Reborn? The Kind You Can Choose!

Although Zhou Weixue's major is information engineering and technology, he has also seen computer programming.

He even took C++ programming in his freshman year, but this guy gave all the knowledge he learned in college to the teacher, and he was the type who goes to Internet cafes every day.

"I taught myself at school!"

"I'm not planning to take the computer science exam!"

Yuan Zhou said to Zhou Wei. Zhou Wei looked at the browser on the computer screen and was slightly stunned and said: "Website development?"

"Yes, I'm going to build a website to test the waters!"

"My God, do you really impress me?"

Zhou Wei looked at Yuan Zhou up and down, and it was really incredible: "Is your brain enlightened? You haven't even gone to college, and you have started to learn college knowledge by yourself?"

"I'm a little ashamed, brother!"

Zhou Wei was indeed a little stimulated by Yuan Zhou.

After all, the two of them had known each other since they were young, and now they suddenly discovered that the other had started to work hard. This was another unimaginable thing.

"Brother, I'm a senior in high school!"

"You have passed the college entrance examination, but I haven't?"

Yuan Zhou minimized the program, but Zhou Wei curled his lips: "Stop talking nonsense, shouldn't you do questions if you want to take the college entrance examination? Are you doing this to show that you don't want to study hard?"

"Are you still the Yuan Zhou I know?"

Zhou Wei was really surprised.

Yuan Zhou stopped talking nonsense and stretched out his hand directly: "You're here just in time, let me use your phone!"

"What?"

"Cellphone, useful!"

"Don't bother with my phone, there are no games!"

Zhou Wei held his pocket and held on tightly.

He was deeply afraid that Yuan Zhou would snatch his phone away. Yuan Zhou really had a headache for this guy: "Brother, I'm so useful. Even if you give me your phone in a few days, I won't even bother to ask for it!"

"..."

Zhou Wei reluctantly handed the Nokia 7610 he bought for more than 5,000 yuan to Yuan Zhou.

In 2004, before the Apple iPhone and Android were launched, Nokia was definitely the undisputed mobile phone overlord, with a global market share of 60%, and 6-7 out of 10 people used its products.

Motorola and Sony Ericsson, which ranked second and third, combined are not its opponents.

As for Samsung, which will be number one in the world in the future, its current global share is only a pitiful 7%, ranking fifth in the world.

The 7610 is a new model just released by Nokia. It is equipped with Nokia's latest Symbian OS system. It is a smart phone. It can be called the king of mobile phones in 2004 and has the same status as the later iPhone in the mobile phone industry.

The price of a mobile phone is, of course, quite expensive. It cost me almost three months of Zhou Wei’s salary, and is a bit more expensive than Yuan Zhou’s computer.

The reason why I bought him such an expensive mobile phone was the same as Yuan Zhou buying a computer. He studied communications engineering and needed to do good research on mobile phones.

This is what Zhou Wei told Yuan Zhou's uncle Zhou Dahong.

As for the specific reason, Yuan Zhou certainly knows that this guy... just wants to buy a good mobile phone and go to college to show off!

"I can only play for 10 minutes!"

Zhou Wei looked very reluctant, and Yuan Zhou rolled his eyes at him: "Can you have some potential?"

"I'm using your phone to install software, not just for fun!"

As he spoke, Yuan Zhou took a Nokia data cable and dragged a piece of software he had just written into his phone.

Of course, this data cable belongs to Yuan Zhou's father. He also uses a Nokia, but it is not a smartphone, but the data cable is universal.

"What software?"

Zhou Wei came over curiously. After all, he was a "top student" in communications engineering. He was very familiar with some of the software used in today's smartphones!

"You'll know in a moment..."

Yuan Zhou quickly installed it on the Nokia 7610, and soon a browser pattern with a squirrel logo appeared on the home screen of the phone.

"What software is this?"

Zhou Wei has never used it.

"A third-party browser is much better than the browser that comes with the phone. Whether it is loading web pages or surfing the Internet, it is much faster!"

“More importantly, save data!”

Yuan Zhou looked up at Zhou Wei, who looked in disbelief: "Really or not, such a good software, why haven't I heard of it?"

"Didn't you hear it now?"

Yuan Zhou smiled. In his plan, his cousin was of great use.

At least some of the early promotion, Zhou Wei must be involved. If he was in college, it would be much easier to launch than Yuan Zhou. Whether it is the school network or this mobile phone program, it can be rolled out very quickly.

