Chapter 939 Google's Corner (4k)

On the first day of December, Fang Zhuo arrived at the office of the Silicon Valley R&D Center early, waiting to send off Google's Schmidt's visit while flipping through the routine company reports.

As the company grew larger and more affairs became more numerous, he read reports with more focus.

Like the work reports from Bingxin, Dr. Liang Mengsong's often went through very quickly, first reading the overview, then quickly glancing at the long article in the middle, and finally carefully reading his conclusions on the technology and process.

Bingxin currently has three major projects in the field of technology, one is the research on 45nm process technology, the second is the research on FinFET fin field effect transistors, and the third is the research on FD-SOI fully depleted silicon on insulator.

Professor Hu Zhengming has undertaken a lot of work on the latter two.

In particular, at the end of last year, an SOI international industry alliance including 19 well-known companies such as AMD, IBM, and Taiji was established, with the goal of promoting the innovation of SOI technology and accelerating the growth of the SOI market. Professor Hu has been running around a lot this year for Bingxin to join.

Although the industry alliance is to expand the market, it also has its own interests.

However, FD-SOI itself was invented by Professor Hu in 2000. His identity, qualifications and achievements all have different weights. That is why Bingxin will become the 20th member of the SOI Alliance at the earliest at the end of this month and at the latest at the beginning of next year.

This will obviously help Bingxin apply FD-SOI research.

Unlike the technical side of Dr. Liang's report, CEO Qiu Ciyun's report style is somewhat different from his own.

Mr. Qiu is quite efficient in dealing with people, but the content in his work report is very fragmented. He likes to describe the considerations of one thing over and over again, which makes Fang Zhuo very easy to read, but it is a bit time-consuming.

"Mr. Fang, today's newspaper."

Secretary Liu Zonghong walked into the office and put down today's reports from various media.

Fang Zhuo said "hmm" and looked at the time. There was still half an hour before the appointment with Schmidt.

Old Shi came here today for nothing else. In addition to the regular communication about the development of Android phones, he mainly wanted to find connections to mediate Google's business in China, but this...

Fang Zhuo's mind meant that it was as usual, not easy to mediate, so he should not mediate, so he mainly wanted to talk about the former.

While his thoughts were turning, a piece of content in the newspaper came into view. Another real estate company was on the verge of bankruptcy, and the company's chairman was suspected of jumping off the building but failed.

He was about to sigh, but after a closer look, he saw that this person jumped from the second floor, and his sigh stopped abruptly.

"This is interesting."

Fang Zhuo pointed the news in the newspaper to Liu Zonghong who was changing tea.

Liu Zonghong happened to know what happened yesterday, and smiled: "Mr. Fang, this is said to be a real jump. At that time, he was entangled with the creditor, and chose the second floor. There was a mattress below, and it happened to force the creditor back with a jump."

Fang Zhuo: "Hmm..."

"As a result, the stock of the mattress company rose. It is strong and durable." Liu Zonghong said interesting things.

Fang Zhuo was stunned for a moment, then said after a few seconds of silence: "There is some truth in this..."

If this is a market value management company, find a few clients, jump a few more times, maybe there will be one less creditor.

He flipped through the newspaper again and looked at the analysis of the economic situation by various experts. Because Geithner has been officially nominated as the next financial steward, everyone is looking forward to his new policies and is also making suggestions.

The new team will be officially launched in January next year, but Geithner is now working on his rescue plan, which is expected to be officially announced as early as early February after he passes the Senate vote.

As far as Fang Zhuo knows, Geithner, Summers and others are determined to take Wall Street as the financial core, save Wall Street companies first, and let the economic system revolve around Wall Street's financial industry to restore prosperity.

When Fang Zhuo heard his golf friends talking about this, he thought of the "Occupy Wall Street" event.

At 8:55 a.m., Google CEO Schmidt came as scheduled.

Yike and Google have close cooperation, and Android is a witness to the love between the two companies.

As the head of Yike, Fang Zhuo not only communicated frequently and smoothly with Schmidt, but also had a good personal relationship with Larry, the founder of Google.

Fang Zhuo listened patiently to Schmidt's demands, both emotionally and rationally, both publicly and privately.

