Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 121: Xiaolan Released
The continued hot sales of Zhiyun S9 mobile phones have made many mobile phone manufacturers envious and jealous...

Even at the neighboring sister company, WeCool Electronics, many people are jealous... Especially Bai Qiwen, who has been running to Xu Shenxue every few days to show off his presence.

It's nothing more than wanting Xu Shenxue to increase his investment in Weiku Electronics...

In the end, Xu Shenxue couldn't persuade him, so he explained the situation to the investors of Zhiyun Technology. After obtaining the investors' consent and approval, he once again used Zhiyun Technology to lend 200 million yuan to Weiku Electronics to fund the mass production and market promotion of smartphones.

Of course, Zhiyun Technology is not lending money to Weiku Electronics for nothing. Although they are sister companies, they still have to settle accounts clearly... The interest should be paid in full, and it is even a bit high.

In addition, Weiku Electronics has also signed an ecological construction cooperation plan with Zhiyun Technology. Simply put, Weiku Electronics will directly use the Zhiyun APP Mall developed by Zhiyun Technology and build it into the system APP Mall. It is just a simple name change... and then the two parties will share the channel fees.

Of course, as a mobile phone manufacturer, Weiku Electronics will definitely take the lion's share. Zhiyun Mall Technology Co., Ltd., the operator of Zhiyun App Mall, as a channel merchant, will only take a small portion as operating expenses.

This cooperation plan was also strongly promoted by Xu Shenxue...mainly for the purpose of establishing a multi-brand, safe and healthy semi-closed ecosystem.

In addition to unifying the channel fee pricing system, it is also mainly used to regulate rogue software behavior in the ecosystem...

Xu Shenxue doesn't want the Zhiyun Android ecosystem that he has worked so hard to build to be screwed by a bunch of shameless domestic software manufacturers...

Therefore, very strict Zhiyun APP ecological rules were determined from the very beginning, which do not allow software manufacturers to use various permissions at will, especially background startup and memory resident permissions, which are super sensitive and will seriously slow down the running speed of the mobile phone.

There is no absolute need for it. The software review staff of Zhiyun APP Mall will directly refuse to put an APP that requests such sensitive permissions on the shelves... On the contrary, if you want permissions such as the user's address book or text messages, they can turn a blind eye and let the user choose for themselves.

Zhiyun doesn’t really care about user privacy. After all, the permissions are given to users, and users can choose for themselves…

But Zhiyun is very concerned about whether the phone can be used smoothly... Various permissions are very rigid.

If a high-end phone like S9, which costs to yuan, still has various lags when using it, then what's the point of using it...

Anyway, in China and even in overseas markets, this is the largest and only Android APP mall channel that is directly built into Dao phones... If you want to enter the mobile Internet market, you must follow Zhiyun's rules.

Moreover, these so-called harsh conditions are actually much more relaxed than those of Apple... At least the privacy monitoring is much more relaxed. Giving users the right to choose under the banner of a free ecosystem... In fact, it is just leaving a loophole for software manufacturers...

Otherwise, why doesn't Zhiyun completely relax permissions such as background startup and memory resident permissions for users to choose? Because there are countless apps that have had these sensitive permissions revoked and modified.

No matter you are a large software manufacturer or an individual developer, if you apply for these two permission interfaces without giving a very necessary reason, the review will directly send it back to you and ask you to make changes!
Because Zhiyun really cares whether his phone will get stuck...

It’s still possible to forcefully promote the Zhiyun APP relying solely on the two series of mobile phones from Zhiyun Technology, but it will be somewhat weaker in the future.

Therefore, Xu Shenxue had to bring in the two brands of mobile phones from WeCool Electronics, which are likely to have a large inventory of smartphones in the future.

As for channels, the bigger the scale, the more say you have!
After the software manufacturers' APPs are listed on the 'Zhiyun APP Store', they can be simultaneously listed on the Zhiyun S series, C series, Xiaolan brand (Xiaolan Application Store), and Weiku brand (Weiku Application Store).

A total of three major brands have mobile app built-in shopping mall channels.

Further expand the influence of Zhiyun APP Mall and strengthen the control over the entire ecological chain.

