Chapter 311 Ribbon Cutting

Chapter 311 Ribbon Cutting

Chapter 311 Ribbon Cutting
The concept of smartphones was proposed in the last century, but it did not become well known until after 07.

That’s when the first iPhone came out, ushering in a new era for smartphones.

However, due to the limitations of mobile phone hardware, the functions of smartphones do not seem new to the majority of users. In terms of usage, they feel no different from closed feature phones.

Smartphones were popularized later in China, with some people gradually using them 10 years later, but they were still a niche market. Because of their high prices, it was not until 13 that a price war broke out before they gradually benefited the general public.

This year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology relaxed the relevant licenses for mobile phone production, and Star Sky Mobile Phone quickly applied for a license.

As one of the several mobile phone manufacturers in Jiangcheng, although Star Technology looks like a manufacturer of copycat mobile phones, it still received strong support from the local government.

After all, with the previous success of Fengfan MP4 and now a big move into the mobile phone industry, Star Sky Technology Park has become a key focus project.

Not only in Jiangcheng, the local government of Nanxi also wants to attract Star Sky Science and Technology Park to come back and build a factory. For this purpose, they also want Xu Jun to come to the local area as an entrepreneur and take up the honorary title of a representative.

Xu Mingyuan didn't care about these matters.

With Xu Jun leading the charge in the front, Xu Mingyuan could concentrate on making plans in the rear.

The system of the Starry Sky mobile phone is not difficult to make. Nowadays, most of the mobile phones are closed feature phones with relatively simple functions. Domestic copycat mobile phone manufacturers basically use the MediaTek system.

Xu Mingyuan naturally also used the MediaTek mobile phone system, a copycat version of the Symbian system, which allows for customized mobile phone software.

It’s not that Star Technology cannot develop its own system, but that the optimization is too complicated. Feature phones were originally a transition, and Xu Mingyuan did not spend energy on developing a mobile phone system at this time.

The only trouble is that there are very few college students studying mobile phone systems nowadays. After all, computer science is the mainstream major nowadays.

Fortunately, closed mobile phone software is not difficult to make. For top students like Jiangda’s computer science major, the time cost of turning around and learning is not high.

After Classmate.com has grown into a mature platform, it no longer requires programmers with very high technical skills, except for daily maintenance.

For example, Li Guangyu, who has the best technical skills among his classmates, was directly assigned by Xu Mingyuan to be responsible for the production of mobile phone games.

The popular mobile games nowadays are still the same old stuff, like Push Box and Snake, which are almost available on every mobile phone.

Then there are commonly used software such as QQ and browsers.

However, the data charges at that time were extremely expensive, and people using 2G to access the Internet were still not the mainstream.

For ordinary people, a mobile phone is a device that can make calls, send text messages, take photos and record videos.

If you want to listen to music or watch movies, you need to download them online in advance. This is also a major profit point for mobile phone stores, who charge mobile phone users to download music and videos.

As a company grows bigger, its vision will become limited.

For example, current mobile phone manufacturers are still working hard on hardware, and the slider function is getting better and better. The slightly lagging and comfortable feel makes Xu Mingyuan like to slide Tao Shuxin's phone for a while when he is free.

Then there are mobile phone cameras. The clearer the pictures, the more popular they are among manufacturers.

However, compared with 50 million pixels, 150 pixels are still blurry. At night when the lights are dim, there is no difference in the photos taken.

Flashy 300-megapixel mobile phones that look like digital cameras are almost out of the scope of mobile phones. They are expensive and niche, and mobile phone manufacturers are losing money to gain publicity in order to demonstrate their mature technology.

However, Xu Mingyuan's goal was very clear. In addition to making calls and sending text messages, the most important use of a mobile phone was entertainment.

Mobile games like Panda Climbing Bamboo and Spore Evolution have achieved good results.

Unfortunately, the internal software of mobile phones is not taken seriously by manufacturers. Other manufacturers just copy it and continue to work hard on hardware.

This gave Xu Mingyuan an opportunity.

The current domestic customer groups don’t even care about what computer hardware is, so will they care about mobile phone hardware?
Xu Mingyuan thought that the mini-games that will be popular in the future, such as the popular "Jump Jump" in the circle of friends and the magical "Never Give Up", can all be ported to mobile phones.

