After the layoffs, I became a tech godfather

Chapter 59: Each family must make this choice in the end
Mixed joys and sorrows.

After hanging up the phone with He Gang, Yu Dong sat in his office and looked at the materials on his computer screen, smiling at one moment and frowning at another.

The good news is that after several efforts and this saturated marketing bombardment, the upgrade rate of the HarmonyOS NEXT system has exceeded 30%, which means that more than 1200 million mobile phones and tablet devices have been upgraded to native HarmonyOS.

According to their survey, more than 70% of native HarmonyOS mobile phone users will bring a second mobile phone because some essential applications have not yet been adapted.

With 1200 million users and the Mate70 series that is ready to be launched, Huawei has new confidence in urging application manufacturers to develop Hongmeng native applications as soon as possible.

Even without any urging, as soon as the data was released, small and medium-sized enterprises began to proactively find Huawei and contact the Hongmeng team to inquire about current policies and seek technical support.

As long as there are users, ecological issues will not be a problem.

This is joy.

What worries me is that the big model team here still hasn't made much progress, and everything is still at the stage of speculation. It will definitely not be useful in the short term.

"We still have to count on Baiju Technology." Yu Dong shook his head, and then he was full of confidence: "Even if everyone can use Xiaosha, the Mate70 this time still has a killer feature - 150 million multi-spectral channel red maple lens.

"Originally, it only achieved accurate recognition of global color information, making photos and videos more faithful to the original colors. However, in the hands of Baiju Technology, it directly achieved accurate detection in areas such as food safety.

"We will have at least six to ten months of exclusivity for this feature! By that time, the native Hongmeng ecosystem will surely be very complete. With the same foundation, who are we afraid of?"

……

As a series of activities become more and more popular, especially Huawei's online and offline advertising at all costs, including social media, short video platforms, TV commercials, and even buildings, bus stops, airports, etc., related activities can be seen.

In the end, all the attention went to Xiaosha, and the profits were even greater than those of Huawei itself.

Among the most popular questions asked by netizens collected by Xiaosha, there is one question that is very popular: #When will the Xiaosha Android client be launched? #
There had been no official news before, but after careful consideration, Hao Cheng asked Xiaosha to develop an official website himself, revealed the news about the Android version, and wrote the four big words "Stay tuned" on it.

This can be regarded as a slight comfort to many users.

“What are you talking about? As far as I know, the computing servers of Baiju Technology are all transferred from Huawei. I guess this is also the reason why only the native Hongmeng version is currently released.

"If you want to release the Android version, you have to wait until the new computing center is built, which will take at least three months!"

"Three months? That's better than nothing! Didn't you see that the official didn't mention anything about IOS at all?"

“I also know about this. Apple’s commission is too high, reaching 30%, and the computing power cost is very expensive. If I really go online, I will have to work for Apple, so I have no plans to go online!”

Apple is the biggest victim of Xiaosha's appearance.

In particular, domestic Apple users are already dissatisfied with the fact that domestic AI was launched later than overseas, and there is even no clear timeline.

Moreover, some users cannot accept the fact that they need to access Baidu's AI.

And that day, the topic #Squeeze Xiaosha, what do I let it do for me# actually triggered another topic - #I changed Apple and finally kept up with the times#!

This made the dissatisfaction burst to the extreme.

This sentiment gradually split into two groups. The first group: Hey, why don't I use an Apple phone? Switch to Huawei and use a VOM as a backup. The other group directly called out to Apple, saying, "Don't go to Baidu anymore. Wouldn't it be better to go to Baiju Technology to connect to Xiaosha?" Phones are so expensive, shouldn't they use the best ones?
Moreover, Xiaosha is domestic and can be used directly. There is no problem that the model or data cannot be exported.

The reason why Apple’s domestic AI and even Tesla’s smart driving cannot be implemented is related to the policies of the two countries.

America stipulates that AI models cannot be exported. For example, if Tesla wants to develop smart driving in China, the original model cannot be used and cannot be exported. It must be redeveloped in China.

Can I use the data I trained in America in China? No, because China strictly restricts data from leaving the country.

Tesla may choose to retrain in China in the future, while Apple is looking for domestic AI companies to cooperate with. According to rumors, the company it is looking for is Baidu, which wants to intervene in Wen Xiaoyan.

At this time, why bother connecting to Wen Xiaoyan? Wouldn’t it be better to connect directly to Xiaosha?

"Don't even think about it. According to reliable sources, the Mate 70 series will be directly connected to Xiaosha. Baiju Technology charges 288 yuan for a mobile phone, which is a preferential price for Huawei.

"If Apple takes over, it will probably charge the original price of 16 yuan a month. If you calculate it for three years, that's 576 yuan for one phone! Apple is the only one reaping the benefits, how can it be the one being reaped?"

"AI is expensive to begin with, and the cost of electricity and lighting is high, so it's reasonable to pay for it. Apple sells it at such a high price, so at most they can raise the price by another thousand, and Apple will still make more money!"

……

Hao Cheng has no idea how Apple will react now that users have rebelled to this extent.

At this time, he was receiving Vivo's president Shen Wei.

Shen Wei can be said to be the first person to come into contact with Xiaosha. He started paying attention to it when Xiaosha was just officially launched and triggered the first wave of offline Mate60 series price increases against the market trend.

I always thought that Xiaosha was developed by Huawei itself, and Baiju Technology was just a shell.

Later, after a deeper understanding, he found out that this was an independent company and Huawei was only a partner. His mind immediately became active.

In fact, in the field of AI, Vivo lags behind. To see the level of Blue Heart Xiao V, just look at its users - 99% of users will not open it once a week, and even then, some of them will be accidentally activated.

It’s far worse than YOYO, Xiaoyi and Xiaoai.

"Let me put it this way, if we can reach a cooperation, we will directly cancel the large model project and use small sand for the entire set!" Shen Wei said.

There is another hidden meaning in his words, which is that Huawei is definitely not willing to do this. Once they have figured it out, they may terminate cooperation with you.

Hao Cheng certainly couldn't worry about this, but he also said in detail: "We will not reject any customer, but the current problem is that we don't have computing power.

“We are planning to build a computing center here, but you should know that our company has been established for less than a month, and many things don’t happen that quickly.

"As for renting computing power, we have no plans here." Hao Cheng was not willing to rent computing power from the bottom of his heart. His situation was still different from that of a normal enterprise.

Shen Wei didn't ask why. He knew it wasn't his place to ask. He just nodded: "Three months, right? Then we can sign a strategic cooperation contract in advance!"

Shen Wei knows that it’s not just Vivo that has to make this decision in the end - join or compete?
Vivo knows it can’t beat them, so why not join?
He even felt that he was a little late - although he had only made this decision a few days ago.

(End of this chapter)