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Han Xuan purchased a full set of production technology and equipment and developers for the low-end notebook Macintosh series from Apple.

This is a product line that was axed by Steve Jobs after he returned to Apple.

Compared to Apple's latest model, the PowerBook-540C, these low-end products are selling sluggishly.

Jobs was not so honest, and obediently handed over the company's important scientific research and development personnel to Han Xuan.

The part of the development team that has the most cutting-edge research technology has been quietly left behind by Apple.

Jobs changed his tricks to lay off employees for Apple and reduce the financial burden.

And Han Xuan pretended not to know.

Most of them were crammed into their own company's hardware development department.

I hope that with the help of them, the employees of our company can learn from Apple's working atmosphere, learn from each other's strengths, and form their own unique company culture.

Jobs doesn't look down on it, it doesn't mean that these people don't have the strength, otherwise they wouldn't have been hired by Apple back then.

Taking a step back, even if Hope Technology raised them as rice buckets for ten years, if a good idea came up with that day, then the company would make a lot of money.

In Han Xuan's eyes.

They are valuable talents who have seen the world and have work experience.

In order to buy the Macintosh product line, Han Xuan offered Jobs a high price of $30 million, plus other LCDs, batteries and other technologies and patents, paying a total of $51 million.

In Jobs' view, this is simply a crazy move, in fact, even if he is given 20 million dollars, he is willing to get rid of those big burdens.

However, did Han Xuan lose?

He gave so much money that he made only one request to Jobs.

That's the technology used to make these laptops, and Apple needs to give him a perpetual license in order to continue production.

It's a reasonable request.

Probably carried away by the joy of re-entering Apple, Jobs thought that Han Xuan really wanted to continue to produce this low-end notebook that no one wanted to buy on the market, and immediately agreed when he talked on the phone.

He didn't expect that as soon as Han Xuan signed the contract, he asked people to use those technologies to start re-developing new notebooks.

He also drew drawings for the researchers and asked them to apply for patents.

Looking at the shape, it is clear that the shape of the Dell XPS series laptops in the future will be integrated with Apple's MacBook.

All in all, it still looks similar to a MacBook, but it successfully bypasses Apple's appearance patent barrier.

Although Apple sells low-end notebook production lines, customers can only use them as calculators and learning machines at home.

However, most of the technology used to develop a laptop is included, and buying patents from other companies is much more expensive than this, and it is not as complete as Apple.

This is the real reason why Han Xuan gave such a high offer and tempted Jobs to agree to the authorization.

If you look closely at the contract, you will find that the contract says that it is licensed to HOPE Technology, not a single notebook product.

What the two mean is very different, and that's the contract trap......

The research and development of notebook hardware is still in the initial exploration stage.

Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other companies can produce entire desktops, but there are not many patents in the products that really belong to them.

Han Xuan does not want to be reduced to a foundry model, independent research and development is essential.

With hardware, you also need software support.

There can be a Mac-OS operating system from Apple in the world, then there can also be a Be-OS operating system.

After Han Xuan acquired BE-INC, he did not ignore it, but immediately injected $35 million into it to recruit troops.

He personally tried out the still incomplete operating system and gave some suggestions for improvement.

In the future, Bill Gates and Jobs paid attention to this operating system at the same time, and spared no effort to suppress it, because they were afraid of threatening their own products, so they did not give it a way to live.

At that time, Be-Inc had no one to support it, and in the end it was a tragic end of being acquired, but in fact, its operating system was even more amazing than Jobs's Next.

Now that there is Han Xuan as a backer, I believe that BE Company will embark on a completely different path from its previous life......

The debate over who is better "open" (Microsoft) or "closed" (Apple) has been going on for decades.

Nowadays, Apple is not good, and people take it for granted that "closed" has no future.

Han Xuan wanted to use this to show them that even if the system is closed, as long as the product is attractive, customers will still come to buy it one after another, just like Apple will do in the future.

In fact, the total market value of Apple is only about $2 billion, and he can't afford it.

It's just that when he bought it, Han Xuan always thought it was boring, and it was interesting when the product he developed was successful.

At this level, money is no different from paper to him, and the most important thing is to be happy.

Han Xuan has the confidence to say such things......

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The company is still working on MP3 audio players, which were smash hits and only began to fade when smartphones became popular.

MP3 originally referred to an audio compression technology that hardware engineers were building to play the machines used to play that audio.

Once we knew the general principle, it wasn't difficult to make it, and the development was going well.

Now that the prototype has been made, we need to find a way to reduce the large plastic box that looks like a radio to a form factor that is acceptable to users and reduce the high cost.

"The sound is not very clear, the noise is a bit loud.

I felt dizzy after only listening to three songs, and the company didn't have a department that was researching headphones, so ask them if there was a way.

If that doesn't work, find a way to buy a company that specializes in high-quality sound products and use their experts to solve the problem.

Mr. Charley, can you help me find out which company this MP3 audio compression technology is in the hands of now, and try to buy it back.

When our products hit the market, major music companies will be begging to buy a patent license for this technology, and they should be able to make a fortune from it. ”

Han Xuan took off the headphones, changed them to soft music, and stuffed the in-ear headphones into Anya's ears.

The girl was very interested in this new thing that looked like a radio, but it was different from the radio, and she took it and looked left and right, with a confused expression on her face, like a curious baby.

"I know it's like a German company.

I need to look up the information for the specific situation, and I saw it in an IT magazine a few years ago, when MP3 technology was just opened up. ”

Christopher said.

Accompanied Han Xuan to visit for most of the day, seeing that the little boss was in a good mood, he and old Charlie were a little relieved, it seems that Han Xuan is quite satisfied with the company's work during this time.

"Hey!

Boss, long time no see!

I thought you forgot you had a company!"

The person who uttered these resentful words was naturally Executive Anthony, who had just arrived from Los Angeles by helicopter.

As soon as he received a call from Secretary Dawson, he interrupted the meeting and came over, so that Han Xuan could say something important, it must be a big deal.

Han Xuan rolled his eyes and defended, "I haven't been contacting you by email.

In the future, network office is the general trend, and when video call technology develops, you can solve official business anytime and anywhere, and you have to learn to adapt to the times.

Don't say that I seem to have left everything to you, I heard that I was still in the mood to go on vacation to Las Vegas some time ago?

If I hadn't heard Mr. Wynn talk about it, I wouldn't have known. ”

Grabbed by his pigtails, Executive Officer Anthony suddenly choked and said stupidly: "I'm not going to help you inspect the Treasure Island Hotel."

I haven't seen you for a few months, and I'm growing taller again.

Looks handsome, Han. ”

"It's useless to pat me on the back.

Come with me to the construction site of the Candle in the Wind Building, just in time to talk to you about something......" (To be continued.) )