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"Lin, after getting your reminder, we found someone to secretly inquire about Apple."
Speaking of this, Andy Robin adjusted the glasses on his nose and continued with a solemn expression: "They are really developing a big project, which should be a mobile phone."
Sears took out a piece of paper, held it up and introduced: "This is the "multi-touch screen patent" that Apple applied for in April, specifically referring to a touch panel with a transparent sensing medium.
It is used to detect multi-touch or adjacent touches that occur simultaneously at different locations on the touch panel, and generates different signals for each touch in the multi-point touch that represent the touch location on the touch panel..."
The technical terms of the patent were very convoluted, so Lin Fan directly asked Sears to hand over the documents.
After getting the file, Lin Fan looked at it carefully. This is commonly known as "multi-touch".
“Is there a way around this patent?”
After asking the question, Lin Fan realized that his question was a bit amateurish. If he could have avoided it, Apple, Google, and Microsoft would not have fought so many patent lawsuits in their previous lives.
“It’s hard to get around!”
Andy Rubin shook his head at first, and then said: "The best way is for us to invent a patent and exchange licenses with Apple."
Lin Fan frowned, was he forced to register the circular home button patent?
This patent is a type of appearance patent, which is very disgusting.
To use a joke from a previous life to describe it: if it was made into a circle, it would be sued by Apple, if it was made into an oval, it would be sued by Meizu, if it was made into a rectangular shape, it would be sued by Samsung, if it was made into a square shape, it would be sued by Motorola, if it was made into a virtual button, it will be sued by Sony...
Lin Fan asked Andy Rubin to continue, and the latter nodded and continued: "According to the plan you proposed, we gave up the keyboard design and adopted a full touch screen design.
Some mobile phones currently on the market use resistive screens that support single-touch.
We plan to use capacitive screens, which have lower accuracy than resistive screens, but can perform multi-touch..."
At this time, single-touch mobile phones have been launched on the market, and they also come with a stylus that can be pulled out from the body and poked on the screen.
Compared with multi-touch, you can touch a larger area with your fingers.
Users can perform single-touch with both hands, or touch the screen with different gestures such as single-click, double-click, pan, press, scroll, and rotate.
If you want to play games or play audio and video, the experience difference between the two is very big.
The reason why Apple feels like a black technology after its launch is that Fruit Ninja's multi-touch operation is like chopping melons and vegetables, which directly chops the user's mind into pieces.
The shock brought by this is indeed epoch-making, and it also leads the development trend of smart phones.
After Andy Robin finished speaking, he did not forget to add: "Although we have not yet come up with mature technology, I firmly believe that the design direction you proposed is correct."
Lin Fan said: "You have all seen the design drawings I took out, right?"
All three of them nodded. This happened shortly after Android was acquired.
Before the acquisition, Lin Fan kept it hidden and did not take out the concept drawings of the mobile phone.
It wasn't until the dust settled that the design drawings of the full touch-screen phone were revealed.
Moreover, the drawings Lin Fan produced were very rich, including appearance design drawings, interface design drawings, and even some function implementation logic diagrams.
After receiving the drawings, all the technical staff, including Andy Rubin, were all astonished.
Whether it can be realized or not remains to be said.
But in terms of the avant-garde nature of the design, it was far ahead of its time, and also exceeded the original designs of Andy Rubin and others.
Their original design still retained several buttons at the bottom of the screen, including the answer button, home button, home button, return button, and hang up button.
But compared with the full touch screen, it does seem a bit ugly, or it lacks a sense of technology.
They don't know what the mobile phone developed by Apple looks like, but as far as the concept map of the mobile phone proposed by Lin Fan is concerned, if the above functional assumptions can be realized one by one, it will definitely be a dimensionality reduction blow to the mobile phones currently on the market.
These days, Andy Rubin's team has done nothing but expand its manpower. They just follow the diagrams and figure out how to build such a mobile phone all day long.
"The touch screen technology patent does not belong to any company, right?"
Lin Fan, a layman, once again exposed his unprofessionalism in the electronics industry.
Chris White smiled and shook his head, "Don't worry about this. In 1965, Johnson invented the first finger touch screen.
Also in 1970, Dr. Samuel Hurst of the United States invented the first resistive touch sensor.
In 1993, IBM produced the world's first touch-screen phone, the IBM Simon.
In addition to being used on mobile phones, a large number of touch screens are used in supermarkets, stations, and banks.
This technology is almost open to the public, but no one or any group has come out to declare their sovereignty over this technology."
Lin Fan nodded and then added: "Now that Apple is one step ahead of us, we must also come up with mature technology as soon as possible.
Don’t wait until Apple starts selling phones to the public while we are still working on them in the lab.”
Andy Rubin deeply agrees with this, "Jobs is a very terrible person, his mind is always filled with all kinds of fantastic ideas.
However, we don't need to be afraid of him.
It is precisely with such opponents that I feel more motivated to work."
Until now, Lin Fan has never met Steve Jobs.
He has dealt with the heads of three giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
However, even without dealing with Jobs, Lin Fan knew that he was a person who pursued extremeism and perfectionism.
