Chapter 46 The Stronger Apple

Author: Xing···Chen

Chapter 46 The Stronger Apple

"On June 21, the Summer Solar Developer Cooperation Conference, do you really want to give this name?"

Chen Zifan was confused when he looked at the documents handed over by his employees. MediaTek's senior management was really... But the name doesn't matter. What's important is that he also needs to use MediaTek's power to build smart phone chips.

"Also, what the hell is 2 million functional machine chips? It's useless for me to ask for this thing!"

If we really have determined chip cooperation with MediaTek, then the Stardust Factory's enhanced technology will no longer need to be based on functional mobile chips. Just build smart mobile chips directly. If cooperation cannot be achieved...

Even if there are so-called high-end functional machine chips, it is useless. Firstly, it is different from the basic chips currently used by Stardust 1, and secondly, the stitching chip is just a temporary product and cannot be extended to the next generation of products.

Regardless of whether he can finally cooperate with MediaTek, Chen Zifan will not give up the path of independently developing chips, but this work is indeed unhurried...

But this made many domestic mobile phone manufacturers led by Bogui. The next day, TSMC caught fire in the backyard, and the result was a shortage of raw materials and a price increase. MediaTek's chips were directly cut off.

The front foot of the waveguide mobile phone is still studying how to imitate Stardust 1, and MediaTek cuts supply, making it impossible for some of their feature phone products to continue to be produced. Fortunately, there are still a batch of inventory in front of them.

A middle-aged chairman was cursing: "Damn MediaTek! Go ahead! The labor and capital have attracted you to provoke you! There is no goods? Bah!"

Whatever is going to fire, and this reason can only deceive a three-year-old child, with insufficient supply of raw materials and price increases... Is it true that he can't get in touch with raw material suppliers? But what the facts do not matter.

The waveguide mobile phone can only be knocked out and swallowed into the stomach. Isn’t that the case without technology? It can only be slaughtered by upstream technology suppliers...

"Wait a little longer, I will give you a stock first, and then send someone to talk to MediaTek. When the limelight of Stardust Technology passes, we still have a chance!"

Speaking of this, he actually knew that Stardust Technology has broken the original mobile phone market structure. Stardust 1's most lethality is not the so-called large screen, aluminum alloy frame, glass cover...

Instead, Stardust OS, without an operating system, even if they are overwhelmed, they can only produce a pseudo-smartphone that looks very similar to Stardust 1.

The system of waveguide mobile phones is destined to be impossible for them to develop their own operating systems, and Lenovo, a domestic manufacturer with this strength, is the first to be affected. Unfortunately, Lenovo's focus is not on technical research and development.

As for international brands, Nokia, Google, Ericsson, Motorola, Apple, Microsoft... there are too many companies with the ability to develop operating systems.

After Stardust 1 was released, they did the same. They always had a concept in their subconscious mind: "Why can't we do the mobile operating system that can be created by Chinese brands?"

Nokia senior executives held a high-level meeting overnight on the day of Stardust 1 release. The focus of the meeting was only one: "Increase the research and development of the Symbian system! By the way, learn from the functions of Stardust OS..."

It is said that it is a reference, but it is actually just copying. I will copy you. Microsoft is still trying to transform Windows into a mobile phone system. The rest is basically copying, including Google's Android and Apple's Apple OS.

Especially Apple, after Jobs issued instructions to Wilson, the head of Apple in China, even if Wilson had more complaints and thoughts, he had to send a batch of Stardust back to the headquarters the next day.

It cost 230,000 yuan to be transported to Apple Corporation for a flight, but Jobs didn't care. He just wanted to see what the level of "smartphone" that was one step ahead of them was.

After getting Stardust 1, Jobs immediately led Jonathan and a group of capable players to the R&D laboratory. After unpacking the first Stardust 1, Jobs only felt that he had suffered another heavy blow.

"How is this possible?"

"It can be seen that their packaging design took a lot of thought, it was simple and clear, with uniform colors. The material of the packaging box should be customized PU + cardboard, and the damping feeling is very strong when opened..."

"The internal space is also tidy. There is a very thin small paper box on it, with product introduction, manual, and after-sales warranty card!"

"Is Stardust 1 in the middle? It looks really exquisite! The soft film on their screen... is white plastic film, which is electrostatically pasted!"

When you tear open this screen protector, the whole pure black screen is caught in your eyes. Since the screen of Star Dust 1 is blackened with the same style as the upper and lower bezels, the visual feeling is very good when you shut down the screen.

Coupled with the silver light of the CNC cut chamfer on the metal frame, and the black glass cover with the back cover like porcelain glaze, the texture of Stardust 1 directly surpasses all the mobile phones recognized by Jobs and others.

