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After the time entered 2001, Quora is still the most popular Internet application in this era, with a large number of loyal fans around the world.

Quora is also regarded by the outside world as a representative work in Zhou Xin's entrepreneurial career, which brought him massive wealth and unparalleled fame.

Fame is something that is really easy to use sometimes, and it can get twice the result with half the effort in many cases. If it were an Mphone made by other people, the same product would not have such a good effect.

As for the products launched by Zhou Xin, netizens have a heartfelt desire to experience the products created by Zhou Xin, especially in Silicon Valley, Zhou Xin's home base.

Zhou Xin has the highest proportion of supporters in Silicon Valley, as well as a large number of followers in the same industry.

It is precisely because everyone here is an Internet practitioner that everyone knows the meaning of Quora and what Quora means to Zhou Xin.

The reunion of Zhou Xin and Quora is enough to make the whole Silicon Valley boil. Although this is a cooperation on the mobile terminal, although it is not Zhou Xin returning to take charge of Quora, although there is no functional upgrade of Quora, it is still enough to be talked about by the media and netizens for a long time.

The two newcomer editors of Wired magazine looked at each other:

"Newman and Time Warner have done such a good job of keeping it secret that we have never heard of it before. If the outside world had known this news in advance, Anderson would have sent more experienced editors to the Mphone developer conference."

Chris Anderson is the editor-in-chief of "Wired" magazine and the discoverer of the famous "long tail theory".

"Yeah, it's a good thing. I'll post a Weibo first." Another editor took out a Mphone from his pocket and took a picture of Zhou Xin standing in the center of the stage with the Mphone and Quora logos displayed side by side on the screen behind him, and then Edited a paragraph and sent it out:

"Newman announced at the first Matrix Developer Conference that Mphone will support users to download quora after the system update. This is also the first cooperation between the two parties after Newman left quora."

After posting, the editor put the phone back in his pocket, and said: "This is really amazing news, I believe the entire Silicon Valley will discuss this matter, and Time Warner is also forced to do nothing.

In the past few years, Time Warner has actually been trying to eliminate Newman's influence on Quora after acquiring Quora. It's hard, but Time Warner's ex-CEO has been keen to do it.

It is also related to Time Warner's recent poor performance.

The only bright spot in Time Warner's business line is Quora. Quora's story to investors has always been that after electronic payments are available in other parts of the world, Quora's fee-paying business will earn excess returns in other regions.

A large amount of high-quality content accumulated by Quora will become a valuable asset of Time Warner. As a result, before NewPay entered other regions, the Nasdaq bubble had already arrived, and Time Warner had changed three CEOs, and there was no change in revenue or stock price itself.

The market has lost expectations and trust in them, perhaps because of this background Time Warner was forced to cooperate with Newman. "

In July 2001, the "Lord of the Rings" series and the "Harry Potter" series of films that Time Warner was able to turn around had not yet been released, and it was just an ordinary enterprise with an empty name.

After the audience stopped cheering and applauding loudly, they were still talking in low voices. It is natural to like to eat melons, especially for such a big melon like Time Warner and Zhou Xin's re-cooperation.

The editors of Wired magazine weren't the only ones whispering in the audience.

Not only the editors of "Connection" magazine posted Weibo. To participate in the Mphone Developers Conference, you must have some understanding of Mphone. Almost everyone here has an Mphone. Many people took the cooperation between Quora and Newman as a rare news and posted on Weibo.

Weibo has been launched for half a year, and more and more Mphone users are accustomed to this way of sharing and browsing information.

Therefore, the news of the cooperation between Newman and Quora quickly spread on various Internet forums starting from Weibo.

Zhou Xin didn't know about this, and of course he wouldn't care if he knew, "I'm very happy to have the opportunity to cooperate with Quora, Quora is the best community in this era, with the best quality users and the best content.

Of course, this praise of Quora is somewhat flattering my own meaning in it, but this is the truth. "

After Zhou Xin finished speaking, there was a burst of cheers and laughter backstage. Zhou Xin's sudden cold humor made everyone laugh.

