Crossover: 2014

Chapter 279 Prescient Decision-Making

And taking a step back, even if Lin Hui needs a plan, when it comes to recruiting talents, he can find headhunting companies, HR, social recruitment, and...

It also has its own formal channels when it comes to talent introduction.

Lin Hui didn't go so far as to say that he would casually poach people from such overseas forums.

In short, even though he appreciated the depth of this flyingtiger article, Lin Hui only paid attention to it a little, and did not take any further action.

Speaking of which, "T-rex's Journey" can have a very good topic on many game forums, but it saves Lin Hui a lot of trouble.

In this case, there is no need for Lin Hui to superfluous in promotion.

……

Lin Hui remembered when he was promoting "FLAPPY BIRD" before.

At the beginning, it directly spent 100 million US dollars on publicity overseas.

Although this 100 million US dollars is nothing in the eyes of Lin Hui today.

But in the eyes of Lin Hui at that time, it was still a wealth that should not be underestimated. After all, he didn't have much money in total at that time.

However, despite spending huge sums of money on publicity at the beginning.

But it is very difficult because of the time difference, the high publicity costs did not achieve immediate results.

Lin Hui remembered that the game "FLAPPPY BIRD" achieved 2341 million effective downloads in a short period of time.

However, 2305 million effective downloads came from the domestic AppStore, while only 36 effective downloads from overseas regions.

After waiting for the dawn in most overseas areas, the publicity that Lin Hui spent a lot of money on at that time slowly paid off.

With this incident as a lesson, Lin Hui's "HILL CLIMB RACING" was very accommodating to the habits of overseas users when it was launched.

However, games like "T-rex's Journey" are launched overseas.

The online time set by Lin Hui was just thinking about his usual living habits, and did not deliberately consider the factor of jet lag.

As for the convenience of overseas players, whether they are resting or not, Lin Hui didn't think about it at all.

However, Lin Hui's situation did not affect Lin Hui's "T-rex's Journey" this time, and the effective downloads of the game "T-rex's Journey" quickly exceeded 500 million times overseas, and it also formed a good topic.

This fully demonstrates that GRAY FOREST, as a game developer, has a strong enough appeal to overseas players.

This result also explained Lin Hui's growth from the side.

If the game "T-rex's Journey" develops in the current trend.

Lin Hui doesn't have to worry about not being able to make further progress in overseas markets.

Lin Hui estimates that according to this growth trend, it is very possible that this game can be effectively downloaded over [-] million times overseas within the first day.

Lin Hui even felt that this game was likely to set a bunch of records in the history of small games.

After all, the predecessor of the game "T-rex's Journey", that is, the dinosaur game in the previous life, has kept many records.

In this time and space, even if "T-rex's Journey" cannot completely replicate the glory of the previous life, it is even possible to set one or two small game records.

Lin Hui's eyes have already set his sights to a higher and farther place.

Of course, now Lin Hui doesn't care much about the results in such small games.

It's useless even if you care, even if Lin Hui's status among individual developers in the app store is relatively detached.

But the settlement will have to wait until tomorrow.

Now that "T-rex's Journey" has no major problems, Lin Hui might as well focus on other places.

Lin Hui thought about it carefully, except for some trivial matters.

At present, the two most important things before Lin Hui are that the two contracts that were previously finalized still need to be further dealt with by Lin Hui.

According to the formal transfer contract reached with Apple on shortcut instructions before:
Lin Hui transferred the ownership of all the software related to the shortcut command, including the creativity, to Apple.

Apple/Apple needs to pay Lin Hui $500 million in four installments.

The initial payment of 500 million US dollars will be paid to Lin Hui when the official contract is signed.

And the remaining 3000 million US dollars were settled in three installments, each settlement was 500 million US dollars, 1000 million US dollars and 500 million US dollars respectively.

The settlement time for these several times depends on the progress of Lin Hui's upgrade of the shortcut software.

Lin Hui needs to upgrade the shortcut commands three times on the basis of the current shortcut commands.

