17: Chapter 17 The Huge Mountain Ahead of the Self-Developed System!!

The night deepened.

On the rooftop terrace of Fanmi Technology.

Lei Jun and Li Guoqiang had absolutely no desire to sleep. Looking at the pitch-black sky in the distance, the darkness before dawn was completely silent, yet their hearts were burning with excitement.

"Have you decided? Are we really listening to a high schooler?" Li Guoqiang asked with a smile, leaning against the railing and looking at his old friend.

"Don't you have a decision in your own heart? If I hadn't made this decision, you would have probably ended up persuading me." Lei Jun knew Li Guoqiang too well, and he shook his head with a laugh.

"Who could resist the temptation of a self-developed system and building an ecosystem?"

"That's right, you can't resist it, and neither can I... If it weren't for Zhou Fan, I might not have had the confidence to do this."

"The college entrance exam is coming up soon. Once it's over, our R&D capabilities will be unleashed on a massive scale."

Li Guoqiang's tone was full of fervor; before coming here, he wouldn't have dared to even think about a self-developed system.

"Old Lei... I have nothing to say about your foresight!" Li Guoqiang's words carried a hint of emotion, even revealing a sense of relief.

If it weren't for Lei Jun, he wouldn't be here.

It wasn't that he didn't know the benefits of a self-developed system: stronger development potential... better compatibility... and it even provides a significant boost to a phone's fluidity and performance. The Apple system is a successful case in point...

More importantly, once this system is actually created and the Fanmi ecosystem is formed, it will be an immeasurable advantage for the company's future development.

But he hadn't dared to think about it before because he knew very well just how difficult a self-developed system really is.

"You think it can succeed too?" Lei Jun asked suddenly, his gaze landing on Li Guoqiang.

"If I didn't believe it, I wouldn't be here. Once the self-developed system is brought out, coupled with the Fast Charging Technology to quickly capture the market... we really could carve out a bloody path under the two top giants... just like you said, we will change the world!"

The more Li Guoqiang spoke, the more excited he became. Originally, he had thought there was some element of bluffing in Lei Jun's words, but now he didn't doubt it at all.

Because they were destined to change the world.

"We'll start recruiting system developers tomorrow. Tomorrow, I need to go pick up Lin Wenwu..."

Lei Jun forced himself to calm down and said.

"Lin Wenwu? So suddenly?"

"I sent him the relevant documents for the Fast Charging Technology."

"Then he should be coming."

...

The next day.

Lei Jun had tossed and turned all night. At around 9 o'clock, he brought a thin, middle-aged man in his forties and walked into the company.

The elevator doors opened. The entire environment seemed very quiet, with the sound of keyboard typing faintly heard from some of the offices.

The entire department seemed a bit desolate.

"This is our software engineering department?" Lin Wenwu curiously looked at what was in front of him: office after office that were cold and empty, with the simplest white walls, and in some places, there weren't even desks yet.

"Yes, the equipment is all the best, and every functional area is complete!" Lei Jun introduced it with a chuckle. "This side will be your office in the future... that side is the engineers' office... there's also a pantry... and a sports area..."

"Although most of the equipment hasn't been brought over yet, it has been ordered and will arrive soon! After all, the company is a startup..." Facing Lin Wenwu, Lei Jun didn't act like he did with Li Guoqiang, where there was some element of bluffing at the time.

Instead, he spoke very straightforwardly; now, the Fanmi had some foundation.

"What you said earlier about self-developing a system, is that true?" Lin Wenwu wasn't very concerned about the environment; rather, the exchanges he had with Lei Jun on the way here made him unable to suppress the curiosity in his heart.

As the former vice president of the Google Engineering Institute, he had made a great decision to come here, but he hadn't expected that as soon as he arrived, Lei Jun would tell him such shocking news.

Self-developing a mobile operating system—he knew clearly the difficulty of a self-developed system; the technical aspect was only one part...

If no one develops corresponding software based on your system, then this system is a joke and will soon be eliminated by the market.

This situation isn't unheard of. Just like computer systems, around the time Microsoft entered the Chinese market, there were also domestic institutions researching their own operating systems, such as Kylin, etc...

But in the commercial field, because there was no environment for it to take root, and coupled with the hardware ecosystem issues caused by Microsoft, it was like a huge wall, forcing them to give up... letting Microsoft become the only one.

It stood in front of all domestic institutions and companies that wanted to research and develop independently, making it incredibly difficult for domestic independent commercial operating systems to be released.

Regarding smartphone operating systems, there is more than one such wall.

android and Apple systems will eventually become obstacles that the Fanmi cannot bypass.

He didn't believe that Lei Jun couldn't see these things. Since he could see them and still decided to self-develop a system, it was enough to show his self-confidence. This was what truly filled him with curiosity: where exactly this confidence came from.

"It's true! Our project just started today, and I'll take you to see it." Lei Jun nodded affirmatively.