As soon as the method of reinvesting project profits emerged, a wave of reshuffles occurred in the real estate market.

When many places are selling land, they can't help but ask whether the profits from the project can be reinvested after obtaining a license.

The developer is also in a dilemma. If he refuses to invest, the project will be lost to him, but if he agrees to invest, the capital chain will not be able to bear it.

There has been a reshuffle in the real estate industry, and small developers, or developers like shell companies, have been quickly eliminated.

Li Weidong finished his work on the land bidding and immediately came to the special zone without stopping.

Rebs has put together a team, and Li Weidong's funds have been received, so he can start working hard!

Li Weidong walked into the conference room and rubbed his nose subconsciously. The newly decorated conference room was still filled with the smell of formaldehyde, which was a bit pungent.

"I'll ask the Puppy Electric office to send a batch of air purifiers later!" Li Weidong said.

"The logistics department should buy some, but since there are free ones, I can save a fortune." Rebus said, and began to introduce the people in the conference room to Li Weidong. These are all Rebus's employees from Microsoft, Google and other companies.

Poached by big tech companies.

After Yifan's introduction, everyone took their seats before Rebus said: "Chairman Li, give our new business a name!"

"How about calling it Xiaomi?" Li Weidong didn't bother to think about a new name and just used it as a doctrine.

"Xiaomi? Does it have any special meaning?" Rebus asked.

This time, Li Weidong was stunned. Li Weidong said to himself, "Didn't you, Rebus, come up with the name Xiaomi? Why did you ask me about my special meaning?"

Li Weidong immediately responded and said: "I was thinking that millet is the food we eat daily, and I also hope that our products can become people's daily necessities like food. In fact, if it is called rice, corn or the like will also work.

.”

"Rice is better, it sounds louder than millet!"

"Corn is not bad, and the word 'jade' sounds nice! It has a good meaning."

“The meaning of sorghum is not bad!”

"The name Gaoliang sounds like a wine seller."

“Calling corn sounds like it’s made from starch!”

A group of engineering tycoons started discussing the same name.

Li Weidong finally looked at Rebus and said, "Mr. Lei, how about you decide?"

"Since Chairman Li originally mentioned Xiaomi, let's not change it. Let's call it Xiaomi Technology!" Rebus said. He also thought the name Xiaomi was very good.

Next, everyone began to discuss research and development matters. Li Weidong basically didn't understand this technical aspect, so he could only sit there and watch a group of programmers talking happily.

After everyone was discussing, Rebus turned his attention to Li Weidong: "Chairman Li, do you have anything to add?"

Of course Li Weidong cannot say nothing, otherwise he will definitely be regarded as a useless boss.

It's just like during a meeting, the leader must summarize a few sentences at the end. Even if the summary is useless or even irrelevant to the topic, this process still needs to be in place.

Fortunately, Li Weidong was also prepared. He said: "You have just discussed a lot of technical issues, and I want to talk about the user level. The system we are going to develop is the first step in making smartphones.

"What do you think is the biggest difference between smartphones and traditional mobile phones from a user's perspective?"

Before anyone could answer, Li Weidong answered to himself: "The biggest difference between smartphones and traditional mobile phones is the screen. The screen of a smartphone can replace the keyboard of a traditional mobile phone, making the operation of the mobile phone simple and enabling many keyboard functions."

Unable to complete the operation.

So I think we should give full play to this feature of smartphones, and in the process of developing the system, focus on the smoothness of screen operations, enhance the user experience, and sacrifice part of the performance when necessary."

When it comes to "sacrifice performance", some people are immediately dissatisfied. At least programmers obviously value performance more.

Someone said: "Chairman Li, user experience is important, but performance is even more important. As a system, if the performance is not good, even if it is launched on the market, it will not be recognized by users. By then, our products will be easily

You will be defeated by your competitors.”

Li Weidong immediately replied: "It would be great if we can combine the specific user experience with system performance, but if it is really incompatible, we have to make a choice. I think user experience should be given priority. As for system performance, we can improve it step by step.

Improvements can be made through patches or system upgrades.

You are all insiders, and you should know that no software is perfect at the beginning. Just like Microsoft's Windows system, a new generation will be released in a few years, and each generation will have many patches to repair system vulnerabilities and

Improve system performance. Mr. Lei’s WPS has been out for several generations!

From a modern perspective, the performance of the first-generation Windows system is not that great, right? But why are 90% of computers around the world now using Windows? It’s because the first-generation Windows system has a better user experience.

, they first retained users, then improved performance through continuous upgrades, and finally achieved industry monopoly."

As Li Weidong spoke, he took out a mobile phone. It was Motorola's A1200, which is also a classic of Motorola.

The A1200 is a flip phone, but it is different from previous flip phones. Most flip phones at that time put the screen on the flip cover. However, the A1200 used the "Ming" series translucent flip phone with the screen on the body.

superior.

The A1200 uses a TFT screen and supports screen touch technology, which means that the A1200 is a touch-screen mobile phone. In addition, the A1200 uses a Linux smart operating system, so from a technical perspective, the A1200 can be

Think of it as a smartphone.

In terms of buttons, the A1200 is the same as today's smartphones. There are no numeric buttons from 1 to 9, which means that operations such as dialing and editing text messages need to be completed through the screen.

