389. Don’t be anxious first

After the meeting, Cao Yang left Liu Qiang who had rushed from Wuhan alone.

"What? Do we really want to do Lenovo?" Liu Qiang heard this content in the plan at the meeting, and he still couldn't believe it.

"We have money now, why don't we do it?" Cao Yang laughed.

According to his idea, it didn't matter if the profit was thin at the beginning. He could even use Bomi's current advantages to fight a money-burning war with Lenovo.

As long as the price is suppressed and technological breakthroughs are continuously made with time, the cost will naturally decrease.

Therefore, Cao Yang's philosophy is different from that of many capitalists. Others like to pursue high profits. Cao Yang is thinking about how to occupy the market with high cost performance.

Especially when Lenovo, Shenzhou, and many foreign laptops exist, if you want to find a breakthrough and make a way out, you must use extraordinary means.

It is also very simple to make a notebook, with only one indicator -

Play games.

That is to make a cost-effective gaming laptop.

There are places where PC games cannot be replaced by mobile phones.

Even by 2021, many PC games on Steam will be very popular.

In addition to playing games, computers actually have no high performance requirements, unless you are in a special industry, such as in film and television special effects production, or majoring in finance or mathematics, you need to use big data modeling, which has high performance requirements.

However, in this case, there is actually no need to buy a laptop. The advantage of the laptop is its lightness and easy to carry.

It can be used to pretend to be a slut.

...

After listening to Cao Yang's explanation, Liu Qiang was still a little confused.

Boss Cao has changed so quickly. A few months ago, he swears that he would not do Lenovo, but now he is going to do someone else again.

Cao Yang could only helplessly express that one time and another time.

Bomi Company didn't have that much money back then. Now that the IPO has been completed, Bomi Company can be said to be rich and powerful, and he will hit whoever he wants.

Why don't you fight quickly?

"With our industrial design level, we can definitely design this Bomi laptop to be beautiful." Cao Yang said confidently.

Not to mention how many future laptop designs Cao Yang has seen as a rebirth, and his own powerful artistic skills, putting aside the performance, it will definitely beat all the personal laptops on the market in terms of appearance.

"What about the operating system?" Liu Qiang asked with a frown.

He didn't have time to care about hardware issues. Based on his experience in developing smartphones, making personal laptops is nothing more than finding relevant supply chains and assembling parts according to templates designed by himself.

Since the boss said that he could design the mold, there must be no problem.

Judging from Boss Cao's idea of ​​designing a smartphone, Liu Qiang fully believes that the laptop mold designed by Cao Yang will definitely be very beautiful.

The most important thing now is to determine two things-

The first is the operating system.

The second is CPU.

These two things determine the question of how to make notebooks in the future.

Especially the operating system, it is particularly important for a company that wants to produce its own brand.

Without the Hongmeng operating system ahead, Liu Qiang would not have asked this question, but just using Windows, but now that Bomi Company has the Hongmeng system, the meaning is different.

"Of course we use our Hongmeng operating system," Cao Yang said, "Has I said it before? Hongmeng System 2.0, I hope to make an operating system with wider applicability and can be used on mobile phones, tablets and computers."

Liu Qiang's mouth twitched twice.

Didn't you say that computers were good at that time?

Huawei's Hongmeng system in the previous life was for the future Internet of Things services. She hoped to use an operating system to take into account most of the devices on the market. Cao Yang's idea was similar.

Many of Huawei's technologies are actually developed in parallel. For example, when they were studying 5G, 6G was already on the agenda, and there is actually no conflict between them.

For Cao Yang, there is no conflict between the simultaneous development of laptops and Bomi PAD and the next generation of mobile phone products.

Many products are developed in parallel, but when to go public is a commercial consideration.

"Of course," Cao Yang smiled, "In order to win the favor of our laptops from a wide range of consumers, we still need to be compatible with Windows."

This is also impossible. Who made Windows users occupy the vast majority?

Microsoft has been operating the market for so many years, and many users have developed a habit. Now it will definitely feel very awkward to change the operating system. This is why Huawei has clearly developed the Hongmeng system in her previous life, but it still needs to be compatible with Android.

"Okay." Liu Qiang nodded, feeling that it seems that it is not impossible, "It's just that time may be a bit lagging. I expect that if Hongmeng 2.0 wants to develop and meet the requirements, it will take at least about 5 years."

"Uh..." Cao Yang felt a little ashamed.

It's different from what he imagined.

However, this is also a very reasonable thing. The development of Hongmeng 2.0 is much more difficult, and it is really difficult to deal with it without three to five years.

Now smartphones are also being carried out simultaneously. Before Hongmeng 2.0 can be put into use, Bomi smartphones are iterating on the basis of Hongmeng 1.0.

