my return 2002

Chapter 272 Open Platform

At the end of April, Shen Lang boarded the flight to the capital, and Jack Ma was sitting next to him. The two were invited by CCTV's financial channel to participate in the recording of an entrepreneurial program [Win in China]

"Mr. Shen, I heard that you are working on a mobile terminal product?" Jack Ma asked tentatively.

Shen Lang didn't hide it either: "Well, it's expected to be released almost next month."

The reason why it is scheduled to be released in June is mainly to catch up with the wave of summer market. Products like Meizu M6 to meet the needs of mobile Internet access are mainly targeted at young people and business people.

Jack Ma became interested: "Do you have a look?"

Shen Lang pointed to the storage compartment where the backpack was placed: "I have one in my bag, and I'll bring it to you when I get off the plane."

Jack Ma was satisfied, so he didn't bother Shen Lang again, and the two began to close their eyes and meditate.

After getting off the plane, Shen Lang and Jack Ma met the staff of the Financial Channel at the exit of the airport. As soon as they got on the minibus, Jack Ma started staring at Shen Lang's backpack.

Shen Lang laughed secretly, opened the zipper of his backpack, and handed him the engineering machine that had been devastated by Lei Jun.

Jack Ma chuckled, and didn't turn on the machine directly, but held it in his hand and looked at it.

"Mr. Shen, the appearance of your product is very good, and it has a sense of technology."

Shen Lang just smiled, just listen to Jack Ma's words, don't take it seriously, this guy even fooled himself.

Jackma studied the appearance for a while, then pressed the power button, and soon the screen lit up. When the startup screen of Meizu appeared, Jackma let out a snort.

"Mr. Shen, what does the star under the Meizu LOGO mean?"

I have to admit that Jack Ma's insight is still very keen, and he can see the doorway immediately.

Shen Lang explained: "The operating system of this mobile terminal is independently developed by us, and it is named Xingchen."

Jack Ma's eyes suddenly moved from the screen to Shen Lang's face, but he didn't say a word, and after a while, he shifted his eyes to the screen again.

At this time, the boot-loading animation has passed, and the operating system interface appears on the screen. Jack Ma is obviously very good at this kind of electronic products, and starts to manipulate the directional pad to move the cursor.

The first thing Jack Ma opened was the 360 ​​browser. After a few seconds of response time, the browser was loaded. Although in Shen Lang's opinion, the response speed was not very good, but in Jack Ma's opinion, it was good enough , Compared with the response speed of mobile phones such as Nokia in the same period, this product has a very obvious advantage.

Of course, what surprised Jack Ma even more was that after the 360 ​​browser was opened, there was no disordered layout and blurred resolution like mobile web pages. Obviously, this mobile 360 ​​browser was not simply transplanted, but It is a deep optimization match.

Jack Ma typed in the word Taobao, clicked to search, and after the jump, he couldn't help saying to Shen Lang in disappointment.

"Mr. Shen, you still haven't solved the pain point of users' poor online experience."

As soon as the voice fell, Jack Ma was surprised to find that the screen had become larger. Inaccurately speaking, it should be that the font had become larger, and it had become a grid of blocks. He tried to press the right button With the arrow keys, the screen immediately moved to the right, and the font that was originally small and blurred became larger and clearer.

"How did you do that?" Jack Ma asked in shock.

Shen Lang smiled and pressed the small button above the volume button, and the font on the screen returned to normal.

"This design is wonderful." Jack Ma praised without hesitation.

In fact, this design originally existed in the 360 ​​browser, which is the zoom function of the webpage. It was originally designed to adapt to different computer monitors. This is achieved by adding two small buttons.

Of course, it is much more difficult to implement such a function on a mobile terminal than on a computer, and there are many technical difficulties in the middle, but judging from Jack Ma's situation, this painstaking effort was not in vain.

Jack Ma clicked on the Taobao homepage again, however, the jumping speed made him almost think that the Internet was disconnected, if it wasn't for the jumping progress bar still squirming tenaciously.
"Mr. Shen, what's going on?" Jack Ma asked.

Shen Lang shrugged helplessly: "The Taobao interface is mainly based on pictures, and they are all pictures that have undergone a lot of refinement. The loading speed is naturally much slower, and it consumes a lot of traffic."

