Global monopoly of technology

"According to the latest research data of Net-Marker-Share, a market conditioning organization, in December 2016, in the global desktop browser market, Afarid browser accounted for 59.81%, close to 60%, and will soon dominate desktop browsers."

Pichai's voice resounded in the conference room, and everyone looked at the statistics on the PPT on the main screen of the conference. The 59.81% market share made everyone envious and fearful.

This means that the Afarid browser is global, 5,981 users per 10,000 users are using the Afarid browser, more than half of the number, and it is still soaring at a double-digit growth rate.

In addition to the Afarid browser, the second-ranked browser is Google Chrome, which currently has a market share of 13.9%. This is a project led by Pichai. The official public test only started in September 2008, almost too late. Afarid browser for two years.

Ranked third is Microsoft's Edge browser with a market share of 7.86%, and fourth is Firefox, with a market share of 7.23%.

Except for these four major browsers, the rest of the market share is below 5%. In the "other" category, Afarid browser under the Bluestar Technology Group accounts for 59.81% of the market share. It can be seen that it has become The trend of the new king of desktop browsers is becoming more and more obvious.

However, before reaching 70% of the market share, it can’t be considered as worry-free. The Chrome browser still has a chance. In the field of desktop browsers, it is still filled with smoke and aftermath. The leading Afarid browser has not yet Absolute grasp can highlight the encirclement and realize the feat of the new king ascending the throne.

Pichai glanced at the content of the PPT and then at a group of unspoken managers, saying: "Yes, as you see these data, in the field of desktop browsers, it is currently in a situation of four-party hegemony, but unfortunately Yes, the glaring character is not our Chrome, but Afarid."

Pointing to the next content of the PPT, he continued: "Let’s go back to 1998. Afarid browser used to be a member of many “Dragon Warriors” before it achieved today’s leading position, and this dragon is Microsoft used to dominate the Internet world IE browser."

How brilliant was IE browser?Of course, the bigwigs present knew that a fierce browser war broke out in the 1990s, shaking the entire Internet community.

Microsoft used a variety of shameless methods to gain dominance. One of them was the bundling of the Windows system, which caused Microsoft to stage a monopoly lawsuit, which eventually caused Gates to retreat from the position of head.

And Microsoft, which lost Gates, has successively missed two historical opportunities in the wave of cloud computing and mobile Internet, which is also the root cause of the decline of IE today.

Although today's Microsoft is also a giant multinational technology giant, if you seize these two opportunities, today's Microsoft must also be a trillion-dollar Internet technology giant, instead of letting Bluestar Technology Group The Internet technology industry leads the way.

Pichai continued: "Since the defeat of Netscape at the end of 1998, IE began to dominate the entire browser market. According to OneStat.com data, by April 2002, IE had a market share of 96.6%. This is the pinnacle of IE."

Speaking of this, Pichai looked away from the conference screen and said: "Later, under the impact of its own problems and Firefox and other competitors, IE's market share declined significantly. Firefox began to erode in the next four years. IE's market share once exceeded 15% to 20%. At that time, everyone thought Firefox was the dragon slayer, but IE's market share was still nearly 80%. Although it continued to decline, it was still the dominant player."

"Until 2006, two years later, you know what I want to say. At this time, Bluestar Technology is the brightest new star in the entire Internet. It is hailed by the outside world as the "gemini" of the global Internet world alongside Google. Star Technology went public that year and created the largest IPO record in history. When everyone focused on the Blue Star Technology IPO and the emergence of Azure mobile phone to redefine smartphones, the Afarid browser was launched in a low-key manner. No one would have thought of it. It is the real enemy of IE."

The executive chairman Eric Schmidt who attended the meeting basically did not say anything, because the past was unbearable and he knew that he had a great responsibility in it.

It was also the same year that Afarid was launched. At that time, within Google, the development of the browser was opposed by Schmidt, and it was the two founders of Page that proposed to develop the browser at that time.

But Schmidt is in charge of the CEO, and the reason for his opposition is that Google wants to concentrate on competing with Bluestar Technology in the field of streaming video. At that time, the BV video website was launched and quickly became popular, and princes from all walks of life joined it, and Google was no exception.

The two founders rely on this boss very much. It is no exaggeration to say that without Schmidt, there would be no Google today. In addition, there was no suitable project leader at the time, and indeed limited energy, so they put it aside for the time being. .

Until 2008, Page brought this matter up to the conference table again. At that time, Azure mobile phones had taken the world by storm, and the mobile Internet wave hit the shore, and Afarid’s market share had reached 10.98%, a growth rate. Quite dazzling.

Once again on the agenda, Schmidt finally followed the suggestions of the two founders, and the project leader responsible for the development of the Chrome browser is the current Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

The participant Eric Schmidt sighed lightly and said: "This is my fault. I have a great responsibility. If I agreed at that time, the Chrome browser project will develop simultaneously with Afarid, and it will be too late. The project was launched only two years ago, and the Afarid browser has started a comprehensive expansion with the help of the mobile Internet trend. It is my window of opportunity for Chrome to miss.

