Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 796 I'm Sorry (4K)

Fang Zhuo ushered in the second good news.

"Mr. Fang, you've made a profit." The caller was Kong Yu, the person in charge of the MIGA Fund. His voice was full of exhaustion, and even when he called the boss, he couldn't hide the exhaustion.

Fang Zhuo knew what he was talking about, and simply signaled that he was listening: "Yes."

Kong Yu continued to report concisely: "Twenty percent."

Fang Zhuo thought for a while, and instructed: "Inform our important collaborators of the good news, and ask them what they want to do next, and we will continue."

"Okay, Mr. Fang, I'll fly to Silicon Valley next week." Kong Yu confirmed his itinerary and quickly ended the call.

Fang Zhuo put down his rarely used BlackBerry.

Ever since Kong Yu started working on the short-selling business, he has become extra cautious, hard-working, and hair-loss. With an extremely strong will, he suggested that the boss use multiple mobile phones to communicate, and the reporting style on the phone is also cut off. is extremely concise.

His earnings report today was the latest feedback on the $4.2 million that went to short John Paulson.

Since mid-July last year, the funds found by Paulson through different channels were divided into two parts to build positions, and two similar funds were established to target the garbage CDO he made using Goldman Sachs.

However, even junk CDOs performed well in the inertial market boom, which caused the fund to keep losing money, and Kong Yu was once terrified—he was afraid of witnessing a crisis beyond his imagination, and he was even more afraid of losing money by himself!

Until now, the short-selling fund led by Paulson has turned a profit, with a 20% profit.

This represents $4.2 million in profit over $5 million over 8000 months.

And, bigger earnings prospects lie ahead.

I don't know if it was affected by the good news, Fang Zhuo received a holiday blessing call from Xiao Ao at night.

Xiao Ao still talked about topics that both sides can talk about, and worried about the frequent injuries that the Rockets have encountered this year-newly signed player Darius Sangueira was reimbursed for half the season due to lumbar disc surgery, which seemed to open the ball. The chain reaction of the team's injury wave, even Trident was injured in turn.

Later, he unexpectedly talked about the Android cooperation between Yike and Google.

Fang Zhuo thought it was strange for Xiao Ao to talk about such a specific cooperation, and expressed his doubts euphemistically: "I have strong confidence in the cooperation between Yike and Google, haha, thank you for your attention, this will encourage me to continue work down."

Xiao Ao has a delicate heart and said naturally: "Last week, I played golf with Schmidt and Gore. Schmidt introduced your career to me very excitedly."

Fang Zhuo had no idea that Google CEO Schmidt had such a close relationship with Xiao Ao.

But if Schmidt took the initiative to mention it to Ao, he might have known that Ao had at least a superficial basketball relationship with him.

His mind turned, and he immediately smiled heartily: "Schmidt, like me, has strong confidence in Android. We are uniting many people to work on the innovation of the mobile phone market. However, he told you this, I don't know Gore Will you hit an eagle in anger?"

Ever since he knew that Schmidt was a director of Apple, Fang Zhuo made up for the omission of information in this regard. Among them, Gore is a very noteworthy one of Apple's directors.

Gore is a prominent leader of the party. He once partnered with Aton, the chief executive of the United States, and became the deputy leader. Later, he ran against Xiaobu for the leadership position.

It is worth mentioning that this situation has only appeared five times in American history. The first three times were all before 1900. Gore is famous for the fourth time, and Achuan's opponent Xi Po is the fifth time.

In 2003, the former deputy head joined Apple's board of directors.

Jobs said he was excited and honored by this,

As for whether Gore exerted his influence for Apple on a level other than business.

For example, when the US International Trade Commission (ITC), which is responsible for adjudicating Apple and HTC's patent infringement, voted whether to ban the sale of HTC, all members voted in favor of it at once. This kind of thing can only be a friendly guess.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has a lot of power. Once the ban is ruled, unless the big boss authorizes the overthrow within 60 days, the entire U.S. market will close the door to companies.

This situation is rare.

But as it happens, Apple has too.

Samsung sued Apple for infringement, and ITC considered it valid and ruled to ban the sale of iPhone4, iPhone3GS and other products. As a result, the ban was overturned by Xiao Ao's authorization.

- "American Interests".

Xiao Ao was not surprised that Fang always knew who Gore was. He smiled and replied: "I don't think I can see Gore hit an eagle in this life. He agrees with your innovative competition."

"I need to go through a careful evaluation to see if I should bring my basketball talent to golf." Fang Zhuo joked.

