I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 510 One Year

Finished rice?

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 on every floor.

Mix's comeback this time was truly brilliant.

Under 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!
As soon as Mix was released, almost all social media platforms went wild. A person who had always claimed to be an Apple fan on Zhifou even announced that he would stop being an Apple fan and publicly declared: "From now on, there are only two camps in Android: Apple and others."

What is particularly rare is that, perhaps because there is so much information, public opinion has not been reversed after the official release of Rice Mix.

In the past, no matter whether it was the flagship model 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 certainly complaints, but most of them are about the suicidal moments that occur when communicating with AI.

For example, in front of his girlfriend, he asked AI to buy a flower for his dear, but AI asked him which dear.

Apart from that, there are almost no system-level bugs!

This is simply incredible for rice.

Love technology, new era.

The year 3062 will be 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 picking up rice employees.

Yesterday, Monday, as soon as he got to work, Lei Jun held meetings with various departments 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 Xiaomi's product lines will be AI-based, 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 turnover 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 senior 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 absolutely none of the excitement of the average employee.

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 Lei Jun found strange 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 create another 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 reaping huge profits.

Although this explanation makes sense, it just feels weird and I always feel like something is wrong.

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 are going to discuss are more urgent and important matters.

Although Lei Jun and the management of Dami were well 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 news 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 is enough to explain the problem!
Lei Jun did not regret agreeing to the conditions of Youzi Technology. After all, if he had not agreed, Rice might be finished in a short time. 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 Mi 6 should continue to use MIUI, and at most transfer some of the AI ​​features in 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 smoke, Lei Jun's office was filled with smoke, like a fairyland.

With a snap, Lei Jun lit up another Yingtai Caiba, 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 display and an external AI similar to Sansang, it would have been enough to become a benchmark in the mobile phone industry."

Two columns of smoke blew out of Da Mi's nostrils. Lin Bin pushed up his glasses and frowned slightly.

“Youmi OS can definitely take a year or two to settle down before launching.”

"We should use the next one or two years to fully increase production capacity and market share. By then, even if Google turns against us, our chances of winning will be 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 one month. You have been working at Google for so many years. What do you think their reaction will be?"

Gong Rui is a veteran of Dami. He previously 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.

Since the establishment of Dami, 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 MI 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 was afraid of offending Gugou.

In his opinion, Youmi OS’s changes to Android are too radical, and they can’t even be called changes. It’s just a completely re-programmed system, except that this system is fully compatible with AOSP. Due to the black box nature of the big model, he still 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 have 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 and said, "Actually, this part is easy to deal with. What I am really worried about is that they will ask us to submit all the system source codes in the future."

Lin Bin adjusted his glasses, his eyes becoming more serious. "GMS automatic certification doesn't require submission of all source code, right?"

Gong Rui sighed: "There is indeed no such requirement in the MADA default agreement, but MADA (Mobile Application Distribution Agreement) also clearly states that at any time, if Google suspects that the certifier has any false statements, incompatibility, or violation of usage, Google can request source code review and reserve the right to revoke certification at any time."

Lin Bin's face changed. "Isn't this the same as them turning against each other at will? Doesn't GMS have a contract? We have paid the certification fee and passed the test. Can they cancel it if they want?"

Gong Rui smiled bitterly: "I have 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 the decision be made?"

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 did not bypass the Play service, so their revenue was not affected."

"Second, we are now the fourth largest supplier in the Android camp worldwide. 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 confirm that the existence of Youmi OS threatens the status of Android, they may announce the suspension of certification at any time."

"I estimate that if we don't provide the complete source code, we can delay it for at most three months with our best efforts."

Everyone at the scene was silent. If it weren't for the curl of smoke between fingers, one would have thought that time had stopped in this office.

"Haha, actually I don't think this matter 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 the trump card, it is better to put it on the negotiation table first and use the trump card as a bargaining chip."

"It is 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 are 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 the current 'users'."

Lin Bin paused, as if waiting for Lei Jun's response, but saw that he was still smoking. So he continued:

“At that time, we can even try to negotiate with Google about the advertising revenue sharing of 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 $674 billion in revenue, equivalent to billion Da 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 on the rise, 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 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 the cigarette butt and fell on his pants.

Seeing this, Lin Bin's eyes flickered slightly: "As for the Youzi Technology that you have been worried about, if they don't agree, then our Mi 6 system must be re-adopted as MIUI in the future."

"Since this company is our joint venture, they cannot license the corresponding intellectual property rights to other companies on their own."

"Moreover, we can also set up a joint venture with Google."

Lin Bin knocked on the table meaningfully.

“Besides, even if our relationship with Youzi Technology ends, if we get the full support of Google, there will be no problem with the AI-based deep customization of MIUI.”

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, bet on both sides, and strike a strategic balance, so that you will not be dominated by one company and be controlled by others."

"The breach of contract clause in the agreement that Yuzu Technology signed with us was like a joke and could not possibly have any 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 cigarette smoke between his fingers, blew out two thick columns of smoke from his nostrils, and then forcefully extinguished the cigarette butt in 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 am not against negotiations, but the source code cannot 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 Pichai in person. Oh, by the way, you can also ask Manujan to fly from Bangalore to Mountain View. He and Pichai are from the same hometown, so they have more in common."

"One year. I just want you to buy me 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)