Including standing by Zhou Xin's side, Time Warner's new president, Robert.

"In short, I am very happy to bring you such a good software as Quora on Mphone. You can check the answers of excellent answerers on your mobile phone, and you can use the mobile phone keyboard with the best user experience in the world to answer quora questions. Of course The premise is that you must have this qualification."

After Zhou Xin finished speaking, Robert raised the microphone: "I am very happy to cooperate with Newman. Newman is the founder of Quora. This will never change. This is also an indisputable fact."

The previous CEOs of Time Warner would definitely not be able to say such things, so Robert, who came later, planned to change his strategy and no longer insist on separating Zhou Xin from Quora.

"We are very happy to bring Quora such an excellent product to Mphone users, and we are even more pleased that Time Warner can continue to cooperate with Newman. We will cooperate with Matrix and Newman in the field of mobile phones."

Robert went down without saying a word, more or less like a platform.

"Everyone knows that there are paid questions and answers in Quora, and there are many paid functions such as Quora Golden Selection. I divide the functions of Quora and the purchase of "Prince of Persia" just mentioned into two categories.

"Prince of Persia" is a buyout system, which means that you pay once, and you don't need to pay for "Prince of Persia" in the future. Subsequent updates of "Prince of Persia" by Gameloft are free. Unless they launched "Prince of Persia 2" or a supplementary installation package with more updated content.

As for quora, I call it the in-app purchase system. The app itself does not need to be charged, and there are paid content in the app. These paid contents need to be downloaded after the app is purchased. It should be better understood by using games as an example. "Angry Birds" is a buyout system, and "Game of Thrones" is an in-app purchase system.

The application you develop for Mphone can adopt one of these two models, or even a combination of buyout system and in-app purchase system, as long as you are confident enough in the application that Mphone users will buy your product. And Matrix's commission for different modes is the same, 30%. The internal purchase system is also a 30% commission. "

After Zhou Xin finished speaking, the developers present just gave polite applause, because there were no surprises or accidents. Whether it is Riot Games or Quora, Zhouxin's Internet service commission has always been 30%, so the developers have expected this ratio.

If Zhou Xin said 40%, the developers would definitely stand up and question why it was so high. If it said 20%, the developers would definitely cheer and shout, wishing they could knock down the ceiling of this exhibition hall with their voices.

But 30%, no one will question how this number came about, as if it has always been like this, which means it is reasonable.

"Just like Riot Games, we will consider various considerations and recommend excellent apps to users on the mobile app store.

In the initial stage, we will not consider advertisements, and only recommend excellent apps from the perspective of quality. After a certain stage, we will still have a complete set of support plans for small and medium-sized developers, even if we use advertising, to support excellent small and medium-sized developers to survive in the Mphone ecosystem and live well. "

In the early days of Riot Games, there were no advertisements. It was entirely up to game editors to select products and recommend them to users. Game editors needed to write a long paragraph to explain why they recommended this product.

At the same time, the sales increase after the game is recommended will be linked to the performance of the game editor who put the game on the recommended position.

For example, there are five positions in total, and each of the five editors recommends a game. Then, combining data from multiple dimensions such as game price, growth rate, word-of-mouth, and ratings, the recommendations of the five editors will be scored.

This is also to avoid corruption, and traffic is also a sharp tool for monetization. There are countless cases of employees of enterprises such as Ali and Tencent in later generations using traffic to make profits.

"We will try our best to recommend free apps, because it is difficult for developers of free apps to make money from them. For apps that do not include any charging methods, we will give rewards for recommendations, and at the same time, based on the number of user downloads and user retention. A certain monetary reward will be given at a certain rate.”

"Because free applications may also be necessary, neither Weibo nor WeChat has achieved profitability, and even I have not found a good way to make profits.

The annual operating expenses of Weibo and WeChat are astronomical, but it cannot bring me any profit on the books.

