Rebirth in a Perfect Era Chapter 1736: From here
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Because Google did n’t ring the bell, Li Mu spent two more days in Boston.
For the past two days, he has been staying in the presidential suite of the hotel. Su Yingxue will be picked up by the driver after class every day and returned to school by the driver before class the next day.
Harvard school leaders heard that he had come to Boston and insisted on inviting him to dinner together. Li Mu did n’t want to agree, but considering that Su Yingxue was still going to school here, he should get this entertainment.
However, Li Mu did not let Harvard school leaders invite guests, but instead found a Michelin restaurant in downtown Boston, brought in Harvard school leaders, and brought Su Yingxue together.
It is said that China people pay attention to humane society, but in fact, Westerners are the same.
The Harvard school hopes to maintain a good relationship with Li Mu, and Li Mu hopes that they will provide convenience to Su Yingxue as much as possible in the future. Everyone needs what they need, which is a win-win situation.
These days in Boston were Li Mu ’s rare relaxation during this time. Since he met Mark Zuckerberg, he has stopped working, eating and drinking every day, and enjoying the foreign country with Su Yingxue. The world, body and mind have been greatly relaxed.
However, Chen Ze is not so comfortable.
He lived alone in the hotel ’s luxury suite, and he was going crazy every day.
There was a heavy snowfall in Boston, and he could n’t do anything when he went out in the cold, so he could only hold back the three days TV in the room.
In his words, his English is not so good, and he knows nothing about watching TV. It is boring and boring.
When leaving Boston, Li Mu sent Su Yingxue back to Harvard and said goodbye to her before going to Boston Airport.
Boston is very close to New York, and the straight-line distance is almost three hundred kilometers. The jet flight time is less than an hour.
Take off from Boston at two o'clock in the afternoon, and the plane has landed in New York at three o'clock.
After the party arrived in New York, Larry Page took several other Google executives to the airport to meet him personally.
For Larry Page, the listing of Li Mu can come to ring the bell with yourself, whether it is for Google or for yourself, it is of great significance.
The overall business of Google is still relatively simple at this stage. If you want to make the market more confident in Google, you ca n’t do without the platform of big players. For the internet company at this stage, the effect of the Li Mu platform is the best.
Larry Page even thinks that if the Muye Science and Technology rings in the future, he will be invited to participate in the ringing ceremony, it would be better.
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To pay attention, Larry Page specially rented a team of Ambassadors from New York and gave Li Mu the highest courtesy hospitality.
On a lengthened Lincoln car, Larry Page said to Li Mu: "Chief Li, the bell ringing time is 9:30 am the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow evening, there will be a small private reception at the hotel where you are staying. Come It ’s all internet industry and capital industry ’s big coffee, I wonder if you are interested in participating? ”
Li Mu nodded and said, "Yes."
After finishing, Li Mu suddenly thought of a thing and asked Larry Page: "Larry, I want to include a company that does navigation and satellite maps. Is there a good introduction?"
At this stage, Google has not yet launched a map business, Li Mu has been thinking about what its own internet resources can do for the future Muye car group, in addition to Android and IOS can develop interactive entertainment for cars in the future system, Li Mu I also want to solve the problem of car navigation.
although now has a small number of cars equipped with LCD screens, and even fewer are equipped with navigation, but in the future, navigation services will be the most frequently used services by car owners, and almost no one is.
However, the difficulty of car navigation is almost the common feeling of car owners all over the world. There are several main reasons:
First, the map of the car navigation is backward, and the upgrade cannot keep up;
Most car navigation data uses a navigation card, and the map is built in SDin the card. This is completely offline navigation. Map update is a very difficult problem. It is far from mobile phone navigation and can be updated at any time;
Second, the map services of automobile manufacturers are not fine enough, basically they are confusing, far less than the map services provided by internet companies such as Google, Gaode and even Baidu;
Third, the information input of car navigation is a huge disadvantage;
Most car navigation input relies on the scroll wheel. Whether you input English or Chinese Pinyin, you need to reenter the scroll wheel for a long time. A few seconds on the phone, it takes a few minutes to switch to car navigation. This is the only step. Keep many users out of the door;
Fourth, the sound of car navigation will conflict with car audio, and many car manufacturers have not done a good job of optimization;
If the car audio is listening to songs or listening to radio, and the car navigation is turned on, the feeling that the two sounds conflict back and forth is very headache, and the experience on both sides is often very poor, which is not comparable to mobile navigation, mobile navigation Separated from the sound of the car stereo, there are occasional navigation prompts when listening to songs and they will not conflict with each other.
Li Mu thinks that the reason why these three in-vehicle navigation pain points can't be solved is mainly because car manufacturers don't have the internet gene, and there is no changer in the industry, and everyone does not want to make progress.
