Chapter 897: It's done in vain
Jamie did an experiment, and conducted an anti-drop test on the Hegemony, and wrote in the blog with a picture: "The appearance of the sensationalism, the Hegemony is not dropped at all, and the quality is not good, so it is concluded that this mobile phone will not pose a threat to Nuo at all, I think this chicken rib product is very unsuccessful, however, the press conference is really successful, and it is very likely to fool the first batch of buyers." "Music Text"
However, the truth is not what Jamie expected.
He was scolded for being scolded, and he went straight to the headlines of many portals the next day, but he became famous.
"Are you a pig? We didn't buy phones to drop, we bought them to use, grass, I concluded that Nokia would die in five years, silly X. ”
"Upstairs, Nokia is the boss of the mobile phone industry. ”
"If only from the perspective of anti-falling, I choose Big Brother, don't mess with me. ”
"The screen is so big, the quality is really a problem, hey, still, I want it. ”
"I want +1. ”
"Whoever has a brain twitch will fall. ”
"The sound bully made a mistake, a big mistake, invited such a brain pump, and he didn't even invite me, hey. ”
Google Inc.
Although there are countless project teams at Google's headquarters, which resembles a university campus, the most mysterious and ambitious of them is Google's own smartphone team.
The team's more than 40 engineers are crammed into the corner of the first floor of Building 44, surrounded by advertising sales representatives.
Although the office area is small, their ambitions are really large: these engineers believe that they are about to bring a revolution to the entire mobile phone industry.
Today, they have been working 60 to 80 hours a week for 15 months.
Some of these employees have been overworked for more than two years, working day and night to write code, negotiate licensing with third-party software companies, and fly around the world to find suppliers and manufacturers.
One of the engineers found a press conference on Facebook on the web.
As they approached, Google's mobile phone system team all stopped.
"Oh my God, as a consumer, I was completely conquered and I wanted to buy one right away, but as a Google engineer, I thought we had to start from scratch and our system had no advantage over the Dragon system that this phone was built on. ”
For most people in Silicon Valley, today's press conference in China is a shocking thing, and the Chinese people are actually at the forefront and do something that no one in Silicon Valley can do.
The celebration of GB continues.
The dance music was played.
Xuezi took the initiative to wrap around Liu Chen's neck, and the two danced together, swinging gently, she smiled and asked softly, "How did you think of making a mobile phone system?"
Liu Chen smiled and didn't answer.
The mobile phone industry in 2005 was of vital significance to the development of high-tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple.
Mobile software was one of the worst performing areas of technology at the time, not only did it lack enough bandwidth to surf the Internet smoothly, but it was also very ineffective and could only run the simplest software.
Not only Steve Jobs, but also Google was acutely aware that the biggest problem in the industry as a whole was oligopoly: with the exception of mobile operators and handset manufacturers, few companies wrote software for mobile phones, and the existing software was terrible.
Wireless bandwidth could be increased, and mobile phone chips could be faster, but at the time, it seemed that all of this was at the mercy of carriers and phone manufacturers.
Not long ago, Google made a deal with Vodafone, hoping to pre-install Google search into mobile phones, but the other party gave a plan that allowed Google to deliver some results, but most of them were controlled, and Google's results would be placed at the bottom of each search request.
Mobile phones don't have a good mobile browser, and CRBTs sold sometimes get a lot of weight in search results. That's what all operators do.
Google's research found that the reason why not many developers were developing software for mobile phones at the time was because almost all attempts ended in losses.
There is no standard in the mobile phone software industry, and almost every phone runs its own dedicated software. In other words, software written for Samsung phones is not compatible with Motorola phones and is not compatible with Nokia phones. Not even a company's software platform is interoperable.
For example, there are several versions of the Symbian system alone.
For any developer, the mobile phone industry is a big money-burning hole that discourages most people.
The most lucrative business isn't writing apps for mobile phones, but mobile software testing companies that make sure your app is compatible with all phones on the market.
Google CEO Larry Page has never been shy about his frustration with Google, but Page and other Google executives know that someone will eventually solve the phone industry's problem, and their biggest fear is that Microsoft may end up solving the problem.
If any company can monopolize the mobile phone system, it will be an incomparably terrible thing.
Google has always feared that Microsoft would dominate the mobile space, and that Microsoft would prevent users from using Google Search to promote its products.
In the 1990s, Microsoft was sued to prohibit it from abusing its dominance in the desktop and notebook markets. For example, Microsoft can't set its own search engine as the default search engine for the Indos system, but instead let users choose for themselves.
However, there aren't many regulations in the smartphone market that regulate Microsoft.
Google is concerned that if Microsoft puts obstacles in the way of Google's development on Indos mobile devices, many users will choose the Microsoft search engine.
This was the key way Microsoft beat Netscape with IE in the 1990s.
If users abandon Google in favor of competitor products like Microsoft, Google's business will shrink rapidly.
Google's biggest concern has appeared, but it's not Microsoft, I really don't know whether to be happy or sadder.
Andy Rubin, head of the mobile systems team, was thousands of miles away in Las Vegas, preparing to meet with representatives of mobile phone makers and mobile carriers at CES, when he was shocked by the hot repost on Facebook.
On the way to the appointment, he even asked the driver to pull over the side of the road so that he could watch the live webcast of the press conference.
"Oh my God," he said to a colleague in the car, "it looks like we can't develop that system." ”
"Why? Our software is even more revolutionary than the system just released in Huaxia, in addition to a full-featured web browser, it can also provide best-in-class Google web applications, including search, maps, video sites, and is compatible with all smartphones, PDAs, and other portable devices. ”
"However, we were carrying a phone that was ugly, looked like a BlackBerry, with a traditional keyboard and a small, non-touchscreen screen," Rubin sighed. ”
"Consumers care more about the inside of their phone than about its appearance. ”
Rubin said helplessly: "But the shape and multi-finger touch of this mobile phone are too magical, too high-tech, cancel the appointment, let's rush back to investigate, report to the CEO as soon as possible, if this mobile phone is successful in China, our search should not want to enter the Chinese market." ”
At the same time, Jobs also watched the entire press conference on the Internet, and at the same time, the entire iPhone team.
The atmosphere was a bit stiff and no one spoke.
The mobile phone they are developing, which claims to be a revolutionary mobile phone, did not expect Huaxia's Yinba company to release it ahead of schedule, and it is stronger than they expected.
Jobs whispered, "Joe, tell me about it." ”
Joe said, "There are very few successful examples of revolutionary mobile phone designs, and this is ...... The Nokia N-Gage, released in 2003, failed miserably in its attempt to integrate gaming consoles with mobile phones and email devices, and RIM, which had a top-notch keyboard, secure email, and an extremely modest form factor, but still became the dominant player in the smartphone industry. ”
Jobs smiled sarcastically and said, "In comparison, the Boss is not only cool in appearance, but also in a new way to interact with mobile phones with the help of this cool shape, through the virtual keyboard instead of most physical buttons, all applications can have a unique way of control." The play, pause, and stop buttons will only appear when listening to music or watching a video. When you type in the URL, the keyboard will appear, but when you hit enter, it will disappear again. ”
"It's possible that our engineers haven't thought of this approach at all, and your imagination is still too lacking. ”
Jobs said that he was already very angry in the back, why did he start at the same time, but Liu Chen made a system and a mobile phone, and Apple had an OS system, but it fell behind!"If this mobile phone can't be popular, then the garbage we developed will not make waves, tear it down and start over, we must design a cooler product than this mobile phone." ”