"Nokia, Apple, Google... you'd better be more powerful. You can't be beaten by a new Chinese brand, right? Isn't it?"
Chen Zifan has asked Stardust Network to disclose some unimportant code on China's official open source website in order to attract more brands to join the game and create an era of smartphones where a hundred schools of thought contend.
He knows that it is undesirable to have a monopoly, and the most likely result is to be jointly suppressed. Rather than face such a difficult situation, it is better to gradually make some unimportant technologies and codes public.
This can not only reduce the risk of being targeted, but also ensure the advantages of Stardust Technology. It can also continuously inject vitality into the market. Stardust Technology takes the lead in rolling out technology to further stimulate the development of science and technology.
What Chen Zifan never wanted was to engage in marketing, engage in business wars, and become a business giant like Apple led by Cook. Instead, he wanted to lead the development of technology and create a true technological prosperity.
Of course, in the process of pursuing technological development, Stardust Technology will also earn reasonable profits. Maybe one day it will accidentally become the most profitable company in the world. Who can say for sure?
After Stardust 1 was launched, Apple responded the fastest. Steve Jobs had already adjusted the development plan of "Project Purple". However, among the remaining mobile phone manufacturers, Nokia, which has the world's largest sales volume, was the slowest.
Because Nokia's top management is too complicated and full of factions, they are still unclear about the direction of their next development plan. The most vocal one is to reform the Symbian system, and there are many other factions.
For example, those who advocate the development of a new operating system, those who advocate cooperation 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 boycott Stardust Technology...
A good mobile phone company has become a drama of nine sons seizing the heir, but after all, Nokia is the company with the highest market share in the world, and its business is still on the rise, not as decadent as it was in its twilight years.
The voice for continuing to invest heavily in building the Symbian system is the highest, and shareholders account for the largest proportion. The process may be a little bumpy, but the final result will not change.
Chen Zifan has never underestimated Nokia. With Nokia's size, brand, and advertising level, even the sales of pseudo-smartphones launched in its twilight years can still beat the Apple 3GS. This is the strength of a major manufacturer.
At the same time, he will not forget the stunning Carl Zeiss 41-megapixel lens. After Nokia, no smartphone brand could produce a lens with such pixels for six years.
And its sensor size is not inferior even among the Android flagship phones in 2022. Unfortunately, Nokia’s Symbian system was not successfully upgraded in the end, and the new system also died halfway...
I still wanted to continue my life by cooperating with Microsoft, but I was fooled so hard that even the bitter tea seeds were left. The two companies that were the best at advertising were over as soon as they cooperated. In the end, they were caught between Android and Apple and lost their former glory.
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Nokia was destined to be in the cold, and Chen Zifan was worried that Nokia's counterattack before its death would pose a certain threat to Stardust Technology, so he kept an eye on Nokia closely and paid close attention to their latest developments.
In addition to Nokia and Apple, Google is relatively low-key. The Android project has begun, but the initial Android is not easy to use, so Chen Zifan still faces two choices:
First, make Stardust OS source code public, make Stardust OS an open source system, and completely strangle Android in the cradle. This will most likely lose the advantages that Stardust Technology has established, and will also offend many manufacturers.
Second, give Android, WP, Apple and other systems enough room for development, and let a hundred flowers bloom in the operating system to kill most mobile operating systems in one fell swoop, making Stardust OS the veritable number one system.
The risk of the first path is too high, there is no need to target an Android system that is still in its infancy, and even the best Android customized UI in 2022 will not be able to defeat Stardust OS, which has a perfect foundation.
Therefore, Chen Zifan plans to continue the current strategy, throw out part of the basic code, and at the same time 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. Many Chinese Internet companies are not reliable, and some key software has to be developed by Stardust Network itself.
The game team led by An He is an important part of it. They have recently been developing a racing game that focuses on high image quality and a real experience, similar to unlimited test driving and extreme speed riding.
The purpose is to take advantage of the gyroscope and the ultra-high-quality screen inside Stardust 1.
Of course, if you want high picture quality and a real experience, the real test is the chip. The running score of over 10,000 for the stitched chip on Stardust 1 is a bit unsatisfactory for this game.
Therefore, it is very important to cooperate with MediaTek chips.
Or directly bypass MediaTek and cooperate with TSMC. In theory, this is more efficient, but the actual situation does not allow China Technology Company to do this.
Games are considered by many experts to be the next generation of electronic games, but it is undeniable that games play a very important role in promoting smartphones, just take cutting fruit as an example.
Many people who bought Stardust 1 were attracted by the fruit-cutting game demonstrated by Chen Zifan at the Stardust press conference, which directly ignited their desire to buy.