Both Larry and Schmidt had talked about the relationship between Google's business and administration in China, and believed that solving this link would allow the business to be smoothly carried out.

Fang Zhuo felt that they were a little bit relying on personal relationships and were unwilling to change Google's strategy in the East. In fact, Google's localization in China was quite unsuccessful, which was due to both Kai-Fu Lee's team and the general unwillingness of foreign companies to delegate power.

"How about this, Schmidt, I will help find the leaders after I return to China this month and fully reflect your situation." Fang Zhuo agreed very seriously and gave a timetable.

Schmidt expressed his gratitude. The Eastern relationship he had found from Mr. Fang did get feedback, but the result was not very effective.

As we all know, there are always various considerations in administration, and we can't just rely on Mr. Fang.

Besides, Mr. Fang's business empire does not include search, and does not compete with Google. Even if he is a bad guy, he would not refuse such a favor, right?

Based on his own experience, Schmidt believes that there is no problem here, after all, they are an iron triangle.

He talked about the issue that has gradually gained public attention in the past two days: "I heard that the lawsuit between Yike and LG will soon come to a conclusion?"

Fang Zhuo asked back: "Where did you hear that?"

"Look at LG's reaction. Its senior vice president criticized Yike's use of patents to hinder healthy competition in the market." Schmidt mentioned an observation angle.

Fang Zhuo didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "There is no result here yet. Besides, Yike's mobile phone has been banned in South Korea. Who is blocking it? The South Korean court is too biased, and the appeal we filed there is also slow."

Schmidt nodded slightly. There is no problem with this matter. LG contacted Google but went back on its word. Now the evildoers will be punished by their own evildoers.

He took a sip of coffee and conveyed what he wanted to talk about more: "Then... What is Yike's attitude towards HTC?"

Fang Zhuo frowned and quickly sensed the breath of a lobbyist.

HTC's Wang Xuehong flew to Shanghai before, but he didn't see her. She flew to the United States again last month, but still didn't see her. She handed it over to Yu Hong to deal with.

LG's ban lawsuit will come to a conclusion in the next few days, and HTC will probably have some movement around the end of the year or the beginning of the year.

This time is actually quite fast, but HTC may have slowed down its negotiation attitude because of the discussion with Google about installing the Android system.

"HTC, um, Schmidt, you may not know that HTC's President Wang is talking to our President Yu in New York. I think we can get a good result." Fang Zhuo said with a smile, "Don't worry about this matter. I believe HTC will show sincerity. Oh, by the way, I met with Sony's Stringer a few days ago and talked to him about the choice of future systems for Sony Ericsson mobile phones."

"Although Sony Ericsson mobile phones are not in good market conditions today, they still have a high share. If Sony Ericsson can also enter the Android camp, I believe our promotion of smart systems will be greatly strengthened."

Schmidt heard about Sony Ericsson's situation and turned his attention to it.

Sony Ericsson mobile phones are much better than HTC. If it can also join the PRO Alliance, the cross-licensing of patents will be greatly beneficial.

He asked Stringer about his reaction with concern.

"He and I only communicated privately. The future direction of Sony Ericsson mobile phones probably needs to be comprehensively evaluated by the other side. After all, Microsoft is also very attractive." Fang Zhuo shrugged, "This also requires Android to show enthusiasm. What do you think?"

Schmidt nodded in approval. Although Android is an independent company, Google exerts comprehensive influence, whether it is development or expansion.

He thought again and again, knowing that Mr. Fang is an external director of Sony, he felt that it would be better to have this person participate in this matter.

If Sony Ericsson joins Android, the situation in the mobile phone industry seems to be much clearer at once. The world's leading manufacturers include Samsung, Sony Ericsson and the fiercely developing Yike. In addition, Chinese manufacturers are also very active, and the future growth trend is immeasurable.

In just less than two years, the Android system is really booming.

And with such development of Android, naturally, the inherent system market has also been eroded.

Schmidt's thoughts turned again and again in his mind, and he asked with concern: "Has Yike and Nokia had further contact? The settlement on patents is a win-win situation."

"You also know that Nokia is very stubborn." Fang Zhuo said lightly.

