QQ and WeChat, which have been silent for a long time, have carried out a large-scale update in the past few years, and many people have commented that this update will determine the subsequent development fate of the two APPS, and the two software will embark on two completely different paths.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology came down, and Tencent sought to save itself
On November 24 last year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued an announcement to strengthen supervision of Tencent. Because of the irregularities in many of its apps, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued guidance requiring Tencent to release new apps in the future, or update the version of the original APP, it must be reviewed and approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology before it can be listed.
This policy is undoubtedly a major blow to Tencent, which means that Tencent can no longer do whatever it wants in the future, which is why many of Tencent's software have not changed much in the past two months. Its two ace applications, QQ and WeChat, have basically only fixed some system funnels and made some functional optimizations in the past two months.
However, just a few days later, WeChat and QQ carried out a big update, and many people commented that this time the two software have been updated with an epic update, which is likely to change the future development direction of the two APPS. Some people say that Tencent has made such a big update to QQ and WeChat, in fact, it is seeking self-help, if Tencent hopes to give the direction of development by the state, then it is likely that Tencent will eventually lose its initiative in the market.
QQ and WeChat will take a very different path
Many people have always believed that WeChat is a simple version of QQ, and both sides are mainly social software, which has a very high degree of overlap in many functions and settings. After the launch of WeChat, many people found that the number of QQ users dropped significantly, and the vast majority of them were attracted by WeChat, and many people laughed at Tencent and even grabbed their own business.
In fact, from this we can also see that netizens are puzzled, since the functions of the two software overlap so much, why does Tencent have to operate two projects at the same time, why not merge the two software, or concentrate on one project?
In fact, not only netizens are thinking about this problem, even Tencent has been looking for a solution over the years, Tencent does not need two software with the same function, which will only make itself into internal friction.
And this update, many people call it a fork in the road between the two APPS "parting ways". As can be seen from the size of the installation package, this time WeChat and QQ have made sufficient efforts to add a lot of new functions, which are likely to make QQ and WeChat two completely different app positioning.
WeChat wants to make a more trustworthy social APP
In the new version of the update, WeChat has added new features to ensure the security of user information. For example, "personal information and permissions" can clearly display which information and mobile phone permissions obtained by WeChat and third-party contracted software, and users can close these authorizations in time, so that WeChat and third-party software cannot obtain their personal information.
At the same time, this function can also help users block advertisements and micro-businesses, as well as official accounts, so that users can have a purer online social environment.
In addition to this, the new feature "Personal Information Collection List" clearly shows users which software applications have requested to view their personal information, and we can see the specific amount of information that has been requested and viewed in a certain period of time.
In addition, you can also see that the device is applied for various permissions, such as address book, camera, photo album, etc., the user can understand these problems for the first time, and make a series of responses, which can effectively prevent the user's information from being stolen.
QQ will be bound to the game
From the perspective of the size of the installation package, the size of QQ's installation package has reached 879MB, which has almost reached 1GB of memory, which is very rare in social software.
In addition to compared to other social software, in fact, compared with the previous version, QQ has also had a relatively large improvement, the size of the installation package of the previous version of QQ is only 527.9MB, you can see that the size of QQ after this version of the update has risen by nearly 1/3.
This time, the reason why QQ memory has risen so much is mainly because QQ has added an important "weapon", that is, "Unreal Engine 4". The Unreal Engine has long been considered the world's top game engine, and many of the world's top games are currently driven by this engine. A series of well-known masterpieces such as "Sword Spirit", "Devil May Cry 5", "PUBG", "Fortnite" and so on are all based on the Unreal Engine 4 to run smoothly.
Tencent's decision may be to make QQ closely bound to the games it develops, and with the help of Unreal 4, QQ will have better performance in terms of picture quality and third-party software operation.
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From this point of view, Tencent wants to make QQ a more comprehensive software, and WeChat will also be designed as a software with more concise functions and purer social attributes.
From a comprehensive point of view, QQ can be said to be better than WeChat, not only full of functions, but also more popular with young people. Many people predict that after this version update, QQ users may have a large number of returns, and may usher in the second spring.
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