But now, on the one hand, the efforts to crack down on pirated resources are increasing, the quantity and demand of gray resources are decreasing, and the demand for downloading software is also declining sharply. Secondly, because of the improvement of network speed, there is almost no need to download software to download files, materials and movies. Moreover, most cloud disks with resources have their own acceleration function, and the software market like Thunder is also decreasing. Let's not talk about the internal reasons of Thunder. I don't know.
However, it does not mean that Thunder has been eliminated. Now it seems that Thunder has done a good job in finding a third party to cooperate in selling technology. Seeing that many download functions of mobile phones, browsers and apps are supported by Thunder technology, it shows that Thunder technology is still useful, but it failed to build its own platform in time in the era of mobile Internet. I heard that Thunder is making coins now. I don't know what the situation is.
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What files did you download with Thunder?
I have been a member for ten years, from ordinary members to platinum members to diamond members and now to svip. Every time, I charge for one year, and it is two numbers. But my big membership will expire on the 24th of this month and I don't want to renew it. There is only one reason. I am proud that offline download and high-speed access are sensitive resources, and my 300-meter optical fiber can reach full speed without members, which is really meaningless. Now, Thunderbird can be used. With Thunderbird, the network speed can reach 500M, but the speed is too fast, which is not good for the hard disk ... My mechanical hard disk is broken because of Thunderbird download, but I will charge Baidu svip an annual fee, and at least I can have a 5T network disk to store things.
If a company declines, there may be various reasons. Finally, the biggest reason is the boss, and so is Thunder!
Because the founder is too obsessed with technology, he ignores marketing, public relations and communication. In the era of mobile Internet, including Ma and Lei Jun, who have always been low-key, all stood up to speak for the company because of the company's business needs, and used social media such as Weibo to speak, but they have never seen Zou Shenglong Cheng, the boss of Thunder, speak for their products. Hao Cheng also wrote some thoughts after leaving office. In fact, whether it is video, browser or software store, it is not a high-tech threshold, but more about market, public relations and communication. A series of combination punches can make a great company.
If one word is used to describe the founder, Zou Shenglong, the founder of Thunder, is unanimously evaluated as "critical". It is understandable for startups to save money, but when they need to let go and make full progress, they must invest decisively. It's a pity that Zou Shenglong has never done this. Whether it's video, browser, software store, mobile Internet, etc. The cash on Thunder's books was once much higher than the market value. In order to get tickets for the mobile Internet, Ma Hua Teng went all out to develop WeChat, even at the expense of the company's core QQ business, and eventually became the biggest winner of the mobile Internet.
There's a saying inside Thunder that if Boss Zou is eyeing any product, he will definitely hang up and rot. In the history of Thunder, there are several landmark versions, such as Thunder 6, but the end users did not upgrade this version because Thunder 6 was not released at all. And this version was developed under the personal care of boss Zou, and finally went away. This statement has been verified in the communication between many on-the-job and resigned people.
Thunder, once a popular star software, is a young memory of many people. The blue hummingbird, the fastest bird in the world, represents the fastest download software, but it is rarely mentioned now. Why?
Acceleration of network speed? The rise of video websites such as iQiyi, Tencent and Youku? Baidu Network Disk Competition? Or is there really a problem inside the company?
Let's walk into the thunder and have a look. Thunder, which used to be very popular, why is it not so popular now?
The development history of national software Thunder Zou Shenglong and Hao Cheng started to create Thunder in Silicon Valley after graduating from Duke University in 2002. At the end of June, 2003, 65438+ 10, they returned to China and formally established Shenzhen Third Generation Technology Development Co., Ltd., referred to as "Third Generation Technology".
In 2004, the company launched its first product "Thunder", and at the same time obtained the venture capital of IDG VC. Thunder has the most basic development capital.
In 2004, the total number of Internet users in China was about 87 million. The internet has just started and its speed is very low. Netizens urgently need a download tool, and "Thunder" happened to be born. The appearance of thunder has solved many problems such as unstable speed, poor ability to continue transmission at breakpoints, ugly interface and so on. Most importantly, Thunder is free.
