What's good about WeChat? Have you really used it?

Wechat can have thousands of good things, but only from this point of view, I think the biggest good thing of Wechat (and many similar software) is that SMS has almost withdrawn from the historical stage. It's so quiet, many people forget what the communication between people was like before the appearance of WeChat, so they ask this question.

The SMS craze in China started around the Millennium, when the price was not high. In the big capital, pancake fruit and an egg are only one yuan and five yuan, and ten Jin of apples are only eight yuan. Ordinary coolies who work hard in the city cost five or six hundred dollars a month.

At that time, mobile phones were a luxury, and Bird S 1500 cost two thousand yuan less. Amoi A8 and its Turkish March with 16 chords became the exclusive BGM for those who got rich first. For the ordinary young man who was 20 years old at that time, having a mobile phone, making a few phone calls and sending a few short messages with a girl was quite awesome, no less than wearing a big gold chain and picking garlic with an old girl wearing mink.

At that time, the long distance to China was 50 minutes, and the short message 1 minute to 20 minutes. As for QQ? At that time, it was also called OICQ, and there was 128kbps ISDN in Internet cafes, all of which were flagship. Internet cafes in most areas are not called Internet cafes, but computer rooms, because there is no Internet.

With the explosive popularity of mobile phones and the Internet, the price of mobile phones has dropped again and again, and finally it has become an ordinary thing that everyone can afford. However, the tariff of SMS is still firm. Until 2007, I was still buying a couple card and sending text messages every month. Although the short message of 1.20 cents actually reduces the price in disguise because of the improvement of people's spending power, the various constraints of short messages are still a knot in many people's minds. No matter how many words you have, you can only condense them into 70 words. Needless to say, saying "hehe" may be extravagant.

At that time, MMS was a dollar, and its size was 50 ~ 100 K, which was beautiful. When it was compressed to 50 K, it became hazy and beautiful, not to mention whether the other operator or mobile phone supported MMS.

QQ began to notice the vigorous development of mobile business and launched SMS QQ. You send the QQ number and password to Tencent, log in to the bound mobile phone (because of the long history, the memory may be biased), and chat with netizens in the form of service number +QQ number+content. The service number is added to the 70-word SMS, and you can't type a few words after the QQ number, so you can only be used as an emergency contact.

Speaking of which, I remember that there was a text mud based on SMS, which sent something like "go left" and "open the treasure chest" to the service number. There are also services that use SMS to check emails and subscribe to news. Do you feel a little familiar with comparing WeChat's QQ mailbox with WeChat's official account?

QQ began to try on the mobile side, and launched wapQQ, S60 QQ, java QQ, windows mobile QQ and so on. , but they have not achieved great success. Limited by expensive tariffs and network conditions, there are very few users. Ten years later, the dominance of SMS is still embarrassing.

In 2008, the iPhone 3G gave birth to the app store. Foreign SMS replacement software began to appear, including whatsapp, talkbox, line, etc., which greatly reduced the communication cost of people on mobile devices. However, in China, due to national conditions, language and other restrictions, these apps are still played by a few people. 20 1 1, wechat entered the market and achieved great success (about 1000 words of praise were omitted here).

Wechat successfully moved the cheese of mobile operators, making SMS step into the grave. This is equivalent to the emergence of telephone and fax to kill the telegraph. As for mobile QQ, it is still another story. It doesn't have much historical significance to think of yourself as an assistant of the desktop client.

Fifteen years ago, when we were friends, we used letters and a nice pen name to let a thin letter cross the river with thoughts.

10 years ago, we made friends and exchanged mobile phone numbers and names by SMS, so that 70 words with a score of 10 or 20 could convey hazy imagination.

Today, we use WeChat to make friends, take a QR code, send text, voice, photos and videos whatever we want, and the cost is almost negligible.

I think this is WeChat.