Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant

"Even if the promotion of Android is open source, only Google can't do it. It is obviously impossible for Nokia, which has an advantage in the market, to cooperate with Google. It may be difficult for other traditional mobile phone manufacturers to understand what is a smartphone and what is a mobile Internet."

"Android should cooperate with mobile operators and telecom equipment manufacturers, as well as core component suppliers in the smartphone industry."

"Smartphones can watch online videos and browse news on mobile phones, allowing smartphone users to use more traffic, and then operators will purchase more equipment. This is a positive cycle."

"But for the three cores of smartphones, Google only solves the operating system, and chip selection is also crucial. As a start-up company, even with the ARM solution, it is impossible to design mobile phone chips by ourselves. We must let Qualcomm , Texas Instruments and other companies joined in..."

Qu Li talked eloquently in front of the three giants of Google, planning the future development direction of Android for them. How should I put it, perhaps it can only be described as stupid and bold. After more than ten years, maybe he will be reprimanded by the domineering president: You are teaching me how to do things!

The introduction of Qualcomm is inevitable, not to mention that their patent advantages are unavoidable, and their cheating patent licensing scheme is actually the biggest backer for the rise of Xiaomi OV and other mobile phone companies. Any company that uses Qualcomm chips pays 5% Qualcomm tax. Obtained the patent protection of Qualcomm.

The evidence is the much-maligned "anti-licensing agreement": mobile phone companies that use Qualcomm chips must license their patents to Qualcomm, and must not collect patent fees from any of Qualcomm's customers for this patent.

Basically, as long as mobile phone companies that use Qualcomm chips cannot initiate patent lawsuits against users of Qualcomm chips, that is, mobile phone companies that use Qualcomm chips, such as Samsung and Huawei, cannot demand patent fees from Xiaomi OV.

Competitors have compromised, basically only telecommunications companies, and patent trolls will initiate patent lawsuits against Xiaomi OV, which is why the internationalization of domestic mobile phones is so smooth. Of course, Huawei is a special case. They have many communication patents, and they can still fight without Qualcomm patent protection.

"So your company won't be able to manufacture smartphones in the short term?" Schmidt said intentionally or unintentionally, not knowing what it meant

"It's not impossible. Ordinary feature phones can be produced at any time; but smartphones are not necessarily the case. It depends on the completion of the operating system. Does Google want to produce a full-keyboard phone for Android?"

"I have this idea. After all, it has been developed for so long. It is not so easy for everyone to accept a sudden change in direction." Schmidt is very calm.

"We can try." Qu Li decisively agreed, knowing that it is not so easy for start-up companies to cooperate with Google, and they want to test the quality of Qu Li and Zhou Shaoning.

Then Zhou Shaoning and Andy Rubin met, but they disagreed about where the company was registered.

"It's impossible for me to set up a company in the United States. This is a matter of principle." Qu Li said firmly. Although it is fine to establish a smartphone company in the United States, his ambition cannot be limited by a mobile phone assembly company.

"We are a technology company. There are more scientific and technological talents here in the United States, such as operating system and chip design. There are almost no professional talents in this field in China..."

"However, the tax rate of high-tech enterprises in China is about 15-25%, and the global tax rate in the United States is about 35%. How much money do you think we can save in the early stage of enterprise development?" It is difficult for Qu Li to convince intellectuals with morality and ideals. You can only use benefit analysis.

It is almost impossible for the United States to grow a smartphone start-up company. The reason is patents. Even if Motorola is half dead, it is not easy to defeat a start-up mobile phone company through a patent war. HTC in Wanwan was in full swing in the past. After Apple took action, it was gone...

At that time, Zhongguo did little to protect patent innovation, so a large number of mobile phone companies emerged in China and made a lot of money in the mobile phone industry from the end of the last century. Unfortunately, they did not cultivate enough outstanding companies. Until the outbreak of the smartphone industry, Rebus’s Xiaomi was born, leading a sufficiently good team to blow up almost all mobile phone brands at that time, and the two major brands of OV took advantage of the momentum. With no sense of existence and no advantages, Huawei's terminal department is striving to make progress...

Developed countries such as Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea are not good enough to go to India to start a business. Zhongying is almost the only choice for Qu Li to establish a smartphone start-up.

After Qu Li's patient and meticulous analysis, Zhou Shaoning agreed to Qu Li's choice, and in the future, a branch company or research studio can be established in North America when the time is right.

"Then what is the name of this company, and in which city is it located?"

"The name of the company is Honor, and it will be placed in the city with the most talents."

"The city with the highest concentration of talents in China is Beijin, but what about Jumei Shangyangcheng?"

"..."

Qu Li actually likes to stay in the south. The food and climate here are more attractive than Beijin, but the talent factor of high-tech enterprises is really very important. Unlike the surplus of talents more than ten years later, there is almost no big difference between Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. You can succeed in Shanghai every day and night, but at present, Beijin has the most colleges and universities in the country. Not counting house prices and rents, the cost of living here is nationwide. At the very least, many people are unwilling to leave here.

"It's okay, anyway, Jumei wants to open up the Beijin market, I..." Qu Li thought of Chen Danlin, somewhat reluctantly. Could it be that the two are going to separate so soon?

"Then Beijin, Beijin is indeed more suitable than Shanghai." Zhou Shaoning

This is not nonsense. Rebs has been developing in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, but he chose Beijin when he founded Xiaomi. It can’t be that he has a problem with his brain, right?

The two discussed some details. Zhou Shaoning was originally an expert in this field. He also had a mobile phone business in UT Starcom before, and got a mobile phone license. He knows many people in this industry and can pull up a team.

"The future of smartphones must be full Netcom. TD probably has little future in the 3G era, but it will be different in the 4G era. UT Starcom..." The two planned to win some benefits from this telecom company.

UT Starcom announced at the end of 2006 to withdraw from the uncompetitive CDMA research and development. Zhou Shaoning should be able to acquire some patents and talents.

"Maybe we have a chance to acquire UT Starcom's mobile phone terminal business." A day later, Zhou Shaoning suddenly got a message

"???" Although Qu Li knew that Starcom was doomed to decline, but the company's revenue in 2004 exceeded 2.7 billion US dollars, how to acquire it?

"Wu Ying and Starcom's US headquarters are at odds, which may involve personnel changes, but Starcom's major shareholders are Goldman Sachs and Softbank..." They are all foreign shareholders, but they control a domestic telecommunications equipment company. In this complicated form, UT Starcom's bankruptcy seems to make sense.

"This is indeed a good opportunity, but I want to know what kind of technology company you want?"

"Glory is a hardware company or an Internet technology company. Can you stick to the engineer culture? Do you want to minimize company politics? Who are qualified to be our partners?" Qu Li's series of questions are not only against the acquisition of UT Dacom's mobile phone terminal business is so simple.