Chapter 2017: Selling a car to the Pentagon
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Under the toss of Lao Qiao,The iphone that has just been listed is a mess,It's better on TV,Everyone always has to consider whether the taste of the river crab is good,But the network can't manage so much,Open 10 web pages,But half of them can see the figure and message about the iphone,Don't care how much the Apple mobile phone with only one physical button has attracted because of the built-in battery that can't be replaced and the small card design of the pit dad and the more pit dad design that can't be interpolated CF,But one thing is certain, The mobile phone that Comrade Lao Qiao made is on fire, and it is completely on fire
To a certain extent, it is not an exaggeration to say that the iPhone made by Lao Qiao subverted the concept of the mobile phone, but unfortunately, now Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone giant, is still unaware of this situation, just like a Tyrannosaurus rex, although Nokia is strong and fearful, but his nervous reaction speed is too slow, in front of the hot mess of the iPhone, Nokia does not realize how much impact this mobile phone will bring to their Saipan dynasty, The proud Nokia is still intoxicated by its own tactics and the dream of the Saipan dynasty.
Nokia was intoxicated with his dream of success, and he didn't expect that Zhang Lan was planning to knock them to the ground and step on them several times, and even in order to be able to step on Nokia's body a few times earlier, Zhang Lan couldn't wait to come to the United States.
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"This is the G1 you designed?" Zhang Lan took the mobile phone that Andy respectfully handed over and looked at it with interest.
G1,According to the plan of Google's android development team,It is the first mobile phone equipped with android intelligent operating system,Unlike the original time and space that allowed HTC to steal the limelight,This time Zhang Lan did not let HTC participate in the development of the android1.5 operating system,But let the communication equipment manufacturing company under the Alice Group, which has not improved since its establishment, engage in this G1 mobile phone...... As the first mobile phone equipped with the Android intelligent operating system, which company can get this first, it means that the relationship between this company and the behemoth Google is extraordinary, and this kind of good thing, of course, cannot be cheaper than others.
This G1, the same as the original G1 in that time and space, has changed dramatically.
"Yes boss," Andy, the head of the android development team who accompanied Zhang Lan, hurriedly stepped forward, and the application was quite pretentious: he was not until the status of this oriental youth in the company, so he naturally knew more about what it meant to serve this young oriental youth well, "With your suggestion, this G1 is already much better than we originally thought." ”
Zhang Lan laughed twice without saying too much.
With intentional or unintentional intervention from Alice Group,This G1 has undergone great changes from the original G1,Not only the screen has been improved from 3.2 inches to 3.7 inches,The resolution has also been directly improved from the original 480*320 to800*480,The biggest change is the change of CPU and memory,528MHzQualcomm CPU was directly replaced with better performance、More stable Texas Instruments production up to 650MHzCPU,The clock frequency has been fully increased122MHz, The original 192MB of ROM and 256MB of RAM have been boosted to 256MB and 320MB respectively, an increase of 64MB, respectively, while the original G1's signature sliding physical full keyboard has been retained.
At the beginning, the two design teams had a lot of quarrels over whether to use a physical full keyboard, and the No. 1 design team believed that while designing the screen virtual keyboard, the physical full keyboard should be used, because the input feel and speed of the physical keys are incomparable to the virtual keyboard; However, the second group is firmly opposed to the design of the physical keyboard, and the reasons for their opposition are also very good: now the world's mobile phones are pursuing light and thin, and the use of physical full keyboards will greatly increase the thickness and weight of the mobile phone, which will greatly affect the feel of the mobile phone. …,
Over the question of whether to use a physical full keyboard, the two groups quarreled, and no one could convince anyone, and finally the lawsuit was brought to the boss of the Android design team: Andy.
In mind, using a physical keyboard has the benefits of a physical keyboard, at least it can input text at a faster speed, which is incomparable to a virtual keyboard in any case, which is extremely important for business people...... Both teams have tested the speed of text input with a virtual keyboard, compared with the physical keyboard, the input speed of the virtual keyboard is not only miserable, the misinput rate is even higher is unbearable, there is no way to compare with the traditional physical full keyboard, for business people who have always been against the clock, a mobile phone that can provide fast and accurate text input, convenient for them to quickly process emails, texts and forms is what they want...... Similarly, the weight of the mobile phone increased dramatically after adding a physical keyboard, which also made everyone miserable.
