Chapter 795: Becoming a Toothpaste Factory
According to the original plan, as the flagship in the second half of the year, the special press conference of Bee 1 was put to the end of August.
This "schedule" was originally Samsung's, but they were blown up by B7, and suddenly became conservative and stable, just to make room for bees to publicize. However, the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, and news came from the supply chain that similar products from other manufacturers have also been developed and will be released soon. In order not to make B1 become the "unlucky second", Bee can only bring the press conference forward. The corresponding preparation activities must also be carried out in advance, and then there are these small disturbances.
Fortunately, the problem is not big, even if Atletico Madrid does not explain, Bee Mobile has enough time and authority to solve this problem, and the reputation and relationships accumulated over the years are still somewhat useful.
And with his participation, the problem was naturally solved faster and better.
Soon the new version of "Gate of the Future" was developed and tested, and it was simultaneously logged in to the Bee Store and the Elephant Store, and was open for download to all BS and Android users.
Both elephants and baby elephants are third-party systems optimized by Bee based on the Anri system, and they are developing at a rapid pace. Despite the name S, they are actually Anri, and they are still highly compatible with the native system, and those who are interested can also download this app through the web version of the Elephant Store.
In order to encourage more people to download, Bee also announced a new policy: anyone can download and use it, and will be able to accumulate points through daily tasks, and eventually the top 500 will be eligible to participate in the "Future" press conference.
Boss Ma obviously worked hard, not only spent a lot of money to bid for the naming rights of popular variety shows and film and television drama patch advertisements to start promoting in advance, but also took out the high-tech yacht that he had just completed and launched as the venue for this press conference. Now everyone is busy doing tasks, and no one complains that the application permissions are too high.
For most soy sauce crowds, it's good to be in the top 500 and be invited to see Atletico's new ship, and even if it fails, there's nothing to lose, and the app itself is worth the price of the ticket anyway, and the many puzzle games and smart software it carries are still very innovative.
But for Yuan Yang and Wang Shan, it would be a tragedy if they finally lost their name to Sun Shan.
The former is not enough, at most it is a pity that the duck flies away, and if Wang Shan loses the qualification to enter, he will have to die. After all, he is a news editor in charge of the bee section, and it is his job to report on this.
You must know that although Bee has an "alphabet", the actual total number of models is still far less than that of other big brands. There are fewer press conferences, and there are naturally not many new machine evaluations, resulting in not enough articles to fill the section. As a technology media, articles are products, traffic and output value, and for editors, articles are their chicken legs.
Usually, in order to fill the gap in the article, he has to look for topics everywhere, just a Brexit on the pre-analysis and after-the-fact summary of more than a dozen articles, even the depreciation of the pound and the price of mobile phones He has posted. Finally survived to the opening of E3, Bee Games appeared at the Los Angeles Convention Center with a new version of P/P and many new games, and then began to dig into the theme of the new console.
Seeing that the topic is coming to an end, and the bee has sent the news of the new flagship machine in time, Wang Shan certainly can't miss it.
Although Bee has not yet unveiled the back veil of the new machine, there has been a lot of related news, such as everyone knows that it is the "flagship of the second half of the year" of Bee, and it is mainly selling point with artificial intelligence.
And its appearance is tightly hidden, and those so-called spy photos are all self-made by netizens. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Telecommunications Equipment Certification Center, which is known for its reliability, did not say that it was powerless this time, and there are many new bee machines on their mobile phone information network, but none of them look like they have a flagship temperament.
In fact, the so-called "preemptive exposure" is actually a necessary procedure for network access publicity. The mobile phone listing requires a network access permit, and then the three views and configuration information will appear on this website and be publicized to the public, so as to avoid shoddy merchants. If the manufacturer releases it first and then applies for certification, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will naturally have no way to make a contribution.
Obviously, Bee intends to put the selling point of the full screen until the press conference to reveal it, after all, this appearance is in line with the current popular aesthetics of "frame to death", and it is not afraid of the unexpected situation of a hot stove.
