The other day I sent GPD a list of interview type questions so as to get a better understanding of GPD the company etc.Wade was kind enough to respond, the interview questions and answers are below. Forgive me if I missed your question, in hindsight, I know I forgot some.Wade: 2012Wade: 30Wade: There are 4 founders - wade wang, ricky xie, sky yang, samty chenWade: This is not on hand now, it will be necessary to go back to the opportunity to make up for it. In fact, we like low-key products, not very good or care about external image publicityWade: Small and beautiful, focus on a point (mobile handheld game device), to do this niche consumer favorite innovation productWade: OEM / ODM is our main business model before2015 we have stopped the OEM / ODM model, the transition to do their own brandover the past 10 years, most of the Chinese manufacturers are OEM / ODM model for other national brands do product design Production, but the drawbacks of this model is the production of manufacturers profit too little, the vicious commercial competition led to1, product homogeneity2, design and production only the pursuit of low-cost low prices, resulting in extremely poor product quality3, manufacturers away from the consumer , Because their customers are only OEM brands and sales channels rather than consumers, the channel is the first factor to consider the product profit margins / how much money rather than the product itselfWade: Currently there are only three products: xd win pocketWade: The future will not be in kickstarterbecause our sales chain is very short, GPD - terminal retailer - userour price system only authorized distribution price - terminal retail priceif we operate our own activities, all the price is very close to the distribution Price, which means that third-party companies do not have enough profit space to operate all. In addition, the global logistics and transportation work is a very tedious work, the various countries of the customs policy and transportation costs are very different, if the third party to operate these, there may be a lot of risk.Wade: That is confidentialWade: For the moment, the German Pandora's shop is being considered because other regional distributors have not raised the demandWade: No, we're not good at it.Wade: We will now give priority to the xd upgrade to Andrews 7.0, named xd +Xd2 priority is not the highest, we have other projects have a higher priorityWade: All the suffix is ​​gpd.hk mailbox can be contacted, if the previous staff left, there will be other people take over the use of this account, so continue to contact the mailbox beforeWade: Linux is not the domain we are good at, the solution to this problem is that we upgrade our products to the core M series as soon as possible, the Linux driver of this chipset is very perfectWade: Sorry, we didn't take the initiative to do this.Wade: There are some, such as pocket protection packageWade: ConfidentialWade: This is a new attempt, but also a concept. For mobile phone travel (especially the Moba type game with a very much-pointed skill release key), it will use a single joystick touch-screen hybrid operation mode, which is a new mode, and XD's handle button image mode is different (not support the joystick touch-screen hybrid operation mode)Wade: Most of our distributors do not have professional maintenance capability, the current solution is to contact our official online mailbox, we will have someone to follow up. The usual approach is: 1, the hardware problem to send the product back to repair 2 software problems through the brush firmware can solve 3) parts of the problem can be mailed to replace the partWade: I've been watching Smach Z. If their first product can reach a high standard, there is no doubt that the future will become GPD's direct competitor.Wade: For the time being, I can only say it's big.Wade: Sorry, I do not understand what can be easily replaced by the battery, in fact, the replacement of the battery is not complicated.I do not know whether the user needs to spare battery can be charged, if there is a need to develop a separate charge of thisseparately, we all developed Products are supported 5v mobile power charging, another point of view on the market today, all mobile phone mobile power can be called a backup batteryWade: For now, that's confidentialWade: YesWade: For now, that's confidentialWade: For now, that's confidentialWade: YesWade: No, I personally think there is no need, now the smartphone has WiFi hotspot function, if you need 4G Internet, just turn the mobile phone WiFi hotspot onWade: L3/R3 placed as shoulder buttons is also a viable solution, I personally prefer ALPs joysticksWade: Mouse ---- handle This statement is more concise and intuitive, sacrifice 10% of the compatibility in exchange for 90% of people more simple and easy to understand that the definition of the function of the switch, which is a more I agree with the design and development orientation. Senior professional players like the more comprehensive the better, and most people prefer simple and intuitive things.Wade: Temporarily confidential, there is little difference to the current WIN (WIN 2 is slightly larger)