Silicon Valley

Soon, Henry signed an investment agreement with Jeff Hawkins, the founder of PalmComputing, and successfully joined PalmComputing!

Of course, Robert's wish also came true, Henry took a photo with him and sent his signature blessing!

In fact, Henry often took pictures with some famous celebrities in his previous life, and Quan should have a bit of a celebrity collecting habit. Whenever I look at the many photos hanging on the wall, I still feel very emotional!

For this investment action, PalmComputing company did not publicize it.

Quietly enter the village, do not shoot!

Apple is making appleNewton, and it will be released in 1993, and PalmComputing needs to do is to release first, to seize the momentum of the market! Therefore, Apple cannot detect PalmComputing's intentions!

There is a saying that the first mover is the first mover, and the later mover is controlled by others!

In the previous life, the reason why PalmComputing's first product failed, in addition to its own problems, was also related to the preemptive release of Apple's appleNewton! At that time, the release of appleNewton caused a great shock, and when such products are released later, the response will not be so enthusiastic!

Although appleNewton failed, but Apple has recovered a little bit of capital anyway, so it won't lose too much!

But if PalmComputing is the first to introduce a handheld computer, then how much the appleNewton will sell is unknown! However, appleNewton has high cost and failed positioning. The listing price is 1,000 US dollars, while the palm handheld computer is only 300 US dollars!

Which product consumers like is self-evident!

The palm handheld computer that PalmComputing company is going to do, at Henry's request, try to simplify it as much as possible. Try to be as light and convenient as possible, even only four applications are built inside the system: schedule management, phone book, to-do management, notepad! The reason why PalmComputing was successful at the beginning was to simplify the complexity. Make it extremely simple, and the product will sell well!

In addition, handheld computers generally have handwriting recognition function!

Jeff Hawkins was an amazing designer who did the heavy lifting to simplify the handwriting recognition system. He invented the Graffiti input method to input English, numbers, symbols, etc. with a new and special simple stroke method, so that everyone can input data efficiently and conveniently, and thus reduce the computational burden of the recognition system a lot. Moreover, the learning of Graffiti strokes is actually simple and interesting, and many users also have a soft spot for this product because of this novel strokes! ! !

With these two improvements, PalmComputing's new product. Great sales. One million units were sold in 18 months, surpassing the best-selling record of color TVs and VCRs in the history of electrical appliances!

Since then, PalmComputing has established its leading position among PDA handheld computers!

If PalmComputing is the first to release such a product, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to Apple!

Henry's investment in PalmComputing can speed up Apple's death rhythm and allow him to acquire Apple as soon as possible; secondly, he can compete with the Saipan system!

Kill two birds with one stone!

ARM has helped Apple to design the appleNewton chip, so it is very experienced! Therefore, the processor chip of PalmComputing's PDA can be designed by ARM. And this saves PalmComputing a lot of time!

I have to say, this is life!

Apple's encounter with Henry is indeed bad enough!

The first product of PalmComputing Company, Henry named it PalmPilot. Pilot itself means auxiliary, which is extended here as a universal notepad. Consumers can clearly know the function of the product by looking at the name of the product!

The entire Jeff Hawkins team has now moved to San Jose, California, while recruiting more talent. In terms of hardware, Silicon Valley Electronics Group will give the greatest help and cooperation, and the two sides will strengthen cooperation!

At this time, Bruce Donlevy Ventures called to ask whether PalmComputing would still invest. They were going to invest $500,000 and wanted to take a 30% stake. Obviously, this was impossible, and Jeff Hawkins bluntly refused!

Thousands of companies are established in San Jose every day, and hundreds of companies go bankrupt. Palm Computing is temporarily unknown. No one will pay attention to it, and no one will think that this small company is working hard to fight against Apple. ! ! !

Afterwards, Henry notified Tian Shuai and asked him to talk to Jeff Hawkins, adding the IReader station txt novel reading function! In fact, palmpilot as a universal notepad, reading txt files is its basic function, this is a kind of mutually beneficial cooperation, which can enhance the competitiveness of the product itself! Therefore, the cooperation between the two parties should be no problem!

The PalmOS system, which has just begun to be developed, may only be applied to PDAs in the first few years. Saipan, after all, has been developing mobile phone systems for eleven years, and it is unrealistic for PalmOS to delusionally compete with it at the very beginning. Maybe after several years of improvement and perfection, plus Henry's guidance from the side, maybe you can compete with it, or even win it!

Henry is currently helping them design the appearance of the mobile phone in the mobile phone department of the Silicon Valley Electronics Group. Henry directly designed the Nokia 2110 mobile phone, a classic mobile phone produced by Nokia in 1994. This is Nokia's first mobile phone with sales of more than 20 million units. Worldwide, let the whole world know the name of Nokia! ! !

Henry finished drawing the design drawings, completed the shape design, and then said to everyone: This is the shape design of our first mobile phone!

Everyone is used to seeing Motorola's Big Brother mobile phones, and they like this kind of small and exquisite mobile phones very much, and they keep praising this design for its greatness!

Henry smiled and said, In addition to the shape design, I also brought a piece of music this time!

Chairman, do you understand music and create a song?! Harrison was extremely surprised.

Henry impressed him with a genius, and a genius is a man with infinite creativity! When he heard Henry's words, his first reaction was that the music was composed by Henry. But in fact, he guessed wrong!

Henry shook his head and said: Hehe, that's not it! This piece is a hundred years old. It's from the GrandeValse piece. It's a classical guitar piece composed by Francisco-Tárrega in 1902!!! I brought the ipod, and the piece is stored in Inside, bring a stereo, and I'll show it to you!

Immediately, an employee brought the stereo and wired it to the iPod. After that, a wonderful sound rang out!

The crowd listened and was fascinated by it.

Chairman, is this song going to be the ringtone of our mobile phone? Harrison asked quickly!

That's right! Henry nodded. I think this song is very nice, with rhythm and charm! I hope that in the future, people will be able to think of our mobile phone when they hear the ringtone!!!

In fact, this tune is Nokia's most classic ringtone, released in 1994 with the Nokia 2110 mobile phone! This classic Nokia ringtone has even become a Nokia brand logo and can be recognized almost anywhere in the world!

And Henry hopes the same goes for the phones made by his company!

The so-called drama requires a full set, and plagiarism is the same. You can't throw away the whole set, and you have to copy the full set!

(To be continued ~^~)