Chapter 93 Which Road to Take
“That’s not the case. The mobile phone operating system has disappeared, but the mobile phone manufacturers will not disappear. It’s just that the mobile phones they produce, and the operating systems and processors they are equipped with are all from other companies.” Yang Hai said with a smile.

"The high-end mobile phone market will be occupied by Apple phones, but the Apple phone system is closed and not open to the public, so other brands of mobile phones cannot use the Apple phone system."

"However, the Android mobile phone system adopts an open source approach and is free for all mobile phone manufacturers to use, so most mobile phone manufacturers will use the Android mobile phone operating system in the future."

"We were planning to use the Android operating system for our Huaguang mobile phones before, but then we had Lu Manman and her software development team. They brought their own mobile operating software, so we also had our own mobile operating software."

"Since we have our own mobile operating software, we will naturally give up using Android operating software."

"However, whether our mobile operating software can survive in the future is still unknown. I hope we can successfully build our own software ecosystem so that more software developers and technology companies can support our operating system."

"So this is very important. If our mobile operating system cannot better accept the software designed by these APP software developers and technology companies, then we will be abandoned by them. Once abandoned by them, our software ecosystem will be incomplete."

"When consumers who have purchased our phones want to download an app and find that it is not available in our app store, they cannot download it because our phones do not support downloading the app. As a consumer, they will definitely feel uncomfortable and will inevitably switch to a phone with a different operating system."

"When more and more people abandon our mobile operating software and choose other mobile operating software, that's when our mobile operating software will disappear."

"So we must treat those APP software developers and technology companies in a friendly way and ask them to develop and design APP software that is compatible with our mobile phone operating system, so that consumers who have purchased our Huaguang mobile phones can download the latest mobile phone APP software at any time. As long as the APP software is available on the market, it can be searched in our application store and downloaded at any time."

After Shen Ruobing understood what Yang Hai meant, he said, "Since we know what to do, let the operating system software development team do a good job in this regard. As long as we always show a friendly and cooperative attitude to those APP software development teams, welcome them to list their APPs in our application software store at any time, and let them make money, then why would they abandon us?"

"You are right. The core interest is to make money. As long as the developers of these apps can make money easily, they will naturally support our mobile phone operating software." Yang Hai nodded and said.

Although Android is open source, it quickly captured the mobile operating system market by being free for everyone to use, and eventually most mobile phone manufacturers used their operating system.

However, as APP developers, many people actually give priority to developing their commercial APPs on the Apple system.

For example, some video sharing apps and music apps will be developed on the Apple system first.

Why don't developers give priority to Android, which dominates the market in terms of user numbers? This is because Apple's iOS system collects user experience faster.

Ash Rust, who founded SendHub in the San Francisco Bay Area, said: "For us, iOS is the best development platform because we can quickly get their preferences and reactions among our target users. And developing iOS apps can also make us more money."

According to the latest quarterly statistics from App Annie, an App Store analytics company, iOS App developers earn three times as much as Android App developers! Last month, Google also technically admitted that many Android users have never downloaded any apps.

In other words, the number of users visiting Google Play is not enough to count the data that developers most want to know - where are my potential users?
Engineers who love iOS still account for the majority. Ajay Kamat, founder of Wedding Party: "When we started our business, most engineers used iOS devices. In this circle, most developers are familiar with iOS, but it is very difficult to find developers who are also familiar with Android.

And when developing for iOS, it is much easier to make specific transitions and animations than for Android." TechCrunch editor Greg Kumparak also mentioned that in Yahoo's weather app, there are some things that have never been seen on Android.

Unified specifications make it easier to predict the product's performance. Flipboard co-founder Evan Doll: "iOS and Android platforms have different advantages, which makes their products completely different in the end.

However, due to the unified screen specifications and hardware performance, iOS devices can better help developers make some evaluations when developing new features. "

In terms of development language, Android APP software development uses the relatively simple Java development language. Compared with Objective-C, the standard development language of the Apple system, Java language development is relatively easy. Moreover, due to the closed nature of Apple's iOS development system platform, many functions of the APP are restricted, which also increases the difficulty of iOS APP development to a certain extent.

Google's Android system is a free open source system, so more APP software developers prefer Android development and want the Android development market to expand.

I won’t talk about other nonsense, even beginners will be confused when they hear it.

Let’s talk about the real experience during development. Apple’s controls have been thoroughly polished by the official, and they are not only good-looking but can be used directly.

For Android, the appearance and function of the controls are very basic, and in theory, they can be written to look more beautiful.

However, not only does it take more time to design, but designers tend to be lazy when designing products. They think that the Apple look is good and directly design products according to the interface presented by Apple controls, which leads to Apple developing products happily by dragging their feet.

Android still needs to spend time imitating Apple's controls, such as pull-up to refresh and pull-down to load, including countless rounded corners, in all aspects of UI. Not only UI, but also many places that Apple officially has, Android has to implement it by itself.

Apple can do it with just a few lines of code, while Android needs dozens of lines. However, the task completion time requirements for Apple and Android are the same.

This results in you having to work overtime and do steps that Apple developers don't need to do, but other colleagues who don't understand technology, including Apple developers, think it can't be that complicated! They think you are working overtime on purpose to show off in front of your boss.

Also, there are so many Android manufacturers, and you have to be compatible with all of them, or at least not crash. You can imagine how difficult it is. It's really like a dumb person eating bitter gossip and can't explain it in words.

