Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 82 MIOS Advanced Edition

In late May, Xiaomi Internet Department 2 received good news one after another.

With the launch of MIUI, the daily download volume and number of users are steadily increasing, exceeding 1,000 per day.

At the same time, the second department welcomed two powerful generals, namely Hong Feng, senior product manager of MIUI, and Liu De, a senior software designer.

Lei Jun has repeatedly encountered difficulties in recruiting hardware talents, but has made great progress in software.

I first came into contact with Hong Feng from Lin Bin, because the latter was Lin Bin's subordinate when he was at Google. He is currently a product manager at Google and is also an engineer.

At the same time, Hong Feng's arrival had the effect of digging out radishes and bringing out the mud.

Just two days after Hong Feng came to Xiaomi, he recommended his good friend Liu De from his time studying in the United States.

After graduation, Liu De stayed at the school as a teacher and later became the dean of the Industrial Design Department of Beijing University of Science and Technology. He also opened a design company in his spare time and worked on many "crazy" projects. After that, he has been active in the industrial design circle, and has little intersection with the Internet, and has no concept of the mobile Internet mentioned by Lei Jun.

So when Lei Jun invited Liu De to join the new company, he was not aware of Lei Jun's influence in China. After several exchanges, Liu De agreed to join Xiaomi and became a senior designer in the second department.

In fact, Lei Jun did not intend to assign both of them to the second department at the beginning. After all, Huang Jiangji, Liu De, Hong Feng and many employees below were introduced by Lin Bin. His first thought was to assign the two to the third department. In this way, he would feel more at ease with Chen Mo, who had a clean background, pampering Liu De, Hong Feng, Fan Dian and Liu Xinyu, elites with obvious labels.

As a result, as soon as he finished talking with Chen Mo, he decided to hand these two people over to the second department.

Because Chen Mo's answer was firm, "I am the product manager of Department 3, and Department 3 already has Li Jing and Qi Mengmeng, so what I need is someone who can do the work. The addition of such a senior person with his own ideas will do more harm than good to Department 3 at present.

Now all three require only one voice!
In order to stay focused and not be disturbed, I even paused recruiting because we don’t have time to train new people right now.

In addition, I would like to ask you that the launch time of MIOS needs to be delayed, but I can guarantee that the final time node will not change! "

Everything else was acceptable, but the guy said it was an application, and from the tone it sounded almost like a notification, which made Lei Jun a little unhappy.

When he heard Chen Mo's last sentence, Lei Jun was a little skeptical, "Are you sure the final Deadline will not change?"

Chen Mo nodded, "Sure!" After thinking for a moment, he added, "But our three departments are preparing for closed development and working overtime to catch up!"

Hmm? How can you say overtime?
Lei Jun looked up at Chen Mo, the corners of his mouth curled up, unable to suppress it, he patted Chen Mo on the shoulder and joked, "Hey, the sun is rising from the west? Want to work overtime? No problem."

Unexpectedly, Chen Mo's next sentence made Lei Jun's smile disappear.
"But the company needs to arrange for workers to extend their working hours and pay corresponding overtime pay in accordance with Article 44 of the Labor Law!"

When Hong Feng and Liu De arrived at the second department, Huang Jiangji boldly delegated the power of product and design to them, while he himself was responsible for controlling the overall direction and focusing on the technical line.

With the addition of these two powerful players, MIUI's system development progress has been greatly accelerated.

Although the time is still short, some enthusiasts have already seen MIUI's sincerity.

As more and more enthusiasts are using the MIUI system, they are amazed at the speed, beauty and user-friendliness of MIUI and put forward various suggestions.

The MIUI forum even has a special thread for collecting user suggestions, and voting is conducted every week. The improvement suggestions with the most votes will be included in the MIUI version iteration plan and will be resolved with the next "Orange Friday" version release.

Such a fast-iterating and feedback-oriented native Android system has attracted the favor of more users. However, as more and more users use the MIUI system and the models become more and more complicated, MIUI has encountered its most difficult challenge so far, that is, the problem of system lag due to model adaptation.

After all, when a software is adapted to third-party hardware, there will always be problems of one kind or another.

Software adaptability has become the next difficult point that MIUI will have to tackle.

On the other side of the wall, people from the three departments were preparing for a meeting, and next up was the internal acceptance meeting for the current MIOS system.

Before the meeting started, these people took advantage of Chen Mo not being here to complain about the unfairness of the neighboring department. Zhang Chao said indignantly, "The people in the second department have no bottom line. I refreshed MIUI these two days and I can see many shadows of our MIOS on it. This is naked plagiarism."

