my return 2002

Chapter 351 Introducing the Wolf
One day in mid-March, Shen Lang called Liang Han, the person in charge of YY, He Xiaopeng, the person in charge of Xingchen Technology, and Wang Xiaochuan, the person in charge of the AI ​​Research Institute, to his office.

"Wang Xiaochuan has recently made another breakthrough in the research and development of intelligent voice. I called you here because I am planning to create an instant messaging software based on the Xingchen mobile phone system in addition to YY. I need to draw a batch of technology from each of you. Backbone, I want to ask your opinion."

He Xiaopeng and Wang Xiaochuan were fine, but Liang Han's face changed when he heard this.

"Mr. Shen, YY's performance on the mobile phone side is also very good. If we develop a new software, isn't it that we are fighting against ourselves?"

Shen Lang wasn't angry either, and asked casually, "Has YY's market share in mobile phones surpassed that of QQ?"

"This..." Liang Han fell silent.

Shen Lang said seriously: "I know that QQ can occupy a large market share of mobile phones because Penguin started early and occupied a large number of functional phone markets, but one thing is undeniable, there is no difference between YY and QQ in essence, our user advantage on PC It is also difficult to transmit to the mobile phone, so it is necessary to make an instant messaging software based on the star system, rather than a simple transplant."

He Xiaopeng and Wang Xiaochuan knew that Shen Lang had already made up his mind after hearing the words, and they were called to cooperate today.

"I'm OK."

"I'm fine."

Upon seeing this, Liang Han quickly expressed his opinion: "Mr. Shen, I also agree."

Shen Lang nodded: "That's good, let's do this, the team drawn from your team will re-establish a company, led by the original YY team, and Xingchen Technology will cooperate with the team of the AI ​​Research Institute. The new project is called [ WeChat] All right."

The reason why wechat was launched was not because we were afraid that Penguin would use the mobile terminal to surpass YY again. He had a weapon like the star system in his hand. You can't compete with him.

Shen Lang is very clear that the fortresses are collapsing from the inside. YY has not yet unified the rivers and lakes, and many things have not been shown. Once QQ is completely defeated, the lack of innovation ability brought about by monopoly is an inevitable result.

You must establish a competitor for YY, even if the competitor is yourself.

After the meeting ended, Shen Lang left Liang Han alone, poured him a glass of water, and comforted him.

"The establishment of a new company is not to share your rights. The YY team can also use the research and development results of the Star System and the AI ​​Research Institute. I hope you can understand that our competitor is not Penguin, but ourselves."

"Mr. Shen, I understand what to do." Liang Han nodded solemnly.

When the big boss gave the order, no one dared to be negligent. A brand new company was established in less than a week. Each team originally worked in an industrial park, but now they just moved to the same floor to work, and there is no need for an adaptation period. Go straight to work.

According to Shen Lang's request, the WeChat team began to develop a new instant messaging software with two technologies of video communication + fast voice transmission as the core.

To put it bluntly, this is also due to the upcoming popularization of 3G mobile phones. In many cases, the advancement of science and technology relies more on the popularization of infrastructure. It seems that the development of the Internet industry in the Mainland also benefited from the Internet. Popularity, the improvement of computer hardware configuration, otherwise everything is just a mirror image.

However, at this time, a difficult news came. In order to accelerate the popularization of 3G network, Unicom introduced iphone3G mobile phone, while China Telecom introduced Blackberry mobile phone, and China Mobile cooperated with mobile phone manufacturers to jointly develop the ophone mobile phone operating system.

For mobile operators, the construction of 3G networks needs subsequent income to maintain, but currently there are 2G mobile phones on the market, and 3G networks cannot be used at all. What should I do?
Mobile operators have set their sights on mobile phone manufacturers in developed countries. Countries such as Europe and the United States have already used 3G networks, and agent mobile phones can make extra money. Why not do it?

From the perspective of a mobile operator, this is a normal business practice, which is understandable, but from the perspective of Shen Lang, this is undoubtedly inviting wolves into the house. Although Blackberry and Apple are closed systems and are not open to the outside world, Apple The mobile phone with BlackBerry will occupy the market share of the star system mobile phone, which will have great destructive power on his layout on the mobile phone end.

Especially the hungry wolf of Apple. In one year, the magic machine iphone4 will come out. Although the star system with a complete ecological layout will not be worse than the Apple system, it will not be able to stand up to the aura of Apple.

Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Shen Lang immediately called Lei Jun and Bai Yongxiang respectively, asking them about the progress of Meizu M8 and Mi 2.

Lei Jun and Bai Yongxiang also heard the news, saying that they would hold the Meizu M8 and Xiaomi Mi 2 press conference before the end of the month, which made Shen Lang heave a sigh of relief, fortunately he was not fighting alone.

It is worth mentioning that China Mobile and mobile phone manufacturers jointly developed the ophone mobile phone operating system, among which the most important partner in the mainland is Lenovo.

Speaking of which, Yang Yuanqing is also an old acquaintance. When the Meizu M6 became popular before, he also got a handheld computer, but he encountered Waterloo. Later, he was not reconciled. Seeing that Meizu and Xiaomi launched mobile phones one after another, he launched a Symbian Unfortunately, the mobile phones of the Symbian system can't beat the orthodox brand Nokia of the Symbian system, and Nokia has launched a comprehensive acquisition invitation for Symbian.

Even if Lenovo wanted to use the Symbian system in the future, it would not be able to use it. This is why Yang Yuanqing cooperated with China Mobile to develop the ophone mobile phone operating system.

What's more interesting is that in fact, Google also contacted Yang Yuanqing, wanting Lenovo to join the Android Alliance, but in Yang Yuanqing's view, Android at this time has no technical content at all, and it is better to build an operating system by itself, so he refused. .

Google is actually besieged on all sides. It not only has to face mature mobile phone operating systems such as Apple and BlackBerry, but also has to face the Big Mac, which has Nokia as its backing. .

However, Shen Lang knows that there is not much time left for him. In at most two years, the Android system will start to deploy a globalization strategy. At that time, the mainland will definitely be an important strategic area for Android. Xingchen and Android are also open systems. , It will inevitably be a life-and-death battle.

And backed by a giant like Google, even if Android fails in the mainland market, it can still be made up for in the international market. If the star system fails, the consequence will be the fall of the entire mainland mobile phone operating system market. accepted.

So Shen Lang invited all mobile phone manufacturers using the Star system to the Inspur Industrial Park for a meeting, and Shen Lang also sent invitation letters to ZTE, Huawei, Coolpad and even Lenovo, which have not cooperated with them before.

Both ZTE and Huawei sent a vice president to attend the meeting, and Guo Deying, the chairman of Coolpad, even came in person. Not surprisingly, Lenovo did not send anyone, not even a reply letter, but this is also in line with Yang Yuanqing's arrogant style of doing things.

On the top floor of the Wave Building, Shen Lang personally greeted the mobile phone manufacturer representatives who came to the meeting at the door. Compared with last time, there were a lot more people this time. Among them, all the mobile phone manufacturers who had cooperated with Shen Lang naturally came. There are quite a few manufacturers who intend to make mobile phones, and one of them surprised Shen Lang.

"Mr. Shen, do you mind if I join in the fun?" Zhou Hongyi unexpectedly also arrived.

Reach out and don't hit the smiling person, not to mention that he was the victor in the last 3j war, the victor's posture should be higher.

Shen Lang quickly adjusted his mood and said: "Mr. Zhou is joking, as long as there is sincere cooperation, our Inspur Group has always treated each other with courtesy."

"Then I can rest assured. Before I came, I was afraid that Mr. Shen would drive me out."

"Where is it? In the past, we were just competing normally in business. I also admire Mr. Zhou's ability."

Seeing Zhou Hongyi chatting happily with Shen Lang, many mobile phone manufacturers who were not invited to inquire about the situation secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Shen Lang was not surprised that Zhou Hongyi wanted to make a mobile phone. Zhou Hongyi had made a 360 mobile phone in his previous life, but because he entered the game too late, he didn't get the first round of crabs, and was gradually eliminated by the market.

Now that Shen Lang has provided chip + operating system and software ecological technical support, which has greatly lowered the threshold for mobile phone manufacturing. Zhou Hongyi sees that it is profitable, so it is not surprising to let go of past grievances. Businessmen, there is no permanent enemy. .

The meeting room was full of people, Shen Lang glanced at it, there were more than 40 people, fortunately this meeting room was big enough, otherwise there would be no room for them to sit.

