Where's the next MIUI?

Founded 4 years, millet valuation has reached 50 billion U.S. dollars, this behind MIUI work. Mobile internet has passed the top of the tide, in the new internet of things, can not have the opportunity to copy the myth of Miui and millet, it is really difficult to say, but go out to ask or decide to try. Now they have taken the first step of releasing the "MIUI" on the android Wear watch.

Go out to ask is a former Google machine translation team scientists to do pioneering work of a product, we have reported many times. You can simply go out and ask to understand the Chinese version of Google now. Specifically, it is a life service search based on natural semantic analysis, which you can use directly to query such as "where is the delicious Sichuan food nearby?" ", it will be able to understand what you mean and return to the relevant query results." Previously, the micro-credit public account version, Android version, iOS version, Google glass version, Android Wear version has been introduced.

From application to ROM

Google in the mainland is absent, Android Wear system smart watch in the domestic instant high cold a lot: not to turn the wall activation, activation can not use, still feel not good. Wayward buy back LG G Watch, Moto 360, also can only hope to watch the sigh, secretly said "I bought a table last year." Wearing the Android Wear system smart watch, the subtext is not only "rich, capricious", but also "the English will turn over the wall."

This time, to do a set of solutions, so that the Chinese people can really use the Android Wear watch, there is real value and significance. First asked to do an Android Wear version of the application, users in Google Play up and down this application, in the setting of the watch click out to ask, you can ask a variety of life services, ask the weather, find restaurants are not a problem.

However, go out and ask feel that this has only solved the activation of the problem can not be used, the use of the problem still exists. This also prompted them to optimize the Android Wear system from the bottom up, and doing the ROM thing was logically put on the agenda.

Common app development only needs to follow the existing Android Wear API, involving only the creator level. But the development of ROM will move to the framework of the Android Wear code, it will be much more difficult. Now, the Chinese Intelligent Watch operating system ticwear has been developed and has been brushed by smart watch enthusiasts to their own watches.

Recently I also tried to brush this set of ROM Moto 360. Like Google Now, say, "Hello, ask!" "You can wake up the watch at any time, and the difference is that all the next steps are already in Mandarin." Ticwear is not a simple Chinese, but the optimization, such as the addition of personalized customized dial, message filtering mechanism, localized life services.

These are just functional optimizations, and the most surprising thing is that they have made a lot of changes in their interactions. The Android Wear system watches, interacts or is two-dimensional, all information, the page is the card type tile information flow. Go out and ask for reference to the theory of architectural tectonics, they created a set of three-bit cubic three-dimensional interactive design, they called Cubic Stereo UI. Slide one at a time to reach the most functional list and voice control interface. This UI, even Motorola's engineers are stunning, the initiative sent out to ask the official interior of the brush equipment.

From mobile phones to watches

The initial ask, is in the form of micro-credit public accounts, and later released the Android version, iOS version of the app, which is still mobile phone as the carrier. To later release the Google Glass version, the carrier is replaced by the latest smart glasses, and now they found a smart watch. It looks like this is all a speculative choice, trying to find the right technology carrier.

However, go out to ask CEO Li Zhifei actually already thought very clearly. Li Zhifei and go out to ask, never positioning themselves as a voice recognition, semantic technical service provider, but in a natural semantic analysis of products, it happens that such products need speech recognition, semantic analysis of the technology.

Although it looks similar, the final path to go will be much worse. Many domestic voice recognition, semantic technical service providers, and finally walked the 2B Road, and went out to ask in the initial after a simple 2B attempt, then chose a 2C road. In fact, only 2 C, have the opportunity to direct docking with users, running-in products. B-end partners, the desire to optimize the product will be much lower.

To do 2C, there must be no carrier, this is known to ask a lot of products and versions, but there is no doubt that on the smart watch, they bet on a heavy bet. Voice communication on the phone is not as good as the keyboard input, the experience of convenience is not obvious. After switching to a smart watch, the situation changed, unable to enter the text, can only rely on the touch screen simple points on the operation and voice to interact. Although the Google Glass such smart glasses also face the difficulty of text input, but the watch vs glasses in the decisive battle, the watch is clearly the first city. The habit of wearing watches has existed for many years, basically everyone can wear, the use of low threshold, the watch has a chance to become a control center. The sale of Apple Watch next year will deepen consumer perceptions of smart watches, and Android Wear's watch sales will certainly increase. This is the chance.

From the Chinese version of Google now to the Android Wear watch "MIUI"

With so much to say, you must have seen that the Chinese Google now has a bigger ambition. What they are doing is becoming more and more like millet. Ticwear is to ask the MIUI, as the core, in the future may be possible to build their own platform and ecosystem. In fact, go out to ask is also thinking about whether they have a watch, but now there is no final decision. Even so, they will open up Ticwear third-party developer platforms, aggregating creative third-party apps, and making smart watches more likely.

The rise of smart hardware is only the beginning. The advantage of voice interaction is not in the wearable device alone. In the long run, human interaction with machines evolves in a more natural way, as in "Interstellar Passage", which communicates directly with robots. Such scenes will certainly be implemented soon. Think about the next tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions of hardware networking, the ticwear of the Internet of things may be more than the mobile web era of MIUI.

Although the future, but the current voice interaction and go out to ask a lot of questions to be solved. Go out to ask the ticwear now just fit the Moto 360, the other watches will take some time to complete the fit. In terms of speech recognition, there are still many areas to improve, in-depth learning and artificial intelligence also need more breakthrough progress. Wait until the accuracy of voice interaction increased to more than 98%, far-field speech recognition is not a problem, now touch screen interaction is expected to be eliminated.

The question now is who will come to that day. Even Li Zhifei said, "We walked a relatively difficult road, made on the cattle, but do not do ..."

It's all something. Ticwear System number 19th is about to be released, which is the first step on this road.