Resource Tycoon Reborn

June 7, 1999, in Fang Mingyuan's opinion, should be a day that many people remember, because on this day, another new technology was officially launched in the Fang family's digital technology R&D center! From then on, Fang

The mobile phones produced by our company can no longer use those crappy Chinese character input methods!

"That's great!" Fang Mingyuan couldn't help but hugged the waist of Lin Rong who came to report to him. Amid Lin Rong's screams, he hugged her and spun her around a few times, and then put her down!

"How important is the input method of this mobile phone?" Seeing Fang Mingyuan's happy expression, Lin Rong asked with some confusion. It was Mr. Guanjing who came yesterday to tell him that

Fang Mingyuan didn't look so excited when more than 700 million US dollars was credited to her account. But now she becomes like this for a small mobile phone Chinese character input method, which really makes her feel a little strange.

"Of course it is very important!" Fang Mingyuan said with a smile on his face and clapped his hands, "This is a good project that can bring us hundreds of millions of dollars in net income every year!"

"Ah?" Lin Rong couldn't help but be moved by it. It could bring hundreds of millions of dollars in net income every year. That was indeed worthy of making Fan Mingyuan ecstatic, but no matter how she looked at it, she couldn't see how this technology could be used.

It can become a black hole that attracts money.

Looking at the confusion on Lin Rong's face, Fang Mingyuan smiled and said nothing. People of later generations will naturally be familiar with mobile phone text messages. It can be said that whether you admit it or not, text messages have entered every aspect of people's lives.

, has become a part of life. Many people even think that text messages should naturally become the fifth communication tool, and the term "faithful life" was born.

According to historical records, the world's first text message was successfully sent in the United Kingdom in 1992, thus officially announcing the birth of mobile phone text messaging! As for when China's first text message was

There is no way to verify its birth. The initial text message function can be said to be useless in the eyes of several major operators in China, because people who had mobile phones at that time did not need it at all. But with the development of the times, with the

With the rise of domestic mobile phone manufacturers led by Fangjia, mobile phones have rapidly begun to become popular in the country. By last year, the annual sales of Fangjia, Huasheng Group, Shengwei Group, and Nantong Group alone were 13 to 4 million units.

Including imported mobile phones, the total number has reached nearly 20 million units!

Although people have mobile phones, the high mobile phone call charges in China are unbearable for these mobile phone users. At that time, it was so common to pay hundreds or even thousands of yuan a month for mobile phone calls. People wanted to

With the convenience of mobile phone communication and the desire to save costs as much as possible, text messaging, a tool that was originally considered useless, has entered people's attention!

According to incomplete statistics, in 1998, the volume of mobile phone short messages in China exceeded 300 million. In the first five months of this year, the volume of mobile phone short messages has exceeded 300 million, and it is likely to exceed 300 million in the whole year.

The 700 million mark! Compared with Fang Mingyuan's previous life, this number is undoubtedly dwarfed! In the previous life, by 2001, the amount of short messages in China reached nearly 20 billion.

By 2005, this number was approaching 100 billion! By 2010, this number was as high as 900 billion! Such a huge number of short messages also prompted an annual output value

In a huge industry of nearly 100 billion yuan!

Although the SMS industry has become dazzling later, its core technology is still the information input method! Mobile phones are a product of Western technology, just like computers. Chinese people face the dilemma of language barrier if they want to use them.

Although people can use pinyin, it is not in line with people's reading habits. Secondly, because there are too many homophones in Chinese characters. If pinyin is used, sentences are easily ambiguous, so people are not used to it. Later, although

A Chinese character input method has also been developed, but due to various reasons, it still makes users find it very inconvenient to use, and they need to constantly search for suitable Chinese characters in the character library.

Of course, due to the huge profits brought by the SMS industry, companies will naturally make great efforts to develop input methods suitable for Chinese people's input habits. However, this will not be pie in the sky. Every mobile phone sold has

Including patent fees of one to three US dollars, in one year, the patent fees paid for the mobile phones used by Chinese people will be as high as 7.8 billion US dollars! It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a hen that lays golden eggs.

!

Therefore, after obtaining Nokia's mobile phone production technology from the Fang family, the Chinese character input method became a project of the Digital Technology R&D Center. Although it sounds like the Chinese character input method is just a very common technology, in the eyes of many people

, on PC computers, don’t domestic input methods already occupy an absolute majority share, and aren’t mobile phone Chinese character input methods readily available?

In fact, the Chinese character input method for mobile phones is not as simple as people imagine. The process from application to approval for an invention patent takes at least three years, and the development of the input method's lightweight algorithm and core engine also requires

It takes one to two years, coupled with the need for a complete intellectual property system protection from trade names, trademarks, patents, copyrights and other aspects. Without several years of technology development and tens of millions of yuan of continuous investment, it is impossible to truly form

climate.

