Chapter 61: Apple and Google CEOs Gather
After Lin Xuan and Han Lu walked around the corridor, they returned to the ward, and Han Lu also left.
Not long after returning to the ward, Lin Xuan received a call from Li Yanhong, telling him that Page and Cook would arrive in Binhai this morning, and he also left Lin Xuan's phone number with them.
After hanging up Li Yanhong's phone, Lin Xuan immediately called Chen Yu and relayed the news to him, and then asked Lin Xue to find a nurse and find a ward for his mother to rest temporarily, so as not to disturb his mother's rest when they came over for a while.
After a long time, Chen Yu came to the hospital with excitement, for him, today is definitely the second special day in his life, the last time was to see Li Yanhong, this time it was to see Cook and Page.
However, he knows very well that today is just a beginning, and there is still a long way to go for their company in the future, and he believes that one day, he will not only be able to meet these industry bigwigs, but also may become the same person as them, because he believes more and more that Lin Xuan will one day really become China's Bill Gates, or even surpass Bill Gates, as Li Yanhong said.
After Chen Yu came to the hospital, he briefly chatted with Lin Xuan about today's negotiations with Cook and Page, and also said some of his own ideas, but the two of them had almost the same idea, and they hit it off immediately, waiting for these two industry bigwigs to come over to negotiate.
Soon after, Lin Xuan received a call from a stranger, who claimed to be Zhao Qingshan, the president of Google Huaxia, saying that he had arrived at the Affiliated Hospital of Binhai University with Page, and asked if it was convenient for Lin Xuan to see them now.
Lin Xuan immediately invited them to come over to meet, then tidied up his clothes and sat up against the head of the bed, although his body had fully recovered, but in order not to let outsiders see the strangeness, he could only temporarily pretend to be sick on the bed.
Soon, there was a knock on the door of the ward, Chen Yu hurriedly walked over to open the door to greet him, and then saw two middle-aged men in suits and leather shoes walking in, one of the foreigners was obviously the current CEO of Google, Larry Page, and the other middle-aged man holding a large bouquet of carnations should be Zhao Qingshan.
"I'm sorry Mr. Zhao, Mr. Page, I can't get out of bed to greet the two of you!" Lin Xuan said apologetically.
"Mr. Lin doesn't have to be polite! You're still recuperating, and we're taking the liberty of bothering you! Zhao Qingshan said with a smile.
The two walked to Lin Xuan's bed and shook hands with Lin Xuan respectively, and Page also used that non-standard pronunciation to say a word in Chinese: "Hello, Mr. Lin, I wish you a speedy recovery!" ”
"Thank you, Mr. Page! Lin Xuan said with a smile. ”
Immediately afterwards, Page said something in English, and Zhao Qingshan hurriedly translated: "Mr. Page said that Mr. Lin is younger than he imagined, which really surprised him!" ”
"Thank you! Mr. Zhao, Mr. Page, this is Chen Yu, the future CEO of our company! Lin Xuan introduced Chen Yu to Page and Zhao Qingshan.
Page and Zhao Qingshan shook hands with Chen Yu again.
After greeting each other like this for a while, they went straight to the point, Page said a series of English, Zhao Qingshan nodded, and translated: "Mr. Lin, Mr. Page just praised the intelligent voice butler you developed is an epoch-making technology, which is really great, and it is simply tailored for the Android system!" So Google is interested in bidding $300 million for this software of yours, I wonder if you are interested in selling it? ”
Hearing the price code offered by Google, Lin Xuan was fiercely excited in his heart, you must know that when Google bought Android, it only cost 50 million US dollars.
Of course, Lin Xuan knows very well that the value of the APP he developed is far greater than that of Android, which Google can naturally see, so Lin Xuan expected that Google would offer a high price, but he didn't expect this opening to be $300 million, which made Lin Xuan a little surprised, but he knew very well that the $300 million was definitely not Google's final bottom line, so the value of his software in Google's eyes was definitely more than that.
