521. Choice of mobile phone system

In fact, to be precise, smartphones are not new to later generations.

In fact, back in 1992, IBM began building the world's first smartphone, Simon. Launched in 1994, Simon was the first hybrid product of a mobile phone and a handheld computer and was classified as a smartphone. At the time, it was priced at $899 and came with 4.4 support for sending and receiving faxes and emails, as well as Notes.

The introduction of cameras in 2000 was a milestone in the history of smartphone development.

In '02, the world was in the palm of your hand, and the Palm Treo was a revolutionary product with a variety of convenient features such as sending emails, and the Palm Treo 270 was one of the first to feature a color screen. It also comes with 16MB of storage and has a rather sleek look.

However, this name, I am afraid that it will be replaced by the Voyager S1, the configuration of the S1 is undoubtedly higher than that of the Palm Treo, and the performance is more advanced in all aspects, there is no reason why it cannot replace the position of the Palm Treo.

Then came '07, the year Apple changed the world. In 2007, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, unlike any other phone that had ever been done before, with an attractive design and an easy-to-use interface that set the tone for the way the world communicated.

In '08, Android was born, HTC droid was originally a Linux-based system, Google took it under its umbrella, and Dream was the first phone to be equipped with features such as copy-paste, drop-down notification reminders, and home screen widgets. It's a "Google" phone, so it comes with Gmail and Google Maps – features that are now standard.

In the next 10 years, the battle for supremacy between Samsung and Apple began. In 10 years, Samsung launched the Galaxy S flagship smartphone, officially challenging Apple. Equipped with a 5-megapixel camera and a Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, it is Samsung's benchmark for the iPhone. In the years that followed, the rivalry between the company and Apple intensified. And it all started with the birth of the Galaxy S.

But to be honest, Zhou Fangyuan is no longer ready to give these two companies a chance.

The history of Samsung mobile phones is quite long, in the 80s of the last century, the predecessor of the mobile phone, the big brother phone, came out, Samsung's first big brother mobile phone SH-100 was launched in 1988, which is the first chapter in the historical development of mobile phones and mobile phone screens. Samsung SH-100, as a representative of the big brother mobile phone at that time, gave birth to the emergence of the mobile phone screen, however, due to technical limitations at that time, the mobile phone screen at this time could not display much information, and the configuration of the black and white screen could not even display the complete phone number completely.

By 1994, the Samsung SH-770 mobile phone was released, and as a landmark mobile phone, technological breakthroughs and innovations on the screen were recorded in history. On the one hand, Samsung has added a blue backlight to the phone's screen, making it possible to see the characters on the screen at night. On the other hand, the bigger breakthrough is that the mobile phone screen at this time realizes the display of three consecutive lines of characters, showing the signal strength, phone number and menu. It can be said that this was a great breakthrough at that time, and it also made a good start for the future development and evolution of mobile phone screens.

The original time and space of 02 years is a key node in the field of mobile phone screen display,In April of this year,Samsung released its first color screen mobile phoneSCH-X430,This clamshell machine uses a color TFT screen,Although the display color is only18bit,That is, about 260,000 colors,And the outer screen is still black and white,But it still creates a new era of mobile phone screen display。

In fact, before the advent of color screen phones, Samsung had already done enough with black and white screens and made as many innovations as possible. For example, in February 1998, the SCH-800 was Samsung's first model to support SMS transmission and reception, and in 2000, the SCH-A2000 clamshell mobile phone was launched, which was its first model with an internal and external dual screen, the outer screen can display three lines of information, and the internal screen is larger, which can display five lines of information.

After the launch of the first color screen phone, Samsung continues to move forward in promoting the evolution of mobile phone screens. The SCH-V300 in August 2002 used a 2.04-inch color TFT screen, which was considered a large size at the time, and this one also supported VOD video conferencing in Nanxian. The SCH-B250 from August 2005 has a flip-up 2.2-inch color screen with a resolution of 320*240 and supports digital TV DMB TV streaming.

It can be said that Samsung's level of making mobile phones is very high, Zhou Fangyuan's first mobile phone in his last life was Samsung's, a clamshell color frequency mobile phone, but the model can't be remembered, the mobile phone was replaced by Zhou's father at that time.

