My rebirth is different

Chapter 812 Own Mobile Phone System

In fact, it is not that Baidu has not made efforts. Last year, their own online community, Baidu Tieba, was launched.

In the original history, Baidu's god-level product, but under the influence of Yu Wenfei, the development has not been so smooth.

Compared with Facebook, Baidu Tieba's simple user interface is simply a product that is behind an era...

How can users go back to Baidu Tieba when they are used to Facebook?

Therefore, Baidu Tieba has been lukewarm for more than half a year since its launch, and even within Baidu, it has not paid much attention to this product.

Just treat it like a normal internet forum.

Of course, when Baidu Tieba was established, it was very ambitious, to be the largest Chinese forum in the world!

Its goal is to target the Tianya community, and the comparison is not Facebook.

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Yu Wenfei didn't pay too much attention to the battle between Facebook Entertainment and Baidu, and it wasn't something that would come to fruition in a short while.

He is pulling Lu Qi, the technical director of Facebook, and Li Xin, the vice president of technology of WeChat Technology Company, to discuss a major event behind closed doors.

"Have you ever learned about the operating system of a mobile phone?"

Yu Wenfei asked.

Lu Qi and Li Xin are both engaged in technology, and both Facebook and WeChat have mobile terminals, so they naturally know about mobile phones.

So both of them nodded, and Lu Qi said first: "I understand that the current mobile phone operating system is relatively complicated. Basically, every brand has its own system, but most of the functions are relatively simple. I think the more developed one is Nokia's Cypress Class system, and Microsoft's WP."

Li Xin also nodded to express his approval, "Nokia's Symbian is actually not that easy to use, but Nokia is a mobile phone giant. Just relying on its own company's mobile phone market share, the Symbian system can also become the mainstream. There is also Microsoft's WP, This is also the current smart phone currently on the market. But both systems have relatively large flaws and are not stable enough.”

"Then have you ever thought that we can develop our own mobile phone operating system?" Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

"Ah? My own operating system..." The two were surprised. What does the mobile operating system have to do with them.

"Why not? Although Facebook and WeChat Technology will not get involved in the hardware industry, our brother company, Star Electronics, will soon own several mobile phone brands, and will occupy a large share of the mobile phone market in the future!
We have our own technical team. It is not difficult to develop a mobile phone system. Why pay to use someone else's system? "Yu Wenfei asked back.

Lu Qi nodded thoughtfully, yes, it is really not difficult to develop a mobile phone system, and many mobile phone companies have developed it.

Moreover, the mobile phone market is not as highly unified as the computer market, and currently there is no standard.

Each mobile phone manufacturer pays for authorization or develops a system for their own mobile phones according to their own needs.

Because the functions of the mobile phone are relatively simple, the system is not complicated.

According to his understanding, just like Nokia's Symbian system, it only needs to give him a team of dozens of people, and it can take a few months to develop, and it will definitely not be worse than Symbian!

In fact, this is the case. The Android system, which almost dominated the world, was developed by a team of several people at the beginning, and it is indeed relatively simple.

In the future, the reason why no mobile phone brand manufacturers will develop their own operating systems.

That is also not developed, but with the rapid development of smart phones, there are too many APP software.

It is useless for you to have a system alone, and you need a lot of APP software to support your system, but you already have an Android system, and it occupies the vast majority of the share. Why should APP software manufacturers develop software for your system alone? Woolen cloth?

Unless you're willing to spend huge sums of money customizing it, but that's going to cost too much.

Therefore, Android does not complete the monopoly technically, but completes the natural monopoly and entry threshold in market share.

In other words, anyone and any company can develop a new mobile phone system, and it is not difficult, but after you develop it, how do you use it?

On other people's Android systems, there is a large amount of software support, and your system has nothing but basic functions.

You know, later on, a mobile phone is no longer just a mobile phone, it is a mobile smart terminal!
It can even be said that the communication function has been weakened, and various entertainment functions occupy most of your usage time.

What you use every day is actually all kinds of software, not the functions of the phone itself.

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"Listening to Mr. Fei, I think it is indeed possible. The current mobile phone system is so chaotic. If we make a better system and use it for brother companies in the future, wouldn't it be a combination of software and hardware, and a seamless connection. "Lu Qi said excitedly.

