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[072] The troubled times of smartphones

The sudden closing of Android source did indeed disrupt Fang Chang'an's mentality to a certain extent. The ancient poems are no more than Samsung, htc, and the first two have deep roots. For example, Samsung has always had the ambition to launch its own system and took action, namely the Tizen system.

Historically, Samsung has launched two operating systems, bada and tizen. The former has been launched now, while the latter will not be launched until 12 years, and has established an open source alliance.

What’s more interesting is that Samsung’s main competitors around the world and most of it have been eroded in China, especially Huawei, which almost took over its Android high-end smartphone market, is a member of the Tizen Alliance.

Huawei's Hongmeng system strategy has largely learned from Tizen's failure lessons. The most profound lesson is probably the ambition of Tizen or Samsung. Tizen has to independently build a system ecosystem from the beginning and is determined to be incompatible with Android. This is one of the main reasons for Tizen's failure.

Of course, there are many people with this ambition, and it is not only Tizen who dies at this point. This is also a two-sided choice. If it succeeds, it is "ambition from the beginning, never compromise, and strong."

Samsung has a big business and has enough room for choice. It is not only building its own system, but also betting on both Windows      Board and Android at the same time. Since 10 years, smartphones with Windows    Board and Android have been released every year. Later, Microsoft made several serious strategic mistakes and Android has gradually become "unified the world". Only then did Samsung follow the trend and completely invest in Android.

However, Samsung's tizen system has not been completely given up and is still equipped with smart watches and smart TVs. It has retained the "ashes". Once the world changes, you can find an opportunity to "resurrect".

Of course, Fang Chang'an also has the ambition to build an ecosystem on his own, but he still has the ability to know himself. It is not realistic for ancient poetry within ten years.

Even if Huawei was not forced into a dead end, it would not rashly use the Hongmeng system on its mobile phone. Releasing the Hongmeng system in advance is actually to bluff and "seek unity through struggle", and the purpose is to retain Google, because at that stage, the Hongmeng system on the mobile phone was indeed a ppt, which was an Internet of Things system built for the "Internet of Everything".

Huawei's initial plan should be to connect Android with Hongmeng as the hub, Microsoft, for example, Huawei's computers are still Windows systems, but they have already realized ecological connectivity with mobile phones and tablets.

Once Google really chooses to close the source, the future for ancient poetry companies is really slim.

But Fang Chang'an is really hard to understand, why?

In the past life, Xiaomi and Huawei rose one after another, but Google suddenly closed its source! It just changed the name of "Xiaomi" a year in advance, which can cause such a big "butterfly effect"?

Google has withdrawn from the mainland market last year, but due to the Android system, the ancient poetry company still has contacts with Google and has officially joined the Google-led open handheld device alliance last year. Therefore, he quickly learned about Google's specific plans.

Android system is developed based on lunix system, and lunix has a strict open source protocol. Normally, Android system cannot be closed source, which is destined for Android to develop based on lunix.

However, rules are made by people. Rules are dead and people live, so there are naturally ways to adapt.

As early as last year, the Android system was "exposed" on the lunix ecological tree.

There is no doubt that this is what Google hopes for, and it should be promoted by Google itself, because only by removing the list on Lunix can it not have to comply with the open source protocol and be able to close the source.

The closed source of Android 3.0 is Google's long-planned plan and is also related to Apple's trends - early last year, Apple released the first generation of iPad.

At the beginning of the release, the iPad was not favored by others, and everyone thought it was useless, but the market proved Apple's outstanding vision. In just one month after the release of the iPad, sales exceeded one million units! It was even more popular than the first-generation iPhone!

Google released Android 3.0, the first thing it targeted was tablets.

The first product equipped with Android 3.0 is Motorola's xoom tablet.

Google's plan for Android 3.0 is aimed at the high-end market, which can be seen from the minimum configuration of 3.0, with a minimum 1ghz processor and a minimum 512m memory... It cannot be carried with low-end functions.

In the low-end market, Android 2.2 and 2.3 are still open source and can be used.

In other words, if it goes well, according to Google's plan, the Android system will be divided into two from now on. The Android 3.0 system will be open sourced and occupy the low-end market, while the 3.0 version will begin to be closed source and occupy the high-end market.

This does not mean that companies other than Google cannot use it, but will no longer be open source and free of charge. Companies with relatively close cooperative relationships can still get the source code of Android 3.0 after paying commercial costs.

