Crossover: 2014

Chapter 280

For users, new features are almost equated with software attractiveness.

Especially in many cases, if a piece of software or a system can be updated with important functions.

Then the download rate of software updates is generally not too low.

After all, if a piece of software uses those functions for a long time, it would be too boring to turn them over and over again.

Even if the basic functions of some software are already very stable, it is necessary to update the appropriate interesting functions.

Even if it is a meal of delicacies from mountains and seas, occasionally some home-cooked meals are needed to adjust the taste.

In short, in order to allow users to experience the software better, it is necessary to push some new features to users in a timely manner.

For users, most of the new features are attractive.

But for techies, the new features aren't so rosy.

With freshness comes the unknown, and new features often mean technical risks and unknown bugs.

It can even be said that the more new functions are required to be implemented on a piece of software, the more prone to bugs such software tends to appear.

There is always a delicate balance between mature reliability and new features.

It's nice to have balance, but it's no fun when that balance is broken.

A software with many new functions like shortcut commands.

When it comes to the handover of the shortcut command software, Elizabeth Nishi is very disturbed.

Although the initial handover with Lin Hui went smoothly.

But Elizabeth Nishi did not relax at all in her heart, but became more tense.

In Elizabeth Nishi's view, bugs in products are a high probability event.

Even if Lin Hui made shortcut commands, the software ran without any problems.

But in many cases, it seems that there is no problem, which does not mean that there is really no problem.

Some Yeluzi developers have made products that can run, but it is very difficult to say how to run them.

It's okay that this kind of Yeluzi software product doesn't have any problems, but it's not a small trouble if it happens.

It's the kind of direct thunderstorm.

When there was a thunderstorm, there was nothing Jesus could do when he came.

With such a state of mind, how could Elizabeth Nishi not be afraid?

However, the smooth development of things proved that his worries were a bit unnecessary.

The handover went smoothly.

For some reason, Elizabeth Nishi suddenly thought of a Chinese proverb she saw a few days ago"

——There are no worthless people under the great name.

Elizabeth Nishi felt that she had wrongly blamed Lin Hui before.

Although the handover process was smooth, Lin Hui estimated that it would take at least two or three days to complete the adaptation upgrade and function upgrade.

If nothing goes wrong in the future, the progress may be further accelerated.

But no matter how fast the progress is, today it is absolutely impossible to handle all the content covered by the adaptation upgrade and function upgrade stipulated in the software transfer contract of the shortcut command.

Apple's handover team led by Elizabeth Nishi is also well aware of this.

Therefore, the Apple handover team led by Lin Hui and Elizabeth Nishi did not deliberately catch up with the progress when performing adaptation upgrades and function upgrades on June 6.

At about 28:[-] pm on the [-]th, I saw that the adaptation and upgrade were almost done.

Lin Hui and Apple's handover team stopped working for the day after a phased summary.

As for the remaining tasks, let's leave it to tomorrow.

Things that involve purely technical aspects may be able to catch up with the progress.

But something like software handover involves both technology and human-to-human cooperation.

Don't talk about such nonsense that every second counts, and today's affairs are completed today.

If you are too fast, it is easy to cause some problems that could have been avoided due to communication gaps.

In short, the handover belongs to the handover, and there is no such thing as working overtime to catch up with the progress.

Resting on time to recharge your batteries is the kingly way.

After today's handover work ended in stages, Lin Hui originally planned to roll back directly to his residence.

But as soon as he walked out of the Beiyu International Conference Center, Lin Hui was stopped by Elizabeth Nishi.

Elizabeth Nishi invited Lin Hui to dinner.

Previously, He Yue from Apple China invited Lin Hui to a dinner party, but Lin Hui refused at that time.

However, Lin Hui did not shirk Elizabeth Nishi's invitation this time.

As for why it is treated differently?

Of course it's not because Elizabeth Nishi's looks are so much better than He Yue's.

It was because of the smooth handover before.

In technical handover, it is often useless to be good alone.

It can only go smoothly if the team works together.

There are various reasons for failed software handovers.

