You can only persuade him with logic.
And Smartisan TECHNOLOGY CTO Qian Chen walked on the road, his first words talked about Luo Yonghao. At that time, Luo Yonghao wanted to do a nut cell phone back shell battery, Qian Chen nut users are price sensitive crowd, to two or three hundred dollars of back clip battery can not convince him. “That’s my logic. You can hold him down by that logic, or he’ll start again.”
What do you think people who are not confident struggle with?
When you go out to meet a girlfriend and get ready to change, the confident person puts it on and leaves, while the insecure person is always looking in the mirror. He’s that kind of guy. A small change, in fact, is a psychological comfort, may not bring the final optimization.
In Qian Chen’s opinion, Luo yonghao is not confident in a lot of places, nut phone launch night his struggle with Keynote is one of them. “In the hotel, he just read his Keynote repeatedly and changed it repeatedly.” In luo Wang’s live video battle, luo Yonghao, who was strong and aggressive, was a very tangled person in Qian Chen’s eyes. “I often issued a threat to him at the end.”
Born in 1952, Qian is 10 years older than Luo, more rational and sophisticated. This is already known to the outside world. And his rationality and sophistication, or “friendly and tactful”, have a lot to do with his 13 years of MOTOROLA experience. In the 13 years from 1998 to 2011, he experienced the ups and downs of MOTOROLA from prosperity to decline. He also witnessed the migration of the mobile contract manufacturing industry from Europe and America to Japan, Taiwan and then the Chinese mainland. The whole supply chain was familiar to him.
From a lot of interview articles, we have learned that Qian Chen’s hardware department separately set up a set of access control system inside the company, which is the agreement between Luo Yonghao and Qian Chen, and qian Chen decides the matter of hardware. A visit to Smartisan’s offices in the MOTOROLA Building in Wangjing in July confirmed this. With jobs as the spiritual idol Mr Luo has as same as the former moody temperament, the door is in addition to the division of functions and powers, to some extent may also be a kind of protection for hardware team, after all, not everyone can like Qian Chen and light and smiling in the face of Mr Luo sudden “demonised”.
Therefore, it is no accident that the choice of supplier falls on the veteran of the mobile phone industry, which is also Qian Chen’s own work. Luo Yonghao, who is “not confident” and “tangled”, is obviously not suitable for this complicated and trivial work, which requires a round and round game with suppliers. It involves financial situation, factory capacity, quality control, account period and many other factors. As a trade-off, Qian chose Shanghai Morningside Simton to do the ODM for the nut phone, which would also outsource production to a contract factory in Shenzhen to cope with potential capacity constraints.
Seeing the balance of suppliers being broken by a familiar Internet upstart, driving down prices and forcing them to squeeze other customers to survive, Qian recalls the days of MOTOROLA and Nokia:
In the era of MOTOROLA and Nokia, neither of them fought (price war), but both made progress and competed on the track to see who could run faster, which also had a great pull on the whole industry. Don’t you pull my pants. I’ll pull your pants. Don’t you think there’s too much of that now? I’m pulling my shorts!
It is precisely because of Qian Chen’s advice that Luo Yonghao, who has always been outspoken and outspoken, did not talk about any parameters or attack friends at the nut mobile phone release conference. Instead, in addition to preaching feelings and obsessively details, he honestly explained that only Huawei has the core technology to make mobile phones in China. From this point of view, Luo Yonghao’s crosstalk performance is much more interesting than a mountain higher than a mountain of water release conference. And that’s exactly what happened.
He is the biggest product manager at Smartisan
Designers need someone to force or help them break through technical barriers and give direction at a higher level.
At Apple, it was Steve Jobs. In Smartisan, this person is Luo Yonghao, who is the biggest product manager of Smartisan technology. At least for now.
Last year, Luo Yonghao visited Hong Kong twice and invited Li Jianye, the former design master of Philips, to serve as the director of industrial design. In addition, Hi-ID Lu Zhongfang, who has profound design theory, focuses on packaging and color. The packing box of nut mobile phone is completed by Lv Chinese side design. At this point, Smartisan has set up a 7-person industrial design team.
Experience-first minimalism. Our products are not super simple, they have a lot of details, but together they don’t feel fancy or complicated.
This is li Jianye’s explanation of the product concept of Nutty Mobile phone, which echoes Smartisan OS. It is very simple in function, but there are some lovely little animations and tricky to add some fun to the system. He has a clear view of some of the gimmicks and gimmicks his peers use: “Bezel-less is a stunt, thinness is a stunt, diamond cutting is a stunt. The logic behind it is machine aesthetics, an expression of technology and driven by market desire.”