In short, Android and Apple are two operating systems, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Android wins in terms of quantity and market share, but Apple APP developers make more money, so most businesses will develop both Android APP and Apple APP at the same time.

As the Huaguang operating system that did not exist before the rebirth, can it survive in the gap between the two? Can it achieve the point where the world is divided into three parts and the three pillars stand out? Yang Hai is not sure now, this is beyond his memory.

Although he was very confident, he was not sure that the Huaguang operating system would survive to the end and would be able to carve out its own path amidst the Android and Apple systems.

But no matter what, Yang Hai would not give up until the last step and would develop his own mobile phone operating system. After all, the mobile phone operating system in his own hands is the best and most advantageous operating system for him.

Yang Hai is actually a little confused about whether his Huaguang operating system should learn from Apple's approach or Android's approach.

Both systems have their advantages and disadvantages, and it is hard to say which one is better. In terms of market share and popularity, Android is definitely better, but in terms of making money and economic benefits, Apple is definitely more profitable and has better economic benefits.

However, if Huaguang operating system learns from Android's approach before Android takes over the market, its chances of survival may be greater.

If you learn from Apple's approach and use a closed system, your chances of being approved may be much smaller. But if you survive, like the Apple system, it will definitely be easier to make money in the future.

Yang Hai told Shen Ruobing his thoughts and inner struggles without reservation. He also wanted to hear what Shen Ruobing had to say and what different views she had.

Shen Ruobing thought for a moment and said, "If I had to choose, I would definitely choose to learn from the Apple system."

“But we may not necessarily succeed if we learn from the Apple system,” Yang Hai said quickly.

"If you learn from the Android system, will you definitely be able to defeat Android? That means you are confident that you can stand side by side with Android and be on an equal footing." Shen Ruobing asked bluntly.

“Well...it’s hard to say, but generally speaking, the chances are definitely greater than learning from Apple.” Yang Hai said truthfully.

"Then if you defeat Android, or become on par with Android, how much benefit can you get? How much profit can you obtain?" Shen Ruobing asked again.

"If you follow the Apple system and can stand firm in the future, how much benefit can you get? How much profit can you reap?"

Yang Hai was speechless.

"You just said it yourself. If we learn from the Apple system, as long as we don't fail and can successfully gain a foothold, as long as our mobile phones can sell well in the future and occupy a certain market share, then we can make a lot of money."

"I listened to your analysis and comments just now. Whether you are learning from the Android system or the Apple system, you are actually not very confident."

"As for what you said about learning with the Android system giving you a greater chance of success, I think that's just wishful thinking in your mind."

"Since the chances of success are slim no matter who we learn from, why not learn from the Apple system? At least if we succeed, the economic benefits we can get from learning from the Apple system will be much greater than the economic benefits we can get from learning from the Android system."

"Let's take a step back and say that whether we learn from the Android system or the Apple system, if we fail, can't we still install the Android operating system on our phones?"

"So I think we should still learn from the Apple system. What if it succeeds? Then we will make a lot of money."

Yang Hai thought about it and felt that what Shen Ruobing said was very reasonable, so he nodded and said.

"Okay! Then we will learn from the Apple system. If it succeeds, we can make more money. If it fails, at worst we can just install the Android system on our phones like everyone else. Anyway, it doesn't cost anything special."

"When the time is right, we still have the opportunity to revive our own operating system"

After solving a troubling problem, Yang Hai felt more relaxed and the previous pressure disappeared.

Maybe success is luck, and failure is normal!
"The little one is in your belly. Is he behaving well now? Did he kick you?"

After putting his work worries aside, Yang Hai stroked Shen Ruobing's bulging belly, smiled and said.

"Of course he will kick! The kid is bored in there, how can he be so obedient?" Shen Ruobing said with a happy smile.

"Ouch! The little guy must have heard you talking about him, because he kicked me again just now." Shen Ruobing suddenly said, touching a place on her belly with her hand.

"It's true!" Yang Hai said in surprise as he looked at the sudden bulge on Shen Ruobing's belly.

"Is this guy saying hello to me? Does he want to shake Dad's hand?"

"Wow, he's moving again. Does he want to talk to daddy?"

Yang Hai said, and leaned his head closer to Shen Ruobing's belly, using his ears to listen to the movements in Shen Ruobing's belly. He seemed very excited.

"What did you hear? Did the little one call you daddy in your belly?" Shen Ruobing said with a smile.

"I don't know! I only heard a gurgling sound, which was the sound of your stomach moving. I didn't hear the child calling me dad." Yang Hai shook his head and said.

"Hahaha! You definitely won't hear the baby calling you daddy in your belly. After the baby is born, he won't call you daddy until he is one year old. He is still in your belly now, and you want him to call you daddy? How is that possible?" Shen Ruobing laughed.

"Haha! Although the baby can't speak in the belly, I can hear his voice. He calls me dad in his heart. Although I didn't hear him call me dad, I can feel that he is very happy. He is saying hello to me. He is calling me dad in his heart." Yang Hai also said with a laugh.

"You are forcing yourself to imagine this. The child is only 6 months old. How can you know what he is thinking? It is even more impossible for him to call you dad in his heart. Even if he wants to call you in his heart, he will call you mom," Shen Ruobing said to Yang Hai with a smile.

(End of this chapter)