Côte d'Azur Laboratory.

“…… Our goal is to make Azure-C the main programming language for writing mobile applications in the future, which is very practical, and the programs written in Azure-C are basically a little larger than the source code, and it is fully compatible with the standard C language. ”

More than 600 engineers gathered in an indoor hall at the Côte d'Azur lab, all listening to Luo Sheng's narration that the Azure-C language, which has been in development for three months, will host the AOS operating system and mobile phone applications.

"For all programming languages, there are two ultimate goals: one is to improve the efficiency of hardware operation, and the other is to improve the efficiency of programmer development." Luo Sheng looked at the hundreds of engineers and said, "Unfortunately, you can't have both, you can only choose one." When it comes to improving the efficiency of hardware operation, C has no competitors and is invincible. For example, the C language uses the array int a[3], and after compiling it becomes [base address + offset], there is no faster access method for the computer than the access method of this method. ”

Bai Lang, who was at the scene, immediately spoke: "Although the C language has compressed the operation efficiency of the hardware to the extreme, the problem brought by this design idea is the lack of ease of use and security, and the wrong offset C language is ignored. ”

Saying that, Bai Lang spread his hands helplessly.

Luo Sheng nodded and smiled: "That's right, this is the notorious cross-border problem in the C language, the only purpose of the C language is to be fast, either it will run fast or it will crash quickly." It only cares about how high the program flies, and never cares whether the programmer is tired or not. There is no such thing as a 'easy to develop, fast to run' language in this world, after all, easy development comes from the packaging of the bottom layer. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng paused for a moment and added: "Now there is a popular question that is...... Is it possible to invent a language that is just as fast, but doesn't have as many pitfalls as C? The answer is yes, and there are already such languages, called [D], which were released five years ago by a company called Digital Mars to improve the C++ language, but it didn't catch on. ”

Luo Sheng continued to say: "Because we have to face a very basic practical problem, there are too many C codes, they are basically working normally, Linux, Window, MacOS, Unix, etc., the kernels of these operating systems are C, and the kernel of our AOS system is also C. ”

"I'm not sure what percentage of Window is C, but I'm sure it's a bit silly and naïve for Microsoft engineers to rewrite the kernel of an operating system in C# and want these people to use your new language."

"It's like you're an IT science and engineering man, and now you want to change your career to write, are you willing? Got it in mind? That means that your previous accumulated experience and knowledge and dedication are all worthless, you are a god in the IT world, but you are a novice in writing, you have to relearn how to write. ”

"So you definitely don't want to, the truth is the same, the D language is not popular, developers would rather continue to optimize C, this is an ecological problem, the tuyere has been occupied by C, you want to start a new stove to replace it, no less than restarting the entire human Internet infrastructure, is this possible?"

"So those Chinese compilations are fooling investors who don't know how to do it, cheating them out of money, Chinese compilations actually have ah, it seems to be good, but you don't need what you can do?"

"And some code can't be changed at all, a simple 5 CPU flight control software is written, to do a kind of full coverage test on it, what happens if one or more of the CPUs are broken? You can make a simple math combination. After testing, you will find that you can't even add a comment, let alone rewrite it. ”

"So why do we insist on C? In the future, when the near future is accompanied by the rise of embedded and real-time systems, artificial intelligence, robots, autonomous driving, etc., these seem distant but the future is promising, and these are the core applications of the C language, and at this application level, the C language has no competitors. ”

"Can we fault these outlets? No! ”

After a few minutes, when Luo Sheng was about to continue, the mobile phone in his pocket made a vibrating sound, and he took it out and glanced at the call from Qin Weimu.

"Okay, let's leave it for the time being, there is only half a year left for us, we must pass the AOS beta version, and complete the underlying optimization in a few days." Luo Sheng left this sentence and left the hall first.

As the boss, the engineers present were suddenly in awe and worshipped.

Luo Sheng got out of the hall and connected the phone: "It's me, what's the matter?" ”

Qin Weimu on the other end of the phone replied: "Apple's CEO Steve Jobs has personally visited, and he is now in the company's waiting room. ”

Luo Sheng was stunned and said: "In the company? Why is there no news? ”

Qin Weimu: "I heard them say that this visit is very low-key, and the outside world doesn't even know about it. ”

Hearing this, Luo Sheng was stunned, and after a little thought, he roughly guessed the intention of the Qiao gang leader, most of them came for the problem of patent barriers, and many key patents have now been registered by the Cote d'Azur company.

Let's talk about multi-touch screen technology, which is a kind of touch panel with a transparent sensing medium, which is used to detect multi-touch or proximity touches that occur at different positions at the same time on the touch panel, and generates a different signal representing the touch position on the touch panel for each touch in the multi-touch.

Apple has been working on this technology internally, but it is a step too late to preemptively register a patent, a month late to be exact.

"Okay, I'll come here."

Luo Sheng finished the communication, and after a few words, he left the Côte d'Azur laboratory and headed for the company's office building.

About ten minutes later, I met with Steve Jobs in the reception room.

Aside from other factors, Luo Sheng still has a lot of respect for Qiao's gang leader, although Apple's iPhone series in the last generation is becoming more and more ugly in industrial design.

But the industrial design of the iPhone4 generation of mobile phones has indeed broken people's inherent perception of mobile phones, and Qiao Gangzhu has made a consumer electronics product into a work of art.

