360 will be a mobile operating system, so that the mobile phone become truly safe

Zhou confirmed: 360 will release the mobile operating system
In fact, Zhou want to continue on the mobile phone "security" strategy has been found earlier. December 16, 2014, 360 announced to the cool to invest 409.05 million dollars in cash to set up a joint venture. Subsequently, Zhou in 360 companies issued internal mail, said "We have to make the ultimate in mobile internet security, we must do their own mobile phones, so as to deeply intervene in the bottom of the operating system, on this basis to build a real mobile phone security, to achieve the safety of user needs." "There was speculation that 360 was going to be a mobile OS, and it was finally confirmed," he said.
But the answer is clearly a lot more specific than the previous implicit expression, Zhou, in response to a question from Morgan Stanley analyst George Meng on his earnings call about the strategy for the company's mobile phone business and the company's advantage in developing handsets.
Zhou said: "The company itself is to do security and optimization started, so before the release of mobile phones, we will first release an operating system, the operating system will make the mobile phone really safe, but also make the phone faster, more power saving." Unfortunately, I can't disclose more details about our phone products, but I believe we can kill the phones we see on the market. "
Currently, the name of the new brand has not been determined. However, the team has been formed in Shenzhen, 360 of the input is mainly software resources, cool sent more is the hardware and supply chain resources, as well as communications engineers. Qihoo is currently mainly in the building of operating systems and mobile phones, so the current investment is mainly human resources, the future of mobile phones will also contribute to the user resources. Zhou's personal time of one-third or even half of the time will be placed in the mobile phone and smart hardware business, it can be seen that its importance to the business.
Industry insiders believe that this year for 360来 said is a very critical year, the new mobile phone in 360 mobile internet layout is critical, it is possible to change the 360 on the mobile side of the competitive position.
It is reported that 360 earnings show 360 companies continued to achieve 16 consecutive quarterly performance growth, 2014-year performance exceeded expectations, the annual income of 1.39 billion U.S. dollars, net profit of 223 million U.S. dollars, respectively, year-on-year growth of 107.2% and 123.5%. As of December 2014, 360 of the company's PC-side monthly active users reached 509 million, 360 smartphone users totaled 744 million.