Chapter Forty-Six: The Stardust Community

"Nokia, Apple, Google... It's better to be a little stronger, you can't be beaten by a new Chinese brand, right? Wouldn't it?"

Chen Zifan has asked Stardust Network to disclose some unimportant code on Huaxia's official open source website, in order to attract more brands to enter the game and create an era of smart phones where hundreds of schools of thought contend.

He knows very well that it is not advisable to engage in monopoly, and the most likely result is to be jointly suppressed, and instead of facing this difficult situation, it is better to directly disclose some unimportant technologies and codes.

This can not only reduce the risk of being targeted, but also ensure the advantages of Stardust Technology, and continue to inject vitality into the market.

Chen Zifan has never wanted to engage in marketing and business warfare, and become a business giant like Apple led by Cook, but to lead the development of science and technology and create a real technological prosperity.

Of course, in the process of pursuing scientific and technological development, Stardust Technology will also earn reasonable profits, and maybe one day it will become the most profitable company in the world by accident, who can say for sure?

After the Stardust 1 was launched, Apple responded the fastest, Jobs has adjusted the development plan of the "Purple Project", and among the remaining mobile phone manufacturers, Nokia, which has the world's largest sales, is the slowest.

Due to the complexity of Nokia's top management and the large number of factions, they have always been unclear about the direction of their next development plans, and the most vocal call is to reform the Symbian system, and there are still many factions left.

For example, those who advocate the development of a new operating system, those who advocate cooperating with Microsoft to jointly build smartphones, those who advocate the continued development of feature phones, those who advocate the creation of ecological chain products, and those who resist Stardust Technology...

A good mobile phone company is stunned to play the drama of nine sons, but after all, Nokia is currently the company with the highest market share in the world, and its career is still on the rise, not as decadent as it was in its twilight years.

The call for continuing to invest heavily in building the Symbian system is the loudest, and the proportion of shareholders is the largest, and the process may be a little bumpy, but the end result will not change.

Chen Zifan never underestimated Nokia, with Nokia's size, brand, and advertising level, even the sales of pseudo smartphones launched in the twilight years can still beat Apple3GS, this is the strength of a large factory.

At the same time, he will not forget the stunning Carl Zeiss 41-megapixel lens, which has not been produced by a smartphone brand for six years after Nokia.

And its sensor size is not inferior even if it is placed in a number of Android flagship mobile phones in 2022, but unfortunately in the end, Nokia's Symbian system was not successfully upgraded, and the new system also died halfway...

I also want to cooperate with Microsoft to continue my life, but I was directly pitted so that I don't even have bitter tea left, and the two companies that are the best at advertising will finish playing as soon as they cooperate, and finally lose their former glory under the two bread sandwiches of Android and Apple.

Nokia is destined to be cold, and Chen Zifan is worried that Nokia's counterattack before his death will pose a certain threat to Stardust Technology, so he stares at Nokia very closely, keeping a close eye on their latest developments.

In addition to Nokia and Apple, the relatively low-key is Google, the Android plan has begun to take off, but the initial Android is not easy to use, so Chen Zifan is still faced with two choices: ....

1. Disclose the source code of Stardust OS, make Stardust OS an open source system, and completely strangle Android in the cradle, which is very likely to lose the advantages that Stardust Technology has established, and will offend many manufacturers.

Second, give enough development space for Android, P, Apple and other systems, and kill most of the mobile phone operating systems in one fell swoop, so that Stardust OS has become a veritable first system.

The first path is too risky to target an infant Android system, and even the best Android custom UI in 2022 is unlikely to defeat the perfect foundation of Stardust OS.

Therefore, Chen Zifan is ready to continue the current strategy, throw out a part of the basic code, and increase investment in the research and development of Stardust Network and Stardust OS.

This is not only the system research and development of Stardust OS, but also the cost of software development, and many Internet companies in Huaxia are not very reliable

Spectrum, some key software has to be done by Stardust Network itself.

The game team led by An He is one of the more important links, and they have recently developed a high-quality, real-life racing game, similar to the genre of infinite test drives and high-speed riding.

In order to make use of the gyroscope inside Stardust 1 and the super high-quality screen.

Of course, if you want to have high picture quality and experience the real test, it is the chip that is really tested, and the running score of the early 10,000s with the chip stitched on Stardust 1 is a bit difficult to bring this game.

Therefore, it is very important to cooperate with MediaTek chips.

Or directly bypass the cooperation between MediaTek and TSMC, which is theoretically more efficient, but the actual situation does not allow Huaxia Technology to do so.

Games are a new generation of electronic yaian in the mouths of many bricks, but it is undeniable that games have played a very important role in the promotion of smartphones, take cutting fruit as an example.

Many people buy Stardust 1 and take a fancy to the fruit-cutting game demonstrated by Chen Zifan at the Stardust press conference, which directly ignited their desire to buy.