But it is an important part of Mphone's complete ecology, and they are crucial to the experience of buying Mphone users.

In the same way, the free apps developed by you may also become popular apps one day in the future. We don't want it to be unable to continue operating because it has no profit model. Therefore, for developers of such applications, Matrix will have a complete set of support mechanisms. "

The emerging investment behind Zhou Xin has long been gearing up, waiting to invest in some outstanding mobile Internet companies.

Zhou Xin continued: "At the same time, for developers, we will provide resource services, and this topic will be handed over to Dr. Wang Jian to introduce to you.

Our New Cloud company focuses on providing users with managed one-stop cloud services. "

The earliest public cloud service in the original space-time will be launched by Amazon in July 2002. They opened a platform called Amazon.com, allowing developers to build applications based on this platform. By 2007, Amazon's cloud platform had more than a hundred applications built on it.

This is just a platform. It was not until the fall of 2003 that Amazon officially launched a complete set of public cloud services including cloud database, cloud storage and cloud computing to users.

Dr. Wang Jian has been working in this area since he arrived in Silicon Valley last year. As the CEO of Xinyun, he led the birth of cloud services.

In 2000, a large number of Internet companies closed down, and a large number of engineers had nowhere to go on the streets. Xinyun was able to recruit a large number of excellent development engineers to do this.

At this developer conference, Zhou Xin intends to officially launch the new cloud to the market, starting with serving the Mphone ecosystem builders, and then slowly expanding to a wider boundary based on these developers.

What Wang Jian talked about is almost all technical content, so I won’t go into details here.

Xinyun is as important to Zhou Xin as Mphone, Mphone is a mobile chip, and Xinyun is ready. The demand for a large number of servers is related to Intel's X86 chip. Such a large demand is enough to negotiate some conditions with Intel.

Hu Zhengming and Zhou Xin said before that they want to cooperate with Intel, and Zhou Xin also knows this. At present, Intel is an unavoidable giant in the chip field, but he can't come up with chips, not enough chips to impress Intel.

Xinxin Technology may not be able to do what TSMC can do, and mainland companies may not be able to introduce technologies that Wanwan companies can introduce.

What Zhou Xin wanted was to wait until he had more chips in hand before negotiating terms with Intel.

Matrix's first developer conference was not very long, only a short three days.

After the first day was over, all eyes were on quora and Newman re-working together, and no one cared that a new infrastructure model was born.

Not to mention that the media didn't care, even the participants of the developer conference didn't have a high degree of acceptance of Xinyun.

There have been hundreds of comments on the Weibo posted by the reporter of "Connection" magazine before. The points of everyone's attention are:

"Newman's partnership with Quora is one of the best things I've heard this year."

"Does this mean that I can also see Quora on my Mphone? If so, that would be great. Another reason for me to use my computer less!"

"Long time to see, Time Warner should not just cooperate with Newman, they should invite Newman back to Quora, Quora without Newman will lose its soul."

It is precisely because of the instantaneous effect of Weibo that more and more media practitioners have begun to use Mphones, and everyone wants to share news with users as soon as possible.

And the earliest concept of new media was put forward by practitioners of traditional media after the launch of Quora. Later, after the launch of Mphone, Zhou Xin said that Weibo and WeChat are the real new media.

Within half a year after the launch of Mphone, media practitioners began to realize the power of the two sharing modes of Weibo and WeChat official account, and became more and more enthusiastic about cultivating their followers on Weibo.

Everyone even has a guess that sooner or later Weibo will introduce a payment model, and some content needs to be paid to browse.

They may be thinking a little too much. Weibo with this payment model is not called Weibo, but onlyfans.

The response time of Weibo is in minutes. Just after Zhou Xin announced, the user sent a news through Weibo. This time is limited by the speed of the Internet. The traditional media on the WeChat official account sent out the news that night.

Print media will have to wait until the next day: "Newman and Time Warner's cross-century settlement"

Update 4K first, there will be more tomorrow morning.