"Andy, what do you think the future of mobile phones will look like?"

Zhou Fangyuan changed his posture to a more comfortable position, leaned back in the chair, and asked softly.

"Where are mobile phones headed?"

Andy was stunned by the question, he thought about a lot of possibilities, he felt that Zhou Fangyuan might take a fancy to some of his inventions, but he didn't expect Zhou Fangyuan to suddenly ask such a question.

But he's not unprepared, or rather, he's been thinking about his phone for a long time.

"I think the future of mobile phones should be more convenient development, the main function of the current mobile phone is to make calls and send messages, the future of mobile phones I think there will be Internet surfing, sending and receiving emails, handling work and other functions......

Andy described the functions of his envisioned future mobile phone, in fact, he has now begun to develop this mobile phone he envisioned, and this mobile phone will be on the market by the end of the next year at the latest, so the future he is talking about is actually what he can see, as for the more distant future, Andy has not really thought about it now.

"Let me tell you what I think, in my eyes, the phone of the future should be a smarter, more personalized phone.

I have a few ideas about the future of mobile phones, first of all, is a higher running speed, this is the foundation, the current mobile phone running speed is still too slow, compared with the computer is too much worse, of course, limited by the size of the limit, the performance of the mobile phone is still difficult to really compare with the computer, but this gap can be as close as possible, and this is a trend.

Secondly, smartphones must have the ability to access the network wirelessly, have all the functions of PDA, have a more open operating system, and also have more powerful functions. Of course, these are relatively large and broad contents, and you may not feel any of them now, so I'll talk about something that I think is interesting. ”

Zhou Fangyuan stood up with a smile, walked to the innermost leclaming board in the conference room, picked up a marker, and began to write and draw on the lecturing board, describing his thoughts.

"In my vision, the future of mobile phones is to eliminate all physical buttons to be operated by finger touching, and the touch screen is not too difficult technology, which Andy should know. Probably the biggest trouble is the problem of the battery, and I think lithium-ion batteries should be able to solve this to the greatest extent. Of course, that's not what I'm talking about, in my vision, the mobile phone of the future should be a comprehensive media device.

We can play games with our phones, surf the Internet through our phones, watch movies and watch TV and listen to music through our phones, and not only that, but we can also do anything we want with our phones by making video calls with friends and family. We can transfer all the software on the computer to the mobile phone, and this only needs to have enough imagination and strong execution.

Imagination, I have it, Andy has it, everyone in this room has it, but I need execution, I need to be able to turn imagination into a strong R&D ability. So I chose you, Andy, I have a lot of attention to your inventions, I think that's great, but what I value more is your ability to execute, you can turn your fantasy into reality, that's what I need the most. ”

Zhou Fangyuan drew the appearance of a smart phone on the pulpstick, what you see is a mobile phone with a particularly huge screen with only one button, the mobile phone looks square, to be honest, and the mobile phone they know is completely two concepts.

Combined with Zhou Fangyuan's words, everyone in the conference room fell into a fantasy, and when they thought that if they could really get such a mobile phone that could do anything, everyone felt suddenly looking forward to it, and they couldn't imagine that if they had such a mobile phone, then what else could they not do?

Then Zhou Fangyuan's complimentary remarks made Andy a little shy. He took off his glasses, and by taking off his glasses and wearing them, he covered up his somewhat excited expression, but his face was slightly red, but he couldn't deceive people, Zhou Fangyuan saw everything in his eyes.

He smiled slightly, "And I can give you more than that, the mobile phone can be said to be my prediction of the future, I hope you can imagine the future with me." But at the same time, a person's thinking is limited after all, and a person's ability is also limited, so in order to ensure that new things can constantly appear in the field of vision, I decided to set up a large research institute. I will invest unlimited funds in this research institute, the purpose is to research everything we can think of, we will use it if it is useful, accumulate it first if it is useless, and wait for the day when it can be activated.

And I want you to run this institute. ”

Zhou Fangyuan finally took out his big killing weapon.

He knew that Andy was not the same person as the average person. Of course, he also loves money, but he prefers to let his mind shine and then research all the inspiration he has ingested to find a better future. Then Zhou Fangyuan provided him with the best research conditions, and for this purpose, he even said something like "unlimited investment of funds", the purpose was to attract Andy to join him.

Andy, he was really impressed, he likes research, he is eager to study, he yearns for research, and now there are people who are willing to provide him with research conditions unconditionally, and the person who said this is not untargeted. If a penniless person said such a thing to Andy, Andy would only think that the other party was playing with himself. But Zhou Fangyuan's current industrial layout is quite large, and in China, his game company is the first company, and he already has a glass factory, which can be said to have laid a certain foundation for the glass surface of the mobile phone screen.

If the future is really as the other party said, then this Chinese man named Zhou Fangyuan is likely to become one of the richest people in the world in the future. Such a person says that he unconditionally supports his research, what else does Andy have to say?

"I do!"

said this, as if Zhou Fangyuan was proposing to him.

The others immediately laughed, Zhou Fangyuan looked at Andy helplessly, and Andy also reacted and took off his glasses again.

But in any case, Andy agreed to join the house, which was Zhou Fangyuan's happiest thing.

The most difficult part of developing a mobile phone for Zhou Fangyuan is not the mobile phone battery, not the mobile phone screen, not the architecture, not all the software of the mobile phone, but the real headache for him is the mobile phone operating system. The battery can be purchased by the corresponding manufacturer, the screen can also be bought, the architecture can be studied by yourself, as long as you recruit more engineers and are willing to spend money, these things are not a problem.

Only the mobile phone operating system, he doesn't understand, he doesn't understand, and he can't even give any too constructive suggestions, but he wants to make a mobile phone now, in order not to be pinched by foreign companies in the future, so he needs a big mobile phone system to help.

