464: Chapter 464 Google's Sophistry Conference

As for the unlucky scapegoat for this press conference, that would naturally be Dave Burke. After all, he was the one who proposed this plan, so naturally, he had to bear the consequences!

At 10:00 AM on April 5th, after intense preparation, Google's emergency press conference officially began.

In the past, this venue was used only for major product launches, and the stage lighting always seemed to be guiding humanity toward a bright future.

But today, the lights seemed a bit dim, and the partners were a bit angry—or rather, they looked like they wanted to tear Google apart.

The reporters in the audience kept clamoring, eager to get the scoop on the big issues.

As for this emergency press conference, Transsion looked like they were just there to watch the show.

When all the guests had arrived, Dave Burke walked onto the stage accompanied by two public relations personnel.

He had specifically asked a makeup artist to touch him up today to make him look more exhausted, proving that they had indeed been working hard, and that this result was only due to the board's choices.

After all, they really had tried...

After walking onto the stage, he cleared his throat and then reluctantly began reading from the prepared script:

"Media friends, partners, hello everyone.

First of all, thank you for your attention to the Android 4.4.3 version.

Regarding the Full-screen Display adaptation issues recently reported by some developers, the Google Android team attaches great importance to them and has already assembled a core technical team to investigate and fix them.

The main reason for these issues is the wide variety of devices in the Android ecosystem, which leads to minor compatibility differences in different application scenarios. We will push the first patch within two weeks to continuously optimize the Full-screen Display experience..."

Next, Dave Burke was prepared to say that this was just a gray-box test and not a public release. As for what was written in the previous report... that was just a temporary worker sending the wrong file, and we have already handled it internally.

But before he could finish, a reporter in the audience interrupted him. After all, these answers were useless!

"Mr. Dave Burke, we have already obtained the report from Google's internal testing team, which shows that the Full-screen Display module in 4.4.3 has 21 core APIs with empty implementations...

This series of issues, we don't need to elaborate, right?

May I ask if Google knew about these serious issues before officially pushing this version?

If you knew, why did you release it as an official version and publicly claim that developers would not need to do any extra development."

Dave Burke immediately looked at the PR team beside him. Was this the result of their so-called screening, which was supposed to ensure the questions wouldn't be too intense?

The staff member next to him also frowned, clearly unaware of this issue as well.

Dave Burke finally understood—they had been sold out!

"This is a misunderstanding of the version. When we said no extra cost, we meant for basic devices with standard applications. Some deep features in special scenarios require additional debugging...

Also, to this reporter, you interrupted me just now; otherwise, you might have heard the answer to this question."

The reporter looked at him very politely, wanting to know what kind of answer he could actually give.

Dave Burke cleared his throat again and said without blushing at all:

"This is just a gray-box test version, allowing developers to perform preliminary adaptation based on this framework so we can perfect the Android ecosystem together.

As a result, some manufacturers performed unauthorized adaptations, which instead further exacerbated the system crashes, adding a lot of workload for us."

"Unauthorized testing?"

The Bloomberg reporter next to him stood up immediately, with a smile on their face as well.

This smile made Dave Burke feel something; could Transsion have paid someone off behind the scenes?

"Mr. Burke, as far as I know, the Android developer alliance has already received 12 million bug reports from applications, covering almost every possible scenario where problems could occur.

And currently, even the system's own Settings, Camera, and Contacts have display anomalies. May I ask if this is also what you call a few special scenarios?

Furthermore, as far as I know, developing an Android project usually takes 1 to 2 years, but this time it only took a little over two months.

Did Google deliberately cut out the testing phase to beat Apple to the title of the second Full-screen Display system, forcibly pushing a semi-finished product onto the entire ecosystem?"

The reporters in the audience started whispering again, but the developers who couldn't attend were already back to cursing on the forums!

"If it were a semi-finished product, that would be fine! This doesn't even count as a semi-finished product!"

"This is the pitfall of Android; they are too impetuous!"

There were also many people in the live stream chat watching the fun: "It seems our Dami Company's true self-developed Full-screen Display is hopeless now!"

"Dami Company should have died a long time ago. They aren't the only ones doing price-performance ratios; it would be better to use that money to buy Honor!"

"At the very least, they are a calling card for the Beijing mobile phone industry; that's one reason. The other reason is that the United States supply chain won't let them die, otherwise they wouldn't be able to achieve internal breakthroughs!"

"But I feel that all the money the United States poured in will end up going down the drain; after all, they can't compare to Transsion!"

"Indeed, there's no comparison, but their gimmicks are good; they can keep training monkeys!"

Meanwhile, the real pressure-giver, the United States Department of Technology, wanted to cut off the live stream. After all, if things continued like this and Dave Burke said something else wrong, the United States technology sector would really be finished!

On the scene, Dave Burke was a bit nervous; a thin layer of sweat had already seeped out on his forehead!

He reached out to pick up the water glass on the table and took a sip before steadying his voice.

"Innovation in the mobile industry is always accompanied by risks, and rapid iteration is the advantage of the Android ecosystem.

We admit that there are areas in the version that need optimization, but it is definitely not a semi-finished product. Google has the capability to perfect all features within a short period."

Sundar Pichai, who was in the back, breathed a sigh of relief; Burke had held his ground.

But before they could relax, a Chinese tech media reporter sitting in the back, after getting the chance to ask a question, steered the topic toward a name everyone had been waiting for.

"Mr. Burke, as early as last year, China's Transsion Group released a Full-screen Display mobile phone in the global market.

And their self-developed Taishan System, based on the Taishan display framework, has already achieved seamless adaptation for third-party applications, with a compatibility rate for common apps as high as over 90%.

As the mentor of Taishan System, the native Full-screen Display solution that Google has launched is instead full of loopholes.

How do you evaluate Transsion's technical solution? Do you believe that Android's technical accumulation in the system field has already fallen behind Taishan System!"

As soon as the words fell, all the shutters at the scene were pointed at this reporter and Dave Burke on the stage.

After all, having asked so many questions, this was the one that was truly lethal!

It was the first time the technological gap between China and the United States had been laid out on the table!