Jack Ma frowned when he heard it, he knew that what Shen Lang said was right, this is indeed a big problem, in the case of high traffic charges, not to mention the speed of online shopping, just the traffic level, Users can't get through.

This makes Jack Ma very uncomfortable. With his keen intuition, he believes that this mobile terminal will definitely be popular. The reason is very simple. At this time, the laptop is too bulky and inconvenient to carry, and the screen of the mobile phone is too small It is very inconvenient to use the Internet.

Meizu M6 has just found a balance. Once released, it will definitely lead the trend. This is an excellent opportunity for Ali. You must know that Taobao at this time is not only facing direct competition from eBay, Dangdang, and HC, but also from Penguin. Paipai.com is rushing here. If it hadn't been for Yahoo's $10 billion last year, Taobao would not be able to widen the gap with the others.

"Mr. Shen, do you consider open source of this star system?" Jack Ma asked nervously.

Shen Lang laughed secretly in his heart, the reason why he revealed such a big killer to Jack Ma in advance was to draw Ali into his camp.

From the very beginning, what Shen Lang wants to do is not just a mobile terminal that can access the Internet, but to build an open platform. Even if there is a possibility of competition in the future like Ali, he will also bring in. Only in this way can he Create a small circle based on the Internet ecology in the mainland to fight against Google's Android ecosystem in the future.

"Of course, Xingchen is open to all mainland Internet companies. If Mr. Ma is interested, he can create a mobile Taobao based on Xingchen system." Shen Lang said seriously.

Jack Ma's face was happy when he heard the words, but when his eyes saw the 360 ​​payment on the screen, his heart sank again.

"Mr. Shen, is the Xingchen system open to all Ali's products, or only to Taobao?"

Shen Lang naturally knew Jack Ma's worries. Taobao was only a part of Ali's business, and it seemed to be developing rapidly. In fact, the core product of Ali was not Taobao, but Alipay. Taobao connects to third-party payment, so doesn’t that mean making wedding dresses for others?
"Of course all products."

"Including Alipay?"

"Including Alipay!"

Jack Ma patted Shen Lang's arm excitedly, and gave a thumbs up: "Boss Shen's mind is admirable."

Shen Lang secretly rolled his eyes, usually when Jack Ma praised you, it was when he felt he was taking advantage of you.

However, Shen Lang also knows that Jack Ma is a very ambitious person. Once Shen Lang refuses to open the star system to Alipay, Jack Ma is likely to turn around and build a self-developed system. Facing the threat of Android, Shen Lang cannot Focus on internal friction, other domestic Internet companies, even Penguin, as long as Xiao Ma is willing to join, he will also open up the star system.

Of course, according to Shen Lang's understanding of Brother Xiaoma, Brother Xiaoma would definitely not trust his fate in his hands.

Soon, the car arrived at the hotel. Jack Ma was still indulging in the exploration of the Meizu M6, and had no intention of returning it to Shen Lang. Shen Lang also handed him the charger from his bag.

At dinner in the afternoon, Xu Songtao, the executive director of Win in Huaxia, and the main creators of the program team invited Shen Lang, Jack Ma, founders of Huicong.com Guo Fanshen, and Shi Yuzhu to a restaurant for dinner. Let's get to know each other, on the one hand, to talk about the upcoming program recording.

"Mr. Shen, long time no see." Shi Yuzhu saw Shen Lang and gave him a bear hug.

Speaking of which [Zhengtu] can achieve such good results, it has a lot to do with Shen Lang. The recharge mode of [Zhengtu] is completely different from that of other point card games. In the previous games, after 100 yuan point card recharge Players can play for a long time.

However, if you recharge 100 yuan in [Journey], it will be the same as no recharge. Players urgently need more flexible recharge channels, and this time shows the value of recharge channels.

NetDragon's Internet cafe management software under Shen Lang can provide the top-up needs of mid-krypton players. Generally, as long as the top-up does not exceed 5 yuan, the owner of a larger Internet cafe can help users handle it, and those heavy krypton players with more than 360 krypton players can also help them. A single recharge can be completed through [-] payment.

[Journey] 60% of the top-ups were received through Shen Lang's channel. Shi Yuzhu was naturally very enthusiastic when he saw Shen Lang.

Shen Lang smiled and said to Shi Yuzhu: "President Shi, you have completely changed the pattern of the mainland online game market this time."

