No wonder Xiao Wenjing didn't understand why Xia Yu was so excited.

In fact, if there is no rebirth memory, Xia Yu himself would not believe that in just a few years, smartphones will develop so powerfully, becoming an indispensable life, entertainment and even work tool for everyone in the new generation.

MP3, digital camera, cash register, alarm clock, map, navigator...... How many things that were once brilliant have become obscure in the era of smartphones.

In other words, before the birth of the iPhone, the mobile phone was just a "mobile phone", and the function was communication; after the emergence of the iPhone, the phone became a real PDA (personal digital assistant), and the communication function was weakened; if you add an AppStore ecosystem with unlimited imagination, it has directly become the closest way for individuals to connect with the world, and even a new organ of the human body.

It is widely accepted that smartphones have fundamentally changed the way humans access and process information, and that the way they have changed the world is almost unimaginable.

Android, on the other hand, is an intelligent operating system that can compete with Apple's iOS system, and even surpass some of the opposites, and its value is immeasurable.

By 2014, as both systems began to expand into smart home, connected cars, mobile health, and wearables, the future was even more horizontal.

Xiao Wenjing looked at Xia Yu's appearance and couldn't help pouting, "If you don't say it, forget it, anyway, don't forget to leave some old knowledge for Bluestar Venture Capital when you burn money!"

Of course, she knows that the mobile phone industry is a money-burning business, and whether it succeeds or not, at least if it is not hundreds of millions of yuan, it will not be able to gain the confidence to gain a foothold in the industry.

Don't forget, even if the country relaxes the entry threshold and changes the mobile phone license to an approval system, it will require at least 200 million registered capital.

Xia Yu sobered up from his stunned stupor, smiled and said, "Don't worry." I'm measured. ”

Xiao Wenjing didn't speak again, but her heart didn't calm down. In fact, she hopes to build Bluestar into an investment fund with real industrial impact, rather than a whim of curiosity.

This is also the reason why after she arrived in the United States, she began to keep in touch with her former classmates and meet with some startups in related fields.

With her character, she will not feel at ease to be a woman behind a man.

The more successful Xia Yu is, the more she is stimulated to work hard.

Speaking of which, Bluestar Venture Capital is a token of love between the two?

This stupid boy, this was the case at that time, and it was special enough, anyway, Xiao Xueba always thought so.

……

Andy Rubin knew he was going to meet him this time. It's a Chinese investor, and I didn't want to meet, but the person expressed a strong interest in Sidekick and Android in the email, and his views were interesting, so he didn't decide.

After working for so many years, whether it is at Microsoft or Apple, he has many Chinese colleagues, some of whom are friends, and they are all smart enough and hard enough people. This made him have a slight impression of the Chinese.

However, when he rushed to the café he had made an appointment with and saw Xia Yu and the two, most of them immediately dissipated.

These two people are so young!

That very beautiful Chinese woman has some elite and capable style. But it's never over thirty.

As for the teenager, oh my god, did he graduate from college?

Xia Yu didn't care what he thought, and his eyes began to glow when he walked over. Directly stood up and stretched out his hand: "Mr. Rubin, hello! I am Xia Yu who communicated with you before!"

Although Rubin is a geek engineer obsessed with smartphone qì technology, he is also a fairly good company executive. In fact, after the Android company was acquired by Google. He was also the head of Android for several years, and continued to become more and more mature and perfect, and he was not as unreasonable as the average tech otaku.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Xia!" Rubin shook hands with a smile and asked politely, "What do you call this beautiful young lady?"

Xiao Wenjing stood up generously and said, "JessyXiao, I am a partner of Bluestar Ventures, and it is a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Rubin. ”

After a brief pleasantry, the three of them sat down for coffee. The two of them are generous and have a good conversation, which makes Rubin have a slight increase in his favorability.

Of course, Xia Yu didn't know this, but he didn't rush to ask about the specific situation of the Android company.

He took a sip of the fragrant mocha and said with a smile, "Mr. Rubin, your sidekick is such a wonderful idea, will there be a next generation of products?"

This sentence really attracted Rubin, and he said, "Oh, Mr. Xia likes it too? Hey, it's a pity that T-Moble has decided to give up this phone." But it did not sell well, and I didn't have the money to promote it myself. ”

"That's a shame! Think about it, it's so cool to be able to surf the web on a single phone!"

"Actually, I have a new idea, well, it is to communicate with you by email, a new system, which can be connected to the network, and can also intervene in the software platform......"

