The technological flood of rebirth

Chapter 510: Smartphones made their debut

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Through this short video shooting, the short video platform of Qianxun Technology Company was completely familiar to international Internet users. Many people visited this short video platform whether they needed it or not, resulting in an instant surge in visits.

Since smartphones have not yet come out, the conditions for shooting short videos are relatively high. At least the hardware investment has blocked most people's desire to shoot, resulting in Qianxun Technology's short video platform being tepid.

The main purpose of Zhao Yi's use of short video to clarify was to make Qianxun Technology's short video platform known to more people.

But he also knows that relying solely on short-term popularity cannot maintain customer stability for the short video platform. If he wants to build this platform, he still needs to wait until smartphones are widely popularized.

So this time he is just warming up in advance. He only needs to let netizens around the world know that Qianxun Technology Company has such a short video platform. He does not expect to stay on the platform stably for a long time.

Although the short video platform adopts a cash reward model to reward creators who provide high-quality short video content, they can receive good returns during the creation process.

This does temporarily solve the problem of insufficient content on the short video platform, but compared with the short video platform in the previous life, it is still very different. The gap is too big.

Only by allowing more Internet people to join in voluntarily can short video content be further prosperous, a gathering effect can be formed, and a new short video social platform can be formed.

Fortunately, Zhao Yi gave everyone a big question at the beginning of the video he recorded, that is, what equipment did he use to shoot this video? This has also become one of the questions in some people's minds.

Because it is obvious that this video was shot by Zhao Yi alone. There is no photographer at all. The shooting equipment only needs to be connected to a shooting pole and can be easily lifted. This shows that the shooting equipment is very light.

At present, whether it is a DV device for shooting video or a digital video camera, they are very large and heavy. They cannot be easily lifted up with a shooting pole. Over time, your hands will become sore and weak.

Although the shooting equipment he used has not become an international hot topic, there are still relevant discussion posts on major Internet platforms, and there are various speculations.

According to human nature, if it is a shooting equipment that has already appeared, Zhao Yi, as a great scientist, is unlikely to deliberately raise this issue. This shows that the shooting equipment is a brand-new video shooting equipment, at least it has not appeared on the market yet. .

It's just that no one has come forward to explain this question, and it is even less likely that Zhao Yi will come out to explain it specifically. This has become a mystery in the minds of some Internet users, especially those who have a hobby of video shooting. They are a little itchy, but they have nothing to do.

The three major smartphone manufacturers also watched the video shot by the boss. When Zhao Yi raised this question, they knew that the boss must have used a smartphone to shoot the video.

Originally, they wanted to take advantage of the popularity to promote it, but the press conference was still being prepared, so they had to give up temporarily. However, they still arranged for employees to lead the pace in relevant discussion posts to maintain the popularity of this topic.

The time quietly came to July 15th. After nearly a month of intense preparations, the preparations for the press conference were finally completed. In this month, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company has completed the intensive production and the goods reserves of each company have been initially prepared. Reach the standard line.

Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has been working hard to successfully complete its first order during this period, and has put in tremendous efforts and energy for this purpose.

Under normal circumstances, the initial training of employees is not only low in proficiency and production capacity cannot meet expectations, but also has a high discount rate, which reduces the company's profits.

Therefore, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company has adopted a two-step plan. The first step is to expand the number of employees as much as possible, so that even if the proficiency is not high, the overall production capacity can be expanded by using the right number of people.

The second step is to start with manufacturing machines. Since labor efficiency cannot be improved in the early stage, the only way is to improve the efficiency of the machine, let the machine complete most of the work, reduce manpower, and at the same time reduce human errors and reduce the breakage rate.

If you want to carry out large-scale employee training, you first need to have a huge venue, because the number of their employees is in units of 100,000, and there are currently no such huge venues that can accommodate so many people for training.

Their factories are still under construction, so in order to solve this problem, they negotiated with Lingchen Technology Company to rent their employee training base.

The five major customer service centers in the country prepared by Lingheng Technology Company have been completed one after another. However, their own number of trained and qualified employees is relatively insufficient. Currently, they only use the customer service center in Jiujiang.

