Domestic operating system milestone, China began to export consumer-grade system!
After Alibaba and Ford announced the day before the strategic cooperation was announced, on December 8, AliOS President Hu Xiaoming said that AliOS will be equipped on all Ford and Lincoln brand vehicles (including imported and locally produced) sold in China and in China This is the first time that global auto giants using Chinese operating systems mean that China's operating software can be used globally as a standard solution and that China's Internet exports will begin to export consumer-grade systems.
AliOS, Alibaba's IoT operating system developed for the automotive, IoT terminals, IoT chips and industrial sectors, is the only operating system in the world that can be upgraded online with OTA and connected to the core components of a vehicle to render real-time data.
Prior to working with Ford, China had activated more than 400,000 IoT smart-connected vehicles and more than 50 auto brands working with Alibaba. According to reports, Ali's current business layout in the automotive sector includes cloud computing, artificial intelligence, automotive operating systems, high-precision maps, new retail, automotive finance, etc., to provide partners with technical support and eco-synergy across the whole industry chain.
Hu Xiaoming said that the future of the automotive industry will no longer be a mere manufacturing industry, will also become a service industry, "through the intellectual networking car operating system, in order to allow cars with the surrounding environment networking capabilities and service capabilities." Therefore, Alibaba should give AliOS a more intelligent, safer and more service-oriented concept. The next step will be to create more personalized services for the user's segmentation trend. AliOS has opened 169 cities to cooperate with the charging facilities to ensure that the future of AliOS cars can easily enjoy the charging service.
AliOS catch Ford, in fact, this also represents the rise of the domestic operating system. As we all know, this is a weakness for China for a long time. The vast majority of China's consumer-grade system market is occupied by the U.S. R & D institutes. In the future, all Ford and Lincoln vehicles sold in the Chinese market will carry the AliOS system. This is not a success or a major event for Alibaba but a milestone for the domestic operating system.
The uplifting reason is not just that the domestic operating system is equipped with a car, but that a global giant is a direct consumer that is provided to it with Chinese software products, which means that Chinese software has gained world-class recognition.
According to Accenture and SBD's report, by 2020, the global number of new car sales with networked technologies will total 212 million units and the penetration rate will be close to 60%. It can be said that the car is facing a major change in the era of the wisdom of the Internet, wisdom network car will also be to seize the strategic development of the automobile industry in the future. As a result, Ford, the creator of the great invention of automobiles, chose AliOS as its leading technology in the face of major changes. And Ford and Alibaba cooperation, not limited to AliOS, Alibaba's cloud computing, new retail, digital marketing and other business sectors will be involved in the cooperation, which also shows Ford's emphasis on the Chinese market and Chinese technology.
Looking at the past exports of China's Internet, the first is the hardware components, then the output is the bottom of the enterprise, and from AliOS, it is the output of consumer systems. In other words, China's output from the body level, jumped to the output of the brain-level, become the brain state, AliOS is the beginning. China is showing the world its own leap-forward breakthrough in science and technology.
In the past, Western Internet giants dominated the global market through consumer-level software. Microsoft's windows, Google's Android, and Apple's ios opened up the era of PCs and mobile smartphones respectively. As the times change and the East and the West alternately lead and take the lead, ailos successfully lands the pioneer of American automotive civilization - Ford, which is already the signal of the beginning of change.
"At present, AliOS has been active in loading Tesla, and in January 2018 AliOS will be the largest online upgrade of the world's automotive systems," said Hu Xiaoming. Butterfly fan in Hangzhou, it may cause a storm in the global smart car industry.
We will see that in the future, the smart car will be the new entrance to the new economy. The communications, networking and transportation technologies brought by intelligent networked vehicles and the changes in urban construction will lead to social and commercial changes in many fields. AliOS will also work with more world-class car brands to redefine consumer travel and user experience and transform the car from a travel tool to a new, intelligent, web-based lifestyle platform.