Although MIUI has not had a good reputation in the past two years, not long after the birth of Android, Lei Jun's science male spirit has engraved a unique gene for MIUI. While continuously improving the program optimization function, we are constantly exploring new ways to interact. MIUI has a more regular weekly.
The diligent update method has also attracted a large number of loyal fans for "Xiaomi", and even formed an overseas fan community. Over the past 12 years, MIUI has iterated every week, releasing a total of 545 development versions. However, the update method that has been with you for so long ushered in a major adjustment yesterday.
MIUI update policy adjustment The following figure is the MIUI announcement Jun released the "MIUI system version of the adjustment announcement"
Officially, starting from the MIUI based on Android 13, MIUI will focus on the "development version" and the "official version", and at the same time, the development version and the official version will gradually switch between the version without clearing the data. In addition, the MIUI development version will continue to be updated weekly, and the official version will be updated according to user usage. The official will test new features and collect user feedback through the development version. These results will eventually be officially released to all users through the official version.
Fruit here is a simple summary: First of all, this update method is based on Android 13 MIU started, some users are not yet Android 13 bottom MIUI, the use of the way will not be affected for the time being. Second, the "development version" and the "official version" will implement switching between versions without clearing data, which means that the difference between the two versions will become smaller and smaller, and there will be no such things as different versions with different underlying code. At the same time, it also means that the engineer's task will be much lighter than before, which may be a good thing, and there can be more time to fix bugs or schedule new systems for older models in advance.
Finally, the development version remains updated weekly, and the official version is released according to the situation. That is to say, the engineer found that the development version of the reputation is not good, more tricks, if the response is good, the official version can be launched ~ and the previous internal beta version, public beta version, stable version of the development will become history, and only the development version and the official version will be in the future.
The following diagram shows the process before and after the change.
Why is MIUI doing this?
As we all know, the phrase that Xiaomi was born for fever not only represents Xiaomi's pursuit of strong performance, but also represents that MIUI is an open system, hoping that more people can enjoy the fun of making machines. However, as the system progresses more and more mature, MIUI will remove the official root module from the stable version, and users with needs will be more inclined to choose the development version of the firmware.
Zhou Is not only a means of the rapid rise of MIUI, so that developers and users can communicate more efficiently and frequently, but with more and more user bases, more and more models that need to be maintained, and more and more branch versions of MIUI, engineers feel more and more powerless.
So Xiaomi simply gave up the original strategy directly, the multiple versions directly integrated into two versions, in fact, one is to re-dredge the communication channels with users, reduce unnecessary engineering, so that engineers have more energy to focus on the problems that users care about, fix BUG optimization, lay a good foundation, rather than adding any ideas, and then optimization is not good.
On the other hand, in fact, it also shows that there are fewer and fewer players tossing and turning, and MIUI has reached a very mature point. The system with such a large user base should be considered to solve everyone's pain point needs, rather than being placed there for a long time and no one cares, when everyone accumulates enough dissatisfaction, there will be such events as the Xiaomi Bible, which will damage the overall image and reputation of the company.
In fact, Guozi believes that as long as the system is stable and smooth, the development version is not a problem even if it is changed to a month. After all, sometimes there is really no content to repair, and it will not be spit into two lines of poetry by rice noodles... You can look at Microsoft next door, even if it has a rich cash reserve, a market value of $208 million, but did not say that like MIUI every Monday, but chose to update once a month. Although some users will say that they have done their best to tinker with useless features, there are few large-scale system instabilities.
Conclusion believes that after such a series of optimization decisions, the user experience of rice noodles has become better and better. MIUI is the soul of Xiaomi mobile phones, and it is also the first product of Xiaomi to face the public. As a bridge for the company to communicate with users, as the gene of the Xiaomi brand, many rice noodles also hope that it can continue to be rejuvenated. Only a good system can provide quality services for mobile phones now and in the future, and can Xiaomi make generous and impressive products. Edit: Huizai Reference: Xiaomi Official Community