Faced with Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company's request for space rental, they definitely have no objection. Anyway, the other three customer service centers are empty, and they can recover some costs by renting them out.

With four major customer service centers as venues, it can accommodate 800,000 people for training at the same time, which is definitely enough for Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company.

The second is how to train such a large number of employees. At least Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company does not have this ability, so it can only turn to powerful companies to complete it.

The most powerful company in vocational training is of course the China Education Company. After receiving this business, the China Education Company transferred a group of experienced technicians from the Polaris Tablet Manufacturing Factory.

Then, according to the characteristics and processes of Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company's smartphone production line, detailed 3D animation teaching courseware was specially produced to serve as a training course for new employees.

In this way, a model combining real teachers and intelligent teachers was used to conduct pre-job training for the first batch of 100,000 employees of Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company, which lasted for one and a half months.

In addition to investing a lot of effort in employee training, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company also works hard on production line equipment to reduce the labor intensity of employees and increase the proportion of work undertaken by machines, which means increasing the degree of automation.

Fortunately, they took over the previous production line business of Tiangong Precision Instrument Company. They are very strong in this area and have done a very good job. They have greatly improved the degree of automation and reduced the proportion of manual labor participation.

Of course, this does not mean that the number of employees will be reduced. According to the regulations of Zhao Yiyi's enterprises, employees must strictly work within eight hours a day unless there are special circumstances.

If you want to expand production, you can use a shift model. So regardless of the number of employees they train, if they work in three shifts, it is not actually very sufficient.

Although Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company started large-scale production on June 17, due to two-pronged preparations, as of July 15, their total output easily exceeded 20 million units.

This is much higher than the expected monthly production quantity. According to Ge Qiuyang, president of Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company, they have not yet used their full strength because the supply of raw materials is not available, so they have to slow down.

And as employees who are still being trained continue to join the production force, and subsequent adjustments to the supply of raw materials are made, they are confident that they will expand monthly production to more than 100 million units before the end of the year.

According to Ge Qiuyang's plan, by the end of this year, the number of employees in the company will reach 500,000, which involves not only the manufacturing of smartphones, but also the manufacturing of other electronic products, such as computers, tablets, smart watches, etc.

Polaris Company's existing electronic products do not require the help of Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company. They have enough employees to complete the manufacturing of these products. They cannot just fire their own employees in order to hand over the business to them.

Therefore, these businesses will come from Huawei Technology Company and Hengtong Communications Company, because they will gradually expand their electronic manufacturing business and compete with Polaris Company for jobs.

They did not get involved in these fields before, mainly because Polaris Company has done well enough, and their own communications business has already required them to devote all their energy, so it is not appropriate to get involved in too much business.

Now with the help of the smartphone business, Zhao Yiyi has loosened restrictions on them. In addition, they only design and develop, and the manufacturing process can be completely handed over to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company, so the scale of the company will not expand too much.

The most important reason why Zhao Yi let them join was that he gradually discovered that the products of Polaris Company were good, but the price was too expensive, which caused the mid- to low-end products to be occupied by other companies.

Because of this, it is better to let two other companies join in. Polaris focuses on their mid-to-high-end product fields, while the other two companies focus on the mid-to-low-end field.

At the same time, doing so will also help them each build their own electronic ecosystem. Compared with isolated smartphone products, they will have greater future development potential and more obvious competitive advantages.

If it were not to prepare for these additional businesses, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company would not be able to use so many employees. If it were just for the smartphone business, it would not even be able to use 100,000 employees.

According to their current production line efficiency, each employee works 8 hours a day, and the monthly production capacity reaches 3,000 units. If the total monthly output is 100 million units, only more than 30,000 employees are enough.

Polaris was the first to hold a new product launch conference, because their new product launch was not just a smartphone product, but also included smart watches and a full set of second-generation smart home products.

This is not because the other two companies are very polite, but because they are self-aware. Although their strength in the field of communications is obvious to all, they are completely unknown in the field of consumer electronics.

If they hold a press conference first, it probably won't cause much repercussions. In this case, it's better to let Polaris take the lead and stir up the popularity of smartphones.

As we all know, the prices of Polaris' products are generally relatively high. People who are cash-strapped and want to own a smartphone but cannot afford it will naturally hope that other companies will provide more cost-effective products in this regard.