Wang Shan interviewed Atletico Madrid on this issue, and the other party's reply was very straightforward, saying that the new mobile phone shows both appearance and talent, so it should be publicized separately. also gave him the example of the Olympic champion of the club, saying that the same champion, the swimming team with good body and good looks is more rich than the fans of the weightlifting team with strength and no appearance.
As for the rest, Atletico don't want to say more, and Lao Wang still has to find a way to get on his yacht.
He was also depressed when he thought of the Exocet, and Bee moved the new product launch event to Atletico Madrid's Exocet under the pretext that its conference center was being repaired by the typhoon. However, the latter is a small yacht and not a large cruise ship, and the limited reception capacity led to the launch conference being split into 5 sessions, with 100 people per day. The delay in time makes the later press conference less time-sensitive, but more like a new product meeting for fans.
Therefore, Wang Shan not only has to ensure his admission qualifications, but also has to find a way to get a high score and strive for the top 100, otherwise he can't grab the news, how can he let the boss add chicken legs?
So in addition to the routine of finding new topics to post articles on, he now has a new task of "opening the door" every day, trying to improve his score ranking, just like now.
"Click!" a smiling face froze on the screen.
"Wow, am I so haggard and ugly?" Seeing that his face was gray and unphotogenic, he decisively deleted the photo with a thumb stroke.
"Click!click!" The shutter sounded one after another, but he was still not satisfied, "Eh, what's wrong today?
"Brother Shan!" came the shouts of a colleague next to him.
Wang Shan looked up and found that it was his colleague Zhou Lin who spoke, who was in charge of the game console in the digital section. Lao Wang posted so much ** news, but also thanks to the care of others, not to let if he is determined to go against him, there will be a lot of trouble.
Then I saw the latter pointing to his phone and saying, "You didn't read the update instructions when you upgraded today?"
"Who's okay to look at that thing?" I just clicked OK," Wang Shan grumbled in a low voice, reaching for the changelog.
This is also a major feature of the bee application, the whole system comes standard with a changelog and comment area, so that users can view relevant content without leaving, and the product stickiness is gradually accumulated by these drip designs. As a purpose-specific application, the update cycle of the Future Gate is particularly short, and updates are released almost every day, which Lao Wang has long been used to.
"Well, enable the no-makeup mode, and the selfie task can only upload unbeautified photos. Oh, that's a lot!" Wang Shan commented as he read it.
"Hehe, probably for the sake of contrast. ”
"Maybe," Wang Shan said with a frown.
Although the BP front camera is beautified by default, it can still notify the chip to turn off this function if necessary. However, bees do not open up this part of the API, and only their own applications can do this, such as their own.
At this time, there was a joke next to him, "Wang Datou, if you are ugly, you have to learn skills, come and learn 36 selfies with me!"
Wang Shan's head is not big, and he doesn't look like a big head, the reason why he has this nickname is because he is Wang Nima's brainless fan, and he once wore Wang Nima's headgear to work, and then like his idol, he became the company's No. 1 dead pervert.
Looking at the person who came, he found that it was Yuan Yang's goods, he snorted twice from his nose, and then threw three question marks in a row, "Old Yuan, what skills do you have? Look at your scarf and Moments album, it's not the same as automatic beautification? By the way, have you finished your task today?"
If it is placed in normal times, this sentence asks whether the other party has completed the daily article number target. Although the number is the basic indicator, on this basis, it is necessary to pay attention to clicks, comments, scores and even citations, so it still takes a lot of thought.
But this time is their happy time, the summer vacation is coming, the game companies are active, last month's E3, this month's hinajy, there are all kinds of game news produced, the three of them only need to publish on demand, no need to worry about daily indicators at all. And all three of them have installed the Future Gate, so this question is actually whether you have cleared your daily tasks?
"Not yet," replied the latter, "but there is no hurry. ”
Hearing him say this, Wang Shan didn't ask this question anymore, lowered his head and glanced at the express carton in the other party's arms, and asked curiously: "Which manufacturer's new product is this?"
"Well," Yuan Yang patted the box on the table, "It was sent by bees, and I asked Boss Ma for it a few days ago." ”
"They've got a new product?"
