Chapter 213 Mai Li X1, focusing on high-end, replicating classics!
night.
Mei Ya held an internal self-service cocktail party to welcome Gu Mingzhang and his party.
All the budding executives at home participated. Under the dazzling lights, the executives looked at Gu Mingzhang and others with a bit of scrutiny.
For nothing else.
In order to prepare for the establishment of Maili Technology, almost all the funds that had been raised in the past year were drained.
In addition to occupying a large amount of funds, Gu Mingzhang is also in charge of Maili Technology as the vice president of the group, clearly demonstrating the important position of Maili Technology in the budding subsidiaries.
Only Lu Kai had enjoyed this treatment before.
That is also because Jiaoyang Holdings, which Lu Kai also manages, also bears the name of the Overseas Business Department of the Sprout Group and is responsible for all the overseas business of the Sprout Group.
Maili Technology can be said to have set a precedent.
Cao Yanhua and others are naturally reluctant to question Zhang Shuo's decision-making, but they are also looking forward to seeing whether Gu Mingzhang's team can develop Maili Technology and whether it can be worthy of such a huge investment from the group.
otherwise.
There will definitely be a lot of gossip after that.
Compared with the caution of Cao Yanhua and others, Song Yun, Xue Tao and others had more complicated moods. At first, they agreed to Gu Mingzhang's invitation and chose to join Maili Technology.
Not for anything else, just because he trusts Gu Mingzhang.
They don't have a clear idea about Maili Technology itself, or even about the Germination Group.
It wasn't until Zhang Shuo's domineering speech at the signing ceremony that we finally established an initial impression of Zhang Shuo as the new boss, and then Zhang Shuo's heroic decision at the airport.
The truth is refreshing.
It wasn't until I got to know the senior executives of Bu Ya that I established a new impression of Bu Ya in my mind.
Absolutely exceeded expectations!
They thought that Meiya was unknown before, but after getting to know it a little more, they discovered that Meiya was indeed a giant in the Internet field.
I feel more and more confident.
After the reception ended, Gu Mingzhang's team returned to the hotel to rest. Since they had been living overseas all year round and had no place to stay in Binhai City, Sprout Group even rented a business apartment nearby.
It serves as a temporary staff dormitory for the Maili Technology team.
As the budding business continues to expand and attracts a large number of elite talents from overseas, this placement dilemma will continue to occur, so Zhang Shuo must start the youth apartment project as soon as possible.
Once the youth apartment project is completed, all problems will be solved.
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Friday, June 10th.
Although the outside world is still talking about it, this does not affect the pace of development of Sprout itself.
morning.
Zhang Shuo summoned Gu Mingzhang, Song Yun, and Xue Tao, three senior executives of Maili Technology, to discuss the matter.
Jiang Yue, senior vice president of the group, attended.
Maili Technology has set sail, but things are still complicated. In addition to the disposal of Nokia's patented technology, Maili Technology also needs to set a general tone internally.
For example, is the brand positioning of Maili mobile phones high-end or mid-to-low-end?
Or do you want them all?
Another example is the overall development plan for the MaiLi mobile phone. It is necessary to set a time node to ensure that the first MaiLi mobile phone is launched before the node arrives.
With the time node in mind, the R&D and design team can reverse the work plan.
In addition, there are a series of major issues such as Maili Technology’s organizational structure, working mechanism, overall KPI target setting, allocation of operating funds, follow-up personnel recruitment plan, etc.
All need to be resolved at this meeting.
If Maili Technology was a regular start-up company, then it would take three months to establish the above matters and complete the integration within the team, conservatively estimated.
Even longer.
Maili Technology is unusual and cannot wait that long.
Because it has fallen behind.
Fortunately, Maili Technology, or Germination Group, has a cheating leader like Zhang Shuo, who had already drawn up a clear development blueprint for Maili Technology before the meeting.
"This is the design plan of Maili X1. Take a look."
As soon as he came up, Zhang Shuo presented a mobile phone design plan that had been prepared for two months, which was very similar to when he provided the game planning plan to Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment.
Jiang Yue looked clear.
Having been with Zhang Shuo for a long time, she knew Zhang Shuo's magical powers. Whether it was Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment's games or Weixin, Zhang Shuo was a crucial planner.
Now.
Zhang Shuo applied this magical power to the mobile phone business.
Jiang Yue couldn't help but think of the dozens of books related to mobile phones on the bookshelf in Zhang Shuo's office, and wondered how much homework Zhang Shuo had done in private.
I couldn't help but feel ashamed.
Compared to her boss's tireless work, it's nothing if she, the senior vice president, is tired.
This was Jiang Yue's misunderstanding.
It is true that Zhang Shuo has been studying books related to mobile phones recently, but he is not really an expert in the field of mobile phones. He just corroborates these knowledge points with the memory of the original time and space.
Then come up with a set of "optimal path selection" plans.
Purpose.
