Reboot 2003

Chapter 307 087: What’s the use (two-in-one)

After just a moment of hesitation, Xiao Chen took out the installation package.

Others hesitated to speak, but Ma Yun immediately noticed something was wrong: "What's wrong?"

"nothing……"

The others quickly said it was okay. Now that everything was taken out, they started debugging seriously.

The recently developed "Relic Battle"... the installation package is not large, only a few dozen megabytes.

Copy it to the mobile phone through the data cable. After the installation is completed, an error is reported and cannot be run.

"How is this going?"

Ma Yun didn't understand it for a while, and Chen Qin didn't seem to know either. Teacher Tan asked: "Is this version correct? The game we optimized is another version."

With that said, Teacher Tan fiddled with restarting the phone. This time everything went well. He fiddled with a game client from nowhere and installed it on the Lenovo phone for testing.

This time everything went smoothly, and the installation was successful quickly. After entering the game, the loading page showed a fantasy-style color CG, with a heroic general in armor and a group of soldiers fighting the enemy.

After loading successfully, enter the game and a dialog box will pop up.

"Lord, welcome to the Ruin Battle! This game is currently undergoing a 20-day public test, please enter the invitation code..."

I can clearly feel that this is an online game. Xiao Chen enthusiastically guided Mr. Ma on how to play the game. Of course, there is actually nothing easy to do. After entering the game, there is a step-by-step novice guide. You can see that this is a role-playing game. In Lord's game, players enter the game through matching and can start a game of territorial hegemony with other game players in a room of eight people.

I don’t know much about the specific player Ma Yun, of course, it’s not too important, but now it seems that this is a 2D game, the interface has good art effects, the portraits of lords, buildings, and soldiers are lifelike, and there are heroic warriors of the Tang Dynasty. , there are also Persian dancers with brown skin and blue eyes.

The battle method is not much different from the map of the same name, but the battle method has become automatic battle. On the game interface, the player's own territory and troops are below. It is said to be an army, but it is actually some UI and cards with the image of stone bricks. After entering the battle, these 'soldiers' will be accompanied by the sound effect of the sword being unsheathed, and will collide with the opponent's soldiers with golden light that seems to indicate 'battle', and the particle effects will be used to represent the results of the battle between the two sides...

This picture doesn’t seem very impressive.

Ma Yun could tell at a glance - anyway, it might be a little more in-depth than the 3D game about drawing blocks, but the hardware requirements for mobile phones are not that high.

Ma Yun praised: "Yes, very impressive, Xiao Chen, which of these did you do?"

Xiao Chen chuckled and said, "I designed the hero, but there were quite a lot of people involved. There are over thirty people from Galaxy Software."

Although the graphics requirements are not high and he is the designer himself, it is not easy to make the game because there are no reference standards in all aspects. More than 30 people may not sound like a lot, but they are all transferred from various parts of the company. There are experienced people, including those who work on algorithms, some on the front end, and designers with TRPG experience who were brought in by Moyou.com when they were working on Three Kingdoms. Considering that this game will need to be operated for at least a year, it is said to be an 'investment of tens of millions' In fact, it’s not too different.

Of course, Ma Yun probably asked casually, but he was still concerned about the mobile phone system.

"This is a version that can run on our own Alibaba OS, right?" Ma Yun asked, "Compared with Galaxy Software, which aspect is better?"

Ping Yizhi reported the same as last time: "Probably the smoothness is higher and the loading speed is faster..."

As he said this, he proposed to compare it like last time, so he took out the Guazi mobile phone from last year and installed "Relics Brawl" on it.

This time the two sides compared, entered the game simultaneously, and performed operations simultaneously. This is probably because the game itself is not very performance-hungry. There is generally no difference in the effect. Only when the particle effect explodes, it can be seen that Ali OS is slightly smoother. , but not very obvious.

At this point, it seems that this system is indeed what these guys said, and it is generally pretty good.

