Japan's manufacturing industry flourished in the latter part of the 20th century, but it was a bottleneck in the 21st century. One of the key points reported by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Open Source, is open source sharing. At Google as the smartphone OS, the vice president of Android product management Sameer Samat, a longtime smartphone maker, entered Google in 2008 10 years ago and reviewed the state of the mobile phone industry at the time, Sameer Samat said although everyone was aware of the importance of the smart phone business at the time, no one was convinced that they would do so Will be successful now the global smart phone OS market, almost only Android and iOS two strong, 1,300 manufacturers, 24,000 models using Android, more than 2 billion users worldwide, although there are four Japanese mobile phone factory, but almost Has been switched to Android; but in 2008, the Japanese handset factory nearly 10, the global market can be described as a hundred schools of thought flourishing, Android beat other vendors, rely on open source and open.Another open source software company, GitHub, also from 2008 The service started in February and now serves more than 27 million people and has become the world's largest open source software platform. Is the Apollo initiative of auto-driving technology research and development for mainland Baidu in 2017. Although some skeptics are skeptical of the reliability of open-source software for autonomous driving, there are no developers willing to take responsibility for any problems However, deep learning requires a large amount of data and using open source software is one of the effective ways to speed up R & D. In contrast, Japanese companies are accustomed to the traditional vertical integration within the company and believe that only their own core technologies can be avoided His factory plagiarism chase, this model has failed in the PC era once, to the era of smart phones, the Japanese mobile phone industry has almost ended in 10 years the main reason that even if Japan first promote i-mode mobile Internet services, But can not resist the open advantage of open source software.Now Japan's few mobile phones to maintain the Sony factory manager Hirai Kazuo, review of Android 10 years of lessons learned, let Sony know that the mobile phone business should be found outside the OS niche It took 10 years.With autopilot technology has also begun to open source, there will be more Japanese companies are facing the same problem Challenges.As for how to make profits for free and open source, which is a lot of Japanese enterprises can not embrace the main reason for open source software and open platform, of course, automatic driving technology is still under development, there is no reference example, but Android free license to become an advertising platform and car sharing It is an existing paradigm for both industry and mobile operators to create new industries with mutual benefits. The future of manufacturing industry is the right path to seeking business opportunities from open platforms and open source software.
