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When judging the level of technology in the IT field, a very important indicator is who can run more smoothly when doing the same thing.The smoother it is, the better the performance.

However, Internet products are not the same as hardware products.

Hardware technology supports a piece of equipment, which is object-oriented and controllable; Internet technology is an online service, and the number of objects is uncontrollable, which may be two or three, or two or three hundred million.

Therefore, when judging the high and low standards of Internet technology, there is one of the most crucial indicators-scale.

Regardless of scale, talking about smoothness is just a hooliganism.

Even the simplest intuitive judgment can be made, which product has a large number of users and which product has a high technical level, without the need to explore the technical details and implementation principles behind it.

If Baidu has more users than Naver, then Baidu's technology is higher; Yahoo Japan also has more users than Naver, so Yahoo Japan's technology is better than Naver.

Zhou Buqi made a simple metaphor for this, "It's like making chicken wings. Your chicken wings are delicious, and you can score 100 points. KFC's chicken wings are so-so, and you can only score 90 points. So the question is Now, who is better at making chicken wings, you or KFC? Thousands of KFC stores around the world can have a set of standards, and they can score 90 points every time. If you make chicken wings, you may score 100 points today, but you will not perform well tomorrow Only 80 points. This is an important reference for scale at the level of technical application.”

Xu Baihui understood now, "So even though many Koreans are bragging, saying that Naver is very smooth to use and responds faster than Baidu. But the technical level is actually not good enough."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Of course!"

Sun Wanran also understood, "So Yahoo Korea is actually targeting the Korean market. Many technology development and product designs are based on South Korea's population of 5000 million. Even if it is done well, the technical level is very limited." "

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, the core of technology is the idea and the choice of direction. If Yahoo Korea develops a certain technology that has a good effect in the Korean market and wants to promote it globally, it needs the Yahoo Silicon Valley R&D Center. The secondary development of . It is necessary to expand the scale of 5000 million to 5 million."

Sun Guanran suddenly realized, "That's it!"

Zhou Buqi said: "If it is really introduced to the global market, then Yahoo Korea is doing work from 0 to 60 points, and Yahoo Silicon Valley R&D Center is doing work from 60 points to 100 points. This is like a small Like a child studying, it is actually very easy for him to go from 0 to 60 points. It is not too difficult to go from 60 to 80 points. However, it is very difficult to improve from 80 to 90 points. The more difficult it becomes If you want to improve from 95 points to 100 points, let alone South Korea, even the domestic Internet level is not enough, so you can only rely on Silicon Valley.”

This is why, from a technical point of view, only China, apart from the United States, can develop world-class Internet products, which is the technical limitation of scale.

A popular app in South Korea has done well in South Korea, but the actual technical level is only 60 points. It is not enough to see it on the world stage, and it is a product that barely passes.

This is also the case in the developed countries of Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and Northern Europe.

Domestically it is different.

There are 14 billion people in China.

An Internet product that has become popular in China has fully met the technical standards.

Even if it cannot have 100-point technology like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, it can serve more than 20 billion users around the world.But the domestic technology can reach at least 95 points, which can crush most of the IT companies in the world from the technical level, and has the potential to compete with Silicon Valley giants such as Google and Facebook.

Zhou Buqi went on to say: "Internet technology is a big copy, and it is easier to develop than other high-tech fields. But the limitations are also obvious, and technology and applications are complementary. Are the scientists of Naver poor? I believe it is no worse than Baidu’s at all. The reason why the technology is not as good as Baidu’s is because they lack a platform for growth. There are more than one billion people in China, and such a platform provides opportunities for Baidu’s engineers to continuously improve and improve. Let them want to Keep thinking of various ways to solve the problem. Naver can’t do it, the upper limit is 5000 million people, and the technology is capped.”

Xu Baihui said thoughtfully: "So even if Samsung Electronics acquires Yahoo Korea, what it actually buys is only a 5000-point technology based on the 60 million population of the Korean market."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Yes, that's probably what it means."

Xu Baihui asked again: "But can't they grow? From 60 points to 90 points, 95 points, 100 points slowly."

Zhou Buqi said: "This is not easy. Baidu's current technology is 90 points, which is a little bit of improvement, from 100 million users, 500 million users, 1000 million users, 3000 million users... to hundreds of millions of users now. , the scale of users is gradually increasing. The technology behind it is also slowly improving, and it has gradually reached the level of 90 points today. Samsung now has at least 2 million users worldwide, and at least a technical level of 90 points is required to maintain its Internet The smooth running of the services and software business.”