However, Android 3.0 can only be an Android system, and other companies can only make a small part of the changes stipulated by Google, and third-party desktops are completely banned!

Although Guci mobile phones are currently only sold in mainland China, the hot market feedback and sales undoubtedly prove the potential and strength of ancient poetry companies. Although Google has withdrawn from the mainland, it does not want to hand over the mainland smartphone market and also sent people to contact ancient poetry companies.

In other words, ancient poetry companies can still get the source code of Android 3.0, but they have changed to a cooperation model.

Specifically, you can only use the Android system, not the Luoshenui!

If Android 3.0 is adopted, the ancient poetry company will lose the important differentiated selling point of Luoshenui!

Therefore, after consideration and discussion, the second generation of ancient Chinese mobile phone (Linjiangxian) is still equipped with the Luoshenui based on version 2.3.

After the initial doubts and anxiety, Fang Changan slowly figured out the truth in combination with Google's actions.

This has nothing to do with him!

Because in his past memory, there are Android 2.2, 2.3, Android 4.0, 4.4, but there is no Android 3.0, it seems that the Android system skipped the 3.x version directly.

Combined with the comprehensive consideration of the experiences and experiences of the two lives, he believed that this was Google's normal operation and that he should have done the same thing in his previous life, but he just didn't understand it.

According to the current Android situation, there is no doubt that Google's plan to eat alone failed, so Android 4.0 was re-entered because if this was not the case, even if the Android system would not die, it would never be able to compete with iOS.

After making this judgment, he calmed down again and steadily polished Android 2.3. On the one hand, he continued to promote the research and development of the first ancient poem mobile phone and TV box, and on the other hand, he accelerated the "Loshen Application Market" that was already being prepared.

In the early days, domestic Android software ecosystems were full of monsters, and various application markets emerged one after another, including Wandoujia, Baidu, Tencent... However, various mobile phone manufacturers have natural advantages because the mobile phones are owned and the factory system is owned, which can be optimized for the system layer.

During the development process, there have been various third-party customized ui flying all over the sky in China. The fundamental reason is this, and the interests are moving.

When the mobile Internet develops, channels are king, especially mobile games, the commission in the application market is as high as 80% or 90%. How can it not be attracted to it?

Facts have proved that as a veteran commercial company that has dominated for many years, Google cannot overestimate its conscience or underestimate its wisdom. Its reaction is much faster than Fang Changan expected.

Android version 3.0 was released on February 3, 2011, and version 3.2 was released on July 13.

Just in August, Fang Changan learned that Xiaomi was going to hold a press conference, and within two days, he learned that Google was preparing for version 4.0 and re-, thoroughly, completely open source!

On October 19, Xiaomi phones just started shipping, and Google released Android version 4.0.

Android 3.x version only existed for eight months and became history, and in the minds of most consumers, it has never existed because there are too few mobile phones on board.

For ancient poetry companies, Google is no longer "scattered" and is undoubtedly good news, and even for the entire smartphone market, this is also good news.

If Google goes all the way to black, the Android system will definitely not be as successful as it does in later generations, but it may not be completely dead because there is no opponent that can kill it.

The high-end market targeted by iOS can be seen from the cheap version of iPhone 5c that redefines the "cheap" and it can be seen.

If Android is closed, the mid- and low-end smartphone market will likely be in a state of separatist power, which is not conducive to the development and expansion of smartphones.

This is Google's contribution, but it is not its original intention. No matter how high-sounding a commercial company is, its purpose is only "interest". Any decision is based on this purpose.

If you can make more money, you will never make less money. If you can monopolize, you will never give up a slight market. If Android 3.0 is closed source successfully, there will not be open source for Android 4.0.

However, although it was forced to re-open source, Google did not give up its previous plans and just changed its strategy.

After Android 4.0, Google began to differentiate the Android system.

There have always been two parts of the Android system. One part is aosp (Android open source code). The code here is the Android underlying framework, which anyone can download and modify. Google also chooses to accept and absorb any participant in the world to modify this part of the code; the other part is gms (Google Mobile Service), which includes Google's email, maps, and stores. This is Google's service part and is not open source. Preinstalled with GMS on your mobile phone requires you to apply to Google and pay the fee.

After 4.0, Google began to continuously migrate code and functions from open source aosp to gms, and achieved it by increasing the importance of gms, maintaining its absolute leadership and control over Android.

Of course, there is also profit.

This is naturally understandable. Google has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in Android, and of course it needs to get rewards. Under normal business rules, because of the checks and balances between all parties, this can be achieved in the long run for common development and benefit.

