It's normal to think about it, though.

Most Apple employees are some kind of crazy people, either tech geniuses or innovation freaks.

Moreover, most of Apple's ideas did not come from Steve Jobs, but from these employees.

It's not surprising to find some unique ideas in some of these laid-off employees.

Moreover, it's not just Apple employees.

In fact, there are a lot of ideas in this world.

A lot of tech companies, from time to time, there will be some creative ideas.

It's just a pity that not all ideas succeed.

Not all ideas can be supported by capital and promoted to the world.

Just like tablets, they all appeared in the 90s, but they only became popular after 2008.

That's why many people say Jobs was great.

Although he was not the one who came up with these ideas, he chose one of the many ideas and made him a success.

"Yes, this UI interface design is really good."

Zhang Ning couldn't help nodding.

Although there are still some imperfections in the UI interface design, as long as the research continues, Zhang Ning believes that they will be able to make a very good interface design. As long as the entire interface design is successful, then the entire operating system task will be half completed.

However, in addition to this half, there is another half.

"What about the issue of operating system compatibility?"

Zhang Ning denied them before, which also included this problem.

This is a problem that many operating system companies have not been able to solve until now.

Just like Linux, although there are a lot of enthusiasts who think Linux is great, safe, and fast. However, compatibility is the fatal flaw of Linux. He can't play online games, he may not even support some online shopping, and many graphics cards don't play much role in Linux at all. Of course, there is also a wide variety of hardware and software devices.

Let's ask, in such an environment, so many software and hardware Linux are not supported.

No matter how good Linux is, how many people will use it?

"Compatibility."

"This."

Berg is also entangled in this question.

Such a problem is not only discussed by him, but also by many people in the entire industry.

There have been many people in many Internet technical forums who have published how to solve the problem of system compatibility.

Some people think that as long as your system is strong enough, then some software and hardware companies will naturally come to be compatible with you, and you don't have to think about compatibility.

However, such an argument is immediately refuted, and Linux is the best example of this.

Even if the Linux operating system has been developed for decades, until now, there are not too many manufacturers that are compatible with it.

There are also people who think that compatibility issues should not be considered, since these people are not compatible, then do it yourself.

As long as some major hardware and software are compatible, it is enough.

It's a pity that such a point of view is also passed.

They objected that this kind of closed operating system is like Apple, and such a powerful Apple almost hung up in such a closed system, do you think such a way will work?

Countless experts, industry insiders, have been discussing for several years, and there has been no way to do it.

Of course, Berg doesn't have a good solution to this problem.

However, since it is necessary to make an operating system, if this problem is not solved, the operating system is equivalent to failure.

Even if your operating system is good, no one will be compatible with you, and no one else will use you.

Facing Zhang Ning to ask again, Cook on the side also realized the importance of this problem, took Berg's words, and said, "Mr. Zhang, the compatibility of operating systems has always been a big problem, and the industry has discussed it for a long time, and there is no particularly good way. However, we have been discussing it recently, and we have come up with a method that we may be able to try. ”

"How?"

"Open source vs. free."

"Tell me more."

Zhang Ning is against free, and Zhang Ning also said it before.

But open source vs. free seems to be an idea with some novelty.

Zhang Ning wanted to hear what Cook meant.

"Open source is open source, of course, our open source is not just for open source, the purpose of open source is to allow more researchers, including enterprises, to participate in the production of our operating system. Also for more software and hardware manufacturers, directly write their drivers, compatible with our operating system. This is the path of Linux, which has not yet become the mainstream of operating systems, but Linux is the most compatible operating system except for Windows. However, open source alone is not enough. Although Linux is open source, it is not free. Many Linux system vendors, although open source, are still commercializing Linux systems. Although they can also use these Linux systems for some special computers and make a profit, this can only become more and more niche. And our free is to make the operating system go mainstream...... Of course, we will invest a lot in this area. Moreover, we didn't get much in return for quite some time after we put it in. But one thing that is very important is that we may be able to leverage Microsoft's Windows monopoly through our open source and free nature. ”

This is not Cook's solution.

In fact, he also felt that such a plan was not mature.

On the one hand, there is the problem that free Penguin cannot make a profit.

If you don't make a profit by investing alone, how can you do it?

Moreover, the operating system is not a small investment, his investment is very, very large.

Not to mention anything else, Microsoft spent billions of dollars on the service fee for testing alone.

Not to mention, the huge elite development team of thousands of people is a terrifying amount of money.

If it is not profitable, even if the Penguin Group makes money, the burden will be very heavy.

The other issue is open source.

Although open source can solve some of the compatibility problems.

Although their penguin operating system relies on the penguin group, it may be better than linux, but it may not be able to really shake the position of microsoft windows.

Still, Cook said the plan.

I didn't say it to convince Zhang Ning, but to let Zhang Ning see their appearance.

"It's okay."

Zhang Ning bowed slightly, although the plan given was not too satisfactory to Zhang Ning, but Cook and Berg's performance today made Zhang Ning greatly appreciated.

In any case, in the face of these world-class problems, even if they can't think of the best solution, at least, they have initially thought of some ways to deal with them, which is very rare.

"Okay, I pretty much get the idea of what you guys are thinking. When it comes to the UI interface design of our operating system, I have a positive attitude. The interface is well designed, but there are still a lot of problems with it. Actually, I've thought about this aspect too, well, I'll give you an interface design rendering, you can refer to it. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Ning also called up a design drawing of the operating system interface that he had drawn.

This is a later interface design drawing from the combination of electronic products such as tablets and smartphones.

At the same time, in the whole design, it also integrates the design interface of Apple operating system, Android operating system, and later Windows 8 and Windows 10.

It can be said that this interface design drawing, even if it is obtained for future generations, is a top-notch interface design drawing.

Not to mention, put in 2004.

Zhang Ning believes that if this UI interface rendering is exposed, it will definitely shock the world.

"You can study this interface design rendering, and if there's nothing going on, Cook, you can start working on the operating system. However, we don't go open source, we don't go free, we just follow the traditional operating system system. As for the compatibility of the operating system, you can ignore these issues for the time being, and I will find a way on my side. ”