At that time, if Huawei Technologies and Hengtong Communications hold smartphone product launches, they will attract strong attention from these people, who are precisely their main consumer groups.

At Polaris Company's press conference, the previous model of a large podium and large screen was changed. Instead, the press conference was changed to an ordinary home appearance. All the home appliances and electronic products inside were the ones they were going to release this time. product.

Zhang Ruimin walked up to the podium and said: "This press conference is different from usual, it is something new. I would like to explain a few issues in advance.

The first is that the products we are launching grandly this time will be disruptive and will completely change your inherent impression of home appliances and electronic products.

The second thing is that we will grandly launch a brand new electronic product or communication product. Let me tell you in advance that this product is a smartphone.

As for why there is a smart phone in front of the mobile phone, you will be able to have a rough understanding by watching the stage performance. I will not introduce it in detail now. We will introduce this product in detail later. "

After Zhang Ruimin finished speaking, three sketch actors were arranged to perform the stage play. Through sketches, they showed the overall usage of each smart home to the audience at the scene and in front of the TV.

Focusing on the convenience of smart homes, through the performance of this sketch, consumers can understand the huge changes that smart homes will bring to their daily lives.

Through this skit, the audience saw how to remotely control the air conditioning system at home and raise the temperature of the home to a comfortable state before arriving home.

And how to use the central intelligent system to adjust the brightness of the lights, TV channels and specific video resources through voice control, and even use special settings to stipulate what TV programs the children can watch and when.

The most amazing thing is how children can use language to communicate fluently with the central intelligence system, and at the same time, they can learn a lot of interesting knowledge through the central intelligence system.

The reason why they were surprised was that during the conversation, they did not feel that they were talking to an intelligent system at all, and there was no difference from talking to a real person. They could even adjust the voice of the central intelligent system at will.

Others, such as voice-controlled curtains, refrigerator temperature, washing machine washing clothes, etc., need not be elaborated here. All home appliances and electronic products that Polaris Company is involved in can be connected to the central intelligent system to form an intelligent control system.

After watching the very long skit, Zhang Ruimin walked out from the backstage and came to the center of the stage and said: "Through the skit just now, you already have a rough understanding of our products.

It’s just that the skit cannot be shown in more detail, and even many functions are not shown. Don’t worry about these. I will explain them to you in detail later. "

Except when the company was just starting out, Zhang Ruimin hosted product launches more frequently. Later, he basically stopped holding new product launches in person and had dedicated product launch personnel in charge.

The reason why he came out again this time was mainly because new products such as smart homes and smartphones have extraordinary significance in building a new home and electronic ecology. He personally said that the significance of this press conference is very important.

First, he started to introduce smartphones, because smartphones are not only the central intelligent system, but also one of the cores of smart homes. They can control the entire smart home through smartphones.

I saw Zhang Ruimin holding up his smartphone in his hand, and the big screen behind him was projected in real time, so that the audience could clearly see what he was holding.

"This is the product to be launched at this conference. We call it a smartphone because in addition to the common mobile phone communication functions, it has completely different performance from traditional mobile phones in other aspects." Zhang Ruimin said.

Through large-screen projection, the audience at the scene saw an integrated mobile phone product without the button layout of a traditional mobile phone. There was a whole LCD screen in front, coupled with advanced manufacturing technology and leading industrial design.

After letting the audience see it, they only have one feeling, that is, it is so beautiful. It makes people feel like they own it when they see it. The heart-pounding feeling is unprecedentedly strong.

Not long after Zhang Ruimin finished speaking, the parameters of the smartphone began to play on the large screen behind. Polaris' smartphone has a net weight of only 130g, is very light, and has a screen size of 5 inches.

In fact, Polaris Company has many design plans, and some even look better than the current ones, but given that it was first launched, even this design is already stunning.

Which better appearance designs can be left for later upgrades? Otherwise, if the standards are set too high at the beginning, it will become more and more difficult to upgrade later.

“Excellent industrial design and high-standard manufacturing technology are the concepts that Polaris Company has always adhered to, so to have such a beautiful appearance, the R&D department has put in a lot of effort, but I think it is natural.

