Reborn multinational giant

MIUI is regarded as the first product released by Xiaomi since its establishment. The release of MIUI marks an important step for Xiaomi to make mobile phones, and it also strengthens the more than ten entrepreneurs and many Xiaomi employees. We are determined to make mobile phones together.

On the 7th floor of the Wucaicheng office building in Qinghe Middle Street, Xiaomi’s new headquarters. When Xiaomi was just founded, it was in the Yingu Building in Wudaokou, Zhongguancun. However, in the past six months, with the continuous increase of Xiaomi employees and Mr. Lei’s estimate of Xiaomi With the ever-expanding scale of development in the future, Xiaomi moved to Qinghe, a place outside the Fifth Ring Road, where conditions are fairly good in all aspects due to cost and other considerations.

At this time, in the meeting room of Xiaomi on the 7th floor, there were more than a dozen entrepreneurial veterans of Xiaomi, including Fang Zhe, the chief consultant of Xiaomi.

Mr. Lei, who has been the CEO of Jinshan for many years, is now sitting at the main seat of the rectangular conference table, and he has restored his former power of power: "To gather everyone here, there are two main things. Let’s talk about the first one. The results of this MIUI release, Hong Feng!"

Listening to Mr. Lei calling his name, Hong Feng, who is in charge of MIUI R&D, opened the red notebook in front of him and said: "From April 15 to today, April 22, since the release of MIUI1.0beta one week, the total number of downloads on the entire network has been accumulated. There are more than 15,000, of which more than 8,000 mobile phones are actually activated, and more than 2,000 people have registered our MIUI accounts.

In addition, the number of registered users in our MIUI community has exceeded 20,000. In the past week, users have reported 27 large and small bugs to us. Among them, there are 0 serious bugs, two moderate bugs, and the remaining 25 All of them are mild bugs, and more than 500 suggestions and suggestions for improvement have been received."

After Hong Feng's brief introduction, the veterans of Xiaomi entrepreneurs in the room all chatted with each other. Many of them were happy. The number of activated users of more than 8,000 mobile phones far exceeded their previous estimates and Imagine.

After dozens of seconds, when everyone’s conversation became quieter, Mr. Lei knocked on the table with his pen and said:

"I am as happy as everyone. These data have indeed exceeded our previous estimates and estimates. At the earliest when MIUI was in closed beta, only 100 closed beta users gave us opinions and ideas. Now there are so many users. , In the future, our MIUI R&D iteration speed and experience optimization, we can reach a new level!"

When Mr. Lei said this, he turned his head and looked at Fang Zhe, who was sitting on his left hand side. He was sitting on the right side without exception, Xiaomi’s second in command Lin Xiaobin, so Fang Zhe, the chief consultant I can sit on the left, but the entrepreneurs present here have no objection to this. Not to mention the identity of Fang Zhe Huizhong’s founder and the identity of Xiaomi’s chief consultant, Fang Zhe’s contribution to Xiaomi is no less than the presence. Everyone.

"This time we can achieve the first stage of MIUI success. First of all, I would like to thank Hong Feng and their entire MIUI R&D team. Another thing to thank is our chief consultant Fang Zhe. Everyone applauds and expresses gratitude to them!"

Driven by Mr. Lei, the entrepreneurs present all applauded Hong Feng and Fang Zhe, and Fang Zhe and Hong Feng both smiled and accepted everyone's applause.

Fang Zhe knew that the reason Mr. Lei thanked him was mainly because Fang Zhe, the chief consultant and Fang Zhe’s other company, Huichuang, made a lot of efforts in the MIUI research and development process.

Huichuang is a technology research and development company solely funded by Zhongying Capital established in July last year that specializes in the development of mobile phone patents. It is funded by Zhongying Capital. Xiaomi’s current chief technology officer, Dr. Zhou Guangping’s younger brother Li Zhipeng, has taken the lead. Since its establishment Under the conceptual guidance of Fang Zhe and the two-pronged approach of digging out technical talents from major mobile phone manufacturers at home and abroad with a reasonable amount of money, Huichuang has gradually achieved a lot of results.

Mobile phone R&D and patents are originally technical activities. Even if Fang Zhe reborn people know the concepts of many black technologies, they can’t make a fat man in one go. Therefore, Fang Zhe’s conceptual guidance is more confined to the conceptual. For example, what is the concept of four-axis anti-shake, dual cameras, curved screens, and full screens.

Although Li Zhipeng and the R&D team were dumbfounded by the various nonsensical ideas of Fang Zhe, the big Boss, it must be said that some of the ideas and ideas that Fang Zhe often put forward did give Li Zhipeng and their entire R&D team many new ideas.

For example, when Fang Zhe was chatting with Li Zhipeng, he told him about large-screen mobile phones. Nowadays, no matter whether it is an iPhone or most Android phones, the mobile phone screen is not big. Fang Zhe and Li Zhipeng talked about the advantages and disadvantages and practical value of large-screen mobile phones. This enlightenment also gave Li Zhipeng a lot of research and development ideas.

For example, if a large-screen mobile phone is not easy to operate, it needs to be designed for one-handed operation. For example, the screen-to-body ratio of a large-screen mobile phone is the most suitable and most comfortable, etc., and the fingerprint mentioned by Fang Zong Unlocking, smart voice assistants, etc. In many cases, Li Zhipeng even feels that if Huichuang or Huizhong make their own mobile phones, they may definitely have a place in the mobile phone industry in the future.

However, it seems that Mr. Fang is not too cold about making his own mobile phone. He just let Huichuang worry about the mobile phone patent research and development, and Huizhong himself is single-minded on the mobile Internet in the mobile phone. This time, the research and development process of Xiaomi MIUI In China, there are also many creative designs and patents that are unique to their Huichuang company, and Xiaomi, can be regarded as the first customer since the establishment of Huichuang, that is, at this time, Li Zhipeng realized that the reason why Fang Zong did not make mobile phones, I'm afraid it's because the referee and the athlete can't be at the same time.

If they make their own mobile phones, it is obvious that the many ideas or patents they design and develop can only be used on their own phones, and competitors cannot and are afraid to use their patents.

And if Huichuang is a third-party company, whether it is Xiaomi or Huawei, Meizu, ZTE, etc., they can all become Huichuang’s customers. Li Zhipeng also understands that Fang’s vision and ambitions for Huichuang are not limited to domestic ones. In the big pool, the global market is the future development goal of Huichuang.

If you want to make a mobile phone manufacturer from zero to the world’s top level, you don’t even have to think about it in ten or eight years, but with patent authorization and other methods, the global mobile phone manufacturers are very welcome to this and are happy to become Huichuang customers!

"Thank you, let's work harder! The second thing I want to say next is about Huizhong's investment in Xiaomi!" After the applause was sparse, Mr. Lei mentioned the second thing, and he finished this sentence After speaking, everyone present couldn't help but look at Fang Zhe, who was still smiling.