In May, 2005, it was officially renamed as Shenzhen thunder network Technology Co., Ltd., referred to as "Thunder".
In 2006, users of Thunder broke through 1 100 million, becoming the second largest software after QQ, and winning the title of "Future Star" of China Enterprise, which is an outstanding representative enterprise of the most innovative and growing enterprise of the year. Thunder began to develop rapidly!
After the release of Thunder 5, it once became a universal application. At that time, there was really no other product to replace it. However, this P2P download mode has also brought many negative effects. For example, opening Thunder in the local area network will take up a lot of bandwidth of others, and copyright and pornographic content cannot be eradicated today.
In 2007, Thunder completed the third financing and introduced Ceyuan Venture Capital, Morningside Venture Capital and Google. In addition to huge financial support, it also brought industry resources and international markets.
20 1 1 year is the best time for Thunder. It provides tens of millions of downloads in dozens of countries every day, and cooperates with leading companies such as Shanda, Sina, Jinshan, etc., and China's download market share reaches 78%. Thunder has become synonymous with high-speed download, which may be the highest time for Thunder!
On June 24, 20 14, it was a very happy thing to be listed on Nasdaq, but for Thunder at this time, it was not so happy, because Thunder encountered a bottleneck in development and was in urgent need of transformation. Thunder cut off the search business and tried e-commerce, games, video and other industries, all of which failed.
With the rapid development of the times and technology, coupled with several changes in Thunder, Thunder has gradually been forgotten!
With the rise of network disk, BAT and Thunder began to compete in an all-round way on 20 12. Thunder is still very strong, but there are competitors in the market, that is, network disk tools.
Network disk is a kind of information data storage space, and users can log on to Internet-based websites to upload, download and enjoy information data. Also known as: network disk, cyberspace, network USB flash drive, network USB flash drive and so on.
At the beginning, the 360 network disk was dominant, which was convenient and easy to use, and the download speed was fast, and it could be downloaded without the client. Many pirated movies and lossless music can be downloaded from 1 15.
At that time, the capacity provided by the network disk was not high, that is, the level of MB or GB, so everyone still needed storage tools such as U disk and mobile hard disk.
With the rapid development of big data and cloud computing, the field of network disk is also changing with each passing day. At present, Baidu has the largest number of network disk users. During the investigation, Speedway Research Institute found that as long as users enter the keyword "network disk" in Baidu search engine, the top search result is Baidu network disk. Baidu has mastered the advantages of search portal and channel, and has a slight advantage over other network disk companies in terms of the number of users. At present, the number of its users is about 80 million, and with the passage of time, the number of users will definitely exceed 1 100 million.
The offline download of Baidu's network disk is equivalent to a BT software, but because Baidu's network disk is large, many people upload files to Baidu's network disk, and Baidu has access to these files, so when you download BT from Baidu's network disk, Baidu's network disk will first find out whether the resource files you downloaded are in Baidu's network disk server (uploaded or downloaded offline by other users). If there is, then establish a soft connection with your network disk (only one file is stored in the server, but how many people have saved it, which is why Baidu network disk provides several TB capacity), giving you a feeling of fast download speed.
However, Thunder actually sucks blood openly, uploads files secretly, and takes up bandwidth. Thunder doesn't provide much space. There must be a client for downloading, resulting in fewer and fewer users of Thunder.
With the advent of the mobile Internet era, the network speed has greatly increased. With the advent of the mobile Internet era, people spend most of their time playing with mobile phones and tablets, and PCs have gradually been left out in the cold and become office tools. Thunder relying on PC is rarely used.
Mobile Internet is a new way of life, with more online users. The way has changed, the tool has changed from PC to mobile phone, and many users no longer use Thunder. At this time, Thunder should have found ways and means to adapt to this trend, but Thunder did not do it well.
With the rise of video apps such as iQiyi, Tencent and Youku, many resources can be watched directly on mobile phones, and this app supports downloading, leaving less and less soil for Thunder. When Huawei, Xiaomi, OV and other mobile phone manufacturers have their own application stores, Tencent, Baidu and 360 have entered one after another, and Thunder is hard to survive.
Relying on the download technology of Thunder, life is getting more and more sad.