Our important content this time is to show you what a real smartphone is and why it is called a smartphone. "

Zhang Ruimin gently pressed the round key on the front with the thumb of his right hand. The screen of the phone lit up immediately, and the desktop homepage was filled with various applications.

Zhang Ruimin started operating on the spot. He explained while operating, and the enlarged picture was also played simultaneously on the large screen at the back, allowing the audience to see clearly.

I saw Zhang Ruimin's fingers flying up and down on the smartphone, opening and closing various applications, and performing various dazzling operations, which made the audience's thinking a bit out of step with his rhythm.

Because smartphones appear for the first time, every feature is a highlight. If each highlight takes half a day to talk about, then the display time of the smartphone alone will take several hours.

This conference was not only about smartphone products, but also a large number of smart homes and smart watches, so Zhang Ruimin showed very quickly and did not stop to let the audience think carefully.

However, the smoothness of this operation not only did not make the audience feel bored, but made them feel more attractive, especially for young people, it felt extremely cool.

Traditional smartphones seem to have no other use than making calls and receiving text messages. The limited programs on them are also stumbling to use, and no smartphone can be operated as smoothly as possible.

If there are no smartphones, traditional mobile phones can actually be installed with B. After all, the user ownership rate of traditional mobile phones is not particularly high now, because their prices are not cheap, and not everyone can afford them.

After Zhang Ruimin completed the operation, he said: "I know the operation is relatively fast, and the audience at the scene may only have a rough look, but it doesn't matter. After the press conference, we will launch operation instruction videos on major platforms.

You are welcome to watch it in advance, because if you don’t watch it in advance, you will need to spend more time to familiarize yourself with how to use this smartphone, because there are so many highlights that it is impossible to show them to you one by one at the scene. . "

Without waiting for the reaction of the audience, Zhang Ruimin continued: "Don't say it's you, it's me. When I first saw this phone, I felt like I met my first love. That thrill is still in my mind.

We have never doubted the appeal of our products because we are confident that we have such strength. At the same time, this confidence comes from the recognition of our large number of consumers.

Without further ado, consumers are now more concerned about how to own such a mobile phone. In other words, I don’t care about the price of this mobile phone. Depending on the configuration, the price starts at 2,000 yuan. "

After Zhang Ruimin finished speaking, the prices of smartphones with various configurations were announced on the big screen at the back. The prices were determined according to different storage and flash memory capacities, with a minimum price of 2,000 yuan and a maximum price of 2,500 yuan.

After the price came out, there was a huge sensation at the scene. They didn't think the price was high, but they thought it was too cheap compared to the technical level just shown.

Because the price of traditional mobile phones with high-end configurations is so much, and there are even higher prices than this, because Hengtong Communications Company was a monopoly at that time, and there was no one other than them, so the price was expensive.

The price of this epoch-making mobile phone product of Polaris Company is not only lower than that of Hengtong Communications Company's top-end mobile phone, but also it is not a product of the same era in any aspect.

Therefore, the audience at the scene was excited. If it were at this price, anyone with the ability would be willing to buy one. With this phone, walking on the street, it would be the most beautiful one, and it would definitely attract the attention of many people.

The selling price is a point of special concern for ordinary consumers, but there are also business people invited to the scene. Their focus is not on the selling price, but on the unique functions of the applications in their mobile phones.

Now no one thinks that applications are just accessories of hardware, because Fanxing Software Company tells them with facts that the wealth effect brought by the software industry is unmatched by hardware.

In the field of traditional computer software, they missed the opportunity, allowing Fanxing Software Company to rise strongly in a short period of time, causing them to miss the first opportunity. Many companies still regret it now.

With the advent of the traditional Internet era, they actually vaguely knew that this was a new era, but they couldn't figure out the direction of their efforts at first, and they didn't know what to do if they had money.

As a result, several traditional Internet giants emerged in a short period of time. When they reacted and began to imitate, they quickly occupied the market with their excellent technology and bottomless capital strength.

Although there are more than just a few types of traditional Internet content, other fields cannot be compared with search engines, news portals, and social platforms. The richest cake has already been cut away by others.

If it were Fanxing Software Company, they would not be surprised, because the basic technologies of the modern Internet are all provided by Fanxing Software Company.

