The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 259 An Epoch-making Masterpiece
Stepping on a bicycle, I passed through the San Francisco Public Library, passed through the Civic Center, passed through Union Square, turned into Fourth Avenue, and soon arrived at a 9-story office building.

When Andy Rubin arrived at the gate of the office building, a group of casually dressed people on bicycles also entered the gate one after another. Many of them greeted him with a smile.

Some people say that in San Francisco, bicycles are the best means of transportation, and Andy Rubin thinks so.

In this 9-story office building, there are as many as 12 Internet companies in total, not including Andy Rubin's technology company called Leaf Technology, which was founded less than half a year ago, and their It directly occupied the entire office floors of the fifth and sixth floors.

This is a very bold and ambitious company!
I believe everyone can see this as soon as they walk into Leaf Technology, because this company is very good in terms of decoration layout, facilities and benefits, such as renting houses for employees uniformly, and arranging buses to take them to and from work. Specially opened a restaurant independent of the office building, hired professional chefs and so on.

People who have worked in Silicon Valley for many years are very good at seeing the boss's investment and ambition in the company from the details, and for Andy Rubin in the old Silicon Valley, Leaf Technology also embodies this very well.

Andy Rubin is not someone who has never seen the world. On the contrary, he has worked in Microsoft and Apple, and he has also started his own business and achieved very good results. Among them, he is most proud of He gave a speech in an engineering class at Stanford University, showing an Internet mobile phone developed by his company.

That was in 2002. The two founders of Google, which was already popular at that time, both attended this speech and praised his concept of Internet mobile phones. But then they were busy with the development of Google, so there was no further in-depth conversation.

Andy Rubin has always regarded himself as an engineer and is not good at management. This is why he left the company he founded called Danger, because the partners generally value performance, and the directors cannot accept that a person who does not know how to operate occupies the The position of the CEO affects everyone's fortune.

Later, he tried to develop a digital camera, but failed. So in 2003, when he was at a loss, someone found him and had an in-depth exchange with him, expressing his willingness to provide opportunities and hire him with a high salary. He came to give full play to his strengths and develop an Internet smartphone system.

This mobile phone system has a name that Andy Rubin can't refuse, Android!

Leaf Technology, a company that is not well-known in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, but Andy Rubin has learned that the behind-the-scenes boss of this technology company is Ye Qiu, who is from mainland China, and behind Ye Qiu is China. The Huangtian Group, a well-known consortium, has an initial investment of more than [-] million US dollars.

And the person who came to communicate with Andy Lubin in person was Chen Zhong, the CEO of Huangtian Group, but this Chinese person said that he was just relaying some of Ye Qiu's ideas, but it was those ideas that made Andy Lubin Rubin felt his blood boil.

The reason is very simple, Ye Qiu's ambition is really too big, unimaginable!

I still remember that Chen Zhong relayed a sentence, "If Android is successful, one day it will appear in every corner of the world, it will appear in all intelligent electrical appliances, and it will change the world!"

Isn't this Andy Rubin's dream that has always existed since joining Apple and joining Microsoft?

Ye Qiu gave him a lot of freedom. Apart from controlling finances and directing research and development, everything else was handed over to Andy Rubin. Moreover, Leaf Science and Technology was rapidly growing insanely in less than half a year. Expanding, from only a dozen people before, it has grown rapidly to nearly 600 employees, which is already considered a medium-sized company in Silicon Valley.

Among the 600 people, they were divided into several different project teams. Among them, Chen Zhong hired a very young college student from his alma mater Harvard University, named Mark Zuckerberg, to write a social network warfare, which has been It was officially launched in early 2004. Speaking of which, this kid is crazy enough. I heard that he directly hacked the database of Harvard University and put all the students' photos on his website, which is indeed ruthless.

However, this also caused the website called Facebook to become popular overnight, and it was widely circulated on the campus of Harvard University. Now the number of registrations is rising rapidly, and the number of employees and investment in this group are also constantly increasing. The prospect is very gratifying.

In addition, there is a group that is also doing social software, but it is called Twitter, a kind of microblogging, and another group is doing an online video website called Youtube, these two projects and several other projects The games and software R&D teams are still in preparation and are expected to be launched in the near future.

The Android team seems to be separate from these groups, but there is still a connection and communication in their bones. This makes Andy Rubin easily think that the boss named Ye Qiu seems to be planning a big one. Bureau.

Just after Christmas in 2003, the company directly dropped a CEO, an unbelievably beautiful woman with outstanding abilities. It is well organized, and before she came to San Francisco, she had already acquired a small company called Fingerworks at Telegraph University, and merged all the technical staff of this company into the Android team.

This company has a number of multi-touch patented technologies, and they have already made a number of substantive touch products, such as their touch keyboard, but their influence is obviously not great, so the purchase price is also very high. It is cheap, but the joining of these talents has solved many of Andy Rubin's previous doubts.