Page looked at the executive chairman who was quite self-blame, and comforted: "At the time, Google focused on competing with Bluestar Technology on streaming video. Although the final result was that BV video won, it was not your fault. Rick, no one can accurately step on the pulse of the times every time."

Schmidt said immediately: "But Luo Sheng did it."

When Peppa, who wanted to comfort others, heard this, he couldn't help but sighed, and smiled bitterly: "Yes, Luo Sheng did it... Competing with such a terrible opponent is really stressful."

Sergey Brin immediately came back to the topic, looked at Pichai, and said: "Or talk about the browser problem, Afarid browser, how do you rate this product?"

Hearing this, Sundar Pichai was silent for a moment, and then replied: “Objectively speaking, from the perspective of the present, Afarid can almost be said to redefine the browser. Many of the current web browsers are humanized. Almost all of the functional design comes from Afarid, which has attracted peers to imitate, and Chrome is no exception.

"For example, let’s take the tab bar top function, which combines the search bar and the address bar into one, a highly simplified interface design, an extension store for developers, bookmarks can be synchronized in the cloud through social or search engine accounts... this series The emergence of functions has epoch-makingly improved people's web browsing experience."

"The rise of Afarid is not just about grasping the window of opportunity of the times. Without real strength, even if you grasp the opportunity, you will slip away from your hands. I think its own outstanding innovation ability is more important. While maintaining rapid iterative development, Afarid also designed a more effective development model. It divides Afarid into a stable version and a development board. The former is used to satisfy ordinary users, and the latter is convenient for developers to update and test functions to satisfy different types of users. demand."

Participant Larry Page jokingly said: "Fortunately, Google was born early and completed the ecosystem construction ahead of time, otherwise the global search engine market will be controlled by Luo Sheng..."

The other participants also smiled lowly, but the smiles were a bit mixed.

The strong development and innovation ability of Bluestar Technology Group is recognized by the global science and technology community, which is enviable and makes his opponents feel pressured to breathe. The big guys at the meeting did not deny Page's words as a joke.

Since Google withdrew from the Greater China market, they have regretted it in the past few years. They want to return to the Greater China market and have made a lot of preparations.

But today, Google has abandoned the Chinese search engine market internally, and even has no idea.

Because Yunge Search, a subsidiary of Bluestar Technology Group, is already the absolute dominance of Chinese search engines, the ecosystem has been built, and its technology has risen to be superior to Google search. As for the whiteness, it has now fallen into the "other" category, and its market value It has fallen to $3 billion.

Today, Google has regarded Bluestar Technology as the number one enemy to guard against. Its every move will make the senior executives of Google and its parent company extremely sensitive. The meeting at this moment is the best proof.

Don’t look at Yunge Search’s current appearance of wanting and wanting to the global search engine market, but Google’s anti-cloud song is the same as anti-thief. It can be said that 360 has no dead ends staring at any action of Yunge search, including blue Star Technology's actions, but any changes to the sea will be immediately transmitted to the high-level ears of Google and its parent company.

Judging from the current industry structure, the only one qualified to challenge Alphabet Group in the global search engine market is Bluestar Technology Group.

Don’t be prepared. The search engine market is Alphabet’s basic disk and the core territory of the Kingdom’s hinterland. It’s the same as Bluestar Technology’s blue space, and it’s not tolerant of others.

Sundar Pichai continued to analyze: "From the perspective of the underlying technology, as a commercial browser, Afarid itself is a platform based on the so-called Afaridium open source browser kernel, including Microsoft's Edge browser and The QQ browser, Sogou browser, and 360 browser in Huaguo are all based on this kernel."

Having said that, Pichai took a deep breath and added: "From this perspective, the global market share of desktop browsers based on this kernel has exceeded 70%, which is even more terrible. The thing is, the kernel itself is also led by Bluestar Technology and is open sourced to the world. I think you all know what this means."

Of course, everyone present at the meeting understands what this means.

Page murmured: "It means that the underlying technology and standards of the entire human desktop browser have actually been dominated by a commercial company from China, and this company is our number one competitor—— Bluestar Technology Group."

Pichai continued: "Not only that, because the desktop browser is closely related to the web page, in fact, I am afraid that the technical development direction of the entire web page in the future will have to be constrained by the technology and standard selection of Bluestar Technology. In a sense, Bluestar Technology will dominate the future of the web. This is a huge honor for Bluestar Technology and an important support for its strong technical strength and influence. For the company, it depends on Luo Sheng's face. This is definitely not a good thing, and no one wants to see such a situation happen."

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(Ps: In the novel is Bluestar Technology, it can be said that it is the projection of Google’s Chrome browser in reality. After hacking IE, the current market share is 70%, which satisfies the absolute monopoly. The warrior has now turned into a dragon. Whether it is a dragon or an evil dragon basically depends on Google’s conscience. Whether it insists on the mission of not doing evil, it seems that it is still another evil dragon.)