The end of technology.

For the guests invited today, there is still something to say.Of course it feels different.

Some people can see opportunities and profits, while others see threats.

But none of the bigwigs expressed their true thoughts.But there is one feeling that seems to be the same, and that is-this trip is worthwhile.

……

Outside the second floor, Tim Cook, who was the first to get out of the elevator, stopped at the entrance of the small building, ignored Zhuo Mingqian beside him, and turned to look at the people behind him.

Obviously he was waiting for someone, but Ning Zi was not with them.

But his purpose was soon exposed. When Ge Dongshu walked and chatted with the people around him and came to the door, Tim Cook took the initiative to say: "Mr. Ge, let's go for a walk together?"

Ge Dongshu thought for a while, and immediately showed his face and nodded to Tim Cook, then turned to the people around him and said, "Mr. Xu, Mr. Cook has something to do with me, why don't we talk later?"

"It's okay, Mr. Ge, you are busy first. We have more opportunities to get together. After all, Mr. Cook is a guest from afar." The man beside him said politely.

Ge Dongshu nodded, and then strode towards Tim Cook. Zhuo Mingqian also stopped tactfully, and walked with the people behind him, leaving room for the two to talk alone.

……

Someone took out his mobile phone and took a photo. In the photo, Ge Dongshu and Tim Cook happened to be looking at each other in profile when they were communicating.

Definitely a photo worthy of the cover of Time Magazine.

In the eyes of ordinary people, these two people represent the two giants of the most high-end smartphone market in the modern world, and there is no third.

Yes, with the help of the various functions realized by two unique smart assistants, other brands in the high-end mobile phone market around the world have simply been unable to gain a foothold.At least so far, no corresponding smart products have appeared.Especially in the international market, the new generation of Apple and Youwei mobile phones can better match various faster applications, and there is almost no rival in the entire North American and European markets.

Even the low-end mobile phone market has been gradually eroded by Apple's system changes and the promising products of the older generation last year and the year before.

This situation has even attracted the attention of many departments in the European Union. The European Competition Commission, the European Antitrust Monitoring Agency, the European Electronic Communications Information Regulatory Commission, and the German Federal Cartel Office have recently taken many actions to investigate the two. Antitrust actions that the company may be involved in.

Even Cisco is under investigation.

Investigations, lawsuits, massive fines...

All kinds of negative news against these two companies have never stopped recently, but at present, the sales of the two products have maintained good.

But there is no way, there is really no substitute.

Whether it is Samsung or other brands of mobile phones, there are corresponding smart assistants to replace these two products.More importantly, Faster brought by Cisco has built and integrated a huge pan-entertainment resource platform ranging from news to audio, video, comics, novels, etc.

All personalized products developed by faster users can call this huge resource library for a fee, including countless individual users.This has formed a de facto monopoly to some extent.

Think about it, when users can develop a simple and smooth network playback software by themselves, as long as they can pay a fee, they can purchase an interface and connect to the faster audio, video and video database.Of course, if you want to play the internal audio-visual video, you need to purchase the corresponding video content through a monthly subscription or a single point.

Even this user can submit his playback software to Faster's software database through the purchase interface for others to download and use.However, the logic of this place has changed, because this kind of download does not help the users who upload the software to earn any economic profits.

On the contrary, because the purchased interface data is only bound to the original user's credit card, every customer who downloads this playback software needs to pay for the software provider to have access.

In other words, in the logic of Faster, every software sharer in the platform software library is an out-and-out good person.Because this is equivalent to paying for others to use the faster database for resource sharing.

Of course, good people can also limit various conditions for the download of the software they upload.

Still taking audio and video as an example, great benevolent people can only share certain movies they recommend in the software when uploading, which means that he is willing to pay for all users who watch these movies through the faster platform; It is stipulated that only users invited by him can download the software he uploaded, which is roughly equivalent to contributing these expenses to relatives and friends; or the great people who share the software directly post tasks on the platform, and only users who complete the tasks can download their own software...

This series of means made the entire Faster platform more active than ever.

The sharing spirit of the Internet can be regarded as clearly played by Cisco.

If you think that there are very few benevolent people who share software on the Internet, you are wrong. On the contrary, in the software sharing area of ​​Faster, there are so many such benevolent people that it is outrageous.No matter what the purpose is, tens of thousands of players with various purposes join the ranks of sharers every day.This also means that tens of thousands of various types of software appear in the sharing area.

Combined with Faster's search function that is no weaker than Google's, those users who are unwilling to spend money on online platforms can almost find all kinds of genuine resources that are shared for free on software sharing platforms as long as they spend a little patience and time.

