Chapter 400 Yes, the self-developed system is called Xingchen!
The warm applause seemed like it would never stop.
Bang bang bang.
Li Ze stretched out his hand and opened his mouth several times but was unable to interrupt.
After a while, Li Ze finally interjected: "Everyone has guessed it... Yes, the starting price of the 32G version in China is 3,699 yuan."
“The 64G version starts at 4,499 yuan.”
“The 128G version is priced at 5,399 yuan.”
The 32G version is only 11 yuan more expensive than the iPad 16G version, the 64G version is also 11 yuan more expensive than the iPad 32G version, and the 128G version is only 111 yuan more expensive than the iPad 64 version.
It's more or less cost-effective.
In fact, Bolang Terminal actually adopts some special strategies for pricing Xinghai series products, such as raising the threshold by increasing the storage space of the basic version, while maintaining sufficient discounts to the domestic market.
Another example is to compare the pricing between overseas markets and the domestic market to highlight the "people-friendly" domestic prices, while also minimizing the reduction in quality and ensuring high-end quality.
The announcement of the price of the domestic version made the applause once again warm.
After the excitement just now, Li Ze chose to continue amidst the applause: "What needs special explanation is..."
"We have considered the current production capacity of the Bolang factory, the actual availability of important components, and other factors. Xinghai Tablet 1 is expected to produce only 9.99 million units."
"This is also the reason why the mobile network version of Xinghai Tablet 1 was finally cut off, weakening the options..."
"At the same time, in order to let the application ecosystem take the lead, Xinghai Tablet 1 will not be put on sale until Children's Day..."
"I'm very sorry that we ended up adopting such a limited-edition business strategy and a delayed launch time. I hope everyone can understand it."
Such a statement immediately made the venue excited. Some people were dumbfounded, some were stunned, and some were just joking.
No one expected that the climax of the product launch did not appear in the product introduction session, or even in the price announcement session, but in the final business strategy statement.
Some special shouts could be vaguely heard at the scene.
“Does the limited edition have a number???”
"Do you think you sold too much?"
"Protest protest protest."
The live broadcast room of the press conference, which was broadcast to the outside world through multiple channels, also exploded.
"What the hell? If another brand were to do this for electronic products, I would just ignore this one. Xinghai... I can only say that I have to stay in front of the computer to buy it. It might have collection value."
"Insufficient production capacity? Insufficient supply of core components? It's a bit scary, right?"
"Have you forgotten that Bolang announced at the beginning of the year that it would build 10 factories across the country? The first phase of the factory in Luohe has been completed and production line equipment has begun to be installed. Other places are also completing the first phase one after another. At this stage
Bolang's production capacity is definitely not enough, so there is nothing wrong with it."
"Damn it, I really forgot. Bolang can now handle the downstream manufacturing by itself, which is good. This way, we have a very high after-sales guarantee."
"Anyway, I would sneer at other brands. If Xinghai does this, I think it may be out of stock soon."
"Is it possible that Bolang can't deliver the goods?"
"..."
In fact, there are many reasons why Bolang Terminal chooses such a business strategy.
Production capacity is only a very insignificant aspect.
After all, in addition to building a production line for smartphones, the Bolang factory also built a production line dedicated to the production of tablets. Because the experimental factory has both lines, it has the same rich experience in corresponding debugging and other aspects.
It’s just that the number currently under construction is very small. If you include the 5 experimental plants, the total production of 9.99 million will probably take about 100 days of production.
The current inventory is not very sufficient, less than 300,000 units.
The actual opening of production capacity will not be until the end of June. Overall, this total production will be completed by the end of August, and then the production line will be adjusted to produce other equipment...not mobile phones.
In fact, the enthusiasm for buying tablets is not very high, so even if there is such a supply situation, there may not be a rush to buy.
In addition to the less important reason of production capacity, more reasons are:
Xinghai Tablet 1 is an absolute transitional product.
The first is the transition of the Xingchen App Store ecosystem from mobile phones to tablets.
The second is a transition in the product supply chain.
Some of the important components used in Xinghai Tablet 1 are still outsourced. This situation may usher in rare innovations in the near future.
Another example is that the Xinghai Tablet 1 does not use fingerprint unlocking. After the Xinghai 1 series will inevitably iterate the fingerprint unlocking function in the future, the position will appear more awkward, and the interval will only be three months.
In addition, there is a very, very important transition.