Not only was Jobs suffering a heavy blow, but the Apple executives and the engineers of the "Purple Project" were all hit hard, and a feeling of depression began to spread around...

"What are you worried about? It's just a Chinese brand, and our products will be better!"

Seeing this, Jonathan began to ease the atmosphere. Everyone at the scene said nothing, and didn't know what they were thinking. It seemed that they had agreed to Jonathan's words, and their hands became faster.

Below the real machine of Stardust 1, there is a white power adapter and data cable, which is Micro to USB, and the power adapter is 5V1A. The charging power is very small and the space occupied is also very small.

Further down there is a very thick base, which is all about Stardust 1 packaging. There are no headphones, no mobile phone case, and the card pin is inserted on the after-sales warranty card, saving everything that should be saved.

However, even if Chen Zifan saves it, he will not be able to save the charger and data cable. It’s okay to buy a mobile phone and not get a phone case, but he won’t get a charger…

Isn't this a joke?

Jobs, who always believed that transitional marketing would destroy the R&D potential of technology companies, probably never expected that one day Apple's products would not even give out chargers in the name of environmental protection marketing.

What's even more outrageous is that Apple has made a bad start, but some domestic Android manufacturers actually tried this way. Logically speaking, the development strategies of Apple and Android mobile phone manufacturers are completely different!

Jobs doesn't know what kind of situation Cook, who is working hard by his side, will lead Apple to develop, and his eyes are always on Stardust 1.

As soon as Stardust 1 was turned on, the atmosphere at the scene became even more depressing. Apple executives and engineers from "Purple Project" knew what the design sketch of Apple 1 looked like. It was simply compared with the two.

"They have larger screens and higher screen-to-body ratios, which...is they claimed full fit and retinal technology? Oh my god, I've never seen such a clear mobile phone screen! It's incredible!"

As soon as Jonathan got angry, he began to praise his competitors' products. He heard it all the people around him speechless, but he has always been so honest.

"But Stardust Technology made a mistake. Do they think the full screen will have a more technological sense? No, this will only increase the difficulty of getting started. Home button + touch screen is the right choice, and it is also simpler!"

Jobs, who was always silent, finally spoke. In his opinion, the full-screen operation of Stardust 1 is too extreme, and it is difficult for people to transition from traditional key phones to such an extreme operation method at once.

Home button + touch screen is the choice that is more in line with the market. Compared with traditional button phones, it is simpler and has less difficulty in getting started. You can also enjoy the fun of a large screen and the cost is also lower.

However, Chen Zifan didn't think so. If Stardust Technology does not have a super high-quality fully-fitting screen, of course, it would not dare to use the full-screen gestures directly. The hardware configuration is high, so the choice will naturally be more radical.

He not only wants Stardust OS to become the mainstream operating system for smartphones, but also wants to keep Stardust mobile phones’ hardware advantages, so that Stardust Technology will always be the leader in the smartphone era...

Although Jobs said that, he changed his mind when he saw the screen of Star Dust 1. If he wanted to compete with such a product, he would not be able to get the original accessory plan.

The competitive spirit in his bones made him unable to bear that Apple 1 was not as good as Stardust 1 in every aspect. He wanted to make changes to make Apple 1 more perfect, and then everyone began a comprehensive analysis of Stardust OS.

Soon they discovered a point: "Stardust OS is a semi-open source operating system. They uploaded some source code on an official website in China. If we can get it..."

"Then the development of the first generation of Apple OS will be much less difficult. The underlying logic of Stardust OS is perfect, but the protection level is very high. As long as we perform brute force cracking, it will start a self-destruct program!"

"Give us some time, Apple OS can do what Stardust OS can do! But I think we need to gather more Internet companies to join application development like Stardust Technology!"

"Stardust app is the core! They claim to have 800+ applications, but in fact we found that only 1/3 of the truly available and useful applications are available!"

"This is the flaw of China Internet companies! They are not serious enough and profit-oriented, which will make the applications they develop full of loopholes!"

"We have better resources... in just one year... no, nine months, nine months! We will make the best mobile operating system in the world!"

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Chen Zifan never expected that Stardust 1 aroused the competitive spirit of Jobs and a group of senior Apple executives and engineers, and the response would be so fast.

An Apple that is stronger than in history was born. At the same time, the design and software and hardware configuration of Apple 1 have also evolved to a level. Of course, even if you know, he doesn't care. What's there to be afraid of?

He had long wanted to see how strong the Godfather of Apple was. In history, the price of the 8GB of the 3GS domestic version of Apple 3GS was also 3999. It would be better to have a head-on battle to completely end the era of feature phones.

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