Up to now, various mobile phone manufacturers have successively launched flagship representatives in the first half of this year, such as: Xiaomi 12 series, OPPO Find X5 series, iQOO 9 series, Honor Magic 4 series, Redmi K50 series, etc.
If you had to choose one of these new machines this year as your main engine this year, which one would you choose? Fruit, the first choice must be "Lu WeiBing Square" Redmi K50 ah ~ display delicate and clear Samsung 2K direct screen, take into account the power consumption and performance of the god U Tianji 8100, reassuring 5500mAh large battery and 67W fast charging, plus double Yang, NFC, infrared and other practical configurations. What's more, such a stacked mobile phone only sells for 2399 yuan!
It is no exaggeration to say that K50 is definitely the "number one seed" of this year's annual real incense machine ~ and for such a real incense product, consumers will also pay the bill, according to Jingdong's own March sales data: K50 has sold 23W units, far ahead of other domestic mobile phones, only lost to iPhone 13, ranking second in the list!
And recently K50 also ushered in an important update: before 120Hz and DC dimming can not be turned on at the same time, this time the new 120Hz DC dimming, for screen sensitive users are very friendly. In addition, the original image quality, system fluency and system stability of the whole machine have been optimized.
It can be said that after this system update, K50, proper is the future generation of nail household god machine ~ but the so-called some people are happy and some people are sad, K50 users are happy, but the following nail households can be uncomfortable...
MIUI development version of the big adjustment is well known, Xiaomi MIUI to provide users with stable version and development version of the two systems. In general, the upgrade cycle of MIUI Stable Edition is about once a month, and it will be released after rigorous internal testing of the product. The development version of the upgrade cycle is once a week, and the release time is after 11 am on Friday. According to normal reasoning, the stable version should be less bugs and more smooth and stable than the development version ~ but the MIUI in the past year or two has "done the opposite" - the development version is smoother than the stable version!
As a result, many users of old models, such as Mi 6, 8, 9, 10, etc., in order to have a smoother and more comfortable experience, have directly entered the development version. But just last Friday, MIUI officially issued a sudden announcement that some models listed from the end of 2019 to 2020 include Xiaomi CC9 Pro, Redmi K30 5G, Redmi K30i 5G, Redmi K30, Xiaomi 10, Xiaomi 10 Pro, Redmi K30 Pro, Xiaomi 10 Youth Edition, etc. From July 18, 2022, the development version of the internal beta will be discontinued, and then if you want to get an upgrade, you may have to switch to the stable version.
At this time, many millet nail households may have directly exploded their lungs - this is to give up the old users, do not let the update system? Of course not! The stop change of the development version is not equal to the stop change of the system, and the stable version remains updated. In fact, after the MIUI 12.5 enhanced version, MIUI raised the threshold of the development version, and the applicable population of the development version itself was greatly reduced, and its role was to find bugs. In other words, Xiaomi believes that the old models tend to be stable, and the number of users who maintain the development version has begun to decline sharply, and it is of little significance to maintain the update of the development version.
At this time, it is estimated that many rice noodles are puzzled: why is MIUI, which has a fairly conscientious number of updates and duration, but in the past one or two years, it has become more and more reluctant to provide users with follow-up system upgrades other than promised? Have you forgotten your original intention?
Adjusting the strategy, in the long run, is a good thing to provide several years of system updates for mobile phones, whether the frequency of system updates for flagship machines and low-end machines should be consistent, has always been a headache for mobile phone manufacturers. In 2018, Google has begun to impose a mandatory "mobile phone manufacturer must update": Requiring Android device manufacturers to regularly install updates for popular phones and tablets for at least 2 years. The popular models mentioned here refer to any device with more than 100,000 activations
And Xiaomi this time a large number of models to stop more MIUI development version, is still in line with this requirement ~ in fact, starting from Xiaomi 8, the digital flagship development version is more than two years, and now the 865 flagship led by Xiaomi 10 is not surprising at all.
Source Weibo @ Wen Xiaomo The reason why Xiaomi will have such a choice is that it is most likely to let the MIUI development version out of the predicament: transfer the development version research and development resources of the original less service users to the stable version, and serve the stable version of the system that more people are exposed to. The original purpose of the MIUI development version was to allow enthusiastic users to taste the features, while collecting feedback and questions during testing to improve the quality of the features that would eventually be pushed to the official system, that is, the stable version. However, because of the low threshold earlier, and as the number of users increased, the development version became a version that used the function in advance. It cannot effectively improve the stable version, and it consumes a considerable part of the research and development strength of most people who should have served.
Therefore, the Xiaomi MIUI team wants to find a balance between different user needs, and adjusting the update cycle between versions to allocate resources is a solution. At present, MIUI has greatly reduced the scale of development users and actively guided users to feedback on system improvements. To put it simply, it is to allocate more limited resources to the right direction (to ensure the smooth experience of the stable version), rather than blindly listening to user opinions and adding a bunch of useless features ~ And from the results, the development version of the adjustment strategy is a positive effect: this year's updated MIUI 13 stable version system experience, compared to the previous bad MIUI 12, has been greatly improved ~
Android system maintenance, still need to work hard until now, there are still many consumers think: Android machine with one or two years on the card, and iPhone with four or five years is still quite smooth ~ In fact, this is not completely unreasonable, after all, in terms of system updates, Apple is definitely called "conscience": iOS 15 system supports seven generations of products from iPhone 6s to iPhone 13! In addition to the capabilities closely related to the hardware, the functions and experience of the new and old mobile phones are basically not much different~ ~ ~ ~
As a contrast, the Android side is a bit embarrassing, such as OnePlus... In September last year, OPPO released a new generation of custom UI ColorOS 12, but there was an embarrassing thing on its adaptation list - the new machine OnePlus 9R released in April of the same year was actually scheduled for the first half of next year, that is, the last batch of updates! Later than the A95, A93, K9 released at the same time..... Last year's top flagship, the OnePlus 8Pro, has also fallen to the last batch this year, later than OPPO's own low-end machine.
Before the sale, it was bragged that it was the 9R of the light, but now it has become the 9R of the bladder... This directly provoked many "come on" angry brush bad reviews! Cool An's one-plus 9R master rating also plummeted, from more than 8 points to 4.4 points.
As an extremely important part of the high-end mobile phone experience, the system has been left behind by Android manufacturers, and the degree of emphasis is far less than that of the marketing of grabbing a processor debut. Don't really blame the Android phone now being suspended by the iPhone 13 series... Finally, Guozi only hopes that all domestic mobile phone manufacturers can pay attention to the system update maintenance and experience this matter! Only by polishing and optimizing these basic experiences can we break the wrist with Apple and impact the high-end market!
Edit: Scott Road