Chapter 23: A sense of security
Yesterday's wine, today's poison.
When Junhei Yokoi was at Nintendo, the means that allowed Nintendo to develop rapidly was to think with withered technology, that is, to use hardware that no one else used to reduce production costs.
Of course, his idea was fine in those days, but in this day and age, it has encountered problems.
It's not his problem, it's that times have changed.
In the original era, the companies that produced chips were all specialized chip companies in the United States.
Most of those chip companies are only responsible for producing chips, or giving a little solution, and the rest of the rest is done by the manufacturers who need it.
And the current trendsetter of this era, Wanhu, is a completely different model.
What kind of model is this?
This is a self-produced and self-sold model.
The chips produced by themselves are mainly sold by their own products.
In this case, there is no need to strengthen production capacity with other companies and pay more prices.
Of course, the cost of this kind of self-research and development may be higher, but Wanhu can use other businesses to nurture the chip business.
Even now, gradually, relying on its own products alone, it is already profitable.
You must know that piracy in this world is repeatedly prohibited.
Although Nintendo is very good at fighting lawsuits, even in the book, Nintendo has encountered the challenge of pirated red and white machines.
Because......
The 6502 used by Nintendo has no patent threshold, and anyone who buys it can use it. Nintendo's red and white phones, on the other hand, only have a few exterior patents.
For example, the appearance of the cassette of the red and white machine, and the appearance of the D-pad of the handle.
Therefore, other manufacturers, even if they use the 6502 chip and copy all the functions of Nintendo, as long as they do not hit the red line in these appearances, they will not be won by Nintendo.
Of course, in addition, Nintendo's strength lies in the game distribution system he established using the original card distribution system.
The reason why there aren't a lot of people who specialize in making consoles that look very similar to Nintendo, but don't have a patent for Nintendo's production, and can run Nintendo's red and white games.
It's because the cost of such research and development is a bit high, and manufacturers with such technology, instead of doing these things, the profits may be better than making a game that sells more than one million on the red and white machine.
However, today's Wanhu will not suffer anything similar to Nintendo.
Why not?
It is because Wanhu can produce almost all the hardware by itself.
The threshold for chips is not low. There are only about ten countries in the world that can produce chips.
A country that can produce the most advanced chips with the power of its own country may not have it at all.
In the ten countries that may exist, there will be no more than fifteen manufacturers capable of imitating 10,000 chips.
Even if there is no technical threshold, there is still a patent threshold.
There may be some countries where there are no patent restrictions on appearance and program coding.
However, for the circuit of the chip, there is legal protection.
Because, no matter how small the circuit of the chip is, it is still real.
With this alone, Wanhu has basically solved piracy perfectly.
Of course, even if this is the case, the previous 10,000 game handhelds were still cracked.
This is a kind of cracking that targets hardware.
The reason why someone has the need to hack is because they want to play the game's flashcard, that is, to play pirated games.
It is also difficult to prohibit this kind of modification of hardware and software to achieve the purpose of piracy.
Especially in the current era of the Internet, the dissemination of all kinds of information is very fast.
But Wanhu mobile phones have basically avoided this problem.
Because...... Wanhu mobile phone is a device that needs to be connected to the Internet.
Since it is necessary to connect to the Internet, every time it is connected to the Internet, Wanhu can determine whether changes have been made to the system program or hardware through verification.
Of course, if you make a change, you can choose not to connect to the Internet. But a good mobile phone, choose not to connect to the network at all.
Because doing so has a big impact on the convenience of everyday use.
Of course, there are still a few people who will try to do this.
It's just that the vast majority of people don't do such troublesome things.
Moreover, this networking mechanism also avoids a problem.
What's the problem?
It's similar to the player backlash caused by the forced networking of game consoles in another world.
The reason why game consoles should be forced to connect to the Internet is because if they are not forced to connect to the Internet, piracy may occur.
But the problem is that for many console players, the internet is an impact on their normal gameplay.
If a player plays a game in an environment without an internet connection, the console will be automatically locked out if it is not connected to the Internet for three days.
This brings this player not only the convenience of unhappiness, but the greater unhappiness is that it feels that it is not that he bought a game console, and the game console does not belong to him, but that he rents a machine that can play games.
And the control of this machine, the highest authority is not in his hands, and the company that may be thousands of miles away from him can deprive him of everything with a single finger.
This feeling is definitely uncomfortable.
Players are insecure and naturally want to rebel.
However, most of the functions of 10,000 mobile phones need to be connected to the network to complete.
In addition, although Wanhu will carry out corresponding testing, it does not mean that as long as the user is not connected to the network, the mobile phone will not be available.
Under such circumstances, Wanhu can successfully complete its genuine plan.
In addition, the existence of 10,000 mobile phones has also made the lives of many people more convenient.
Even, the positioning services provided by 10,000 mobile phones for parents and children have also played a flower for many people.
At the beginning, this service was made by Wanhu in order to open up a larger market.
Because the function of Wanhu mobile phone is too powerful, it is very attractive to children, so parents are like a flood of beasts for Wanhu mobile phones, although they are very comfortable to use, but they will not buy them for their children.
So what to do?
It happened that there was more than one case of a child being abducted at the end of school.
At this time, the mobile phone with the positioning function of 10,000 households has shown its role.
As a result, 10,000 mobile phones were sold.
After that, it was Wanhu who used the mode of mobile games to let the children learn well.
In the end, parents accepted the fact that their children could have 10,000 mobile phones.