Such a large-scale resource sharing platform where almost no one feels that they are at a disadvantage has begun to take shape.

Of course, it is not that simple to access Faster, not all systems can be involved.

So far, Faster on the mobile phone side only provides official interfaces for Apple’s iOS and the promising Hongmeng system, while the computer side only provides corresponding interfaces for IOS, Hongmeng and Windows.

This also directly leads to the inability of mobile phones and computers using other systems to participate in this feast.

The reason why mobile phones of other brands, including Samsung, especially those of the Huaxia brand, are still sold abroad is basically due to their low enough prices and the initiative to help users upgrade to the Hongmeng system to access the faster platform.

Of course, not all the profits of the faster platform belong to Cisco, and many companies including Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc., as well as many various resource providers relying on the platform can share the profits.Even so, the faster resource sharing platform has not been uncommonly litigated within a short year of its establishment.

For example, although it provided some technical support for the faster platform, Google filed as many as five lawsuits against Cisco's faster platform this year. Similarly, Facebook and Twitter also sued three times for the faster platform.

From the opacity of background data to the opacity of various recommended resource algorithms, in short, this platform has obviously touched the cake of too many people. Many people have seen the trend of centralized monopoly of Internet resources, but there is nothing they can do about it.

To put it bluntly, the success of the faster platform itself relies on the faster software, which can probably be understood as relying on the integration of Internet resources by artificial intelligence.Those resources are not the first thing people look at, because there are too many resources on the Internet.

But when people get used to using faster, they simply cannot leave the platform.

After all, self-programming is almost equivalent to being able to completely break away from the shackles of those developers, so that the program can run completely according to one's own wishes. For example, the most important thing is that there are no advertisements at all.In other words, the cost of advertising for giant advertisers has become higher, which is probably why Google, Twitter, and Facebook have been suing the platform.

After all, the increase in monthly active users of the Faster platform is based on the blood of the advertising alliances of these big companies.

Many customers have begun to explore the use of the faster platform to bypass middlemen to earn the difference.

For example, be a good person on a software sharing platform.

It only needs to provide software that can use or watch various popular resources for free, but the restriction given is to browse its own advertisements, so that the advertising costs of large social platforms such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook will be directly paid. The faster platform accepted it with a smile.

Even the advertisements that you want to play require this step.

If it hadn't been negotiated, the Google account could also log in to the Faster platform with one click, and the two may fight directly.

Of course, the development of the current faster resource sharing platform is still being explored. As a super platform with 26 billion monthly active users in a year, any change may cause great turmoil, let alone countless people coveting it. The number of users of the faster resource platform.

You must know that this is the data that Huaxia, a huge mobile Internet market, has not yet connected to the platform.

From major mobile phone manufacturers to hardware and software providers such as Google, Qualcomm, and Microsoft, they have expressed their desire to provide more interfaces in various ways.

In addition, major domestic software providers and advertisers are also speculating on when Faster will be listed in China.After all, once the faster software is listed in Huaxia, it means that the relevant sharing platforms will also start operating after reviewing the content.This also means changes in the entire Internet operation and monetization logic.

Everyone knows this question, and the best answer is actually Ning Zi.

But when these people couldn't find Ning Zi at all, they could only take the next best thing and get word from Yanbei Sports University.

So it is conceivable that as a provider of faster software, the School of Computer Science of Yanbei University of Physical Education can imagine how lively this year was.

It can be said that the Internet celebrities that can be thought of in this era are almost all lined up to give various speeches at the University of Science and Technology. Ning Zi met her and asked for some news.

Of course, in most cases, Ning Zi would not be able to see her at all.

But it can't be said that the University is too negligent. After all, as the principal, he is very good at reception.Every time there is such an event, as long as he is in the school, he will personally receive it in person, to give the visitors enough face, and often get some benefits during the chatter.

After all, most of these Internet celebrities are wealthy and wealthy, and the Internet companies they run are leaders in their respective industries.

Even these are already pipeline operations.

For the students of the University of Physical Education, this kind of incident made them feel more clearly what Ning Zi meant when he said that their horizons would be broadened here.

After all, these Internet bosses have seen a lot, so they feel that they are not worth much.

In the beginning, there was a big boss coming to preach, and the students were still very excited. They went to occupy the seat early and prepared various questions. Later, the children who were big began to choose the influence of the celebrity and arrange the time of the lecture. If the influence If it’s not that big, or if the lecture is arranged on the weekend, the instructor must make various demands and even threaten his usual grades in order to barely fill the auditorium.