Xu Baihui shook her head, "I don't understand."

Sun Guanran understood, and quickly said: "Samsung's product scale and product technology have lost room for simultaneous growth. The product scale is too large, and the product technology is too low, so it is difficult to match. Unless their technology can be directly from 60 The score jumps to 90, but it's impossible."

Xu Baihui seemed to understand but half understood, "Is that so..."

Sun Guanran chuckled and said, "If Samsung dares to apply its self-operated Internet service technology to Samsung's products, it will definitely affect the product experience, freeze, black screen or even crash."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, do you know why Nokia was defeated by Apple? There are also such factors. In addition to commercial mistakes, there are also technical deficiencies. There has been a mismatch between scale growth and technological development for a long time. Condition."

Then, he briefly explained.

The iPhone was built from scratch, and the scale of the product and the development of technology have grown simultaneously.

产品100万时候，有100万的服务水平；产品500万时，有500万的服务水平；产品5000万时，互联网服务和软件业务的水平也早就达到5000万了。

In this way, the iPhone can be very stable and the user experience will be very good.

When the first-generation iPhone was launched, sales far exceeded expectations, and it sold out!
This is a good thing and a bad thing.

Too many sales have led to a large user scale, which exceeds the technical level that Apple can cope with.

This led to many technical problems with the original iPhone, not only at the hardware level, but also with Internet services and software.

Nokia later launched its own operating system and also wanted to make a closed smartphone like the iPhone.

There are many reasons for failure.

There are similar technical factors.

Nokia's brand is too big. At that time, it was the world's largest mobile phone brand. As soon as a new phone was released, it sold millions or tens of millions of mobile phones.

Here comes the problem.

It is easy to sell millions of mobile phones, but can you serve millions of users on the Internet and software side?Nokia is engaged in communications, semiconductors, and hardware products. This is cross-industry access to the Internet.Just entering the industry, you have to face millions of users, and no one can do it.

Apple also encountered this problem of too high sales in the early days, but fortunately it was quickly resolved.After all, Apple is located in Silicon Valley and has the technology accumulation of imac and iPod.

Nokia cannot do this. It must either endure user dissatisfaction or reduce the complexity of the operating system and service levels, turning high-quality services into inferior services to match its own technical level.

Either way you go is dead.

Samsung’s mobile phone has succeeded because Samsung is very self-aware. This kind of major Internet service is bought with money. In 07, it approached Yahoo and reached a strategic cooperation. Yahoo will provide Samsung’s smart TVs and smart phones. Technical support for internet services and software businesses.

Later, Nokia also understood, and took refuge in Microsoft's camp.The problems of these technologies have been solved, but the attractiveness of the brand is no longer there. The market is already dominated by iPhones and Android phones, and Nokia is no longer the number one in the world.

After Zhou Buqi said this, Xu Baihui and Sun Wanran felt more at ease.

The two of them didn't have a good impression of Samsung.

Especially after South Korea applied for the "Dragon Boat Festival" as a world heritage, it is even more outrageous.

Boss Zhou is not conferring on the enemy, so he is much more relieved.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Buqi had a new statement, "However, these are not the most important."

"What's important then?"

"Doing independent research and development is not an easy task!"

"Ok?"

When Xu Baihui saw the corners of Boss Zhou's mouth curled up slightly, she immediately smelled something familiar.

Depend on!
There is a strong mysterious atmosphere of conspiracy!
Zhou Buqi said: "Independent research and development can relieve strategic risks to a large extent. However, self-research will increase business risks. Research and development is a bottomless pit. Success is a fluke, and failure is fate."

Xu Baihui tentatively said: "Boss Zhou, are you setting up a trap for Samsung Electronics? Let them fall into a self-developed prisoner's dilemma?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "It's not that exaggerated. Samsung has a board of directors and a president. Even if something goes wrong, it will be corrected in time, and it won't stay in a daze forever. With the strength of Samsung Electronics, a little loss in research and development is not a problem. It can't shake the foundation. It can always cause them some trouble."

Xu Baihui was very interested, and asked enthusiastically: "What trouble are you creating? Tell me quickly! The more trouble the better, Li Zairong is too hateful, you have to teach him a lesson!"

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Why should I teach him a lesson? He didn't mess with me, so it's too late to deepen cooperation!"

Xu Baihui said with a smile: "On the surface, we will deepen our cooperation, but secretly set him up."