They are Adaptive Upgrade, Functional Upgrade and Expandable Upgrade...

As for the adaptability upgrade, it is easy to say, it is nothing more than to make Lin Hui make the shortcut software compatible with the upcoming iOS8 version.

This thing is a piece of cake for Lin Hui.

In the previous life, there was no lack of compatibility with Apple. Even if Apple/Apple made Lin Hui compatible with iOS12 or even a higher version of iOS, it would not be a big problem.

The $500 million corresponding to the adaptability upgrade is basically a piece of cake for Lin Hui.

The functional upgrade is a function that Apple/Apple requires Lin Hui to further develop the shortcut command software.

Functional completeness is at least 40% higher than the current shortcut command
This is even more difficult for Lin Hui.

Lin Hui thought about it when he was developing the shortcut command software.

If Apple/Apple really buys it, it will definitely ask Lin Hui to upgrade its functions.

So when I built the shortcut command software earlier.

The main function of this software is to realize the required action modules/built-in operations.

Lin Hui only built 80 built-in actions at that time.

In fact, if Lin Hui wanted to add built-in actions blindly, he could add more than 50 more.

Lin Hui couldn't help feeling that his original decision was really too prescient.

In this case, it is not too easy to ask Lin Hui to continue to upgrade the function of the shortcut command software.

Let alone a 40% increase in function, it is no problem for Lin Hui to continue to increase by more than 60% on this basis.

The final payment of 40 million US dollars can be obtained by upgrading 1000% of the functions. This task is easy for Lin Hui.

If everything goes well, it can basically be done in a day.

The scalability upgrade is to roughly combine Siri and the shortcut software.

This involves the handover of Apple's human-computer interaction team.

This is more troublesome.

Of course, if it was that easy, Apple would not have charged $1500 million for the expansion upgrade.

This cost is already equivalent to the sum of the cost of adaptive upgrades and functional upgrades.

However, there is no rush when it comes to expansive upgrades.

The key to a tall building rising on the ground is to lay a good foundation.

Lin Hui feels that he can't be too ambitious for the time being, and it would be good to hand over the adaptability and functional upgrades to Elizabeth Nishi's team first.

After all, if you understand these two upgrades, you will get nearly 1500 million yuan ([-] million U.S. dollars).

On the afternoon of June 6, Lin Hui happened to have nothing to do.

So Lin Hui asked Elizabeth Nishi to contact her about adaptability upgrades and functional upgrades.

The handover location is still at the Beiyu International Conference Center.

It was here that Lin Hui and Elizabeth Nishi had their preliminary contact last time.

The electronic equipment here is relatively complete and there are conditions for simultaneous interpretation.

Although Lin Hui is now able to handle some simple communication (with Crooked Nuts).

Even the forums outside the water wall are not a big problem.

But after all, it is a relatively formal handover link for foreign-related cooperation, and Lin Hui feels that it is better to carry out the handover in a formal environment.

Therefore, the team led by Lin Hui and Elizabeth Nishi still chose to contact here.

After all, this is not the first time I have had contact with Apple.

Lin Hui and Elizabeth Nishi's team handed over the adaptability and functional upgrades of the shortcut software.

Lin Hui originally thought that there would be some unexpected troubles in this cooperation.

But it turns out that Lin Hui was thinking too much.

The handover process was as smooth as eating Dove, and everything was going on in an orderly manner.

It seems that no matter which time and space it is, Apple is worthy of being one of Bluestar's top Internet giants.

Even if time and space change, at least the background in software development is still there.

Although he often complained about Ping Huo in the past, Lin Hui, the Ping Huo team who handed over to Lin Hui this time, thought it was pretty good.

At least its work efficiency still made Lin Hui silently praise him in his heart.

Heroes often see things alike, and Elizabeth Nysch was hardly a hero.

But when Lin Hui was emotional, Elizabeth Nishi's emotion was no less than Lin Hui's.

Even Elizabeth Neess could not have exaggerated the shock of the idea of ​​the past.

Why is this so?
It can only be said that I was scared of being tricked before.

