Chapter 781: Generation Gap
There was a knock on the door behind him, and Shen Mo hurriedly pressed and held the side button to switch to the second set of mobile phone desktops, and then turned his head and shouted, "Please come in!"
Then I saw my dad walking in with his mobile phone, "Son, what are you playing?"
"It's okay to look at the circle of friends, many people have uploaded graduation photos, some of them are quite interesting, by the way, give them a like. ”
"Well, why don't you like me and your mother?" asked Father Shen with a smile.
"Uh," Shen Mo was speechless for a while.
He helped him open his parents' social accounts, and they added friends and followers to each other at that time, but then he found out that he had done something wrong. The old couple often forwarded some rumors like 19 yuan ducks can't be eaten and colored plastic bags cause cancer, which annoyed Shen Mo. Refuting the rumors, people are impatient to listen to it, no matter how annoying it looks, and finally simply blocked them, out of sight and out of mind.
The truth naturally can't be said, so Shen Mo had no choice but to dump the pot on others and said, "I didn't see it, it may have been brushed to the second page." There are several water kings in my circle of friends, and I have to post more than ten or twenty articles every day, so it's easy to squeeze the news you post to the back. ”
Fortunately, Lao Shen didn't plan to dwell on this issue more, so he sat on the edge of his son's bed and handed over his mobile phone, "Son, look at this!"
It's a silver-gray flip phone, heavy and calm, it looks a lot like the popular style of 10 years ago, but inside it is a touchscreen and intelligent system, and the features are not outdated at all.
Bee once again showed high speed, and soon after getting the Ai trademark, this replica A8 mobile phone was launched. In addition to the fact that the screen is a little smaller and thicker, there are no obvious shortcomings, and the sturdy and drop-resistant structure and the "retro" physical keyboard are even more popular with many feature phone users.
The one in Shen Mo's hand was a Father's Day gift he bought for his father, and unexpectedly received praise from the other party.
Thumb flicked the flip cover, a group photo of an old man and a little man with a baby appeared on the screen, slid the keyboard up and down to turn the pages and looked at the beginning and end, Shen Mo looked up and asked: "Isn't this a report on the internal activities of bees, how did it spread to the outside?"
"I think this kind of activity is very good and meaningful. ”
Shen Mo smiled, "Dad, just say it, what's the matter?"
Half an hour later, Shen Mo stuck out his tongue and whispered to the closed door: "A Father's Day event moved you, Dad, your purchase cost is really low." If they come up with another love and filial piety salary plan, you still have to take me to Bee to apply for a job?"
The company takes out 100 million yuan every year to "pay wages" to the immediate family members of all employees, hoping to strengthen the centripetal force and team cohesion of employees by "buying parents". This benefit was so unique that the news quickly spread on the Internet, and it was successfully added to the "other people's company's benefits" luxury package.
However, the company's later situation was not very good, because it did not seize the opportunity of the mobile Internet, the company suffered from the dilemma of aging core products and a sharp decline in revenue, and it is still no longer the original scenery, and the high welfare that was once talked about has also become a ridiculous joke that "the company is eaten yellow by employees because the benefits are too good".
Of course, the company is not poor by employees, their problem is that everyone is busy pursuing the ultimate realm of the unity of man and God, and product research and development is naturally not very concerned. After all, in front of becoming a god, KPIs and everything are floating clouds.
After complaining, Shen Mo let out a long sigh, other people's companies were not eaten yellow by employees, but his company was going to be eaten yellow by employees.
During this time, the performance of grinding disk technology was very bad, and after the initial freshness period, the "Erya Robot" quickly fell out of favor and orders fell sharply. The main product is turned off, but the employee salary and social security fund cannot be interrupted, and the company's cash flow will naturally have problems.
In fact, he and Wu Pan also encountered the problem of lack of success when selling homemade products online, and they all relied on their previous savings to survive. However, at that time, they were actually operating without a license, the products did not pass the compulsory certification, and the income was not taxed according to the regulations, and the necessary expenses were a large part less so that they could obtain better profit figures. However, when the company was formally established, there was no way to escape these costs, and profits fell a lot.
