Motorola's charity gala on Start Island, New York.

Although Stardhorn Island is more than twice the size of Manhattan, it is very sparsely populated, which is also related to the fact that there are too many vacation villas on it, and the rich people like to come here for vacations, and they can look up to see the Statue of Liberty and the busy New York Harbor.

Taking a Motorola cruise ship, departing from New York Harbor to Staryu Island, Xiao Qi looked at the familiar Motorola expression on the cruise ship, and his heart was full of thoughts.

In his previous life, Xiao Qi witnessed the glory and decline of Motorola in China before he went abroad.

As the first large-scale foreign communication company to develop in China, Motorola relied on its strong strength to make a lot of money on pagers, and then turned to the field of mobile phones, accounting for almost 90% of the market in China at its peak.

At that time, Motorola was synonymous with excellent products and high-end mobile phones.

Even the first mobile phone equipped for Xiao Xu in the unit was Motorola's V998, although the price had been reduced from 9000 at the peak to more than 5000, it was still unattainable.

Xiao Qi, who is still a child, took his father's mobile phone, played novelly for a long time, and even put it on the pillow to accompany him to sleep.

At that time, Xiao Qi really thought that there was no more haode mobile phone in the world than V998, and there was no greater company than Motorola.

As a result, Nokia later entered China in a big way, relying on the friendly policy of building signal base stations for mobile and Lianshu for free, and turned Motorola into a "non-signal mobile phone", and Nokia mobile phone that adjusted the acceptance frequency was "a mobile phone that can talk anywhere".

As a result, the proud and arrogant Motorola was beaten to the ground by Nokia, and after entering the new century. For several years in a row, China's market share has declined sharply, and this year, it has only 25% of the market share.

But Motorola is still very proud, and their overall profitability on shijie is still good, at least before the advent of the smartphone IPHONE. All of them have maintained a proud record of profitability for more than 20 consecutive years.

It's just that after Xiao Qi's DreamPad was born, even if their leadership was stiff, they also saw how much share intelligent electronic products would occupy in the future, so they started to research intelligent products.

Motorola and Nokia are actually very, very disappointing when it comes to intelligence.

The first mobile phone on shijie is Motorola's, the first touchscreen mobile phone is Nokia's, and the first mobile phone with an integrated WIFI chip is also Nokia's......

They have already occupied all kinds of opportunities, but they are too conceited, thinking that mobile phones exist for calls. Those fancy features will be spurned by real mid-to-upper earners because these customers simply don't have time to play with their phones.

So later, the extremely keen Qiao gang leader succeeded, and Samsung, HTC, etc. also flocked to the top with smartphones, causing the two mobile phone companies to fall directly into bankruptcy, which is probably the present in 2006, most people did not expect it.

In 2013, Nokia announced the closure of several flagship stores in China. Countless mobile phone users ran to the closed store to take a group photo to commemorate their youth.

After all, Motorola and Nokia. They are all memories of growing up with a generation of Chinese people, including Xiao Qi, who have deep feelings for them - not because of the mobile phone itself, but because of the growth process carried by the mobile phone.

With this slight melancholy, Xiao Qi got on a special car and arrived at the "Motorcycle Manor" built by Motorola.

All right.

Said it was Motorola. In fact, it is somewhat inaccurate, it should be said that today's protagonist is Motorola mobile phone company, its parent company Motorola company, but also involves the rights and interests of the military's weapons and electronic equipment, communication equipment of major important departments, etc., that is really like the existence of IBM. It can be said that they are all illegitimate children of the United States.

Unlike the parent company, which involves the military's strict secrecy, Motorola is used by the whole people, so it can act in a very high-profile manner.

No matter how high Nokia's market share is in Shijie, in the current U.S. market, before the iPhone began to be sold, Motorola was still the No. 1 in the United States, and it was still a behemoth that ordinary companies could not look up to.

For example, today, when Xiao Qi arrived at six o'clock, there were already crowds inside and out, and the Manor was occupied by two or three hundred well-dressed gentlemen and ladies, and its popularity seemed very strong.

Wade was very enthusiastic, knowing that Xiao Qi didn't know anyone, so he called early, and then waited at the door and walked in with Xiao Qi.

"Mr. Griffin, vice president of Motorola Mobile, wants to meet with you before the charity dinner begins." Wade said as he walked: "Griffin has served as the president of Greater China, and he is not bad. I didn't rush to say yes to him, because there's a good chance they'll mention the DreamPad thing. ”

"Let's go meet you." Xiao Qi said, "These wolves are coming sooner or later, in addition to investment banks, these mobile phone companies are not fuel-efficient lamps." ”

"Okay."

Wade breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly took Xiao Qi to another road.

The two walked through the two lobbies, Xiao Qi entered a relatively small second-floor lounge, while Wade waited outside the door.

Here, an old man with gray hair is holding a book to read.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the old man who looked up smiled heartily at Xiao Qi, stood up and gave him a warm hug: "Amazing boy, I finally see you!" ”

Xiao Qi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Mr. Griffin, I'm also very honored." When I was a kid, you were the president of Motorola Greater China, and you were a big guy that you could only see on TV! ”

"Yes, looking at the appearance of young talents like you, I feel more and more old." Griffin smiled bitterly and beckoned Xiao Qi to sit down, "I don't have much time in Motorola, and I should retire next year, so I took the liberty to invite Mr. Xiao here today to do something for Motorola at the moment of Zuihou." ”

"Mr. Griffin, please." Xiao Qi said with a smile.

"I watched Fairy Corporation's DreamPad and it was amazing! Very wonderful! It reminds me of Cooper's first call more than thirty years ago...... "Griffin had a look of memory on his face, "He opened this door for us humans, and you, Mr. Shaw, have opened another door for us that is even wider!" (To be continued......)

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