Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Chapter 107 Application barriers

The history of GIT is also quite fantastic. At first, the Linux community refused to use the paid version control system and dismissed the mainstream free version control system at that time. Until 2002, Linux was controlled by the community through diff. The source code was sent to Linus, the father of Linux, who open sourced Linux, and he then merged the codes.

Obviously, this is a very inefficient practice. After that, Linus couldn’t help but went to BitMover. BitMover didn’t know what the reason was and gave Linus free of charge to its version control system.

This is how things were originally, but in 2005 the two sides fell out because people in the Linux community were cracking BitKeeper.

It is said that this was wrong in the Linux community. Linus should apologize. As a result, Linus not only did not apologize, but also created a GIT on his own. The details of this matter are unknown to outsiders.

And as for how long Linus developed GIT, some people say ten days and some people say two weeks, but logically speaking, Linus can really develop GIT in such a short period of time. He developed it early. It should have been a period of time. It can be developed in such a short period of time after precipitation. Some even say that Linus deliberately fell out with BitMover.

The story behind this incident should be quite exciting, but unfortunately the person involved is unlikely to tell the truth to the world.

But no matter what kind of story is behind it, the excellence of GIT has been recognized by the entire industry.

“Do you know the version control system?” Meng Qian asked, and about two-thirds of the people at the scene raised their hands.

“Then let me give you an example. Today, I asked Manager Ruan of the operation department to write a planning book. After he wrote it, he felt bad, so he modified it and saved it as a new planning book. Later, he suffered from entanglement. He wrote three more planning books, all of which were re-saved as, so he had five planning books.

At this time, after he showed me five planning books, no matter which version I finally finalized, he could take out that version instead of changing it back on the basis of the fifth version. This is version control. system.

Compared with the traditional version control system, the distributed version control system differs in that the current version control system on the market saves data on the server, and everyone wants to extract the data through the server.

But in the distributed version control system I want to make, the data can be saved on the local computer. ”

The following began to agitate, and employees who knew the version control system couldn’t help whispering, because Meng Qian’s ideas could obviously solve the very practical problems of the version control system.

After 　　, Meng Qian emphatically talked with you about several innovations of GIT, especially in content storage, and brought over several major advantages of GIT in later generations.

This is also the habit of Meng Qian leading the team to develop. First let everyone know what we are going to make, so that everyone has expectations for this thing, and feel that after making it, there will be a sense of accomplishment, and everyone will be more motivated.

After 　　 is the explanation of the design, the work arrangement for the industrial software development department is considered complete.

As for whether they will go out and say that they are the founder of the Open Source Alliance, they will definitely be, but now Meng Qian no longer needs to conceal his identity. The original purpose of the Open Source Alliance was for fame. Now, Meng Qian needs fame because The thing to do next, the system.

There is a popular saying in later generations that it is very simple to build a system, but ecology is difficult.

Regarding this sentence, Meng Qian has always been a little bit incomprehensible…

A win7 tens of millions of lines of code, a development team of thousands of people, billions of development investment, an Android, hundreds of millions of lines of code, 6 years of development time, an Apple system, has experienced four revolutions, and invested more than 100 Billion, the Hongmeng system began development in 12 years, and in 19 years it was forced to turn the spare tire but it was delayed.

Making the system… easy?

It is indeed a system. If there is no ecology, it will be useless. Ecology is the most difficult thing in front of system competition, but doing the system itself… is it easy?

Originally, Meng Qian thought that everyone was comparing the system with the ecology, so he said that, but later he saw on the Internet that many people really said that dozens of people can make Android and Windows can be made. The key point is that, at least from the online response, many people agree that the difficult thing is the ecology, and the system is particularly simple.

To be honest, Meng Qian really doesn’t know if more people really think that building a system is particularly easy, as simple as dozens of people, or even a few people can create a Windows…

Maybe Meng Qian misunderstood this sentence. Anyway, in Meng Qian’s opinion, if the system mentioned here is benchmarking against Windows and benchmarking against Apple, it can only be said that companies like BAT and Huawei are fully capable of doing it. A similar volume system.

After all, the design direction of the system is very clear. As long as the money is in place and the people are in place, it is absolutely possible for large companies like them to do it, and it is even normal to do better than Windows in some aspects and better than Apple. .

Under this premise, the difficult thing is ecology.

But if you don’t have enough corporate strength, you won’t even be able to pass the system.