Thunder download technology mainly includes: multi-thread download, P2S download, P2P download, high-speed CDN download and DCN acceleration.
The above are several principles of lightning acceleration. Users can get much higher speed than the original download, which is thunder download. These methods are still very practical in the era of underdeveloped networks.
Now that the network speed has been upgraded, it is very fast to download many resources directly from the browser. For example, IE is multi-threaded download, and in many cases the download speed is faster than Thunder.
With the listing of Thunder, many downloaded contents have been standardized and managed, and formal resources can be watched on both iQiyi and Tencent videos, and can be watched directly. Why should I download it?
The infighting of Thunder led to the stagnation of Thunder. After the listing of Thunder, a series of problems appeared inside the company.
20 16 1, co-founder Hao Cheng announced his resignation and retained his position as a director;
2065438+June 2007, founder Zou Shenglong stepped down as CEO and remained as chairman. Chen Lei, CEO of Netcore Technology, a subsidiary, took over as CEO.
2065438+In September 2007, CFO Wu Tao resigned;
20 17 1 1, Vice Chairman Yu Fei was removed from all posts.
20 17 12, Zou Shenglong stepped down as chairman and was replaced by Wang Chuan.
The departure of the founder has a great impact on the company, and Thunder is no exception.
On June 8, 2020, 65438+1October 8, 2020, the announcement about "the former CEO was accused of embezzlement" was hotly searched. According to informed sources, "Chen Lei recruited a group of fellow villagers and girlfriends from Hegang, Heilongjiang Province through Dong Wei, a former senior vice president, and placed them in key positions of the company. He obtained company funds through illegal means such as fictitious trading links and false contracts, involving a huge amount."
101On the evening of 9 October, Chen Lei responded that there was something hidden behind Thunder's accusation. For a time, the two sides were tit for tat and held their own words.
Let's not talk about Chen Lei's career, but only a few columns, such as the resignation of executives, the resignation of founders, and the accusation of CEO, which are enough to illustrate the internal chaos of Thunder. Can such a company develop well? Can the company's products continue to burn like this? The answer is "no".
Q&A Summary Thunder, which used to be very popular, is really not popular now, which is nothing more than these reasons:
I am a scientific and technological man. That's my answer. I hope I can help you. If there is anything wrong, please criticize and correct me!
If you don't do it, you won't die. For money and members, the download speed is artificially set. Non-members can download it at 1M, so I have to get you a download with a speed limit of1k. Who will play with you after a long time? Moreover, the bandwidth is not the same as before, and ordinary multithreading is enough to meet the needs of the public. Who is P2P?
In addition, members are not allowed, which is even more pit!
I feel the same way about it. I don't know about Xunlei Company, so I don't comment. I'm just saying how users feel!
My network is 100MB Telecom. I need to download some ultra-clear Marvel comic films of 1080 before going to bed last night. Six resources have been found and put in the thunderbolt. I bought svip of Thunder, 30 yuan a month. At first, it shows super acceleration opening. I thought it was good at first sight, but I didn't expect it to be 0B/ in less than three minutes. I thought it might be a temporary situation, and then I went to bed. As a result, I didn't download a movie when I got up the next morning, but it was 0B/S. After scolding Thunder, I bought another month's svip and 27 yuan on Baidu's network disk the night before yesterday, and they were still these six resources. I added two more, put down the download and went to bed. I saw eight movies downloaded successfully yesterday morning.
Every movie I download is around 15G. This is not a soft promotion. This is my personal experience. A lie, I was hit by a car when I went out!
Part of it is the internal reason of Thunder, and part of it is the reason of the development of the times.
The popularity of thunder comes from the time when broadband systems were just popularized. At that time, the bandwidth of home network was not as good as it is now, especially in the early days when people began to explore the Internet, the demand for downloading was very strong, so downloading software was also the most enthusiastic product of Internet companies. Thunder has won the recognition of more and more users for its good software interactive operation and stable performance.
The decline of Thunder began with the rise of the mobile Internet, because the fragmentation time of a large number of users was taken away by mobile phones and tablets. In these mobile device systems, people's demand for downloading is almost zero, which directly leads to a sharp decline in the activity of Thunder users on the PC side.
