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Chapter 357 Replacement

After the initial explosive sales, the sales of Shenzhou USB flash drives have now entered a stable period. Sales are still there, after all, the annual computer sales in China now exceed 120 million units, and the total number of computers in stock exceeds 1590 million units.

It's just that the number of computers per capita is too small. Now, out of every 88 people in the country, only have computers. Of course, this is an average. In fact, these computer users are mainly concentrated in municipal government agencies, companies, schools, high-income families, etc. in big cities such as Yanjing and Shanghai.

Ordinary families in small and medium-sized cities and below the county level do not have the budget to buy large household appliances such as computers, which cost tens of thousands of yuan. A product of the same level as a motorcycle requires many families to save money for several years to afford a computer. If not a large household appliance, what is it?
During the same period in America, there were more than 4,000 computers per 10,000 people. Basically, one out of every two or three families had a computer. This was also the basis for the rise of the Internet in America, because only with a real user scale can quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.

Shenzhou U disk is different from computers. Basically, anyone who uses a computer and has access to a computer and needs to store data needs to use it. This means that the sales volume of Shenzhou U disk is destined to far exceed the sales volume of domestic computers!
The sales of Shenzhou USB flash drives overseas, especially in America, Germany, England, the Netherlands and other places, are much better than those in China. The computer penetration rate in these places is high, so the demand for USB flash drives is naturally great, which makes the overseas sales of Shenzhou USB flash drives steadily high, with sales exceeding 10,000 units every day!

However, the sales of Shenzhou USB flash drives, which had been declining in China, unexpectedly rose against the trend. When this news came out, it still surprised the domestic technology industry because it was unscientific.

Afterwards, countless people's attention was focused on the Tianya Pinyin input method, and the new sales of Shenzhou USB flash drives were almost entirely driven by this input method.

Tianya Pinyin Input Method is spreading at an alarming rate. Of course, there are still voices that believe that Wangma Wubi Input Method is more advanced and types faster. As long as you learn it, no matter how difficult the characters are, you can type them on the computer.

But obviously, more people are voting with their feet. What's wrong with typing fast? What's wrong with using Wubi to type blindly with your eyes covered is more accurate than the Pinyin input method? When a Pinyin input method with no threshold and that anyone can use is available in front of them, who would be willing to spend several months learning how to type? Isn't it better to just start using it?
Just after the media reported that the daily sales of Shenzhou USB flash drives rose by 5,800 units against the trend, the daily sales of Shenzhou USB flash drives continued to set new historical records in the next few days, and the performance was even more fierce than when it was first released!
There are currently 1590 million computers in China, which are the largest users of the co-branded Shenzhou USB flash drives. Together with the users who have a need for USB flash drives, this will cause the sales of Shenzhou USB flash drives to explode at a speed visible to the naked eye amid astonished media reports.

"Shenzhou Tianya co-branded USB flash drive, sales exceeded 8,000 units in a single day!"

"The co-branded USB flash drives sold over 10,000 units in a single day, with sales exceeding 5.28 million yuan!"

"Tianya Pinyin input method has swept the domestic computer industry. According to media reports, more than 66.8% of computer users are willing to use Tianya Pinyin input method!"

"Tianya Pinyin Input Method adopts a new sales model, which is a bold attempt for the domestic software industry!"

By the second week after the co-branded USB flash drive was released, sales had reached its peak, and Computer News reported that the daily sales of the Shenzhou Tianya co-branded USB flash drive exceeded 30,000 units, and the total sales of the entire co-branded USB flash drive had exceeded 90,000 copies!

A considerable portion of these sales were driven by the Tianya Input Method. Similarly, the Tianya Pinyin Input Method software also broke a series of records for domestic software.

However, after that, the sales of the co-branded USB flash drives began to decline because pirated versions of the Tianya input method had emerged.

This is the current situation of the domestic software industry. The sales volume of the Shenzhou Tianya co-branded USB flash drive has exceeded 100,000, which is entirely due to the fast distribution in the early stage. If it were a little slower, it would probably have been intercepted by pirated products.

But even if it was sold with the Shenzhou USB flash drive, it was already a hit, and it was treated much better than other domestic software. Of course, it certainly can't be compared with overseas software giants like Microsoft, it's not even on the same level at all.

As a giant in the global software industry, Microsoft is still the undisputed king. Windows 95, which was released this year and confirmed Microsoft's imperial status in the system industry, sold million copies in one month, with sales exceeding billion!

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Inside the office building of Yanjing Tianya Company, when people heard that the sales volume of the Shenzhou Tianya co-branded USB flash drive had exceeded 90,000 copies, there was a sudden burst of applause and cheers.

Even for veterans of Zhongguancun such as Zhou Zhiliang, Zhu Chongjun and Wu Xiaojun, this is an achievement worth bragging about.

