I haven't been to Lijiang for six years, the sea has changed into mulberry fields, the rain has changed to fog, the world has changed, but the appearance of this small city has not changed at all as if it has been forgotten by time.

When I walked on the bluestone slab again, I felt that every step was humped with heavy memories, and the wind gathered on my body from all directions, which was a kind of coolness that I had not seen for a long time.

The daytime in this small city is still so quiet and serene, like a girl in a white dress leaning against an ancient ginkgo tree, her wind-blown hair covering her tender face, so that we can't see her face that has been sealed for thousands of years.

But when night falls, when the wind blows in the evening, it changes its face, becomes enchanting, becomes charming and sultry, and even becomes a little decadent and evil.

During the day, I wandered around the town, my eyes searching for everyone, and I had unrealistic fantasies that I could meet Mo Lan by accident, but I didn't get anything out of running around all day. Calm down and think about it, how unrealistic your thoughts are, it's been six years, will Mo Lan still stay here? Yunnan is so big, will she go to other cities? In addition, I haven't seen her for so many years, is it that she has changed her appearance a long time ago, maybe you may not recognize her when you look at her face to face.

But if things were to be thought of as bad, the world would come to a standstill, and I decided to go to the bar where I met Merlin again in the evening, and maybe she was still there, drinking alone or flirting with a strange man.

Over the years, because many TV programs have set the recording point in Lijiang, the popularity here is also rising, more men and women come here to spend the night than six years ago, and even some people come from afar just for an unspeakable encounter, at night, Lijiang is even more prosperous than the metropolis, but fortunately, the bar street is still the same bar street, or the location of the old city, I can easily find where it is.

Walking into the courtyard of the Naxi tribe, I felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity in my heart, and the moonlight overflowed down the eaves and sprinkled on the faces of the dancers in the courtyard, just like six years ago. Here the old ballads are still the same, the piano is still the same, and even the moss on the walls is still green.

I called Mo Lan's name over and over again, searching everyone in the courtyard, but I still couldn't catch a glimpse of her.

When I walked into the house, I found that the decoration had been completely renovated, although after many years, I vaguely remembered the simple and dilapidated but full of meaningful little room, and in the center of the room there was a wandering singer playing a folk song alone, but now these are gone, this bar has contracted several houses in the whole courtyard, become spacious, and become indistinguishable from those bars in other cities, the same neon marquee, some electronic music, the same staggered. The boss here is no longer the big man with the beard he used to be, and I saw a lean little boy sitting at the delicate counter, waving enthusiastically to me.

It turns out that Lijiang has not changed completely, what has not changed is the external scenery, and the inner life here has long changed.

"Hello, sir, what would you like to drink?" His voice was soft, the kind of tone that only a warm man can have.

"Here......" I froze, then slowly walked to the counter. Isn't it possible to drink for free here by paying 100 yuan? ”

"100 yuan for free? Are you kidding me, sir? So this kind of loss-making business? The little boy smiled helplessly.

I looked at the counter, and if I remember correctly, there was a notice with all sorts of interesting rules, but to my disappointment, the counter was clean and clean, with nothing on the surface. "But I remember very clearly, there was this rule here before, the boss at that time was a bearded man, and he also said that only kissing is allowed here, and passion is not allowed......"

"Hahaha." The little boy burst out laughing. "Sir, you are really interesting, when did you come to us?"

"Six years ago."

"Six years? Six years ago, I was in junior high school. I don't know the boss of six years ago, and I don't know how many times I've changed my boss over the years. The little boy said unhurriedly. The people who opened the bar here six years ago must have done it purely for their own feelings, not for profit. But later, because of the increasing popularity here, more and more people came here to carnival, and I think the boss you mentioned should have made a lot of money a long time ago, and then changed careers with honor. Now the bars here have long been devoid of feelings, and some only have two words: make money. ”

Don't look at this little boy's age, he still looks very young, but he talks really realistically, and I was speechless for a while.

"Okay, then I'll order a bar." I thought to myself, don't be bored, the purpose of coming here is to find Mo Lan, if I can't find Mo Lan here, I will hurry to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain to continue the search, in short, there is no need to entangle with this young man.

The young man took out the wine list, I ordered a casual one, and then took the wine without saying a word, but silently went to find a seat.

Although it has become more spacious, there are many times more people than six years ago, I first wandered around the big house, hoping to find Mo Lan's figure, there is a big stage in the middle of the room, on which several scantily clad girls are dancing, every time there is a terrifying scream from under the buttocks, here is full of kissing and kissing men and women, as rude and savage as beasts under the neon lights, looking at this crazy picture, I feel like I am about to suffocate.