"Well, there is an advantage to this, that is, we are the system developers ourselves. Our mobile software can be more compatible with the system, more stable and more effective!" Li Xin also nodded.

The two of them didn't think so far now, they just thought that after developing the system, it would only be used by their brother company.

I never thought that the system could be licensed to other mobile phone brands, let alone that the system developed by myself would one day occupy the vast majority of the mobile phone market, and even dominate the world!
Of course, there is no need for Yu Wenfei to talk about this now, the most urgent thing is to get the mobile phone system out first.

"I'm not very proficient in technology, but I have a suggestion, that is, this system will be made into an open source system in the future and developed based on the Linux platform. You should understand the benefits of doing so better than me." Yu Wenfei took it easy said.

"Open source? That is, any company can directly use and modify it? This is a bit of a disadvantage for us..." Lu Qi muttered.

"That's great! If it is open source, then the market share of this system will increase rapidly, and more software companies will be willing to develop software on this system." Li Xin thinks more clearly.

"Yes, the development system is simple, but it is too troublesome to develop all kinds of software. We cannot develop all kinds of software on our own, so we must rely on the power of the public. So our system is directly open source , for everyone to use for free, so that more mobile phone manufacturers and software companies will adopt our system. After all, everyone likes things that don’t cost money, and Symbian and Microsoft’s WP both require licensing fees.”

The purpose of Yuwenfei is to come up with a mobile phone operating system in advance to replace the Android system a few years later!
Now he has the absolute advantage of developing his own mobile operating system.

Facebook and WeChat Technology have a large number of senior programmers. To be honest, developing a mobile operating system is not difficult for them!

In addition, at Star Electronics, legendary mobile phones have become a best-selling brand, and Lenovo mobile phones will start to make efforts this year.

The high-end TPHONE is also under intense research and development.

In two or three years, Star Electronics Group will have three major mobile phone brands covering high, middle and low end, and its market share will also be able to challenge traditional mobile phone giants.

At that time, there will be its own mobile phone brand, its own chip, and its own operating system!

Who else can challenge himself?

"Leave this matter to Facebook. Lu Qi, you should form a project team as soon as possible to develop a mobile operating system." Yu Wenfei finally arranged.

"Okay, Mr. Fei, leave this matter to me. Give me half a year, and I will definitely come up with a mobile phone system that satisfies you." Lu Qi promised, patted his chest.

"Ah? Nothing to do with me?" Li Xin said a little depressed.

"Haha, you still have another thing to do, so don't meddle in the affairs of this system." Yu Wenfei laughed.

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After Lu Qi left, only Yu Wenfei and Li Xin were left, and the next thing to talk about was WeChat technology.

"Do you know the QR code?" Yu Wenfei asked.

"I know, this is a substitute for barcodes, and is generally used in retail and transportation industries." Li Xin replied, but he was a little confused.

What does this QR code have to do with WeChat?

Li Xin is right, QR codes are a substitute for traditional barcodes.

Barcode is also called one-dimensional code. The birth of this technology has almost changed the form of business activities around the world, making the work efficiency of cashiers more efficient and customers saving more time.However, the first generation of barcodes still uses a circular design, and to complete scanning, a giant scanner with a 500-watt luminous body needs to be installed.

After decades of development, one-dimensional codes (that is, barcodes) composed of multiple black bars and spaces of varying widths have begun to expose many shortcomings, such as small data capacity, only letters and numbers, and barcode size. Disadvantages of being relatively large and that the barcode cannot be read after it has been damaged.

In order to make up for these shortcomings, people began to look for better alternatives at this time.

In 1994, Denso Corporation of Japan officially announced the release of the first QR code!
Although Japan's Denso Corporation owns the patent right of QR codes, in order to promote the use of QR codes, the use of QR codes has become more common.

So they made it clear that the patent is free and open to use, and they hope that the QR code will become a "public code" that can be used without cost and with confidence.

"Our WeChat needs to add a code scanning function, which will be a very useful function in the future.

By scanning the code, our WeChat will have very practical and important functions.

For example, when adding a friend, you don't need to enter the friend's WeChat ID, you can directly scan the other party's QR code to add it.

For example, when paying by WeChat, you don’t need to enter the other party’s first account number, just scan the other party’s first QR code!
Wait, wait, only you can't think of it, nothing can't be done! "

(End of this chapter)