Chapter 363: Replacement

After the explosive sales in the early stage, the sales volume of Shenzhou U-disks has now begun to enter a stable period. Sales are still there. After all, the annual sales volume of computers in the country now exceeds 1.2 million, and the total computer ownership exceeds 15.9 million.

It's just that the number of computers per capita is too small. Now there are only 88 people with computers for every 10,000 people in the country. Of course, this is an average. In fact, these computer users are mainly concentrated in municipal government units, companies, schools, and high-income families in large cities such as Yanjing and Hujiang.

Ordinary families in small and medium-sized cities and below the county level do not yet have the budget to buy such large electrical appliances as computers. The selling price of tens of thousands of yuan, a product at the same level as a motorcycle, requires many families to save money for several years before they can afford a computer. If it is not a large electrical appliance, what is it?

And in the same period in America, the computer ownership per 10,000 people exceeded 4,000. Basically, among two or three families, one has a computer. This is also the basis for the rise of the internet in America, because there is really a user scale, and quantitative change can cause qualitative change.

Shenzhou U-disks are different from computers. Basically, now that you use computers, you can come into contact with computers, and where there is a need to store data, you need to use them. This determines that the sales volume of Shenzhou U-disks will far exceed the sales volume of domestic computers!

The sales volume of Shenzhou U-disks overseas, especially in America, Germany, England, the Netherlands, and other places, sells much better than in the country. In these places, the computer penetration rate is high, and the demand for U-disks is naturally large, which makes Shenzhou U-disks' overseas sales volume remain high, with daily sales exceeding 10,000!

And the Shenzhou U-disks, which originally had declining sales in the country, actually rose against the trend. When this news came out, it still surprised the domestic technology industry, because this is not scientific.

Subsequently, countless people's eyes were focused on the Tianya Pinyin Input Method. The new sales volume of Shenzhou U-disks was almost pulled up by this set of input methods.

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

But clearly, more people are voting with their feet. So what if it types fast? So what if using Wubi to cover your eyes and blind-type is more accurate than the pinyin input method? When a pinyin input method that has no threshold and can be used by anyone is placed in front of you, who is willing to spend a few months learning how to type? Just start using it directly. Isn't it fragrant?

Just after the media reported that Shenzhou U-disks' single-day sales rose against the trend by 5,800, in the next few days, Shenzhou U-disks' single-day sales constantly hit new historical highs, and the performance was even more fierce than when it was first released!

Now the 15.9 million computers in the country are the largest rigid demand users for co-branded Shenzhou U-disks. Coupled with users who have needs for U-disks, this has allowed Shenzhou U-disks' subsequent sales to explode at a speed visible to the naked eye in the media's surprised reports.

"Shenzhou Tianya co-branded U-disk, single-day sales broke 8,000!"

"Co-branded U-disk single-day sales broke 10,000, sales exceeded 5.28 million yuan!"

"Tianya Pinyin Input Method swept the domestic computer industry. Some media computer users show that over 66.8% of computer users indicate that they are willing to use the Tianya Pinyin Input Method!"

"Tianya Pinyin Input Method adopts a new sales model. For the domestic software industry, this is a bold attempt!"

And when the co-branded U-disk was released for the second week, the sales volume reached its peak. *Computer News* published statistics that the Shenzhou Tianya co-branded U-disk single-day sales broke 30,000, and the entire co-branded U-disk sales volume had broken 90,000!

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 this, the sales volume of co-branded U-disks began to decline, because pirated Tianya input methods had already popped up.

This is the current situation of the domestic software industry. The sales volume of Shenzhou Tianya co-branded U-disks could break 100,000, completely because the early stocking was fast. But if it were a little slower, it would probably be intercepted by pirated versions.

But even if it relied on Shenzhou U-disks and could sell 90,000 copies, it is already considered explosive sales. It is much better than other domestic software. Of course, compared to those overseas software giants like Microsoft, it definitely cannot compare, and it is not at the same level at all.

As a giant in the global software industry, Microsoft is still the undisputed king. The Windows 95 released this year, which determined Microsoft's imperial status in the system industry, sold 7 million copies in one month, with sales exceeding 6 billion!

Inside the Yanjing Tianya Company office building, when hearing the sales volume of the Shenzhou Tianya co-branded U-disk, and the sales volume broke 90,000, a large burst of applause and cheers broke out instantly.

Even for Zhongguancun old guns like Zhou Zhinong, Zhu Chongjun, and Wu Xiaojun, this is also a result worth bragging about.

According to the agreement between Tianya and the brother company Shenzhou Storage, Tianya Company can get a commission based on the proportion of co-branded U-disk sales.