"Android!" Mr. Rubin, you said its name was Android!"

"That's right, it's Android, hehe, a machine qì person (the name of the machine qì person in the French science fiction novel "Future Eve")!"

Rubin is a genuine fan of the machine, and it's a domain name he's owned for years. By this time, however, he was already more interested in developing a mobile phone system that would change the current mobile phone operation model and be open to software designers.

So after the two talked for a while, he couldn't help but start talking about the Android company.

"Actually, I think a system platform is very interesting. You see, right now, it's all the operators who are covering the sky, and no one is building software for mobile phones, because they can't make any money at all! Every kind of mobile phone is running its own software and a whole set of applications, and they can't even do basic compatibility with each other...... Oh my God, it's a bottomless pit!"

Indeed, at this time, mobile phone manufacturers are very good, but they still can't compare with operators, and it is a complete oligopoly situation.

For example, Google wants to cooperate with Vodafone Telecom to apply Google search on their mobile phones for the convenience of users, but the other party's opinion is that the search results must be controlled by us, such as their well-sold mobile phone ringtones and a certain business must be prioritized in the search results.

Every operator does this, and they think it's a little world of gold. It's all up to them to provide all the services, and I feel that this kind of control is the best way to make money.

Xia Yu also responded: "Yes, they don't want to provide better mobile broadband and chips for mobile phones, so it's even more difficult to have a lot of software! It seems that the people who can make money now are the testing companies, and they can make a lot of money by making sure that the program works on all mobile phones......

"Mr. Xia, you're so right!"

Rubin is very happy that Xia Yu can understand his point of view, and a few days ago someone said that he was complaining meaninglessly!

Then he quickly couldn't help but say what he was working on for Larry Page of Google: "Actually, I think the future is the computer-capable mobile phone that will lead the way! Think about it, 700 million mobile phones are sold every year in the world." There are only 200 million computers, and the number is still growing! But the mobile phone business is still stagnant, which is a pity......

Xia Yu also felt that the time was more ripe, and couldn't help asking, "Your Android company, what is the situation now?"

"We're doing this! In the future, Android will be able to solve this problem if it convinces operators and mobile phone manufacturers that they don't need to prepare their own copyrighted software, but let developers write software for the Android platform," Rubin said.

The more he talked, the more excited he became. Keep gesturing in front of you: "Think about it! As long as mobile phones become more powerful, people will vote for our phones with their feet!" and this will attract more developers to write more software...... Finally a self-reinforcing software ecosystem!"

If you have seen the smartphone era dominated by iOS and Android in the later maturity period, Rubin's theory and idea can easily be accepted by a middle school student, because they are used to it.

But in this day and age. This view is also a bit shocking.

Although Microsoft has formed such an ecosystem in the personal computer industry, how can mobile phones, the things used for communication, be compared to computers?

Don't be surprised. In fact, until July 2005, before Google officially acquired Android, Rubin made a similar speech at Samsung in Seoul, when he was in South Korea. The result was: "Are you talking in your sleep, take your toys home, sir!"

This is probably one of the decisions that the president of Samsung Electronics regrets the most.

Just look at the momentum of Android's dominance in the future, and how difficult it is for Samsung to promote Bada and Tizen jointly developed with Intel after Samsung figured out the shape.

"Mr. Rubin, how is Android doing now?" this was also a question that Xia Yu was concerned about, and he couldn't help but ask.

"We've developed a basic platform that can test and run applications and provide system-level services!"

"Oh, it's just a prototype?"

Rubin nodded, "Yes, but we're fast! I have a team of thirty people, and they're all talented engineers!"

Indeed, the current Android system is far less mature than it was later, and many ideas are still just a prototype.

In fact, even after being acquired by Google, Rubin received the support of resources and funds to continue research, and it was not until three years later in 2008 that the first immature Android 1.0 system was officially released.

But it is undeniable that Rubin and his Android company are still a great team, and they are the most creative and executable companies to do mobile phone system research and development around Linux at this time.

Of course, these Xia Yu couldn't be clearer, he thought about it, and then directly screened out some more suitable topics according to the trend of the future Android system explosion, and took them out to communicate with Rubin.

For example, the future development space of this open system, such as some important functional improvement directions, such as a formal mobile app store that he did not expect at this time...... (To be continued......)

PS: Work is busy...... But two more per day will be guaranteed! The next chapter will be delivered before 12 o'clock.