Recent major media have been in the Shengshi - Google is working hard to negotiate with each chip manufacturer in order to get more chip design control. Obviously, Google is working hard to repair the broken Android ecosystem. But if you look from another perspective, do you not follow Apple? And if you work hard as a benchmark, do you really agree to Google?
What we can envisage is that if Google really successfully convinced chip manufacturers, start the chip of Android devices in accordance with the standards set by Google, and the trend of Android smartphones will further expand from the exterior to the hardware area. And this will be a double-edged sword: on the one hand, this can make Android more competitive in the fight against iOS - the development of the operating system will be simpler; on the other hand, the Android ecosystem will lose its The original intention of itself - diversity.
Even if Google really convinced chip manufacturers, it will definitely make a multi-chip manufacturer if producing non-independently designed chips will make the R & D process become very complicated. And if these chip vendors can't complete this task, Google will be very likely to have the entire process of developing to production, but the problem that Google's face will face will be more complicated, so Google is still testing the production Feasibility.
However, there is a matter of fact that it is: that the mobile application chip market has fallen into the vicious competition, although the profits of each manufacturer are different, but there is not much earning head.
So, Android wants to thrive in this change, do you really need to become more like iOS? If you really need it, what is the degree of Android needs?
IOS ecosystem
Everyone knows that Apple is on the software level, it can be said that the APP Store completely masters the promotion of each application running on its iOS operating system. Not only that, on the hardware level, they even designed their own core processors. The equipment they develop is strictly designed in strict accordance with the specifications - this harsh pursuit is extremely crazy.
The advantage of standardization is the improvement of efficiency and the stability of economic income. Apple's consistent style is a year in which a (or a number of) is developed by its own research and development. This move enables Apple while getting a lot of profits, making the IOS application developers do not have to consider how to make their own procedures can be compatible with standards.
Google wants to control hardware, but is Android really necessary to be more like IOS? And Google is completely different from it. Android's ecosystem said that it is "colorful", saying that this is "respectively". Although Google also tried to master this "leading" (NEXUS series), there is still no real sense to be able to use Android devices "benchmark", and Google does not freely dominate the hardware specifications. Or early or late, they must do this.
In addition, for the developers of the application, they prefer to develop applications on the iOS side. The reason is very simple: because if it is in the iOS-side development program, they only need to ensure that their applications can run well on five different iPhones and iPad models. As an Android developer, the most headache is the need to ensure that its program can operate smoothly on more than 24,000 different devices. Their inbox is often filled with thousands of Bug reports submitted by users, and these bugs are much more crazy.
What benefits can hardware standardization?
Flatherapy, Android has gone out of the way you survive - Android's application development is gradually being simplified. Developers have been easier to develop a strategy that developers have been able to make applications development strategies over the data provided by Google and continuously optimized upgrades. However, even after a simplification, this is still quite complicated than the development of iOS programs. And this is why most applications will take the lead in the iOS end, which will then launch the application of the Android version of the application.
So what benefits can you bring after Android hardware standardization? That is a faster update speed. The update speed of the iOS system is far more than Android, and will launch a new debug version every few months, and sometimes even more frequent. And there are a lot of Android users who are still waiting for their mobile phones to provide a push version of the cotton sugar version. There are even some Android phones that have not been updated to a lollipop version, or they have not wanted to upgrade to a lollipop version at all.
Although Google has always maintained the security of the Android system through updating, keeping the latest mobile phone system clearly avoids many security issues. Another benefit that maintaining the latest system is the speed of the upgrade and the optimization of the kernel part. If Google can have more control over the manufacturing process of the chip, Android will be more easily optimized, so that Android can run more smoothly on the mainstream configuration.
With higher chip design control, Google can ensure that all Android phones have the same hardware and software features. Apple has absolute control to hardware specifications, which means that if you want to integrate the latest innovation technology on the iPhone phone, there will be no trouble, but Google does not, it is small for Android. Poor.
Google and hardware manufacturer's negotiations
Android phone manufacturers can freely determine what features on their Android phones, what is needed to add, what is the ability to remove. For example, some vendors have dropped NFC function because they think "their users don't need this feature." Google doesn't think so, because there is no NFC function that it means that its Google Pay will not be used on the phone, and Google is to let Android use its Google Pay.
After entering 2017, the mobile phone is expected to have more and more more advanced sensors, which can get a lot of information from the phone, and the new detector will also bring more smooth interactions to these devices. It should be noted that enhancing this interactive experience is that only hardware levels can be done, and Android's fragmentation means that Google must communicate with mobile phone manufacturers, and ask them to carry out corresponding integration with Google. If this is really talking, Android's competitiveness will be able to improve a level, and even in the near future, it will sit in functional design in function design.
If Android is unable to provide integration on the hardware level due to its fragmentation, this is undoubted to be a heavy blow for Google.
However, if the hardware manufacturer succumbers to Google's will, and began to manufacture the ANDROID phone in accordance with standard specifications, Android smartphones are not only limited to the appearance, but will further expand to hardware areas. This may be a considerable burden for the developer of the application, and more time can be placed in update to provide better content. But from another perspective, the Android ecosystem relies on an important factor to maintain - diversity will disappear this. After all, a major feature of the Android system is to provide a variety of choices for users, right like it is the situation that the iPod appears to the MP3 market. Regardless of this for Android devices, it is good or bad. If Google really chooses the way IOS, what should we feel less?
After 2017, what is the Android phone look like?
Maybe it can only be known after it is really arrogant. However, we can first take a look at the potential future of Android devices to see what strategy that Google will have to consider in order to achieve its own ideal goals.
It is said that when Google and chip manufacturer's negotiations, they have shown that they want to be able to control camera components, sensors, and master processors. If Google wants to try to make your own mobile phone with any compromise, come as a real thing to display all the features of Android, then what kind of equipment can be taken after two years? Google is intended Is it produced with which manufacturer cooperate?
First, Google wants to increase image processing capability to reduce time interval when shooting multiple photos. Google imagines that in 2017, Android's flagship phone should be able to capture photos of "similar video stream" and the device can push information to Google to perform comprehensive analysis. This is not only suitable for smartphones, but also acts as a "third eye" for smart wear devices - when they need it, send users feedback and information around the user to Google. This will need to increase storage space for the main processor to accomplish this task without relying on a separate memory chip. Google has camera handling technology they want to use by manufacturers, but chip manufacturers may not be willing to do in Google because of the various reasons.
Android devices will also have more comprehensive and broader sensors in the next two years, while Google's Tango project is born. Google is currently developing components that support measuring distance. These sensors can perform 3D modeling around the environment in real time, in addition to this, this technology will also have unlimited application scenarios, including 3D maps to help blind people navigate in strange local, allowing people to be at home. Playful 3D games in the environment. In addition, this can also help reality enhancements, or add animation or static pictures on video and advertising, etc., helping to collect more useful information about the environment around the phone.
So what kind of information is useful? Google hopes that these advanced sensors can quietly collect data without waking up the device's application processor. The device will only be woken up when the phone gets some of the important information, and automatically performs any necessary features.
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