on the Internet.

Therefore, Japanese netizens attach great importance to personal privacy, and they will be very cautious when posting their own photos on the Internet. First of all, it can’t be too ugly, too ugly will affect other people’s visual experience, it’s impolite; second, even if many people upload photos, they don’t want to show their faces, so they have to P off; P off, for example, if a store appears in the photo, it may infringe the right of portrait.

In short, there are too many rules and regulations, which are too troublesome!

Photoshop is too complicated.

The emergence of UC beauty really solves a pain point that they need most at the moment!

This product is similar to Meitu Xiuxiu, with easy-to-learn operation and rich and powerful functions. The first is whitening and acne removal, face slimming and big eyes, adding filters, girls' favorite. Then there are various kawaii patterns, such as putting Pikachu or cat patterns on the position of the face in the photo, which can protect privacy.

The background image is even simpler. There is an eraser function, and you can erase it if you don’t need it.

Beginners can learn it in ten minutes.

This is such a product, which was launched in Japan in May and spread among a small audience with an excellent reputation. It entered the public eye in June, and more and more people downloaded and used it. Especially at the end of June, many media actively reported this amazing software. Then, there was the big outbreak in July.

Zhou Buqi went to the Modu branch and met Zhang Xuhao, the project leader.

Ho!

Sure enough, people are refreshed on happy occasions, and the whole person's mental outlook is different.

The hair looked like it was waxed.

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Is this amazing?"

Zhang Xuhao laughed, "It's okay, my team is the best, I knew we would succeed sooner or later!"

Zhou Buqi asked, "Why did it suddenly become popular?"

Zhang Xuhao said: "The local media helped, it has appeared on TV stations. There was a funny variety show, we used our UC beauty makeup to repair the girl's face, and then took the girl's photo to go on a blind date. The boy was so happy. Wait. After meeting, the boy collapsed immediately, it was a fat woman with freckles all over her face."

Zhou Buqi drew a black line on his forehead, "Why do I feel like I'm slandering?"

Zhang Xuhao said with a smile: "Whether it's smearing or smearing, the publicity effect is very good. Now UC Beauty has more than 25 million users, of which 18 million are on mobile phones. The daily activity has steadily exceeded 15 million."

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth.

A little speechless.

Depend on!

The daily activity of UC Beauty is more than the sum of YikYak and UC Browser!

Sure enough, Japan is a traditional society, and the power of traditional media is too great. YikYak is on the thigh of Yahoo Japan, but it can't withstand the wave of publicity from mainstream newspapers and TV stations.

Well, the main point is that the entry point of the product is very good, and it deeply grasps the pain points of the local society.

Zhou Buqi asked again: "The local software company never thought of developing a similar product? There is not even a single Japanese in the UC Beauty team. I don't believe you can develop a product that best suits the usage habits of the local people." product."

Zhang Xuhao curled his lips and didn't take it seriously, "It's a matter of philosophy!"

"oh?"

"Their software companies are all thinking about selling software to make money. They are all traditional models. Just like selling clothes, they make clothes and sell clothes. Software companies also develop software and sell software. UC Beauty, which lacks a profit model Software, even if there is demand, no one is doing it. Well... there may be a few companies doing it, but it must be paid software, and the number of users is very low."

"Don't be careless." Zhou Buqi was quite satisfied, "The great success of UC beauty will inevitably lead to the birth of many similar products. I suggest you cooperate with Tang Binchen quickly to form a product experience team composed of local people and step up improvement. Products, rich details. In the final analysis, it still depends on the product to speak.”

Zhang Xuhao nodded, "Well, I told him that I will go to Japan to meet him."

Zhou Buqi was quite emotional.

In business, planning is really unreliable, you have to have a little luck.

Japan's software industry is very developed, far better than domestic. However, the Internet industry is much worse. It is not as good as the domestic industry in all aspects, whether it is capital, talents, or the degree of emphasis at the policy level.

Zhou Buqi originally wanted to penetrate the Japanese market through the Internet, focusing on YikYak. As a result, the development of YikYak was relatively slow, and the unappreciated software suddenly became popular.

In the most powerful software industry in Japan, he forcibly made a way out.

It is a huge surprise that UC beauty stands out.

Although, the profit model of UC beauty and the business model of traffic conversion have not been seen in the short term. This is not important, take your time, with users, everything is easy to say.

"By the way, have you paid attention to the iPhone?"

"Well, it's too scary!"

Of course Zhang Xuhao knew about such a big matter.

iPhone3g is officially launched.

All-time hot!

How hot is it? Whether it is the United States, Britain, France, Germany, or Italy, there are long queues to buy.

Many people even have to line up all night.

The most exaggerated is the Japanese market. According to local media reports, the iPhone in Osaka was sold out in only 4 hours after it was launched!

Within two days of being on the market, the conservative sales volume of iPhone3g exceeded 3 million units.

Out of stock worldwide!

Now, the two foundries in China are crazy, and people are restless and machines are endlessly increasing their horsepower to produce at full speed. In the past, it could produce 2 million units per month, but now it can produce 4 million units per month.

Previously, experts and analysts in the mobile phone industry predicted that in the economic downturn, the iPhone 3g could sell 10 million units, which would be considered a success.

But such a rush to buy has appeared, and some analysts have already made a forecast of annual sales of 40 million units.

Apple's stock has soared 35%.

Such a phenomenon is not directly related to the Modu branch, but has an indirect relationship.

The Modu branch is very small and crude, with only two project teams.

One is UC Beauty, and the other is UC Mobile Assistant.

Now, UC beauty has become popular in the Japanese market. The iPhone is selling so well, so it's time for the UC mobile assistant to play... There are many problems with the current iPhone, and many operations are difficult to complete on the mobile phone, and it needs to be paired with a computer.

But the iPhone's native connection software is really terrible, and UC Mobile Assistant can solve this pain point.