Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1480 Android Patch

Zhou Buqi actually doesn’t pay much attention to the mobile phone industry. From a higher level, whether it’s Samsung, LG, Aster, or HTC in the current market, as long as smartphones are selling well, it will help promote the arrival of the mobile Internet era. , which is beneficial to Ziwei Star, which entered the market first.

Now the world's technology giant that is deeply involved in the field of mobile Internet is Ziweixing.

The more smartphones sold, the more mobile Internet users.

And when everyone generally didn't enter the market much, these early mobile Internet users would all rush into the embrace of Ziweixing's product ecology.

But Zhou Shaoning is different, the mobile phone business is all about him.

He takes it very seriously.

Zhou Buqi felt that he was under a lot of pressure, so he invited him to visit the Getty Center, with a relaxed tone, "how is the sales of mobile phones?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "The order in Europe exceeds 500 million units, and the order in the United States also has 300 million units. The main reason is that the market response of the Aster generation exceeded expectations and gave operators confidence."

"Great!"

"Yes, according to our internal forecast, the annual sales volume of Aster 2 may reach 1600-1800 million units, which is second only to iPhone 3gs."

"How much is Apple expected to sell?"

"It's shocking." Zhou Shaoning was also full of respect for his competitors, "When the iPhone 3gs was launched in June, it sold 6 million units in 3 days. Some organizations predict that the annual sales may reach 100 million units. And according to Google According to forecasts, in the next year, the total sales of Android-based mobile phones may only be 3000 million to 2500 million units."

The expected total sales volume of Android phones is 3000 million units, and Aster2 accounts for more than half of the share.

Such a report card is gratifying enough.

For iOS and Android systems alone, there may be an increase of 6000 million mobile Internet users in the next year, which is a huge pool.These smartphone consumers are all potential users of Ziweixing!

At least the mobile phone Helo should be pushed to everyone!

Zhou Buqi said happily: "This is very good! What pressure do you have? Didn't you say that LG's mobile phones are relatively low-end and the price is low? Aster2 mainly focuses on the high-end market, and can still occupy more than half of the market share of the Android system. Very good."

Zhou Shaoning was very helpless, "In the past year, it was 100%."

"Ha ha!"

Zhou Buqi felt that this person was a bit possessed.

Zhou Shaoning sighed, "Samsung and LG's Android phones are selling very well. I heard that they have sold 350 million units in South Korea. HTC has also entered the US market and won a large order with its low price advantage. According to feedback from Google , and many mobile phone manufacturers are going to enter the Android camp.”

"Not surprisingly."

Zhou Buqi had already expected it.

Now Android has not yet dominated the world, so Google is relatively low-key, allowing Android phones to be "half-hearted."For example, Samsung's mobile phones, in addition to Android Samsung, also have Microsoft Samsung and Symbian Samsung, and they are deployed to multiple mobile phone operating systems at the same time.

The same old mobile phone giants, why did Nokia and Motorola quickly fall in the era of smartphones, while Samsung became stronger and stronger?
This is related to Samsung's operating philosophy - lower your profile and go with the flow.

Nokia considers itself to be the biggest player in the world's mobile phone industry, and was unwilling to use another company's system, so it cooperated with others to come up with the Symbian system, intending to destroy Apple and Google.

It was later discovered that it couldn't be beat.

Nokia is still not convinced, and cooperates with Microsoft again, intending to join forces to regain the dominance of the mobile phone market!

Then, it failed again.

It has been stagnant ever since.

Samsung is different. It is very self-aware. It knows that its own Internet level is poor, and its self-developed operating system is no different from a Silicon Valley giant. It adopts an omni-channel strategy and puts eggs in different baskets.

Samsung has cooperated with all mainstream smartphone systems on the market.

For various mobile phone systems, Samsung has launched corresponding models.In the end, the Android system outperformed.Samsung cut off the business lines of all other operating systems, and only kept the Android business line.

By casting a wide net, Samsung has firmly captured the opportunities of the times, and relied on the mobile phone technology accumulated over the past few years to stand on the top of the times.

This is also due to Google's connivance with mobile phone manufacturers in the early stage.

When Android becomes bigger and stronger and dominates the world, Google's confidence will be stronger.All mobile phone manufacturers in the Android camp are required to prohibit the launch of mobile phones with other operating systems, otherwise they will be kicked out of the Android camp.

The binding relationship between mobile phone manufacturers and Android has become more and more secure.

This is all within Zhou Buqi's plan.

The Getty Museum is the cultural center of Los Angeles, with free tickets and many tourists.However, Zhou Buqi had a special status and was accompanied by a special staff member. He went to a room specially and had the opportunity to appreciate the treasure of the town hall - Vincent Van Gogh's "Irises" up close.

To be honest, Zhou Buqi can't understand the artistry of oil painting.

But even so, he can still feel a certain sense of historical travel from the thick and colorful paintings.