Xiao Ao was amused: "Basketball and golf are two different things. He is better than Jordan. His golf level is far inferior to basketball."

Fang Zhuo smiled slightly: "It's the same buying a team for me, I'm lucky."

Xiao Ao was dumbfounded, so the talent of such a few people...

He chatted for a few more words, and finally still praised and gave blessings: "I saw a rare spirit in Mr. Fang. I hope this year's Rockets can stay away from that damn injury and win the trophy for three consecutive championships. May Echo and Google do great things."

Fang Zhuo's response was: "Xiao Ao, you are the most charming congressman I have ever seen. I hope you can not only benefit the state of Illinois, but also make more people change because of you. Remember to watch the finals In the game, if you compare shooting, I will definitely beat you."

Xiao Ao laughed and hung up the phone.

From beginning to end, he did not mention the fund.

Fang Zhuo's thoughts turned around on the administrative figures he had met recently, and he thought that Yi Ke might also need a foreign director to fill his appearance, and that Xiao Ao might announce his election soon, which was a good thread.

Just when he was about to review the documents, by coincidence, A Chuan called after Xiao Ao.

Compared with Xiao Ao's words, Achuan was much more direct and rude.

"Mr. Fang, your fund is really ffffuck!"

"I want to invest another 500 million, no, 1000 million!"

Fang Zhuo endured complicated emotions and said with a smile: "Of course, no one knows how to make money better than me."

Achuan smiled and complimented: "President Fang, I like your words so much! It's great, how do you operate? I can't wait to fly in front of you now!"

Fang Zhuo accepted the compliment, declined the inside information, and agreed to the other party's investment.

On the first day of [-], it was interesting to him that two people in a row might affect the phone calls because of the same incident.

Originally, I hoped that there would be better news, but the statutory holidays in the United States delayed the progress of official affairs until the working day before I gradually received feedback.

Yike and Android formed a sales lobby team, responsible for negotiating development cooperation with large companies.

Facebook showed full interest in such a proposal, thinking that the form of mobile phone software looks cool.

They soon made substantive actions. On the 3rd, they agreed to set up a development team to try out the mobile phone software based on the Android system, and Yike also promised to adapt the prototype as soon as possible.

This work or this type of work is on the schedule for the first half of this year.

Like Fb, Amazon is also tempted by the blueprint drawn by Yike and Android on the mobile phone side, but it involves shopping and payment, and has made a cautious expression, willing to pay more attention to the follow-up of Android phones.

Others, such as YouTube, which is booming and acquired by Google, set up a small development team under the strong request of Fang Zhuo. Services including Google browser have also been communicated by phone several times. Carried out.

As for, Yike's own iMusic has been preparing for Android software for a long time.

The only place where there is a big problem is Twitter.

The Twitter that rents cheap offices, founders fight among themselves, relies on SMS push, and does not back up user content.

By the time the Yike team approached Twitter, it was on the verge of disbanding.

Fang Zhuo didn't know what was going on with this tweet, whether it was the original history or the influence of the butterfly effect. He considered the improvement of the Android software ecosystem this time, so he generously donated a sum of 200 million US dollars to solve the tweet. Special urgent need.

Twitter took the money to re-rent a bigger and brighter office, recall some employees, add servers, continue to struggle for survival, and study the development of Android software by the way.

On January 2007, 1, the Android company submitted a more complete Android 5 Bender after the Android 1.0 Astro beta version.

Astro is Astro Boy and Bender is a clockwork robot.

The Android version is named according to the English sequence a/b/c/d. Considering copyright issues, the subsequent update version will be named after the dessert. The name starting with C has been thought out, and Cupcake (cupcake) will be used. ).

If nothing else, Android Cupcake will be the first system installed on Yike mobile phones.

Fang Zhuo felt that the development of the Android system should be speeded up under his urging. He considered that although it has not yet been officially open sourced, he can start a wave of small promotions in China with the consent of Google and Android companies, and strive to The system carried by Yike mobile phone can be more perfect.

The time for Apple's press conference is getting closer and closer, and many things have been arranged one by one and received feedback, which is quite methodical.

On January 1, Yike's Silicon Valley R&D Center held a small meeting to study the cost of mobile phone materials. Yu Hong, who flew from New York to prepare to follow the Apple conference the next day, also participated in the discussion.

A 3.7-inch capacitive screen prototype in Fang Zhuo's hand is basically close to what he imagined.

3.7 and 4.0 inches are two sizes to choose from, and finally 3.7 inches integrated multiple elements and was adopted by the first generation of Yike mobile phone plan.

However, the cost is still high.

