On the afternoon of August 16th, Century Summit announced that it officially acquired the ebOS business unit from HP, after the completion of the acquisition, Century Summit will obtain the source code, related documents, engineering team, various associated websites, and HP's intellectual property licenses, including various patents covering the basic operating system and user interface technology, and at the same time, after the completion of the acquisition, all platforms under HP can still use ebOS and subsequent systems.

"Smartphones are part of our mobile strategy, but the ebOS operating system is even more important. We hope that through ebOS, all of the businesses of Century Summit will be integrated. After the completion of the acquisition of ebOS, Motorola Mobile will launch a new mobile phone with the ebOS system, and Motorola mobile phones equipped with the ebOS platform will be fully launched in the second half of next year. ”

A few weeks ago, when HP announced that it was abandoning the ebOS platform, the news bombshelled the electronics industry. In April last year, HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion, less than a year and a half, the bOS system is quite excellent, with its own uniqueness, many media believe that there will definitely be a company willing to take over Palm, and for a time various rumors and gossip emerge in endlessly.

According to media reports, Amazon, Samsung, and Chairman Wang Xuehong also said in an interview with the media that the company is currently evaluating the acquisition of HP ebOS systems, or mergers and acquisitions of other mobile operating systems, but there is no rush.

HP has communicated with some companies with potential acquisitions, including Amazon, Samsung, and Intel, and HP wants to sell ebOS and Palm in a package for $1.2 billion, but no company is willing to take over. In the end, HP lowered the price to $500 million, and there was still no company to take over.

All this was done in secret, and without knowing it, the peak of the century quoted a tentative price of 600 million US dollars. HP didn't sell 500 million Palms, and now someone suddenly quoted 600 million, so he was naturally overjoyed, pretended to think about it, and then agreed. The Century Summit acquisition team is very happy, last year HP spent $1.2 billion on the acquisition of Palm, I thought that this acquisition would cost $1 billion, but I didn't expect to win 600 million. Century Summit boldly said that HP products can still use the ebOS system in the future, but this acquisition must be carried out twice, Century Summit first acquired the ebOS system for $200 million, and after the entire acquisition is completed, it will acquire Palm for $400 million.

Century Summit actually wants to package ebOS and Palm, and has 1,400 patents and patent applications involving mobile communication technology, including 1,000 patents in the U.S. market and 400 overseas patents. When it comes to the acquisition of communication technology patents, it must be subject to the review of the U.S. government. As a result, it will take at least three or four months to complete the acquisition, and Century Summit is not willing to wait.

The direct acquisition of the ebOS system does not involve communication technology patents, and the US market has an absolute advantage in Android and IOS, with a market share of less than 1%, which will not cause a monopoly, and it is unlikely to have any adverse impact on the entire market, and naturally does not need to be reviewed. In this way, Century Summit will be able to complete the acquisition of ebOS in the shortest possible time, and Motorola will be able to start the development of ebOS platform mobile phones as soon as possible, and bring mobile phones to the market in the shortest possible time to seize market share. As for the Palm phone and the Palm patent, it's okay to be a little slower.

The media and the industry were not optimistic about the acquisition of Motorola by Century Peak, but now they are even less optimistic when they hear that Century Summit has acquired ebOS and is preparing to build its own system.

The Wall Street Journal sharply commented: "The competition for mobile platforms has already entered a white-hot level, with Apple's IOS and Google's Android leading the way, followed by Microsoft's P and BlackBerry's RM." The technology and strength of these companies are above the peak of the century, and the peak of the century can only hope for miracles if they want to make a breakthrough in the mobile phone system. Therefore, the acquisition of Motorola and ebOS by Century Summit will very likely end in failure. ”

The media and the industry have not yet come out of the news of the acquisition of ebOS, and the summit of the century threw out an even more shocking news, and this news caused a bomb to be thrown into the calm sea, and suddenly set off a shocking wave.

On the morning of August 19th, the official website of Century Summit announced that it had reached an agreement with Fly, and Fly invested 100 million US dollars to obtain 30% ownership of the ebOS system.

Bai Yunfei, president of Fly, said in an interview: "Apple IOS is a closed platform, and Google Android has been incredibly fragmented, and the future of ebOS will be better than Google Android and Apple IOS." Although Android and Apple IOS already have a high market share, there is still room for another system in the industry, and we will support this system. I'm excited about this, you guys can give us a score in a year!"

On the same day, Summit also announced: "Summit and Fly will open the source code of ebOS to all programmers and promote ebOS to the open source community." After the ebOS is open-sourced, any developer can customize their own ebOS system, the purpose of the open source is to accelerate the development of the ebOS platform, Century Summit and Fly will participate in the open-source ebOS community, become an active participant and investor in the open source project, and manage the project to a certain extent. ”

Although Century Summit claims to be an Internet + movie company, in the eyes of most people, Century Summit is not the kind of company with strong technological attributes, but an entertainment company. Therefore, the vast majority of the media are not optimistic about the acquisition of Motorola by Century Peak, and even less optimistic about the development of ebOS by Century Peak. But that's not the case with Fly, which has a large number of talented engineers and programmers, tens of thousands of app developers, and more than 700 million users. With the addition of Fly, it is really possible for Century Summit to build a complete ecosystem for ebOS.