"Well, N7E Explorer, the latest masterpiece from the Bee Toothpaste Factory," he said, shaking his head again.
"Hehe, who is not good at learning Inel, has he been slapped in the face now?" said Wang.
"No way, capitalists are like this, profit maximization is their eternal pursuit," Zhou Lin answered.
As the overlord of x86 processors, Inel has a disgraceful nickname "toothpaste factory" because they have rarely surprised new products in recent years, and they are suspected of deliberately slowing down the speed of product updates. For them, this can delay the downsizing of old products, which can effectively improve profit margins, thereby bringing more dividends to shareholders.
But for users, those unconcerned product upgrades make them complain again and again, and they can only silently recite "the rise of agricultural enterprises" three times a day, cheering for A, hoping that the latter can quickly counterattack and bring everyone better and more valuable products.
As for another x86 processor company IA, everyone is already hopeless, because the last time they released the x86 processor was 5 years ago, and the process is 40 nanometers that have been eliminated on mobile phones, obviously this Chinese company has begun to give up treatment.
Inel was forced to do this, blaming ASL and Nikon for not doing their best, and the practical process of the next-generation EU lithography machine was delayed for several years. Without a good carving knife, there is nothing the fab can do to improve the process. ”
"Isn't Samsung's 10nm already capable of mass production?" asked Wang Shan.
"I guess it's false, Inel said that the transistor density is not as good as theirs. ”
"Hey, when will the bees be able to advance to 10nm? The 14nm node has just caught up, and people have upgraded again. ”
Hearing him say this, Yuan Yang smiled, "Hey, what is that? The world's first 5nm process processor is exclusively owned by Bee." ”
Wang Shan rolled his eyes, "What do you say about a sacred object that can't be bought?"
"Haven't they already built their own chip factory in Dongjiang, and I believe that the output of the series will increase. ”
"Far water can't quench your thirst," Wang Shan waved his hand, and then patted the cardboard box in front of him, "Open it and take a look?"
Then he turned behind him, "Xiao Zhou, help take down the camera." ”
It was still a familiar double-layer carton packaging, and soon Yuan Yang took out a slightly larger headset from it.
"It doesn't look like much has changed," Lao Wang commented, except that it was wider, and there were more domineering handwritten words "Exploration Version" on the front, and he didn't find any difference.
"The meat of the bun is not on the pleats," Yuan Yang said: "The appearance has not changed much, because they are too lazy to change the mold, after all, reopening the mold is a lot of money, and Mirage Company doesn't want to make the profit negative again, so naturally it can be saved." ”
"So they entered the toothpaste factory mode early, and then sat back and waited to be slapped in the face," Lao Wang complained about his strength.
Bee spent a few years building the entire system from shooting equipment to transmission protocol to playback equipment, and at the same time, in order to solve the content, it had to roll up its sleeves and invest a lot of resources in R movies and games, and many investments made R business the first big money-burning company for bees. Seeing that the entire ecosystem was built and there was an opportunity to achieve self-sustainment, Mirage immediately reduced the relevant investment, and sure enough, the net profit appeared on the revenue statement for the first time.
However, this also burdened them, and the development of new products was significantly slower, and the sense of surprise that was eye-catching at the beginning was missing.
At the Hannover Computer Show in March, a number of manufacturers brought new headsets, and the hardware indicators caught up with or even surpassed the N7, and the slap in the face was crackling. As for the N, which has better performance, after all, the complex structure and high cost have not been listed, so it has been deliberately ignored by everyone.
However, Bee Mirage is not a vegetarian, and the necessary condition for becoming a "toothpaste factory" is to have something to squeeze, otherwise it is not to squeeze toothpaste, but to rest on its laurels and give up treatment.
At present, this N7E Discovery Edition is their counterattack, through the method of additional display, the bee has raised the viewing angle to 0 degrees by 130 degrees in one fell swoop, which is very close to the 0 degrees by 150 degrees of the limit field of view of the human eye, which can bring a more comfortable and natural visual experience.