Chapter 510 One Year
Is the rice finished?
Haha, that also depends on whether Google has the ability to do so.
Xinhao, the colorful city.
The entire rice company is now filled with a festive atmosphere, with laughter and joy on every floor.
Mix's comeback this time was truly magnificent.
In the current public opinion environment, rice has almost become the pride of domestic products.
The pride of domestic products has been dragged down, and quite a number of people have begun to compare rice to the fruit of the new era.
No, it’s not the fruit of the new era, but the new overlord that can completely defeat the fruit!
When Mix was released, almost every social media platform exploded. One user on the forum "Zhifou" (Do You Know) who had always claimed to be an Apple fan even announced that they were quitting and switching sides, publicly declaring, "From now on, there are only two Android camps: Apple and everyone else."
What is particularly rare is that, perhaps because there is so much information, public opinion has not turned against Rice Mix since its official release.
In the past, no matter whether it was the flagship phone or the youth version released by Xiaomi, MIUI always had some minor problems, and these minor problems were very stubborn. These were often problems that existed in the MIUI3 era and still existed in the MIUI8 era.
MIUI is famous and easy to play.
But in terms of stability, let alone compared with Zhou Wei's EMUI, it can't even compare with color OS and origin OS from OV.
But this time, Youmi OS has demonstrated super stability and reliability. A week after its release, many people have had it for three days, and so far there has been no BUG-level complaints about the system.
There are definitely complaints, but most of them are self-destructive moments that occur when communicating with AI.
For example, in front of his girlfriend, he asked AI to buy a flower for his beloved, but AI asked him which beloved.
Apart from that, there are almost no system-level bugs!
This is simply incredible for rice.
Love technology, new era.
3062 is a new era for rice!
In the past two days, even the taxi drivers waiting for work at the gate of Wucai City will give priority to employees who are carrying rice.
Yesterday, Monday, as soon as Lei Jun got to work, he held a meeting with each department and communicated with the heads of each department about the development progress of the flagship phone Mi 6 in five months.
At the meeting, Lei Jun made it clear: within three years, all of Rice's product lines will be AI-powered, and it will become the mobile phone company with the highest market share in the world. Within five years, it will become the 3C company with the highest sales in the world!
Amidst the joy, no one knew that in Lei Jun's office on the 15th floor, there was a solemn atmosphere.
Seven or eight executives were either standing or sitting. Those who were able to participate in this closed-door discussion today were basically the core management of Rice.
They have none of the excitement of ordinary employees.
Almost everyone knows that the reason why Dami was able to make this comeback and receive so much praise is almost entirely due to the technical support provided by Youzi Technology.
The only thing that puzzled Lei Jun was that since Youzi Technology could come up with such a solution, why didn’t it make its own mobile phone?
If we do it ourselves, combined with their system development capabilities, it doesn't seem impossible to recreate a fruit, right?
He and several core think tank members once discussed this topic. His deputy Lin Bin believed that Youzi Technology might want to follow the path of Google and Epic, occupying the industry through technology licensing and then reap huge profits.
Although this explanation makes sense, it just feels strange and something doesn't seem right.
Later at the press conference, Lei Jun felt that he had grasped some of Fang Yu's ideas.
However, is it simply because you are afraid that a big tree will attract the wind?
It also seems a bit far-fetched.
Although I have never really understood Fang Yu's intentions, today's closed-door meeting has nothing to do with these. What we want to discuss is more urgent and important matters.
Although Lei Jun and the management of Dami were prepared for Google's response, they were still surprised by Google's tough attitude.
Google's official announcement only asked them to resubmit for review, but as the most important partner in the Android camp, they still heard some important information from Google.
Sergey Brin proposed to cancel the GMS certification of rice immediately at an internal meeting!
Unless Xiaomi announces a return to the AOSP standard architecture!
Although Sergey Brin’s proposal was not passed at Google’s internal meeting, this statement itself fully explains the problem!
Lei Jun did not regret agreeing to the conditions of Youzi Technology. After all, if he had not agreed, Dami might be finished soon. Now that he has agreed, Mix is also a success. It is nothing more than a matter of subsequent strategic choices.
Compared with before, it is now a happy trouble.