To put it simply, this small business started by college students has encountered the pain of growth, and if it can carry the past and establish a healthy and stable main business, it can continue to exist and even grow and develop, otherwise it can only disappear completely like thousands of start-ups.
Although Shen Mo has been hiding from his family, he forgot that Comrade Shen is also an Internet family now, and he is much better informed than before, so he has already discovered that something is wrong with him, and then he went to look at the monthly sales of the Mopan online store, and naturally understood that there must be something wrong with this small company.
However, his solution was a little simple and rude, and he came directly to persuade his son to give up the idea of starting a business and find a good unit to go to work safely.
After all, in the eyes of people like Shen's father, it is very beautiful to start a business or something, but the elimination rate of success is very high, and the successful ones are always a minority. And now the hungry grinding disc technology is obviously on the verge of failure and collapse, rather than dragging it out, it is better to end it once and then find a good unit to work. Looking at the whole city, except for a few branches of central enterprises, Bee Group can be said to be a first-class good place, and it just so happens that Shen Mo still has a relationship over there, and it is simply a crime not to use it if there are conditions.
In fact, Shen Mo also considered joining Bee, and successfully passed the written interview and got FEF, but he gave up in the final stage.
Not for anything else, just because he was despised by his girlfriend Sun Xiang. Originally, she and Qi Linlin agreed to go to GYZ to make clothes with Mrs. Ma, but in the end, because of her boyfriend's relationship, she chose to join Grinding Disc Technology and became one of the four founders. However, the two girls ran over for love, but they couldn't hold on anymore, which was not the result they wanted to see.
Of course, this is not the result that Shen Mo and Wu Pan are willing to see. This company is not only the starting point of the brothers' careers, but also their love base, whether they can escape the curse of falling out of love after graduation depends on it, if the company goes bankrupt and everyone scatters, it will naturally be difficult to escape the end of Lao Yan's separation.
Fortunately, the new product they had secretly developed was close to completion, and if the new product was well received after launch, the company's cash flow would be greatly improved, and it would have survived the collapse. After all, there is only one small company, there are not many employees, all the equipment depends on rent, and the operating costs are not very high, which is also the characteristic of a small company, the foundation is too thin and relies heavily on cash flow, and the income is stable to live or die.
Picking up the phone again, Shen Mo used gestures to unlock the first desktop, and his eyes fell on the magnifying glass icon on the desktop again, "I hope it will succeed this time!"
In the UI design language, the magnifying glass usually represents search and finding, but this app is not of this type, so there is a hazy silhouette of a beautiful woman in the blue lens circle, which brings a touch of ambiguity to the app.
When Daddy came over, he deliberately switched to the second desktop because he didn't want the other party to see it.
Because this is their new product, the AR tool application "Super Perspective", it can also be said to be a unique style of stand-alone mobile game.
It's not that I want to keep it a secret from my family, but the content of this app is a bit obscene, and Shen Mo is afraid that he will be beaten up by his father and then ordered to delete the source code.
Although he is already an adult and has achieved economic independence, the psychological traces left by his childhood and adolescence are not so easy to erase, and his father's authority is still very feared by him.
The reason why I chose to make mobile games at the beginning was because of the small and broad characteristics of this kind of product. Mini games are more creative, the development cost is very low, as long as it can be popular, it can burst out in the short term with very strong economic benefits, it is really "a fight, a bicycle becomes a motorcycle, and a concubine becomes a wife".
It's just that there are hundreds of thousands of game applications around the world, and only a few hundred or thousands can really become popular, and the cost of publicity and promotion and ranking is getting higher and higher under fierce competition, and it is becoming more and more difficult for latecomers to replicate the success of Fruit Ninja Angry Birds. In this case, the choice of theme gameplay is becoming more and more important, elimination, parkour, and tower defense have been flooded, and cards, RPGs, and cultivation are too large for small companies to play, and then they thought of "color eating".