But then again, after returning to reality, Luo Sheng will not hold such emotional emotions, and he will not give Apple and Qiao Gang any way, and they must be left with no way out.

The Cote d'Azur still owes the bank a lot of debt, and Joe Gang Leader came over this time, and he couldn't do it without knocking on the apple.

Ahem, you can't say that, it's a patent fee, it's a matter of course, this is a foreigner's way of playing.

You must know that many domestic classical prescriptions have been preemptively registered by foreigners, which were originally invented by their ancestors, but in the end, they have to pay foreigners for their own use, and they can't be angry when they think about it.

This meeting was a meeting between the two parties with a difference of 30 years, but the classic magic of the Qiao gang leader's own "reality bending force field" was invalid with Luo Sheng.

Flickering to flickering, the result is definitely nothing to fool.

The two sides briefly talked about Apple's failure to enter the mobile phone market for the first time - Rockr.

Luo Sheng said with a smile: "I also bought one for the Rockr on sale, this product is doomed to failure, because the impact of Rockr on the iPod is inevitable, but the iPod has brought a lot of money to Apple, and your company hopes to slow down its impact, so on the Rockr, try your best to limit the function of the iTunes software to reduce the threat to the iPod." ”

"Obviously, this is a mess, and Motorola doesn't want to try digital music on its best-selling models, and Apple doesn't want to show off the best of its iTunes playback software in Rockr."

"This phone is like a mentally retarded child born to two extremely smart and talented parents, it can't download music directly, it needs to connect to a computer to upload songs to the phone, and it can only save 100 pieces of music, as a consumer I am deeply disappointed, I wasted more than 300 dollars in vain, you have to pay me."

Joe's Gang Leader: "......"

Luo Sheng's current mentality is to talk to Lao Qiao at eye level, this is not a question of respect or disrespect, and now it is a dialogue scene of equal status.

In the face of Luo Sheng's ridicule, the Qiao gang leader was embarrassed but also helpless, because he couldn't find a reason to refute it.

The topic was quickly brushed over, and despite the huge age difference of 30 years between the two sides, the Joe gang leader did not despise the young man in front of him.

A person who can easily navigate the capital circle and create a company that has completed its IPO in just three years, and now has a market value above Apple, how can such a person be as simple as it seems on the surface.

If it was really a simple kid as young as he appeared to be, to create such an achievement? Come on.

On the contrary, age has become his best means of disguise, making others despise him.

Strictly speaking, Apple is now competing with Bluestar Technology Group, which Qiao Gang Leader is actually indignant, Apple has not entered the social network, but Bluestar Technology has entered the digital music market.

Old Joe is very sure that Luo Sheng wants to kill iTunes, although MusicSpace's market share is only about 15%, and iTunes firmly dominates the digital music market share under the popularity of the iPod, but this is enough to make Joe's gang pay attention.

This interview is also very interesting, Qiao Gang Leader seems to be asking what the Cote d'Azur is doing between the lines, while Luo Sheng is full of nonsense, fooling Qiao Gang Leader, the Cote d'Azur company makes a clamshell machine, the kind with a plastic keyboard.

Old Qiao smiled in his heart, obviously very suspicious, and was testing the other party.

"Sometimes life picks up a brick and slaps it on your head, and the Citazur's patent barrier is a brick on Apple." Jobs shook his head with a smile and looked at Luo Sheng in front of him, and he added: "Mr. Luo, Apple hopes to obtain the authorization of your company's 26 patents, including multi-touch screen technology. ”

The assistant who accompanied Qiao's helpmaster took out a text material from his briefcase and handed it to Luo Sheng, who closed it at a glance and said with a smile: "There is no problem with the authorization of these 26 patents, but in terms of licensing fees, Apple has to pay $350 million a year for the licensing fee, sign a 5-year contract, and pay $350 million on time every year today." ”

“What？”

When the gang leader heard his offer, it was impossible to say that he was not angry in his heart.

350 million US dollars per year, signed for 5 years, that is 1.75 billion US dollars, which is simply a lion's big mouth, which is simply ugly than Qualcomm's eating appearance.

Why don't you grab it?

"The $350 million a year licensing fee is unreasonable and I can't accept it." Gang Leader Qiao said without hesitation, it was simply a clear robbery of money.

"No, we have spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and the company's operation also needs to be maintained by profits, and I can't accept it below this price." Luo Sheng said categorically that he had decided on Apple, and this was the price at which Luo Sheng refused Qiao's help.

If Qiao or others from Apple didn't take the initiative to seek patent licensing, Luo Sheng might not be able to handle it, after all, his own arrival in this world has undergone great changes, and his appearance and the emergence of Bluestar Technology Group are the biggest changes.

But Lao Qiao came in person, which allowed Luo Sheng to judge that Apple must be secretly promoting the research and development of the iPhone project at present, but when he lifted the fog in front of him, he found that there was a huge patent barrier in front of him.

And this also gave Luo Sheng another extremely important basis for judgment, Apple's iPhone project is at least about ten months behind the [Azure] plan, or even more.

If Luo Sheng is giving Apple a card here, I am afraid that by 2008, he may not be able to launch the iPhone product smoothly, and even with Qiao's pee, will he put the iPhone on hold because of arrogance?

It's possible, the iPad project is not allowed because of the development of multi-touch screens, and now it's not being beaten into the cold palace by Lao Qiao, grandma doesn't love uncle.

You know, before a large group company launches a product, it doesn't know how many projects are killed behind it.

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