So at this stage, Yuanfang Technology has no capital to call for Samsung, and S1 could not lead the trend, the trend at this time is Samsung, Motorola and Nokia, these old manufacturers, and even Apple is not enough to see.

In fact, Apple was not making mobile phones at this time, and at the beginning of Apple's establishment, it mainly developed and sold personal computers.

In 1971, 16-year-old Steve Jobs and 21-year-old Stephen Woznik met through a friend's introduction.

It wasn't until five years after they had known each other that Jobs managed to convince Woz to assemble the machine and sell it to him, and another of their friends, Roe Wayne, joined in, and the three formed Apple on April 1, 1976. In May of that year, Mr. Jobs approached a local computer store, and the owner ordered 50 devices that would later become known as AppleI and paid $500 each for delivery. After Jobs got the order, he sold his valuables to raise money and persuaded the store credit manager of Cramer Electronics, a major electronic parts distributor, to pay for the parts later, and Jobs successfully completed the deal.

In January 1977, Apple Computer Corporation was officially registered as "Apple Computer Inc." In the same year, Watts had succeeded in designing an Apple II that was more advanced than the Apple I. Mr. Jobs wanted to expand the company and borrow money from the bank, but Wayne pulled out because of the psychological shadow caused by the failure of the risky investment. At that time, Apple Computer lacked a source of funding. Jobs eventually met Mike Macura, who injected $92,000 and signed a $250,000 bank loan with Jobs.

In the same year, it became the first personal computer in human history, and for the first time, it had an architecture to output mono sound, and millions of units were sold in the 80s, as well as a variety of improved models, including Apple's IIe and IIgs. These two types of computers were still found in many schools until the late 90s, and became masterpieces of personal computers.

It can be seen that Apple's main direction at this time has been in the field of computers, and it does have strong strength in this regard.

On December 12, 1980, Apple went public, and in less than an hour, all 4.6 million shares were snapped up, closing at $29 per share. At this closing price, Apple's top management produced 4 billionaires and more than 40 millionaires. At the time, they attracted more money than any company in its initial public offering since Ford went public in 1956, and created more millionaires than any company in history. Within five years, the company had entered the world's top 500, the fastest record at the time.

The billionaires at that time must not have 10 billion now, which shows how fierce Apple was at that time.

Of course, Apple is not without its decline.

For example, in 85 years, Apple revoked Jobs' management power by a resolution of Apple's board of directors, and Jobs tried to regain power several times without success, so he resigned as chairman of Apple on September 17, 1985, and sold his shares in Apple to create NeXT Computer Company. Soon, the indos95 system was born, and Apple's market share plummeted and was almost on the verge of collapse.

That same year, John Scully, then Apple's CEO, signed Apple's worst ever contract. He agreed that Microsoft would allow Microsoft to use some of Apple's graphical interface technology if it continued to produce software for Apple. If Sculley hadn't made the deal with Microsoft, indos might never have stepped in, because because of its similarity to MacOS, it's clear that Apple would easily win any lawsuit against Microsoft.

So in '88, because Microsoft used icons similar to Macs in indos 2.0.3, Apple filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and HP, accusing them of infringing Apple's copyright. It took 6 years for this lawsuit to be fought, and it was not until 93 that the court officially ruled on the 1985 Apple lawsuit against Microsoft: INDOS2.0.3 did not constitute infringement. Their previous belief that "Apple will easily win any lawsuit against Microsoft" has been dissipated by the judge's decision.

Let's put it this way, when Apple was at its most depressed, it was really almost finished, which is definitely not an exaggeration.

This situation lasted almost until the turn of the millennium, and on October 23, 01, Apple launched the iPod digital music player with great success, with its exclusive iTunes network paid music download system, beating Sony's alkman series to become the world's No. 1 portable music player in one fell swoop, and the subsequent launch of several iPod series products further strengthened Apple's unshakable position in the commercial digital music market. In May 01, Apple announced the opening of Apple retail stores, and its position was more stable, and the company also made a lot of money from it, which was a sigh of relief.

It can be said that the iPod saved Apple's life.

