I collect gold fingers in the heavens

Chapter 549 High-profile piracy

Added 1.01 million new paying users.

More than 5.4% of these new foreign users can bring [-] million yuan in revenue to the [Elephant Weather] software.

If the paying users remain unchanged, this foreign business alone can bring 65 billion yuan in revenue to [Elephant Weather], plus the revenue from domestic users, [Elephant Weather]’s annual revenue It can reach 92 billion yuan.

This is not counting the advertising revenue!

If advertising is included, [Elephant Weather]’s annual revenue easily exceeds [-] billion yuan.

【Elephant Weather】how can there be any operating costs? The profit margin is extremely high, which can reach more than [-]%. billion in net profit.

It is net profit!

[Chaoqun Group] is not a listed company. Although the business of [Elephant Weather] is independent, it is not listed, so it has not disclosed its operating conditions to the outside world.

But some data, if someone is interested in knowing it, they can understand [-]% to [-]% of it.

[Elephant Weather] The market is so hot now, with amazing profits, which naturally attracts many people to join in, wanting to get a share.

They can't decipher the unique algorithm of [Elephant Weather], but [Elephant Weather] is not an artificial intelligence program.

【Elephant Weather】Algorithms can't get it, but the data of 【Elephant Weather】can be easily collected.

As long as a special program is designed to collect and record the data of [Elephant Weather] in real time, and then upload it to their own weather software, then they can also publicize that their own astronomical software is very accurate.

In fact, they do the same.

However, most of these companies did not publicize it with much fanfare. After all, this matter is disgraceful, and Tianxiang Software is just a small piece of the puzzle in their business, so naturally they will not spend a lot of time and effort.

However, there is a small company newly established in Tianzhu, which is very high-profile.

It has placed a lot of advertisements on major social media, claiming that its self-developed astronomical software [Monsoon] uses a unique astronomical chaotic algorithm, and its predicted weather conditions are more accurate than Huaguo's [Elephant Weather] To be high, the point is, [Monsoon] does not charge.

The CEO of this small company also lashed out at [Super Group] on social media topics in Europe and the United States, thinking that it wants money to die, and has no social responsibility that a large group should have.

The CEO Thomas said that although his company is only a small company, it will not ask users for money in the name of monthly fees, but will use other methods to obtain business profits to ensure a good experience for users.

What is a good sense of experience?

It’s just that software that collects money from users has no sense of experience.

Free software is the best.

Undoubtedly, the CEO's outstanding words won him a lot of exposure, coupled with the tacit understanding of some people to suppress [Super Group], so they secretly fueled the flames and increased the popularity.

Not surprisingly, the weather software [Monsoon] of this small company became popular.

Many paid users of [Elephant Weather] found that the weather forecast of [Monsoon] is almost the same as that of [Elephant Weather]—the difference is only the difference in page layout.

But [Elephant Weather] charges, while [Monsoon] does not charge.

Although the monthly fee for [Elephant Weather] is not high, only $1.

But this is not a question of whether the monthly fee is too much, but... a question of whether to charge or not.

Even if the monthly fee is only 25 cents, the perception for users is different.

Coupled with [Elephant Weather]'s differential treatment, the domestic monthly fee is only 1 yuan, but the international monthly fee is as high as 1 US dollar, a difference of more than six times.

This point is also exploited by those [anti-superhumans] and [Monsoon] companies. They secretly stir up conflicts and guide yogh users to discriminate against [Elephant Weather].

Blindly following humans are brainless.

Under such circumstances, the number of downloads of [Monsoon] has been increasing steadily, and the number of users has also climbed to more than [-] million in a very short period of time.

People in the entire financial market are cheering for it, thinking that it is a dark horse that will emerge in the second half of 2021. Its valuation has reached 10 billion US dollars and it has become a so-called unicorn star enterprise.

【Monsoon】The president of the company, Thomas, spoke excitedly in curry-flavored English. He vowed that he would give users the best user experience, promised never to charge membership fees, and would explore other ways to make money. and so on.

In this case, under the intentional and repeated push of the media, [Monsoon] has ushered in another wave of small peak downloads.

However, the number of [Monsoon] users has increased, the data has become more attractive, and the valuation is getting higher and higher.

But on the other hand, in October, the [Elephant Weather] of [Super Group], the number of renewed users dropped like a cliff, almost dropped by more than 10%, most of them are international users, and the revenue is naturally Shrunk sharply.

Such an exaggerated decline in performance.

[Elephant Weather] will naturally conduct corresponding market research.

In fact, there is no need to investigate. Anyone with a discerning eye can almost see that [Monsoon] snatched their users.

Regarding [Elephant Weather], they naturally know this, so their investigation direction is also on [Monsoon] software. The goal of the investigation is to find out the source of [Monsoon]'s accurate astronomical prediction.

In fact, this situation is also obvious. Even people who are not so smart can see the tricks from the almost identical weather forecast data of [Elephant Weather] and [Monsoon].

In terms of [Elephant Weather], what I actually want to figure out is:
Did [Monsoon] decipher the [Elephant Weather] software and develop a similar algorithm, or is it pure plagiarism!
The latter will be relatively simple to deal with, but if it is the former, the consequences will be serious.

Fortunately, the situation is not what [Elephant Weather] is most worried about.

[Chaoqun Group] dispatched experts from the IT department to directly hack into [Monsoon] company, looking for the predictive algorithm about the celestial phenomena in [Monsoon] company, and found...no!
Needless to say, the answer is ready to come out, the astronomical data of [Monsoon] is completely copied from the weather forecast of [Elephant Weather].

In fact, the top management of [Elephant Weather] also faintly guessed this result before launching the investigation.

Because [Monsoon] is not the only company that copies their company's weather data.

After [Elephant Weather] became famous, many mobile phone manufacturers actually have built-in weather forecast software, and their weather data is copied from [Elephant Weather].

It's just that in this case of plagiarism, these mobile phone manufacturers can do it, but they can't say it or publicize it. They can only rely on word of mouth from consumers themselves.

Otherwise, [Elephant Weather] will be accurate, and these mobile phone manufacturers will definitely pay a heavy price.

(End of this chapter)