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Chapter 1373 Let the Bullets Fly
Upon hearing Li Dongling's words, Jiang Tao sat up straight. He now had a better understanding of Li Dongling's temperament.

Whenever the philanthropist Li says this, "asking" which department of Dongke to lend a hand, it's a sure sign that a major project is about to be launched.

The software department at Dongke is incredibly busy right now, but Jiang Tao understands that no matter how busy the software department is, they will definitely have to complete the tasks assigned by Li Dashan.

But this is not a hard job. Li Dongling's requirement for Dongke employees has always been that they should get the same amount of return for their efforts, and he would never let them work for nothing.

The same applies to departments. Although projects may be pushed back, all the supporting funding, manpower, and resources will be allocated to them, and the power of the software department will increase significantly!

"Mr. Li, please speak!"

Seeing Jiang Tao's serious expression, Li Dongling smiled and waved his hand, indicating that he didn't need to be nervous.

After a moment's thought, Li Dongling said, "I know the software department is very busy right now, but there are some things that the software department absolutely has to do!"

Last year, Nokia joined forces with Ericsson, Motorola, and British PDA handheld device manufacturer Psion to form Symbian.

The purpose of establishing Symbian was to develop a Symbian operating system suitable for mobile phones, based on Psion's PDA operating system EPON system.

The future of mobile phones will be a period of systematization and intelligence, and the operating system is what gives mobile phones their soul!

"Perhaps it won't be long before every mobile phone has its own operating system, just like computers!" Li Dongling said, looking at Jiang Tao.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Tao immediately understood what Li Dongling meant.

"Mr. Li, do you mean the software department should also develop an operating system for Shenzhou phones?"

Jiang Tao pursed his lips and couldn't help but say, "Developing a dedicated operating system for mobile phones is something that has never happened before."

Even the Saipan company is only testing the waters and exploring the possibilities. They probably don't know whether it will work out or not.

With a snap of his fingers, Li Dongling confirmed Jiang Tao's statement: "I hope that in the future, Shenzhou mobile phones can become the world's first mobile phone with an operating system, and also the best-performing and most user-friendly mobile phone ever!"

Jiang Tao couldn't help but rub his cheeks. He hadn't expected that Li Dongling would actually let him lead the software department to develop a mobile operating system.

This was completely unexpected. Even a mobile phone operating system is still an operating system. In the software industry, it's a masterpiece, a product that belongs to a unique category.

A variety of expressions flashed across Jiang Tao's face before he finally looked up at Li Dashanren and asked, "What level of development does the software department need to achieve for this operating system?"

Jiang Tao was asking Li Dongling about his requirements for the mobile phone operating system, and he was also assessing whether Dongling High-Tech's software department could currently meet those requirements.

"The Shenzhou mobile phone system may not necessarily be able to reach the level of a computer operating system immediately..."

Li Dashanren's first words made Jiang Tao's lips twitch involuntarily. With the current level of mobile phone hardware, even if a mobile phone system comparable to the current computer operating system could be developed, it would be like a small horse pulling a train; even if it were incredibly powerful, it wouldn't be able to move it.

Seeing the expression on Jiang Tao's face that suggested he didn't believe future mobile operating systems could achieve the same level of sophistication as current Microsoft computer systems, Li Dongling chuckled dismissively.

The wonder of technology lies in the fact that during periods of explosive technological growth in certain industries, even those working in those industries cannot imagine what the future of the industry will look like.

Even for Microsoft, the original system was just a set of operating instructions, and they never imagined that computer operating systems could reach this level.

The same applies to mobile phone operating systems. If Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, and Samsung had known that smartphones would emerge, they certainly wouldn't have stood idly by while Apple launched the first smartphone and its iOS operating system. They would have fought tooth and nail from the start!

"The Shenzhou mobile operating system is a closed-source system and will be used in Shenzhou mobile phones, as well as mobile phones from its subsidiary brands such as Coolpad and Transsion."

Other brands of mobile phones that want to use the Hasee mobile phone system need to pay a certain percentage of the cost!

Whether a mobile operating system is open source or closed source, its success depends on whether the mobile phones can be sold, only if there are enough people using them.

Only those who develop software for this mobile operating system can make money!
This is the key: only when money is made will more and more developers flock to the Shenzhou mobile phone system and willingly develop software.

"Initially, mobile operating systems needed to be able to interface with and operate the entire hardware and software of the mobile phone."

This includes optimizing phone performance, allowing users to freely manage files, delete and clean up files to free up memory, optimize the phone camera, and set images for the main screen. The Shenzhou system aims to make Shenzhou phones increasingly smooth and offer more and more features!

