Chapter 220 218. Who says the smaller the better?

In the next week, Cao Yang will be asking Liu Qiang for demand, mainly about the detailed design part of this [smartphone].

Don’t look at such a small thing, you really need to explain each piece clearly, how to operate, how to return, how to call, how to use this function, how to perform, how to close it...

It takes a lot of time.

After listening to Cao Yang's vivid description, Liu Qiang's face also showed a shocked expression like Ni Guangnan.

The boss is too awesome, right?!

It is rare to explain every functional design so clearly, just like Boss Cao has been playing with this smartphone for many years.

He was immersed in the beautiful mobile phone scene described by Cao Yang. After a while, he shook his head like he woke up from a dream.

"This is a big project."

"Yes." Cao Yang answered affirmatively.

Is it not a big project to develop a smartphone?

I'm already planning to spend all my income in the next few years into this project.

"The rest can probably be solved by looking for parts manufacturers. We certainly do not have the hardware production capacity at present, at most it is assembly."

Liu Qiang dismantled and subdivided what Cao Yang said one by one.

"Yeah." Cao Yang said that you were right.

It is also difficult to achieve self-development. Let’s do it step by step, first get the operating system, open up the situation, and you can fill in other things in the future slowly.

Cao Yang must develop the operating system.

Because this is [rules], it is better to be a person who makes rules than to become a person who joins the rules.

The Windows operating system is the computer rules they define. When it forms the rules recognized by the world, all hardware manufacturers have to revolve around it. You have to develop something, it is compatible with Windows, otherwise no one will use yours.

Then Microsoft masters the [rules] and can ask for prices without limits and be invincible during the negotiation process.

Conversely, Apple is the same. The emergence of an IOS system, especially the Apple phone, has to follow Apple's rules, otherwise no one will use your products.

The same is true for gaming consoles. Once the PS2 operating system comes out, if you want to develop the game software on PS2, you must follow this [rule], otherwise you will not be able to access it.

This is the power of rules.

How much our country wants to make rules, but unfortunately it starts too late, so it is controlled by others everywhere.

With a mobile operating system, it will be much more convenient to promote it to other fields through this operating system in the future.

So no matter how difficult it is, you have to make this thing out.

Fortunately, it is not difficult to design and develop based on the Linux core, and this thing still falls into the software category.

Cao Yang's idea was to take the Android path before Google created the Android operating system on his mobile phone.

After a long discussion, most of the details have been sorted out.

"There is another bad news." Liu Qiang said.

"What?"

"I know all the design problems, but there is one problem that may not be solved in a short time." Liu Qiang looked at the design drawings and said, "Because the chip cannot be that small, and the related circuit design... After the function arrangement is completed, you will find that the size of the phone may not be reduced.

After all, our technology is limited, and we cannot be as fine as Samsung."

"Hmm?" Cao Yang looked at him with some confusion, "How big would it be?"

"Maybe it can shrink to about 4 inches...well, it's a little bigger than this."

Liu Qiang handed him a Motorola flip machine and gestured for a moment. It would probably look a circle bigger than it.

"This is too small, right?" Cao Yang sighed, "I don't need to be that small, how big can we be?"

Damn it!

Liu Qiang was shocked.

The current trend is to make your phone smaller and smaller, and it is best to make it as big as a watch.

The slogans of mobile phones are all--

【Make a mobile phone that can be mastered by one hand】

Boss Cao is so good that he actually wants to do the opposite and make his phone bigger. Isn’t this going back?

"It's okay to be as big as you do," Liu Qiang was amused by his boss, "It's okay if you want to be as big as a TV, but that's not a mobile phone."

"This is 4 inches, right?" Cao Yang thought, "Then you do it between 5.5 inches and 6 inches."

"ha?!"

Liu Qiang looked at it silently, "Isn't this a brick?"

"Try to make it thinner and within 1 cm." Cao Yang put forward another requirement.

"But boss, this doesn't meet the requirements of [mobile phone]?"

Liu Qiang took out his Motorola and opened it, "Look, the current mobile phone designs hope to be able to master it with one hand and to complete all the functions and buttons with a thumb, and they are mainly lightweight and smaller. How can we do the opposite?"

"It's okay, because the mobile phones we develop in the future not only need to provide information input functions, but also an important function is - the game carrier. If the screen is too small, you won't feel happy when playing the game."

"Well..." Liu Qiang thought for a while and agreed with Cao Yang's statement.

Although he didn't know what the game would look like in the future, since Bomi's boss said that, he still believed Cao Yang's judgment.

This new smartphone won in terms of design concepts, and the size of the phone may not be that important.

...

But for Cao Yang, the size of the phone is too important.

Maybe this thing will become the key to Bomi's success.

Because the concept of [the smaller the phone, the better] will last for a long time, Apple's first generation of mobile phones was also designed according to this concept. If it were not for adhering to the principle of [small but good], it would probably be a year or two earlier.

Apple's change in this concept was also after the launch of the iPhone.

Cook discovered that the smaller smartphone would cause trouble, resulting in poor horizontal screen operation experience, so starting from the sixth generation, Apple phones are getting bigger and bigger.

This change will probably look like in 2014.

Thinking of this, Cao Yang's mouth couldn't help but rise.

...

Since Bomi's plan to develop smartphones is an absolute confidentiality of the company, so far, only Cao Yang, Li Zhiping and Bomi's employees know that, the outside world is not very clear that Bomi actually has a factory in Wuhan.

Otherwise, public opinion would probably explode.

Cao Yang was quite low-key this time, just because he was afraid of alarming the enemy. If Bomi's creativity was stolen by others, it would be really amazing.

...

On the other hand, Ai Xiaomi's film and television company has almost been built, and all the people who should be there have been pulled together.

It was then that Cao Yang discovered that after more than four years, the number of employees in Bomi has reached a very terrifying 2,400.

Of course, everyone is scattered all over the place, so they don’t feel particularly crowded.

Bomi Games has already accounted for 1,000 employees, and the QQ business department also has about 400 numbers.

Looking back, at this time of 2000, Bomi Company had only about 40 people.

Cao Yang couldn't help but feel a little moved.

"By the way, boss, what is our first film and television product?"

"What to do?" Cao Yang's eyes turned. There were too many scripts in his brain. He didn't know which one to do first for a while.

"Of course we're going to make our own game first."

Cao Yang thought about it and finally decided to "Make "Glory of Kings: Dawn of Night". Make it into a TV series. If the TV series becomes popular, it can still drive the game. On the other hand, with such a large game sales, at least die-hard fans can provide the TV series with the bottom line.

This is called film and game linkage.”

"Okay." Ai Xiaomi nodded.

She also agrees and supports Boss Cao's idea. The Honor of Kings series itself is Bomi's big IP, and it would be a pity if it was not filmed and television.

But according to Boss Cao's idea, it is best to make anime first in Honor of Kings. What if the live-action version is released first in one go?

In recent days, Xingyue Company has also contacted Cao Yang. It is said that there is an animation company called ANIPLEX in the island country, who wants to adapt [Honor of Kings·Night of Fate] into an anime.

Cao Yang has agreed.

It’s just a bit regrettable, why did you take the night of fate made by Shizuki, instead of the night made by Bomi?

Except for the different styles and characters of the two, the general plots are the same!

There must be something wrong with the islanders.

But after thinking about it, it would be nice to be able to make My King anime first, at least it could make Artoria a very classic character.

"Then boss, do you have any fixed candidates in your mind? They are the actors you like to designate. If not, I will go find someone by myself." Ai Xiaomi reminded.
To be continued...