What they didn't expect was that the rapidly rising giants in the traditional Internet field were all unknown companies. In such a short period of time, they had conquered the global Internet market without giving them any chance.

The second feast of wealth was just being carried into their arms, and they were helpless. Although they made several attempts to compete, they were defeated in the end and stopped their losses in time.

The release of Polaris' smartphones this time made them vaguely aware that this would be the third wealth feast. If they were not sure, they would completely miss out on these software wealth areas.

Zhang Ruimin seemed to know what they were thinking, and changed the topic and said: "Just now, you have also seen the various mobile applications that I quickly operated, and how to develop these applications

I think many software developers are very interested in this. Let me tell you clearly that after the press conference, developer-related services will be available on our official website.

At that time, developers can go to the relevant web pages to apply as developers. After getting the developer ID, they can download our development tool suite and develop our smartphone applications through the development tool suite.

At the same time, you can also refer to the technical documents and related teaching videos we provide, so that you can master smartphone development capabilities faster. However, our technical documents and videos are all in Chinese, and we have not yet had time to make them into other languages.

As we all know, in order to develop smartphones as quickly as possible, our staff are highly nervous and have no time to take care of these details.

Of course, we also know that it will cause a lot of trouble to developers, so I suggest that you purchase the professional translation services of Hengchen Technology Company, which can help you translate into various languages as soon as possible, and will definitely satisfy you. "

In fact, this is what Polaris Company did intentionally. First, it is to further expand the influence of Chinese in the field of software programs and let developers around the world know that they cannot master first-hand technical information without learning Chinese.

Fanxing Software Company also used this method before. The technical documents that came out immediately were definitely in Chinese. As for whether they would provide technical documents in other languages, it depends on their mood.

Originally, the gap between foreign software technology and our country was very large. This has made the development of traditional foreign software much slower, which has forced some talents in the software field to learn Chinese.

If you are just messing around, you don't need to learn Chinese. You just need to wait until others translate the materials and then learn. However, such people are destined not to become top talents because they cannot keep up with the world's technological advancement.

Unexpectedly, Polaris Company would also try this trick. Since most of the practical mobile applications are developed by their own brother companies, they are not very dependent on external developers and are not so eager to recruit global developers. Developer.

So to be polite, I will provide technical documentation in other languages later, but only God knows when it will be provided, and major companies and investors will definitely not be able to wait until that time.

In fact, the number of talents who understand Chinese has increased a lot in recent years, but it is still far from enough to meet the needs of the rapid development of technology in the new era.

Fortunately, Zhang Ruimin told them how to solve this problem, which was to purchase the translation service of Hengchen Technology Company, and if it could be recognized by Polaris Company, it meant that their translation service was outstanding.

Because Polaris has its own translator business, it actually has certain professional capabilities in this area, but they don't understand why they recommend another company's translation services to everyone.

In fact, the translators of Polaris Company also use the patented technology and services of Hengchen Technology Company. Because the market in this field is not very big to begin with, there is no need for every company to have this business.

That’s why Hengcheng Technology Company was allowed to specialize in intelligent translation business, and their intelligent customer service will not be known to the outside world. If they don’t have one or two technology products that they can use, how can they be called a technology company

For Zhang Ruimin's obvious advertising behavior, in addition to being a brother company with Hengchen Technology Company, their previous cooperation was also very pleasant. It was a simple task to help with advertising when they were able to do so.

And as time goes by, our country's overall scientific and technological strength will surpass that of the world by a large margin. By then, domestic technical materials may not be available in languages other than Chinese.

First, this can save huge labor costs, and second, it allows the world's top talents to learn Chinese. As for whether ordinary talents can learn Chinese, we don't care much.

The pursuit of technological progress is one direction of the development of human civilization. When our technological strength becomes stronger, talents from various countries will unconsciously learn Chinese whether they are willing or not.

However, we still need a broader global influence, and we cannot carry out construction completely behind closed doors. At this time, the translation services of Lingchen Technology Company come in handy.

And with further global integration in the future, the market size in the field of language translation will become larger and larger, and it will even become another huge source of income for Lingchen Technology Company in addition to customer service business. (End of chapter)