For a long time, I listened to some big people on the Internet say a lot of bad remarks about Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi, and I deeply thought that Liu Chuanzhi made the wrong decision when choosing to do products and operating systems, which led to our computer operating system being pinched by the neck today. So I'm also here to say sorry to his old man! (The accompanying text in the picture is from the Internet, if there is any infringement, please contact me to delete, thank you!) ）
After saying such a paragraph, I believe that there will be many netizens who want to spray me, especially those friends who think that Liu Chuanzhi's decision-making is wrong to scold me, maybe some of them will think that I am whitewashing Liu Chuanzhi, to be honest, this is really not, besides, I don't have so much ability, I just want to express my own views on Liu Chuanzhi's choice when choosing to do hardware or develop an operating system, and I don't know about some other rumors about Liu Chuanzhi, so I won't say more, After all, you can't say it when it's not clear.
Founded in 1984, Lenovo is a large company with operations in more than 180 countries and regions around the world, and its products include laptops, smartphones, tablets and other high-end electronic devices. When the company first started, it also made its fortune by distributing and acting for foreign brands such as IBM, HP and SUN. In 1992 began to create its own computer brand, in just 5 years, Lenovo won the throne of China's computer market sales first, I have to say, this is really a miracle, in 2004, it acquired the personal computer business of IBM that it once manufactured, officially entered the process of Lenovo computer internationalization, and became one of the earliest companies in mainland China to enter the world's top 500 and enterprise internationalization; In 2003, the sales of PCs reached the world's first!
Above I briefly introduced the development process of Lenovo, in the eyes of friends, this seems to have little to do with the one I want to talk about today, but I think there is! I believe that friends can see from the above introduction that Lenovo has been working on hardware from the beginning to the first position in the world in PC sales, and has never thought of developing its own operating system! Many people say that this is its biggest failure! This also led to the fact that in 2018, when Trump came to power to pinch the neck of many high-tech fields in the mainland, many people jumped out and said why Liu Chuanzhi did not develop an operating system at that time.
I remember that there was a lot of scolding on the Internet at that time, and I want to ask here, if Trump had not come to power and imposed a blockade on the mainland's high-tech fields, how many people would have recognized this problem? So many of you didn't realize it, why did Liu Chuanzhi realize it back then? Why do you think that his old man has not thought about this problem? Don't you think it's too unfair to his old man to see things this way? All of you came to be an afterthought, hindsight, and all the names were thrown to Liu Chuanzhi and his old man!
At that time, Bai Yansong praised Liu Chuanzhi and also received an attack
So did Liu Chuanzhi and his old man think about developing his own operating system back then? I think I must have thought about it, as a Lenovo founder who can bring Lenovo to the world's top 500 today, the former chairman of Lenovo, people must see the problem from a broader perspective than us ordinary people, but as for why didn't it be done? That's because it's so hard! Some things are not just something you can make, but you have to be recognized by the market! Otherwise, you will only have to wait for death!
I remember that Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei once said that it is not difficult to make an operating system, the difficulty is the ecological chain of the operating system, if you make an operating system, there is no software relative to this operating system, then it is done for nothing! Who would buy a computer with an operating system without software support? Understanding these truths, you can probably understand why Huawei's Harmony OS must be compatible with Android software! I can understand why the Nokia Migou system ended early! Of course, this also includes Microsoft's operating system WP! It is not because the software ecosystem has not risen that these two excellent operating systems have been withdrawn from the market early! To use a simple analogy, today came out a new operating system, very excellent and smooth, even the smoothness and security are more than Apple's IOS system, but the only drawback is that it does not have the corresponding software support, even the minimum Alipay, Meituan, will you buy?
Nokia N9 phone with MeeGO system
Nokia phones with Microsoft WP system
Some people may refute me when they see this, the software ecology is not established all at once, these will have in the future, of course, there is a certain truth in this, whose operating system software ecology is also from scratch, including the current Android and IOS; However, in front of the operating system that already has two ecological chains that have matured, is it too late for you to do this? And as far as programmers are concerned, why don't they develop operating systems that are in high demand in the market? Why build software for an operating system that has no prospects and no users who could die at any moment? Wouldn't they make more money developing software for operating systems that are in high demand today? They have a feud with money! Besides, it takes a certain amount of time for someone to develop, and when these things are developed, maybe this operating system company has long been unable to hold on! These are all lessons from the past, for example, strong as Microsoft can only watch the WP system they worked hard to build die little by little and can't do anything!
I think the original founder of Lenovo, Liu Chuanzhi, should have this idea! So, in my opinion, his old man does not want to have his own operating system, but to make an operating system is not as simple as we think! Especially for the operating system of the computer, the adaptability of the software is even more difficult! Here someone may want to spray me again, domestic can make software compatible with Windows system, can not make software compatible with their own national operating system, you also underestimate the ability of these programmers in the country! After all, science and technology in our country have been progressing, especially in recent decades, by leaps and bounds! It's something every Chinese we're proud of! But you know what? These are just ordinary software! In terms of more professional industrial software, 90% of our industrial software is imported! It can be seen that some things are not as simple as we think!
If friends have time to understand the difficulty of these industrial software development, they will know why 90% of our industrial software needs to be imported! An industrial software, its charging standard is often 1 year to thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan! It can be seen how difficult it is to develop! Do you know how much cost and technology is behind this? If it were really that easy, I believe that our country would not have so many professional software that needs to be imported from abroad!
Therefore, it was not Liu Chuanzhi that his old man did not think of this, but he weighed all kinds of pros and cons to make such a decision, as an older generation of entrepreneurs, the real difficulties he faces may only be understood by himself, we are just an outsider after all! What we can do is to give people more understanding, after all, Lenovo can do so much today, pay so much tax for the country every year, he also came out step by step through difficulties!
Finally, I would like to say that as a native Chinese citizen, I still hope that one day we can create an operating system that is comparable to or surpasses Windowns in our 9.6 million square kilometers of soil! I also hope to be born like Bill. Geniuses like Gates and Jobs come! China, come on!
Note, this article is original by Yi Yishou, welcome to pay attention and take you to long knowledge together!