Xinghai Tablet 1 is the real beginning of the official transition of Bolang Terminal Xinghai series products from the ARM ecosystem to the Galaxy ecosystem.
All of this can be summed up as follows: Bolang not only wants to dilute more research and development costs invested in chips, systems, materials, etc., but also wants to sell faster through the limited edition model, and also wants to maintain brand goodwill and let consumers
I don’t really dislike this little pit.
According to the sales plan, the revenue is roughly RMB 200 million from the domestic market and RMB 400 million from the overseas market, totaling RMB 600 million.
In this way, after reasonably diluting the appropriate research costs, the net profit will probably be over 10 billion.
You must know that if you put aside the research cost and calculate the material cost alone, the pre-tax gross profit of this thing can reach 23 billion.
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With the audience at the venue and the online audience still unfinished, Li Ze ended the release of Xinghai Tablet 1.
Then, Li Ze looked at the audience: "Next, our co-founder and chief technical engineer Mr. Sun Baoyin will introduce the new plug-ins of Starlight Language and Scode to everyone."
After saying that, Li Ze took the lead and left the stage while applauding, but Sun Baoyin did not appear on the stage. He appeared on the big screen.
"good morning."
Sun Baoyin appeared in the camera with a smile on her face. The background was an ordinary studio with only a big screen. Obviously this was a video recorded in advance.
"I am very happy to introduce to you the increasingly perfect Starlight Language and Scode."
Facing the camera, Sun Baoyin talked in a relaxed manner: "In fact, Starlight was born because of a simple requirement: in order to better solve some key programming problems dedicated to the Star system, a new language is needed."
"This task has been entrusted to me."
"I know very well that it is difficult to complete what I have accumulated in school and as a technical chief engineer at Bolang. Fortunately, Bolang is a tolerant platform. In order to solve some problems, I led the team to visit many universities at home and abroad, and finally spent
It took about 7 days to complete the main design work of the language.”
"Subsequently, with the joint efforts of hundreds of Bolang engineers, thousands of Bolang part-time engineers, and the internal trials of tens of thousands of Bolang engineers, Starlight Language was able to meet everyone."
"We believe that the increasingly perfect Starlight Language will become a better partner for developers."
"In order to solve some boring programming problems, today I brought a new experimental plug-in from Scode to my developer friends. Its name is 'Auxiliary Partner', and the team gave it an interesting foreign name: Copilot.
"
"It is an AI programming tool developed based on the deep learning algorithm engine of Bolang Lab. It can help developers automatically provide suggestions when writing code in the Starlight language in the Scode development environment, and can automatically write code according to the context...
Including documentation strings, comments, function names, and codes, as long as the user gives prompts, you can write a complete function..."
"Like this..."
With that said, Sun Baoyin came to a monitor and opened the Scode writing window: "For example... I forgot how to write a function. The common way is to consult the documentation or solve it through a search engine. Now there is no need for such trouble...
We can enter the comment of the 'function' and everyone can see it...it will provide a suggested option..."
"We believe this will help save everyone's energy in solving some boring problems and improve writing efficiency."
"Of course, the auxiliary partner is not perfect yet, and the suggestions it can provide are not rich and comprehensive enough. We hope that all developer friends can work with us to improve it."
"thank you all."
Sun Baoyin's release process was relatively simple and boring, and his tone was relatively unremarkable, but... it made many people in the venue stand up directly and exclaimed one after another.
Li Ze walked up to the stage at the right time: "Isn't it a bit like a developer conference?"
"Don't get too excited. This plug-in will not make programmers unemployed. You can rest assured that it is just a tool, an excellent auxiliary tool to increase the frequency of everyone using Starlight Language."
"A small tool that reduces the use of the CV button and uses the Tab button."
The excitement in the venue calmed down a little.
This small tool has nothing to do with Wen Liang. It is purely the team's contribution. He didn't know that this would make Microsoft in the future call it an expert.
Because by coincidence, the features and other aspects of this software have collided with the AI tool software of the same name that Microsoft will vigorously promote in 2022, and it still charges 699 yuan for a year.
I don’t know if this tool software is too... advanced.
The audience at the venue ignored the fact that Sun Baoyin completed the main design work of Starlight Language in only 7 days, which was 3 days faster than JavaScript's 10 days.
It is also a specially arranged bragging session.
Because the adjective describes the main design work very accurately, it does not mention how much manpower and material resources were spent from the main design work to the launch.