It is to let Maili Technology rush towards the optimal solution from the beginning without making any detours.
Because I can't afford to delay.
Gu Mingzhang and the other three were stunned at first, and picked up the design books in front of them with strange expressions. No matter what they thought in their hearts, they were ready to read it carefully.
After all, it is the brainchild of the big boss.
Gu Mingzhang had even made up his mind that even if the design plan seemed outrageous, he would put forward revision suggestions in as tactful a way as possible so as not to embarrass his boss.
At the same time, he did not forget to wink at Song Yun and Xue Tao.
In fact.
Song Yun was already a little resistant at this time. He did not expect that the new boss was so domineering to the outside world and so strong internally that he would interfere in the specific work of Maili Technology so openly.
It is also the core and most professional field of mobile phone design.
What will happen next?
As a veteran in the mobile phone industry, Song Yun is very aware of the professionalism and complexity of the design of a new mobile phone, especially a smartphone.
It is simply beyond the imagination of a layman.
Therefore, I don’t think that the so-called design plan proposed by Zhang Shuo has any highlights.
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For the first time, Song Yun's confidence in Maili Technology was shaken. If it weren't for Gu Mingzhang's wink, as a technician with such an upright attitude, he would have been embarrassed on the spot.
Xue Tao looked calm.
Obviously a little more smooth than Song Yun.
The conference room became quiet again, leaving only the sound of turning pages.
Zhang Shuo just sat quietly at the top, observing with interest the subtle changes in the expressions of Gu Mingzhang and the others. With the gift of insight, how could Song Yun's little expression be hidden from his eyes?
There is no dissatisfaction in my heart.
Because this is human nature, it was a good opportunity to observe the nature of the three people.
Among the three, Song Yun's expression changes are the most exciting.
At first he was dissatisfied, with a hint of disdain. After flipping through a few pages of the design book, he became obviously serious again, and then frowned, as if he was troubled by something.
This is normal.
The Maili X1 design plan given by Zhang Shuo can be said to combine the advantages of many hot-selling mobile phones in the next two to three years. To sum it up in one sentence -
"Focus on high-end, re-engraving classics!"
The first is the appearance design, which is based on the classic appearance of the Fruit 6 in later generations. The outer casing is made of aluminum alloy instead of the current mainstream plastic material.
This one change alone can greatly enhance the high-end feel of X1.
The screen uses a glass front panel.
Zhang Shuo would like to use a sapphire glass screen that is completely scratch-free, but that is not possible now either.
The overall size parameters of the X1 are set to 138.1 mm in height, 67.0 mm in width, and 7.2 mm in thickness. Except for the slightly thicker thickness, the height and width are exactly the same as the fruit 6.
The reason why the requirements for the thickness of mobile phones are relaxed is also due to the current level of craftsmanship.
The display is 4.7 inches, and other parameters such as screen resolution, front and rear camera pixels, processor, battery capacity, memory and other parameters are as close as possible to the Samsung Galaxy S3.
The operating system is of course MALI developed based on the Android system.
With the current R&D level of Maili Technology, it is impossible to develop an operating system from scratch that is independent of the two mainstream camps of Android and IOS.
This is something that even Nokia and Microsoft have failed to accomplish.
Even if we want to develop an independent operating system to avoid being controlled by others in the future, it will be three to five years or even longer.
The most important thing for Maili Technology is to come up with a flagship product with a stunning design but mediocre technology within one year.
Let’s compete with Fruit 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, etc. which will be released next year.
First-class technology and first-class design can certainly produce first-class products; second-rate technology and first-class design can also produce first-class products.
Apple's success, stunning design definitely accounts for a large part of the credit.
There is definitely a big gap between Sprout and Fruit and Samsung in terms of technology research and development and technical reserves. So we can only use Zhang Shuo's rebirth advantage to make up for the technical shortcomings with stunning designs.
Among the Fruit series, Fruit 4 and Fruit 6 are recognized as the two most classic models. Apple’s subsequent models are basically fine-tuned on the basis of Fruit 6.
The classic shape of Fruit 6 has dominated the market for four or five years.
As for Fruit 5 released next year, including the follow-up Fruit 5S, although the sales are not bad, it is a semi-failed product, and even criticized by Apple fans as the work of a gangster.
One of the main reasons is that Apple insists on small screen design.
In 2012, when 4.7 inches has become the mainstream, in order to adhere to the so-called one-handed operation, the screen of Fruit 5 is only 4 inches, and the appearance is not much different from that of Fruit 4.
Naturally, it is difficult to convince consumers.
It wasn't until the birth of Fruit 6 that Apple put aside its arrogance and began to embrace the big screen.
"How about it?"
After the three of them had finished reading, Zhang Shuo asked with a smile.
“Amazing!”
Gu Mingzhang's eyes were so full of energy that it was difficult to find other adjectives.
“What a genius idea!”
Song Yun, who had been a little arrogant before, was completely on his knees now.