I walked forward while shouting Mo Lan's name, and finally carefully checked this circle under great pressure, there was no Mo Lan at all, her appearance was different from ordinary women, plus the strange pandan costume on her body, as long as she didn't change much, I was sure to recognize her at a glance.

But things didn't always go as planned, but instead of leaving immediately, I chose to sit in a window seat, and I was going to wait for a while, because it was the time when the bar was hot, and people would walk in one after another, and maybe Mo Lan would appear inadvertently.

It wasn't until I sat down in that place that I realized that the moonlight and the windows here were so old, as if the memories of my previous life had been revealed, and Xiao Yin and I were sitting here six years ago, in the same position. It's just that what was an old sofa has now been transformed into a delicate wine table and a strangely shaped bar chair.

I picked up the glass and tasted it slowly, it was cool in my mouth, but it turned into a fire in my heart, isn't that what happens to many things?

Xiao Yin once said to me in this position, he wants to see how people in the world treat love, and now Xiao Yin is gone, I don't know his attitude towards love, let alone his attitude towards the world, on the night he talked to me for a long time, I thought I could understand him, but now it seems that I overestimated myself, he has always been a mystery, six years ago, six years later.

Maybe I still have a chance to solve this mystery, or maybe it will become a regret in my life, I look at the drunken strangers around me, I don't know if you can bear this regret too.

The clock was turning, the wine in the glass was slowly drying up, and I was getting tired, maybe Mo Lan wouldn't be here tonight. It's almost early in the morning, and it's never a good idea to spend it like this.

I stood up and was about to leave, when suddenly a man and a woman came straight up and hit me, the man was tall and tall, dressed as a college student, and she looked quite pleasing to the eye, and the woman had her hair scattered, and I couldn't even see her face under the cover of neon lights, but the strong smell of fat powder on her body made me really faint.

"Baby, don't do this, don't go home if you drink too much, come and stay with me, the hotel I live in is nearby." The man followed closely behind the woman, clutching her wrist tightly.

"Hmph, don't you just want to ...... me Get drunk and then ...... Then soak me. The woman's head kept swinging, and she said weakly, and she could hear that the woman had drunk a lot of alcohol tonight, walked staggeringly, and spoke in a weird way.

The man took the woman in his arms and wouldn't let her go. "Hurry up, be obedient, come back with me."

"Fuck off. Get out of here. This hug was only exchanged for a scream, but this scream really couldn't make a wave in this noisy bar, and everyone was used to it.

Only then did I realize that it was a man who had found a prey, and the prey was obviously unwilling to be caught, so the two men chased after each other in the bar. Men and women love me, I can't ask, it's just that they just bumped into me, but they act like nothing happened, it's unforgivable.

The impact was really heavy, and just now my hand slipped and smashed the delicate wine glass, and I suddenly lost my breath. "Don't you two look at the road?"

As soon as I had finished speaking, the woman hung her head and propped herself up on the table, and threw up all the wine in her stomach on my shoes.

"You!" At that moment, I felt like I was going to blow up. "You all wipe me clean."

The man saw that the situation was not good, first bumped into me, and now he is still spitting on me, I will definitely not give up, and then look at his disgusted eyes, I dare to guarantee that he will never clean up the garbage for this woman.

"Big brother, that ...... She was the one who hit you just now, and she was the one who spit on you, all of which are her responsibility, and if you have any problems, look for her. "As he spoke, the man pushed the woman into my arms." I don't have anything to do with him, we're strangers. ”

The woman was not polite, and fell into my arms at once.

In July 2011, a thin boy fell to his knees in front of a middle-aged woman.

"Mom, please, just buy me a love crazy"

"You can use your dad's Nokia, you see that this phone has so many buttons, and it is convenient for you to type."

"My classmates all buy smartphones. No one uses Nokia anymore, except to smash walnuts. ”

"You know what? You go to college to study, not to play with your phone. ”

"But...... Without this iPhone, I couldn't find a girlfriend at all. ”

"Hey, you kid, then I can only buy you an iPhone4, would you like it?"

"I do"

"Would you like me to buy you the smallest capacity?"

"Me! Willing! ”

That's how I got an 8g iPhone4, 8g! This capacity is really a beggar among beggars, and it can't fit a Lin Chiling's uncensored. But at that time, I was still excited for several days, and wiped the fuselage with alcohol every day, for fear of leaving a trace of dust. The clear double-sided glass, the heavy metallic texture, 4 is indeed a classic in the classics, it has completely revolutionized the field of mobile phones, I think until recent years, there are still many mobile phone manufacturers still use iPhone4 as a template to design their own products, such as a sentimental English teacher.

It's just that with the iPhone, I haven't found a girlfriend either.