But what all successful and smooth software handovers have in common is that the entire team works together and works together.

When Lin Hui was handing over to Ping Huo.

Apple's technical team is not something that Lin Hui, an "outsider", can command and coordinate.

Everything depends on Elizabeth Nishi to coordinate and arrange tasks.

It can be said that the smooth handover this afternoon has a lot to do with Elizabeth Nishi's role as lubricant.

There is even a high probability of a smooth handover with the Apple team in the next period of time, and Elizabeth Nishi will need to coordinate in the middle.

After that, if a series of upgrade tasks are successfully completed, it will cost 3000 million US dollars.

In this case, not to mention one dinner with Elizabeth Nishi, even ten dinners is not impossible.

In addition, deal with purer technical personnel like Elizabeth Nishi.

Deep down, Lin Hui didn't really resist.

In short, facing the dinner invitation sent by Elizabeth Nishi, Lin Hui readily agreed.

There is nothing to say about eating and drinking.

All in all, it was a good dinner.

Of course, technicians who grow up in different cultural backgrounds will inevitably have some collisions in thinking.

There was also an incident during the dinner.

Elizabeth Nishi asked Lin Hui if he was interested in working in Apple.

Although Elizabeth Nishi's tone seemed to be joking at the time, how should I say it?How much truth is spoken inadvertently in the form of jokes.

Lin Hui didn't know whether Elizabeth Nishi vaguely mentioned whether she represented herself or Apple's official representative, so Lin Hui didn't respond clearly.

Listening to Lin Hui's ambiguous answer, Elizabeth Nishi's personal suggestion was to ask Lin Hui to develop in the United States in the future.

The original words of Elizabeth Nishi are: "Lin, I think your route will most likely be the software route in the future, but your country has almost no soil for the survival of software..."

The subtext of Elizabeth Nishi's so-called development in the United States is nothing more than being a banana person.

This suggestion was almost dismissed by Lin Hui from his mind without thinking.

However, the software living environment that Elizabeth Nishi said is indeed a problem.

An indisputable fact in China is that the software industry is very depressed.

At first glance, domestic Ali and rx software are emerging one after another, and it seems that it is not a word of decay.

But compare the status quo of software in overseas markets.

It will be very sad to find that the domestic software market is completely self-enclosed.

Take SaaS, the so-called SaaS is the abbreviation of Software-as-a-Service, which means software as a service, that is, providing software services through the network.

This is a completely innovative software application model that began to emerge in the 21st century.

Its core is to provide software services based on the Internet.

From a technical point of view: SaaS is a simple deployment, no need to buy any hardware, just a simple registration at the beginning.

Enterprises no longer need to be equipped with IT professional and technical personnel, and at the same time can get the latest technology applications to meet the needs of enterprises for information management.

From the perspective of investment: the enterprise only invests in a relatively low "monthly fee" method, and does not need to invest in place at one time, and does not occupy too much working capital, thereby alleviating the pressure of insufficient funds of the enterprise; it does not need to consider the issue of cost depreciation, and can timely Get the latest hardware platform and the best solution.

From the point of view of maintenance and management: Since the enterprise adopts the method of renting for logistics business management, it does not need special maintenance and management personnel, and does not need to pay additional fees for maintenance and management personnel.To a large extent, it relieves the pressure on human and financial resources of enterprises, enabling them to concentrate funds to effectively operate core businesses; SaaS enables users to be a completely independent system in the world. If they are connected to the network, with the help of SaaS The system can be easily accessed.

Because of its many advantages, the concept of software as a service became popular in the world in the past few years.

Many leading Internet companies in China that followed suit saw the business opportunities and entered this field one after another.

The cowhide was blowing loudly, and the so-called software-as-a-service that came out in the end were all specious things.

Even many things are completely similar to Ye Tu, but the taste is different.

Overseas SaaS vendors or other enterprise service vendors often provide solutions in a modular manner.

Customers can find solutions by themselves according to the solutions provided.

in the domestic market.

On the contrary, SaaS vendors or other enterprise service vendors are only limited to helping customers solve problems.