If it weren’t for the pressures of real life, who wouldn’t like games?
According to a report from the statistics team of the Technology Department, on the third day after the release of Stardust 1, the number of downloads of the fruit-cutting game exceeded 2 million times. Fruit-cutters can be seen everywhere on the streets of Haicheng and on buses.
Many young people gathered in the streets and alleys, each holding a Stardust 1, and began to discuss their own record of cutting fruit, and the record was even better than the collection.
"Did you see? I unlocked the rare fruit Red Heart Dragon Fruit today! Is it awesome?"
"What the hell? I think you are kidding me. The red dragon fruit has become a rare fruit?"
"Don't worry about it in real life. In the game, you get 50 points if you cut one!"
"Holy shit..."
It made Chen Zifan hesitate to create an online function for fruit cutting, but after careful consideration, he gave up. Fruit cutting is a simple and pure stand-alone game, and there is no need to complicate it.
Moreover, the online experience of the 2G network is also very poor. If you want to break the restrictions of the 2G network on the development of smartphones, it is best to directly enter the 4G era.
Yes, both 4G and 3G can be omitted directly. On the one hand, because 3G patents are basically in Europe, China's three major operators have put in a lot of effort just to develop 3G, and the results are not good.
The network is not necessarily that fast, and the traffic charges are really expensive. When 4G was first released, there were rumors about one apartment per hour. From this, we can see how afraid people are of the high traffic charges of 3G.
However, 4G network cannot be built just by building it. It also requires a lot of infrastructure construction, such as building signal towers, etc. Even with Stardust Technology, it will be good to have a 4G start within five years.
At this stage, we can still mainly promote wifi. The cooperation between Guanxia and BALD is a promotion channel. The most important thing is to rely on the efforts of the three major operators.
In addition to games, Chen Zifan also made a special trip to Stardust Network and established a new project team responsible for the development of Stardust community, aiming to provide community interaction, product information, after-sales service, etc.
In fact, this work already existed when Stardust OS 1.0 was first developed, but the development priority of the Stardust community was not high before.
It wasn't until Stardust 1 was launched and the official supported a group of engineers that Stardust Network freed up part of its manpower to work exclusively on the Stardust community. It emphasized the interactive attributes of the community rather than the official attributes of Stardust.
Chen Zifan has to give instructions 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. Do you understand?"
TX is already working on the mobile version of KouKou and plans to put it on the Stardust application. Real-time communication software is produced by domestic Internet giants, so Chen Zifan does not plan to participate, but the interactive community must be developed.
If it is well run, Stardust Community can even replace Tieba and forums, and its influence is very great.
Since Stardust Technology has chosen to focus on smartphones and Stardust OS, it has to give up most of its APP development rights and only produce a few high-quality products.
Regarding TX KouKou, Chen Zifan also specifically mentioned one thing during the cooperation. If someone uses KouKou to post news, it must be followed by a Stardust 1 suffix, which must be marked with a special and conspicuous color.
The person in charge of TX expressed his incomprehension about this. Isn’t Stardust 1 the only one worthy of their special development of mobile APP? Why do they still do this?
However, this request was just made casually, and the person in charge of TX agreed directly. When he returned to the company to understand the matter, he already regretted it.
"It broke! I lost a lot of money..."
It’s also very interesting to say that Chen Zifan experienced the era when Apple massacred the entire Chinese mobile phone market. One thing that had a great influence on young people’s choice of Apple at that time was that Apple hair buttons had a special suffix.
Most of the young people have a good reputation, so they have a subtle influence on a group of people, and when they grow up, they join the Apple camp one after another.
The influence of QQ is too great, so now that there is a chance, Chen Zifan will not do the same thing again, and Stardust Technology will do it.
While Stardust Network and its cooperating Internet companies were developing APPs, the chairman of Gionee and Tianyu, who were the first to cooperate with Stardust Technology, contacted Chen Zifan, and he started selling them badly:
"Director Chen! You don't know! We don't have any chips! About that order..."
Ouch! Feelings are here to cancel the order!
Chen Zifan laughed on the spot and said: "Chip? We have it!"
Just in time, MediaTek promised to send 2 million high-end functional machine chips to Stardust Technology. Chen Zifan immediately changed hands and prepared to sell these chips to Gionee and Tianyu, directly earning nearly 600 million in profit.
However, these chips are not free. In this way, the chip cooperation between Stardust Technology and MediaTek is a certainty, and this so-called verbal guarantee that MediaTek can break the contract at any time.
Chen Zifan has confidence in Stardust Technology's chip enhancement technology, and he also has some perfect basic chip drawings in his hand that can be used as bargaining chips at any time. He believes that MediaTek's executives know how to choose.
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