Duke didn't expect that Cai Siqiang himself had basically solved the acquisition funding problem, because everyone was very busy during this time, and Duke had already explained the bottom line of the negotiation to Cai Siqiang, so he would not interfere with Cai Siqiang's work anymore, so everyone had little communication with each other during this time, and some problems of lack of information communication were inevitable.

But even if Cai Siqiang can find the funds, Duke doesn't want to put the ownership of this behemoth entirely in the domestic SAL, and for well-known reasons, Duke doesn't want to put all his eggs in one basket.

In particular, this is his biggest golden egg in recent times, although SAL is essentially in his hands. Duke believes that with Nokia's brand and the latest design of superior products, it is basically only a matter of time before the mobile phone business becomes popular, and in this vast world, the benefits obtained are by no means comparable to that of a fringe product like navigators.

Therefore, Duke plans to acquire Nokia through its own DUKE-SHU company in Luxembourg, and the headquarters of this newly acquired mobile phone company can be located in Chengdu, but in terms of ownership, it is better to disperse to various places, and then it will be acquired in the name of DUKE-SHU Luxembourg Company plus Sirius Company and SAL Company.

Although the development momentum of MI company is also very good, and the concept of brainwave telekinetic helmet is avant-garde enough, but compared with mobile phones, the product market space is obviously not an order of magnitude now, although Clement has begun to expand to medical auxiliary products, and it is unlikely to achieve much for a while.

Therefore, Duke wants to exchange some of MI's shares for shares in the mobile phone business, which is based on the consideration of maximizing profits.

Originally, Duke thought that it would take a little effort to persuade Shu Ya, who knew that Shu Ya just asked a few words and nodded and agreed to give up part of the equity in exchange for funds, so Duke was relieved to hand over this matter to Shu Ya to deal with, and now the venture capital companies in the United States are chasing MI and want to invest, but Shu Ya has not agreed, and now due to the urgent need for funds to sell a part of the equity, it must be a pie in the sky for these venture capital companies.

Of course, what the price will be will have to be discussed, and Shrewd Shuya will definitely not transfer it easily at a low price, and she wants to conduct a formal evaluation of MI with professionals.

After cashing out $2 billion, he feels that the acquisition funding problem has basically been solved, and if the acquisition is successful, then a prototype has basically been built at the front end of the mobile phone business ecological chain, from R&D to production and sales.

Now it's time to prepare for the back-end application ecosystem.

In his plan, the Duke laboratory in Rongcheng will be used as a promotion base to solve the problem of technology output sources, but to form a large application development tribe in the short term, it is obviously too slow to rely on this alone to promote.

In this case, the original online crowdsourcing platform acquired by Hunter Xinxi appeared in Duke's field of vision, although the company alone seems to be developing well, relying on the original programming community to gather more than one million developers of super popularity, the total amount of crowdsourcing business contracted by third parties has also developed to the level of hundreds of millions of dollars.

As a third-party development platform business of outsourcing enterprises, it has only just started, and there are not many companies that have actually adopted it.

Compared with the rapid development of MI and SAL, this online crowdsourcing platform is still in the stage of just throwing money into it, not talking about revenue at all, although its valuation is constantly changing, and Duke's investment is also increasing in value on the books, but it is not expected to see a balance in cash flow for three years.

Fortunately, Duke has now decided to devote itself to the mobile phone business, and the abundant R&D resources on this platform have become an important part of Duke's future mobile phone ecosystem plan, and it is time to make it work.

In terms of how to use this crowdsourcing platform to achieve their goals, after a recent moment, Duke gradually has a plan in mind, that is, to build this platform into the largest base for the development of new mobile phone system applications, the development of new mobile phone systems is not difficult, Duke believes that only need to put the development guide up, and then provide some open source demonstration applications for various applications, these smart developers can quickly learn to develop on this new platform.

The new company will try its best to provide various favorable conditions for these R&D personnel, such as the future application APP market entrance on this crowdsourcing platform. As long as the R&D personnel successfully develop an application on this platform, after passing a certain certification, it can be directly pushed to the new mobile application platform.