Needless to say, Apple took advantage of this breath, relying on its strength in the computer field and the success of the Ipod, and finally completely reversed the defeat. And in this, the credit of the Qiao gang leader is indelible.

As for why Apple would think of making a mobile phone, it was '05, when iPod sales were booming, but Joe had already started to think about what competing products might steal their market share. So he noticed mobile phones, first of all, mobile phones are a must for almost everyone, in addition, people can compete with iPods by integrating music playback into mobile phones, and mobile phones can also have other richer features: such as cameras.

So Joe Gang Leader made up his mind to make Apple's own mobile phone, in summary, Joe Gang Leader's original purpose was actually to prevent his iPod products from being replaced by other companies' mobile phones, and because almost everyone needed mobile phones, he felt that this would be a huge market, which led to one of the two poles of the global mobile phone industry in the future.

But this time, with the existence of Zhou Fangyuan, first of all, it is absolutely impossible for him to let go of Android, and at the same time, he also takes into account the advantages of Apple's mobile phone in terms of system.

What are the advantages of the Apple mobile phone system? First of all, the running speed. As we all know, because the Android system uses the operation mechanism of a virtual machine, it needs to consume more system resources to run the software, and later generations have proved that no matter how vibrant Android is, the system is still not as smooth as Apple. Apple's system, whether it is desktop sliding, the internal operation of the software, the screen and fingertips seem to be "sticky", which makes where the finger touches, the screen will immediately point where, and Android? It seems to be comparable to Apple's smoothness, but it is only comparable, most of them are still not as smooth as Apple, even if Android's touch delay is only 0.1 seconds, but it has also divided the winner and loser.

Of course, the fluency here does not refer to the opening speed or shutdown speed of the mobile app. Smoothness refers to the running speed and touch speed, because this is the most intuitive part that affects the user experience.

The second is that it is more power-efficient and has better air consumption capacity.

This is because of the difference in the system mechanism, so it leads to Android will occupy more resources to support the operation of the system, the official claim of 3000 mAh battery is only a day of actual use, and Apple's iPhone, although the battery capacity seems to be not high, but thanks to careful optimization, it only consumes about 30% of the power consumption in standby of the Android system, and the power consumption is only 25%-75%.

Moreover, Apple's system uses independent wake-up technology, as well as chips tailored to the processor, which saves power during standby, and the power consumption details during use show a "linear" trend. Although some Android phones have a strong battery life, most of them are high-capacity batteries, and after being used for a long time, due to system or battery reasons, there will be a phenomenon of "power jumping".

Then there is the stability of the system.

Although I don't want to admit it, but it is an objective fact, down to the low-end entry, up to the flagship top configuration, the Android system will be more or less unstable after a long period of use, such as the most unbearable crash phenomenon, the mobile phone with a replaceable battery is okay, and it will be restored after deducting the battery, but the non-removable battery mobile phone can only wait for the restart or long press the shutdown button to recover. Of course, Apple will crash, but the chances of it crashing are much less in comparison.

Saying all that, it's not about how good Apple is, but Apple does do a better job than Android in some ways. But Android also has advantages.,First of all, it's the openness of the system.,There's really nothing to say.,Apple can't catch up in this regard.。 There is also rich hardware,Software development is also convenient,In general,The characteristics of the Android system are freedom,The advantage of the Apple system is stability,When Andy started to develop the system,Zhou Fangyuan has told Andy what he knows as much as possible,His requirements are very simple,Just while ensuring the open type,As much as possible to ensure the stability of the mobile phone system,If you can really do both,Then there will really be nothing to do with Apple and Samsung,Or,They can buy system authorization directly from Yuanfang Technology,If Apple really does this,Zhou Fangyuan is afraid that he can wake up laughing from a dream。

Of course, if he had the money, he could buy the apples directly, but it was impossible, the apples were too expensive for him to afford, and when he could, there was no point in buying them.

So he still has to focus on his own distant technology, even if he can't curb the emergence of the Apple system, at least he has to hold most of the market in his own hands, so Zhou Fangyuan is looking at the future, not the present, and therefore, how is the sales of S1, in fact, he doesn't care too much, it can sell the best, it doesn't matter if he doesn't buy it well, but he never thought that the more he didn't pay attention, the more S1 gave him a small surprise.