Chapter 196 A Small Piece of the Future
In 2011, Li Yan, wearing short sleeves, sat in the classroom of Lincheng No. 1 Middle School, looking with interest at the smartphone shown to him at the front table.
There were several classmates around, and the topic of their discussion was a game-Fruit Ninja.
This game requires swiping on the touch screen and using your fingertips as blades to cut off the pop-up fruits to score points.
For this group of students back then, it was really novel and interesting.
A classmate who was watching also showed his mobile phone. The brand was different. It was a brand that Li Yan had never seen before in 2009...
“Your Fruit Ninja is much smoother than mine. ”
The memory stopped abruptly.
Li Yan was silent and quickly recorded all the details.
Then I started to play with Chuangzu W8. To be honest, it does look a lot like Pineapple 3. I wonder if the Pineapple company on the other side of the ocean would choose to sue Chuangzu for infringement.
Chuangzu is very popular with this mobile phone, and it is extremely popular abroad. Pineapple is also at the stage of conquering the world. It’s hard to say...
Chuangzu’s system is what Li Yan is most interested in. , I looked it up and found that it was based on an open source kernel of the win system.
The computer system is integrated into the mobile phone, and it is quite smooth to use, which is really amazing.
But Li Yan still feels unhappy with the experience that some menu bars are getting smaller and smaller as you click.
Compared with the current resistive screen single-touch "touch screen" mobile phones developed by Nokia, the main shocking point of Pineapple 3 is the capacitive screen multi-touch, which provides a full operating experience.
Chuangzu W8 has also done it. With a three-year research and development cycle and a struggle almost from scratch, it seems that Chuangzu, a company, can bring more to Li Yan than imagined.
As a company formerly engaged in MP3 production, the accumulation of technology related to music playback should be no small matter. Is the application on mobile phones really as brilliant as the introduction says?
Li Yan clicked on the music and played the default song, and the effect made his eyes light up.
A very simple and direct conclusion can be drawn: MP3 is finished.
As long as smartphones can become popular, the demand in the field of music playback will be overwhelmed and filled.
Suddenly, another memory fragment belonging to the future became clear.
In 2012, Li Yan wore long sleeves and sat in the classroom of Jinshi Middle School, plugging in the headphone cable for his smartphone, which looked flatter and had a larger screen than Chuangzu w8 - this was the third time he had not I saw the brand and started the night self-study time of listening to songs and studying at the same time.
…No wonder I couldn’t read well in my first year of high school and my second year of high school.
This memory almost flashed by, and it didn’t even take Li Yanzai a minute to record it carefully.
The experience is quite magical. It belongs to the future of the past, which is wonderful.
Just like dreaming, Li Yan likes to dream very much. He always feels that even weird and absurd dreams can give the dreamer an extremely real feeling - like living a little longer, in some bizarre world.
I can’t think of anything more at the moment, but the fragments are indeed quite broken.
But it is still enough.
Li Yan took a deep breath. In the summer of 2011, it was only the second semester of the third year of junior high school. Junior high school students in small cities could already own smartphones.
The days when I wore long sleeves in 12 years, I don’t know if it was the cold spring of the first year of high school or the autumn and winter of the second year of high school. At this time, even Li Yan had a smartphone, and she used it openly during night self-study. Come and listen to music.
So, what about outside the student body?
I am afraid that since 2011, smartphones have become very popular, and in more than a year, they will become so popular that almost every high school student in a small town has one.
What does this mean? The market has been eaten!
Li Yan’s judgment was right, smartphones were the future, but he didn’t expect it to come so quickly.
Unknown mobile phone brands can appear in the hands of junior high school students in 2011. It seems that there will be a chaotic war. The final result is unknown whether someone will become the king or it will bloom everywhere.
But it is impossible for everyone to develop their own system, and software manufacturers are too lazy to adapt.
Even the current QQ mobile phone of Chuangzu W8 is a special version specially requested from Penguin.
So by the time smartphones become popular, the battle for the system is a foregone conclusion.
The brands of the three mobile phones are not Nokish. It seems that Nokish, which sticks to its own system and resistive screen, failed to survive the new era.
Pineapples were also absent - but that may have been due to their high price. Robert...Has the open source Robert system become the common solution for many mobile phone manufacturers?
Li Yan has a sense of urgency. If there is a chaotic war in the future, it will actually be a good thing for him.
Times make heroes, and chaos means that everyone has a chance. If Li Yan can launch a highly competitive concept or even product at this time, he may win various awards. Fang's favor.
But now we have to add a premise - before a certain system such as Robert gets the inclination of mobile phone manufacturers.
