return to bolang life

Chapter 242

Mobile phones have evolved rapidly since entering the smart age.

Taking Apple as an example, the latest fifth-generation iPhone 5 has been officially launched in many countries today.

It has gradually become the most closely used electronic tool on average, not one of them.

It has also become the topic category with the highest enthusiasm for discussion and participation by netizens on the entire network, and it is also not one of them.

First, the penetration rate of mobile phones is getting higher and higher, the proportion of smart phones is also getting higher and higher, and the number of users is also increasing. Every user is a potential discussion participant.

The second is that the threshold for complaining about the sense of experience is very low, and it is very self-centered.

The amount of discussion about the system attached to the mobile phone will naturally be quite exaggerated, because the user interface attached to the operating system is the only interactive window for the user!
So, with the support of the popularity of promotion, the complaints exploded directly.

"I was shocked when I turned it on. Compared with Siri, Xiaoxing is completely artificially retarded! Although it is not too bad, I would like to ask how Star System Development Company dares to claim the world's first professional game system based on this. ?!"

"This development company also knows what the problem is. It doesn't even dare to disclose the company name. The information disclosed to the outside world is the Star Development Team as the main body! Fuck!"

"These are not the key, the key is why there is such a strict restriction on installing apps?!"

"Yeah! I've tried countless methods, whether it's downloading from a browser or uploading an apk package from a computer, it's displayed directly in the file? Why can't I open it! Fuck!"

"I've tried countless ways to root without success. There's no such option at all. Just like what the forum said, if you don't want to use it, you can only flash back to the original system."

"I've never seen such a rudimentary app store. According to my statistics, there are less than 30 types of software, and there are only two types of software other than games, Xiaochengshu and Hot Mall! Fortunately, there are Xiaochengshu to complain about!"

Among them is Jiu Ai who followed all the way: "There are too many problems, not only is it closed, but also the experience is not good, I triggered a lot of bugs, like a defective product;
Some understand why volunteers are recruited, and why volunteers are required to agree to collect bug feedback, and I regret joining experience volunteers a little bit;
However, the 1999 yuan is indeed a lot. I just asked a friend. Now many IT practitioners in Beijing have a starting monthly salary of only 3000 yuan. There is no mandatory requirement for how many hours a day they use it. They only need to use it for 30 days to get 1999 yuan. Although It is an electronic voucher, but you can also find a way to discount it, which is not bad.

But it's not easy to earn. "

"..."

The initial complaints focused on some superficial issues.

First, I made complaints about the semi-finished artificial mentally retarded voice assistant 'Xiaoxing'.

A real laboratory product is far, far away from commercialization, far worse than Siri, which has been polished for two years to access voice services.

The kind of judgment.

Then complain about not allowing other apps to be installed.

To be honest, Bolang is more willing than users to have other apps that can be installed, but now there is no way.

Then there are some flaws in the details.

such as:

There are no optional themes, and there is no entry to modify the wallpaper.

The icon is not good-looking, and the transition animation to enter the App is not very smooth.

There is no MIUI piano sound when pressing the keyboard on the phone.

The settings menu is rudimentary.

The notification bar is poorly designed.

There is no screenshot button.

The background cannot be cleared with one click, and the memory usage is not displayed.

Then the level of complaints is higher.

Because of the disorderly development of the Android system so far, only MIUI and Flyme can do a little bit of domestic UI, and there are many chaotic knockoff models, etc., the trend of playing and flashing phones in the mobile phone industry is still relatively strong.

Geeks abound.

So soon someone went to a deeper level.

This wave of complaints and praise is the same.

The machine circle is holding the handle: "Closed, really very closed, they are all Android branches, it is true that there is no need to make it so closed, even the apk package is not recognized!

Compared with Android or even the source Linux, this system has changed a lot in the kernel, and the file system is definitely not the common ext4. I don’t know if it is the F2FS that Samsung is rumored to be developing, or other ported file systems. This unknown file system The logic is good, but there are many problems;

For example, the response efficiency, display level, operability, etc. are very low, similar to iOS, but not as good as iOS;
On the contrary, the preliminary test of fragmentation management is very good, probably a hundred blocks away from Android!The real name here despises Android's spicy chicken file management, which is so bad that it makes people desperate! "

"Thank you Ji Ge@机圈而控子 for the invitation, Ji Ge still has a say in the file system, let me talk about push notification management;
It is a great advantage. It should be the only one in China that has a unified message push service, but maybe it is so unified because the application installation is closed now. The experience is very comfortable, and there is no messy background like Android UI Troubled, I specially changed to a mobile phone with 512M memory, and it didn't freeze;

There are also shortcomings, and there are many bugs. I did some preliminary tests, but I didn't expect that countless logic bugs would be triggered!

This is just a news push!It's too hip! "

"Thank you for the invitation, Brother Ji. Let me briefly talk about my test. This system is the Android UI with the clearest permission management I have ever seen. It is comparable to or even surpasses iOS's management of permissions and privacy, but this module has a huge bug. I actually got a memory leak from this module, outrageous!
I agree with some chicken brothers and some friends, this is not a finished product at all, it can only be called a defective product! "

"..."

Finally, some complaints from mobile game players.

"Damn it, I came here for the world's first professional game system, but when I tried to play "Journey of Glory", it crashed right away! Is this called a game system?"

"I also played "Journey of Glory". The experience is actually not bad, but it still feels inferior to the iPhone. The problem with the big brother upstairs may be that the machine configuration is too low. It is recommended to try other low-end games."