Current mobile phone hardware is capable of playing pseudo-3D games, which is enough to meet Xu Mingyuan's requirements. However, the graphics and operability are still a bit lacking.

But it doesn’t matter, as long as the playability is good, there will be no problem. At present, customers’ tolerance is still very good. As long as the work is eye-catching, there will be no worries about customers coming.

Of course, Xu Mingyuan values ​​not only stand-alone games, but also online pay-to-win games.

In the era of closed systems, manufacturers could add software at will without worrying about users deleting it. This good thing will never come back again.

Xu Mingyuan is such a calculating person, so he would not miss this opportunity. For example, the popular World Online, the picture quality was so poor that it was unwatchable, but it still achieved considerable results. Because of the high user acceptance, the text game is also promising, and the demand for mobile phone hardware is very low, it is a game that can make a lot of money.

In China, where the future game market is in full swing, there is already a set of mature solutions, which is no less than a dimensionality reduction attack at the moment.

What Xu Mingyuan does is to make money on mobile phones, but he also wants to make a lot of money from mobile software.

Customers who can afford a 5G data card with 30M data for 2 yuan should not mind topping up a few hundred yuan to play mobile games. After all, there are far more rich people than you think. In the past few years, some rich people spent tens of millions to play Legend of Mir, which made the news. Maybe they will spend a million or so to play mobile games.

It is a business that is almost profitable with no investment, and it is much easier to make money than selling mobile phones.

In early November, the first phase of the Star Sky Science and Technology Park in Jiangbei New District has been completed and the hybrid production line has been arranged.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony was scheduled for nine in the morning. In front of the office building, which took half a year to build, the stage was set up, and the staff were debugging the sound equipment and arranging the flower baskets.

Xu Mingyuan glanced at the densely packed schedule, then threw the process sheet aside in boredom. He was not interested in these tedious activities. When the building was first opened, he couldn't remember how many red ribbons he had cut.

If you have this much time, you might as well go around the company and take a look at the development progress of the mobile game.

The old father, on the other hand, was very interested and felt proud. At this time, he was discussing the matter with Secretary Yue, the top leader of Jiangcheng, who had come.

As soon as nine o'clock arrived, after the host boasted about the company's background and introduced the leaders present, Chairman Xu Jun took the lead in speaking on stage.

In the corner of the seat below the stage, Xu Mingyuan, shivering in the wind, pulled his cotton coat tighter around him.

"Your dad is quite handsome."

Tao Shuxin on the side poked Xu Mingyuan and said while looking at the stage.

"Not as handsome as me." Xu Mingyuan said casually.

"Hey, you don't care about your image. Your hair is messed up. Why don't you put some mousse on it?"

Tao Shuxin was tidying up Xu Mingyuan's hair and wanted to put a hat on him, but was afraid of making it even messier.

"I'm so bored, I can just do it."

Xu Mingyuan was shaking his legs to keep away the cold and insisted on choosing an auspicious day. It was really unbearable to hold the ribbon-cutting ceremony in such a cold weather.

"How could this be?"

Tao Shuxin was very disgusted with his indifferent attitude. There were many leaders present today, which was not good.

Xu Mingyuan glanced at her unhappily. Tao Shuxin was wrapped up like a dumpling, so of course she didn't feel cold. She was wearing only a single layer of clothes and pants under her cotton-padded jacket. Not only was she not allowed to wear a hat, but she was also required to block the wind. How could she have any image at all?

When it was time to cut the ribbon, Xu Mingyuan grabbed Tao Shuxin and wanted to take her to the stage to cut the ribbon.

"What are you doing?"

"I'll take you to cut the ribbon."

"Why don't you just go? My dad is up there too!"

"Hurry up, we are running out of time."

Xu Mingyuan didn't care whether she agreed or not and just dragged her away.

Xiao Yangzhi was in class, and she didn't want to come to such a crowded place, so she took Tao Shuxin to the stage for a walk.

"Oh! Why didn't you tell me in advance!"

Tao Shuxin struggled desperately, but when he saw someone looking over here, he immediately became obedient.

"It's okay. I won't take off my cotton coat."

In the end, Tao Shuxin couldn't resist him anymore. She walked to the front of the stage with a red face, and took a photo with the man, holding a pair of small scissors tied with a red ribbon.

(End of this chapter)