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In the Internet industry, it is clear that the realm of instant messaging applications is a 'winner-income' market, because such applications have a powerful social network effect, meaning that users invite friends and families to use an app together.

So, let's face it, in an unpredictable market like instant messaging, companies that adopt conservative development strategies are generally very risky, and WhatsApp is not without a critical voice, and is criticized by some for being too simple, lacking innovation, and not paying attention to popular trends.

After all, with smartphones on the road, almost all software can now receive and send messages, emails, but the real challenge, in Watsop's view and Andy's, is how to achieve more features without making the product more complex.

Some users have also asked Watsop to launch desktop versions and username login systems, but software engineers from Andy to Watsop have consistently focused on the usefulness, ease of use and quality of service of their applications.

And every time WhatsApp launches a new feature, there will always be intense internal discussion and maximum simplification. And this, too, is officially Andy's intention, and according to the Poker theory, the best ideas and best decisions can only be born in contention.

“I am not quite sure of the real value of retracting the message and burning it after reading it. Yes, teenagers may like this feature, but I don't give a shit. I'm 42 years old and I'm not looking for * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Withdrawal I can also understand the fear that mistakes can be remedied, and it may be a fashionable trend to burn this behavior when I am not sure if it will bring intimacy to the user. However, we also have romantic stories, such as the one where people go through exotic love and end up in marriage halls, and the whole story is documented, which cannot be done after reading. It should be noted that people like to rewind the chat record, as this is a permanent witness to the relationship between the two parties! ”

In the conference room, Chief Software Architect Acton glanced at the crowd of the conference room for a week, then stared at the face of the big boss proposing new features and presented his own insights and questions.

“The permanent witness you speak of and the desire of official intelligence agencies to be very interested in our users' chat records are the most important reason why the United States Government has asked us to provide access to our servers! ”

CEO Brian smiled and stared sharply at Acton, saying in a somewhat helpless tone.

“Damn it, let them go to hell!” Acton cursed a little angrily at the moment, and they undoubtedly valued the protection of users' privacy data, because everyone knew that once it was exposed in cooperation with intelligence agencies, it would undoubtedly be a blow to the destruction of businesses.

“Let them die, and you can never agree to give them access to the server, which will ruin everything for us! ”

“Yes, absolutely not! ”

The executives in the conference room were overwhelmed with anger, and it seemed that there was an alarming consensus on the issue, but the people in the room also knew that the reason they were so arrogant was undoubtedly because they had their own bosses to endorse them. If the government had to, the small arms and legs could not be twisted.

“Oh, why is everybody looking at me?” Andy looked down at his people with a smile and couldn't help but stop swinging the pen on his finger, and then turned to CEO Brian and said, "I know you're having a headache with this, and my attitude is that data will only be submitted to them if required by law.

We do not proactively share any personal information with government qing newspaper partners. We do not allow U.S. departments to access our servers directly, or to access our data centers with post-MENs. The law prevails! ”

“Good boss, I know how to restore them.” CEO Brian was also relieved, to be honest, he was really worried about his boss's hard-bar qing newspaper department. Although the boss wasn't afraid to offend the guys, he was still working against the US government, inevitably wearing shoes. Don't say that they were a new company, even Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook YouTube and Apple had nine company servers open to those people to gather information.

Andy is certainly not foolish enough to go against the US government. After all, this is almost a public secret in the IT industry, and the vast majority of big IT companies choose to work with them, and in return, the leaders of these companies will have access to information from the Qing newspaper department to understand the current focus of Qing newspaper department.

In other cases, cooperatives will be given rapid warning of information security threats that may be detrimental to performance, so that they know early on the serious Internet attacks and who is behind them.

The most typical example Andy has learned is that Google has been hacked. Sergei Boolean obtained highly classified information from the United States Qing Newspapers, thus gaining knowledge of the source of the attack. At that time, Boolean was granted temporary authorization for confidential intelligence and was able to learn about the situation.

“Look, so reading and burning is still useful.” Andy spoke softly and smiled at the crowd in the conference room.

“Huh. ”

“Don't be ridiculous, boss, it will still be saved in the background data unless we really use data self-destruct technology. ”

“Yeah, I think burning after reading is just a bluff, but retracting the information can be added after the next update, and sometimes sending the wrong information is really a horrible thing... ”

“Ha ha... ”

Everyone laughed, it seems that everyone present had a similar experience, Andy also shook his head and thought quickly. He was also a little prepared for people opposing the function of burning after reading. After all, this function is good, but it really is not necessarily suitable for Wazoop who wants to make instant messaging software with a high prevalence rate. This feature is more popular with young people, which is certain.

Andy, however, didn't want to make Wazoop into some kind of "x" artifact, which didn't work, so he started a new company with this idea, and he was going to play with the money in the financing circle...

“In that case, take a minute to retrieve the information as the main feature of the next upgrade, which will be set aside when you read it, but keep it confidential.” Andy's smile disappeared and his expression seriously said that, although everyone had signed a confidentiality agreement, he wanted to reiterate that he didn't want the idea to be leaked, even though the technology was patented, after all, there were so many smart people in the world that maybe someone would use it to invent some kind of flash picture, flash or other new technology.

“By the way, any new advances in video calling technology? ”

“Slow progress, boss, Internet video calls are the most constrained and demanding of all Internet video applications, and an Internet video application that is more difficult to achieve.

Since video calls are concentrated on the mobile side, this requires the system to have as little computational complexity as possible, which is a good solution.

However, video calls are a highly real-time application, which determines that video data is generally transferred unreliably, which requires that video transmissions have certain anti-dead, anti-crash, i.e. Robust, such as anti-packet loss characteristics, and that since there is no buffer mechanism, the video transmission bitrate should be as smooth as possible. This, on our own, cannot be solved, and external hardware upgrades are needed.

There's also the need for users to use it under 3G mobile networks, and people are more sensitive to traffic, so use as little bandwidth as possible for video calls.

Additionally, for example, the network conditions and device performance of users vary greatly, so for WeChat video calls to adapt to different networks and devices, there is a certain cycle of user version updates, and the compatibility of new technologies with older versions needs to be taken into account. In addition, the bandwidth cost pressures on the server side caused by massive concurrent users need to be taken into account.

To sum up, this is the difficulty and dilemma facing the video call function right 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 questions, Andy was a little helpless, but he wasn't disappointed. After all, it wasn't his people who were helpless, but the conditions didn't allow it!