In the process of communicating with Li Jianye, we also learned more details about the design of Nut mobile phone. For example, the transition between the corners and the frame has a certain curve, but it is not as smooth as the iPhone 6, one is easy to pull out, but also easy to hold; The position of the power button is determined by the middle line of the width of the flash and camera; The width of the white border was adjusted to make the colorful back look more beautiful. “The original version was too thin, like a painting with a frame. If the frame is not in proportion, it will not look good.”
As a paranoiac with terminal obsessive-compulsive disorder, Luo yonghao is known for his obsession with cheap products, or he wouldn’t have smashed a Siemens refrigerator. However, luo Yonghao, a literary youth who speaks eloquently at the press conference, is also at a loss for words when describing product details:
He himself is sensitive to product details, but does not necessarily know how to describe and solve the problem.
Here is luo Yonghao asked Qian Chen to make 8 sets of back shell, in order to work out the back shell grain should be spacing. The same happened to the shade and curvature of the edge of the hammer logo on the back, which Qian changed six times. “He put his hand on the back shell and said there would be a drag in the lateral direction and he could only slide in the vertical direction, which meant it was too strong and obvious in the feel.” Listening to Li Jianye’s story, I almost believe that the final plan is luo Yonghao’s finger back and forth on the grain to determine the down.
Not a family. Not in the same house
In the interval of the interview, I took out a thousand yuan machine with highly controversial configuration during this period. Qian Chen and Li Jianye held it in their hands and did almost the same thing (it should be noted that the interview was not conducted at the same time) :
Point the side of the phone at the light, carefully check whether the side is smooth, the parting line is not obvious, the volume and the power button electroplating coating is not uniform.
Li was quick to point out that the headphone jack was in the wrong position, and explained that the misalignment of the frame midline was actually limited to the PCB board, a problem nut phones also encountered, but solved by fixing the headphone jack to the frame and connecting it through two metal PIN heel boards.
Qian Chen took off his glasses and looked back and forth at the frame and buttons. At this time, you can obviously feel that this elderly person who is talking and smiling in front of you and analyzing the industry situation is actually a rigorous and rational engineer.
From these two reactions, we can almost imagine luo Yonghao’s vivid expression on his face when he saw such “ugly” products of youshang, which caused him a burst of rapid-fire bombs. Of course, Lao Luo, in his role transition, may just look at the products of youshang and refrain from smiling without a word. While the reaction may be different, it is certain that some aspect of the product, some Angle of the treatment will make him uneasy. As Gong Xingyuan, the multi-titled Product manager of Smartisan, said after playing with the Blackberry Passport and experiencing the gesture of sliding out of the app:
This animation doesn’t have the right acceleration.
You think about yourself, RON
Close to the end of nut mobile phone press conference, in the public recruitment of talent, luo Yonghao was xiangsheng master gradually into a good situation to tell a joke colleagues said. He duly announced future plans, such as T2, which will be released by the end of the year, at least three new products next year, humanity’s next computing platform, and, of course, a new 500 million yuan funding round valued at 2 billion yuan.
However, according to Qian, 200 million yuan was spent on nut phones. Even so, he is still worried about financial pressure after the production capacity bursts. He also expects to sell 2-3 million nut phones, which isa lot better than the 255,626 Smartisan T1 sells in a year. Qian Chen, who “has an unfinished dream” on his mobile phone, and Luo Yonghao, who is “born proud”, are obviously having a bigger dream, perhaps it is the “commercial success” of the employees in arrears.
In any case, luo is becoming more professional after the setbacks of Smartisan T1, becoming more proficient in the role of corporate leader, as he quipped at the press conference, “No, I’m going to attack people again,” and naturally turned the conversation elsewhere. This is the image of him operating from the outside.
Internally, luo Yonghao’s role is also changing after the growth of the enterprise. As the biggest product manager, he began to disperse his energy to the management of the enterprise. Although Li Jianye, the director of industrial design, “actually likes to spend time with Luo to polish the product”. However, in many people’s eyes, luo now lacks a bit of personal courage and fight, which can be clearly seen from his increasingly bureaucratic micro blog. Luo Yonghao’s Weibo account, which has 12.45 million followers, has also changed from a battlefield of his own to a public opinion highland of hammer.