Like this time, the co-branded sales volume of 90,000, at least 70,000 to 80,000 sales are related to the Tianya Pinyin Input Method, and the revenue brought by this part of the sales is around 42 million. According to the agreed commission, the Tianya Pinyin Input Method team can share about 6.3 million!

Not to mention how much this income is, at least it proves that there are people willing to use the Tianya Pinyin Input Method, which made the input method R&D team led by Zhou Zhinong greatly increase their confidence.

Relying on the commission of co-branded U-disks, as well as the procurement fees of the Yanjing municipal government departments for the Tianya Pinyin Input Method, these incomes are basically enough to support the Tianya Pinyin Input Method to launch the next generation version!

Guo Jingyun also smiled and applauded the Tianya Input Method team. This is not only the income obtained by the input method team, but also the first income obtained by Tianya Company. Naturally, it is to be celebrated.

"Old Zhou, congratulations!"

After receiving the news, Wang Jiangmin and others from the Jiangmin Antivirus Software Technology, which is in the same office building as Tianya Company, also ran over to congratulate Zhou Zhinong.

Guo Jingyun praised the input method team a few times, promised to issue bonuses this month, and then returned to the office to report the sales volume of the Tianya Pinyin Input Method to Li Dongling.

However, some are happy and some are sad. If there are people laughing, there must be people worrying. Inside the Yanjing Wangma Company, it is a bit gloomy now.

"The Tianya Pinyin Input Method is far from being as easy to use as 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, liking to use this kind of input method!"

A developer of Wangma Company, after experiencing the pinyin input method, picked his nose and eyes, belittled the pinyin input method from inside to outside, and said indignantly 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 a look of helplessness and loss appeared in his eyes. He had a premonition that it seemed that the era belonging to Wubi typing was a bit outdated...

In the past, the opponents of Wangma Wubi typing were those pirated Wubi input method manufacturers, and five or six hundred computer, Chinese card, and Xiaobawang learning machine manufacturers that pre-installed Wubi typing but didn't pay patent fees to Wangma Company. Wangma Company fought lawsuits with them all day long.

But now, Wangma Company has added another "opponent," Tianya Company, which launched the pinyin input method. This time it is a brand-new opponent, but it made Wang Yongmin feel a bit helpless.

As an old gun in the Chinese input method industry, Wang Yongmin was not blinded by anger and dissatisfaction. He only took one look at the Tianya Pinyin Input Method and could see where the real difference between Wubi typing and Tianya Input Method was. Precisely because of this, he felt helpless.

"Boss Wang, look at this report..."

The supervisor in charge of the market department of Wangma Company ran in sweating profusely and handed a *Mainland Computer News* to Wang Yongmin, looking very anxious.

*Computer News* is now the official media newspaper of the domestic computer industry. It was jointly launched by the Ministry of Information Industry and the Electronic Information Research Institute, basically representing the authoritative report of the domestic computer industry.

Wang Yongmin opened the newspaper, and at just one glance, he was stunned there. I saw the title on it, which was written impressively, "The emergence of Tianya Pinyin Input Method will be the same as Microsoft's Windows 95 system, allowing computers to enter a big explosion era in the country!"

"Microsoft's latest operating system and the emergence of Tianya Pinyin Input Method have both caused the difficulty and threshold of computer operation to drop significantly. They have made it easier for the public to operate computers. The era of national computerization is coming. It is expected that domestic computer sales will usher in a new explosion..."

After seeing the comments of *Computer News* on the Tianya Pinyin Input Method, Wang Yongmin was stunned there, not knowing what he was thinking. After the report of *Computer News* on the Tianya Input Method, for the Tianya Input Method, there was no longer anything like being inferior to Wubi, or typing speed being slow.

On the contrary, it represents the progress of technology, allowing users to type on computers more easily, and there is no need to deliberately learn Wubi typing.

Wang Yongmin knows that from now on, except for some departments in the municipal government that need computer typing speed, as well as special occupations and industries such as banks and accountants, the rest of the computer users will no longer need Wubi typing!

A host of people in Wangma Company were also silent for a while. They also had a premonition that the era belonging to Wangma Company and Wubi typing had passed!

In the future, Wangma Wubi typing will definitely still be sold, and there will be more or less demand, but the era of buying a computer and practicing Wubi typing, and even parents buying Xiaobawang learning machines for children to practice Wubi typing, has also gone forever.

Inside the Pingyang Yuhe Leisure Resort, Li Dongling, who had answered a phone call, returned and smiled at Yao Zhengru, Torch Group General Manager Zhang Xiaocheng, Hanxi State Investment General Manager Wu Yaoguo, and others sitting opposite, "A phone call from Tianya Company in Yanjing!"

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