As for why it is difficult to make an ecosystem, the first is because of user habits. I have used Windows for more than ten years. Suddenly I was asked to switch to another system. There must be a reason, either because of the hardware conversion and the conversion system, which is more common in the mobile phone field. , Or the system is particularly attractive. If the hardware does not change, let me change to a new system with no difference on my old computer. Few people are in the mood to change.

The second is because of the profitability of application developers. For them, I need to invest manpower and material resources to launch my product on a brand-new system. This new system has to make me feel worth it before I am willing to develop it. But the question is, how does it make them feel worth it?

That means you have a very good competitiveness, that is, a good ecology, so how can you have a good ecology? That is to have these developers enter the market first.

Therefore, a contradiction similar to the boss who wants graduates to have work experience appeared.

The third point is market inspection. A project as large as a system will definitely have various problems. No matter how powerful a team is, it is impossible to make tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of lines of code perfect.

Just think about how Android and Apple were sprayed when they first came out. Therefore, the establishment of an ecosystem is not just about stuffing things inside. As the ecosystem gets bigger and bigger, there will be more and more problems, optimize and repair. , A lot of problems will be in front of you, if one is not done well, others will abandon your system.

The fourth is a more realistic reason. The system that has been monopolized is impossible to watch you develop. Microsoft knows you want to challenge him, can he stand there and watch you develop? For him, he uses his monopoly to suppress a new system, which is much easier than a new system to challenge him.

So for Meng Qian, in the era when the Chinese version of XP will be released in a few months, all he can bet on is the mobile phone ecology, which is an area where no one has achieved a real ecology yet.

But just a time advantage, is it enough to seize the mobile phone ecosystem? Meng Qian has always been as rigorous as possible in his work. Obviously, this advantage alone is not safe in Meng Qian’s view. He still holds the view that it is Google that made Android, not Android that made Google.

In the past, Google had the appeal of gathering operators, hardware vendors and developers. Apple has accumulated a user base for more than ten years. What does it have?

According to my own plan, I will start to enter the computer industry next year. It will take a few years to compete. Then my mobile phone system should come out. Is it enough to accumulate users?

The shape of a mobile phone and a touch screen may be a competitive advantage, but it is still something that can be easily imitated.

So, what else can you do in the field of mobile phone ecology?

Reminiscing about his layout in the next few years, Meng Qian thought of one thing, self-developed application.

Many people may not know that there is a domestic operating system in the later generations that ranks in the top ten in the global system ranking. This system is deepin, deepin operating system.

The success of this operating system is one aspect of the interface, and the accumulation over the past ten years is another aspect. Another very important reason is that he has developed more than 30 basic applications on his own to ensure the daily needs of users. Then, on this basis, buy crossover to transplant Windows applications.

One of the advantages given to him by Meng Qian’s rebirth and his own ability is to know which software and which applications are the most commonly used, the most daily, and the hottest in the future. These things are non-rebirth people. do not know.

And he not only knows, he also has the ability to develop.

So in the next few years, Meng Qian is preparing to build an application empire, because applications can bring one thing, users.

Although the application can also be copied, it is not easy for users to steal it. A very simple example, whether it is the QQ of the previous life or the hyacinth of this life, even if someone else makes an identical one, it will not be able to steal the user.

At that time, popular applications for daily applications are all created by Dafeng Science and Technology, and they are directly moved to his own ecology. It can be said that Meng Qian can not only meet the daily needs of users as simple as it is, but also know that there are so few mobile phone applications now, smart phones At the beginning, there were not many applications.

Meng Qian can not only guarantee daily life, but can even guide the development of smartphone applications.

Anyway, Meng Qian was originally prepared to deploy application globalization from now on, and he was also prepared to ignore the United States and grab markets outside the United States. In this case, applications may become a weapon for Meng Qian.

Google once restricted Huawei because overseas users can no longer use apps such as Google Maps, or in the near future, this situation will be reversed.

Apple and Google provide a platform for everyone to build an ecosystem. They follow the mall model. They make the mall very luxurious, reasonable and attractive, and wait for the merchants to open a store to operate the mall.

But Meng Qian is in the business district model. He is responsible for gathering users. Others see the traffic and want to open a store next to Meng Qian to make money. These stores around Meng Qian are all his.

Meng Qian’s strategy, he named it: Application Barriers!