Rebirth in a Perfect Era Chapter 1429: Father of Android
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When Andy Rubin heard Larry Page introduce himself to meet with Li Mu, Andy Rubin was stunned for a while, instinctively thinking that Larry Page was joking with himself, repeatedly When Larry Page asked for confirmation, he believed it.
After that, Andy Rubin hastily and Larry Page decided the time. After an hour, he will come to Muye Science and Technology and Li Mu on time.
Hang on the phone, Andy Rubin was confused and confused.
In Andy Rubin ’s perception of Silicon Valley, Larry Page is already a very top coffee. As for Bill Gates, it ’s basically a **** who can only be admired. The top-level person, and the young man Li Mu from China, is a non-human existence in the eyes of Andy Rubin.
Throughout the entire internet industry, people who can start completely from scratch like Li Mu and create such a great cause in a short period of time can no longer find the second one except Li Mu.
Silicon Valley has many self-made billionaires, but self-made ones can still be worth tens of billions of USD, none of them, Bill Gates? He didn't start from scratch, and Silicon Valley's origins are really comparable to those of Bill Gates.
Because of this, Andy Rubin feels unbelievable. Under normal circumstances, even if he is looking for a job at a company like Muye Science and Technology, he has no chance to meet Li Mu's. Unless he is a very high management position, he will not even Muye Science and Technology's vice president can't see it.
The larger the company, the clearer the internal rank. This is not to highlight the privileges of the management, but the time-saving method that the management has to follow. Whether it is recruitment interviews or cooperation talks, the company must Follow a clear grading logic, otherwise if all interviews and talks are sent directly to the CEO, the CEO may be exhausted.
A company like Muye Science and Technology, unless it is an interview vice president-level talent, or an important position such as the big project division person in charge, will require Li Mu to personally confirm, other levels of positions, Li Mu simply have no time to understand, because The upper level person in charge of that position will be responsible for this person and this position, as long as you look at the results of person in charge feedback.
The same is true for investment and financing.
Muye Science and Technology has its own investment department. This investment department does not serve the will of Li Mu alone, but for the entire Muye Science and Technology service. Outbound investment ranges from millions to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions to billions of USD. Very large, Li Mu will be personally checked if it is above 100 million yuan level. If it is less than 100 million yuan, the investment department person in charge and the business department person in charge can be determined as long as they agree. For investment below 10 million, an investment manager and the committee of the investment department can take full responsibility.
For Andy Rubin, his new project financing goal is even less than 10 million USD. Such a project, in the eyes of Li Mu, I am afraid that listening to it is a waste of time, and directly arrange a corresponding to this The investment manager with the amount of authority can talk to yourself.
However, Li Mu had to meet himself in person, which made Andy Rubin excited and nervous.
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Larry Page resigned from Muye Science and Technology. Before the resignation, he had sent a message to the Google board to prepare them for an emergency meeting. Anyway, Li Mu wanted some of the benefits in the pocket of Google, not Enemy against Google is enough to relieve the entire Google board of directors, and the rest is to quickly communicate and see how much benefits the Venetian merchant Li Mu has divided as a ferry ticket before he can get on his boat .
Li Mu studied the stock price of Apple in the office today. Today, the stock price of Apple fluctuated slightly for a day, and the overall price fell by 2%, basically stabilizing.
Inside Apple, stop-loss and counter-attack factions are still working hard for their respective goals.
Stoppers are still communicating with Microsoft about acquisitions, but the progress is minimal. Microsoft has a tough attitude. They only want Apple to operate system and the whole machine production business. As for others, they are not ready to take over.
However, the stop loss inside the Apple wants to get rid of all, which means that the takeover will have to pay for the Apple now more than the bad iPod business, although the iPod business line can still squeeze out almost 100 million USD funds can be used for temporary turnover, but this is only to quench thirst. The follow-up things to the iPod business are the most terrible. The production line is shut down, OEM (original equipment manufacturer) supplier factory settlement, users and dealers return refunds, and a large amount of inventory needs to be sold at a reduced price to recover losses. , All the iPods in stock are also hard to to save the fate of selling one and losing one.
If Microsoft does not want to take the iPod, then the stop loss cannot afford such a big loss, so the whole situation becomes stalemate.
However, the counter-attackers are actively looking for countermeasures.
This group of geeks composed of programmers, product managers and various technical personnel all clung together at a critical juncture to desperately find a way to break the situation. This is also an unprecedented great unity of Apple ’s internal business line. Tom Cook although was in danger, but maintained the mentality and fighting spirit of the business team very well.