If it's not for the pressures of real life, who wouldn't love games?

According to the statistics team of the Ministry of Technology, on the third day after Stardust 1 was launched, the number of downloads of the game Cutting Fruit exceeded 2 million times, and fruit cutting can be seen everywhere on the streets and buses of Haicheng.

Many young people gathered in the streets and alleys, each with a Stardust1, and began to discuss the highest record of cutting fruit by themselves, which was more than a collection.

"See? I unlocked the rare fruit Red Heart Dragon Fruit today! Cow or not?"

"What's that?" I think you're kidding me, and the red heart dragon fruit has become a rare fruit?"

"You don't care if it's in reality, there are 50 points in the game!"

"Holy..."

Chen Zifan was hesitant to get an online function of cutting fruits, but after careful consideration, he gave up, cutting fruits is a simple and pure stand-alone game, and there is no need to complicate it.

Moreover, the connection experience of the 2G network is also very poor, and if you want to break the restrictions of the 2G network on the development of smartphones, it is best to enter the 4G era directly.

That's right, it's 4G, 3G can be directly omitted, on the one hand, because 3G patents are basically in Europe, and the three major operators in China don't know how much effort they have put in to engage in 3G, and the effect is not good.

The network is not necessarily fast, the traffic cost is really expensive, and when 4G first came out, there were rumors about a suite an hour, from which you can see how afraid people are of 3G high traffic costs. ….

But the 4G network is not something that can be done, and it still needs a lot of infrastructure, such as the construction of signal towers, etc., even if there is Stardust Technology, it would be good to be able to start a 4G head within five years.

At this stage, it is mainly possible to promote ifi, and the cooperation between Guanxia and BALD is a promotion channel, which mainly depends on the efforts of the three major operators.

In addition to games, Chen Zifan also made a special trip to the Stardust Network and set up a new project team to be responsible for the development of the Stardust community, aiming to provide community interaction, product information, after-sales service, etc.

In fact, this work has been around since the development of Stardust OS 1.0, but the development priority of the Stardust community was not high before.

It wasn't until Stardust 1 was launched and the government supported a group of engineers that the Stardust Network freed up some manpower to be dedicated to the Stardust community, which emphasized the interactive attributes of the community, rather than the official attributes of Stardust.

Chen Zifan had to instruct again every time: "We must weaken the product information and after-sales service in the Stardust community, and present these two in the simplest and most direct way, understand?"

TX is already engaged in the deduction of the mobile terminal, and is ready to be put on the shelves of the Stardust application, and the real-time communication software is done by domestic Internet giants, Chen Zifan does not plan to participate for the time being, but the interactive community must be engaged.

After operation, the Stardust community can even replace Tieba and forums, and its influence is very large.

Regarding the TX buckle, Chen Zifan also specifically mentioned one thing when cooperating, if someone uses the buckle

The button is dynamic, followed by a stardust 1 suffix, which must be marked with a special and conspicuous color.

The person in charge of TX said that he didn't understand, isn't it only Stardust 1 that is worthy of their special development of mobile terminals? Why do you have to do this?

However, this request was just a matter of convenience, and the person in charge of TX agreed directly, and when he returned to the company to figure it out, he already regretted it a little.

"It's broken! Lost a sum of money..."

It is also very interesting to say, Chen Zifan experienced the era when Apple slaughtered the entire Chinese mobile phone market, and one of the things that had a great influence on young people's choice of Apple at that time was that the Apple hair buckle had a special suffix.

Young people, most of them have good faces, so they subtly influenced a group of people, and when they grew up, they joined the Apple camp.

The influence of the buckle is too great, so since there is an opportunity, Chen Zifan will not do the same thing again, and it is Stardust Technology to do it.

At the same time as the development of Stardust Network and the cooperative Internet company, the chairman of Gionee and Tianyu, who were the first to cooperate with Stardust Technology, contacted Chen Zifan, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he was sold miserably:

"Dong Chen! You don't know! We're out of chips! The thing about that order..."

Ooh! Feelings are to return orders!

Chen Zifan laughed on the spot and said, "Chips? We have!"

It just so happened that MediaTek promised to send 2 million high-end feature phone chips to Stardust Technology, and Chen Zifan was ready to sell these chips to Gionee and Tianyu after changing hands, and directly prostituted nearly 600 million profits.

However, these chips are not taken for nothing, in this way, the chip cooperation between Stardust Technology and MediaTek is a sure thing, and this so-called verbal guarantee that MediaTek can break the contract at any time.

Chen Zifan is confident in Stardust Technology's chip enhancement technology, and he has some perfect basic chip drawings in his hand, which can be used as bargaining chips at any time, and he believes that MediaTek's senior management knows how to choose.

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