The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 199 Mphone App Store
"As the haze of the Nasdaq bubble burst gradually dissipates from people's heads, and people look back at the time when the entire capital market frantically pursued Internet companies, Time Warner's acquisition of Quora will definitely be regarded as a part of the Internet bubble. landmark event.

This high-priced acquisition, known as the acquisition of the century at the time, gave Time Warner the limelight for a while. Quora was the most popular star product in Silicon Valley at that time, and it is still one of the best Internet products in the world today. .After Time Warner acquired Quora, the stock price soared rapidly, with an increase rate of more than 500%.

By comparing the financial reports before and after Time Warner’s acquisition of Quora, it can be found that in terms of revenue, Quora quickly became the second largest business under Time Warner Group, second only to the original pillar industry of Time Warner’s HBO.In terms of profit, Quora is Time Warner's largest source of profit.Therefore, judging from the results, there is no problem with Time Warner's acquisition of Quora, but the price is too much to question. Is Quora really worth $900 billion?From today's point of view, it is obviously not worth it. It has to be cut in half and then cut in half.

However, given the environment at the time, this transaction was perfectly logical. A large number of companies that were far inferior to Quora, but only had .com in their names, could be sought after by the market. The market value exceeded tens of billions of dollars, and the NASDAQ bubble After the breakup, these companies either went bankrupt or their stock prices fell to [-]% of their original value. Compared with these companies, Time Warner's acquisition of Quora looks like a good deal.

But in any case, Time Warner’s acquisition of Quora left countless talking points for the outside world. After leaving Quora, Newman also maintained a superficial dignity and didn’t mention Quora. After the Nasdaq bubble burst, the outside world has always had voices Said to bring Newman back to take charge of Quora, Newman never responded positively to this, as if Quora had nothing to do with him.

Quora is the die-hard supporters from the initial opposition to Time Warner's acquisition of Quora, to the later habits, and then no one mentioned Newman and Quora again. This change occurred because of Newman's low-key and silence on this matter.This is why the re-cooperation between Newman and Quora after many years can stir up such a big wave on the Internet, because it brings us back to the era of Internet entrepreneurship boom in a sense.

This cooperation is a win-win for both. For Mphone users, being able to browse Quora on Mphone is undoubtedly a huge benefit. Mphone will have more places to attract new users. For Quora, they can Trying more possibilities, entering the mobile phone market may help them reverse the current decline in Quora's attractiveness to users."

The cooperation with Quora is the result of Zhou Xin's single-handed planning, because the developer conference itself has no hot spots.With cloud services now, the outside world doesn't even know what's going on, let alone discuss it.Wouldn't the outside world think that this is IDC hosting with a higher degree of automation?Not to mention that this is a new company and new cloud launched by Zhou Xin. Even if the cloud service is launched by Microsoft, it will not cause any splashes at the beginning.

As for other applications that can be logged into the Mphone, purchased and downloaded through the computer, and updated on the mobile phone by synchronizing them to the mobile phone, none of these can bring explosive points.

And Zhou Xin needs a way to let Mphone users know that the Mphone store function will be launched at the first time, and users need to use this function instead of waiting for users to adapt to the new function after it is launched.

Under this premise, cooperating with quora is the fastest way to achieve the goal. If you make user portraits for the Mphone user group, you will find that more than 70.00% are senior netizens.For them, the combination of Quora and Newman is naturally topical and attractive.

The re-cooperation between Newman and Quora is also big news for the media. They will let most people know about it, and they will publicize the meaning of this event in lengthy articles. How does Quora and Newman cooperate again? of.It will also introduce the Mphone Developer Conference and the Mphone App Store.

After getting this news, many Mphone users even get stuck in front of the computer, waiting for the opening of the Mphone application store for downloading.

In the past six months, Mphone has been praised continuously after its launch, and users who have used it deeply think that it is a good enough product.

Not long ago, American's most authoritative consumer product evaluation magazine "Consumer Report" launched an evaluation of Mphone, in which it stated that Mphone is the best mobile phone so far.

If the price factor is removed, then Mphone is the best mobile phone.

"Consumer Reports" has a strong influence in American. The "Consumer Reports" released during the Great Depression has a history of 80 years. This is the first time they have such a high evaluation of a mobile phone.

"Consumer Report" is not the only traditional media with such a high evaluation. As time goes by, the outside world gradually realizes the advantages of Mphone. It is definitely not just as simple as transferring Internet applications to mobile phones. It brings A new way of interacting and a new concept.

The Mphone application store has further promoted the intelligence of Mphone.

After the launch of the Mphone application store in mid-July, more than 7% of Mphone users have updated their mobile applications within a week.

On the Mphone application store download list, Quora firmly occupies the top position, firmly pressing the Apple Music Store, "Prince of Persia", "FIFA" and other applications below.

It seems that once Quora comes out, other applications can only compete for the second position.

From the observation of the background, in just one month after the developer conference ended in July, more than 7 small and medium-sized enterprises registered as Mphone developers.

The construction of the overall application ecology has already started. For Zhou Xin and Matrix, they just need to wait for the maturity of network, storage, screen and other aspects of technology, and then personally start the era of mobile Internet.

When Silicon Valley was boiling because of the re-cooperation between Newman and Quora, Hu Zhengming had already completed the handover procedures and set foot on the flight from San Francisco to Zhangjiang.

"Professor, if you need anything, please contact me at any time. I plan to return to Huaguo to participate in Huaguo's Internet Conference at the end of this year.

I wish you all the best after you go to Zhangjiang. "

After Zhou Xin sent Hu Zhengming to the plane, he was thinking about having a chat with Zhang Zhongmou when he came to San Francisco next time.

With Hua Hong Semiconductor alone, the efficiency of many technical verifications is obviously not high.Although Xinxin Technology will confront TSMC head-on sooner or later, this does not affect the wool of TSMC first.

"Old Guan, long time no see." On Shen Hai's side, Guan Jianying came to pick him up at Pudong International Airport, and Hu Zhengming greeted Guan Jianying after getting off the plane and shaking hands with Guan Jianying.

Guan Jianying said: "Yeah, I haven't been back to Silicon Valley for more than a year, there are too many things here, and myriad things have not been on the right track for a long time.

Now, Chenming, you have to come to this mess and clear things up with me bit by bit. "

Hu Zhengming asked: "Old Guan, tell me about the situation briefly. Newman tricked me over here. He will definitely only pick the right places to talk about. I have already come here. If we want to do this together, we still need to face difficulties. Courageous.

So let's be direct and talk about the problem directly. "

(End of this chapter)