Going forward, the system needs continuous upgrades. In addition to the software developed by the software department to support the Shenzhou mobile phone system, we must quickly integrate third-party developers to provide software, games, and other applications developed using Java and C++, making them available for users to download and use from the Shenzhou mobile phone official website.

Li Dongling said to Jiang Tao, "The great philanthropist Li didn't expect anything from the beginning. He relied on the Shenzhou system and third-party software. It's unrealistic to talk about how many 'leeks' he could fleece and how much money he could make."

Data is too expensive now, so relying on app stores to download software is simply unrealistic. The only way is to download software and games on your computer and then install them on your phone.

In its past life, Apple profited from software fees collected through its App Store, exploiting the global market. The infamous "Apple Tax" was known worldwide, and Apple earned more than it did from selling mobile phones.

But that was the era of smartphones, when hardware, network speed, data, and other factors all had the right conditions; it was just a matter of timing!

Current mobile phone systems simply can't do that. And even the philanthropist Li didn't expect to harvest the韭菜 (a metaphor for exploiting people) from the start; he had to nurture them first before harvesting them, right?

The reason Shenzhou is developing its own mobile operating system is to compete with Symbian. If it doesn't develop its own mobile operating system, it will have to rely on mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia and Ericsson, begging them to use Symbian on Shenzhou phones.

But as I said before, the Symbian system belongs to the other party, but this system is not an open source system at all.

The Symbian system in its previous life was only made available for free and open source when the smartphone era was collapsing and all hope was lost. But by then, it was too late.

Now, if you want to use the Symbian system, you have to pay money. In the past, domestic mobile phone manufacturers had to pay Symbian a licensing fee of five to fifteen US dollars per phone, depending on the price, as long as the phone was equipped with the Symbian system.

Yeah, knock-off phones don't cost money...

This is actually one of the reasons for the proliferation of counterfeit phones. Genuine phones are subject to too many restrictions, which gives counterfeit phones an opportunity to thrive.

However, once the scale of counterfeit phones grows large enough, if they want to transform into genuine phones or export overseas, they will face the same problems that genuine phones face. This is an unsolvable dilemma.

The key point is that simply paying money doesn't mean you can freely modify the Symbian system or optimize your phone.

To optimize the Symbian system, you would have to ask Nokia, Ericsson, and other Symbian system stakeholders to make modifications within a specified scope. To expect Symbian to be fully compatible with mobile phones is just a pipe dream.

It seems that Li the Philanthropist has no intention of letting Dongke handle this kind of situation where you pay money and still have to act like a servant.

Rather than being subservient to the Symbian system and its rivals like Nokia, Ericsson, and Motorola, Dongke should raise its own flag and establish its own independent entity!

Furthermore, developing a mobile operating system doesn't generate profit initially, but once the system is upgraded a few times and the hardware catches up, developers can still make money from software, applications, and games developed using that system, although not as much as Apple's system.

In its previous life, at its peak, the Symbian system had over a million developers worldwide, and famous software and game companies all settled on the Symbian platform.

However, Nokia and Ericsson, among other companies, were also fiercely competing with each other over the Symbian system, and they didn't pay much attention to optimizing the system, which ultimately made it increasingly difficult to use...

Once the Shenzhou mobile phone system is developed, there will be no more open or covert competition. This mobile phone system will be continuously optimized.

Once Shenzhou mobile phone shipments reach a certain level, it's certain that the developers of the Shenzhou mobile phone system will be able to make money.

Even if they don't make money, Shenzhou Mobile won't be stingy in order to defeat the Symbian system. They will personally subsidize the third-party developers of Shenzhou Mobile phones so that the developers can make money!
As long as the software ecosystem of the Shenzhou mobile phone system is established, how much money is made is not the key. The key is that when smartphones arrive, these Shenzhou system software developers can seamlessly develop various smartphone software for Shenzhou smartphones!
Once smartphones arrive, and Shenzhou smartphones go on sale, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of apps will appear as soon as they go online. So, what can other competitors use to compete with Shenzhou smartphones?
While some other mobile phone manufacturers were still struggling to recruit software developers, Shenzhou's smartphone software ecosystem had already... been established!
Is there any need to fight this war?

"Once the Shenzhou mobile phone system is completed, a special column for the Shenzhou system can be launched on the Shenzhou IT community. The Shenzhou mobile phone system development team should regularly communicate with users in the IT community."

Let users experience the system, then point out its shortcomings and give suggestions; the mobile phone system needs to be improved in real time.

In addition, we need to provide developers with comprehensive development tools, technical support, and testing platforms in the IT community.

Shenzhou mobile phone operating system needs to let users and developers know that this is also "their own" system!

"And Jiang Tao, you will become the father of the global mobile phone operating system!"

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