Centralize development, testing and verification, release, and maintenance to form an integrated R&D chain system.

As for the charging and management of the application, it is basically difficult for Duke to improve this perfect system, so this part can be directly copied and used.

If there is a difference, it is that Duke is not prepared to use this platform to make money, and even if it will charge some fees to developers at that time, it will all be used back to individual developers to provide value-added services such as testing and promotion to help developers be more successful.

Functionally, the online crowdsourcing platform provides a virtual development and testing environment, which is perfect for promoting Duke's desired mobile app development. At that time, Duke only needs to package the new system application, which can become a complete development and test environment, and promote it through this platform, which greatly simplifies the environment preparation work of developers.

More importantly, Duke hopes to form a complete R&D chain on this platform, centralize R&D and operation, and conduct quality verification through this platform to solve the problem of uneven quality of online applications.

In other words, Duke hopes to create a third-party force on this platform to carry out a quality check on the online applications of the future mobile phone platform to ensure that the online applications have a certain level of quality.

In this regard, the Android platform is actually a bad precedent, due to the openness is too strong, many competing download markets make a lot of good and bad applications mixed in, and the lack of a unified application entrance, so that developers are also very difficult in marketing, after the application development is successful, it is generally necessary to repeat the upload in more than a dozen download markets, and then wait for approval.

A lot of time is wasted communicating with various people, and for many individual developers, if the version is updated frequently, this work can take up even the same amount of time as the development time. Moreover, there is no unified support environment in terms of fees and advertisers, so that there is no effective guarantee of personal income.

Duke hopes that the application platform of the future will solve these shortcomings, but it is clear that the company cannot do it alone, and if hundreds of thousands of applications flood into the application platform, how many people will have to be recruited to complete such a daunting task of quality certification.

But if you turn this certification effort into a crowdsourcing platform business, then all this becomes less difficult.

Duke is not ready to charge the so-called application development registration fee, but hopes to transfer this fee to the quality entrance inspection link of the crowdsourcing platform, and support a group of individuals and studios who carry out quality testing and certification on the crowdsourcing platform, so that the crowdsourcing platform not only has a long-term business income channel, but also has a new way to deal with the control of application quality.

For a large number of individual developers, this approach is undoubtedly very imaginative.

Now it's important to consider how much it will cost app developers to be willing to use the service, and how much it will cost to attract a large number of professionals who specialize in this business.

And, to what extent does this certification test need to balance quality and efficiency?

There are a lot of details left by this idea, for example, the cost of testing and certification for large game applications should be different from that of simple applications, so it involves the classification of an application.

Similarly, individuals engaged in testing and certification should also be different from studios and companies, and there needs to be a control mechanism to ensure that these testing and certification can only choose the part they are good at, which also involves a complex testing and certification management, but these problems for Duke, it is a new opportunity, if he can solve it well, then although his mobile phone application platform is a latecomer, but it may not be impossible to catch up.

Duke recorded these thoughts and asked Kerry to quickly compile them into a draft report, ready to hand it over to the SAL team and the online crowdsourcing platform team to further study the relevant details, and now Duke has a lot of excellent teams under his hands, whether it is R&D or management, many things do not have to be done by Duke himself, and now it is time for Duke to get out of the hands-on work.

More often than not, Duke has to start seeing himself as a leader, adapting to what most of the time is just directing progress for the company or R&D, and then leaving the energy to solve the key problems.

In this regard, Duke did not have many opportunities to consciously do it, due to the recent dedication to the study of nuclear reaction simulation programs, almost in a semi-closed state, so that Duke temporarily disconnected from the contact of the various teams in his company, and when Duke returned, he found that everything did not seem to be too bad without himself.

This good situation proves that, to a certain extent, most of the teams of its companies, whether it is the R&D team or the management team, have a strong ability to grow themselves, although Duke is a little disappointed, after all, if he is really reduced to dispensable, it is obviously not suitable for Duke, who is used to being Mr. Key, although this is definitely a good thing for Duke.