Chapter 71: Mr. Cao Steals People’s Jobs

Young people are always brave enough to try. In just one week, almost everyone on the university campus has downloaded the photo app "Smile O2O". And it's not just on mobile phones, but also on computers.

Newcomers to society, with their beautiful ID photos, left the campus and joined the company, officially starting their career as social animals.

The company HR always sends an email to all employees, "Welcome new employees to join the XX family".

This is the first time a new employee officially appears in front of all colleagues. Usually, there is a simple personal introduction, including education, experience, hobbies, etc., and naturally a photo is attached so that everyone can get familiar with the face.

At present, what other photos can compare with the "Smile O2O" production? Photos are better than photos!

So all kinds of energetic young men and temperamental beautiful girls appeared in the email.

"Wow, this year's newcomers are so good-looking!"

When the old lady felt threatened, she also seriously appreciated the young man.

The old brother silently wrote down the contact information. As for new colleagues, they should find opportunities to get to know each other and let the newcomers feel the warmth of the company and the care from the predecessors.

The old lady first carefully discovered that there was a little difference between the photo and the real person, and then quickly became familiar with the sisters and obtained the magic weapon for beautiful photos, "a smile".

The old man quickly recognized the newcomer among the colleagues. Oh, not bad, although there is a little difference, but whose photos are not modified.

The girl is very young, just entering the society and doesn't know how to dress up. If she puts on makeup and dresses beautifully, she will be the same as the photo.

Tsk, this old man is almost there, not as handsome as me. If I take such a photo, I will definitely look better than him. What did I use to take it? Give me one!

So, not long after, "a smile" spread out of the circle.

And the growth rate is getting faster and faster. On July 10, there were only 6 million users, and by July 15, it had grown to 20 million, and on July 20, there were already 50 million users.

And Cao Shen has been monitoring the background data, and calculating the consumption of mobile phone storage from the actions of users taking and saving photos.

Now, the ROM storage of feature phones is mostly 512M, and the high-end ones are 2G.

As for smartphones, the mid-range and high-end ones have 4G capacity.

The photos taken with "Smile O2O" are deliberately not compressed. According to the pixel of the phone, each photo is about 1M to 3M in size.

Of course, the ID photo is just the entry point of "Smile O2O", and there are many other beautification and filters for characters.

Of course, users' phones don't just take up space with photos, and the capacity of current phones is not large. Soon, users found that their phones began to freeze because there were too many photos...

The concept of cloud computing is very popular now, but the products are not good. There are a few companies in China that have mixed concepts, but they can basically only do storage. The computing is basically weak and there is no way to run actual business.

But there is no way. Cloud computing requires a lot of investment and must be recovered.

So, everyone started to build personal cloud storage.

The market price is about 50 yuan per year for 1T of domestic cloud storage. Of course, the upload and download speed of this ordinary cloud disk is limited. If you want high speed, you have to pay extra, usually double the price.

Shuimi Tao Company is even more ruthless. The annual fee for 1T is 400 yuan.

Mr. Cao has always been anxious about the users and serves the people.

On July 24, a free personal cloud storage service was directly released!

As long as you download and register "Wei Xiao Yi Xiao", you can get a 1T personal cloud disk for free, and the free period is one year. In the second year, the renewal price is 20 yuan per TB capacity.

Moreover, this 1T cloud disk can not only store the pictures taken and processed by "Wei Xiao Yi Xiao", but any other content can be uploaded through the "Personal Network Disk" function of the new version of "Wei Xiao Yi Xiao".

The original users of "Wei Xiao Yi Xiao" were very happy at once. They were worried that there were too many photos in their mobile phones and they were reluctant to delete them.

And the users who have not downloaded it have also started to do it. It's free, don't be a fool! After all, it's 50 yuan a year for nothing!

Originally, personal network disks were not just needed in this year. But the picture application of "Wei Xiao Yi Xiao" made everyone feel that the mobile phone storage was not enough, and it seemed that having a network disk to store photos was also quite convenient.

In addition, I got 1T for free, so I immediately put everything I could put in my computer, especially classic movies and classic short films. These are my important savings over the years, and they must be stored properly!

Users now have a mentality towards free network disks that is a bit like eating a buffet. They can't let the merchants take advantage even if they are full. So they eat everything, especially the expensive ones, even though many of them are not their favorites on weekdays.

Therefore, on the day when Tongcao Technology's personal network disk was released, the download volume of "A Smile" immediately exploded. It topped the list of major app stores again.

At the same time, a large amount of messy storage content also poured into the system. Such a huge amount of data is definitely a loss for other cloud disks that don't charge money, but the system will compress it.

After trying their best to compress, compress and compress again, the original size of the file can be compressed to a size of 1000:1 under the strong power of the system. In other words, Cao Shen's personal network disk cost can be one thousandth of that of others, and of course with the system, it is zero cost.

However, the real situation cannot be seen by users, and what they see is still the size of the original data.

Besides, the renewal rate of cloud storage is very high. Users have uploaded their treasures with great difficulty. If they don’t renew in the second year, can they download them from the cloud storage to their computers? Moreover, 20 yuan a year is acceptable.

So, Cao Shen not only earns users, but also fame and money.

As of July 25, the cumulative number of users of this "Smile" has reached nearly 90 million, and it has maintained a daily increase of 600,000 downloads across all channels.

The whole operation simply made other competitors in the cloud storage industry furious. It was really too bullying!

We have been working on the product for a year and a half, and last year we spent more than half a year to spend money on the market and educate users.

Finally, users know what personal cloud storage is, it is safer and more convenient, and they accept to use this product. We all celebrated and opened champagne, thinking that we could make money this year.

As a result, you jumped out and said it was free! We planted all the trees, but you took away all the peaches!

It’s fine if you give it for free in the first year, we can’t afford you, but we should at least give you some money.

As a result, you only need 20 yuan to renew the service! Have you ever calculated the cost? You’ve lost all your money with 20 yuan!

No, we must get rid of him!

Where is Tongcao Technology’s data center? Where is its server? Investigate him!

With so much money, have you paid taxes? Have you done an audit?

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. No matter how fiercely these online storage companies used to fight each other in price wars, now they have united to kill Cao Shen!