The counterattacks now have a general idea. They feel that if they stop the iPod business and shut down the iPod production line immediately, the losses behind it will be difficult for Apple to carry over, so they decided to look for new ones in the iPod business. The breakthrough is divided into two parts. The first is to reduce the iPod ’s production capacity to the minimum while maintaining the continuous operation of the production line, and then solve the problems of iPod returns at the current stage and subsequent low-cost clearance; second, quickly develop new iPod!
The development of a new iPod is the most critical, because Tim Cook believes that Muye Science and Technology ’s Mango-ME2although is very cost-effective, but its current production capacity has not reached the stage of global distribution, which means that , Mango-ME2 still has a long way to go. In the future, it will continue to increase production capacity, expand sales and after-sales systems, and then complete market occupation. In this process, it is difficult for Muye Science and Technology to have extra experience to invest in the new generation of Mango- On the ME, when the Muye Science and Technology was running at full speed and could not turn around, the Apple quickly developed a next-generation iPod that could fully surpass the Mango-ME2 and became a top priority for counterattacks.
Tim Cook has even begun to lead the team to product development and follow-up development. They have selected a preliminary product solution, which is to realize the network of devices in the next-generation iPod.
Networking of the device means that the iPod will be disconnected from the computer to a certain extent and become a terminal device directly connected to internet. On this basis, it is necessary to support the connection of the iPod itself to iTunes through internet, at least directly through the iPod Music from iTunesdownload(ing).
The counterattacks disagree on this issue. Some believe that they can directly write the iPod version of iTunes software to the microcontroller system, and then add a WLAN module to the iPod, so that users can access the Internet and the iPod. The iTunes software download(ing) song, the advantage of this solution is that the development speed is relatively fast, and the cost is low; but the shortcomings are also obvious, if you design the next generation iPod in this way, it has little room for expansion;
Another person believes that since you want to counter Muye Science and Technology and completely reverse the iPod defeat, you must catch up with Muye Science and Technology at the core level, solder a WLAN module to the iPod, and a single-chip microcomputer written with simple iTunes, although can make The iPod is connected to internet and can be used away from the computer, but this way Muye Science and Technology will also, they can also write YYtunes to the microcontroller, and then be bundled with WLAN to join the next generation of Mango-ME, when the new generation of Mango -ME has surpassed the iPod in performance, and then fight the price war, what should Apple do then?
So, this group of people proposed a solution with great goals: to develop a set of operation system for iPod! Not only to realize the use of iTunes on the iPod, but also to achieve the use of other software, so that the iPod will undergo qualitative changes.
For most IT companies in the world, the development and operation of system is really a huge project, and most companies do not have this basic strength, but Apple is different. Apple has this technical strength, and There is a very strong technical reserve.
Apple previous life can launch IOS in more than a year, and largely rely on MacOS to operate the system foundation, which shows that there is enough foundation to develop a mobile operation on the desktop operation system foundation system, the difficulty is not too big.
This part of people just want to rely on MacOS to develop a set of mobile operations system for iPod, and completely close the gap with Muye Science and Technology. If Muye Science and Technology wants to develop a set of mobile operations system, it will take at least three to five years to search the top teams from all over the world. Time will pay off. This time difference is enough for Apple to fight a beautiful turnaround.
However, this solution also has its shortcomings. In order to be able to cope with a set of mobile operations system, Apple requires a disruptive redesign and upgrade of the iPod ’s hardware, which will greatly increase the cost of the iPod, On the one hand, it will also extend the research and development cycle.
If it is a single chip microcomputer, Apple can immediately start research and development, the hardware is mature, the software is also mature, but if the system is operated, the engineering volume immediately increases geometrically.
In addition to developing their own mobile operation system, Apple also has in-depth understanding and research on the microprocessors and other various hardware on the market, and then formulates multiple sets of hardware matching programs, and then repeatedly conducts various test demonstrations, Finally, choose a solution.
For the Apple, the single-chip solution is like assembling an unpowered glider toy, which is generally not difficult;
However, operating the system solution is equivalent to upgrading an unpowered glider toy to assembling a stable, reliable, and high-performance remote-controlled aircraft model, which is much more troublesome.
The choice of materials, selection and matching of motors and batteries, selection and matching of remote control transceiver modules, ESCs, and steering gears are all huge projects, even for Apple.
The big project means that it takes a long time. Such a plan, from project initiation to software and hardware development to finished product, can only be used for a period of at least one and a half to two years. landing, Apple itself has been riddled with problems. How long has it been in such a crisis?