Schmidt frowned, just like LG was facing a market ban. Once the feud between Yike and Nokia continued, it was likely to lead to an uncontrollable situation.

At that time...

He still frowned, but his heart relaxed. Let it go. The current Android is no longer the Android of 2007. It has a certain number of users and the aggressive Samsung.

Schmidt continued to ask a few more questions, and he was not in the mood to fly to Europe to persuade peace like last time.

Fang Zhuo could understand some subtle changes very well, and even habitually speculated on what Mr. Schmidt was thinking. If Yike lost power, the shares in Android might be taken back at the opportunity, even if the price was higher.

The two chatted for a while and imagined the development of the Android system next year.

At the end, Fang Zhuo mentioned a very important issue for Yike's Chinese market. Because Google's business in China was sometimes effective and sometimes not, the Google services in the Android system did not get a good user experience from Chinese consumers.

As the first product of the Android system, Yike Mars has basically maintained the original ecology of the system in the global market, but this original ecology is not so good in China.

As the Android system is updated, Google gradually adds functions to its service framework, and also controls more and more mobile software being developed to make the mobile phone experience better.

Because the system is open source, mobile software often comes up with redundant functions and requires more mobile phone permissions, which hinders consumers' usage experience.

The existence of Google is to make mobile phone software functions pursue accuracy and simplicity, and put the notification functions of the software under its unified management, so as to minimize memory usage and avoid mobile phone jams.

This is also what the IOS system does, but it is a closed system and is not open to third-party ROM developers. Now it has done better.

Simply put, Google now has the prototype function of Google Mobile Service GMS. As the prototype is enhanced, the fluency of the mobile phone will be higher-now it may be more from the perspective of market share, and such function replacement is also tacitly accepted.

The Chinese market is different. The prototype of Google GMS is not very smart. The running memory of the mobile phone is a situation where software can be used at will. Obviously, it will become more laggy in the future as the software functions increase.

Fang Zhuo's underlying meaning is that Yi Ke will make a YMS framework to replace Google in the Chinese market to play the role of managing mobile software.

What can Yi Ke's YMS do?

It can prohibit software from opening screen ads, prohibit software from occupying memory, and ensure the quality and source of apps... and so on.

This will undoubtedly improve the user experience of consumers.

But... this is a challenge for Google. The Android system is its effort to find the entrance to the mobile Internet era. In the future planning, GMS will include a series of basic services such as accounts, emails, maps, searches, app stores, and security authentication.

These GMS services are an important reliance for Google in the mobile era.

Almost when Fang Zhuo talked about this aspect of the Chinese market, Schmidt's face became visibly serious.

He stared at the oriental man in front of him and frowned, saying, "Android and Google services are together."

"Android is open source, isn't it?" Fang Zhuo asked knowingly. Android is open source, and Google's functions are also being developed by others at this point in time. However, Yike is indeed Google's largest partner in mobile phones.

Schmidt did not play blind on this issue, and said solemnly, "Google has always given great support to Yike Mars. I don't want this to become a rift in our friendship."

Fang Zhuo also frowned, and this time stated, "Android is open source."

Schmidt stared at Fang Zhuo without saying anything.

Fang Zhuo gave in and said, "Yike just needs to better serve consumers and needs to compete with more and more competitors for a smoother user experience. Yike's services can include Google search, email and other functions. Yike has not changed in the market outside of China."

"Then just use Google services!" Schmidt said firmly.

"Google services are not easy to use! This is a problem you need to solve in China!" Fang Zhuo also became tough.

Schmidt suddenly doubted Fang's mediation for Google in China. Was it a good or bad mediation?

The motive has appeared! Fang is not a good person!

He stood up and said coldly: "Google will solve this problem."

Fang Zhuo also stood up and said solemnly: "Of course I hope to see this the most. Yike's goal is always to provide better services to consumers."

Schmidt glanced at Fang for the last time, shook hands with him reluctantly, and left the office.

Fang Zhuo still sent Schmidt to the door. There was no way. He understood that he just didn't want to see the splash screen ads.

Everyone is for consumers and they are all shareholders of Android. It doesn't matter who does it.

I feel like I need to take a break. I plan to take a year-end vacation at the end of the month.