After Fly acquired a 30% stake in ebOS, the media's attitude towards the peak of the century also took a 180-degree turn, and they began to be optimistic about the future of ebOS.

"Fly joins the ranks of ebOS developers, and with the open source system, ebOS has the potential to grow as quickly as Android and quickly seize the market, after all, open source has a great attraction for manufacturers, and may make popular mobile phone manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC and LG shift their targets. —The New York Times

"ebOS is an excellent system with many highlights, but the whole system lacks a strong enough system architecture like Android or IOS. With the addition of Fly, the biggest shortcoming of ebOS will be corrected, after all, Fly has the best architecture team in the world!" - Los Angeles Times

The ebOS system has its own unique style, accumulating a loyal fan base over the years, and this group of people has followed from Palm OS to ebOS, and the fans are no less fanatical than iPhone fans. After hearing that Century Summit will work with Fly to develop the ebOS system, fans feel like a rain from heaven, and they believe that this time ebOS really has a chance to rise.

In the world's largest ebOS community, ebOS fans, including developers, engineers, and designers, have begun to unite and prepare to start developing ebOS applications as soon as they are officially open-sourced.

In the Fly community, bOS is based on Linux, like Android, and the development method is similar to that of Android platform development, for which it is not difficult to develop applications for ebOS.

Google CEO Larry Perry was furious after seeing the news that ebOS would be open sourced, and he was not worried that ebOS would pose a threat to Android. It's just that ebOS open source is obviously coming for Android, he feels that he has been tricked by Zhang Ran, he can't swallow this breath, and immediately called Zhang Ran's mobile phone, and asked: "Zhang Ran, what do you mean?"

When Larry Perry called, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu were preparing to go out for the test screening of "Future Apocalypse". In Hollywood, test screenings are a necessary process before the release of a movie, and more than 80% of Hollywood movies will be test-screened, and Hollywood blockbusters will be 100% test-screened.

Preview screenings are usually internal screenings that take place before the final cut is made, to investigate and analyze the audience's reaction to the film. The purpose of the test screening is twofold, one is to evaluate the watchability of the film based on the audience's reaction, and may make adjustments to the content of the film according to the audience's opinion, such as re-cutting the ending that is more in line with the audience's expectations or deleting the plot that the audience dislikes. The second is to evaluate the marketability of the film, analyze which elements in the film are the most attractive to the target audience, and provide reference for subsequent marketing.

It is not the film company itself that organizes the test screening, but often hires professional user research companies such as Nielsen and NRG to conduct it. After accepting the test screening task, these companies will recruit a certain number of viewers to participate in the test screening according to the criteria of gender, age, viewing habits and lifestyle according to the target audience group previously determined for the film. Once the audience is recruited, they are invited to a specific location to watch the film, and the production and distribution company often sends someone to the preview screening to observe the audience's reaction. When the screening is over, the organizers will ask the audience to fill out a questionnaire.

Zhang Ran knew that Larry Perry had come to Xingshi to ask about the crime, and laughed, "What's wrong, Larry?"

Larry Perry exclaimed, "Don't pretend to be confused with me! Didn't you say that Century Summit is going to develop its own system, why did you buy ebOS? Why do you want to engage in open source? Are you going to war with Google?"

Zhang Ran said: "Google is our friend, how can we go to war with Google! The system we developed ourselves has many problems, and it is completely uncompetitive in the market, so it is better to buy a more mature system!"

Larry Perry didn't believe it, and opened his mouth to scold, "You liar!"

Zhang Ran chuckled: "Larry, you're mistaken, I'm not a liar, I'm just an actor!"

"FUCK!" Larry Perry almost vomited blood and dropped his phone.

Zhang Ran heard a loud bang in the movie, and then there was a busy sound, rubbed his ears and said, "This is too excited, I actually dropped my phone!"

Zhang Jing saw Zhang Ran's smug smile for the first time, and knew that he had some bad idea to succeed, so she asked with a smile: "Who said you were a liar?"

Zhang Ran raised his eyebrows and said lightly: "Google's Larry Perry!"

Zhang Jingchu asked: "What did you lie to him? He actually made others so angry that they dropped their mobile phones!"

Zhang Ran grinned and said: "I have won an opportunity, and in the future, we will have the opportunity to snatch the market of mobile phone systems from the hands of these foreigners." ”

Zhang Jingchu knew about Century Peak's acquisition of ebOS, but she had never cared about this kind of business matter, and she didn't know what Zhang Ran was doing when they acquired ebOS. Now hearing Zhang Ran's words, she suddenly understood, waved her fist and said, "You will definitely succeed!"

Zhang Ran smiled at Zhang Jingchu and said, "We'll work hard! Let's go, go to the cinema!" He took Zhang Jingchu's hand, walked out of the room, and drove to the city center to go to the movie theater where "Future Apocalypse" was screened.