546. Rem and Ram of Science?
Although Lévy's memory is a little poor, he is surprisingly good at remembering his way. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info not to mention those places that he goes to often, even every day, even if he only goes to a place once or twice, or even only once, he can usually find it accurately. A while ago, when he was shopping for sunspots in the school city, he also helped sunspots find a restaurant that the two of them only went to once a few months ago, and they haven't mentioned it since. And the whole process was completely guided by the map, and no one asked for directions. Although I made a wrong turn in the middle of the way, it didn't take much time overall.
But in fact, there is nothing to show off about this ability. If Lévy didn't have this ability, he wouldn't have been able to do the job he used to do, and most of the 'part-time jobs' that occasionally allowed him to earn some extra money would not be able to take over. Even among ordinary people, his ability may not be much better than those taxi drivers, in fact, it is just the level that ordinary people can master.
But even Levi's ability to remember the road is not bad. He couldn't always walk blindly to places he hadn't been to before. At this time, the convenience and speed of modern technology are reflected. Take out your phone and enter the name on the map app to basically search for it anywhere, and then follow the navigation, in most cases you don't have to worry about making a mistake.
The more convenient something is, the easier it is to become dependent. Although Lévy is far less reliant on smartphones than his students and colleagues, he certainly needs the help of his phone every day. With such a commonly used application, he can naturally tell the difference by looking at it twice. And the map app that Rem gave himself that seemed to be on his phone, how did he look at it, it felt exactly the same as what he usually used?
The same location markers, the same real-time traffic display, and the row of shortcut icons at the top right of the screen are identical. Even if the application of major companies is seriously homogeneous, things such as icons, which can be used as company identification trademarks to a certain extent, will still deliberately be significantly different from those of competitors.
Is it an unknown small company, or an individual imitating the application of those large companies to make a copycat product?
It's a big possibility. After all, this is the machine that Rem said was given to the two of them by Konoe Wing Chun and provided by Al to track him. That being the case, it wasn't surprising that this thing, and its applications, was the work of a single person. As for the operating system, the smartphone operating system with the highest market share at the moment, even a liberal arts teacher like Levi knows that it is called 'open source' or any type of system that anyone can use, and there is nothing abnormal about being used in this machine. On the other hand, it is ridiculous to write an operating system specifically for the sake of making such a thing. Although Levy didn't know how many people and how long it would take to write a real operating system, he also felt that this kind of thing was probably not something that could be easily made by one person.
"This should be an ordinary mobile phone, and the app displayed on the screen is the map app that you use frequently. ”
Ryoko Asakura, who had been standing quietly behind Levi since the twin sisters appeared, came over. What she said made Levi stunned for at least three seconds.
"This is a normal phone? This is the map I usually use?"
Levi flipped through the 'machine' that Rem gave him, and looked at the appearance again, and returned to the main interface to find the icon that Rem clicked just now, and sure enough, both the icon style and the application name marked underground were the ones he was familiar with. As for some of the other scattered apps on the main interface, the icons and names are also the ones that Levy is familiar with. He clicked on a few of them casually,Sure enough, they are all the ones that he is used to seeing in his mobile phone-although the mobile phone Levi is using now can only be purchased within the school city,Brands and styles that have never been sold to the outside world。 The operating system used in his mobile phone is not the two mainstream ones on the outside market.,It's one of the many operating systems developed by School City itself with a relatively high share.。 But most of the major operating systems in the school city are stronger than the outside world in addition to performance and ease of use.,What's more convenient is that they will be compatible with each other's applications.,Even the applications in the operating system of the outside world can also be installed and used directly.。
The reason why the major mobile phone operating systems in the school city can do that kind of thing that seems impossible to the outside world.。 It's just because the school city is a research-based city after all.,It's the major research institutes that develop all kinds of products, equipment and software, not those large group companies in the outside world.。 There is also competition between research institutes within the school city.,But it's not a concept at all with competition between outside companies.。
After all, most of the funding of the research institutes in the school city is still allocated by the school.,And the meaning of their existence is also to develop the required technology according to the requirements of the upper echelons.。 The ultimate goal of the institute is not to make money, and the funds needed to maintain normal operation are not earned back by themselves, but to apply to the relevant departments in charge.
In fact, from the perspective of a school, it is equivalent to various extracurricular activities and clubs competing with each other for the activity funds distributed by the student union every semester.
Due to the difference between each other's competition and outside companies, for the goal of the overall scientific and technological development of the school city, there is no need to artificially create exclusive barriers in each other's research products. Even in order to improve efficiency, they will deliberately cooperate with each other.
Of course,It's not like there's no lack of institutes that are relatively closed for various reasons.。 It's like sunspots always complain that her mobile phone is very difficult to use in addition to its good appearance and easy to carry,One of the reasons is that the mobile phone uses one of the very closed operating systems that are very rare in the school city。
However, although Kuroko always complains that her mobile phone is not good-looking, she has no intention of replacing it after such a long time. In addition to the ability to go to Tokiwatai School Park, the girls who can go to the Tokiwadai School Park are at least above the strong ability of the third level.,It's often the eldest lady from a superior family.。 Shirai Kuroko is naturally one of the many eldest ladies of Tokiwadai Middle School, and her family background is actually more privileged than most of the other eldest ladies in the same school. Kuroko, who has a good background, has never broken the phone that she actually didn't like for a long time, but it's not because she has any natural stinginess.