Next to the indoor golf practice track between the two pillars in front of the office window, Wen Liang and Li Ze each picked up a club and pushed the golf ball back and forth.
It's also cloudy today.
As soon as afternoon arrives, it feels like the whole day is over.
Wen Liang gently pushed the ball into the hole, leaned on the golf club and looked out the window, and asked casually: "What competing companies are expected to get involved."
Li Ze shook his head: "It's hard to say, but Xiao Gaoliang will definitely be more intense. After all, his family comes from a fever, and we are the ones who blame him."
Wen Liang smiled: "Actually, I didn't expect you to catch little Sorghum Gan."
Li Ze put the club aside and replied: "There is no way, his company is the most popular in the domestic market, but his model has the least core moat, even if I think their model is suitable for market competition and will not collapse.
, but it’s easy to do without the core.”
"OV and OV are mainly offline, but not very popular online. Yu Dadong of Juchang is quite knowledgeable about online marketing, but he really doesn't have any good mobile phone products right now."
At this point, Li Zelue paused: "I suspect that the biggest follower of the public opinion mentioned by Manager Xin is Yu Dadong. If nothing else, Yu Dadong will definitely come to the fore this time!"
Li Ze was very sure.
The last time the mobile game market was booming, everything was normal. The unexpected factor was the demise of Boss Lei, followed by Yu Dadong almost immediately after him. This did not escape Li Ze's attention.
After saying this, Li Ze added: "I would like to touch Apple, but I am afraid that it will break if I touch it at this stage."
"As for Samsung, they don't actually have much value. Just targeted flashing is enough. Once the optimization is good, they will just spend money and take away S3 users!"
After listening to what Li Ze said, Wen Liang praised: "It's very thorough and the arrangements are orderly. It's awesome."
Hearing this, Li Ze smiled and did not take Wen Liang's praise seriously. He just said: "I am confident about online competition. After all, the competition for so long has not been in vain, but this time it is essentially one of the three major systems."
To compete, it still depends on whether our development team is strong enough."
Wen Liang deeply agreed: "That is natural, and it is also our focus, so I have approved an additional R&D expenditure of 60 million yuan for the system development department within this year. This is pure development consumption, without counting wages and other investments."
Li Ze was stunned for a moment: "60 million? Continue to spend a total of 90 million? How can we spend all this money?"
Wen Liang said bluntly: "You are actually in charge of Bolang Laboratory now. What I mean is very simple. I will give you enough money. It doesn't matter whether you spend it all, but I want to see the results!"
Li Ze quickly asked: "What about ecological expenditures including application ecology?"
"Expenditure 100 million this year."
"You have made up your mind to pay the 500 million tuition fee first, right?"
"That's understandable."
"Why."
"Time waits for no one, and you have to spend money to burn it. Even if it is just a game phone, you can't really only support the games of the Bolang family. Necessary software is indispensable."
"All right."
After a pause, Li Ze considered and said: "Actually, I'm not very curious about the intensity of burning money. What I'm curious about is, why not focus on promoting the self-developed system from the beginning?"
Hearing this question, Wen Liang looked back at Li Ze and sighed: "Because if the self-research is really made public, Bolang will probably not be able to withstand the pressure from all parties now."
“The Chinese people’s desire for self-developed systems is unimaginable, but this is by no means the desire of manufacturers, nor is it the desire of hundreds of application distribution channel companies, nor is it the desire of all levels now;
With the current level of availability of the Star System, once self-research is made public, people's enthusiasm and pressure from all parties will directly destroy the system, because we have no hardware carrier, no established brand, and no user effect, which is rootless."
Of course Li Ze understood, but he was even more confused: "We can also open source. With your ability, it won't be a big problem to coordinate and form an alliance of domestic mobile phone manufacturers."
“And it’s easy to build an application ecosystem this way. After all, domestic mobile app developers already need to repackage for different distribution channels. Suddenly, it’s not much more than an additional star. It’s just an application review, and the same is true for the iOS version.
difference."
Wen Liang said casually: "That would just create a new uncontrolled 'Android'. What I want is true independent and controllable development."
"I hope everyone will treat Xingchen as an Android game and UI. Only when it forms an ecological scale in the future can it be unstoppable! Including some people who are very wary of the East."
"Also, I think the triangle is more stable."
Li Ze finally understood: "It turns out that your eyes are overseas. No wonder you want to promote range. No wonder the system kernel business is so confidential. Lao Zhang's laboratory and some school leaders almost collapsed because of you."
Wen Liang smiled, sighed again, and said, "Standards are rules. There is no choice at this stage."
Li Ze was silent.
He fully understood what Wen Liang meant.
Rule is an easy-to-understand word.
If Bolang was developing a PC system now, no one would care, because the big ecosystem formed by the wintel alliance between Microsoft and Intel has been unbreakable for many years.
Even Apple's macOS can't be plugged in.
But now Bolang is developing a mobile phone system, and the smartphone application market is still in its infancy, and applications are uneven. The emergence of a domestic system at this time is equivalent to another standardization.
Calibration is the rule.
This is something overseas countries cannot sit back and watch.
At first Wen Liang didn't think it was a big deal.
But then he thought about it carefully, why has no other country in the world developed a system that is widely used?
Has no one thought about it?