"I think the Mi 6 should continue to use MIUI, and at most transfer some of the AI features of Youmi OS to MIUI."
"The version number can also skip 9 and use MIUI X to highlight the intrinsic connection with Mix."
Gong Rui, the handsome vice president of Rice, coughed a few times and pushed away the cigarette handed to him by Lin Bin.
With five or six old smokers puffing out clouds of smoke, Lei Jun's office was filled with smoke, like a fairyland.
With a snap, Lei Jun lit another Yingtai Caiba cigarette, held the cigarette between his index and middle fingers, and rubbed his forehead with his thumb.
"I agree with Boss Gong. Youmi OS was indeed launched too hastily. In fact, if they had just launched a full-screen version and a plug-in AI similar to Sansang, it would have been enough to become a benchmark in the mobile phone industry."
Two columns of smoke came out of Da Mi's nostrils. Lin Bin pushed up his glasses and frowned slightly.
"Youmi OS can definitely be put into a year or two before launching."
"We should use the next one or two years to fully increase production capacity and increase market share. By then, even if Google turns against us, our chances of winning will be much higher. It's not a good thing to attract Google's attention so early."
"What we need most now is time."
Lei Jun took a puff of his cigarette, did not comment on what Lin Bin and Gong Rui said, and changed the subject.
"Boss, Google requires us to submit the source code for review within a month. You've been working at Google for so many years. What do you think their subsequent reaction will be?"
Gong Rui is a veteran of Dami. He worked at Google for many years. Six years ago, he and Lei Jun hit it off and co-founded Dami. Gong Rui is one of Dami's partners.
From the establishment of Dami to the present, he has been responsible for the development and operation of MIUI. He is the core of Dami's technical core and is known as Boss Gong.
Gong Rui, the head of MIUI, has always been reserved about Lei Jun's previous decision to fully switch from the rice system to Youmi OS in the future.
Firstly, although he is now also the co-chairman of the technical committee of Youmi System Technology Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Dami and Youzi Technology, there is no doubt that the emergence of Youmi OS has greatly reduced his importance within Dami.
Secondly, I am afraid of offending Google.
In his opinion, the changes made by Youmi OS to Android are too radical, and it cannot even be called a change. It is a completely reprogrammed system, but this system is fully compatible with AOSP.
Due to the black box nature of the large model, he now doesn't understand how Youmi OS passed all the GMS review items.
He speculated that it was very likely that Youzi Technology had optimized and learned the automatic review of GMS.
When Youmi OS recognizes the test signal, it will automatically disguise itself as an AOSP core component and give false feedback to the Google server, thus passing all certifications.
But he never found any corresponding evidence.
In response to Lei Jun's question, Gong Rui shook his head and said, "I submitted all the frameworks, services, packages/apps/Settings modules involving the AOSP rewrite to APE this morning. They also asked for the build fingerprint and system image verification value, but I haven't received any response so far."
Gong Rui frowned as he spoke. "Actually, that's easy to deal with. What I'm really worried about is their subsequent request that we submit the entire system source code."
Lin Bin adjusted his glasses, his eyes becoming more serious. "GMS automatic certification doesn't require submitting the entire source code, right?"
Gong Rui sighed. "There's certainly no such requirement in the MADA default agreement, but MADA (Mobile Application Distribution Agreement) also clearly states that if Google suspects any misrepresentation, incompatibility, or violation of usage by the certifier at any time, Google can request source code review and reserves the right to revoke certification at any time."
Lin Bin's face changed. "Isn't this just like they can turn against us at any time? Doesn't GMS have a contract? We paid the certification fee and passed the test. How can they cancel it if they want?"
Gong Rui smiled bitterly: "I've said before that MADA is not a two-way contract, but a user agreement. Isn't our user agreement the same?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Bin was speechless.
Rice's user agreement is much more excessive than MADA's.
"If we don't submit the source code, what are the chances that Google will revoke our GMS certification? When will they make a decision?"
Lei Jun pondered for a moment and spoke.
Gong Rui thought for a moment and said, "It's hard to say. It took them less than two weeks to cancel YunOS's certification. Our current advantages are: First, we didn't bypass the Play service, so their revenue was not affected."