Because whether you can succeed in this market or not, the most critical thing is actually the software ecosystem.
When a certain system becomes mainstream and has built its own software ecosystem, then there will be no reason for software manufacturers to adapt to the development of a "better-use" system.
Businessmen only talk about profits.
So, we must be quick!
But how fucking fast? At his and Chen Fan's level, even if they could come up with concepts and create a simple system, what reason would there be for others to buy into it?
When Chen Fan arrived, he was the first one who opened the door and entered the room. He also immediately saw Li Yan, who was frowning at the computer.
This guy was actually excited, "Li Yan! Are you thinking about some super difficult questions!"
"It's really difficult. How can we make something that is recognized by domestic mobile phone manufacturers in one or two years?" , so that major software manufacturers are willing to adapt to the system and swallow this piece of cake?”
The roommates were stunned when they heard this as soon as they entered the room.
"A Heng, are A Yan's words still in the category of pretentiousness?" Li Ruofei pushed Lin Heng.
"This should be an imagination." Lin Heng nodded seriously.
Chen Fan didn't think this was a serious discussion, so he turned around and chatted with his roommate about other things.
Li Yan said to herself over there: "It's too late... It's wrong to only focus on the system. Many things are immature now, and Robert hasn't won anything yet... Why? Can’t I make a system that is born with an ecosystem? Do I have to plan the ecosystem before developing the system?”
The roommates looked at each other, but none of them understood it except Chen Fan.
“Is the software ecosystem?”
“Yes, Chen Fan, soon everyone will have a smartphone. We can continue the previous topic and clarify how smartphones will change. Our life. It’s not just an all-in-one machine for listening to music, watching movies, and playing games. As I said, everyone has a smart terminal in their hand, which can do many things such as networking, GPS positioning, and software calls. ”
Chen Fan smacked his lips for a long time, "How did you know that the era would come when everyone has a smartphone?"
"Do you believe me?"
Suddenly he became idealistic!
"Believe."
"That will be done." Li Yan crackled at the computer, "We will take this future as a reality and be ahead of everyone. Systems, algorithms, software , take these things and adapt them to a piece of hardware, and you will have a concept sample, and we can become a leader!”
Li Yan thought Chen Fan would look at him like a god, but it turned out that Chen Fan looked like he was looking at a ghost.
"System, algorithm, software..." Chen Fan glanced at Chuangzu W8 on Li Yan's desk, "Li Yan, do you know what you are talking about? Chuangzu W8 has been a company for three years For the products he developed during his time, he did not directly develop the system himself, but used other people’s adaptation software. You... How did we develop these in one or two years?
We are just two first-year junior high school students? Ah!”
“We don’t need to do the huge amount of work at the commercial level. We only need to come up with some special interaction methods related to the subsequent software ecosystem, that is, to innovate the interaction method of smartphones. We will seek support from some teams, we just need to realize the core idea!”
“All we need is...”
"The same goes for software. It's not difficult to make a simple version. The key point is whether our concept is amazing and whether it can prove its feasibility. This process requires the support of some algorithms. As for algorithms and the Informatics Olympiad, we can recognize a There are so many powerful people..."
"Can you compare with the R&D teams of famous technology companies? Li Yan, you are just comparing yourself to them."
Everyone. Looking at Li Yan expectantly, wanting to hear how he pretends to be cool.
"Compared with them, of course, this is the domain of geniuses, and many geniuses only know how to solve problems but don't know how to ask questions." Li Yan said with a smile, "This era does not lack the ability to move ahead, but it lacks the ability to move ahead. direction. If we can really form a small development team, the direction of our efforts will never be to compare with the big guys in terms of stability and perfection. We will definitely not be able to compare with the accumulation of Pineapple System and the resources of open source Robert. But with foresight, we are not just making mobile phones, but changing a way of life. We are driving far more than mobile phones as electronic products, but countless business opportunities and industrial chains! ”
Shit, I didn’t understand! Clockwise from Liang Tiancheng to Zhu Qinglun, the four people look at each other with subtle expressions.
"In the final analysis, we are just making products. We are no longer the first person to make a smartphone from scratch. We already have all the technical support we should have. We can solve the core problems ourselves, and rely on others to solve the problems that cannot be solved. This is not important. ." Li Yan paced in place, "Advanced ideas are the most valuable resources."
"But..." Chen Fan can't say that he is a little unsure, but he has no confidence at all.
"I'm here. If you can't handle it, leave it to me."
Now that they understood, the other roommates showed expressions of relief.
(End of this chapter)