To be honest, high school was relatively closed-off. It was possible to develop software, but if you wanted to open a company to promote these things, you had to rely on Zhou Wei to do it.

“Damn, it seems like this browser is really good!”

Zhou Wei tried to log in to Baidu there, and the loading speed was simply not comparable to Nokia's own browser.

And when you open the browser, there is a quick entrance to Baidu on the homepage, as well as several popular websites such as Sina, NetEase, and Penguin.

This is undoubtedly much more user-friendly and convenient than the built-in browser.

"You...where did you know about this software?"

Zhou Wei was a little confused and said that his cousin didn't even have a mobile phone, but he actually knew this browser software.

On the contrary, he, a student of communications engineering, has never even seen it, let alone used it.

"Come on, there's still a little time before dinner anyway!"

"What I'm going to tell you next is more important, so I hope you'll listen patiently to the end!"

Yuan Zhou's expression was surprisingly serious. Zhou Wei's originally nonchalant expression calmed down instantly: "Say it!"

"Do you think if you put this software on some forums, people will download it?"

Yuan Zhou looked at Zhou Wei.

Zhou Wei was stunned for a moment and said without hesitation: "Of course!"

At least, he will definitely download it.

From his communication professional perspective, he even feels that once this software becomes popular, it will be almost a must-have for everyone.

Because it is so convenient.

To be honest, the browser that comes with the phone is very difficult to use.

An alternative product has been released, which can replace the built-in browser even if it only provides fast Internet access.

Not to mention it also has powerful and practical functions such as saving traffic, fast loading speed, independent page navigation, etc.

Although the current number of mobile phones in China is not large, not even one per person, there are only about 32000, and smartphones only account for 20%, only 60-80 million units.

But if tens of millions of people develop well, that's a lot of traffic.

Yuan Zhou's idea is simple, surround the city with the countryside.

If you want to snatch QQ users, the PC side is basically controlled by several major Internet companies. If you want to snatch food from them, although Yuan Zhou can do it, it will definitely cause alarm; but the mobile side is different. It is a blue ocean that no one has yet set foot on.

The smartphone market only started to appear in 2002. Currently, there are only a few hundred million users of smartphones in use around the world, which is far from being comparable to the billions of users in later generations.

Moreover, 99% of smartphones2 still use the Symbian system. Although this mobile phone system is smart, it is far from comparable to Android and iOS.

Both the interface and the use are at a very primitive stage, and the software... is even more pitiful!

Except for a few commonly used QQ, weather, and music, almost many later generations of software have not been born.

This uc browser developed by Yuan Zhou is one of them.

The reason why I chose this software is that it can assist the promotion of the school network; the second reason is that it is the undisputed king in the Saipan era, and the number of downloads and installations exceeds that of QQ, reaching a terrifying 600 million people!

600 million people have downloaded this software, and this was before smartphones became popular.

You can imagine how powerful this software is.

From 2004 to 2010, the number of mobile QQ downloads could only rank second!

Even in 2020, uc browser is still powerful.

Of course, the most important thing is that the era when uc browser was born happened to be 2004!

Without Yuan Zhou, this software would have been released in August. Now... he just released it ahead of schedule.

"Brother, after you return to the dormitory tonight, help me post this software to all mobile phone forums!"

"Even if you spend money to top it, you still have to help me promote it!"

Yuan Zhou looked at Zhou Wei and spoke word by word.

"OK!"

Zhou Wei nodded subconsciously, and then suddenly reacted: "You...what did you say?"

"Promotion? Why do you want to help promote this software?"

Do I seem to be a very idle person?

"Because... I made this software!"

Yuan Zhou smiled at Zhou Wei, but Zhou Wei's expression was completely dull.

He never thought that Yuan Zhou could independently develop a mobile phone software.

Although he was typing the code for web development just now, there are still differences between mobile phone programs and computers. He, a student majoring in communication engineering, could not even say that he could develop a successful product, let alone a high school student like Yuan Zhou. .

But now...such a weird thing happened like this.

Yuan Zhou, who has always been a good little brother in Zhou Wei's eyes, studied by himself in high school... and developed a mobile phone software!

And it’s such practical software.

"Brother, don't forget!"

Yuan Zhou patted Zhou Wei on the shoulder: "If the promotion is good, money won't matter!"