Such people are naturally suitable for product development.
"Lin, when will the mobile phone brand you mentioned be launched?"
Sears has never forgotten that the boss said he wanted to build a mobile phone brand, but after so long, he has not seen any movement.
Upon hearing this, the other two people also turned their attention to Lin Fan.
This mobile phone brand shoulders the important task of promoting the Android system and launching the first shot, and there is no room for failure.
"How easy is it to find a mobile phone manufacturer? You have to come up with the first Android phone before I can set up a supply chain and follow the production?"
Lin Fan smiled, he was not in a hurry yet, Android and the others were anxious first.
He waved his hand, "Even if I launch a mobile phone brand now, I can't produce smart phones, I can only produce feature phones on the market.
But at present, the functional phone market has already divided into its own market shares.
Even if we launch our own brand, we won't be able to gain any special advantage."
"It's good to gain experience in the industry, isn't it?" Sears continued.
"If it's too low-end, it's easy to be labeled; if it's too high-end, it won't sell."
Lin Fan has seriously considered that now is not a good time to launch a mobile phone brand. He can do preparatory work, but the first mobile phone must be equipped with Android.
In order to reassure others, Lin Fan said a few more words.
"Don't worry, I already know it in my mind. I will start to plan around mobile phones soon and won't delay Android things."
Sears said: "If there are any problems, I am still in contact with T-Mobile executives, and it is okay to hand over the first Android phone to them."
Lin Fan waved his hand, "Let's use this as a backup plan for now!"
Sears didn't try to get into trouble with its boss, it just explained its point of view clearly.
Lin Fan remembers that the first Android mobile phone, HTCG1, was customized by the American operator T-MobileUSA and manufactured by HTC (Hong Kong Electronics).
But the road to cooperation was extremely difficult, and Android almost had to beg his father to sue his grandma before they negotiated the deal.
However, HTC got lucky and completed the transformation from foundry to Android machine king.
If you can take care of everything yourself, why bother pretending to be a grandchild?
Moreover, the Lin Group also owns a mobile phone company in the United States. Although the sales volume has now dropped to outside the top ten, Lin Fan still supports those people.
Just wait for the smartphone to come out and seize Apple's territory.
Lin Fan can still afford it now. Compared with the smartphone market that will be worth hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars in the future, this small amount of money is nothing.
No longer mentioning the mobile phone brand, Lin Fan talked with the three of them for several hours about the development direction of the Android operating system, and determined the next main direction.
Pleasanton, meaning Happy City, is the wealthiest medium-sized city in the United States, located outside the San Francisco Bay Area and 40 kilometers away from Silicon Valley.
As the car drove on the road from Silicon Valley to Happy City, Lin Fan closed the document in his hand and looked out the window.
At this time, we have entered the urban area. There are restaurants, shopping and leisure centers on both sides of the road, and the community is clean and tidy.
From the perspective of livability, Happy City is undoubtedly a good place, far away from the increasingly traffic congestion and hustle and bustle of Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.
PeopleSoft's headquarters is located in this city.
The Workday Company, which was re-established after its two founders were kicked out of the company, is also located here.
Lin Fan didn't know whether the two of them really liked this small town and couldn't live without it, or whether they were deliberately disgusting Oracle.
Because nothing can bring out the evil in your chest more than growing and growing under Oracle's nose.
After Oracle acquired PeopleSoft, the company with 11,000 employees laid off 5,000 people within a month.
When it comes to ruthlessness in business, Larry Ellison ranks high. The entire development history of Oracle is a history of mergers and acquisitions, having acquired hundreds of companies.
Every acquired company undergoes layoffs, cleaning, integration, and thorough integration... and the entire process is repeated.
PeopleSoft is no exception. The two founders and their disciples and former officials were all kicked out.
After Workday was established, it has continued to recruit and absorb these old PeopleSoft employees who were laid off by Oracle.
This is also an important reason why the company's cash flow is tight during the working days. Before the product is a big success, a large number of idle employees have been recruited, which has placed a heavy financial burden on the company.
Naturally, Oracle noticed these small actions of the two founders.
In addition to using a low-price strategy to suppress the new workday in the sales market, it has also continued to make rumors in the venture capital market to hinder workday's financing.
Before setting off, Lin Fan asked the employees of Lichun Fund to collect a lot of information about working days.
He had read it carefully just now on the road.
The business situation is much more miserable than what Lin Yaocheng described.
In particular, Larry Ellison has already told the market: Whoever helps Workday is Oracle's enemy.
Larry Ellison ranked ninth in the world on the "Forbes World's Richest List" released in March, with a net worth of US$18.4 billion!
Due to the other party's status in the world, combined with his unruly and vengeful character, many investment institutions did not dare to get into trouble for fear of becoming enemies with this wealthy man.
Of course, this is also because the potential currently shown by Workday is not attractive enough, and the operation is miserable, and it looks like it is on the street.
In the eyes of many investment institutions, it is not worth going to war for it.
If there was Facebook's indomitable development momentum, it would be a different story.
The car slowly stopped in front of a six-story office building. Zhang Chenguang trotted around the front of the car, opened the door, and Lin Fan walked out of the car.