In fact, there is no high cost for installing LCD screens on cars, and the configuration of LCD screens on the bright surface is extremely user-friendly. Most users are willing to pay for this, and if the original factory does not have LCD Central control, many users will even spend their own money to upgrade.
And the cost of installing a GSM module for the car is not high, so it is actually not so difficult to connect the car to the internet.
If you can acquire a navigation company and build a set of refined global navigation system based on GPS, directly embed this set of navigation system into your car's central control assembly, and then do the human-computer interaction carefully, you can already Leading global car dealers are a big deal.
If you put the GSM module in again, and communicate with the local operator about a preferential data service at the first-year university student point, not only can the car be connected to the network, but also the map data can be updated in real time. In that case, the entire vehicle is more intelligent than Global car dealers have led a lot.
At this stage, the mobile data service is still 2G, and the data cost seems to be relatively high, but in fact, the operator has a good solution there. At that time, Nokia had a game phone model NokiaQD. For the convenience of QD users, download(ing) games, Nokia moved with China. A mobile phone card with unlimited traffic was launched together. In 2G mode, only a dozen monthly Yuan monthly rents were required. At that time, there was no 3G, 4G, and 5G. The speed of the unlimited data card was the same as that of others, but the data flow The cost is greatly reduced.
This proves that operators can talk about it.
If it is just the map update traffic, the traffic usage is not very big. In addition, if you are a big customer anyway, in China, you should be able to talk to the operator about the cost of less than ten yuan per month.
At this stage, most car manufacturers give a three-year warranty. By then, it is nothing more than a cost of two or three hundred yuan to send three years of data traffic. However, this feature is here, even if all the costs are added to the car price. Going in and adding some profit margins, consumers are completely acceptable.
As for the conflict between the navigation sound and the car audio, Li Mu feels that it is enough to put a very common high-frequency speaker directly on the car navigation, so that this speaker faces the driving position, and it is sufficient to serve the navigation alone.
The sound of car navigation is mainly to be heard clearly, but experienced users know that if the bass is heavy, the voice is more muddy, and the tweeter without bass is the most friendly to the human voice, think carefully KTV's microphone sings OK, but the speech is more muddy, and there is a strong roar, but the large loudspeaker without bass in the school is very clear when it is broadcast by human voices.
That's why, the cheap radio speakers that the old man listens to don't have bass, and the music is a mess, but the key to listening to the radio and listening to the storytelling experience is good.
The car audio is mainly for listening to music services. If the navigation sound is mixed, it will not only affect listening to songs, but also listening to navigation. More importantly, it will affect the passenger experience outside.
If a cheap tweeter is set separately, the direction of the sound field will be inclined from the central control toward the driver, the cost is very low, but the benefits are many.
The first is to ensure that it does not affect the sound of the whole car and the songs. The second is to ensure that the driver can hear clearly, and the third is to ensure that it does not affect other passengers.
If you do n’t need to navigate, this tweeter will be turned off and will have no effect at all.
In this way, the practicality of car navigation will be greatly improved.
The experience of consumers can definitely be improved a lot compared to traditional cars.
Larry Page did n’t know the specific idea of Li Mu to receive the navigation company, but when he heard that he wanted to receive such a company, he blurted out immediately: “It ’s too coincident Chief Li, I happen to have this idea too! We can Get up and do this! "
This time Li Mu was surprised, and asked in a whisper: "You also want to buy a navigation company?"
"Yes!" Larry Page said: "We discussed before and want to add a map function to Google, but it is too much trouble to build a set of global maps by yourself, not only to rent satellites and buy map copyright , But also invest a lot of surveying and mapping vehicles and surveying and mapping personnel, the time cost is too high, so we have an idea to acquire a satellite mapping company. "
Li Mu didn't expect Google is ready to make the Google map at this time, can't help but ask: "Do you have a goal?"
"Yes." Larry Page had no secrets about Li Mu, and immediately said: "There is a map company in the United States called Keyhole, and we are preparing to communicate with them about the issue of a wholly-owned acquisition."
Li Mu asked in surprise: "Is Keyhole not the U.S. military reconnaissance satellite system? I really want to see it in military magazines ... The U.S. government allows you to buy?"
"No, it's not." Larry Page said with a laugh: "This company's name although is called Keyhole, but it's not the same as the US military's Keyholesystem."
Li Mu nodded and asked, "How strong is this company?"
"Great." Larry Page said: "They not only have a strong data storage, but also a strong mapping and development capabilities. Their own KeyholeMarkupLanguage is a set of protocols that allows multiple users to participate collaboratively. This will be of great significance in the future to create a satellite map product that can be participated by global users. "
Li Mu instantly thought of a famous product of Google: GoogleEarthGoogle Earth.
It turns out that everything originated here!