The biggest cancer on Hongmeng/Android: quick app service

The biggest cancer on Hongmeng/Android: quick app service

• 2023.3.22
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1. What is a quick app?

"Quick App" is a new application ecology jointly launched by Android manufacturers (Hua, Mi, O, V, Meizu, Nu, Lian, Jia) based on the hardware platform, no need to install, just click and use. Close to the original, high operating efficiency.
A quick app is similar to a WeChat applet, but unlike a WeChat applet, it runs through a quick app service framework/engine, and the service engine runs directly on Hongmeng/Android. WeChat Mini Programs run on top of WeChat.

2. Advantages and disadvantages of quick apps

A quick app is an Android-based application that runs on the quick app service framework/engine. It has the following advantages and disadvantages:

advantage:

1. Quick start: The quick app does not need to be downloaded and installed, and can be started directly, which is faster.
2. Save space: Quick apps do not need to occupy the storage space of the mobile phone, which can save the memory of the mobile phone.
3. Safe and reliable: Quick apps run in a sandbox environment, which will not cause damage to the mobile phone system and reduce the risk of malicious attacks.
4. Strong stability: The running of quick apps is not affected by the network environment and can maintain a stable running state.

shortcoming:

1. Restricted functions: Since the quick app is based on the Android system, its functions are limited by the capabilities of the Android system.
2. Poor user experience: Quick apps depend on the network environment. If the network environment is poor, the user experience will be affected.
3. The number of applications is limited: Currently, the number of quick applications is still relatively limited, and users may not be able to find the applications they need.
4. Too many advertisements: Since quick apps are free, some quick apps earn revenue through advertisements, which sometimes cause interference to users.

3. Why is the fast application service a cancer?

The original intention of the quick app design is very good, to prosper the Android ecosystem and facilitate users to use the app. However, a good technology can become a cancer if it is not used in the right way.

1. The quick app service framework, which is called the quick app service center in the Hongmeng system, cannot be uninstalled, and is forced to be set as a system service by the manufacturer. Taking
   MIUI as an example,
   
   the quick app service framework on MIUI14 is a built-in system application of Xiaomi, which cannot be uninstalled, and cannot be prohibited from connecting to the Internet ( You can only limit the traffic it uses), and you cannot turn off notifications.

2. All apps installed in the quick app service framework and quick app service center are not installed by users actively, but are apps that various advertisements and news induce users to secretly download and install without knowing it.
   Still take MIUI14 as an example
   

3. The value of these quick apps
   3.1 For users: no value, users will not actively run it. The only meaning of its existence is to push advertisements and collect user information.
   3.2 For mobile phone manufacturers: the value is huge. The quick app service framework and the quick app store connected behind the quick app service center are the source of profit for mobile phone manufacturers. To push a quick app to users, two things need to be done: one is to pay the mobile phone manufacturer to enter the quick app store; the other is to place advertisements on Toutiao, Baidu and other media to entice users to click on it in the form of gold coins . The user gets nothing after clicking, but a quick app will quietly appear on the phone.

4. A personal point of view

1. Compared with the fast application service framework/center, the apps exposed on 315 this year are really insignificant in terms of harm and disgust.
2. Hongmeng is not a pure land. Once the interests of mobile phone manufacturers and users are involved, domestic mobile phone manufacturers will choose to sacrifice the interests of users.
3. The most unacceptable point for me is that the high-end phones of Android and Hongmeng, 5,000 or 6,000 phones are already so expensive, and they still try their best to make money from users. There is no bottom line. Compared with iOS, there is indeed a big gap. How to catch up with Apple is a question that mobile phone manufacturers should reflect on.
4. Quick app service is just like Ads on various smart TVs currently on the market, such as boot ads, system main interface ads, etc., which cannot be eliminated, and the interests of the manufacturers are ah.
5. Quick app service is a microcosm of impetuousness in China. Making money in a down-to-earth manner is long gone!