After looking at the house number, Lin Fan dialed the number of Duffield, the founder of Workday.
After a while, an old white man with silver hair and a middle-aged man with brown skin appeared downstairs.
"Hello Lin, I'm Duffield."
The old white man took the lead and stepped forward to shake hands with Lin Fan.
Lin Fan shook hands with the old man and looked at him.
This old man is 65 years old and has already reached the age where he should take care of himself.
As the founder of PeopleSoft, he received US$600 million in the US$10.3 billion company acquisition and is financially free.
But this old man is a well-known workaholic and loves to mess around. Now that he is starting a business again, he is also determined to have a try with Oracle!
It is not an exaggeration to use the phrase "a martyr's old age is full of ambition" to describe him!
By the time the bell rang for listing, the old man was already over 70 years old and had become a legend among entrepreneurs.
It has also inspired countless young entrepreneurs. Even an old man who is half dead and about to die can make a comeback. What qualifications do young people have that they can do it without working hard?
Thinking of this, Lin Fan smiled mockingly to himself. He was now about the same age as this old man. It was true that the elder brother laughed at the second brother.
Although Lin Fan looks about forty or fifty, he is no longer young now.
Why do you have to take action now? You are planning for the future.
All matters of the Lin Group have been handed over to his son, and he is doing it now for the future.
He wouldn't be relieved if he didn't take action himself.
He just wanted to complete the mobile Internet layout while he was still able to move. At that time, he could truly rest peacefully.
Not yet.
Another brown-skinned middle-aged Indian man, Bhusri, is the former vice chairman of PeopleSoft, now a partner of Greylock Venture Capital, and the founder and co-CEO of Workday.
Among the two, Duffield is still the leader, and the old man is also the chairman of Workday Company.
Lin Fan did not need to introduce himself or Lin Capital too much, and the two of them did not ask any more questions.
Perhaps when Lin Yaocheng conveyed his investment intention, he had already grandly introduced himself.
Lin Fan guessed that this was most likely the case.
After exchanging a few words, the two of them greeted Lin Fan upstairs.
Although the company has only been established for a few months, Lin Fan looked at the densely packed workstations and it was obvious that it was just as described in the information. It had almost become a refuge for laid-off PeopleSoft employees.
After taking a quick glance at the flowers, Lin Fan quickly made a plan in his mind.
Duffield brought Lin Fan to the conference room, and asked his employees to make two cups of tea, which he handed to Lin Fan and Zhang Chenguang, who was sitting in the corner next to him.
Lin Fan also didn't expect that the other party's company, which had only been founded for a few months, would actually stock tea.
It is not surprising that large American companies occasionally receive Chinese customers and have tea in stock, but it is still a bit surprising to see them in a start-up company.
Seeing Lin Fan's surprise, Duffield smiled, "The purpose of working day is to put customers and partners first, and the company second.
When PeopleSoft opened a branch in China a few years ago, I went to China and learned that Chinese people like to drink tea.
Yesterday, I heard "Lin" say that you were coming over, so I asked my staff to go to a nearby Chinese city to buy tea.
I was short on time, so I just bought it casually. I hope you like it, Lin."
The old man's words really made Lin Fan feel a lot better.
The other party has been in the shopping mall for decades, and he is really good at dealing with people.
But just based on this, if you want to get investment funds easily, it is obviously impossible. At most, it will add a little impression point.
When it comes to business, he won't show any mercy.
Lin Fan smiled and thanked the other party for being so sincere.
I took another sip of tea. The tea tasted really average, but I kept praising the tea.
Duffield smiled and said: "Lin, let me introduce you to Workday Company first."
Lin Fan nodded, put down the brand new blue and white porcelain tea cup, and looked like he was listening attentively.
"Before you came, you may have investigated PeopleSoft and our team.
Today's Workday Company still plans to continue PeopleSoft's entrepreneurial direction and continue to delve into human resources services.
The first product we currently plan to launch can not only analyze employee costs, but also manage employee salaries..."
Duffield gave a brief introduction, waved his hand, and asked Bousiri to hand over a piece of paper.
Lin Fan took it and took a look. The confidentiality agreement was a basic operation.
After reading the document carefully, Lin Fan signed his name.
Seeing that Lin Fan went straight to the review and signature without asking a single question, the smile on Duffield's face grew even brighter.
Originally, he was worried that Lam Capital, as a new investment institution, was not so professional, but now he can put his mind to it.
Then, Duffield asked his partner Bliss to bring in a computer and give Lin Fan a detailed demonstration of their human resources software.
Although the old man once served as the CEO of a company with a market capitalization of tens of billions of dollars, he did not show any prestige at this time. He talked about his business plan just like an ordinary entrepreneur.
On the side, Bhusri watched the scene: a silver-haired entrepreneur in his sixties was very attentive in introducing his product to an investor who was also in his early sixties and had black hair.
His eyes were a little complicated, as if the roles were reversed.
But who told people to achieve great success in business?
Duffield, who is in his sixties, does not feel embarrassed. What should he be embarrassed about in his early forties?
So he quickly put aside his discomfort and participated in the discussion between the two.