As early as when Chen Zhong communicated with Andy Rubin, he mentioned that the Android system must be based on a full-touch design, but Andy Rubin felt that the full-touch design market has not yet taken shape, and he aimed at Keyboard mobile phones like BlackBerry add Internet functions such as receiving emails and browsing web pages.

Because of this controversy, Andy Rubin almost resigned, but now that there is a multi-touch team, Andy Rubin can't help but feel ashamed of his previous short-sightedness, because Westerman's multi-touch Touch can realize multi-point manipulation on the touchpad, such as zooming in, zooming out, and turning pages, as well as some gesture manipulations.

After obtaining the technology and talents from Fingerworks, the company immediately invested in further research and development, preparing to go further on the touch panel and realize the control on the touch screen. According to the technical team, it only takes time to realize this difficulty, and it is completely possible. , and the company has already begun to apply for patents in corresponding preparations.

At the same time, the beautiful CEO named Eliza Moon has recently heard that she has frequently contacted AT&T and Verizon, two major US telecom operators, and has also made breakthrough progress.

Combining all of these, Andy Rubin's bright head flashed a glimmer of understanding, that is, Leaf Technology is developing an Internet smart phone that uses multi-touch and other technologies, and if it succeeds If so, it will undoubtedly be the first smartphone with such technology.

In less than half a year, the company's scale and projects have been rapidly expanding. Now it is still recruiting all kinds of software and hardware talents every day, and various experimental projects are also invested and supported without hesitation. To ensure the efficient operation of the antenna, the company had previously agreed to spend more than $200 million to build a dedicated laboratory.

And there are so many components and key technologies in the whole mobile phone, and the investment in various research and development is also very amazing.

The CEO named Eliza Moon said before that more than 1 million US dollars is just an initial investment, and will continue to invest more in the future, so that everyone can rest assured and strive to produce a prototype in the shortest possible time.

Thinking of this, Andy Rubin couldn't help taking a deep breath while standing at the gate on the ground floor of the company's office building, and walked into the gate of the company. Like all the employees of the company, he was full of confidence and hope for the future.

Just imagine, with such a generous investment, this company is indeed worthy of the expectations of employees.

Of course, no one knows what the future will be like. The multi-touch full touch screen smartphone is so advanced that it can almost be said that it has never been done before. If the research and development is successful, who knows what the future prospects of the company will be?

Enter the gate, pass the security front desk, put away the bicycle, and take the elevator directly to the fifth floor.

Although two floors are covered, the fifth floor is the office building, and the sixth floor is the laboratory and the company's hardware research and development room.

There is no front desk lady, and there is only a green leaf specially designed by the company's employees at the gate of the office, which looks very fashionable and modern, which represents the company's philosophy, environmentally friendly and low-carbon advanced technology.

As the company's largest project, the Android team has the largest number of software and hardware technical talents, with a total of more than 400 people. Andy Rubin is the company's chief engineer, responsible for overall planning of research and development and talent recruitment. To this end, he uses his own With the experience of working in Microsoft and Apple, the high salary has attracted some very outstanding professionals.

"Andy, Miss Moon came to see you just now!" Before approaching the office, an employee in charge of animation design reminded.

He is from Apple and is good at animation design. According to Ye Qiu's previous request, the page-turning effect brought about by multi-touch, as well as every joint in the mobile operating system, should be displayed with animation as much as possible to avoid causing damage. The stuttering and abrupt illusion, this is also one of the reasons why many people thought that Android was lagging in Ye Qiu's previous life.

In fact, there are many reasons why Android is not smooth enough. For example, the connection is too abrupt, and the system was originally designed for keyboard phones, which also caused some problems. In addition, Android was widely used in phones with poor hardware in the early days. For example, some counterfeit phones give people a feeling that they are not smooth enough.

Some people in the previous life believed that the development of Android based on JAVA was the reason why the Android system was not smooth. This is also relatively speaking, because there is no difference in user experience with a gap of a few tenths of a second, but the high portability brought by JAVA is irreplaceable. Alternatively, for example, Android can be applied to mobile phones with different hardware, and can also be applied to tablet computers, flat-panel TVs, and so on.

Ye Qiu remembered that there was another technology expert who even installed all the electrical appliances with display screens in his home into Android, which shows that this system has unparalleled cross-platform portability.

Another point is very important, that is, the C language is a Microsoft patent, needless to say the cost, and more importantly, JAVA is the most popular design language in the world, the most widely used, and the lowest barrier to entry. It may not be as good as the C language in terms of energy consumption, but it has huge advantages in many aspects.

For example, it may take half a year or even a year to design a game using C language, but it can be tested within 3 months using JAVA, and there are more programmers in JAVA, and the threshold is lower, which is very convenient. promote.

With the improvement of hardware, the impact of JAVA can be ignored, but so many advantages are irreplaceable.

Now Apple's mobile phone project has not yet started, Jobs is even preparing to cooperate with Motorola, so Ye Qiu wants to start first, hoping to seize the market before the Apple mobile phone comes out, and he has already obtained the multi-touch patent, no doubt He has already seized the opportunity, and if he succeeds, Leaf Technology will bring Ye Qiu an incomparably rich return in the future.

