Lei new article, set up millet flat ecological circle

Introduction: Today, lei in his personal micro-letter public number published a "Always want someone to plant trees" article, in the article he said that the core of the Millet tablet is the establishment of the ecological chain, in his view, Samsung, Asus, because they do not pay attention to the flat-panel environment, resulting in missed opportunities, And now Millet is ready to start to become the Android tablet market leader.

When a few years past, Millet mobile phone has become a phoenix from Pheasant, is no longer the original millet mobile phone. But if it wasn't for the new listings, Millet would still be one of the hardest to buy. But in a twinkling, the millet industry also began to flourish, now the hottest estimate is yesterday began to sell the millet flat.

But then, Millet is still the original millet: The new product is still difficult to buy, the first to seize the appointment, and so you grab the appointment to be able to snap up the plate next week. Of course, perhaps in the future millet may introduce a little welfare policy, such as those who can not buy several times in a row, millet may give you one. Oh yes, yes, that is, "charity" that is the original price.

From Millet mobile phone to the millet flat all the way, to say the biggest change, I am afraid that millet has been the scale of the futures, not only from the mobile phone to the horizontal across to the television, routing, flat and other product lines, and vertical development, the futures business to achieve the content supplier of the industry chain. This article takes you to see the millet flat derivative of another futures market, called "Millet ecological Circle."

A preliminary study on the Android tablet problem

Say the millet tablet, you have to say Android, Android. The Android tablet was successful and failed. It was successful because Gartner counted the 2013 global flat-panel operating system terminal sales, with Android flat shares of 61.9%, with the concerted efforts of many partners, The Android tablet camp, which is dominated by low-end flat-panel, has finally pulled up 16.1% of its share, pressing iOS.

To say that failure, first of all, is the product concept and the lack of partner control, so the market actually does not have much of the strict meaning of the "Android tablet" exists, or even some small flat plate directly used as a mobile phone. The flat concept is not clear, directly affecting the Android ecosystem, even the special app is not, a large number of tablets can only use mobile phone app. In short, the tablet is a dead hole in Android, which in turn can be said to be a huge business opportunity.

It can be said that, including many of the international manufacturers launched tablets, the problem has a clear understanding of the manufacturers are not many, in addition to Google is only millet. From this point, the point of the millet tablet is quite accurate.

Join hands to revive the tablet? Huawei's thighs are not thick enough

Shortly after the Millet flat press conference, small Mirejun and Huawei Yu appeared a micro-bo separated. With the Android tablet in place, two big shots are in agreement. So it seems to have seen the dawn of the Android tablet, and there is a real market for products like the Millet tablet.

But aside from the new millet, what position does Huawei occupy in the "61.9%" market share of the Android tablet? The same report from Gartner shows that Huawei's position is only in the "other", sharing 31% with the other hundreds of companies. Perhaps Huawei's mobile phone in the domestic has a certain appeal, but the tablet this piece, Huawei really is "all the more".

However, Huawei, the LEI proposed by the "Huawei led" proposal, Yu to this incredibly no further. It can be imagined that the future of the Millet tablet, is still "alone" clan.

ipad Resolution? Accelerate the fragmentation of Android

"Alone" The problem is very direct, for every user is fatal, that is the application of inadequate. and millet tablet more special place lies in its wonderful screen aspect ratio, resulting in very few app can match its resolution, Yu in micro Bo directly pointed out that this soft spot of millet flat. Now that Android terminals, including mobile phones, have been dragged down by different specs of hardware, a very serious problem with Android is called "fragmentation", and the cost of adapting to different devices is already very high. Adding one more metric actually increases the risk of Android fragmentation and a development risk. From a certain point of view, Yu to continue the silence after the gesture, seems to be in the reminder Millet fans, pay attention to avoid the use of risk!

For this lei is very well-meaning to give a direction, the Millet tablet is the same resolution as the entire new generation of ipad mini screen, so that application developers can easily transplant ipad applications and games. But Android itself is a less-than-closed ecosystem, and any unknown source of apps can access terminal equipment, and Android's app market is more fragmented and more profitable than Apple's App store, which is not just a technical problem.

Moreover, even if there are enough potential users to ensure the interests of developers, Lei again the "limit purchase" mode so that users can not successfully buy, how long will it take to turn potential users into real users? In addition, "for the birth of a fever" millet, from the date of birth has a big kill device, is cheaper than competitors. This means that the loyal users of Millet is a group of very strict budget control users, what does this mean for developers, will someone pay for the app? As a developer, it's a real challenge.

Talking about the cheap millet flat, had to return to the screen. The Millet flat screen is not just like the ipad resolution, but even the news that its screen provider is the ipad supplier sharp. Sharp is now in trouble because Apple's strict screen quality has led to a low yield on sharp screens, a one-time supply shortfall, and even a delay in the launch of a new generation of ipad Mini. At present, although to alleviate, but the yield problem still troubled sharp. At this time millet follow-up procurement, which "goodwill" became "quite profound".

Porting PC games? Stop it!

In order to deal with the problem of lack of application, millet in the conference made another big wish is to facilitate the transplant PC game. The reason is that the Millet tablet uses the same architecture as the PC GPU, which is thanks to its use of the processor Tegra K1.

For this also can only respond to a sentence: "Hey!" Stop it! Your CPU or arm, porting the past app how to work! "

The problem is more than that, for example, does Android support DirectX 11? Unsupported means that the so-called "porting" and redevelopment of the game is no different, and unfortunately because of the Tegra K1 integrated GPU features, hard to transplant the application can only be the millet flat exclusive. If the size of the Millet tablet users, such as PC users are generally too large to endure, but blink of an eye the problem is back to the starting point: When the time limit to buy a large enough users to feed developers?

Self-built flat-panel biosphere? First look at the Aliyun os.

Assuming that the above problems are all resolved, millet has the ipad level of resolution, with the PC architecture, and there is no fear of the death of the developers dedicated to the application and games, you think things are over? And then the chopper came to kill people's fear is ... google!

That's not nonsense, it's a precedent. There is a maverick mobile phone operating system has been blocked by Google, it is called Aliyun OS.

Lin, the head of Google's Android China, said in an interview that he listed three reasons why Aliyun had been blocked: Android changes, not Android, and the inability to be perfectly compatible with Android apps that could lead to a split in the Android camp; There are many pirate apps in the App Store.

About this because the industry is not related to the general user, also do not elaborate. But looking at the three reasons he listed, he felt that a deep customization system like MIUI had the same problem. In particular, if a developer is attracted to do something that is not compatible with other Android tablet/phone apps or games ...

Buy a flat before the application is unrealistic

Analysis of a lot but always a word, that is "not reliable." Appointment is not reliable, snapped up not reliable, grabbed no application is not reliable, resolution is too wonderful compatibility, transplant other platform Application game argument is not reliable ... This does not include the quality of unreliable, after the sale of unreliable hardware inherent risks. In short, too much is not reliable, especially said to adapt to the application of millet tablets this matter, even the industry big Guy Yu are silent, you dare to wait for millet cash it?