"First of all, I welcome you all to come, and I would like to trouble you all for a trip, thank you for your trust in Shen." Shen Lang kept his posture very low, and did not become arrogant just because he had mastered the dominant power. He regarded others as subordinates, a great man Once said: Make friends more and enemies less.

"Boss Shen is too polite."

"Yeah, Mr. Shen is serious. It's hard work. The most important thing is that everyone can make money."

For a while, the meeting room was full of noise, and some unfamiliar faces who came here for the first time desperately praised Shen Lang, wanting to leave a good impression on Shen Lang, like Chen Yongming from OPPO, they looked like old gods, waiting quietly Shen Lang's dry goods.

Shen Lang didn't continue to be polite to everyone, and went straight to the point: "I believe everyone should know that the 3G network has been opened, and the mobile phone will soon usher in the 3G era. This time I invite you to talk about 3G mobile phones. matter."

As soon as the voice fell, Xu Lihua from Bird Mobile said: "Mr. Shen, we all know that 3G mobile phones are good, but we must also consider the current consumption level of the people. Mobile phones like ours rely on small profits but high sales. Manufacturers, it is difficult to sell the price, and rashly doing 3G cost control is a big problem."

"Yes, Mr. Xu is right. I think the risk of doing 3G is still too great."

"The 3G baseband module alone will cost a lot of money. Unlike Xiaomi and Meizu, we can sell such a high price. If it is too expensive, we will not be competitive."

Many low-end mobile phone manufacturers have echoed Xu Lihua. It often takes a long time for a new technology to go through a long process from research and development to popularization. Take 3G network as an example. It seems that there are only four years in the middle, but the popularity of 09G mobile phones in the market has not exceeded 13% until 4, and a considerable number of people are still using 4G mobile phones in 18.

Shen Lang waited for them to finish speaking before continuing to speak: "Everyone, please be safe and don't be impatient. Here I want to clarify that we are a cooperative relationship from the beginning to the end. There are no mandatory clauses in the Star System, let alone mandatory clauses. Interfering with everyone's normal business operations."

"Inviting everyone to the meeting this time is to provide an opportunity to communicate with each other on the one hand, and on the other hand, I want to share with you some of our recent research and development results."

After speaking, Shen Lang gave up the stage to Wang Xiaochuan.

It was the first time for Wang Xiaochuan to show his R&D results on such an occasion, so he was a little nervous, but seeing everyone's curious eyes on him, Wang Xiaochuan calmed down and asked his assistant to pull up the curtains and turn off the lights.

A projection appeared on the curtain behind him, and Wang Xiaochuan also began to talk eloquently.

"This is the latest version 2.0 of the intelligent voice system developed by our AI Intelligence Research Institute. We all know that the voice files collected by recording software are very large, but our intelligent voice system can convert a 30-second The voice file is compressed to only 20KB, I think everyone should know what this means."

As soon as the words fell, there was a lot of discussion on the scene. Many representatives of mobile phone manufacturers whispered to each other, and some were completely ignorant of technology and looked at a loss.

Chen Yongming stood up first: "Mr. Wang, is what you said true? Is it really possible to compress the recording file to such a small size? Will it affect the sound quality?"

Seeing everyone's surprised expressions, Wang Xiaochuan felt unprecedentedly satisfied, and smiled confidently: "The impact will definitely have a certain impact. It is definitely unrealistic to expect it to match the professional-level sound quality of the recording studio, but it will definitely not affect the audio-visual."

While talking, Wang Xiaochuan didn't wait for Chen Yongming's urging, and started to ask his assistant to record a voice on the spot, exactly 30 seconds before and after, and then played it out for everyone to listen to.

Although it is a bit noisy, as Wang Xiaochuan said, it does not affect the audio-visual experience at all, and every word can be heard clearly.

Then Wang Xiaochuan opened the folder where the intelligent voice system stores audio files. After opening, he found the audio file he had just recorded. Click on Properties. First, it took up 22KB of memory, which was 2KB more than what Wang Xiaochuan said, but it was enough to make people feel uncomfortable. Amazing.

Chen Yongming asked excitedly: "Mr. Shen, when will this intelligent voice 2.0 system be embedded in the star system?"

Shen Lang smiled: "We are already developing a brand new communication software. The voice collection technology used in this communication software is based on this intelligent voice system."

(End of this chapter)