According to the agreement between Tianya and its sister company Shenzhou Storage, Tianya can get a commission based on the sales proportion of the co-branded USB flash drives.

Like this time, the sales of 90,000 co-branded copies, at least 70,000 to 80,000 copies, are related to Tianya Pinyin Input Method, and the revenue brought by this part of the sales is about 42 million. According to the agreed commission, the Tianya Pinyin Input Method team can get about 6.3 million!
Regardless of how much this income is, it at least proves that there are people willing to use the Tianya Pinyin input method, which has greatly boosted the confidence of the input method development team headed by Zhou Zhiliang.

Relying on the commission from the co-branded USB flash drives and the purchase fees from the Yanjing Municipal Government for the Tianya Pinyin Input Method, these revenues are basically enough to support the launch of the next generation version of the Tianya Pinyin Input Method!
Guo Jingyun also smiled and applauded the Tianya Input Method team. This was not only the profit for the Input Method team, but also the first income for Tianya Company, so it was natural to celebrate. "Congratulations, Lao Zhou!"

After receiving the news, Wang Jiangmin and others from Jiangmin Antivirus Software Technology, who were in the same office building as Tianya Company, also ran over and congratulated Zhou Zhiliang.

Guo Jingyun praised the input method team and promised to distribute bonuses this month. Then he returned to the office to report the sales of Tianya Pinyin input method to Li Dongling.

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However, some are happy while others are sad. When some are laughing, there must be others who are sad. At this moment, there is a gloomy atmosphere in the Yanjing Wangma Company.

"Tianya Pinyin input method is far less convenient than our Wangma. My blind typing speed is several times faster than this Pinyin input method. I really don't know what those people are thinking to like using this input method!"

A developer from Wangma Company, after experiencing the Pinyin input method, was very critical of it and criticized it from head to toe. He spoke angrily to Wang Yongmin, the founder of Wangma, who was sitting next to him and looking at the Pinyin input method.

Wang Yongmin looked at the Pinyin input method on the computer screen without saying a word, but his eyes showed helplessness and disappointment. He had a hunch that the era of Wubi typing seemed to be a bit outdated...

In the past, Wangma Wubi typing's opponents were the manufacturers of pirated Wubi input method, including five or six hundred computer, Chinese card, and Subor learning machine manufacturers that pre-installed Wubi typing but did not pay Wangma patent fees. Wangma was suing them all the time.

But now, Wangma Company has a new "rival", Tianya Company, which launched the Pinyin input method. This time it is a brand new opponent, but it makes Wang Yongmin feel helpless.

As a veteran in the Chinese character input method industry, Wang Yongmin was not blinded by anger and dissatisfaction. He only needed to take a look at the Tianya Pinyin Input Method to see the real difference between Wubi typing and the Tianya Input Method. That is why he felt helpless.

"Mr. Wang, please take a look at this report..."

The director of Wangma Company's marketing department ran in sweating profusely and handed a copy of Mainland Computer News to Wang Yongmin, looking very anxious.

Computer News is now the official media newspaper of the domestic computer industry. It is jointly promoted by the Ministry of Information Industry and the China Academy of Electronic Information, and basically represents the authoritative reports of the domestic computer industry.

Wang Yongmin opened the newspaper and was stunned at the first glance. The headline read, "The emergence of Tianya Pinyin input method will usher in a big explosion era for computers in China, just like Microsoft Windows 95!"

"Microsoft's latest operating system and the emergence of Tianya Pinyin input method have greatly reduced the difficulty and threshold of computer operation. They make it easier for the general public to operate computers. The era of universal computerization is coming. It is expected that domestic computer sales will usher in a new explosion..."

After seeing Computer News's comments on Tianya Pinyin Input Method, Wang Yongmin stood there, not knowing what he was thinking. After Computer News's report on Tianya Input Method, there was no longer any such thing as Tianya Input Method being not as fancy as Wubi or having a slow typing speed.

On the contrary, it represents a technological advancement that allows users to type on computers more easily without having to deliberately learn Wubi typing.

Wang Yongmin knew that from now on, except for certain departments in the city government that required computer typing speed, and special professions and industries such as banking and accounting, the rest of the computer users would no longer need Wubi typing!

Everyone in Wangma Company was silent for a while. They also had a premonition that the era of Wangma Company and Wubi typing was over!
In the future, Wangma Wubi typing machines will definitely still be sold and there will be more or less demand for them. However, the era when people would practice Wubi typing after buying a computer, or even buy their children Subor learning machines so that they could practice Wubi typing, is gone forever.

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In Pingyang Yuhe Leisure Resort, Li Dongling, who had just received a phone call, turned around and said to Yao Zhengru, Torch Group General Manager Zhang Xiaocheng, Hanxi Guotou General Manager Wu Yaoguo and others who were sitting opposite him with a smile, "It's a call from Yanjing Tianya Company!"

(End of this chapter)