Age of Dreams

Wednesday, January 16.

Many fans who often visit the app store have found that an app called Fairy Guardian has been quietly listed on the homepages of many countries.

When I opened the page, I found that it was a protection and anti-virus software for smartphones, which specifically aimed at some Trojan horse programs to ensure the safety of the programs I used and the bank card information.

It is worth mentioning that, according to the introduction, this Fairy Guardian can be used for the fairy system, Apple's ios system, Samsung's bada system and Android system.

It is normal for Fairy Guardian to run on Fairy system, ios system and Samsung's bada system, after all, they are all partners of the app store. \u003cble also have to argue with Fairy Company.

Speaking of which, Fairy Company has benefited more from this patent settlement incident than people imagined.

In the app store, Android phones cannot download apps. If you want to download an app suitable for the Android system, you can only go to the Android store to download it.

Compared with the app store, which has already exceeded 1 million programs, the Android store can’t be said to have three or two kittens, but the total number is less than 100,000, of which more than 70,000 are free programs, which are actually used for charging There are less than 30,000 apps in China.

Among the 30,000 apps, those that can make money are even more pitiful, with less than 2,000. less than one-tenth of the total. \u003cle, Nokia, and Motorola spent money to support it, which was designed by some programmers with a sense of free Internet.

Without the driving force to make money, it is impossible to have exquisite products.

A good game, such as "Plants vs. Zombies", can only be made popular all over the world after dozens of years of hard work and continuous update and development. Some works of interest are certainly not comparable.

Therefore, most of the software or games produced by these programmers are tasteless, which makes more than 80 million Android system users complain.

You are not mistaken, even if Android mobile phone users are suppressed by the alliance of Fairy, Apple and Samsung, with the good reputation of Motorola, Nokia and Sony Ericsson for many years, their users have exceeded 80 million this year , and is continuously increasing.

This is the choice of different tastes of people around the world.

Especially European users, many have no money. Or some elderly people are still used to using Nokia mobile phones.

The same is true in North and South America, where many elderly and cash-strapped people use the same Motorola phones they've been used to for 20 or 30 years.

Sony Ericsson also has its own fans in Japan and some Southeast Asian countries, and Sony Ericsson's st38 mobile phone is the most beautiful and best-performing mobile phone among the three Android phones. The average sales volume has reached 2 million units per month, and it has become a weapon for the smooth development of the Android Alliance.

This time the fairy guard. It was after hanging up the app store that it suddenly appeared in the Android store, which surprised everyone.

The reason is simple, unless it is a free app, the app store and the Android store are completely different.

In the past, the Android store poached many star game companies in the app store because they wanted to have their own games and software. In order to fight against the blockade of the app store.

As a result, why does Fairy Company's app appear in the app store and Android store at the same time?

Could it be that Xiao Qi broke the rules he set by himself?

But it doesn't look like it, otherwise, with Gang Leader Qiao's violent temper, he must have already started a fight with Xiao Qi.

quickly. The app store released a network-wide announcement, revealing the mystery.

"The app store, the Android store, and representatives of the Developer Association have reached an agreement. Starting today, all apps in the app store can be sold in the Android store at the same time, but the share ratio will be changed. Apps that are only sold in the app store , the share ratio is still 30% to 70%; for apps sold in the Android store at the same time, 60% to 40% on the app store in the first year, 60% to the app store, and 40% to developers, and 50% to 50% from the second year onwards.”

I see!

The bewildered people from the outside world finally have the feeling of clearing the fog and seeing the blue sky. \u003cle and Fairy Company are still fighting each other, how come they suddenly become close partners?

The ones who should cry most are the 39 companies that were poached at the end of the previous year.

"Plants vs. Zombies", "Angry Sparrow", "Dream Lianliankan", "Pac-Man"... etc. 39 companies of the top 100 best-selling smart games in the app store, although they were attracted by the Android store with huge benefits. .Turned them over, but the copyrights of the games they developed before remained in the app store completely, and they couldn't get any more money.

Although these losses have been compensated by the Android Alliance, whoever sees the game they have worked so hard to make is used by others to make a lot of money, will be uncomfortable?

What's more, some of the games they developed later did not have the same sensation and profit as the famous pioneering works, which made them even more upset.

In the past two years, these companies have often filed lawsuits with the app store, but whether it is Xiao Qi, Qiao Gangzhu, or Li Jianxi, they have resolutely fought back. No matter how much money and how much manpower and material resources are spent, they will never compromise.

Compared with the app store's counterattack regardless of cost, these companies have less money, how can they afford to drag it in court?

So in the end they all ended in failure.

It's natural to think about it. If they win, wouldn't that be a good reminder to other developers that I can leave as I want, anyway, don't you dare to sanction me?

Once this happens, the app store created by the three giants will immediately fall into disintegration. How can the three people who have great ambitions in the field of smart electronics accept it?

Even if the time is now, even if Gang Leader Qiao and Li Jianxi agree to Xiao Qi's plan to properly open up the exclusive rights of the app camp, they will definitely not agree to return the profits of these 39 companies to them.

A contract is a contract, and if you break the contract before the agreement is reached, you deserve it!

It is said that Xiao Qi proposed the idea of ​​this open app camp to Chief Qiao and Li Jianxi in September last year, but the two always felt that they could look at it more before discussing it.

Now the Android store is not popular, and the app market is still dominated by the app store. Who doesn't want to make more money?

It wasn't until the teenager released the dream snow that turned out to be out of nowhere on Christmas, which once again caused a sensation in the world and created great power, that Qiao Gangzhu and Li Jianxi agreed to open the exclusive rights of the app this year.

Of course, in addition to this reason, it is more due to the collective pressure of developers. \u003cle, Motorola, Nokia and Sony Ericsson support, now there are 80 million users in one year, and as more small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers join in the future, the number of users will definitely increase.

Developers, whether they are individuals or companies, are well aware of the appeal of the word "free" to ordinary people.

As long as the Android system is free for one day, those small and medium-sized companies without R\u0026D capabilities will definitely cut off most of their system R\u0026D departments, and instead use local materials to use the Android system, at most it is optimized to match their own mobile phones.

How difficult is it to make a feature phone?

Now even a small factory with 30 employees can make feature phones, isn't it because of the emergence of baseband template solutions?

Where is the hardest part about smartphones?

Isn't it just on the smart operating system?

Now the Android system makes up for everyone's biggest shortcoming. Although many manufacturers have not been able to join immediately due to technical obstacles such as touch screens and CPU chips, but within a year at most, the Android Alliance will definitely be able to add several more generals. The size of the camp has increased exponentially.

Think about the final output of feature phones. Basically, the output of small and medium-sized manufacturers is higher than that of large manufacturers!

This means that after the development of smart phones, this will also happen! !

Under this kind of expectation, of course they are not willing to be bound by the app store only, and they also hope that they can have both sides and make money everywhere.

Even though the Android Alliance obviously doesn't make much money now, they still have to plan ahead, join in early, and seize the Android Alliance market as soon as possible.

From the standpoint of these developers, their ideas are not wrong at all, and it is entirely possible to reasonably fight for their own interests.

Everyone is fighting tit for tat for their own interests, and there is no right or wrong.

In fact, the departure of those 39 companies is not without such considerations.

However, they misjudged the strength of the Android Alliance, thinking that the free system would allow them to get more users, but they did not expect that the system was free, but the mobile phone company made the mobile phone itself poorly, which directly made many Users were discouraged and switched to several mobile phones in the app store camp. (To be continued..)