The compatibility is good and the optimization performance is slightly better. Although this accounts to a certain extent for the better hardware of the Lenovo mobile phone used as a demonstration, the actual difference is not that obvious.

But it’s just a work report to the boss, and many things don’t need to be so clearly defined.

After the acceptance, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but at this moment, Ma Yun asked: "How come your installation package just now is a specially made one?"

He said: "Since it is compatible, shouldn't it be better to use an installation package directly? Anyway, the underlying system of both sides is the same. If a distribution has a standard and applications cannot be installed on each other, then wouldn't we become Linux?"

The previous generation of IT people were deeply impressed by the current situation of Linux - although it is open source, because there are many distributions and the characteristics of different terminals are different, the ecosystem is in a mess. Now take Xiao Chen's big fight as an example. He created a special version of the installation package. It would be trivial for the two installation packages to be easily confused in the future, but what he valued was the more common situation. If a piece of software needed to be specially optimized to run on his own system, then this compatibility strategy would not be necessary. Done.

Teacher Tan replied: "I am mainly responsible for optimizing Xiao Chen's game. Because the situation of his game is more... special, I did some optimization alone."

The executive 'Ping Yizhi' also said: "Most other applications can be used in one installation package."

Ma Yun became even more curious: "What special method is it specifically? What are the specific differences between his game and the game of drawing blocks just now?"

"In general, theirs is an online game," Teacher Tan seemed to be thinking about it. "The game needs to communicate with the server at any time, and the player's battles are also calculated by the server..."

Ma Yun asked: "I want to ask why our own system cannot run this thing?"

Ping scratched his face with his fingers. Teacher Tan seemed unable to hide, so he could only say: "It mainly requires some external resources. If you have to run it, you can actually run it, but for some functions that have nothing to do with performance, , I made a separate version that adapts to our system..."

Ma Yun was even more confused: "So the two versions are different? I didn't find it, so what is the specific difference?"

Then he looked at Xiao Chen: "Xiao Chen, can you tell me?"

The game on the screen was still open, and the game interfaces on the two mobile phones looked the same. Xiao Chen did not show off and reminded him: "Mr. Ma, think carefully, it was different when you entered the game just now."

Ma Yun suddenly came to his senses: "By the way, we entered an activation code on our own system, and entered it directly on Guazi's phone."

Xiao Chen explained directly: "Yes, although the content of the two clients is exactly the same, when entering the game, Guazi mobile phone can directly enter. There is a separate verification link on the Alibaba OS side..."

Ma Yun felt more and more problematic: "Why? Since the game content is exactly the same..."

"Because our game needs to make money," Xiao Chen said. "Galaxy has invested a lot of money. Although the game is still being tested, charging elements will definitely be included in the future."

Ma Yun didn't understand: "Then there's a fee. If the ones over there in the galaxy can charge it, so can ours. If there are any functions that can't be realized, we can also provide help."

"I know that Teacher Tan has helped us solve this problem before. The client he made that requires an activation code helped us solve this problem. The game is still a beta version now." Chen Qin said, "When the official version is released, that The activation code can be replaced by a paid app store, or paid through a telecommunications business to obtain game qualifications."

Ma Yun nodded, thoughtfully: "This is how Mobile Treasure Box sells games now, but what about on the native Kaitian OS?"

"The native system is free," Chen Qin said. "Because there are many free games on mobile phones, we plan to use a free model with them and make money through prop payment and advertising."

Ma Yun somewhat understood what the problem was: "So the reason why it is different now is that these functions cannot be implemented in our system?"

"Well, although Teacher Tan can help with optimization, he can only optimize our games." Chen Qin said, "The advertiser's API interface and network page jumps all need some functional support from the native system."

Ma Yun was confused: "Then they can have these functions, why don't we?"

"Because it has been cut off." Teacher Tan said, "These functions are integrated into the Internet component of Java, which takes up a lot of system space, so..."

