The flowers in the factory of rebirth are too fierce

Fortunately, the answer was soon revealed. Just after the decoration of the new company was completed and the two companies moved in, Lin Zhiyuan convened a secret scientific research mobilization meeting. Only six people participated, including Lin Zhiyuan, Yuan Fei, Ximan and Elvis from Newark Company, and Scoli and Fadek from General Magic.

The reason why Fadek was able to attend this meeting was because in the subsequent contacts, Lin Zhiyuan knew that he was the R&D team leader of MagicCap's product. But what Lin Zhiyuan didn't know was that in his previous life, Fadek was the product manager of the Fruit Phone.

At this moment, outside the conference room, among the people who were not qualified to attend this meeting, there was a bespectacled man named Robin, the co-founder of Android, and Ms. Megan Smith, who was urgently recalled to the company by Skerrie, and later became the first female chief technology officer of the White House.

Lin Zhiyuan picked up a treasure, and more than one.

In the conference room, Lin Zhiyuan held a magic cap in his left hand and a hand-drawn picture in his right hand, and said solemnly to the five people who were looking up at him: "Gentlemen, I hope you can develop an epoch-making electronic product. The appearance of this product is like this..." Lin Zhiyuan showed the picture in his right hand to the five people.

There are two pictures. The one on the left is an electronic device drawn in pencil. It is a simple-looking thin rectangle with curved corners. The word "screen" is marked in the middle of the rectangle, and at the bottom is a round sunken button. There are several buttons on both sides of the rectangle with words such as "power switch", "volume adjustment" and "jack" marked in English.

The one on the right should be the back of this rectangle. There is also a circular logo in the upper left corner with "camera" written on it.

That’s right, this is what Lin Zhiyuan drew based on his memory, a sketch of the appearance of the iPhone 4.

Fadell was touched by this thing, but he was not sure. After hesitating for a while, he asked a question, "Mr. Lin, I noticed that you are holding a magiccap in your right hand. Can I assume that the device in your picture is something similar to the magiccap?"

"There are similarities, but many other differences." Lin Zhiyuan placed the magic cap on the table, next to the picture. He pointed at the picture and said, "I call this a smart phone. It has all the functions of a normal phone, including making and receiving calls, sending text messages, address book, alarm clock, calculator..."

"But at the same time, it also has all the functions of MagicCap, such as sending and receiving emails, surfing the Internet, and some computer functions..."

"But it's not just that. Smartphones should be an upgraded and enhanced version of MagicCap. They should have most of the functions that computers can do, such as multimedia, games, and browsers. In a nutshell, smartphones are electronic devices with independent operating systems and independent operating spaces. Users can install software, games, navigation, and other equipment provided by third-party service providers, and can access wireless networks through mobile communication networks."

Hearing this, several people present were a little stunned, but Fadell was obviously very excited, "Mr. Lin, this is what I have always wanted to do, and this is also the original intention of our development of magiccap."

Lin Zhiyuan shook his head again, "Fadell, the biggest difference between the smartphone I mentioned and MagicCap is that it will build an extremely large world. In this world, there are countless businessmen, programmers, catering practitioners, and scientific researchers contributing to it..."

Lin Zhiyuan held up the picture again and pointed to the blank screen in the center. "Here, countless people will create all kinds of small programs for it, such as food ordering software, navigation software, stock trading software. Anyway, whatever you can think of, I hope this smartphone can realize it for you. In the future, there will be millions of people serving this virtual world, and at the same time, this world will also serve millions of ordinary people."

"Gentlemen, we are about to do a great thing..."

There was a brief silence in the conference room, but after a few seconds, everyone present applauded enthusiastically.

These Silicon Valley elites were shocked and looked forward to the bright prospects described by Lin Zhiyuan.

Ximan from Newark stood up. It was obvious that he was also very emotional, and he stuttered when he spoke. "Lin, if I'm not mistaken, you acquired Newark so that smartphones can be operated directly with fingers, right?"

"That's right, Ximan. Smartphones in the future won't need a mouse or a stylus. They can be operated simply with your fingers."

Lin Zhiyuan took a deep breath and glanced at the people present. "Gentlemen, you are all elites in Silicon Valley. I just told you what I imagined, but it still depends on you to realize it. This process may be long, maybe two years, maybe three years, and we will have to go through many difficulties in the meantime, but I hope that we can make it together, promote it to the world, and then create a new world."

Lin Zhiyuan had prepared this Shakespearean recitation in advance. His voice echoed throughout the conference room. The effect was indeed good. The enthusiasm of several elites was ignited. Several people stood up in unison, waving their arms, and said, "Create a new world."

"Okay, gentlemen, even if I don't say anything, you should all know the importance of this project, so you must be careful when selecting team members and keep confidentiality..." Lin Zhiyuan reminded them of some research and development details and at the same time gave these people a reassurance.

Lin Zhiyuan assured them that the annual research funding would not be less than 50 million US dollars in the future, and he also set the deadline at three years.

This number is based on facts. Lin Zhiyuan had read a document in his previous life that the total R&D cost of the fruit company in developing the first generation of smartphones was 150 million US dollars, and it took the fruit company three years to develop the first generation of iPhone.

Of course, Apple has taken many detours. In 2004, Apple and Motorola jointly developed a mobile phone named Rokr. However, this phone was ugly in appearance, difficult to download songs, and could only store a hundred songs. It was recognized as a failed product.

Subsequently, the fruit company began to develop its own mobile phones. Two teams were working on the iPhone project simultaneously, code-named p1 and p2.

The P1, led by Fadell, adds mobile phone functions to the iPod. The iconic scroll wheel design of the iPod is like the dial wheel on an old-fashioned telephone.

P2 was led by Jony Ive and adopts a full touch screen and multi-touch design.

Six months into the project, they decided to adopt the P2 solution, and the iPhone's research and development was finally on the right track. However, before that, they had wasted a lot of time and scientific research funds.

As a reborn person, Lin Zhiyuan certainly would not follow the old path. He directly chose the most correct path.