And Andy, that's the big one.

He is the father of the future Android, and it can be said that he is the main core of the earliest Android development, as long as he is there, Android will not run. As long as Android is in hand, everything else is not a problem.

After getting Andy, the main purpose of Zhou Fangyuan's trip is equivalent to completion, this stage is the stage of playing chess, arrange the chess pieces first, and then try to develop later, this is his main purpose. The specific process of signing the agreement was arranged three days later, after all, the materials were not prepared today, and even the contract was not prepared, so it was impossible to sign the contract immediately.

As for the issue of the contract, it is natural that Blizzard's legal counsel will deal with it. Anyway, it was Zhou Fangyuan's company, and it was normal to ask his subordinates to help him do some private work.

After the negotiations, Mike took Zhou Fangyuan, Sun Jing and Andy together and began to visit Blizzard's headquarters.

Andy and Sun Jing are both first-time visitors, and they have a lot of curiosity about Blizzard headquarters. Zhou Fangyuan had been here once before, but even so, he was still very interested. The main places they visited were some development departments. Warcraft III, which is now under development, is his main research project.

The game development is actually basically done, and what is being done now is game testing. A newly developed game may have countless bugs, which requires developers to constantly test and look for possible bugs and bugs over and over again. This is the most troublesome, the development of a game, it may only take half a year to a year, but the test may have to take the same amount of time before the game company can say that its game is basically no problem.

Of course, this rule doesn't make much sense for companies that only want to make a profit.

During the visit, Zhou Fangyuan also sat in front of the computer and tried the trial version.

The demo version of Warcraft III. is almost the same as the version he is most familiar with, and those familiar heroes also exist, as well as the familiar maps, familiar buildings, familiar troops, and various skills that can no longer be familiar, so to speak, this is the stand-alone game he is most familiar with.

Andy also tried to play for a while, and after playing, he gave a very high level of affirmation.

"It's definitely an epoch-making game, and as soon as this game comes out, I don't think you have any rivals when it comes to real-time strategy games. ”

"I can't say that, Command & Conquer is a very good game, we have to do too much, the strongest or something, too far away. ”

Mike smiled humbly.

"Excessive modesty equals pride, Mike, Andy is right, and I think this game is epoch-making. And with the continuous development of the Internet, future games will definitely be more networked and social, such as a single-player game like this, I think, this is probably the best, and the last real-time strategy game that can cause a sensation around the world. Because in the future, the gaming world may already be the world of online games. ”

Zhou Fangyuan stood next to him and said.

"BOSS, do you really think that online games can rule the future?"

"It's not that I think it's going to be like this, of course, there's no type of game that really lasts, even if it's an online game, there will be a day when it will go down the altar, but that may be a long time later. What we should focus on now is how to stand in the most stable and safe position when the tide of online games comes. ”

"Well, boss, like I told you before, we've actually started the development of World of Warcraft. ”

Mike added on the side.

"So I said you made a good mistake, and now the question is, how can you complete the development of the game faster with quality and quantity, and by the way, how is the backstory written?"

"It's already going on, and we've hired more than a dozen well-known screenwriters from Hollywood to help us fill in the plot. And the ideas you came up with before are also very good, and we have already added a part of Huaxia to the backstory in advance. Not only in China, but also in myths and stories around the world, and traditional literature, we have all dabbled in. ”

"That's great, if we want to play globally, we have to take into account the feelings of players around the world. Especially in developing countries, these countries mean untapped markets, the scale of these markets is not small, how to develop the market, how to make yourself better accepted by the market, this is a problem you should consider more. Oh, by the way, I'm going to say here, the neon market doesn't have to be considered. ”

Zhou Fangyuan said suddenly.

"Ahh

Mike was a little stunned by what he said, and he asked subconsciously.

"For no reason, firstly, I don't like this country, and secondly, this country is different from the average country. Computer games, which are usually popular in other countries, can easily fall short in this country. It's not that the quality of the game is not enough.,It's that the people of this country.,It seems that they prefer to play word games.,Their preference for painting style is also more inclined to cute.,So how much impact our games can have on neon.,I'm not sure at all.。 That being the case, we should focus on other, more important countries. You should pay more attention to this point, and there are more symbols of important countries in the game, such as Neon Country, which can be put aside for the time being. ”

That being said, it's actually the first sentence that counts.

Mike looked at the boss helplessly, according to Mike's own ideas, of course, neon country is also an important market, after all, neon's economy is now very developed. But he also knows that what Zhou Fangyuan said is not wrong, neon players do not agree with the aesthetic style of European and American games, and there are very few European and American games that can succeed in neon, including several games before Blizzard, when the global sales are good, but the sales of neon are very poor, almost and nothing.

Of course, it is worse in Huaxia, but there is a reason for that, and Mike is still very optimistic about the Huaxia market.

In other words, in the entire East Asian circle, all other countries can accept European and American style games, except neon, which is the biggest exception. Gamers in this country seem to be self-contained, with little contact with the outside world, and games from the outside world rarely make it to neon development.

So Zhou Fangyuan's request is completely no problem for Mike.

He also believes that the neon elements in the game should be put aside first, and there is no need to rush to join in immediately.

In fact, even the elements of Chinese style are only shown in the game at present, according to the release plan that has been set, the version of the main Chinese style will not be launched until 4.0 at the earliest, of course, it is more likely to be 5.0, which depends on the specific development of the game.

But in any case, under the influence of Zhou Fangyuan, the game Warcraft has added Huaxia's content earlier. The most direct embodiment is that in the initial version 1.0, panda people have appeared in major cities.

While chatting, several people walked into the R&D department of World of Warcraft, and Zhou Fangyuan began to directly check the development progress of World of Warcraft.