Chapter 474 One step ahead, step by step
That night, everyone sang K songs, played cards, and each was happy. At one o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, the group senior management meeting was held on time in the hotel conference room.
Considering the confidentiality of this meeting, the group's security personnel confirmed in advance whether there was monitoring equipment or anything like that, so as to ensure that the content of the meeting was not leaked.
"Hello colleagues, before the official start of the meeting, I would like to emphasize the discipline of the meeting. After a while, everyone will see the mobile phone prototype of Korn Ferry Group, and the discussion is also a major event of the group's future development strategy. I hope that everyone will maintain a strict sense of confidentiality about what they see and hear today." Jiang Hui stressed confidentiality at the beginning, because this meeting was too important and the number of participants was relatively large, so as to avoid irreparable losses caused by anyone accidentally saying something wrong when the time came.
It is rare for the executives attending the meeting to see that the boss has talked about confidentiality at the beginning, and they are all upright and ready to take the meeting seriously.
"Ladies and gentlemen, then we will officially start the meeting. First of all, please ask Mr. Zhu to introduce the situation of Guanghui mobile phone", Zeng Qingying saw Jiang Hui signaling that he could start the meeting, so he took over the role of presiding over the meeting.
"The company was officially announced at this year's annual meeting of the group, but our mobile phone project team has already started work more than a year ago. Everyone has a mobile phone and uses it every day to make calls and send texts. But what about other than that? dangdang alarm clock? dangdang watch? presumably people rarely use other functions, because today's mobile phones don't have many other functions at all.
Mr. Jiang refers to the current mobile phones as feature phones, which only have a limited number of functions. In the field of feature phones, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and other companies are already far ahead, and it is impossible for Guanghui mobile phones to surpass them", Zhu Zhengfeng began his speech.
"However, have you ever thought that one day mobile phones will be able to make phone calls and use various software just like computers?"
"What we Guanghui Mobile wants to manufacture is such a mobile phone, and Mr. Jiang calls it a smart phone.
The world's first smartphone was the Simon launched by IBM in 1993, and it was also the world's first smartphone to use a touch screen, using the Zaurus operating system, with only a third-party application called "DispatchIt". It laid the foundation for future smartphone processors and was a milestone.
However, just as the Celestial Empire invented gunpowder, it did not carry it forward.
Of course, there are various reasons for this. For example, the development speed of hardware cannot keep up, the network speed cannot keep up, and so on."
"Next, I will introduce you to the first product of Guanghui mobile phone - GPHONE. I have a few prototypes here, you can pass them on and try them out", Zhu Zhengfeng said as he took out a few mobile phones from the safe he carried with him and put them in front of Tang Wenwen and the others.
"Wow, is this a phone?".
"What a beautiful appearance".
"I want to buy it when I see the appearance."
"Who's in charge of the design?
"If you don't look at anything else, just look at the appearance, this is definitely an epoch-making product."
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As soon as Zhu Zhengfeng took out his mobile phone, it caused everyone's exclamations.
Although the Guanghui mobile phone project team has been established for more than a year, there are really few people outside the project team who have seen the prototype.
"Beautiful, isn't it? The appearance of this mobile phone was personally proposed by Mr. Jiang, and it was completed by Wang Mengyu of the Guanghui mobile phone design department. Our mobile phone has an independent operating system ......", Zhu Zhengfeng gave you a brief introduction to the relevant situation of GPHONE.
"A few years ago, Mr. Jiang had arranged for the companies of the group to prepare to enter the field of wireless Internet. Next, each company will spend five minutes briefly introducing their plans," Zeng Qingying said.
More than a dozen companies such as Intranet, Meituan, Guanghui Games, Guanghui Pay, YY Live, Guanghui Weibo, Tudou, Autohome, Qunar and so on were introduced one by one, although it took five or six minutes for each one, and two hours passed.
However, the content of each company's introduction is different, and today's meeting is very important, so everyone did not doze off.
Each company's plan to enter the wireless Internet is similar, the difference is only in the way they promote themselves.
"Everyone now knows that the smart phone of Guanghui mobile phone is like a small computer that can make calls, and Jiang Hui was officially launched at the end of this year, and we should arrange for people to develop apps suitable for GPHONE as soon as possible. In addition, since the key markets of Guanghui mobile phones in the early days were developed countries such as Europe and the United States, everyone must pay attention to the development of the English version", Jiang Hui began his speech.
For smartphones to cash out their advantages, network speed is one of the most critical factors.
Later generations had 4G networks and IFI, which maximized the power of smartphones. However, in the Celestial Empire, in 2005 there were only API standards and 2G networks, in 08 and 09 there was 4G, and it was not until 2010 that IFI was popularized.
Therefore, Jiang Hui focused on the early development of Guanghui mobile phone abroad.
In the United States, there was already a 3G network in 2003, in the island country, in 2000, in South Korea, there was a 3G network in 2001, and in the United Kingdom and other European countries, there are already 3G networks.
THAT'S WHY GPHONE LAUNCHED A FEATURE THAT IS COMPATIBLE WITH BOTH 3G AND 2G AT THE BEGINNING. At the same time, products for foreign countries support IFI, and the Celestial Empire castrates this function.
Although the castration of the IFI function will inevitably affect the advantages of the Guanghui mobile phone, there is no way to do it.
First-class enterprises sell standards, second-rate enterprises sell brands, third-rate enterprises sell products, and fourth-rate enterprises sell coolies.
The standard is based on the first-class country or the world's first-class enterprises, the second-rate countries and second-rate enterprises do technology, the third-rate countries and third-rate enterprises do services, and the fourth-rate countries and fourth-rate enterprises do cruel price competition.
The dispute between IFI and API standards is also a dispute between the Celestial Empire and the United States-led enterprises in wireless network standards.
The API is encrypted in both directions, which is more secure, and the IFI security is indeed poorer. As soon as it came out, it was blocked by major international interest groups, and it became an international standard, and the algorithm was not open, which was criticized. The standard is not open, and the competitiveness of the agreement in the face of IFI is weak.
The IFI Alliance, led by Intel and other international IT giants, has taken various measures to block and contain APIs. Intel, with its absolute monopoly in the CPU field, has succeeded in turning IFI into a de facto LAN standard through bundling.
Since mobile phone access to the network must be approved, this last pass is tightly guarded. There is no doubt that if the restrictions on mobile IFI are lifted unprincipledly, API standards will inevitably be completely marginalized and will never turn over.
Therefore, the 2005 Celestial Empire mobile phone is not allowed to use IFI, and can only support API.
(End of chapter)