This is definitely not an exaggeration. Before Zhengtu, there have been many free games, but none of them has been able to achieve decent commercial success.

It wasn't until the appearance of [Zhengtu] that domestic game companies saw that free games could make so much money. Shi Yuzhu was definitely the instigator.

Shi Yuzhu is also proud of his spring breeze. During the internal test of [Journey], many people in the game circle said that he was playing to death, spending so much money on publicity, and engaging in so many bells and whistles. It is impossible to make money from free games. possible.

As a result, with a slap in the face, [Zhengtu] had a revenue of more than [-] million in just two months, and it was still growing rapidly. How could he not be proud?
Has the genius marketing guru risen again?
Compared with the harmony between Shen Lang and Shi Yuzhu, the harmony between Jack Ma and Guo Fanshen, the founder of Huicong.com, was not so harmonious. Although the two of them were restrained in public, when their eyes met, there was a smile on their faces. The smile on the face disappeared immediately.

This made Xu Songtao, the executive director of Win in Huaxia, a little embarrassed, so he could only arrange for the two to sit with several people separated.

After everyone sat down, Xu Songtao raised his glass and said.

"Come on, all the bosses have worked hard, thank you for taking the time to participate in our Win in China column."

After everyone drank the first glass of wine, they sat down again.

Shen Lang happened to be next to Guo Fanshen, and this guy was also trying to get close to Shen Lang. At this time, Huicong.com was still able to break arms with Dangdang.

"Mr. Shen, look at your 360 navigation, can you raise the ranking of Huicong.com? At least, our current market share is higher than that of eBay." Guo Fanshen offered several glasses of wine to Shen Lang, Finally said the purpose.

Shen Lang casually said: "Mr. Guo, I am basically an idler in the company now, otherwise I would not have time to participate in this program. If you have any ideas, you can directly chat with Mr. Lei Junlei."

This is both an excuse and the truth, Shen Lang has seldom intervened in the company's specific operations, and this guy actually doesn't pay any price, just wants to prostitute for nothing, I'm afraid he just wants to be blind.

As soon as Guo Fanshen heard this, he knew it was useless, and he didn't make any more entanglements. The topic changed, and he started chatting all over the place. From the international economic situation to fuel prices, Shen Lang also chatted with each other with great interest.

Although Huicong.com did not do Taobao in the end, in Shen Lang's view, this does not mean that Guo Fanshen is mediocre, it only shows that Jack Ma's combat effectiveness is too strong.

In fact, many of the earliest Internet entrepreneurs failed in their ventures, but in the end they turned behind the scenes to become investors, holding a lot of resources in their hands, and some even became industry leaders.

Communicating with this group of people is also a good learning opportunity. Shen Lang is very aware of his shortcomings. As an ordinary person, his advantages in the Internet industry are equivalent to playing DOTA. The eyes of ordinary entrepreneurs are all fog of war. At any time, a few strong men may rush out and kill him.

The boss-type entrepreneur can be equivalent to inserting eyes and seeing a local area, while he has opened the full picture and can clearly see which road is a dead end and which road can be developed and made money.

The advantage is indeed obvious, but his disadvantage is also obvious, that is, poor operation, which is the reason why Shen Lang wants to bring Lei Jun here.

"Bosses, it's like this. We have arranged an activity to climb the Great Wall tomorrow. We will gather in the hotel lobby at 108 o'clock in the morning. We will also take this opportunity to get in touch with the [-] contestants, so that everyone can get acquainted with each other in advance."

After drinking three rounds and eating five flavors, Xu Songtao announced tomorrow's recording activities.

When he heard that he was going to climb the Great Wall, Shi Yuzhu's face turned pale, and Guo Fanshen was also a little reluctant.

Jack Ma asked directly: "Director Xu, did you climb all the way to the north eighth floor?"

Jack Ma is obviously knowledgeable, and the reason is very simple. When he was working in the foreign affairs department, he often took foreigners to climb the Great Wall. Almost every time he received a group of foreigners, he had to climb the Great Wall.

Xu Songtao shook his head quickly: "No, this time is equivalent to a group activity, and there is no need to climb to the highest point."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, especially the cameramen of the program group, jokingly, carrying such a heavy camera to the north eighth floor at an altitude of 888 meters, I am afraid they will be exhausted to death.

(End of this chapter)