Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 74 Advantages of Zhongguo

"Even if the promotion of Android is open source, only Google cannot do it. Nokia, which has a dominant market position, obviously cannot cooperate with Google. It is probably difficult for other traditional mobile phone manufacturers to understand what a smartphone is and what the mobile Internet is."

"The partners for Android cooperation should be mobile operators and telecommunications equipment manufacturing companies, as well as core component suppliers in the smartphone industry."

"Smartphones can watch online videos and browse news on the phone, which allows smartphone users to use more data, and then operators will purchase more equipment. This is a positive cycle."

"But for the three cores of smartphones, Google only solves the operating system. Chip selection is also crucial. As a start-up company, even with ARM's solution, we cannot design mobile phone chips ourselves. We must let Qualcomm , Texas Instruments and other companies joined in..."

Qu Li talked freely in front of the three giants of Google and planned the future development direction of Android for them. How to put it, maybe it can only be described as silly and bold.If it were more than ten years later, I might be scolded by the overbearing president: You are teaching me how to do things!

The introduction of Qualcomm is inevitable, not to mention their patent advantages are unavoidable, and their deceptive patent licensing scheme is actually the biggest backer for the rise of mobile phone companies such as Xiaomi OV. All companies that use Qualcomm chips also pay a 5% Qualcomm tax. Obtained patent protection from Qualcomm.

The evidence is the much-criticized "anti-licensing agreement": mobile phone companies that use Qualcomm chips must license their patents to Qualcomm and are not allowed to collect patent fees from any of Qualcomm's customers for this patent.

Basically, as long as mobile phone companies that use Qualcomm chips cannot initiate patent litigation against users of Qualcomm chips, that is, mobile phone companies such as Samsung, Huawei, Zhongxing, etc. that use Qualcomm chips cannot ask for patent fees from Xiaomi OV.

Competitors have compromised, and basically only telecom companies. Patent trolls will initiate patent lawsuits against Xiaomi OV. This is also the reason why the internationalization of domestic mobile phones has been so smooth.Of course, Huawei is a special case. It has many communications patents and can still compete without Qualcomm's patent protection.

"So your company won't be able to produce smartphones in the short term?" Schmidt said intentionally or unintentionally, not knowing what it meant.

"It's not impossible. Ordinary feature phones can be produced at any time; but that's not necessarily true for smartphones. It depends on the completion of the operating system. Does Google want to produce a full keyboard phone for Android?"

"I have this idea. After all, it has been developed for so long. It is not easy for everyone to accept the sudden change of direction." Schmidt said calmly.

"We can give it a try." Qu Li agreed decisively, knowing that it would not be so easy for startups to cooperate with Google. They wanted to try the quality of Qu Li and Zhou Shaoning.

Next, Zhou Shaoning and Andy Rubin contacted each other, but they had differences on where the company was registered.

"It is impossible for me to establish an American company. This is a matter of principle." Qu Li said firmly. Although it is okay to establish a smartphone company in the United States, his ambition cannot be limited by a mobile phone assembly company.

"We are a technology company. There are more scientific and technological talents in the United States, such as operating system and chip design. There are almost no professionals in this field in China..."

"But China's high-tech enterprise tax rate is about 15-25%, and the U.S. global tax rate is about 35%. How much money do you think we can save in the early stage of enterprise development?" It is difficult for Qu Li to convince intellectuals with morality and ideals, then We can only use benefit analysis.

It is almost impossible for smartphone start-ups to grow in the United States, and the reason lies in patents. Even if Motorola is half-dead, it is not easy to defeat start-up mobile phone companies through patent wars. HTC in Taiwan was at its peak back then, but after Apple took action, it disappeared...

At that time, China did very little in patent innovation protection, so a large number of domestic mobile phone companies emerged and made a lot of money in the mobile phone industry since the end of the last century. Unfortunately, they did not cultivate enough excellent companies.Until the smartphone industry broke out, Rebus’s Xiaomi came out and led a team that was good enough to defeat almost all mobile phone brands at the time. The two major brands of OV took advantage of the momentum and under huge pressure, they were able to find the best players in the mobile phone field at that time. Warwick's terminal department, which has no sense of existence and has no advantages, strives to make progress...

If developed countries in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea are not good enough, they can't go to India to start a business. Zhongguo is almost Qu Li's only option for setting up a smartphone start-up.

After Qu Li's patient and detailed analysis, Zhou Shaoning agreed to Qu Li's choice and could set up a branch or research studio in North America at the right time in the future.

"Then what is the name of this company and which city is it located in?"

"The name of the company should be called Honor, and it should be placed in the city with the most talents."

“The city with the highest concentration of talents in China is Beijin, but Jumei goes to Yangcheng?”

"..."

Qu Li actually likes to stay in the south. The food and climate here are more attractive than Beijin, but the talent factor of high-tech companies is really important.Unlike the surplus of talents in more than ten years, there is almost no difference between Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. You can succeed in Shanghai even if you work hard, but at present, Beijin has the most universities in the country. Not counting housing prices and rents, the cost of living here is the highest in the world. At the very least, many people are unwilling to leave here.

"It's okay. Anyway, Jumei is going to open up the Beijin market. I..." Qu Li thought of Chen Danlin and felt a little reluctant to leave. Are they going to separate in two places so soon?

"Then let's go to Beijin. Beijin is indeed more suitable than the Magic City." Zhou Shaoning

This is not nonsense. Rebus has been developing in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, but when he founded Xiaomi, he chose Beijin. There can't be something wrong with his brain, right?

The two discussed some details. Zhou Shaoning was originally an expert in this field. He also had a mobile phone business at UTStarcom and obtained a mobile phone license. He knew many people in this industry and could build a team.

"The future of smartphones will definitely be fully connected. TD will most likely not have much future in the 3G era, but it will be different in the 4G era. UTStarcom..." The two planned to gain some benefits from this telecommunications company.

UTStarcom announced at the end of 2006 that it would withdraw from uncompetitive CDMA research and development. Zhou Shaoning should be able to acquire some patents and talents.

"Perhaps we have the opportunity to acquire UTStarcom's mobile terminal business." A day later, Zhou Shaoning suddenly received a piece of news

"???" Although Qu Li knew that Starcom was destined to decline, the company's revenue in 2004 exceeded US$27 billion. How could he acquire it?

"The feud between Wu Ying and Starcom's US headquarters is likely to involve personnel changes, but Starcom's major shareholders are Goldman Sachs and SoftBank..." They are all foreign shareholders, but they control a domestic telecommunications equipment company. This In this complicated form, the collapse of UTStarcom seems to be very reasonable.

"This is indeed a good opportunity, but I want to know what kind of technology company do you want?"

"Is Honor a hardware company or an Internet technology company? Can it adhere to the engineering culture? Do you want to minimize company politics? Who are qualified to be our partners?" Qu Li's series of questions not only opposed the acquisition of UT Technology Dacom's mobile terminal business is so simple.