Major software vendors have some complaints about the strict regulation, but they are not too dissatisfied...

On the one hand, fruits are in the lead, and on the other hand, software manufacturers these days are still relatively "naive".

In the Android channel, most of them first came into contact with the Zhiyun APP and thought that software permission management was inherently like this...

If there was no Zhiyun APP Mall, and they had tried all kinds of messy and unregulated APP diversion channels first, they probably would not have given in so easily.

But now... they haven't experienced the taste of lawlessness yet, so they are still relatively law-abiding...

There are some that don’t follow the rules, but Zhiyun won’t let them join in the mobile Internet era… Just stay in the old era and rot, and I’ll support your competitors.

Even a powerful mobile app like Tencent’s QQ still has to abide by the rules…

But they also connect to 'Yun Cloud notice', or YCN.

YCN is an underlying information notification system in the YUN OS system. After software manufacturers access this system, when they send information to the user's software terminal, they can use this system to inform users that new information has arrived for a certain APP.

But it only tells users that the APP has received information, and does not involve specific content information!
The specific information is still pushed by the software itself.

What is this YCM system for?

The simplest and most core function is: an APP can still receive the most basic notification of new information arrival, prompting users to check new information, even if it does not obtain the permission to start the machine, stay in the background, and is closed.

With this policy, users of Zhiyun, Xiaolan and Weiku phones running YUN OS can safely refuse to grant any APP automatic startup and background resident permissions, without worrying about not being able to receive new information.

Of course, users can also further choose to refuse to receive information notifications from any APP, including YCN notifications.

This YCN system is a system-level service developed independently by Zhiyun Technology... It is not available in native Android, and Google has not had time to develop it yet.

Of course, the software can also choose not to use the YCN service, but unless the user gives you permission to start the application at startup and keep it in the background, the user will most likely not receive information from the application in a timely manner.

Anyway, in order to ensure smoothness, the YUN OS system will forcibly close any APP that does not have background resident permission within two to five minutes after the user switches out of use, depending on the computing power consumption. You either let the user keep your app in the background, or you let the user keep your app on the current page... Otherwise, it will be automatically cleaned up sooner or later!

In addition, there is a core limitation in the Zhiyun ecosystem, which is the forcible prohibition of disgusting functions such as associated startup and automatic downloading or jumping to third-party automatic downloading.

Anyway, any apps with these functions will not be put on the shelves!
Zhiyun APP is very disgusted with the behaviors of related startup and automatic downloading of other software. Not only does it not provide channels for it, but even if the software is downloaded from a third-party channel, Zhiyun APP will directly intercept such behavior and mark it as a major dangerous software, prompting users to delete it immediately...

There is also a built-in powerful deletion tool software in the system gadget to assist users in forced deletion.

In the early days of modern smartphones, Zhiyun APP was very powerful as the only mobile phone system with built-in Android distribution channel.

In turn, this greatly protects the rights and interests of users, allowing users to use their mobile phones more smoothly... This is very important, as it determines whether the Zhiyun phone is worth four or five thousand yuan... A phone that freezes every day is definitely not worth four or five thousand yuan!

However, early Android was rubbish, with many defects in various aspects. Even though Zhiyun Technology has made some magical modifications, many inherent defects are still difficult to eliminate.

If there is no strong supervision on the software ecosystem, users of the Zhiyun S9 phone will probably want to throw away their phones because it becomes stuck after using it for a while... not to mention comparing it with fruit.

A 1GHZ SOC chip plus 512MB of RAM...is not enough to handle the endless exploitation by these junk software!
In order to ensure the smooth operation of our own mobile phones, and to maintain the brand impression of smooth operation of our own mobile phones!
Xu Shenxue’s attitude towards the software ecosystem has always been very tough... If you want to destroy the reputation of my mobile phone, I will kick you out and support your competitor’s software!
If you want to sneak in through a third-party channel, I will directly warn users of various dangers and remind them to delete... and prohibit the use of a large number of sensitive permissions, so that you can't use them at all.

Android is an open ecosystem... It is difficult to create a completely closed ecosystem, but it is not a big problem to create a semi-closed ecosystem.