But if the laptop has to wait for so long, the daylily will be cold.

This ultimate move cannot be afforded, and the cost performance is too low.

"Simultaneous development." Cao Yang said, "While you are studying Hongmeng 2.0, we will make laptops simultaneously. The first generation of Bomi laptops can use windows without our own operating system."

Liu Qiang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Boss Cao's words.

In this way, the entire notebook business will be much easier to develop.

Since you use other people's operating systems, all spare parts can be used by others, which is similar to Lenovo now. It mainly completes the design work and even has a special OEM factory for assembly.

Then the core issue of Bomi Company is mold design.

That is, if the appearance is well designed, it will have Bomi's own advantages.

According to Cao Yang's own ideas, this process is expected to take only half a year, and it may not be possible to even half a year.

Others may start from scratch when they want to design new computer shapes. Cao Yang’s designs are copied from the future. Apart from the detailed design of the notebook, there is no other problem.

So this process will be greatly shortened.

After discussing for a while, the big framework could be basically determined. After that, Liu Qiang will find someone to form a personal laptop R&D department. It just so happens that Bomi PAD is also in the R&D stage, so there is not much more.

...

"By the way, how is the development of Micron mobile phones now?" Cao Yang asked.

In theory, Micro-Mi mobile phones and Bomi mobile phones use the same operating system, with the same design and assembly. As long as the supply chain can supply, it should be produced very quickly. Half a year has passed, so why is there no trace yet?

"I happened to bring a prototype here this time. Mr. Cao, please give it a try."

Liu Qiang took out a microphone from his pocket and handed it to Cao Yang.

In order to prevent the appearance of the two mobile phones from being too similar, many retailers will make fraud in the future and use Microphones as Bomi mobile phones for sale, so Cao Yang made certain requirements on the appearance. In addition to his own logo, he also needs to distinguish between color and shape.

It’s not like I have to do it in the wrong way, but it should be based on the same beautiful appearance design adopted by Bomi’s template.

Cao Yang held it in his hand and tried the weight and feel, and it felt pretty good.

At least the appearance structure is passed.

The boot time was a little longer, and then Cao Yang tried the game for half an hour and felt that the phone was a little hot, and the performance also decreased a lot. He also encountered many bugs and lags in the middle.

Cao Yang couldn't help but frown.

"From the current functionality, it's not possible." Boss Cao said directly, without any intention of being a false and slander.

This is the style of Bomi Company doing things, it is serious and pragmatic, and there are many fewer twists and turns.

Liu Qiang also felt a little embarrassed, "After all, there is still a big gap between the domestic supply chain and the top supply chain. The total cost of this Microphone is only less than 500 yuan, and the materials used are relatively cheap. The technology of the domestic supply chain is not mature enough, so it is already quite good to be able to do this level."

"No." Cao Yang shook his head, "We still have to have high requirements. The main reason is that using the current product is equivalent to destroying our reputation, and at the same time, it also destroys the reputation of the domestic supply chain. Who dares to buy a smartphone developed by the domestic supply chain in the future?"

Um……

Liu Qiang lowered his head and said nothing.

"You can emphasize to them," Cao Yang said seriously. "Even if we delay it for another year, we must do the function well and give a specific requirement. At least you have to let me play the Thunder fighter smoothly for more than an hour."

Well……

Liu Qiang felt so distressed. It’s already quite amazing to be able to play Thunder fighter smoothly for more than half an hour.

However, he felt that Cao Yang was right. It was very important when this phone was first released. The impression it gave at the beginning determined its future. If the micro-phone that appeared first gave people a feeling of being cheap but not good. It not only ruined Bomi's own signature, but also deteriorated the relevant domestic supply chain.

In fact, for mobile phones, the two most important technologies are the operating system and the other is the chip.

Both of these problems have been overcome by Bomi themselves. Even for Micron mobile phones, the chips used are Hongmeng chips produced by SMIC. There is no difference from Bomi mobile phones in this regard. The remaining part does not have that high technical requirements.

So it should be possible to polish for a while.

Thinking of this, Liu Qiang felt relieved and said with a smile, "Okay boss, I will go back and hold more meetings with these suppliers and ask for more requirements, and there will definitely be no problem."

"Yeah." Cao Yang handed the phone back to Liu Qiang and said happily, "Come on, we will definitely be able to do it well. This microphone phone will open up the market for us. After the emergence of microphone phones, the real era of smartphones will arrive."

The price of Bomi smartphones is actually a bit high. It can only be said that it has occupied the mid-to-high-end market, but it seems a bit overwhelming in the low-end market. There are still many mobile phones in China that charge phone bills, and most machines worth about 1,000 yuan. These mobile devices are the big part of the market.
To be continued...