In the past, Elizabeth Nishi has also done many projects in cooperation with other teams.

There are always problems when it comes to handover work.

Even Elizabeth Nishi often encounters such and other problems when coordinating between some departments within Apple.

Not to mention the handover with some teams outside Apple.

Elizabeth Nishi has done the handover of foreign-related projects before.

In the past, these project handovers made Elizabeth Nishi not less aware of some products developed by entrepreneurial teams.

Although the products of these entrepreneurial teams are often very glamorous.

It is easy to get a considerable investment by relying on an excellent PPT.

But in Elizabeth Nishi's view, being able to reap investment can only show that these products can cater to investors' vision.

This does not mean that its products are powerful.

Even based on Elizabeth Nishi's past experience.

Software product functions are often negatively correlated with the technical strength of the product.

The more bells and whistles a software function sounds, the more technical rubbish it tends to be.

In particular, some software projects that are touted as star products by the media or marketing departments are often Shishan.

Even saying that it is Shi Mountain is simply blasphemy.

For the acceptance of such star products, the receiving team is even more miserable.

In many cases, it is said that product acceptance often turns into helping debug.

Normal debugging is painful enough, let alone debugging in Shishan Mountain.

In fact, for this time, I was hand-picked to be responsible for the reception of the shortcut command software.

Elizabeth Nishi refused in her heart.

Elizabeth Nishi had learned about the shortcut command software before.

Shortcut instructions This software has the characteristics of functional diversity.

If you only look at the functions, at first glance, the shortcut command software is a bit like a treasure chest or a collection of tools.

But after in-depth understanding, Elizabeth Nishi discovered that the diversity of functions is just the appearance of the shortcut command software.

Shortcuts, the most attractive feature of the software that attracts users or potential users is actually its "efficiency".

Many operations that traditionally require many steps to complete on Apple mobile phones can be completed in two or three steps with the help of the "shortcut command" intermediate software.

This feature alone is enough to make Apple very interested.

At that time, many Apple's senior technical leaders were also surprised by such a software product that could "simplify system-level operation steps".

Such a product is awesome!

In fact, Apple often has a long process to go through when it makes up its mind to acquire a piece of software.

However, after the technicians explained the functions, there were almost no obstacles to the acquisition of the shortcut command software.

Not to mention, it doesn't make sense not to buy a system-level application that can simplify the interior of an Apple mobile phone.

And it must be taken down directly before the software goes online.

If we really have to wait until products such as shortcut commands are launched and become widely known, wouldn't it appear that Apple is slack in system optimization?
A third-party software can simplify the steps of system-level operations.

It doesn't make sense that Apple officially has a bunch of system-level permissions but can't simplify those very anti-human operations.

Acquisition, must be acquired.

Of course, as a technician, Elizabeth Nishi knew.

In some common application scenarios, with the help of shortcut commands, the steps can be reduced because the software of shortcut commands transforms a process that originally needs to be coordinated in many different software into a one-stop processing, without the need for various software. jump.

Although it involves some specific technical connotations, Elizabeth Nishi is still unclear.

But the shortcut software is at least formally breaking through the sandbox restrictions of iOS.

This alone is enough to make many technicians call it awesome.

In the past, it was not that there were no technicians on Apple's side who tried but were blocked.

However, Lin Hui found a new path in another way.

Elizabeth Nishi was shocked when she came into contact with the shortcut command software.

Elizabeth Nishi also often thinks, how did this GRAY FOREST come up with such a product?
It is undeniable that Lin Hui is a super genius in software development.

The shortcut command software is a superstar item from the product level.

It’s easy to attract financing even with products like PowerPoint that don’t require bells and whistles.

But admiration is nothing but admiration, if Elizabeth Nishi wants to hand over such a product full of innovative ideas, she refuses in her heart.

Even though Lin Hui and Elizabeth Nishi had established a certain friendship before.

But Elizabeth Nishi didn't have much hope for this handover with Lin Hui because of this.

After all, there are too many unprecedented new functions in the shortcut command software made by Lin Hui.

(End of this chapter)