In short, foreign Internet giants engage in SaaS to be grandpas.

And all the followers in the country just didn't take it as grandpa, and didn't take it as father either. After a whole circle, they became grandchildren directly.

The force is directly low.

Needless to say, if you don’t understand some of the more trendy concepts in the software industry.

Talking about the specific software itself is even more miserable.

At this time in China, except for a WPS that has a sense of presence.

For the rest, there are only a handful of professional software with a high degree of commercialization in China.

As for ordinary software, it can be done.

But it is not necessarily the developers who make money.

On the contrary, pirates are crazily profiting from it.

The ancient poem "He who is full of silk is not a silkworm farmer" probably didn't expect the poet to describe the scene of later generations.

Anyway, the software development industry is often full of recruiters, not developers.

Although the domestic software development status has various problems.

But on the other hand, the desolation of the status quo also means that Lin Hui has a lot of room to display in it.

Lin Hui feels that it is not possible to directly deny the bright future of domestic software and the software industry just because the status quo is not optimistic.

Current Situation If you get involved in pure software in China, although the initial environment is definitely not as superior as it is in foreign countries.

But no environment can create an environment.

When a person of insight discovers the person who can make the domestic software industry glow with unprecedented vitality (Lin Hui: Yes, it is the next person).

Lin Hui believes that the corresponding environment (whether it is the legal environment or the public opinion environment) can be easily constructed.

Lin Hui feels that if software development is rooted in the country for a long time, it also means that it can have a stable rear and high enough guaranteed resources.

For example, the operating system that Lin Hui will carry in the future.

If the operating system is very successful.

Of course, I didn't say that, and it's over if I just steadily march towards the international market according to the situation.

But it doesn't matter if you can't come up with an excellent operating system that can enter the world.

As long as the basic functions of the operating system are reasonable, there is no need to worry about user issues.

After all, no matter how bad Lin Hui made it, it was still made in China.

When it comes to information security, many units already have a grudge against foreign operating systems.

It can be said that at that time, Lin Hui will make the system as long as it is compatible enough and the learning threshold is not high.

Then even the operating system that Lin Hui will develop in the future will be slightly inferior to the mainstream operating system.

There is no need to worry about promotion and the like.

Don't worry about user issues either.

[-] million potential users is a conservative estimate.

It's not that Lin Hui is blindly optimistic, just a little understanding of the downloads of apps similar to the National Anti-Fraud Center.

There are too many things that don’t need to be said, anyway, I understand everything.

The ancients thought twice when they were officials: think about danger, think about retreat, and think about change.

Lin Hui felt that the same was true for doing things.

In the future, the so-called operating system will be too expensive to rely on the domestic market to guarantee the bottom line. In fact, Lin Hui thinks that there is a high probability that this will not happen.

After all, the advantage of being a latecomer is obvious, not to mention that Lin Hui still has a lot of information from his previous life.

The reason for making the above assumptions is just a consideration made by Lin Hui out of "threat".

The only constant in the world is change.

Thinking about the unexpected situation in advance, Lin Hui felt that there was nothing wrong with it. He needed to be cautious in dealing with the world, and think twice before doing anything. Don't wait until things can't be dealt with before regretting the original mistake, and found out it was too late.

Only by being able to think twice can he take a leisurely walk in the courtyard, let the wind and waves rise, and sit firmly on the fishing boat.

In short, Lin Hui feels that although the domestic software development is very difficult at this time, the prospect is bright and the long-term is good.

Therefore, although Lin Hui paid a little attention to what Elizabeth Nishi said, he didn't take it too seriously.

At this dinner, Lin Hui also chatted with Elizabeth Nishi about some things about design thinking.

It's nothing more than something about software design thinking.

From the speech, it seems that Elizabeth Nishi is admiring the simple design.

Many people admire plain design, but different technicians have different understandings of plain design.

Based on Elizabeth Nishi's statement, Lin Hui felt that the simplicity advocated by Elizabeth Nishi sounded very similar to the principle of Occam's razor.

(End of this chapter)