This is probably the face of Yanbei University of Sports in [-]. Celebrity speeches are not news. Only when some bigwigs come to preach and make the auditorium full of people on the third and outer floors can it be called news.

Of course, today's photo is destined to be big news.

Chapter 217 Ning Zi's King Bomb

"I heard a saying that Youwei intends to redefine the future of smartphones, and plans to launch a robot-style phone?"

After a simple greeting, Tim Cook asked casually in the cold wind of early winter in Beijing.

Ge Dongshu turned his head and looked at Tim Cook in surprise, and asked, "Who said that? How is this possible? Bind the mobile phone to the robot? This is ridiculous."

Tim Cook smiled, and then said: "It is not only about binding mobile phones to robots, but also binding autonomous driving technology to robots. It is said that Youwei Group is already discussing the corresponding feasibility with relevant departments, such as In the early stage, Youwei Group will bear the insurance costs for all robot autonomous driving systems, and increase the pan-personal injury insurance caused by robot autonomous driving. explain the problem?"

"Do you believe it?" Ge Dongshu shrugged and asked.

Tim Cook nodded, and casually gave his own judgment: "I was dubious when I came here, but after seeing the demonstration just now, I believe it. You are working on a full artificial intelligence solution. I think maybe you It will also increase functions, such as robot butler technology. Of course, I don’t know whether you can reach a similar agreement. I don’t know the output of N1 robots. At this stage, the main application direction, but in time, once the output catches up, Based on your relationship with Ning Zi, this is probably inevitable."

Ge Dongshu nodded with a smile and said: "Well, you also said that it will take time. In fact, we don't know the things you don't know either."

Tim Cook shrugged and said: "But your robotics laboratory can share part of the data of the base, and is also a supplier of some major components. It may take some time to imitate the N1 robot, but if you don't need the N1 robot The ability to move is only for ordinary civilian robots, and does not require such a complicated sensor system and high-precision computing capabilities, and can even use other methods to replace the N1-type machine vision system."

Ge Dongshu looked slightly sideways at Tim Cook and said, "So..."

"So I probably don't need three years, maybe next year, or the year after, Youwei Group will launch the first generation of general-purpose robotic devices that can integrate the functions of all smart devices at this stage, including but not limited to smartphones, computers, smart hubs, Automatic driving and other functions, providing mobile base stations and WIFI services.

In addition, it can understand general conversations, has screen display and projection capabilities, has cloud storage and private storage capabilities, uses embedded automatic search engine technology, and is backed by a promising cloud platform for big data processing!Perhaps this will be the most successful high-end civilian artificial intelligence device in human history.By the way, have you figured out the naming rules for this mobile information hub? "

Tim Cook gave his own judgment in the words of Ge Dongshu.

If there are electronic enthusiasts around the two of them at this time, and they hear Tim Cook's evaluation, there is a high probability that they will be full of expectations for the future.

After all, this kind of upgrade is definitely a future that electronic enthusiasts only dare to think about in their dreams, and it is close to science fiction.

But when this kind of words came out of Tim Cook's mouth, it added a lot of credibility.

As we all know, among companies, only friends and businessmen with equal strengths know each other best.

As the only two giants in the smartphone market, both Apple and Youwei will naturally pay extra attention to each other's products.

Especially for Apple, the rise of Faster has made them decisively give up on continuing to keep their own mall ecology, and instead began to embrace the more open Faster ecological platform, which made this concern more direct.

Because the two companies are now coexisting under the same ecological platform, the current competition has changed from the previous ecological differentiation competition to the battle for users under the same ecological circle.Although the installation packages of the IOS platform and the Hongmeng platform are still different.However, Faster's intelligent programming mode can easily convert application installation packages between the two operating systems, which in fact breaks the boundary of the closed system effect.

This also makes the competition between the two parties more pure.

However, Ge Dongshu did not respond to Tim Cook's words, but also asked a question: "I heard that Apple has already planned to authorize several mobile phone manufacturers to use your IOS system. Is it true?"

Tim Cook shrugged and didn't answer.

Ge Dongshu continued to talk to himself: "In fact, this kind of development seems petty. If I were you, I would directly open source IOS, and then start selling the A-series CPU architecture. Anyway, the faster platform has been determined to be the future trend. The overall competitive logic of future products has changed, Mr. Cook."

Tim Cook said playfully: "In this case, the value of the system will depend on whether the interface of the faster sharing platform will continue to be released in the future. Well, let's not talk about this, Ge, don't you think that if Youwei does not have a reliable Partners, even if your research is successful, will it be difficult to promote your robot products in the European and North American markets? Whether it is North American regulation or European regulation, they will not simply define your future robot products as Communication products may not even be approved for sale for a long time.”