Fortunately, Anderson knew that Google's big boss behind the scenes had extraordinary attainments in battery technology, and after telling Jill about it, he got the support of the corresponding battery technology from Jill, and successfully reduced the thickness of the battery on the basis of reducing the weight of the mobile phone battery by half and increasing the capacity by one-third. Eventually, the phone's input method was settled: maintaining a physical full keyboard input method.
Although this mobile phone is still only a developer preview version, many functions are not very perfect, and the system has not reached the most optimized, but after Zhang Lan opened the phone and tried it, it still feels quite good, the only thing that makes Zhang Lan feel a little different from the iPhone is that it seems to be a little not smooth enough in terms of touch experience.
"In terms of touch experience, I think there is still room for further improvement," Zhang Lan put the phone into Andy's hands and put forward his own suggestions for this phone, "Compared with Apple's iPhone, the touch experience is already quite good, but I think that if you can further improve the feel of touch operation, well......" Zhang Lan thought about it and made an analogy, "For example, it is as smooth as silk." If this can be done, I believe that it is not a dream for the G1 to surpass the iphone. ”
"Silky smooth? More than an iPhone? Andy was stunned for a moment, savoring Zhang Lan's words carefully, his eyes getting brighter and brighter.
In the United States, all over the world, Apple's new iPhone represents a myth, as an industry insider, Andy understands that the core of the iPhone myth is actually touch.
What does touch mean? It means that compared with the traditional way of operation, touch means that you can operate your mobile phone more intuitively, and its significance is definitely no less than the power of Windows95, the first graphical operation interface launched by Microsoft, and the previous traditional operating systems such as DOS, linux, and unix.
More than an iPhone? If this can really be done......
Imagine that if I could surpass Apple on this G1, Andy's name would be tied with Steve Jobs...... No, no, no, it's not that I'm tied to Jobs, but I'm going to surpass Jobs and become a new generation of digital gods, and I'll be worshiped by all the media, Andy was trembling slightly with excitement.
Zhang Lan smiled and patted Andy on the shoulder, "Andy, don't worry, you can do it." ”
Andy can surpass Lao Qiao, Zhang Lan is not sure, the reason why Lao Qiao's crazy madman can succeed is not only that he creatively invented the iPhone, but also because of his outstanding talent in publicity and marketing, Andy wants to surpass Lao Qiao, the difficulty is not ordinary, but with the support of Google's strong financial strength, at least if he wants to surpass the iPhone in touch, there is still great hope. …,
If G1 can really achieve a "silky smooth" touch, Zhang Lan can be very clear and sure that this G1 will definitely give Lao Qiao a heavy blow, and the Apple dynasty that Comrade Lao Qiao is working so hard to build will usher in a huge blow to android...... This is exactly what Zhang Lan wants to see, she has long been very unhappy to see Apple, what kind of thing, dare not let her buddies participate in the shares?
That's right, the grudge between Zhang Lan and Apple is really big, this can be traced back to when Lao Qiao had left Apple, and Alice Group wanted to participate in Apple and was rejected...... Although Comrade Lao Qiao only holds a small part of Apple's shares, who made this girl now the chairman of Apple, and who will not write the grudge on his head?
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Looking at the research and development progress of G1 and android systems is only one thing that Zhang Lan came to the United States this time, and the most important thing about Zhang Lan's trip to the United States is to lobby the U.S. government.
In fact, the purpose of lobbying has little to do with the Republic, and it does not involve the Taiwan Strait issue, which has reached the most critical moment, nor does it have much to do with the dispute between Vietnam.
Selling arms to the US military? That's right, it is to sell arms to the US military, but the military equipment that the Alice Group sells to the US military this time is somewhat special, neither missiles, airplanes and other high-tech weapons that kill people thousands of miles away, nor self-propelled guns, tanks and other land combat equipment, but military vehicles that play the most important role in the three US armed forces: military vehicles as means of transportation.
Of course, this statement is a transplanted folk saying, in fact, the standard term of the Humvee should be HMMWV, that is, the US military light, highly mobile, multi-purpose military vehicle. As the feet of American GIs, Humvees carried American GIs to any hot spot in the world, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia...... As long as the United States commands its own soldiers, you can see the figure of the Humvee military vehicle. With its durable leather, multi-purpose and high passability, the Humvee military vehicle has also won the love of American soldiers.
But the problem is that after all, the Humvee military vehicle was designed more than 20 years ago, and then let this "classic car" fulfill the battlefield conditions that have appeared under the conditions of the new era, the old Humvee is already a little inadequate, which can be seen from the fact that in the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Humvee military vehicles were frequently blown up into a pile of scrap metal by roadside bombs.
