Zhou Shi didn't know much about "Science Fiction World", and he didn't even know that just this year, a person named Li Xu would directly parachute into the magazine under the arrangement of the Sichuan Association for Science and Technology. Although he likes "The Three-Body Problem", he only likes part of the content of the Three-Body Problem, and he likes its depth of thought, which has not yet been extended to liking the author Da Liu. To put it bluntly, he is not a fan of the three-body problem, let alone a fan of Da Liu. The reason why he wanted to go to the annual meeting inside this sci-fi world was more for other purposes. So he asked Lei Jun to help him communicate with the Sichuan Association for Science and Technology and the Science Fiction World Magazine. He himself went to the Time Lab first.

Pichai is still very strong for the development of Time Lab, and the development of Time Browser Mtime Chrome has also begun to maintain the frequency of updates at least once a month, and its market share has gradually increased, and it is now the third largest browser in the world.

"How's it going?

"The development of the operating system is still very smooth, but compared to the operating systems of Apple and Google, our operating system may be much more difficult to develop. Even with the help of the QT framework, it is still not as convenient as java. "Pichai

"What development language do you use?"

"Apple's development languages are C, C++, and Objective-C, Android is java, and we mainly use QT and C++. "Pichai

"Isn't our QT function a software that can be ported to any other non-fully closed system?" said Zhou Shi

"Yes, yes, but these apps are slower to start," Pichai said

"Aren't we closer to the underlying language, shouldn't the software run faster?" Zhou Shi thought it was strange.

"I'm talking about third-party applications, which we develop directly and are still very easy to use, but those software developments are a lot more complicated, and we also face a lot of patent restrictions. "Pichai

"There is no way to solve these problems?" Zhou Shi

"It can be solved, but it will take more time and manpower. "Pichai

"This problem is easy to solve, we can increase our global development efforts, set up a few more laboratories in India and Russia, and develop around the clock. And we can also release our operating system in China, India, etc. first. "Zhou Shi

"It's a good idea, but we're going to invest a lot more. "Pichai

"Do you think these investments are worth it?" Zhou Shi

"In the future mobile Internet era, having your own operating system will have a great advantage. "Pichai

"Yes, we can only try to simplify the development difficulty of those development towns, and in the face of development difficulty and efficiency, efficiency takes precedence, and the ratio between them may be maintained at 51 percent and 49 percent. And our app store, development tools, and development kits are also ready to be sloppy. "Zhou Shi

"If that's the case, we'll have a lot smoother. "Pichai

"Anyway, we're one step slower than them, Apple and Google's app markets are going to be on the shelves, and their development tools are also available one after another, let's learn a little more from their excellent experience, and if you throw in the towel, we'll be compatible with Android apps." "Zhou Shi

??? Pichai was sweating profusely

"We can also support some common compatibility tools, such as game development engines and the like. Mobile games are almost the most important type of application, which is our focus in the future, and our operating system must outperform our two competitors in terms of entertainment performance. ”

"Well, is our operating system as open as Android or closed as Apple?"

"We are semi-open, although open source, but not open to the installation and use of third-party application software, no third-party software without our certification can not be Android, and we only cooperated with limited mobile phone manufacturers and limited mobile phone models in the early stage of development, so that the fragmentation of the operating system is not so serious. "Zhou Shi

"Can you elaborate on it, I still don't understand. "Pichai

"Let's put it this way, Apple's IOS is high-end, our Android positioning is mid-to-high-end, and Google's Android is low-mid. From the mobile phone, our operating system is only provided to the flagship models of third-party manufacturers, and their mobile phone prices must reach a certain level before they can use our operating system, Android does not have this limitation, and the fragmentation of mobile phones using it will be very serious, from this point of view, the user experience of our operating system will be better than Google's Android, slightly worse than Apple's IOS. "Zhou Shi

"But is that good? It's hard for us to expand our market share, and if no one uses it, developers will be much less motivated. "Pichai

"We can also choose a mobile phone manufacturer and give them the only license to use our operating system in low- and mid-range phones. "Zhou Shi

"What if this phone maker fails?"

"If it fails, let them sell this license!" Zhou Shi said indifferently, it is still very difficult to make the nut phone fail.

The current operating system has not yet evolved and the functions are simple, but this situation will be very different this year, when Apple and Google's app markets are opened. Even Friends and YouTube are developing apps for this operating system. At this time, if the Android system does not work hard, there may be no need to work hard in the future.

Zhou Shi and Pichai were discussing various issues of the operating system, but unfortunately Zhou Jingren in China had already rested at this time, and he didn't know what the situation in China was. The development of the Android system in China belongs to Zhou Jingren's management, and his genius quickly conquered Wang Yin, a ghostly talent. The source code at home and abroad is interoperable, which makes them much happier to develop, but the difference in talent level makes domestic development much slower than abroad. That is to say, now that the time department is much more famous, the time laboratory has enough attraction to recruit and recruit interns in universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University in China on a large scale, which alleviates the problem caused by the scarcity of talents.

However, Zhou Jingren's toughness has been recognized by this foreign laboratory, so that the seamless cooperation between the two sides can continue. The laboratories established in the future will not be like the current ones, and there will definitely be many confidentiality measures and restrictions for the company's information security.

"How about our Time Music? Do you think it's necessary for us to officially launch it on the market now?" After chatting for a long time, Zhou Shi thought of Time Music.

"It's a great app, and a lot of us here love it, even though his biggest social features haven't been shown yet. But we are all sure that the future of Time Music will be very bright. "Pichai

"Then let's officially bring it to the market?" Zhou Shi hesitated.

(End of chapter)