As a derivative of life instinct, the content of cesium is vulgar but has an extremely strong appeal, and the successful products are innumerable, attracting generations of people to jump into the pit. Shen Mo: They are not the first, nor are they the last.
Another reason why this route was chosen is that the long-rumored mobile game version number system has finally landed, and any mobile game published in China must go through the process to apply for digital publishing, which brings additional operating costs to small studios. In this case, they simply chose to give up the domestic market and directly target overseas, anyway, as newcomers and poor people in the industry, they do not have the ability to promote at home and abroad, it is better to hope for the unique self-promotion advantages of this type of game.
As early as the "ancient times" of touchscreen smartphones, an island company moved the "Delirious" series of see-through tear-off magazines to iPhne, and users slid their fingers to simulate tearing clothes, and they could see the scenery under the clothes of female models. Because of its ability to inspire strong fantasy emotions, the game quickly became popular around the world, with a large number of hacks, portions, or imitators. It was also for this reason that such games were quickly banned by Apple, and eventually quickly became obsolete.
Although manufacturers are actively switching to the Android platform, because the production of this kind of game is too simple, there are more than a dozen beautiful models and dozens of sets of ordinary clothes can be made, resulting in the rapid proliferation of such games, competing with each other for the market, and no one can eat enough, so soon this gust of wind disappeared.
The "Super Perspective" produced by Grinding Disc Technology is similar to the gameplay of the delusional series, both of which are see-through clothes to stimulate fantasies, but the technical content is much higher. The content of the latter is fixed, and the replayability is quite poor, which is one of the reasons why it quickly fades, while the former claims to be able to turn the phone into a perspective device, as long as you point the rear lens at the target, you can see what the opponent is wearing under the clothes.
Of course, this is not possible, and the image sensor of ordinary mobile phones does not support the legendary "near-infrared band" at all. The so-called infrared irradiation, infrared imaging perspective camera, its actual imaging effect is also quite limited, can only show the outline of the object but can not distinguish the details, want to achieve the effect in the advertising picture or direct PS is more convenient and fast.
"Super transparency" actually uses AR technology to superimpose a preset image on top of the real image in real time, so as to simulate the effect of perspective. Therefore, its technical difficulty lies in the recognition and dynamic tracking of body contours, as well as the matching of "perspective" images, only the body color and even scars, tattoos and clothing styles can be matched to create the best perspective experience. And the number of "see-through" images also affects the app's replayability, and everyone can't be made to wear the same underwear, otherwise users will quickly abandon it.
It is obviously very difficult to achieve this on a mobile phone, so "Super Transparency" has chosen an opportunistic method, that is, to bypass reality and directly hit the second dimension, and lock the object of perspective as 2 anime characters. While this reduces playability and appeal, it greatly reduces the difficulty of the algorithm, since cartoon characters don't have as many pores and chest hair.
Even so, with the technical strength of Shen Mo and Wu Pan, it is a fool's dream to do this. They were able to come up with this app because of the great assistance of the Bee Research Institute, or rather, they took the credit of the latter.
With the connivance and even encouragement of Atletico Madrid, the Bee Research Institute often comes up with something very brainy, "super-transparent" is derived from the development of the "AR anatomy" project, but the research is OK, but the public release is not. Because of the obscene and ambiguous style, this software does not even have the opportunity to join the "Bee Supermarket" and transfer it to a third party.
However, there are often problems with this thing, and the news of the software reached Shen Mo's ears through some channel, and the latter successfully found that the profit prospects were very good, and then used his personal relationship with Atletico Madrid to get this software that was originally to be sealed, and the whole process was easy and smooth without twists and turns. Next, the software will be translated and modified, uploaded to the Bee Software Store under the name of Mopan Technology S, and distributed in overseas markets such as Japan.
Apparently the bees also know the appeal of this software to users, and are equally unwilling to let this good product, which may create a sales hotspot, be put to rest. It's just that they don't care about their reputation and face, so they need to find a white glove that is easy to control, and then they find him.