The reason for the team is that it has not kept pace with the times in time. When other manufacturers began to switch to network disk technology, the pace of Thunder seemed to be much slower, and then it fell behind. Many engineers left Thunder, started businesses, and jumped ship. Internal contraction made Thunder gradually lose its previous light.
Now almost all the bandwidth in the home is optical fiber. With this kind of high bandwidth support, we can download things directly at high speed without the support of any download software. The same is true for the mobile Internet. You can understand it as: people no longer need it, or it no longer needs people.
So it's not hot!
I have always been a member, but not anymore. Once ranked high, there are many reasons to abandon the pit now, but I will only say three.
1 external reasons Baidu cloud disk has gone up. There is no Baidu cloud now, and nothing can be downloaded. How about Baidu cloud, but there is no Baidu cloud?
For external and internal reasons, cancel offline download and seed online. This is the requirement of the network, and everyone knows what it has stopped. However, without these functions, why should I buy a member?
3 helpless reasons, downloading software is actually useless, what is the environment in which downloading software appears? At that time, I dialed the Internet and almost dared not download the software of 100m. It has tens of megabytes. Well, I used to download software, because I could download it at full speed and there were breakpoints. Now it takes me about 15 minutes to download it with my browser. Besides some resources, I have to use software, so Thunder has little influence.
In the past, Thunder was really popular, and its installed capacity was second only to QQ, which attracted the attention of national leaders. In 2006, Thunder was voted as "Top Ten Brands of Internet User Satisfaction in China" by referendum, and was personally inspected by Minister Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and Premier the State Council. Such a good development foundation should have grown to the order of Tencent long ago, but Thunder seems to be still standing still, Thunder is still the original Thunder, and the software is still the original one, but now there are more live girls posing.
When it comes to hard work, Thunder is definitely the leader of the Internet. 20 1 1 is the application store, 20 13 is the mobile search, 20 14 is the * * * calculation, 20 15 is the live broadcast, and 20 16. Over the years, thunder seems to have broken into a maze. Not only did it not find the peerless treasure, but it couldn't get out at all. What's even more exasperating is that the sound of "downloading tools" always revolves around thunder, just like a nightmare, and it can't be avoided.
Generally speaking, because Thunder has done too many things in recent years, the focus of Thunder is seriously scattered and the focus is not focused enough. They don't understand these businesses themselves, let alone users. This can be seen on the homepage of the software, and the user experience is very poor!
In the past, users looked at Thunder like this. Now, users look at Thunder like this.
Lost for many years, Thunder wandered around, not only failed to find new growth points, but led to the continuous deterioration of user public opinion.
In 20 13, an employee of thunder evaded the normal process of the company, instructed technicians privately, used the resources of subsidiaries without authorization and made plug-ins with the characteristics of rogue behavior by using the digital signature of thunder, which attracted more than 28 million users. It is certain that Thunder lost a large number of users at that time. From 20 16, Thunder was exposed to quietly give users a "speed limit" and force users to buy VIP members. Although Thunder is unwilling to admit it so far, the loss of users is definitely not small.
In the past, perhaps in China, there was only one Thunder family, and it was not easy for the public to find other substitutes. However, many rules do not apply to the public. Advertisements are flying all over the sky, and money is not given until it is full, and even many resources are blocked by them.
But it's different now. Many download tools come from the community. The appearance of open source software Aria2 in the public view has broken this pattern. Aria2 is a multi-platform lightweight command-line download tool, which supports many protocols and sources, such as HTTP, FTP and BitTorrent. But for ordinary users, it is still difficult to get started because of the command line operation. Fortunately, however, there are many open source projects based on Aria2 in Github, many of which are user-friendly.
Perhaps for most users, IDM (Internet Download Manager) will be a good choice, with clear interface and considerable download speed. Unfortunately, IDM does not support BT protocol, but only supports HTTP and FTP, which is a fly in the ointment, but generally speaking, IDM will be a very good choice.
In addition, EagleGet is highly recommended, which not only has a fast download speed, but also has a very powerful resource sniffing function. You can try it if you are interested.
Linux users are too powerful, I just want wget, haha!