Ma Yun's Cell Phone "First Shot": Ali Yun Has Been A "Low-Key King" For 3 Years.

If Ali cloud is Jack Ma The "Jen long chess game", which was distributed three years ago, is now the time to solve the puzzle.
In July 19th, Ali cloud computing company CEO Wang Jian said: "Ali cloud company will launch its own mobile operating system, and the corresponding mobile terminal will also be unveiled in the near future. This is the first step of Ali cloud in the mobile internet field.

This is the first official made by Ali Yun. In the past few weeks, news about its launch of mobile platforms has been unheard of.

　　 Alibaba Insiders say that Ali cloud will officially launch a mobile phone equipped with the mobile operating system. This is the first large-scale product application based on mobile client since the birth of the concept of cloud computing.

According to the planning of Ali cloud, its operating system has now been able to fully realize the mobile terminals and PC terminals based on cloud computing technology. This is earlier than the similar services launched by Apple Corp. Prior to 4 and May, Apple Corp announced that it will launch its own cloud service icloud in the autumn.

The core idea of cloud computing is to manage and schedule a large number of computing resources that are connected by network, forming a computing resource pool and providing services according to the needs of users. provide Resources The network is called "cloud".

Domestic enterprises have been involved in cloud competition since 2008, but a large number of companies remain in the PC terminal cloud service, and cloud applications based on mobile devices such as mobile phones are almost zero.

From the e-commerce company to the real Internet Co, Alibaba intends to open up a new competition pattern in the mobile internet field.

Ma Yun's cell phone?

"We will not intervene in mobile phone production. We are just a platform provider. "

The industry generally believes that Ali cloud mobile operating system is the largest expansion of Alibaba in the mobile Internet industry. Because of rumors that Baidu, Tencent and other giants are developing their own brand phones, Alibaba's action is particularly concerned.

But it is different from rumors that Alibaba will launch its own brand. Wang Jian clearly stated: "we will not intervene in mobile phone production. Like Alibaba, we are just a platform provider. "

The upcoming mobile phone terminal will use the cloud OS operating system developed by Ali cloud, in addition to providing traditional cloud computing services such as maps, mail and storage. It will also provide a large number of Internet applications based on cloud computing technology. Alibaba's Alipay and Wangwang clients will be integrated into it.

The first Ali cloud phone will be customized by Tianyu and is currently in the process of testing. But Wang Jian said: "mobile phones are only the first step. We hope to build a cross platform service platform." In the industry, many manufacturers of equipment have been negotiating with ALI cloud to transplant Ali cloud operating system to more platforms.

According to the current exposure, the phone produced by Tianyu is a 3.5 inch screen. But according to Ali cloud insiders, the expansion speed of the cloud OS system is faster than that of the outside world. "After the launch of the Tianyi mobile phone, a larger screen phone will be launched; in addition, Pad production is already in the process of planning."

Such information is true, it means Ali cloud's mobile operating system has already had the strength of the development of the entire series of products.

This reporter learned that Ali cloud system is not like the outside world is based on the two development of Android, its system program includes Ali cloud self designed virtual machine, cloud service resource library, cloud application operation framework and interface framework, as well as the upper application, and will be fully compatible with Android application.

"It is easy to develop an independent system, but it will be difficult to sell the independent system to the whole world like Apple Corp," Wang Jian said. We hope to become a basic service provider in the field of cloud computing, and this platform is our first step. "

An open platform compatible with Android will make it easier for developers, users and equipment manufacturers to accept, and coincide with Alibaba's idea of "building platform".

The development trend of China's Android platform is in the ascendant. In July 12th, millet technology CEO Lei Jun officially released the millet phone system of MIUI system. The similar products of more enterprises are also false and real, beginning to appear on the horizon.

Wang said: "cloud computing services require high input and great risks. The demand for more services is what we need to do, so this business can not be monopolized by a company. In fact, there are many enterprises with ideas, but little is done. "

At present, Ali cloud does not charge any fees for customized phones, and the cooperation with Tianyu is based entirely on the recognition of the concept of cloud computing. "There are more and more enterprises that want to recognize this platform, which is an opportunity for industrial upgrading."

Storm clouds

2010 is the year when cloud computing is widely recognized by the industry. Luo Wenceng, President of China Electronic Information Industry Research Institute, said: "in 2010, the scale of China's cloud computing market reached 16 billion 713 million yuan, an increase of 81.4%. It is estimated that by 2013, China's cloud computing market will reach 100 billion. Wang Jian also said: "the growth of cloud computing demand will usher in the outbreak in the next one or two years."

IT industry research company IDC also made similar judgments. In June 23rd, IDC believed that cloud services spending would increase by 27.6% annually, and the global output value in 2011 would be US $21 billion 500 million, and in 2015 it would be US $72 billion 900 million.

Mobile Internet is the main application platform of cloud computing. Due to the limitations of handheld terminals such as mobile phones in storage and computing, it is difficult to get better performance when the traditional Internet is transplanted to mobile devices. But cloud services can solve this problem well, so Ma's team chooses the mobile operating system as a breakthrough in the field of cloud computing.

Wang Jian said, "I hope this mobile phone can become a truly mobile phone."

According to his logic, Ali cloud operating system will be a fully open platform, and will introduce a large number of third party applications in the cloud. Service developers can develop their own cloud applications on the terminal devices and continue to maintain their mature servers. They can also choose to use the cloud infrastructure of Ali cloud and pay close attention to the innovation of new businesses, and the development of these new businesses can also take advantage of the basic Internet services provided by Alibaba so as to speed up the development of new businesses.

Wang Jian believes that developers, consumers and platform providers can benefit from this, which is a healthy mobile Internet Ecosystem, "Ma realized that this is definitely promising. Therefore, in the first two years, we basically accumulated technology and did not involve practical applications. Now it looks like we are lucky enough to embrace it before the wave of mobile Internet comes.

For three years, Alibaba has no knowledge of the outside world, but knows that it has high hopes for Ma Yun, and is known as "a low-key king".

In the concept of Ma Yun, Ali cloud is something that can "beat itself". Wang Jian said: "just like Taobao grabbed the business of traditional stores, Ali cloud will change our understanding of the Internet." Ma Yun has never had any profit requirements for Ali Yun, and has been investing heavily in the past three years.

Wang Jian said: "for mobile phone products, Ali cloud still has no profit expectations. If we are positioned as platform companies, we must first earn money for others. And we will benefit from this process. "

Prior to July 8th, Ali cloud's official website has been on-line, from the information disclosed, the network community, video rendering and application hosting three aspects of cloud services will be its main business, and mobile terminals will be one of the application platforms of wireless cloud.

Insiders said: "prices, performance, services have greater advantages than existing cloud services companies."