Of course, even Linux, because Linus is Finnish, but the Linux Foundation is in America.
The answer suddenly became clear.
So, again, when others doubt you have something, you'd better be confident.
Interestingly, self-developed systems are also alien to the current domestic mobile phone market and are intolerable.
Because as long as the news is made public, a large number of netizens will spontaneously, fiercely, and force every manufacturer to use the Star System.
They will be extremely opposed to all mobile phone manufacturers that do not carry the Star system.
As a result, public opinion and the market will demand that the Star System do better, put it on the altar, and then destroy it.
However, in fact, no mobile phone manufacturer will be willing to use the Xingchen system unless Bolang does not make mobile phones.
If Bolang doesn't make mobile phones, Star System will become another Android, and its competitors will be Google and America behind it.
In the end, the best result is controlled development, which eventually slowly consumes all the vitality.
This is back to square one.
Therefore, Wen Liang's plan is to develop as much as possible in the early stage, and then slowly transition to the launch of mobile phones, and then to build scale and create established facts. At that time, no matter who is afraid of whom.
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Just as Li Ze had determined, the fifth hour of the official launch of the Star System was around 3:40 that afternoon.
Yu Dadong came to the end with the newly developed Emotion UI1.4 version by Juchang.
What’s interesting is that this time Yu Dadong was chosen to speak on the already sluggish Weibo.
Yu Dadong first posted a long Weibo:
“Since taking charge of the consumer business, we have made several major adjustments:
1. Transform from ODM white-label operator customization to private brand.
2. Upgrading from low-end to mid-to-high-end smart terminals.
3. Give up ultra-low-end feature phones that sell a lot but are not profitable.
4. Enable HiSilicon quad-core processor and Balong chip.
5. Start the road to e-commerce.
6. Start user experience Emotion UI design.
7. Determine the goal of being No. 1 in the hardware world!”①
Then came the second Weibo post: "MIUI is doing very well, and the Star System released for the first time today is also doing well, but our Emotion UI is even better!
Our new Emotion UI1.4 is simple and easy to use, and also hides powerful features for enthusiasts, improving consumers' emotional experience!
Including voice control, scene mode, etc., as well as power saving and comprehensive fluency!
We will strive to do better in the future!”
At this time, Yu Dadong posted a blog, which naturally attracted a lot of attention.
In the office, Wen Liang also noticed the public sentiment immediately and murmured with a smile: "Sure enough, they are catching the little sorghum and harvesting it."
I flipped through Yu Dadong's Weibo updates and was a little surprised.
He did not expect that during this period, Yu Dadong was just a bit loud-mouthed, and his blogging was actually quite tactful. His historical Weibo updates were quite favorable to Xiao Gaoliang.
I think that my own company and Xiaosorghum are too far behind e-commerce operations, etc.
He even posted a special post on Weibo for netizens to criticize him for being unpatriotic when he went to Xiaori to purchase parts.
It means that competition and cooperation coexist in the business era. Arming yourself with others' most advanced technology and then defeating/surpassing the most powerful competitors is a strategy in a higher sense.
The existence of this Weibo undoubtedly proves the correctness of Wen Liang's speculation. After netizens learn about it, they will inevitably put the Star System on the altar and then destroy it.
Yu Dadong's views may have different interpretations in different eras.
But anyone who does business will agree with this point of view.
Now is the era of the global economy, which means global competition and global cooperation. Let alone companies, no region can survive directly without decoupling.
Even Wen Liang's lofty dream is only to establish a complete industrial chain system, and he does not dare to think about decoupling.
Looking at Yu Dadong's Weibo, Wen Liang had a new idea: "Maybe we can try to cooperate with Mr. Yu and other manufacturers on the current incident?"
"There's no rush, let's take a look at the combat effectiveness of the little sorghum."
…………
He is gentle and not in a hurry, but netizens can be impatient.
It is probably because the launch of the Star System has inspired netizens to make complaints about it, and they are going crazy right now.
"Fuck, fuck, you're such a big mouth. I thought the Star System was brave enough to speak out, but I didn't expect that one mountain would be higher than the other!"
"Oh my god, this kind of thing is free of charge anyway, right? It's all here?"
"Don't say that, Big Mouth is actually quite timid. You see, he doesn't even dare to post on Xiaocheng Book. Now everyone knows that Weibo dogs don't even go to Weibo."
"Yes, but what's wrong with everyone today? Each one is more daring than the other. It seems they don't take us enthusiasts seriously, one by one!"
"To be honest, I can actually forgive the Xingchen System's big tone now. After all, this is the first version of the system. It's okay to be like this. It has indeed optimized the game experience in a targeted manner, but in other aspects
It’s a bit bad, but Dazui really wants to be the best in the world on horseback this time, he simply hasn’t learned to walk or run!”
"It has to be said that the Star System got off to a bad start."
"Yes, I feel that both the OV family may come to join in the fun."
"You don't even tell lies about Meizu, do you?"
"grass!"
Netizens started arguing again. This wave of popularity about mobile phones will never go down.
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①: Explanation: The real Weibo date is September 22, 2012, which is one day later than the time in the book. It is suitable for this plot, so I use it. In addition, after all, the main focus is business writing, and there is no absolute good or absolute for the business characters in the plot.