Chapter 386: Android is in hand

Andy Rubin, who was born in 1963, is forty-two years old this year, and his head is a little bald, but although he is a little raunchy, he is in good spirits.

"Mr. Rubin, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Jiang Hui from Korn Glory," Jiang Hui said.

"Very nice young man, I now go to Tudou every day to have a look, I heard that Meituan was also created by you, you can call me Rubin," Rubin said.

"I rely on creativity to win, and I can't compare to Rubin's achievements over the years," Jiang Hui said with a smile.

"What kind of grades do I have, I won't be meeting you here now," Rubin said with a little frustration.

Over the years, although Rubin has tossed a lot of things out as a technology master, from a commercial point of view, what he has done is really not successful, which makes Jiang Hui can't help but think of another legendary figure in the history of science - Nikola Tesla.

This is also a legend who is extremely powerful in technology, but a mess of commercial failures, and many people have not even heard of him now.

Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 ~ January 7, 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He is considered one of the key promoters of the commercialization of electricity and is best known for his design of modern alternating current systems. Based on the electromagnetic field theory discovered by Michael Faraday, Tesla has a number of revolutionary inventions in the field of electromagnetic fields. His numerous patents and theoretical work in electromagnetism are the cornerstones of modern wireless communication and radio.

In his previous life, Jiang Hui also saw that the American electric car Tesla was popular all over the world, and he accidentally learned that the name Tesla of Tesla was given to commemorate Nikola Tesla.

"No, Rubin, you shouldn't be so disappointed, history will prove the greatness of your invention. You know what? You remind me of Nikola Tesla, I think you are very similar to him," Jiang Hui said.

"You know Tesla, he's the scientist I admire the most. The world thinks that Edison was the greatest inventor, but this is not the case at all. In front of Tesla, Edison is nothing", Rubin said excitedly.

Although Rubin's words are a bit extreme, Tesla is really a great inventor, and Edison is not as great and positive as advertised in the textbooks of the Celestial Empire.

In the autumn of 1882, Tesla worked as an engineer at the Paris branch of the Edison Telephone Company, where he successfully designed the first model of an induction motor. In 1884, he went to the United States, where he worked in Edison's laboratory, where he remained and became an American citizen.

After Tesla first set foot on American soil, he began working at Edison's laboratory. He had almost nothing but a letter of recommendation written by his former employer, Charles Barcello. The letter, addressed to Thomas Edison, mentions: "I know of two great men, one is you and the other is this young man. ”

Edison hired Tesla and arranged for him to work for the Edison Machinery Company. Tesla started designing simple appliances for Edison, and he made rapid progress, and it wasn't long before he was able to solve some of the company's most difficult problems. Tesla was fully responsible for the redesign of Edison's DC motors.

Later, Tesla invented alternating current, which solved the problem of large consumption of electricity for long-distance transportation. Edison, on the other hand, was a proponent of direct current, and his own company was in the direct current business. Tesla is the inventor of alternating current, which has unrivaled advantages over direct current, especially for long-distance transmission.

It is precisely because of this that Edison was red-eyed, if the alternating current was successful, his direct current market prospects were not good, Edison was afraid that his company's business would not be good, so he used his influence to increase people's fear of alternating current. He used a lot of things to make people feel afraid of alternating current. Until the Chicago Expo, Tesla's alternating current played a huge role, thus beating direct current.

"Of course, Tesla is a great scientist, and his invention of alternating current has benefited mankind to this day. I think Rubin's Android will be a great app as well," Jiang said.

"Really, do you really think so? I believe that Android is great, but I've gotten a lot of investors and I haven't gotten recognition," Rubin said.

"The truth is often in the hands of a few, and I believe that it will not take ten years, maybe another three or five years, and the world will understand the importance of Android for mobile phones," Jiang Hui said.

"I wanted the phone of the future to be as convenient and powerful as a miniature computer, so I developed Android, but it didn't seem to be recognized. The phones sold on the market today, whether they are Nokia or Motorola, are ordinary feature phones," Rubin said.

"They are destined to be eliminated by history, and feature phones are far from meeting people's increasing functional requirements for mobile phones. I have more than a dozen companies in the Celestial Empire, and each company is doing well in its own field, and now I am ready to enter the smartphone industry, and I think Rubin your Android system is born for smartphones," Jiang Hui said.

"As far as I know, your company is mainly an Internet company, and there is no mobile phone business," Rubin said suspiciously.

"It's not that there is no mobile phone business, but before that, there was no mobile phone business at all. But because our company didn't have a business in this area before, we were able to develop a new and epoch-making smartphone without burdens and obstacles," Jiang said.

"That makes sense, so how are you going to buy Android?", Rubin said.

Rubin is a skilled person, but his business level is not very good, but fortunately, Jiang Hui has no intention of pit him, otherwise with his level of negotiation, it is estimated that he will be sold and help people for money.

In the previous life, Google spent $50 million on Android, a few months later, and Rubin did not bargain at all. In other words, the current Android is no more than 50 million dollars in Rubin's eyes.

"Korn Ferry will invest $30 million to acquire Android Inc., the company will be merged into Whirlwind, all the company's personnel will be retained, and Mr. Rubin will continue to lead the follow-up development of the Android system as the deputy general manager of Winy Korn," Jiang Hui said.

Rubin thought for a minute or two, and without any further entanglement, he agreed to Jiang Hui's acquisition request. Speaking of which, during this period of time, Rubin was looking for investment everywhere, and his heart was already deeply hit, and Jiang Hui's offer was many more than that of other investors, so he readily agreed.