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Luo followed his hammer technology and had the opportunity to change the world--just not on March 27.

Before March 27, "revolutionary", "Second Kill" and "great" were the most frequently seen words in the description of "Smartisan OS" in Luo Weibo.

In the March 27 Hammer technology conference, only in the past two hours, the scene came to the audience sporadic "refund" shouting.

The comments on Weibo can also be described as "tragic", a situation that Luo has never experienced in the past nine years.

Fenng on Weibo said: "As a good place, do not look inadequate." Such a small team, good enough. "But more people will not be so tolerant, after all, Luo spent nearly a year packing his 7-person team into a force that was" enough to subvert the world and redefine the mobile system, "a gap that was not a realignment that would allow the surge to return to normal water levels.

Privately, the Smartisan OS has a lot of surprises on the details, such as a gesture to clear all application reminders, a pop-up window to use when driving, a contact-fan menu from the path, and so on. However, Luo has always been a self-styled and highly-rendered "design team", when the Rom's greatest feature is defined as an icon, he apparently failed to sync the work itself to the expected height.

I said on Weibo: "It seems that Steve Jobs is not a person who is capable of random mass production, and he dared to do secrecy before the conferences and to boost public expectations, because they do hide enough to amaze the world." Old Luo put this set of the way to copy the past, has been done has a kind of mold, but really to the appetite has been you have been adjusted to the extraordinary high audience, you can not come up with enough to match the same height of goods, will encounter Backdraft. "The icon store, built out of 1000 icons, does not have a brilliant visual that can be impressed in the audience's memory." Luo that the iphone defines an icon that must have an "outline", and that the contour must be rounded rectangles, "this is not a healthy phenomenon." It is true that a unified aesthetic value, like totalitarian politics, is doomed to have aesthetic compulsion and distortion. But instead of being "old-fashioned", it should usually be "extraordinary" rather than "eccentric".

Yes, the visual design of the Smartisan OS has many quirks, with the growing trend of screen size and resolution in mobile phones, Luo that the icons increase the identification cost too much, allowing the user to "put up a lot of hardships on the screen in order to find one of your 162 apps," So Smartisan OS chose nine Sudoku as the manifestation, nine main icons plus three bottom icons make up the system interface of Smartisan OS, indeed, if everything follows this logical reasoning, this choice is logical. But, as early as a decade or even earlier, there were mobile phone makers, their name being Symbian and Windows Mobile, which are now Nokia and Microsoft, which are no longer bullish on the mobile internet.

Above this mobile phone interface image from the HTC p3470--a 2008-year mobile phone on the Touch Book application interface, and whether it is the HTC by the time Machine plagiarism 2013 years of Smartisan OS, but this kind of rigidly adhere to the "cubicle" The design style itself has long been abandoned by the times, users do not like to contact the table-which often means a prison and cramped, whether the system UI or Web design, from the 2004 to the open design changes, lines are becoming less, levels, colors, shadows, Interaction and other methods become a vivid means of distinguishing content. and Smartisan OS picked up the nine Sudoku design, so that Samsung i9100 main screen into a lifeless cage, which lived in nine familiar, but very different prisoners.

And this picture, a widget application from Galaxy S3, is a return to the functional machine layout, more in the care of middle-aged and elderly markets. Ordinary people with normal eyesight, not all of the "masochistic" will choose to enjoy the dazzling icon on a screen, mobile phone products in most of the time to kill and kill the leisure products-rather than efficiency, enhance the attention of work products, the cart before the horse is indeed innovation, but inevitably the opposite.

More importantly, is this Smartisan OS really able to "seconds kill" being ridiculed by Luo for nearly a year of iOS fillet rectangles and windows tiles?

Market and Word-of-mouth is the place where users vote with their feet, scolding "users do not understand 7 of people's team can make this already very great" no meaning, this is not negotiable question, someone else Ridley Scott suppressed more than 30 years, make a "Prometheus", So was "alien" The death of loyal to scold to pieces: "My trousers are off to see the alien's prequel, you Show me this?" The last few minutes? ”

In the later period of the Italian Renaissance, the European Academy art style was born, which demanded that the formal law of the ancient works and the art of the Renaissance master should be regarded as timeless norms, emphasizing the theory of technology supremacy, which once influenced and led the whole art circle, and the college's "Academy" itself contained "formal Do not go to change the flag banner "meaning. Later, with experimental art schools, Caravaggio, the rise of new art styles, such as Baroque art, and the doctrine of "art for art" almost disintegrated the foundation of the Academy's Fine arts, until the birth of the Bale House, which laid the foundation of Western modern Art, unified the theoretical and practical training of elements, that is, "skill and unity", Jobs ' aesthetic also inherited a lot from the Bauhaus, which he later called "Apple stands at the crossroads of technology and art."

From the tactics and propaganda on Apple, Samsung, Sony and other enterprises to ridicule, and not much problem, but the key is whether the heart really has the wisdom of the predecessors and trial and error of respect, this respect determines the height of subversion. Mr. Jobs looked down on the tech industry's peers, but he held enough reverence for Zen, Miyake, and Frank Lloyd Wright, the so-called "Stay foolish", to the effect that. Perhaps Luo needs to come out of his comfort zone-stop playing the role of a Thorn challenger and choose a successor: You do well enough, and I am willing to try to do it better.

About shooting tips, voice assistant, lock screen function, is the new development of Android, and the value is very high, able to identify in the user's habits and to improve and enlarge the Smartisan OS is the biggest bright spot, but also many people say the so-called "micro-innovation." I believe this is only 1% of the potential, the industry, the best products in the laboratory forever, Luo and its team and 99% of the better things, should be still in the design and implementation of the road, and these things, is to be able to persuade more hardware manufacturers active fit, Helping Smart's artisan to push his OS work into a real user community, when the mobile phone business, the media's use of the old is no longer its reputation and influence-it is the product of the Hammer Tech team, and by then, the day the steam boat was opened.

And at the end of this article, which seems to have been the spitting and blaming attitude, I would like to reiterate my unchanged view: Luo and his hammer technology have a chance to change the world--just not on March 27. I also recommend a friend who, like me, is disappointed with the launch of the Smartisan OS because of expectations, or try the Smartisan OS, which has no seconds to kill iOS, but at least keep pace with MIUI and FlyMe, and in some depth detail, There may be a better place than the latter. Luo may as well put down his copy of jobs for the time being, Lei has fallen from the altar to warn the newcomers, and sometimes it will not hurt to broaden their horizons to hear the voice of some of the users including some of them-jobs himself, of course, are known for not doing user research, But Apple's design director, Jonathan Ive, is a frequent visitor to several market research and analysis firms.