Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 449 The acquisition begins

Qu Li flew to Silicon Valley in the United States, met with the president of Motorola Mobility, and talked about his love. Many of the technical backbone of Honor's startup came from Motorola.

I have to talk about the background of the times. At this time, the U.S. debt crisis broke out. I won’t go into the specific details. The general meaning is that some people want to borrow more money and let their grandchildren pay back the money. The three major rating agencies have lowered the rating of the United States. Credit ratings, financial markets are in chaos, and some people are planning to "camp" on Wall Street. Everything is restless.

Honor is a big seller in the United States, and Jumei Shopee's success in the United States is all in this context, and it is a beneficiary of internationalization, so Qu Li is a staunch supporter of globalization.

At this time, cooperation is the main focus between major countries. It is feasible for Honor to acquire Motorola Mobility. Anyway, in addition to the mobile phone business, Honor does not need other businesses such as set-top boxes. It will all be thrown to Google or sold, and it can still sell for 20 Billions of dollars.

While touting Motorola's glorious history, they also talk about Honor's corporate culture. They are an international company and are closer to Silicon Valley technology companies in all aspects than to typical Chinese companies.Although he didn’t know what Wai Guoren saw from Chinese companies, he would first deceive Motorola first.

The acquisition of Motorola is not only a matter between two companies, but also involves the government, so Qu Li went to the United States and met with various people together with the president of North America.

Except for a few core decision-makers such as Qu Li and Lei Jun, everyone including the president of North America thinks that Honor really wants to acquire Motorola. After all, the reasons are easy to understand. After all, Honor’s patent accumulation is not enough. Nokia is suing Apple, and Apple wants to make up for it. It is certain to pay the patent fee.

Patent disputes are not only troublesome and affect daily operations, but also affect corporate profit margins. For example, Honor’s patent fees paid globally are definitely more than Apple’s…

Qu Li and the others were busy with their own affairs. The relevant departments in the United States approved Google's $9 million acquisition of Nortel Networks' patents. Things were finally about to get heated.

how to say?If Apple wants to solve its own patent problem, acquiring the patents of Nortel Networks may be the lowest-cost option. The other options are to acquire them bit by bit from companies with telecommunications businesses such as IBM, Intel, and IDCC, or some that give up the mobile phone business. Enterprises are also a choice, and finally it is giants like Motorola and Nokia, and the costs are increasing.

Honor directly chooses the most cost-effective method because it has the highest success rate and saves time. If Apple and Microsoft compete with Honor for Motorola, the price is hard to say. The original purchase price does not need to be 100 billion US dollars. The competition between the two giants may increase the price. times.

Honor contacted Motorola, and they contacted Apple and Microsoft. They were selling themselves anyway, and selling to domestic companies should be their first choice. This is understandable.

Apple finally released IPhone 4S. The A5 chip surpassed Qinglong [-], the system was upgraded, and the overall experience surpassed Honor KOS. As for Siri, it is still easier to use than klun. The only pity is that Qiaobusi did not attend the conference.

Faced with the competition from Honor, Apple dare not say harsh words like never advertising. Qu Li, who works in the United States, has seen overwhelming news, from print media, TV to the Internet, various advertisements, reviews, and soft articles.

"Although Honor's innovation capabilities are strong, Apple's R&D capabilities are even better. Apple can do everything Honor can do, and do it better..." There are too many similar remarks, and IPhone 4S surpasses Honor's latest model without any suspense. The G4plus, and more importantly, the Honor G5 in the second half of the year has almost no way to overtake it.

Although such a result has been foreseen for a long time, Apple is better than Honor in terms of technology accumulation and talent team composition, but to this day, it is still uncomfortable. With Kunlun system and Constellation chip, Honor only has the ability to take pictures. The world is under heaven.

Thanks to the acquisition of Japanese Pentax, and with the help of their "artisan spirit", the camera capabilities of Honor G4plus have steadily surpassed that of IPhone 4S.Pentax has once again become a mainstream player in the camera market by leveraging Honor's financial advantages and promotion capabilities.

The income from Pentax cameras is not worth mentioning. It cannot even be compared with Qiancheng Automobile. It is divided into other categories and is similar to drones and self-balancing vehicles.

"Don't worry, we still have a lot of future, and the market positioning is different from Apple." Honor North America CEO said after seeing Qu Li's worries

At most, Apple only has one mobile phone that is better than Honor, but Honor has the world’s best drones and self-balancing scooters, and now it also has a promising “sub-brand”. Well, that’s how the outside world sees it anyway.

When Qiancheng Geometry appears in Silicon Valley, it will naturally be compared with Tesla Model S, and the conclusion is that they are comparable.Well, of course there is some bragging involved, but with the emergence of Future Geometry, no one doubts Honor’s ability to innovate.

Apple's release of the IPhone 4S was not without negative impacts. It had patent disputes with Samsung and Nokia, and had not yet reached a settlement. The phone was soon banned from sale.

In 2011, there was a chaotic battle over smartphone patent disputes. Honor and Apple reconciled and reached some patent cooperation, but this does not mean that Honor will not have troubles. Patent trolls, telecommunications equipment giants such as Ericsson, as well as Microsoft, Intel...

Samsung and Nokia, as established companies, are also unavoidable. Microsoft is preparing to wield its sickle to kill customers. The current patent war for smartphones is really a mess.It is definitely a blessing for Honor to be on the market at this time.

In order to make himself even luckier, Qu Li made an appointment with Google CEO and talked about their acquisition of Motorola and the need for Google's help when necessary. In addition, he also talked about the two upcoming mobile phones "mateX and P".

The conflict between Honor and Google has been put on the table. The controversy over the App Store and GMS is getting bigger and bigger. However, Honor is still the "king of Android devices" and the boss of Google's Android camp. Even if it faces the challenge of Samsung HTC, the boss is still the boss. .

The meeting between Qu Li and Schmidt was not pleasant. After all, the differences in interests have become larger, such as

The self-developed chip tablet to be released this time will no longer be called Gpad2, because HTC, Samsung, etc. in the Android camp are opposed to it, saying that G4, Gpad, and other naming methods starting with G represent Google Android, and they want Honor to cancel the G series of mobile phones and tablets.

Is such a request justified?There must be, but Honor has never promoted that G series phones are Google phones, and the title of Android Phone King was not proposed by Honor. It is just a letter. There can be many explanations. If we really want to file a lawsuit, this matter will be unclear.

At this time, Google began to deviate, so Honor’s second tablet was changed to HonorPad2. The flagship phone in the second half of the year may be renamed Honor5. The Honor digital series uses self-developed chips and systems, and the Honor Mate series uses Qualcomm chips, possibly Android. Native……