122: Chapter 122 Follow-up: Van Dijk's Actions

"@Lei Jun, Mr. Lei, can you add a call firewall?"

3 minutes later, Lei Jun replied: "This feature is not available in the current Android version. We need to evaluate it and discuss the development difficulty.

We will try our best to meet the needs of Mi Fans. If you have any suggestions, feel free to contact me at any time."

With Lei Jun personally getting involved, the comment section became even more lively, and the number of replies quickly reached 10,000.

That evening, the number of applications for the MIUI internal beta version increased by 20,000 at once.

However, some honor play users switched back to Taishan OS after experiencing it...

Although MIUI was fun and had a significant improvement in smoothness, after experiencing Taishan OS, the stuttering feeling was still too obvious.

However, this did not affect the continued popularity of MIUI. On January 21st, Lei Jun spoke in the group again.

Lei Jun: "Thank you all for your promotion. As of today, the number of MIUI downloads has exceeded 100,000.

100,000 testers mean 100,000 product managers. MIUI does not belong to Dami; it belongs to us. What do you think about Dami Company's first mobile phone? Feel free to discuss.

Prizes for comments! [Founder's Edition for Dami Mobile Phone]"

Many people quickly scrambled for the prizes.

The Founder's Edition phone was no different from the regular version in appearance, but the RAM and storage were further expanded, and Lei Jun's autograph would also be added.

As for other products, there were also Dami earphones, customized Dami power banks, universal chargers, and other small products.

The group boiled over again!

"The screen! The screen must be good. Don't use the domestic Dongfang Factory. honor play is good everywhere, but this screen is really too disappointing."

"Mr. Lei, when is the public beta?"

"To the person above, you are asking when the first generation of Dami will be launched, right?"

"Can you focus on the appearance? The mate series is very good."

Lei Jun didn't speak anymore. He put down his phone and said to Lin Bin next to him: "Mr. Lin, we can start finalizing the supply chain for Dami 1."

Lin Bin was slightly taken aback: "So fast? The system hasn't even started development yet."

"Sit down, don't be so anxious." Lei Jun pressed Lin Bin down, "Mobile phone R&D takes time; we are just preparing in advance.

When the time comes, the glory of 1998 will definitely be able to crush Honor."

[iQOO: These are all my lines...]

...

Meanwhile, at the Transsion headquarters in Guangzhou.

At the weekly regular meeting of the Taishan OS project team, someone displayed screenshots of MIUI on the projector.

"Their night mode proposal is very good," Liu Zhihong pointed to the projected screenshot, "Should we make one too?"

"Technically there is no problem, it can be done. Our second group will handle it."

Soon, the third developer team took over the feasible plans from the MIUI side.

For example, automatically distinguishing notifications, verification codes, and ordinary text messages in SMS.

Long SMS optimization: automatic splitting and merging to solve the experience problems of native Android long SMS.

MIUI also imitated some operations of Taishan OS, such as canceling the app drawer; native Android has a 2-level drawer by default.

When Taishan OS started optimization, Liu Zhihong canceled it directly.

After arranging the work, someone suggested: "There are some more playable plans in the MIUI community. Should we follow up on them too?"

Liu Zhihong let them discuss for a while, then said: "These plans are okay, but we must be clear about what the positioning of Taishan OS is."

"Lei Jun is mainly targeting the youth market now, or more precisely, digital enthusiasts.

Most of them are flashing enthusiasts, and they have people looking for problems for them.

Our customer base is more complex, with young people in their 20s and middle-aged people in their 30s and 40s.

A convenient, smooth, and easy-to-use system is what they need, so what we need to do is not compare functions with MIUI, but compare stability with MIUI."

However, seeing the user base distribution map of honor play and the mobile phone models adapted for the MIUI internal beta released by Dami Company, he also hesitated slightly.

"These small features have no technical difficulties anyway. It's fine to develop them. Let's test them on honor play so that our mobile phone users don't all become MIUI users in the end."

...

After the meeting, Shen Fei received the summary from the Taishan OS project team.

It included both the development schedule report for Taishan 2.0 and the summary of competitors like Dami.

Currently, Taishan 2.0 has been packaged, and testing work is underway. There is no problem with Honor hardware adaptation.

The number of MIUI internal beta user downloads has exceeded 100,000, and the actual number of users should be around 80,000. Community activity is extremely high, and it is being closely monitored.

After reading this report, Shen Fei hugged Zhang Mingzhu next to him and asked: "Wife, what do you think about this?"

"Lei Jun is cultivating users. Will this group of people become loyal fans of Dami, or even become their moat?"

Zhang Mingzhu showed a hint of pride on her face again; she hadn't been studying for nothing.

"Awesome! Then what about Transsion's moat?"

Faced with the doubled difficulty of the question, Zhang Mingzhu said with a hint of uncertainty: "The Africa market?"

"Right, and also wrong.

Our real moat is the entire industrial chain. This is a very difficult layout to complete, but as long as we do it, it will definitely be the greatest technology company in the world.

This is a layout that no company has completed so far."

Shen Fei suddenly remembered when he first took over and went to Nigeria to inspect the market with a clear purpose. At that time, he was also very "humble," and his ambition was not that big.

He just wanted to take over the entire Africa market and let Africans use "better" mobile phones, but now his ambition has changed... He wants to take it all.

Zhang Mingzhu didn't jeer loudly, but just looked at him quietly, with a knowing smile in her eyes, and said softly: "So amazing."

Simple three words, but it made Shen Fei's face full of smiles. Because she didn't think he couldn't do it, but was full of anticipation.

...

On the other side, Lagos, Oriental Hotel.

This is the best hotel in Nigeria, located on the coast of Victoria Island. You can see the waves of the Gulf of Guinea when you push open the window.

Van Dijk booked a top-floor suite, with red wine and barbecue air-shipped from South Africa in the living room.

Mr. Adebayo arrived on time.

It was not his first time coming to the Oriental Hotel; his opportunity to change his fate started here.

Two years ago, with a word from Shen Fei, he made a huge determination to come here, which proved that his choice was not wrong.

When he walked to the door, Van Dijk was already waiting at the door, his smile very enthusiastic.

"Mr. Adebayo, thank you for taking the time."

Mr. Adebayo shook hands with him, his eyes calm, without the surprise of facing a superior. After all, he is also the head of Transsion's Africa region, and his position is even higher than his. There is no need to be so humble.

It's just that he didn't know what this big leader from Naspers was looking for him for...

Could it be the thing that Mr. Huang ordered?