The way entrepreneurs look at smart hardware: making it free is misleading

Recently, in the "intelligent era of innovation and Entrepreneurship" forum, from the intelligent field of entrepreneurs and investors in the forum discussed how intelligent will change people's lives, imagination of the intelligent era of entrepreneurial opportunities. PICOOC (a product) CEO Zhang before the app, now transformed to the hardware field, he thinks the software can be copied, hardware is called innovation.

In July this year, Zhou, chairman of Qihoo 360, said in the 2014 Forbes China Innovation Summit that, under Internet thinking, hardware could be free, with a range of domestically produced hardware, including video and millet handsets, that would continue to be low-margin in the future.

"If you send a defective hardware, you'll find that it's basically disastrous," he said. So the hardware I think is also a big pit. Zhou said smart watch wearable devices could replace some mobile phones if they were able to resolve the interactive experience and solve the battery-endurance problem in the future.

And Zhang that the smart hardware to make free is a "misleading" for entrepreneurial companies, once there is no reasonable profit will be difficult to innovate, hardware and software go wrong One Direction the company will die.

For the current hype relatively hot "smart bracelet, watch", he said, this is because people in the beginning have to wear hardware to install B demand. Millet sold a lot of bracelet, but the user wear up to three months off. It's hard to accept your product once a user rejects it.

Gan Jianping, director of Qiming Venture Investment, said that millet in the ecological chain has a lot to do with a variety of intelligent hardware related products, the key is the software platform, or to make an ecological chain, to make a standard. Having all the hardware running on the software, making a software similar to the winds operating system, is a great thing.