Chapter 807: Superiority and Inferiority
The small conference room was filled with smoke, and seven or eight people gathered around a table, each with a cigarette in hand, and a number of materials were placed crookedly on the table.
"So the first thing to consider is the idea, which is fundamental. Feng Yiming turned his pen and tapped on the table at the other end, "What do you want to do, what kind of mobile phone do you want to make, and where is the general direction of the company in the future......"
Feng Yiming made an impassioned statement in the middle, but the others showed doubts on their faces, and now they started discussing this? Is it a little early......
After a pause, looking at the faces of the people around him, Feng Yiming suddenly realized, "It's not interests, it's intentions......"
A middle-aged man reacted and said with a smile: "If the fate is not high, the vision is not good, although it is thoughtful, it is a diaphragm ...... after all."
Well, that's like a painter said...... Feng Yiming muttered in his heart before nodding and saying, "Brother Lin still has understanding...... As for the interests, it depends on whether Wu Zhen is reluctant to give up......"
Everyone smiled and cast their eyes on Wu Zhen.
"The mobile phone industry has been entering the mainland market for many years, and there have been many domestic mobile phones in recent years, and I asked the Economic Research Institute to select three very representative cases from them...... Feng Yiming motioned to Wu Zhen to distribute the information.
"Panda mobile phone, this is the spontaneous development of Panda Electronics...... Speaking spontaneously, in fact, it is just OEM assembly, for which Panda Electronics has also won the 2003 CCTV standard king at a price of more than 100 million, but unfortunately it is now a ......"
Wei Jun added: "In March this year, Panda Electronics launched its last mobile phone, and there was no news from the outside world, but industry insiders know that Panda Electronics has actually given up the mobile phone business. ”
"Bird mobile phone has become the sales champion of domestic mobile phones for three consecutive years, and the export volume is still ranked first in domestic mobile phones, and the fighter in the mobile phone. ”
"But since 2005, the market share of Bird mobile phones has begun to decline, and the profit margin has been greatly compressed, with a loss of more than 100 million last year, and ...... this year" Speaking of this, Feng Yiming turned his head and looked at Wei Jun.
"It's okay this year, the Xu family has completely let go, and the controlling stake of Bird Mobile Phone is in the hands of the company formed by Qin Xiangnan and Wen Bogu, and the loss in the first half of the year is not much. Wei Jun laughed as he spoke, "The two of them are not like Xu Zhishan, who have already sent messages several times to participate in the Hundred Talents Plan. ”
"Leave them alone. Feng Yiming continued: "The last case is Lenovo mobile phone, everyone knows how hard Lenovo's brand is in China, but the market share of Lenovo mobile phone has not been high, why is this?"
Lin Wenwu pondered for a moment, raised his head and said, "These three cases...... Either it is too superstitious about marketing methods, or because it does not pay attention to scientific research and compresses scientific research funds, or it is like Lenovo, which does not take mobile phones as its main business, and its resources are concentrated in other fields. ”
A young man who looked a few years older than Feng Yiming said in a slightly stiff Mandarin: "Therefore, the idea should be in technology, and technology is the foundation of everything." ”
Ren Hongyuan also agrees with this point of view, he knows better than anyone Feng Yiming's emphasis on technology and technical talents, "KK is right, technology is the foundation, and technology determines the direction of mobile phone development." ”
"It's okay to call me Aji in the mainland. Huang Jianji said while looking at Feng Yiming carefully, born in Xiangjiang, he became the chief engineer of the Microsoft Engineering Institute at the age of 30, and it was difficult for him to imagine that such a young man could appear under the mainland system.
"For the time being, there is no need to consider sales and promotion, the key is how to develop a domestic mobile phone in line with China's national conditions in the era of smart phones, the appearance of the mobile phone, the size of the screen, and the amount of power consumption, which are all determined by technology. Feng Yiming gushed: "I know that many links of patented technology are currently not available, and we can't get around, but we have patience, time, and at the same time, we can get what we want through the partnership with Google, whether it is patent purchase, transfer, authorization, we can accept it." ”
"The cost of independently developing a smartphone is very, very high, even Zhanxiong Group can't afford it while operating other projects, which is our disadvantage, but through Google's relationship, we can skip this link smoothly, of course, it will pay a lot of price, but it's worth it, this is what Google is willing to see, and their mobile phone operating system can't ignore the Chinese market if they want to promote it on a large scale...... That's where we come in. ”
"We don't need to reach the highest level of smartphones in the Western world in a short period of time, we just need to follow the rules and camp step by step, but in the future, we need to develop domestic mobile phones with superior performance, and even our own mobile phone operating systems, which require the support of countless technical talents......"
Everyone's eyes were focused on this young man who was dancing.
"At present, this technology company is affiliated with Zhanxiong Technology Research Institute, but I can promise that you have relative organizational structure independence, and are not assigned by the headquarters of Zhanxiong Group in terms of personnel and management, and I can promise that the start-up capital of this company will definitely satisfy you, and you can tolerate one to two years without mature products but keep paying salaries and bonuses......"
Feng Yiming got up slowly, pressing his hands on the edge of the table, "Now there is only one question left, Wu Zhen will go to the Google headquarters in Mountain View, USA in mid-October, are you interested in taking a trip together?"
"Although the development of Google's mobile operating system is secret, we are industry insiders after all, and we have heard some rumors more or less. Lin Wenwu frowned and asked, "Zhanxiong wants to insert a foot in it?" If I didn't say that I was discouraged, Zhanxiong Technology Research Institute and a few of us together would not be qualified to ......."
"No, no, no, you misunderstood. Feng Yiming shook his head and said: "We haven't seen Apple's prototype, but the news from the United States is that the operating system of Apple's mobile phone is brand new ......."
Of course, the American media has overwhelmingly praised it as a cross-generational product, and the most important thing is that it uses a finger touch screen, and the second is the use of a new operating system, which almost means that smartphones will replace most of the functions of computers in the near future. ”
"I spoke with Google's president, Schmidt, and the two founders via email, and Google decided to open source the mobile operating system after it was developed. ”
"Open source?!" Everyone in the room, including Ren Hongyuan, who was tech-savvy, repeated it in unison.
In 1998, Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion jointly established Symbian, which became the only mobile phone operating system in the world that can compete with Microsoft, and those mobile phone manufacturers have become the top of the pyramid of the global industry.
Feng Yiming knows that after Symbian was exclusively acquired by Nokia, after the launch of Apple and Android systems, LG, Sony Ericsson and other major manufacturers have announced their withdrawal from the Symbian platform, and the self-styled Nokia has plummeted, and the situation is miserable and sympathetic.
After all, Apple's mobile phone is about to go on the market, and although Google has cooperated with many mobile phone manufacturers, it is only a cooperative relationship after all, and it is too difficult to compete with Apple for large-scale promotion, and open source is the one with the highest probability of success and the most feasible one among various plans.
In fact, Google headquarters has officially issued an invitation letter, inviting Zhanxiong Group Technology Research Institute to go to Mountain View City, the time is mid-October, in this meeting, Schmidt will formally put forward the proposal to form an open mobile phone alliance, this time Feng Yiming will not go in person, will be led by Ren Hongyuan and Wu Zhen, the most critical thing at present is ...... Fool the three or four technical elites in front of you.