Ma Yun somewhat understood: "Then if it is so important, why do we need to cut it? Don't optimize things that are not necessary."

Teacher Tan was depressed: "Because that's what Google does." Ping Yizhi quickly said: "Generally speaking, it shouldn't be used in most cases."

"Oh?"

"Just like the game about drawing blocks just now, it can still run without this function. If the other party has external advertisements, it will not affect the user experience if it cannot be loaded." Ping Yizhi explained, "Games like Xiao Chen's require full Internet access. It’s not much to begin with, and besides, there’s actually no difference in the gaming experience between the two.”

Ma Yun breathed a sigh of relief and concluded: "In other words, although our system has good compatibility, it is subject to some restrictions when calling external functions."

"Yes."

“So although our optimization is better, we still have functional flaws compared to the native version.” He continued to conclude, “But compared to Google, our system is much better. Our optimization should be similar to theirs, but our system is more compatible. .”

Ping Yizhi hummed, but he felt Ma Yun staring at him keenly: "Ping Yizhi, are you sure about this? Is there some other way to our compatibility?"

Ping Yi touched his nose with a finger: "In general, yes, after all, we are mainly in China."

"why?"

"Uh……"

Ma Yun looked at Xiao Chen, who said: "Because those programs will identify the installation environment based on the system signature. In fact, Google's system can also run, but the developers do not allow it."

Ma Yun's brows furrowed deeper and deeper: "Is it because this is a program that appeared on the Galaxy Software's own activities?"

The answer is obviously not that. That’s because people make games to make money. If ads can’t run, developers will naturally choose not to run them on the corresponding platform, so this is obviously a deliberate setting.

Ma Yun took a deep breath. He thought there was nothing to hesitate about this matter before, but after actually making the thing, the issue of compatibility seemed to be more than a simple matter. The comparison of technical advantages and disadvantages has become a route choice.

Specific to the question, it is 'whether to ensure that users can see ads'. On the surface, system optimization is obviously more important, but if this cannot be ensured, developers will obviously go to the other side - like Xiao Chen It’s okay for those who are willing to design a direct paid version for their own systems, but what about other developers?

Of course, if this is the extent of the problem, everything seems to be fine.

As Heping Zhi said, there are only a few games like Xiao Chen that can be fully connected to the Internet.

For most free software, it is really not that important whether the advertising system is healthy. It may not necessarily be correct for Google to take this path at this time, but Alibaba is a Chinese company after all, and many places may be more convenient, such as the Jenga game that just came out. , it is said that it was made by foreigners. It may be a bit troublesome for Google to force him to be compatible with the system, but his Ali is in China, so it should not be a problem to directly make the other party 'compatible'.

In addition, being incompatible with key network components, although it does have disadvantages, can be used as a short-term strategy.

As long as you use this path to build a reputation, in the future the hardware will be better and the technology will be accumulated.

When the time comes to seriously optimize, it should actually be a good way.

Thinking about it this way, the problem at hand seems to be no longer a problem.

But... I always feel like I've overlooked something.

The game on the two mobile phones is still running. Although no one is operating, the game is still running round after round.

Obviously, the graphics performance of Lenovo's mobile phone is better, but when it comes to exchanging information with the server in each round, its 'waiting' time is longer. This is probably the same as what Xiao Chen said, the native system has more support for Internet communication. good.

So Ma Yun began to think deeply - what does it mean for mobile phones to call Internet resources at any time on the front-end level?
It may not seem very important. Compared with the spare memory and graphics performance, other functions can be sacrificed.

But these sacrificed things...can they really only be used when playing games?
"I feel that our system is still very meaningful. The two mobile phones we are showing may have similar parameters, but most mobile phones nowadays do not have such high configurations. We can wait until the performance improves before supporting these Internet functions..."

Ping Yizhi's idea was similar to what Ma Yun had just thought. Seeing that Mr. Ma was deep in thought, he said this cautiously.