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Andy Rubin walked into Eliza Moon's office, and saw this stunning beauty who usually looked as cold and arrogant as an iceberg, but at this moment she was having an affair with a young black-haired and yellow-skinned man Sitting there talking and laughing surprised him because he didn't know who the other party was.

"You're here, Andy!" Eliza stood up and said with a smile, "Let me introduce you, the boss of Leaf Technology, Ye Qiu!"

Andy Rubin was a little surprised, he was too young, really too young, and Ye Qiu felt familiar to him, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"Hello, Andy!" Ye Qiu smiled and stretched out his hand.

"Hello, boss!" Andy Rubin was a little cautious. Like all technical geeks, he was not good at speaking and expressed his opinions with his hands.

"How? I heard that you still think the keyboard should be added, don't you?" Ye Qiu knew a little about him, so he got straight to the point.

Andy Rubin nodded, "Yes, although I have seen Westerman's multi-touch demonstration, and I admit that this is indeed an outstanding innovation, I am still worried that customers will not be able to adapt to such changes at all. , and you know, we've been concerned about the touchscreen material."

Ye Qiu smiled after hearing this, the material of the touch screen is self-evident for a touch screen mobile phone, so he didn't doubt Andy Rubin's stubbornness at all, and it was obvious that Andy Rubin still kept the BlackBerry It's not good to treat it as your own imaginary enemy.

"Andy, regarding the material issue of the touch screen, I believe you can rest assured, because I have contacted New York Corning yesterday, and they will provide us with an orangutan glass within half a year. This glass is very strong and durable. swipe and seem to be born for touch."

"Corning has discontinued this glass at present, because it was a product in the 60s, and there is not much market, but they promised to make samples as soon as possible to help us develop." Eliza Moon said with a smile the latest the results.

After Elisa finished speaking, Ye Qiu continued: "One of the important reasons why I have always asked for full touch control is that I think the physical keyboard will limit the application of smart phones. Using full touch control can maximize the Unleash innovation to the maximum, if you think about it, you can control the phone with your fingers, which will make users love it to death!"

"But how to solve many operations? For example, when dialing a number, how to solve the keyboard when you want to send a message or write something?" Andy Rubin couldn't make a turn for a while.

Ye Qiu explained with a smile, "It's very simple. We specially designed a dial icon on the screen. If you want to make a call, just click the icon, and the dialing interface will display the dialing number keys. As for sending messages and writing things, it's also easy. Simple, the system is set to bring up the typing keyboard at this time."

"The so-called intelligence means that when the user performs each specific activity, there are corresponding functions and buttons to meet the user's needs, and when the user does not need them, these buttons and keyboards will automatically disappear, such as watching through mobile phones. Video, then all the buttons can disappear, so as not to affect the user's use."

After listening to Andy Rubin, he digested it for a few minutes, and then asked some questions, for example, he was worried that the mobile phone was in his pocket, and the latter was held in his hand, and he would accidentally misuse it. The countermeasures given by Ye Qiu It adopts a sliding unlock function similar to the previous Android or Ai Crazy, and a one-key lock screen function.

And when the mobile phone is not needed, it can also put the mobile phone into sleep mode to save energy consumption.

In addition, Ye Qiu also gave a lot of ideas of his own, such as adding a sensor near the microphone of the mobile phone, so as to prevent the user from misoperating the touch screen with the ear when answering the phone, and so on.

Ye Qiu answered Andy Rubin's doubts one by one.

In his previous life, Ye Qiu had used many Android phones, and he had swiped the phones countless times. He knew everything about the Android system like the back of his hand, and he also had more than a year of experience in using Apple phones, so the use of the two phones And the details are very clear.

This time, Ye Qiu has spent a lot of money planning to develop a smartphone by himself. That is to say, in a place like Silicon Valley where talents are everywhere, he can recruit so many hardware and software, as well as a variety of professionals in such a short period of time. Talent, in other places, it is impossible to achieve.

Andy Rubin has many doubts, and Ye Qiu's answers are also very detailed, from the icon design of the mobile phone, to the appearance design of the mobile phone, to the various functions of the mobile phone, and the open source model open to third parties, Ye Qiu gave the most detailed answers, almost wanting to give Andy Rubin everything he knew.

The latter has already signed a work contract with Leaf Technology. Ye Qiu is not worried that he will leave the company, and he has no way to monitor the company's progress all the time. Therefore, he needs someone who is very familiar with and understands his ideas, Andy Rubin Undoubtedly the most suitable candidate.

The final result is that Ye Qiu took out a lot of Android and Apple mobile phones that he had thoroughly studied and understood in his previous life, as well as later tablet computers, smart TVs, etc. A lot of high-tech smart products that are currently unavailable Take them all out, which greatly shocked Andy Rubin.

To deal with such professional high-achieving students, you have to act more genius than them, so that you can deter them.

(End of this chapter)