When talking about this, Qi Mengmeng's face puffed up with anger, "Who said it wasn't true? Many of these icons were made by Sister Jing and I after a long time of adjustment, but we saw many similar ones on MIUI. How shameless. When they went online a while ago, we sent our blessings. I regret it so much."

Duan Hongyan, who is in charge of operations, also echoed, "I took some time to check other forums and saw that there were several active accounts there, all directing traffic to MIUI and soliciting customers."

"And the two new people who came in from the second department seem to be quite strong. Our department hasn't had a single new person in several days."

At this time, Chen Mo came late with a notebook in his arms. Then he connected the projector and prepared the content of the meeting. He listened to these guys' complaints with no expression on his face. He did not interrupt them rashly and let them vent their grievances.

Seeing that everyone had almost finished talking, he smiled and asked, "Are you done?"

Everyone gradually quieted down, and Chen Mo did not explain too much, and went straight to the point, "That's it, let's start the formal meeting."

Then he spent an hour demonstrating all the current functions of the MIOS system.

After the demonstration, Chen Mo nodded and first affirmed everyone's performance and efforts in this stage, and then changed the topic, "The MIOS system has just passed the staged internal acceptance, and the functions in the previous requirements document have been realized. I am very satisfied with everyone's performance.

But there are a few key links that need attention. If there is a problem with the compatibility of the system and the phone at the second department, what is the situation here? "

Sun Ziwei and Zhang Chao were in charge of collecting and adapting the data. Zhang Chao saw Sun Ge gestured to him and replied, "There are 27 models in total that you gave me before, 23 of which are perfectly adapted, and the remaining 4 will only have problems under extremely special circumstances.

After market research by Brother Sun and I, we found that these four non-mainstream smartphones, which are relatively old, only account for 4% of the market share.

So after talking to Brother Sun, we both agreed that we could give up. ”

If it were any other incompetent and paranoid leader, he would definitely use this rhetoric: "0.6% may not seem like a lot, but how many users will be affected if it is put on the market? What are users? Users are God. Users are our bread and butter.

We must completely resolve all user issues and not make any excuses for our incompetence. We must resolve these issues.”

Uninformed bosses always want everything to be perfect, completely disregarding objective facts and current conditions. As long as the employees fail to meet the requirements, it means that the employees are incompetent, and the problem may even escalate to issues such as work attitude and values. At the very least, it will affect performance, and at worst, it will lay the groundwork for layoffs.

But Chen Mo is a professional. He is very clear about the current situation of the mobile phone industry. There are various mobile phone models on the market, with various manufacturers, various protocols and various standards. If you want to adapt perfectly, it would be like an Andersen's fairy tale.

Just like the front-end effect of a web page wants to be compatible with various browsers, such as Firefox, Chrom, 360, ie678910, especially ie6. Some domestic software company bosses force their front-end employees to make it compatible, saying that older users like to use ie6.

The problem is that IE6 is not even officially maintained by Microsoft. If a technician is asked to try to make it compatible, it may end up like a blind bear trying to pick corn. IE6 may crash in 789 when it is working normally.

The difficulty is no less than pointing at Benboerba and asking him to capture Tang Seng and his three disciples.

Adults, times have changed, and some old traditions should be thrown away.

Chen Mo thought for a moment and gave a direct order to abandon these four mobile phone models. "Don't spend 4% of your energy to meet the needs of the 80%; it should be the other way around.

Resources are limited so we need to focus on the key points. Zhang Chao, Sun Ziwei and Duan Hongyan, please check whether the current models cover 90% of the mainstream models in the market. If you are not satisfied, Hongyan can ask me for money to continue purchasing other mainstream models. We need to achieve 90% compatibility.

This is the adaptability of the mobile phone. The next question is the refresh rate. Currently, 40 frames are sufficient for this version. In the next stage, I require 60 frames, which can meet the dynamic effects of system interaction in the next stage. "

The next stage? Everyone present was moved. Could it be that...
Chen Mo took out MIUI5, which was the pinnacle version of the MIUI system in his memory, and added some common Android functions on this basis. In later generations, these were the most basic cognitions and everyone could name them, but now any one of them would be a stunning idea.

This is the prototype of MIOS system V2.0 born from cornerstone design, which Chen Mo projected onto the big screen.

(Picture shows the MIUI5 system interface)

(End of this chapter)