However, the TFT screen is not an LCD screen like today's smartphones. The sensitivity, recognition and response speed of the TFT screen are not good, so it must be used with a stylus.

The A1200 mobile phone also has many derivatives, and the sales are pretty good. In the era before iPhone appeared, the design of transparent flip cover and touch screen led the trend at that time.

It's a pity that after the iPhone appeared, this design was quickly thrown into the trash can and became a victim of the times.

Li Weidong continued: "The phone in my hand is also a touch screen phone, but the operation of this phone is far worse than Apple's iPhone. It is simply not on the same level. Sometimes I even need to use a stylus to press the buttons. Accurate number.

Products of the same type have already appeared on the market, and they have clearly told us their pros and cons. So if we make a smartphone system that is not as smooth as Apple's iPhone, then our products are destined to have no market."

Rebus also spoke in support; "I think what Chairman Li said is very reasonable. When I was working on WPS, I also had a similar painful lesson. As you all know, there was a time when our WPS was used by Microsoft. Offie failed and almost exited the market.

Later, we analyzed the reason and found that the user experience of our product was far inferior to Microsoft's Office. As everyone knows, WPS began to learn from Offie, copy its functions, and finally came to life.

I also have a technical background and know the importance of product performance. But after that painful lesson, I understood that not every customer needs perfect performance, and the vast majority of customers choose more convenient ones."

Rebus spoke and used personal experience as an example, so those who were dissatisfied had no choice but to shut up.

Apple's IOS system has advantages over Android systems, especially in the early days of smartphones, this advantage was even more obvious.

Compared with the Android system, the Apple IOS system has higher security, better software integration, clearer photos, lower memory usage, and smoother operation.

Later, as the Android system continued to be optimized, major mobile phone manufacturers also made improvements in software and hardware, so that the Android system began to catch up with Apple's IOS in all aspects.

Some brands have even surpassed Apple in optimizing and improving the functions of Android phones. For example, in terms of camera functions, more than one brand has surpassed Apple.

With the advent of the era of excess mobile phone hardware, the performance advantages of Apple's IOS system have gradually been offset by hardware improvements. With the support of powerful hardware, the Android system will also run smoothly.

Of course, the surplus of mobile phone hardware will only happen more than ten years later. In 2008, mobile phone configurations were pitifully low, and the superiority of Apple's IOS system was even more obvious.

Li Weidong knew very well that in the era when smartphones were just emerging, it was almost impossible to make the operating system as smooth as IOS based on the hardware level at the time.

After all, Apple's IOS system is a closed system. Apple mobile phone chips are specially designed based on the IOS system. The hardware and software of Apple mobile phones can be deeply integrated, which is something that open systems cannot do.

Even Li Weidong also makes closed systems, but with the current domestic technology level, he cannot design corresponding chips or manufacture other hardware devices. It will certainly not be as good as Apple's IOS.

Therefore, Li Weidong can only take the open source path of Android. Since he has decided to open source, the competitor Li Weidong's mobile phone system will face in the future will not be Apple, but Android.

This competition is like a few people being hunted by a ferocious beast. You don't need to be the fastest one, you just need to run faster than the last one to survive.

Therefore, Li Weidong's mobile operating system does not need to reach the level of Apple's IOS, as long as it is smoother than the early Android system.

After the meeting, all the engineering tycoons left one after another, but Li Weidong stopped Rebus.

"There's something else I need to trouble you with. I've made two small games. If you want to make them, you'll have to work hard on your Xishanju!" Li Weidong said.

Xishanju is a subsidiary of Kingsoft Group responsible for the game business. It was once the earliest game studio in China. The "Swordsman Love" developed that year can be regarded as a role-playing game that can compete with "Legend of Sword and Fairy". And "Swordsman Love"

》This IP has also made Xishanju suffer for a lifetime.

Li Weidong handed the game plan to Rebus. Rebus looked at the name of the game and said to himself: ""Fruit Bearer", is this a fighting game? "Angry Birds",

This sounds like a casual game."

However, Rebus's expression soon changed. From the original one of great expectation, it turned into "What kind of junk is this!"

"Director Li, the two games you want to make seem to be FLASH mini-games!" Rebus said.

Li Weidong nodded: "It can be played as a FLASH mini-game. This kind of mini-game should not be difficult for Xishanju, right?"

"Haha, just find a programmer and write a few strings of codes to make this thing." Rebus' tone was full of disdain, as if to say, asking Xishanju to make this kind of game is simply killing a chicken with a knife.

!

Li Weidong said: "I plan to move these two games to smartphones, that is, use the smartphone screen operations to replace mouse operations. With the current hardware level of smartphones, it can only carry these two games.

It’s a simple little game.”

Rebus pondered for a moment, and then said: "Not to mention, it would be really interesting to use this kind of FLASH game on a smartphone. Today's mobile games basically require physical button operations. If it can be played directly on the

If you operate it on the screen, it's a bit like a science fiction movie, and it does have a very technological feel."

Li Weidong continued; "Mr. Lei, you are looking down on mobile games. In my opinion, after ten years, mobile games will become mainstream, and then all major game companies will have to rely on mobile games to survive! Maybe you

Xishanju is also planning to develop a mobile version of "Swordsman Love"!"

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The financial turmoil triggered by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis has begun to sweep across the world, with Japan and Europe being the first to be cut off.
To be continued...