Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 583 Something happened to HTC

"HTC is banned from sale in the United States!"

A piece of news suddenly appeared in Qu Li's sight. He had forgotten that there was such a thing, but he didn't expect that what was supposed to happen happened after all.

With the acquisition of Motorola by Google, the patent dispute between Apple and Samsung has basically come to an end. It is still the same formula. Apple lost the patent lawsuit and was originally going to be banned from sale, but unfortunately Aoguanhai stopped it.

Why is HTC banned?Of course, they committed suicide, chose sides, and deeply bound themselves to Google Android's Andy Rubin, and then Barbie Q.Although Google's chosen son Pichai has not yet won, he has already gained an advantage and begun to cut off Andy Rubin's wings. First, Google no longer cooperates with HTC in the development of mobile phones, and then maintains a tacit understanding with Honor and does not provide HTC with Patent Protection……

Qu Li and Lei Jun understood the situation and knew that there were many stories behind it:

"HTC has made a lot of money in the past few years. It will be difficult for Samsung mobile phones to subvert our market position for a while, but it will not be a problem to crush HTC. Nokia does not like this troublemaker."

After all, it is still not strong enough. A company with no patented technology has made profits that it should not have in the market. It is natural to be beaten. How can HTC be spared the treatment that Honor enjoys? The biggest difference between the two companies is , Glory has more information, more friends, and can hire better lawyers.

Honor originally grew up on the back of Google's Android. Now it is a friend of Google, and it has also become friends with Microsoft. For every WP phone sold, it can get 5 to 10 US dollars from Microsoft. Can it not be a good friend?

Qu Li and the others gloated over HTC's misfortune in Beijin. Soon HTC's Wang Xuehong flew to Beijin and met with Qu Li and Lei Jun through various connections.This proud woman finally lowered her proud head.

It's a pity that Qu Li has a thick face and a dark heart. He didn't suppress HTC for "face" at all. He just happened to have such an excuse at the time.Just like the venture capital investors who had offended him before, Qu Li also promised that he would be willing to cooperate with them in taking photos if they had the opportunity to meet in public in the future.

He can tolerate even slapping his table and splashing water on him, not to mention that Wang Xuehong just wants to use the opportunity to suppress others, and wants to use Google and relevant departments to suppress the development momentum of Honor. In fact, it is useless. HTC is always the loser. Both parties The contradiction is not big, it seems, right?

Qu Li looked at Lei Jun unconfidently. He did not regard HTC as an opponent, but others regarded him as a competitor. Only they themselves knew how many obstacles Wang Xuehong had caused to Honor over the years.

"Forgiving others is the privilege of those who succeed." Someone said next to me, don't say "forgive others" if you fail. At that time, "you deserve it" was a joke.

"What bargaining chip does she have for us to forgive her?" Qu Li didn't want to waste time. If this woman had unrealistic illusions and thought that she would be forgiven by saying an apology, it would be better not to meet her.

"I'll get in touch." Gao Yushan: "Does she have anything we need?"

"There are many, CDMA patented technology and licensing, X86 architecture..."

"What do we need X86 for?"

"Just talking casually, just consider patents related to CDMA and mobile communications."

Actually, Wang Xuehong is really a strange woman. If she has a firm stand and is willing to take root in mainland China, she will definitely not withdraw from the smartphone market, let alone becoming the uncrowned king of the domestic smartphone market.

Wang Xuehong also has a company called VIA. The CDMA part of the acquisition of LSILogic owns CDMA patents and technology, which can be licensed to other companies such as MediaTek. It also has the X86 architecture and authorization obtained after acquiring Cyrix, an X86 chip company.It once became the world's second largest chipset giant, with certain achievements in the fields of CPU, GPU, and communication chips. It is a proper giant framework.

When the two parties formally met, Wang Xuehong saw many foreign executives and knew that it was useless to talk about "national sentiments". He said some polite words and reorganized his words.

Honor's Spreadtrum Technology has full Netcom chips, but they have various cooperation and authorizations with Qualcomm. However, because the technology is developed by itself, authorization is limited, so asking VIA for CDMA technology and authorization is a kind of competitive cooperation. strategy.

Then why does Wang Xuehong look for Honor? Because Apple can ban the sale of HTC in the United States. Even if the domestic sales are not banned, will European countries follow suit?Wang Xuehong is worried that the situation will worsen. If he can reconcile with Glory, there may be hope.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Wang Xuehong left angrily

"what should we do?"

"Just pretend she hasn't been here and everything will be business as usual."

“Including prosecutions in Europe?”

"..."

Domestic mobile phone companies are both happy and sad when HTC suffers. Such an excellent company may be cheated. Do they really have a chance?

Not everyone knows that HTC died due to internal fighting between Google. There are also domestic companies that think that Honor and Apple have inexplicably joined forces to kill this mobile phone company that is qualified to challenge them, so they have contacted Honor to strengthen cooperation and popularize high-end phones. KMS.

Honor's KMS includes KCM's "Kunlun System Cloud Information Push", including WeChat, there is no need to stay in the background and start automatically. Through various measures, Honor has improved the Android user experience, including battery life.

However, this obviously limits the independent controllable rights of mobile phone companies. Some problematic pre-installations may be identified and uninstalled by the KMS security mechanism. In addition, Honor does not directly provide money like Ali subsidizes yunOS, so many mobile phone manufacturers have concerns about this. conflict.

Of course Qu Li has a way. The first is to publish soft articles to popularize science, letting everyone know the advantages of KMS and KCM push, which are safe and power-saving.Only by making sure that the reputation of KMS is recognized by consumers can they give priority to smartphones with KMS services in their shopping choices.

This is also true. Nokia smartphones with pre-installed KMS services have surpassed Samsung and HTC in domestic sales, which has greatly impressed China Cool Alliance OV Meizu TCL. KMS is an original product of Honor and can be considered as the domestic version of GMS. It is jointly promoted by Google and Honor, so most mobile phone companies in the Android Alliance have no choice.

Nokia is really a good company. Zhou Shaoning took a more radical approach, not pursuing profit sharing in the operating system and KMS, and going all out to sell mobile phones.Nearly 5000 million mobile phones were sold throughout the year, nearly 6% of which were Android smartphones, and 2000 million were WP phones that were handled by others. Microsoft subsidized Nokia US$10 for each WP phone.

Nokia sells more Android smartphones, but sells WP phones with higher profit margins.I don’t know how the Indian CEO will choose.

In addition, Moto also uses KMS in China. Unfortunately, Motorola's mobile phone sales dropped sharply throughout the year, less than 1000 million units, less than 500 million units to be exact. Under Google's control, Moto's sales declined very seriously.

As for HTC, with a sales volume of 3500 million, the US market has the largest market share, followed by the EU region. It is a critical period for the industry to explode. There is still hope of becoming a giant. Can Wang Xuehong not be anxious?Seeing that Glory was unmoved, he still took the initiative to come to the door.