"Secondly, we are now the fourth largest supplier to the Android camp globally. If they suddenly revoke the license, it will also be a loss for them."
"But this is nothing more than a trade-off for Google. If they determine that the existence of YoumiOS threatens Android's position, they may announce the suspension of certification at any time."
"I estimate that if we don't provide the complete source code, we can only delay it for three months at most, even if we try to mediate."
Everyone present was silent. If it weren't for the curl of smoke between their fingers, one would have thought that time had stopped in this office.
"Haha, actually I don't think this is that difficult to handle."
Lin Bin suddenly laughed, flicked the ash in his hand, and spoke to Lei Jun.
"Brother Jun, my suggestion is - since the source code is your trump card, why not put it on the negotiation table first and use it as a bargaining chip."
"It's much better to talk to them about patent exemptions, API standards, and technical cooperation than to wait until they open fire and then say we're willing to cooperate."
"In fact, I have always been more optimistic about this approach. If it works, we will become Android's 'partners', which is a much higher status than our current 'users'."
Lin Bin paused, as if waiting for Lei Jun's response, but saw that he was still smoking. So he continued:
"By then, we can even try to negotiate with Google about the advertising revenue sharing between Ads and AdSense."
Ads and AdSense are Google’s two major advertising businesses. Ads is Google’s search engine advertising business, while AdSense is its affiliate advertising business.
And 90% of Google’s turnover comes from these two businesses!
Last year alone, these two businesses brought Google $67.4 billion in revenue, equivalent to 500 billion Great Zhou coins!
The most frightening thing is that in the current era of mobile Internet, Google has not fallen behind. Instead, thanks to the growth of advertising business brought by Android, its performance has been rising all the way, maintaining a performance growth of more than 20% almost every year!
It is estimated that by 3065, Google's turnover will double again, possibly exceeding 150 billion US dollars!
And this is all growth driven by advertising!
Lei Jun took a puff of his cigarette silently, his eyes struggling.
The ash between his fingers had burned very long. With a slight movement, the ash broke off from the cigarette butt and fell on his pants.
Seeing this, Lin Bin's eyes flickered slightly. "As for that Youzi Technology you've been worried about, if they don't agree, then we'll have to revert to MIUI for the Mi 6."
"Since this company is our joint venture, it is not their own decision to license the corresponding intellectual property rights to other companies."
"Also, we can set up a joint venture with Google."
Lin Bin knocked on the table meaningfully.
"Besides, even if our relationship with Youzi Technology eventually breaks up, as long as we have Google's full support, there will be no problem with the deep customization of MIUI's AI."
Seeing Lei Jun's expression, Lin Bin struck while the iron was hot: "Brother Jun, aren't you also worried about losing your independence?"
"If you want to maintain your independence, you must not take sides, but bet on both sides and strike a strategic balance. This way you won't be dominated by one company and be controlled by others."
"The breach of contract clause in the agreement we signed with Youzi Technology was child's play and has no legal effect."
After Lin Bin finished speaking, he glanced at everyone's expressions.
Except for Lei Jun, everyone nodded slightly.
Lei Jun took a deep breath of the Caiba between his fingers, exhaled two thick columns of smoke from his nostrils, and then pressed the cigarette butt hard into the ashtray.
The cigarette butt was crumpled into a ball of crumpled flocs in the ashtray.
The remaining sparks stubbornly tried to continue burning, but were quickly extinguished.
“I can’t give you the source code.”
Lei Jun stood up and brushed off the cigarette ash on his pants.
Lin Bin was stunned and looked up in astonishment at Lei Jun who stood up.
"I'm not against negotiations, but the source code can't be given, at least not by us."
Lei Jun pursed his lips.
"Brother Jun!"
Lin Bin shouted anxiously.
"Ah Lin, it's settled. Ah Li, you fly to Mountain View tomorrow. It would be best if you could meet with Pichai in person. Oh, and by the way, get Manujan along too. Have him fly from Bangalore to Mountain View as well. He and Pichai are from the same hometown, so they have more in common."
"One year, I just want you to buy one year!"
Li Wanqiang never expected that this would happen to him. He was stunned for a moment, and then nodded heavily.
Lei Jun pursed his lips and his expression gradually became firm.
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(End of this chapter)
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