But although there was a little excitement in his heart, Lin Xuan still tried his best to remain calm and indifferent on his face, and shook his head with a smile: "I don't plan to sell this software!" ”
"Okay, it seems that Mr. Lin is not satisfied with this price, I can add another 100 million US dollars, Mr. Lin, you should know that 400 million US dollars to buy a software is unprecedented, I am afraid that there will not be a second company in the world that can pay such a high price!" Page spoke again, there was no change in expression on his face, obviously this result was expected by him, and Zhao Qingshan immediately translated Page Page's words to Lin Xuan.
"No!" Lin Xuan smiled and shook his head, "I think there will definitely be a second one willing to pay this price!" Lin Xuan said with a smile.
Lin Xuan's answer made Page's face sink, in fact, he knew very well who Lin Xuan was talking about, but as far as he knew, Apple didn't seem to take this software to heart at first, and although Cook has attached great importance to this software recently, he has not yet talked to the board members, so there should be no action for the time being.
But what Lin Xuan meant by this, could it be that Apple had already sent someone to talk to Lin Xuan?
"I'm sorry Paige, I didn't tell you in advance, in fact, Mr. Cook is also on his way, I think it should be almost there, as for the cooperation between you and me, I think we can wait for Mr. Cook to arrive, and we can negotiate together!" Lin Xuan said meaningfully.
Hearing this, Page's face sank, you know, Apple and Google have always been competitors, especially in recent years, the battle between the two sides in the mobile field is not tragic.
At that time, Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, denounced that Google's Android system was developed on the basis of plagiarizing Apple's technology, and claimed that he would use all Apple's financial resources to launch a "thermonuclear war" against Google, and said that he would not accept any compensation, because all he wanted to see was the destruction of Google.
Since Google released its first Android phone in 2009, almost all products and services have been designed to compete with Apple, and almost all new products launched at Google's annual I/O conference are also things that Apple has launched in the past year, and news about Apple will also be filled with all the news content of Google's I/O conference.
Such two incompatible companies were arranged together by Lin Xuan today, and this result was indeed not good news for Page.
Of course, Page also expected this result, but he didn't expect it to happen, and it seems that today's negotiations will be bloody again.
And this is what Lin Xuan wants to see.
Sure enough, not long after Lin Xuan's words were finished, his mobile phone rang, and Zhao Qingshan heard Lin Xuan's conversation with the other party, so he was sure that it was really Cook who came over.
So I immediately told Peppa, although the expression on Peppe's face did not change, but his heart turned upside down, and he immediately began to think about how to successfully win the intelligent voice butler for a while.
In fact, when Cook pushed open the door of the hospital room and saw Paige inside, he was in a similar mood to Peppa.
In the past two days, he has struggled to make the company's shareholders aware of the epoch-making technology contained in the intelligent voice butler and the threat to Apple. After finally obtaining sufficient authorization, he secretly contacted Baidu in the hope of making an appointment with Lin Xuan.
Originally, Cook had already gotten the news that Google had attached great importance to the intelligent voice butler, so he was worried that he would be late this time, but when he received a call from Baidu and said that Lin Xuan invited him over, he was very happy, thinking that Google was still waiting, but he didn't expect Lin Xuan to invite Page at the same time.
But what made him feel relieved was that since Page was here, it meant that he was not too late, otherwise Google and that Lin Xuan had already reached an agreement, and that would be the worst outcome.
Along with Cook was Qiu Chunliang, the general manager of Apple's China region, and like Page, the two were also holding carnations.
"Mr. Qiu, Mr. Cook, I'm sorry I can't get out of bed to greet you!" Lin Xuan said politely again.
Hearing Lin Xuan's words, Cook came to his senses, quickly came over and shook hands with Lin Xuan, and also said in non-standard Chinese: "Mr. Lin, it's a pleasure to meet you!" ”
"Mr. Cook, I don't need to introduce you to this!"
"Of course, Mr. Page and I are old friends!" Cook feigned composure and shook Page's hand.
Seeing the scene of Page and Cook shaking hands, Lin Xuan and Chen Yu looked at each other and smiled, both of them knew very well that they could see these two sworn enemies in the industry shaking hands, there are really few in the world, and this scene alone is estimated to be on the New York Times tomorrow.
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