北京的一家 android 的app 公司,三个app, 每个app 都有 50m 的安装量。。这流量得赚死了
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As I’ve written about before, while the Chinese startup scene is sometimes criticized for producing copycats of Western businesses, there are emerging entrepreneurs building software products with global appeal.
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One of the startups with the largest reach is Go Launcher, a Beijing-based company making an Android homescreen that boasts 80 million monthly actives and three Android products with more than 50 million installs each.
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The company has taken three rounds of funding in the “tens of millions” from investors like IDG and WI Harper, although the company declined to specify how much it’s taken.+ ]3 W z* d+ `
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Xiangdong Zhang, one of the co-founders, help set up the company about a decade ago when it was a portal for the mobile web — a super basic WAP portal.
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“It was like Yahoo for the mobile Internet,” explains Shenxin Xu, a spokesperson for the company. He said that back in the mid-2000s, Go Launcher’s 3G portal product used to consume as much as one-third of the bandwidth for mobile Internet usage in China.
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But they later switched to an Android-centric strategy about three years ago, just as the platform was poised to take off in mainland China. It was obvious that a WAP strategy wasn’t going to be successful in the long run.
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So they launched a series of products including Go Launcher Ex, which lets customize their home screen with more than 10,000 themes and Go Locker, which lets Android users open apps directly from the lock screen or add more security protection with extra pins, patterns and gestures.0 Q, @- V1 n* C D4 ^
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