A cheap business empire starting from mobile phones

Chapter 28 Mobile Operating Systems
The earliest mobile phone, as we all know, was the DynaTAC launched by Motorola in 1973. It was a big white guy with the same shape as a brick and weighed more than a catty.

It took [-] million US dollars and ten years to develop it successfully.

The first commercial mobile phone was Motorola's Dyna TAC 1983x in 8000. It took another ten years, mainly because it took too much time to establish an analog signal base station.

This mobile phone only has a phone function, so there is no mobile phone system.

Until 1991, a company named PSION developed the first mobile device operating system EPOC with a graphical interface, which was regarded as the first generation mobile phone operating system.

PALM, the most widely used mobile phone before, does not belong to the operating system of the mobile phone system.

Then in 1996, Microsoft released the Windows CE operating system. Microsoft entered the field of mobile phone operation, intending to monopolize the mobile phone operating system market just like the computer operating system.

However, the birth of the Symbian system in 98 shattered Microsoft's monopoly dream. Instead, Symbian became Microsoft in the mobile phone market, accounting for 80% of the world's mobile phone market.

Until 07, Apple's ios was born, telling those mobile phone manufacturers that the smartphone is played like this - no keyboard, finger touch, a slide to unlock, so that everyone at the press conference sits on the ground and screams constantly.

When Apple's ios was still struggling with Nokia's Symbian for the number one smartphone market, Google released the Android 08 system in 1.0. With its good user experience and open design, Android gradually replaced Symbian's position , becoming the two major smartphone operating systems that stand side by side with IOS.

Symbian can only live on low-end machines, not far from death.

In the middle of this process, other operating systems have also appeared, such as WP, BlackBerry, and Brew, but why are they rare in the market, and they are completely lost to Google's Android.

There are many reasons, the main one is ecological.

Technical problems can be compensated with time and money, and ecological user habits are very difficult to change, as well as manufacturer support.

It is well understood that applications can only run based on the operating system, and extensible third-party applications are a very important reason why smartphones are popular.

An application should be developed based on the system, and the application developed based on this system cannot run on another system environment, that is, it cannot be installed, or the compatibility will be extremely poor after installation.

So, let’s not talk about what Lin Shu said to solve the technical problems, but to say that a new system that is not based on Android needs to rebuild the ecology, which is tantamount to joking.

This is why Zhou Yaping thinks that Lin Shu is talking nonsense and doesn't know how to do it at all.

Zhou Yaping felt the need to remind Lin Shu, and said, "Boss Lin, do you know about software development?"

"I know." Lin Shu probably knew what Zhou Yaping was talking about.

Zhou Yaping sorted out his words, thinking about how he would not anger Lin Shu, paused and said: "Mr. Lin, you said that this is a self-developed mobile phone system. I believe it, but if you want to say that this operating system is not based on Android development is a brand new mobile phone system, it is not a question of whether I believe it or not, it is a question of failure if I believe it.”

After a pause, Zhou Yaping explained to Lin Shu in an easy-to-understand language: "To give a very simple example, I didn't mean to find fault with Mr. Lin. For a new operating system, other companies need to specially develop applications corresponding to the system environment. If there is no development, then all the current popular applications cannot be used, there is no QQ, no Alipay, no various mobile games, and when someone buys a mobile phone, they find that they can only make calls, which is equivalent to buying a landline, a brick.”

"Nokia's Symbian was dragged to death in this way, and Microsoft's WP was dragged to death in this way. Now software development is already a winner-take-all situation. It is only developed on Android and Apple, and the new mobile phone system will only die. Either it cannot be sold to death, or it is slowly consumed to death."

"Boss Lin, think twice!"