"The game animation support is done well, but there are many bugs, and I can't complain."

"I have to say, it's okay to call 'Xiao Xing' directly during the game, but seven out of ten times it doesn't return logic, what the hell is that?"

"..."

All kinds of complaints have pushed up the popularity of the "Star" system on the Internet, and made more netizens pay attention to this new system.

The heat is the same all the time.

…………

In the third hour after the launch of the star system, Li Ze initiated a meeting.

Tang Pu, Li Bowen, Zhang Yulin, Xin Dai, and the leaders of each module development group under the system development department of Bolang Lab attended the meeting.

Wen Liang joined the meeting.

First, Xin Dai reported the public relations incident: "Since the launch of the Xingchen system, the company's public opinion monitoring system has monitored a lot of related public opinions. At present, we can confirm that Xiaosaoliang has already responded."

"There were also some unusual participants with ominous backgrounds."

"I found a lot of people and companies interested in Star System developers."

This last point is not a cause for concern.

Li Ze had already made many arrangements when he first decided on the promotion route and chose the black and red route.

From the internal confidentiality agreement to the isolation of the project, to the binding of the star system with a star studio that has nothing to do with Bolang, unless the official machine is interested, there is no connection with Bolang.

Even the developers work in Bolang.

The first two points don't matter either.

The current star system is completely crossing the river by touching Xiaosaoliang's MIUI, and the handwriting is so exaggerated, Xiaosaoliang didn't respond to it.

Boss Lei is running Xiaosaoliang as an Internet company.

Little Sorghum also attaches great importance to marketing.

As for other unusual participants, it is also normal. There are so many domestic mobile phone manufacturers now, and the repeated success of Xiaosorghum has made many people learn quickly.

Then Li Ze summarized the results of the initial promotion: "As of now, the number of downloads of flashing packages on the forum has exceeded 17, and a total of 164323 activation system information."

"Relevant discussion topics have landed on the popularity lists of multiple platforms such as search engines, Xiaochengshu, and Sina Weibo, and the weighted popularity of the entire network has covered 1.3 million Internet users."

Sure enough, it got louder and hotter.

Bolang only recruited 1000 experience volunteers, plus 1 bug rewards, targeting 1 people. Now more than 1 people have participated in the actual test, and the effect is outstanding.

Hmm... It should be said that this is the power of money.

Finally, Tang Pu and Li Bowen summarized the various problems found in the current large-scale flashing, and initially proposed a solution process.

Bolang not only has a development process, but also works well.

Then everyone looked at Wen Liang.

Facing everyone's eyes, Wen Liang raised a smile on his face, and said unhurriedly: "It doesn't matter how many problems there are, we are no longer a small company, and we have the confidence to burn money;
When Boss Lei launched the Mi 1, he originally wanted to set the price at 1499 yuan. After calculation, he estimated that the loss would be at least 2 million yuan. He couldn't sleep because of the worry. In the end, he said that it was 1999 yuan, and we had already budgeted 5 million yuan to pay the tuition. "

Wen Liang directly gave the colleagues in the development team a shot in the arm to let everyone relax.

Then, Wen Liang arranged it in an orderly manner: "The original development process needs to be adjusted in some aspects."

"I visited HKUST last month and learned that HKUST Xunfei has accumulated profound technology in speech recognition. Mr. Tang, please take the lead to reach a strategic cooperation with HKUST Xunfei as soon as possible to improve 'Little Star'."

Trump responded.

Wen Liang looked at the multimedia phone on the conference table, and shouted: "Mr. Yin, Mr. Yin is here."

Through the phone, Mr. Wen spoke with full confidence, not as flustered as he was talking about fortune-telling yesterday.

Sun Baoyin's voice came out: "Yes."

Wen Liang said directly: "Now any app that wants to be loaded into the Star system has to be manually adapted by you. This is definitely not possible. Change the previous self-development plan and first develop a compiler that supports the Star system by referring to the LLVM open source project. , coordinate well with Mr. Zhang.”

Speaking of this, Wen Liang paused: "Let's set up a laboratory in the school. The members should not be limited to Chinese workers. I think there are many professors and graduate students who are idle at the University of Science and Technology."

Sun Baoyin didn't hesitate much, and responded directly: "Okay."

Zhang Yulin, who came to the company specially, also responded aloud.

Then, Wen Liang looked at the multimedia phone again, and said, "Mr. Yang, you should first focus on everyone's complaints about the interaction logic, and then find a suitable hosting framework. We will strive to finish the first version of our own GUI masterpiece by the end of this year."

Yang Xingshan responded: "Understood."

In the end, Wen Liangyu said earnestly: "The company has spent money to get off to a good start, although it doesn't have Android's situation where developers all over the world help, and it doesn't have Apple's decades of accumulation;
But we now have 10,000+ real users who help find faults, and there will be millions of consumers finding faults in the future, and we can always optimize it. "

"Tell the colleagues involved in the development to devote themselves to the development work and not to be defeated by netizens' complaints;

It’s nothing to think about Linus who developed Linux. It took him 10 months to release the first Linux kernel version on the Internet. It took us less than six months to actually start development, and the graphical interface was packaged. How awesome! . "

"The gap in manpower can be solved in a variety of ways. Don't limit yourself to the talent market. Colleges and universities are also a very good choice."

This concludes the meeting.

After the meeting, Li Ze walked into the general manager's office with Wen Liang, both of them knew that the competition had come.
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(End of this chapter)