The topic was brought back again by the Apple tycoon.

"Hmm..." Ge Dongshu shrugged, glanced at the Apple boss beside him, and asked, "You mean that if Apple becomes a partner of Youwei Group, it will be able to pass the customs smoothly?"

"Of course, we have our own lobbying channels, at least to make it easier for the corresponding products to go on the market. And the European anti-monopoly committee is not so easy to deal with. Of course, I don't need to remind you of these, I just want to tell you that whether it is the Youwei Group , or this base needs a reliable ally.

It just so happens that Apple has already played some roles in the global industrial chain layout of the base, and we can also play the same role in future products.Simply put, with Apple's guarantee, it is easier to gain trust. "

Tim Cook's remarks are very sincere, and of course they are in line with the actual situation.

In this respect, the Promising Group is at a natural disadvantage.Although Apple is also often targeted by various European regulatory authorities, most of the time it is nothing more than a show, and fines are not painful, but it is different for Youwei Group, and it is really a knife.

But no matter how sincere Tim Cook said, Ge Dongshu knew very well that this was not something he could even decide for the group.

And Ge Dongshu doesn't really care much about these.

Simply put, times have changed.

The economic laws of this world are closely related to the leap in productivity.

In an era of stagnant technological development, basic scientific research has stagnated, and the biggest impact is the stagnant development of productivity. At this time, dividends are often exhausted, and all businesses start to engage in stock games. This stage is often the cruelest.

Because there is no incremental growth, we can only compete for customers from the former stock market, a proper zero-sum or even negative-sum game.

But when all kinds of basic technologies are booming and productivity is leaping, for the company, as long as it finds the right outlet, it can fly.

Especially at this time, even if you temporarily abandon the overseas market and focus on the Chinese market, it is enough for Youwei Group to live well.After all, the relevant artificial intelligence plus humanoid robot market is currently blank and can be written arbitrarily.

So for Ge Dongshu, what Tim Cook said may be true, but Youwei Group now has far more choices than Apple, so it naturally has the initiative.

This is actually thanks to Ning Zi.

After all, Youwei Group established a robotics laboratory under Ning Zi's suggestion, and incorporated robot development into the group's development strategy. More importantly, Youwei Group can share the global supply chain and China's local supply chain with the base. Makes it possible to design simplified civilian robotics for the group.

The most important thing is that the starting point of this scientific and technological revolution represented by the discovery of artificial intelligence and anti-gravity matter is in China.

According to the law of historical development, where the scientific and technological revolution begins, it means that the region will start to develop by leaps and bounds.In the age of science and technology, relying on products that reduce dimensionality, we can quickly complete the accumulation of capital and step into the fast lane of development.It is also possible to retain more profits through high value-added products.

Especially under the current conditions, China is a big industrial country. The strong manufacturing industry is matched with the era of leaping productivity. Under the mutual catalysis, even the most pessimistic people will express optimism about China's future economic development.

All of this became Ge Dongshu's confidence at this time.

After thinking for a while, Ge Dongshu said with emotion: "Mr. Cook, when we met at the University of Physical Education about two years ago, Academician Ning told me that I was standing at the center of future world technology. His confidence was doubtful, but now I don't think even you doubt it anymore. So think about it, even his closest collaborators at the time doubted it, but it was finally accepted by everyone In fact, I don't need to say more about who is mainly responsible for this credit.

So now I actually feel quite ashamed.I often think, if we were more radical at that time and supported the development of related technologies more strongly, what kind of scene would it be now?Maybe there is a way to directly get Faster's agency rights?Well, let's not talk about this.In short, your idea may be correct, but for this level of cooperation, you should clearly know who is in charge better than me, so there is really no need to test our ideas. Regarding the promotion of robots, the group has several plans, and there is no one yet. Make your final decision. "

Ge Dongshu's emotion did not move Tim Cook. After all, these are things that everyone has tacitly understood, and it can also be said to be nonsense.He just replied calmly: "Of course I understand, Ge, I have already made an appointment with Ning, and we will have a direct conversation after lunch. I just hope that if Ning consults the opinions of your partners, I hope you can consider what I just said. opinion, that's all."

"Oh, I will consider it and recommend it to the board of directors." Ge Dongshu replied casually.

Standardized answers, in their position, it is impossible to give an affirmative answer to this kind of question involving the group's strategy.So Tim Cook is actually quite satisfied.

Moreover, the two bosses managed the timing just right, and after discussing the topic, they arrived at the door of No. [-] cafeteria.