The four mobile phones that Weiku Electronics is about to launch will greatly help the Zhiyun APP Mall... and provide support for a better semi-closed ecosystem in the future.

When it comes to channels, quantity is king!

Against this backdrop, on August 13, while the domestic smartphone market was extremely hot and had been completely ignited by the Zhiyun smartphone, and a large group of people were bombarded with news about smartphones, WeCool Electronics decisively held a smartphone launch conference!
The style of this press conference was not that grand. Foreign manufacturers basically did not come to show their support. Those who came were basically some domestic partners... There was no way. Everyone knew that Weiku Electronics was the younger brother of Zhiyun Technology, and they were using the technologies left over by Zhiyun Technology.

What’s more, they are low-end and mid-range phones that cater to the price-performance ratio model…they have too low a scope and make too little money.

The new mobile phone of Weiku Electronics is no secret. Relevant information has been leaked a long time ago, and many partner manufacturers have already obtained test samples for adaptation testing.

How should I put it, this Little Blue and Weiku phone... apart from being cheap, there's basically nothing much to say about them!
Although Bai Qiwen boasted a lot at the press conference about his self-developed system and how many technologies he had conquered, people in the industry knew the answer.

There is no such thing as a self-developed system. All they use is YUN OS... They just changed the interface and the name.

There is nothing special about the configuration. It is a low-end mobile phone, so there is no chance of anything special.

But even so, a large number of mobile phone manufacturers in the industry are facing a formidable enemy!
The Zhiyun S9 that has been very popular recently...to be honest, this thing is a bit too high and they can’t reach it...no matter how popular it is, it has nothing to do with them.

The real enemy is actually the Zhiyun C series and the 2,000 yuan and 1,000 yuan series of phones under Weiku Electronics.

Because the price range of more than one thousand or two thousand is also the price that most mobile phone manufacturers currently expect to launch Android phones.

Now, WeCool Electronics has taken a head start and has directly lowered the price of mobile phones with 7200A chips to 1999, and has also launched a beggar version of the Little Blue M1.

Even though the 7225 chip used is rubbish, they only sell it for 1599 yuan...

You won't find a cheaper smartphone anywhere in the world.

In this way, these mobile phone manufacturers are facing a formidable enemy...

Manufacturers in the industry are facing a formidable threat, but ordinary consumers are full of expectations!

Especially the young people who want to experience smart phones but are a little tight on finances, especially college students, after hearing that the Bluegogo smart phone was on the market and the lowest price was only 1599 yuan, they all silently looked at their savings and couldn't help but want to buy it.

In a dormitory of a university in Guangzhou, Yu Taihe, who stayed on campus to work part-time during the summer vacation, saw that the Little Blue smartphone was on the market. He read the relevant information several times and finally stared at the Little Blue M1 for a long time!

He has been working part-time to earn some money this summer, and he has also been working part-time to earn living expenses while at school.

Now that he had some extra money, he could use it to buy the smartphone he had always wanted...but it wasn't enough.

Seeing him like this, his roommate closed the introduction page of the M1 and opened the page of Little Blue 1: "What the hell is the M1? Can the 7225 chip of that crappy thing be used?"

"The 7225 has been castrated to the point where it's only half dead. Just looking at the chip, you can tell it's designed to target people with low IQs. If you want to buy one, just buy this Little Blue 1... It's only about yuan more, the chip is better, the screen is bigger, and it's more fun to play. I'm rich, so I'll give you the yuan!"

As he said this, he took out his wallet and pulled out four old grandfathers, and said with reluctance: "Let me make it clear first, I'm lending it to you. I must pay it back after graduation and when I get a job... Damn it, this is what I worked hard to earn during the summer vacation. It's all hard-earned money!"

Yu Taihe looked at his roommate, hesitated for a long time, and finally accepted it: "Thanks, brother!"

The classmate laughed again at this time: "Oh, you are being polite, what nonsense, hurry up and place your order while there is still stock, otherwise you will miss it if it is too late!"

"When your phone arrives, we'll play the fruit war together. It'll be so much fun!"

Yu Taihe also laughed when he heard this: "Okay, then I'll place an order from the self-operated store. It will probably arrive tomorrow, and then we can play games together."

(End of this chapter)