He added: "In addition, for comparison, we also found several recently released mobile phones from other manufacturers."

"We didn't get Yamaha's music phone, which is the most popular phone in Japan right now, but we did buy a recent Pengcheng 360 product. Their phone hasn't been officially released yet. I asked someone to find it and they gave it to the media. The machine under review…”

As he said that, he took out a black mobile phone from the cabinet. It seemed to be no different from other large-screen mobile phones that have been popular recently. As an insider, Ma Yun knew that this was something that the former CEO of Yahoo ran out to start a business. Galaxy Software is very close, so it received a lot of technical support from Guazi, and it made a mobile phone in half a year. The appearance of this set is also obviously Guazi style, and other companies can't use it.

Compared with other mobile phones, it focuses on a low price. Now it sells for less than [-] yuan. Maybe the performance is not that good. Ma Yun wanted to take a closer look at the gap between this mobile phone and high-end brands, but at this time he felt that A vague worry seemed to be boiling uneasily.

What is the specific use of Internet support capabilities?

For users, they may watch ads, watch videos and play games at any time, but most people don’t have that much traffic, so it may be useless.

But how could it be useless? As an Internet terminal, is a PC fundamentally different from a mobile phone?But if the Internet has better performance, is its advantage just that it is more convenient to watch ads?
At this moment, after the phone's 360 Logo flashed and the default background of the Guazi phone was loaded, Ma Yun suddenly saw several unfamiliar pre-installed software on its desktop.

He quickly snatched the phone over, but Ping Yiyi didn't pay attention and was still explaining to him: "This 360 is like nothing else. It really knows how to make ads. It has a bunch of pre-installed software and it also comes with their mobile assistant."

At this time, Xiao Chen asked: "What mobile assistant?"

"It's the kind of software on computers that can transfer apps to mobile phones..."

Xiao Chen asked at this time: "It's like iTunes, right? No wonder..."

What does iTunes have to do with this?Others didn't care about him.

But Ma Yun took the phone and saw a bunch of strange pre-installed software.

Weibo, Galaxy Browser, Galaxy Input Method, Dianping, 360 Weather, 360 Information...

Most of them are traditional pre-installed software on Kaitian mobile phones, which is one of the reasons why everyone thinks this system is profitable. Pre-installation of pirated systems can make a lot of money, let alone genuine systems. But before I heard that Galaxy agreed to customize the pre-installed software according to the requirements of the hardware manufacturer. It seems that 360 Company has added some small software developed by itself. Their boss that week was not bad at technology, and now it seems that he has started to take this path.

Maybe there wouldn’t have been such a long detour in the first place?Speaking of which, someone had advised him to start working on the application layer earlier last time, and it seemed that this was also the case.

This thought flashed through Ma Yun's mind, but at the moment he couldn't care less about it.

Among a lot of pre-installed software, he saw an application called 'Chimei Mall'. Chimei.com is a shopping website in the Galaxy Software camp. It has been self-operated in the past two years, which has put some pressure on Taobao. It is also now His most important competitor is Tmall.

Ma Yun clicked in. This Chimei Mall was still very simple, but just looking at the label, Ma Yun was so shocked that he broke into a cold sweat——

'Personal information' 'New product information' 'Tracking logistics'...

These are normal. He had thought about providing these functions before. In fact, the WAP version of Taobao can already do this.

But the interface of this Chimei Mall is better-looking, with a simple and intuitive UI and logo pictures of some categories. Although it is essentially the same as the WAP version, considering the successful history of Weibo's mobile terminals, such a standalone application is obviously useful. of value.

What's more, the wap version itself has great limitations. It can surf the Internet, but can only browse information and text, and its security is worrying. This Chimei Mall is very generous. It not only has the functions of these traditional e-commerce Wap pages, but also directly integrates a wap The 'shopping and ordering' function, which is very troublesome to implement, is generously placed on the homepage...

(End of this chapter)