Art is the most meaningful.

No wonder Mr. Getty wanted to donate all his wealth to build such a magnificent museum to give back to the world after he became famous.

Zhou Shaoning was not in the mood to appreciate the serenity of the artistic atmosphere. He was very anxious and said in a low voice: "Now Google is full of confidence. They believe that Android has the opportunity to rule smartphones like Windows system rules computers."

Zhou Buqi glanced at him, "I think so too."

The staff accompanied them not far away, and they also wanted to protect the artwork. Although the two spoke Chinese, their voices were very low when they communicated.

Zhou Shaoning said: "I heard that Google is going to have a further strategic design for the Android system."

"Oh?"

"Android is open source and free. How can Google spend so much money to make products for nothing?"

"Making money through free products is nothing more than drainage."

Zhou Buqi had thought of it a long time ago and was not surprised.

He mainly lived in China in his previous life, but Google was blocked in China, so he is not very familiar with Google products.But it doesn't matter, the products are different, and the logic of the products is interlinked.

Just like Micropoint Antivirus, Micropoint Security Guard, Micropoint Input Method, and Micropoint Browser, these are all free products.

Is Ziweixing a free service?
Of course not, behind this lies the logic of building a brand for free, expanding the user base for free, and attracting traffic for free.For example, the micro-point browser, although this product is free, but when users use the micro-point browser, they will introduce traffic to their own navigation website, and there will be advertising revenue.The navigation website will then direct the traffic to its own search platform, and there will be another advertising revenue.

Google wants to make money from free Android, and the method is nothing more than introducing Android traffic into its own profitable products, such as Google Search, Google Store, Google Mail, Google Maps, and YouTube.

The transition from PC Internet to mobile Internet is very difficult.

The transformation of search engines all over the world has encountered a crisis, whether it is Baidu in China, Yahoo in Japan, or Naver in South Korea.

But Google's transformation was very successful, relying on Android.

Zhou Shaoning didn't understand, so he was very nervous, "Open source products can't be bundled, and Google intentionally split the Android system into two parts. The Android body continues to be an open source system, and the other part is...well, it's a bit like a patch for the Android system, and at the same time bundles its own system. some products."

"Normal operation, people are commercial companies, and they have invested tens of billions of dollars in Android, and people have to make money."

"But it will hurt us!"

"Ok?"

"The news in China is spreading ups and downs. Google may be blocked and give up its business in mainland China." Zhou Shaoning looked worried.

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, as if he had clarified the development of the domestic mobile Internet in an instant, "Blocking Google, will it affect the Android system?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "Yes! Google wants to split Android into two. The Android part of the main body is an open source system. Even if Google is banned in China, domestic mobile phones can still use Android. But the Android patch that is split out may It will not work. It will seriously affect the performance and stability of the Android system."

Zhou Buqi suddenly realized.

Based on his understanding of Silicon Valley giants in this life, Google's technical level is the world's first, much better than Apple's!

But contradictions emerged.

Google's technology is so good, why is the Android system developed by Google not as good as Apple's ios system?

Caton, flash back, unstable, not smooth.

Is it all about open source and closed?
It turned out that this was the reason.

There is no matching original patch created by Google for Android in China!
This "patch", which was split by Google from Android, was integrated into Google's GMS service and bundled with Google's services such as Google Store and Google Mail.

In order to ensure the smooth and stable Android system, mobile phone manufacturers must apply patches, that is, they must provide Google GMS services.Providing GMS services is equivalent to attracting traffic to Google's products.

However, Google has been blocked in China, so that Google GMS cannot be used in China, and the domestic Android system can only be a castrated version of Android.

In order to solve this problem, domestic mobile phone manufacturers have to develop their own patches to make up for the defects of the Android system.However, the technology is not up to standard, which leads to many problems and criticisms of domestic Android phones.

For example, for the same model of mobile phone, the foreign version has 4G memory, while the domestic version has 8G memory.

Consumers who don't know the inside story will think that mobile phone manufacturers are very conscientious and have extra preferential treatment for domestic consumers.In fact, Google GMS cannot be used in China, which leads to the inability to solve the defects of the Android system. Mobile phone manufacturers can only "not have enough technology, and the hardware is used to make up".It is very smooth to use 4g memory abroad, but only 8g memory can be used in China to barely achieve the same effect.

This is only in the field of hardware. If you can get a higher configuration, at most you will make less money.

Technical deficiencies in the software domain are more serious.

Foreign Android systems are protected by GMS. Behaviors of eavesdropping, monitoring, and stealing user privacy will be severely cracked down on. Any app that dares to violate the rules will be removed from the Google store.

There is no Google store in China, and all mobile phone manufacturers make their own mobile phone stores. In order to prevent bad money from driving out good money and ensure the market share of their own stores, they must condone the existence of various apps that harm the interests of users.

This is really a serious problem!
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