Monkey tricks.

Lu Zhou also spoke to Huang Dong, 'Just give a simple report on the situation. It's normal to have difficulties in your part of the work. This feature, after bananas, is a winning weapon in the face-off with competing applications. Something that no one has done naturally poses challenges.'

Huang Dong listened and licked his lips, 'Brother Lu gave me three functions to explore at the beginning of the week: battery management, root permissions, and USB desktop communication. All three require a deep understanding of the Android system, so I haven't completed them yet...'

Lu Zhou wasn't surprised either. He patted Huang Dong's shoulder and said, 'You don't have to do all of them at once. You can choose one to start with. These functions won't be needed until the next version, so we still have plenty of time. There are already some competitors in the Android market, so developing ahead of them will give us an advantage. You can consider starting with battery management, and you can exaggerate the savings a bit without any harm.'

'Alright.' Huang Dong understood a bit after listening.

'If you have any questions, communicate with A Dai more. He has been working on Android earlier than you and is more familiar with it. A Dai, it's your turn to speak.'

Wang Zhengye also spoke seriously.

'A Dai's problem is relatively serious. Starting from the application level and invoking certain commands in the phone's system layer involves some complications, which increases the difficulty of development. If we optimize from the system level, we can greatly improve the ease of use.'

When Lu Zhou heard Wang Zhengye's idea, he naturally understood. Currently, Leibus is preparing the Da Mi phone, but MIUI will arrive earlier.

In terms of practical use, Apple and Android are on opposite extremes. Apple has fewer customizable features but has a high level of integration between software and hardware. On the other hand, Android relies on hardware capabilities but is more open.

Wang Zhengye's idea is actually Lei Bus's exploration of MIUI, making adjustments and optimizations for the system that suit Chinese users' habits.

'This idea is great, but it's too broad in scope. Dream Valley currently doesn't have the capability to do it, and we don't plan to divert our focus. You continue.'

When Wang Zhengye heard this, he naturally felt a bit disheartened. He came up with a good idea in the actual development, but Lu Zhou didn't intend to delve deeper into it.

'Brother Lu, I think this can still be done. Why not give it a try?'

Lu Zhou waved his hand and said, 'Let's discuss this privately later. Let's talk about bananas first.'

'Okay. The basic functions and sorting of bananas have been completed, but when it comes to sorting, there's significant pressure on the database during extensive queries. This needs optimization, but I don't have any ideas at the moment.'

Lu Zhou was a bit stunned when he heard this. His thinking had been scattered in the past two days, and he had been working on his own. The work on bananas was assigned to Huang Dong and Wang Zhengye, but he didn't have time to review the specific code.

Unexpectedly, Wang Zhengye had already pushed the work to this stage and had started considering optimization issues.

'That's my responsibility. I'll come up with a caching solution. Run the data to the cache for one to two hours at regular intervals each day, and application queries will access the cache to bypass repetitive database queries.'

...

The short meeting ended, and it was almost time

to leave work.

Lu Zhou returned to his seat, and a penguin message bubble kept flashing in the bottom right corner of his computer screen.

'...'

'Brother, can you do it? Let's discuss the price.'

'The price is negotiable.'

'?'

'Brother, are you also in Shenzhen? We can meet in person.'

'We can do it together. I'll sell, and you provide the technical expertise for a share of the profits.'

'Are you there?'"

Here's the translation:

"Lu Zhou looked at the replies from the other party within these two hours and found it quite amusing. This person seemed too anxious.

He estimated Lu Zhou's current sales volume in the shop through the transaction volume on Alibaba Marketplace.

As for whether Lu Zhou would sell the Weibo program or not?

Of course, he would sell it. The sooner he sold it, the higher the price he could get. After all, it didn't involve overly advanced technology, and anyone who understood web page operations and principles could write it.

Therefore, it was inevitable that more and more people would notice this business. When the water army (paid commentators) entered, they could almost drive down the price to the floor.

Lu Zhou himself didn't plan to do it for too long. Currently, the competition was not intense, so it was better to sell it at a good price.

"There's no rule stating that if I sell the program, I have to shut down my own shop. That's how it works."

Alternatively, he could open a separate shop for Fang Qiang.

Lu Zhou replied in the message box, "500,000. Non-negotiable."

The other party replied shortly after, "That's too expensive. I can find someone else to do it for a lower price."

Lu Zhou responded with a chuckle.

"?"

"If you find someone else, the price will only go up, not down. The first store on Alibaba Marketplace that uses the program is obviously making a monthly profit of no less than 400,000."

Naturally, Lu Zhou was referring to himself here, and his reason for setting this price was simple.

First of all, as long as one paid attention to the situation on Alibaba Marketplace and had the technical know-how, most people would choose to do it themselves rather than sell the program.

Lu Zhou had been doing it for a month now, and he had the highest sales volume among all the stores.

Under the circumstances of low competition, this was already the limit for an individual shop. Therefore, it would be relatively easier for the other party to accept this price.

But regardless of whether he sold the program or not, more and more people would come out to sell followers, and this outcome wouldn't change.

So, selling one set of followers every month at a price consistent with his shop's sales was equivalent to cashing in one month's profit in advance.

Even if the price dropped in a straight line afterwards, Lu Zhou's own costs were only a few hundred yuan a month. Even if they dropped, it didn't matter. Regardless of whether the other party could make money or not, what mattered was that he would make money.

It was like the gold miners in the United States in the early years. There was only so much gold, and while Lu Zhou was digging, he was also selling water and iron shovels. If others couldn't dig out gold, it was not his concern. It didn't matter if he couldn't dig out gold either. This was an inevitable outcome, and he could still make money from selling shovels to others.

The other party was clearly hesitating and didn't reply for a while.

"It's really too expensive. If I buy your program, I'll inevitably have to compete with others. The profit won't be that high."

"Hehe. Non-negotiable."

The other party replied again, "After you sell it, will you sell it to others? The risk is too high for me."

Lu Zhou couldn't help but tease the other party. "Are you or am I the foolish one? It's not exclusive. How could I not sell it? I'm even planning to open my own shop. If you want it, take it; if you don't. Make up your mind."

"How do I know if you have the ability to do it?"

"Stop hesitating. Let's make the deal face-to-face. If you don't believe me, I'll go and hack into the backend of the current top store. You'll believe it then."

"You're that amazing? Well, give it a try. I'll take a look."

Lu Zhou continued to tease him. "Alright, fine. If you end up not buying it, don't blame me for being impolite. Just wait; it'll take half an hour to see the results."

After sending the message, Lu Zhou felt refreshed. "So this is how it feels to tease someone?"

He found Fang Qiang and said, "Qiangzi, stop the Weibo program after half an hour, and tell Xiaoyun not to pay attention to that person's messages."

"?"

"Why? The shop is making hundreds of millions in a minute. Why shut it down? Don't be timid, Brother Lu."

Lu Zhou gave him a smack on the head. "Monkeying around. Just watch the show. Don't talk nonsense."