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One thing that is clear in the Internet industry is that the field of instant messaging applications is a 'winners' market, because such applications have a strong social network effect, that is, users will invite friends and family to use an application together. .

So, to be fair, in a volatile market such as instant messaging, companies that adopt conservative development strategies are generally very risky, and whats is not without criticism, criticized by some people for being too simple, lacking innovation, and not paying attention to fashion trends. What.

After all, with the popularity of smartphones, nowadays, almost all software can receive and send messages and e-mails, but within Vatspo and Andy's view, the real challenge lies in how to not make the product more complicated. To achieve more features.

Some users have also asked Watts to launch a desktop version and login system with user names, but software engineers from Andy to Watts have always focused on the practicality, ease of use, and service of applications. quality.

And every time a new feature is launched, it will definitely be heatedly discussed internally and simplified to the greatest extent possible. And this situation is also officially Andy intentionally, according to Polk's theorem, only in the debate can the best idea and the best decision be born.

"I'm not quite sure of the true value of withdrawing messages and burning after reading. Yes, teenagers may like this feature, but I don't care at all. I'm 42 years old and I won't look for it through these services *** Instead, she would send her a phrase 'I love you' in the instant message, and she would send me a picture of our child, because these are memories.

I can also understand the withdrawal of the message, because I am worried that I can save it if I make a mistake. When I do n’t know whether the behavior of burning after reading can bring intimate relationships to users, it may be a trendy trend. However, we also have romantic stories, such as people who have experienced the test of heterosexuality and finally entered the marriage hall, and the entire story process has been recorded. This is a fire that cannot be done after reading. It should be pointed out that people like to remember the chat history, because this is a permanent witness of the relationship between the two parties! "

In the conference room, Chief Software Architect Acton frowned and looked around the conference room for a week, then stared at the big boss who proposed new features, and put forward his own opinions and questions.

"The permanent witness you said is also the willingness of official intelligence agencies to be very interested in these chat records of our users, and this is precisely the most important reason why the US government requires us to provide server access!"

Ceo Brian smiled, stared sharply at Acton, and said a bit helplessly in his tone.

"Damn it, let them go!" Acton cursed a little angrily when he heard that, no doubt they value the protection of user privacy data, because everyone knows that once they cooperate with intelligence agencies Exposed, it will undoubtedly be a blow to the destruction of enterprises.

"Let them die this heart, absolutely can not agree to give them access to the server, that would ruin everything for us!"

"Yes, you can't agree!"

The executives in the conference room were immediately indignant. It seemed that everyone's views reached a striking consensus on this issue. However, everyone in the room also knew that the reason why they dared to scream was undoubtedly because their bosses endorsed it. If the government must, the arms and legs can't beat the strength of the US government.

"Oh, why do you all look at me?" Andy looked at his subordinates with a smile and couldn't help but stop the signature pen turning on his fingers, and after a smile, turned to look at the ceo cloth. "I know you're having a headache with this," Ryan said. "My attitude is that they will only submit data to them if required by law.

We will not actively share any personal information with government newspaper partners. What's more, the US government department is not allowed to directly access our servers, or use our services to enter our data centers. Everything is legal! "

"Good boss, I know how to restore them." Ceo Blaine was also relieved, to be honest, he was really worried about his boss' hard work and reporting to the department. Although the boss was not afraid to offend this group of guys, he was in Hemei after all It ’s unavoidable to wear small shoes facing the government, let alone their Watts is a new company. Even these 9 companies, including Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Apple, are open to those people and let them collect information. .

Andy naturally will not be silly to face the US government. After all, this kind of thing is an open secret in almost all IT industries. Most major IT companies will choose to cooperate with them. In return, these company leaders will get Information from the Qing newspaper department to understand the current focus of the Qing newspaper department.

In other cases, partner companies will receive rapid alerts on information security threats that may be detrimental to performance, so that they will be aware of serious Internet attacks and who is behind them.

The most typical example that Andy has learned is that Google has been hacked. Sergey Brin obtained highly confidential relevant information from the Qing agency in the United States, thereby knowing the source of the attack. At that time, Brin was granted temporary confidential intelligence authorization to understand the situation.

"Look at it, so it's useful to burn it immediately after reading it." Andy said in a relaxed tone, and smiled to everyone in the conference room.

"Ha ha."

"Don't joke about the boss, the background data will still be saved unless we really use data self-destruct technology."

"Yeah, I also think that burning after reading is just a gimmick, but the information is withdrawn, but it can be added after the next version update. Sometimes it is a terrible thing to send the wrong information ..."

"Haha ..."

The crowd laughed, and it seemed that everyone present had similar experiences. Andy shook his head and laughed, thinking quickly. He was also psychologically prepared for everyone to oppose the function of reading and burning, after all, although this function is very Good, but it is not necessarily suitable for Watts, who wants to make a very popular instant messaging software. This feature is more popular with young people. This is for sure.

However, Andy didn't want to make Wattspu an x ​​artifact, it really couldn't work, he started a new stove with this idea, set up a new company, and then used the financing circle to play ...

"In this case, then withdraw the one-minute information as the main feature service of the next version upgrade, and put it on hold after reading it, but keep it secret." The smile on Andy's face disappeared and he said with a serious expression, though, Everyone has signed a confidentiality agreement, but he still wants to reiterate and let everyone notice that he doesn't want to let the idea leak, even if the technology has been registered for a patent. After all, there are too many smart people in the world. What new technologies will be invented such as flash pictures and flash pictures.

"Well, are there any new developments in video calling technology?"

"Slow progress. Boss, Internet video calling is the most restrictive, the most demanding, and the most difficult Internet video application of all kinds of Internet video applications.

Because video calls are concentrated on the mobile end, this requires the system's computational complexity to be as low as possible, which is better to solve.

However, video calling is a highly real-time application, which determines that video data is generally transmitted unreliably. This requires video transmission to have certain anti-crash, anti-crash, which is robust, such as the characteristics of anti-packet loss, and because there is no buffering. Mechanism, the video transmission bit rate should be as stable as possible. This point cannot be solved by ourselves, and external hardware upgrades are needed.

There is also a need for users to use the 3G mobile network, and people will be more sensitive to traffic, so video call bandwidth consumption should be as low as possible.

In addition, for example, the user's network status and device performance are greatly different, so WeChat video calls must adapt to different networks and devices. There is a certain period of user version update. It is necessary to consider the compatibility of new technology with the old version. In addition, massive concurrent The bandwidth cost pressure on the server caused by users must also be considered.

In summary, it is the difficulty and predicament that the video call function is facing now, that is, in a short period of one or two years, the video call function can be made, but the effect will not be too good! "

Hearing these problems, although Andy was a bit helpless, but he was not disappointed. After all, it was not that the men were incompetent, but the conditions were not allowed!