After Zhou Yaping finished speaking, he smiled inwardly, feeling a bit like an ancient loyal and deadly admonition, Wei Zheng is the second?
Lin Shu listened carefully to all of Zhou Yaping's arguments. What he mentioned was probably similar to his own guess. He knew how to answer Zhou Yaping, and said directly: "Zhou Gong, I understand everything you said, but you don't know enough about our system. Our Long Ji The system is a self-developed system, a brand-new kernel system not based on Android and Linux, but it also supports Android applications, that is, Android application installation packages, which can be installed and run on our Dragon Ji.”

Regarding this point, the system asked him to choose whether to adapt to Android, and he chose yes.

At least for now.

In the early stage of the company without the right to speak in the market, choosing no, waiting to be beaten by big manufacturers and rejected by users, is completely a deadly act.

But in the future, he will choose no.

"Impossible." Zhou Yaping shook his head and said with certainty: "Unless the system is developed based on Android, even if the new system can install Android APP, it will not be very compatible. There will be freezes, crashes, and various bugs. The user experience is poor."

This is also Google's brilliance. As a free, easy-to-obtain operating system that can modify the source code at will, this open source model has destroyed the previous authorization model of the operating system platform, not only reducing the cost of software and hardware manufacturers, It also gives them more freedom to play and increase their enthusiasm for Android.

When the market has become accustomed to using the Android system, most of the software is developed on the Android platform and becomes part of the Android ecosystem. Others who want to develop new systems independently need to recreate the ecosystem.

This is not up to latecomers, those manufacturers and the majority of free developers will not pay attention to them.

Without application support, or insufficient application support, consumers will naturally abandon it.

Consumers will not spend so much money to buy a landline that can only make calls.

"You don't understand the power of black technology." Zhou Yaping said that Lin Shuquan knew it, but he didn't want to explain it to Zhou Yaping. The modified version developed, what you need to do now is to convert it into a system software package for ROM flashing. We need to let people in the mobile phone industry give us an evaluation. This is related to our product launch. It is very important. I use the method of the president. Give you a task."

"I see." Zhou Yaping wanted to say something, but seeing Lin Shu's tone that could not refuse, and thinking of Lin Shu's dictatorial remarks just now, he understood that what he said was useless.

Probably Lin Shu would only know how to turn around if he suffered a lot.

No, if something really goes wrong, [-]% of them will attribute the mistake to their subordinates and find someone to take the blame.

A dictator can't make mistakes, and mistakes are also caused by being deceived by his subordinates.

He felt that he was ridiculous, how old he was, and would still be tempted by other people's big cakes, thinking that it was really possible to achieve a miraculous success - Quanmin Technology became the world's largest mobile phone company, and he was the founding elder.

Quanmin Technology, from the fact that the office is only a residential building, and the boss is only a young man in his senior year, he knows that it is a young man's play house, just for fun.

But based on his curiosity about the contents of the USB flash drive, he decided to convert the source files into a system first.

Seeing Zhou Yaping sit down, Lin Shu went back to the previous process and continued to arrange the tasks.

"Our company is a start-up, and the time for the press conference is very short. We need all capable people to work hard, take on multiple roles, and don't waste any time. Zhou Gong will share 'Dragon Ji 1.0'. We need you to help him, Fei Yan, as much as possible. It is possible to expand the influence of our 'Dragon Ji' as much as possible, so that more people can use our Dragon Ji system by flashing their phones. This is a long-term project, and I will hand it over to you for the time being. I will hand it over to another person in a few days, and Cai Sister, please help me sort out the press conference and the pre-sale of mobile phones. We don't have professional personnel and need your help. Senior Feng Gefei, I need you to help me recruit. I now need an application development department and more Too many cell phone technicians..."

Lin Shu assigned the tasks one by one, and finally said:

"And I need to make a prototype of our national mobile phone first, which is also very important."

"Then everyone, for the sake of the people!"

With the last sound, Lin Shu clenched his fist and raised his right hand, shouting.

'For all the people? '

The people below looked at each other in blank dismay, but seeing Lin Shu's attitude, they could only yell along.

"For all the people!"

(End of this chapter)