"3.7 inches, this capacitive screen plus a touch screen module, Sharp actually charged us $75." Fang Zhuo played with the mobile phone whose screen suddenly went black for unknown reasons, worried about its cost.

The 3.5-inch capacitive screen + touch screen module that Sharp previously strongly suggested was quoted at $68.2.

He dissatisfied: "Even if the ratio is 3.7/3.5, the price is only 72. Why charge 3 dollars more? Don't say that 72 dollars is also very high!"

Ian, the deputy director in charge of the supply chain in the United States, said based on his own experience: "Mr. Fang, there must be room for bargaining in Sharp's 3.5-inch offer. I believe the same is true for the $75. If you give Sharp more time, if you prove that the touch-screen phone There will be a good market, then we can talk better."

The so-called good market for touch-screen mobile phones naturally refers to the Apple mobile phone that will be released tomorrow.

Yu Hong listened for a while, and referring to her own experience, she asked a question: "Sharp is going to sell the capacitive screen and the touch screen module as a package, have you tried to inquire separately? Can the touch screen module only be purchased from Sharp? "

She made a joke: "After all, we are not going to release the mobile phone tomorrow, we still have time."

Xu Keden was a little hesitant: "Our R&D has been using the capacitive screen and touch screen modules provided by Sharp, so is it..."

Fang Zhuo made a decision: "Ian, you come to explore such a possibility. It's not that we don't want to buy Sharp's capacitive screen, but it has to be packaged. Doesn't it mean that Toshiba's capacitive screen has also made progress?"

Xu Kedeng took back his words, business is like this, and procurement in the supply chain has to shop around.

Fang Zhuo continued to pick the cost of mobile phone hardware.

At present, the screen, storage, and processor of a mobile phone are expensive, and the price of 4G storage is as high as $48.

Calculated, if the prototype in Fang Zhuo's hands is purchased according to the quotation, the pure hardware cost will cost 278 US dollars.

$278!

Fang Zhuo has only one feeling, the price is high!

The cost is like this, how to set the price?
Of course, this is also because of the positioning of e-buy mobile phones. The hardware currently purchased is based on the best, and the hardware quotation has not been formally counter-offered.

But even so, Fang Zhuo still believes that it is necessary to discuss cost reduction.

The screen is expensive?Separate, capacitive screen + touch screen module!

Are chips expensive?Replacement, Qualcomm has a preferential package price for processors and basebands!

Storage is expensive?Wait, here comes the financial crisis machete!

Although it was not finalized, this left and right calculation still gave a drop of more than ten dollars.

The machine has not been finalized, and there is naturally no way to make real purchases. This is a preliminary outline.

"$259, hey, Mr. Yu, it's still expensive." After the meeting, Fang Zhuo and Yu Hong couldn't forget the cost, which was largely linked to sales.

"When Apple releases it, use it for research." Yu Hong said, "The hardware has to be reduced, and there may be patent fees involved, such as Microsoft, and patent negotiations with Qualcomm, oh yes, you and V How's the business contact going?"

When she mentioned Qualcomm, she thought of operators.

Fang Zhuo shook his head: "The contact was not very smooth, and the V dealer's attitude has not been relaxed. What it wants is an exclusive, and what it wants is a contract machine."

He said solemnly: "The V provider is based on the CDMA standard. It thinks it has a larger number of users, and is unwilling to spend resources to promote it and share the results with the T provider of the direct competitor WCDMA camp. This contradiction is quite serious."

V merchants are the second oldest, with 3000 million more users than the third oldest T merchants, and the investment in 3G is also larger.

If it cannot be exclusive, the launch of a star product has driven the growth of the opponent's Internet access. It feels that the gain is not worth the loss, so its attitude is very tough.

Yu Hong thought about it: "How about I lead the team to talk, the identity is more solemn, and I can decide many things."

"After watching the Apple press conference, I will talk about the cooperation and negotiation of operators." Fang Zhuo pondered, "Although there are great contradictions, I have an initial idea. I can try it when the time comes, and I have to talk to Qualcomm. "

The second V provider is the CDMA standard, and the third T provider is the WCDMA standard.

The conflict between the two camps is real.

However, you all came through solid upgrades.

Why don't we seek common ground while reserving differences, and look down?
The fourth oldest S provider is the WiMAX standard added by Motorola and Intel. What a shame!

Moreover, third child, you still have a large European market that you can discuss flexibly.

I really can't, I'm sorry, fourth child...

Sorry, MOTO...

Anyway, you are all going to die, it is more valuable to be dead.

(End of this chapter)