At the same time, Apple also launched the smart tablet iPad, especially the iPad 2 released the following year, so many years later, it is still the best-selling tablet model. I still have a black ipad2 in my house, but my dad upgraded it to ios8 and then stuck into a slide projector. At that time, the temple fled on this machine, wielding the Infinity Sword and throwing angry birds. Thinking about those years, it was really fleeting.

I vaguely remember that in a public class, the teacher was explaining PPT on the podium, and we were taking pictures frantically below, when a chubby girl in front of me suddenly stood up, took out her ipad2 from her schoolbag, and shot at the podium. Her iPad 2 shines like gold in the 45-degree sun. My titanium dog's eye was bounced off for a long time.

That period should be regarded as Apple's most glorious period, and it was also when Jobs began to be familiar to everyone, and for a while, Joe helped to have a group of brainless fans, from design to finance to programming, and even to fraud. His fans span all walks of life. To be honest, I wasn't interested in Jobs's deeds, and I didn't read a biography of Jobs like many of my classmates at the time, I just thought that this person had really unique ideas and strong execution. But I'm not naïve enough to think that Jobs is Apple's sole power.

Chapter 2 iPhone 5 is slightly tired

One morning at the end of 2012, it was snowing heavily. I'm lying in front of the computer and jerking off. One of my roommates ran into the dormitory with a package in the weather.

The roommate was afraid that we would not notice him, so he kept rubbing his hands together and making a violent friction sound.

I really can't help it, how can I pretend to ignore it when I should cooperate with him in the performance.

"Yuanyuan, what are you buying here?"

"Little Five," my classmate was elated as if he had found a savior.

"What is Little Five?"

"It's iPhone5, I finally grabbed it"

Then my roommate did something that no one would have thought of, and he would say this to every roommate who had just returned. "Brother X, I bought 5." "Brother Y, what do you think this is? It's not 4, it's 5! ”

"Look at the texture, you see that even the charging head has become smaller."

Later, my roommate didn't think it was enjoyable, and as long as he knew each other on all floors of the floor, he would take his little five to talk.

It's just that he never imagined that a month later, his phone would be on the ground with Thomas spinning 360 degrees. The reason is precisely because it is too cold every day, and he once habitually rubbed his palms violently and forgot to hold his mobile phone.

I don't know if you remember when iPhone5 was first launched, there was a controversy on the Internet, mixed reviews, little brother from my perspective as a designer, in fact, the appearance of iPhone5 is still very tasteful, and its beauty is still superior in similar products. But then iPhone5There are two big and small problems, first of all, the black version of the paint is serious, this is the most unbearable, after a period of time, it is obviously jet black and finally transformed into silver, and it is full of traces of ravage; There is also a home button stuck, and the home button suddenly breaks, in order to solve this problem, Apple even launched a new program, free replacement for that batch of users.

In fact, this kind of problem will be shared by many mobile phone manufacturers, and as long as it is properly solved, it will not have too much negative impact on the company, but we can see from these two points that Apple has begun to have no time to take care of some small details. Objectively speaking, this is an inevitable historical phenomenon, before becoming famous, Apple can do one thing wholeheartedly, but after becoming famous, it can no longer be so self-conscious, you have to think about more things. No mobile phone will live purely for feelings, you can be willful, but you still have so many employees to eat.

An example of this is the iPhone5c, which actually looks very well designed on the surface, with a smooth and colorful plastic body and a flat design of ios7 at the time. I think it's still a good match. If this product appeared in any domestic mobile phone company at that time, it would be a successful work, but it was very awkward to appear in Apple's product line. The main thing is that it doesn't fit in with Apple's usual style. The bright colors of the minimalist route are a bit confusing in themselves, plus Apple deliberately changed metal to cheap plastic in order to cater to a new group.

From this time on, Apple has begun to compromise.

Apple has two products that are still remarkable during this time. Apple introduced the slim iPad Air, and the subsequent Mini series and Pro series have basically continued this form factor, but they are scaled to a certain proportion. From this product onwards, Apple began to be on the road of thinning and sharpening, and there was no return. Personally, I still like this kind of thin touch, in the past, many sci-fi films would have that kind of paper-thin electronic products, and I think Apple's goal has always been to turn those sci-fi into reality.

Another excellent product is the Macbook pro series equipped with a Retina screen, at that time most notebooks were still in the 2k level, and Apple directly entered the 3k level in advance. In fact, Apple's computers have not been as popular as mobile phones and tablets, and many people's definition is that the cost performance is extremely low. Before there was this Retina screen, I think it was indeed a bit expensive, because at first glance the resolution is not very high, no different from other brands of computers, not to mention that people's hardware configuration is several times higher than yours. But this screen awakens the vitality of the entire series. With the same delicate screen as the Iphone, the macbook series has features that other similar products do not have.

Of course, I'm just from the perspective of a design professional, and it may still not be a good choice for users in some other fields.