But everything is absolutely absolutely true, Huawei's fate is proof of it.

Android 4.0 has been greatly improved. After re-opening, ancient poems quickly adapted to Android 4.0. However, at the same time, they did not give up the "Loshen application market" and continued to step up.

Because of the emergence of ancient mobile phones, when later generations look back at the domestic smartphone market, 2010 will probably be an important year that cannot be ignored, and may appear as the "first year of domestic mobile phones".

At the same time, although the butterfly effect caused Android to be closed, the early appearance of ancient Chinese mobile phones has indeed caused many changes.

In August, Xiaomi chose "816" to hold a press conference like in its previous life, but the delivery time was much earlier than in its previous life, and the price dropped to 1888. It was obvious that it wanted to compete with ancient Chinese mobile phones for "cost-performance ratio", but the slogan was still "born for fever".

Even if you already have ancient Chinese mobile phones, this is something that excites many consumers. For consumers, one more choice is always better than one less.

The Xiaomi configuration is better than you and the price is cheaper. Your Guci mobile phone should be in stock, right? I can always grab it, right?

Meizu m9 has been released at the beginning of this year and has been launched. Its exquisite appearance almost doesn’t look like the texture and aesthetics of domestic mobile phones. Even compared with Fang Changan, the second-generation ancient-word mobile phone created by the rebirth of the future aesthetic, it is not behind.

However... m9's sales volume is far lower than expected due to quality and production capacity issues, and is still "small and beautiful". Apart from the niche group, it has not caused any splash.

The mx series is the starting point for Meizu to move towards the public, Meilan is the peak, and then it ends.

At the same time, because of the emergence of ancient Chinese mobile phones, new changes emerged within Huawei Group in advance, and Yu Dazui took over Huawei's consumer business in advance.

To be fair, Yu has outstanding vision, ability, wrists, and ambitions. At this time, Huawei mobile phones are not famous, and they are absolutely minions. The so-called "China Cool League" is actually not a single one, especially when the ancient lyrics mobile phones seize Xiaomi's luck and are released more than a year in advance.

However, he just accepted Huawei's consumer business and shouted the slogan of becoming the world's number one. Although he was ridiculed as "Yu Dazui", he really did it step by step - without the US sanctions, Huawei would become the real world's number one, and it is likely to be completed in 20 years.

After Yu Dazui accepted the consumer business, he carried out drastic reforms. The original OEM business was cut off and four series from high-end to low-end d, p, g, and y were established, corresponding to diamond, platinum, gold, and young English words.

In these four series, only the P series survived to the end, and the more you lived, the better.

The D series was originally an absolute flagship, but it has been half-dead. Later, the mate series became popular with the mate7 and successfully took over the status of Huawei's flagship series. The P series was positioned as a fashion flagship, relying on its specialty in the camera field, and Huawei's gradual upgrade of colors and textures, and passed on the incense year after it gradually upgraded.

Many of these elements have been inherited by Huawei. For example, Huawei p1 released in early 2012, the promotional slogan is "Use wisdom to interpret the most beautiful"... The word "wisdom" in it was still active in Huawei's product promotion until it was sanctioned.

For example, both flagship phones, d1 and p1, were released in Europe, and this tradition has been maintained until it was sanctioned and the overseas market was lost. In addition, due to the epidemic, the mate40 series was completely released online, and this tradition was broken.

Because of the early appearance of ancient vocabulary mobile phones, Huawei's transformation was earlier than in previous lives, but it was also facing an even stronger opponent. A few years later, the mobile phone field, the steps Kirin chips and Huawei mobile phones can go have become an unknown.

However, being sanctioned is inevitable, because Huawei is sanctioned and has little to do with mobile phones. The leading communication technology with 5g as the main representative is the "original sin".

In addition to these "reserved" opponents, some opponents beyond Fang Chang'an's knowledge also emerged, such as "Auntie Mobile Phone", "Tang Shi Mobile Phone", "Rice Mobile Phone", "Auntie Mobile Phone", etc., which all emerged, exactly the same as the "Little Pepper" after the Xiaomi popularity in the previous life.

The "chaotic times" of smartphones, which are racing against thousands of boats, arrive early!

When Fang Changan, who had gained a foothold in advance with the advantage of foresight, learned about this information, he felt a sense of being condescending and admiring heroes.

Judging from the current situation, he has this qualification.

But you should not be arrogant because the real opponent is still standing in front of him.
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