Moreover, the development time of a new mobile phone is generally very short, only about ten months, and the input method to be used must be embedded in the software at the beginning of development. This requires companies with input methods and mobile phones.

Manufacturers coordinate in advance, and international brand mobile phone manufacturers generally have purchasing inertia, and the purchasing rights for China's software are generally in the headquarters of various countries. Even if domestic companies successfully develop and have excellent technology, these mobile phone manufacturers may not adopt it. They have to

Consider technical safety issues, interface technology issues, etc.; if it is not necessary, most engineers are afraid of taking on trouble and responsibility and are unwilling to change the existing technology; in addition, some competent departments of these companies intentionally or unintentionally shirk;

There is widespread discrimination against domestically developed input method companies, etc., making marathon negotiations commonplace. Therefore, if it is not the world's most cutting-edge technology and a well-reputed brand image, if you want to persuade these foreign mobile phone manufacturers to switch to their own Chinese character input method,

It’s hard to compare to the sky!

Many domestic mobile phone manufacturers like to follow the trend and also choose input method products from foreign companies. This resulted in the input method products of foreign companies occupying the vast majority of the market share of Chinese mobile phone products in the previous life.

However, these troubles are nothing to Fang Mingyuan. The Fang family's mobile phone production volume now accounts for one-third of the market share of low- and mid-range mobile phones in the domestic market, and the remaining two-thirds of the market

The share is divided between Huasheng Group, Shengwei Group, Nantong Group and some foreign brands, and a large part of them are Nokia mobile phones and Samsung mobile phones!

As long as the mobile phones of the Fang family and Samsung Group start to use the new Chinese character input method, Fang Mingyuan is confident to persuade the Nokia Group to also adopt its own new Chinese character input method. In this way, the new Chinese character input method can account for at least 10% of the Chinese market.

Forty shares, as long as Fang Mingyuan works harder to convince the three major groups - Fang Mingyuan believes that his own technology must be better than those imported products, and the asking price must be lower than that of foreign companies, what reason do the three major groups have to refuse? From then on, the input of foreign companies will

If French products want to enter the Chinese mobile phone market, it will not be that easy! It’s better to devour such a big and fat cake by yourself! It’s no wonder that Fang Mingyuan is so excited—the patent fees are 700 to 800 million US dollars a year.

Even if he can only receive two-thirds, it is still an achievement that would make 99.99% of the companies in the world envious!

Before this, Fang Mingyuan had been worried about whether the Digital Technology R&D Center could successfully launch its own, convenient and practical Chinese character input method before the companies in the United States and Canada that were also developing this input method. Otherwise,

, if you fall behind step by step, you will fall behind step by step. At that time, if you want these foreign mobile phone manufacturers and the state-owned mobile phone manufacturers that follow the trend to change their business, the effort required will be several times or even dozens of times that of now! However, now you can

Say, in this competition, victory belongs to you!

Fang Mingyuan still spent a lot of time explaining clearly to Lin Rong the impact of this technological invention on the entire industry. However, Lin Rong was still a little skeptical. She knew that mobile phones were expensive, but because of this, she would prompt a

The text message industry worth hundreds of billions of yuan still sounds like a fantasy. However, Fan Mingyuan's business vision has been refined for many years. Although she is a little unbelievable in her heart, she does not believe it on the surface.

Show it.

Fang Mingyuan calmed down, sat back at his desk, and continued to process documents. However, the joy on his face could not be suppressed.

"Uncle Guo, did you go out for inspection again?" Fang Mingyuan suddenly remembered something and turned to ask Lin Rong.

"Well, I went out early in the morning, and I seem to have gone a long way today!" Lin Rong tilted her head and thought for a moment, "It should be a subsidiary shipyard of Japan's Universal Shipbuilding!"

"Oh!" Fang Mingyuan originally wanted to tell Guo Tianyu that he had already talked with Mr. Guo about the two companies' joint acquisition of a shipyard in China and took advantage of this order to ask for a deal with a Japanese or Korean shipbuilding company.

Cooperate to achieve the purpose of reducing procurement costs and expanding upstream and downstream business. Regarding Fang Mingyuan's idea, Mr. Guo hesitated for a while and nodded in agreement! There was no rejection as Guo Tianyu was worried about.

Fang Mingyuan calculated that South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries was already cooperating with domestic shipyards to build supertankers for Iran. And Samsung Heavy Industries, as a subsidiary of Samsung Group, naturally had to take appropriate care of it. I just didn't know.

Does Li Jianxi have any objections to this proposal?

"Mingyuan, it's almost time. Former Prime Minister Murayama is coming!" Lin Rong reminded him after looking at her watch.