Although in order to protect the lives of American soldiers, the U.S. military lied on the Humvee and tried a variety of methods, such as installing special steel plates, installing chassis protection steel plates, etc., but the measures adopted did not have much effect in the end.
It was under these conditions that the Alice Group came, and also brought several prototype cars specially provided by the Alice Group for the US military...... All the prototypes are based on the same chassis design of the deformation car, to maximize the guarantee of the versatility of logistics and supply, just like the Hummer, on the territory of the Humvee, the design of the universal, ambulance, command and communication, transport and other more than 20 kinds of deformation vehicles.
It's just that after seeing the sample cars sent by the Alice Group, the representative of the US military was immediately stunned, pointing to the cars in front of him and stammering almost speechless, "This...... This...... Isn't this a military vehicle used by the military of the republic? ”…,
That's right, the car that appeared in front of the representatives of the US military, as well as the various shapes of this car, were no different from the general-purpose military vehicles that the Alice Group had provided for the Republic from various sources.
Although each country has a corresponding secrecy system for the military preparation of its own national equipment, military vehicles, which are basically comparable to automatic rifles, certainly cannot be compared with ICBMs and missile nuclear submarines, just as the Republic has long obtained several Humvee military vehicles from various sources for research. After the military of the republic was equipped with a new wheeled military vehicle provided by the Alice Group a few years ago, the US military, which is becoming more and more vigilant about the development of the republic, has also brought in several vehicles through various channels for research.
The car in front of me, in terms of appearance alone, can see a little shadow of the Humvee, but compared with the Humvee, this car is more fierce, the body is higher, the carriage is longer, and it is obvious that a car can accommodate a standard infantry squad. Of course, this is not the point, the point is the preparation of this car, and those who can participate in this kind of work are undoubtedly quite familiar with military equipment, and it can be seen at a glance that this car is equipped with external light reactive explosive armor
Explosive armor can essentially be regarded as a directional blasting device, that is, when there is an external impact under certain pressure conditions, this armor will explode outward, and this outward directional explosion will neutralize with the explosive impact on the body and cancel out the attack on the vehicle.
Because this thing is very heavy, we usually only see this kind of external reactive armor on tanks, and it is very rare on tracked armored vehicles, and as for wheeled vehicles, we have never seen it.
"Yes," Jill nodded with a smile, "I believe you already have a pretty good understanding of the overall performance of this car equipped by the military of the Republic, so I won't introduce it too much, go up and try it?" ”
Tom, the U.S. military representative who conducted a preliminary verification of this type of test car provided by Alice Group, waved his hand and signaled that it would not be used for the time being, anyway, the car provided by Alice Group should be put here for a long time and left to his own people, so there is no need to rush. What made Tom curious was, "Miss Jill, I beg your pardon for being presumptuous, but I'm curious how your Alice Syndicate persuaded the Republic government and the military to agree with your conglomerate to provide us with this military vehicle that is in active service with the Republic military?" ”
The question was confusing, and Tom couldn't figure out how the Alice Group had managed to convince the Republican military to agree to it...... Doesn't this mean that part of the strength of the military of the republic is exposed under the nose of the US military?
Jill smiled and pointed to the military vehicles in front of him that were about to be tested, "Mr. Tom, are you curious about this?" ”
"Of course, it's not just me who is curious, I'm sure the big names in the Pentagon are just as curious," Tom shrugged, "and we can't imagine unless the military vehicle you provide us with is not the same vehicle that you provide to the military of the Republic." ”
"Of course it can't be," Jill smiled and shook his head, "it's actually the same car." ”
"So ......"
"The military of the republic has always had a tradition of exporting equipment in active service, from the Type 95 automatic rifles they are equipped with, to armored vehicles, tanks, warships, aircraft, whether they are in service or the most advanced equipment in their hands, they are sold on the international arms market, and usually, their equipment for export is a little better than equipment for their own use, Mr. Tom, you should not be surprised by this."
Tom nodded helplessly, of course he knew this, and at the same time, the question of why the military equipment exported by the Republic had better performance than the self-used version was also the most puzzling to him, for example, they are now equipped with a large number of QSZ92 pistols for the troops, and some technical indicators of the self-use type are not as good as the export type.
As a military representative born in a country where "first-class products are used for one's own use, and only two-six-three-six-four-six products are exported", Tom really couldn't understand why the republic's arms trade was so contrary to international practice. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe to the mobile network (.), reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )……,