This language, which is not yet complete enough, plus the Scode, cost 100 million to get started.
It is completely incomparable to JavaScript, a language that can be used by just one person in 10 days.
It’s not difficult to develop a programming language. What’s difficult is that developers are willing to use it.
Developing a new language for nothing will generally not be used by developers because of the cost of learning. If it were not for the Star System, it would be difficult for Starlight Language to be widely used so quickly.
And in fact, it is Scode, a friendly development environment, that is more widely used, rather than the built-in Starlight.
Otherwise, the team would not have tried their best to come up with an AI auxiliary tool...
Li Ze took the stage again without any delay. After appeasing the audience a little, he quickly moved on to another topic according to the procedure: "I believe everyone must have wondered why the earliest developer conference around the star system was
It’s called Bolang Research because…”
"Next, Dr. Tan Jian, chief engineer of our cloud platform team, will introduce the Xingchen Cloud system to everyone!"
Also with Li Ze taking the lead in applauding, the figure of Dr. Tan Jian, who was not well known within Bolang, appeared on the big screen.
Dr. Tan Jian was first responsible for the construction of Xyun. After extensive attempts at XEN and KVM, two open source virtualization technologies, he finally overturned everything and started research on the Xingchen Cloud system around the Xingchen kernel.
His consideration in making this choice was... Bolang's business strategy, the current situation of having to reinvent the wheel, etc.
Referring to KVM, an open source virtualization technology route based on the Linux kernel, Dr. Tan Jian used some of the high-quality features of the Star kernel to deeply tailor it to create a new set of virtualization technology, and based on this, the Star Cloud system was formed.
And appearing at this press conference is also for Bolang's business strategy.
Dr. Tan Jian is a relatively "uninteresting" person, and the location for recording the video was chosen in the Bolang Nansha Data Center Group Computer Room.
So the background on the big screen is a massive amount of cabinets.
"Xingchen Cloud is an interesting architecture. It has now been deployed on these machines to provide underlying support for our popular mall, Little Orange Book, and Orange series applications at Bolang, as well as the Xyun service for the Xinghai series of products.
"
"..."
"We creatively reconstructed the underlying architecture of virtualization technology..."
Dr. Tan Jian's release was even more boring.
Although it didn't last long, many developers at the conference were very thoughtful and interested.
After all, cloud computing has already arrived.
The emergence of massive public cloud platforms can also provide many developers with low-cost online server resources for more personal experiments.
After all, most developers just use personal computers as a medium to write code, and most trial runs of the program will be submitted to the corresponding server.
With the configuration of a personal computer, it is true that even if it is fully loaded, it cannot run many background programs, and environmental variables must also be considered.
Then, Li Ze briefly introduced again: "Now, our co-founder and operating system chief engineer, Mr. Zhang Yulin, will introduce the Star System 0 to everyone."
In the same short video, Zhang Yulin briefly introduced some new features of Star System 0.
Not only for developers, but also for ordinary consumers.
It raised some expectations and also left a lot of suspense. After all, everyone knows that there will be a new Xinghai mobile phone.
Some new features are made available to developers in advance so that they can use these new features to develop more interesting applications.
At the same time, it was also mentioned that a large number of engineers will come to the venue to provide developers with an in-depth understanding of development technology and provide support for them to make full use of the Star System in their applications.
This is similar to what Apple does.
It also means that the truly consumer-oriented Star System 0 will be more mature than what we see now and will be more perfect in the next few months.
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Li Ze appeared on the stage again and said with a smile: "You may be curious, in addition to the mobile phone system, why does Xingchen also have a tablet system and a cloud system?"
"There are a lot of comments and doubts about the Xingchen system on the international Internet. It is the same system, so why is the Xingchen system?"
"In fact, we have never introduced the Star System properly, and we have not officially responded to the accusations, doubts, doubts, etc. surrounding it."
"There are some reasons for this."
"About four months ago, we made a small move, which had something to do with the establishment and trial operation of a laboratory in Beijing about ten days ago."
"This initiative is that we package the core source code and iteration process of the Star System and donate it to multiple units represented by Military Science and Technology for free."
"Today, now, we can finally tell everyone that the Star System is a completely independently developed and independently controllable operating system!!!"
"It doesn't use a Linux kernel or a Unix kernel, let alone Android. Its kernel is called Star!"
"China's history of self-developed operating systems without high availability and high commercialization is over long ago!"
