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Chapter 191 Rubin's thoughts

Feng Yiping really forgot about Rubin, "Sorry, Rubin, you said,"

"Feng, congratulations," Rubin said.

He is not sure how much Feng Yiping spent to invest in Navteq now, but what he knows is that judging from Feng's appearance, the return on this investment is obviously very high.

"Thank you, when I invested, I didn't expect Nokia would acquire it, and it was at such a high price,"

"I'm about to talk about Nokia, too," Rubin said.

Obviously, Feng Yiping put forward such a big scene yesterday. If we were to target it, in addition to Apple, it naturally includes Nokia, which is currently the leader in the mobile phone industry, and another mobile phone brand that is popular among many high-end people because of its own characteristics.

"Nokia," Feng Yiping sighed, he didn't know what to say.

From its large-scale spending so much money to acquire Navteq, we can see that they are not insensitive, or they have a strategic vision and strong execution.

However, their time was really not the same as Blackstone’s previous acquisition of Hilton for US$26 billion, and waited for the subprime mortgage crisis to ferment for a few more months. Obviously, they didn’t have to spend the high price as high as they are now.

Because at that time, I believe that the stocks of these two companies will fall with the market downturn.

If Blackstone could not see clearly at the time, Nokia should at least understand how important it is to reserve more cash in its hands. After all, almost all central banks in developed countries in the world have invested a lot of money to solve the liquidity problems of banks.

Especially, now the new generation of smartphones represented by iPhones are selling well and have a tendency to reshape the layout of the entire industry. At this time, they should invest heavily in researching and developing corresponding products.

What he didn't know the least was why Android became popular later. They hesitated for so many years but were unwilling to produce a mobile phone equipped with Android systems.

Otherwise, with its technological reserves, its strength, and its current absolute advantage, how could Samsung, which is hugely different from it, rise?

"Do you know why I said yesterday that most mobile phone manufacturers in the world except Apple, not everything except Apple, are looking forward to systems like Android?" Feng Yiping asked.

"Because Nokia, it may not want such a better system than their Symbian," Rubin said.

"Yes," Feng Yiping thought, is it possible that Nokia is really because of face issues that we don't need Android to die?

It seems that at least there will be factors in this regard.

Unexpectedly, companies developed in a cold country like Finland have such virtues.

"So obviously, it's also difficult to join the open mobile phone alliance we are preparing to form," said Feng Yiping.

The reason is also simple. Putting aside the fact that they are one of the imaginary enemies of Android, judging from Nokia's current style, they obviously will not join a mobile phone-related alliance that was not initiated and led by themselves.

"Feng, just now, my thoughts, and Nokia..." Rubin just mentioned, and the phone on Feng Yiping's table rang again, Wu Qian said, "Yiping, Miss Ivanka is coming up,"

Feng Yiping looked at his watch. It was exactly the time when Ivanka came. "Wait a moment," he said to Rubin.

Rubin suddenly didn't know what to say. Could it be that I couldn't finish what I should say without making an appointment in advance?

Ivanka had already come up at this time, wearing a white and black skirt, which was very eye-catching, but she looked a little tired.

From afar, I laughed in the corridor, "Hello, Feng,"

"Hello Ivanka, this is Rubin, Rubin, this is Miss Ivanka, who works in our fashion department,"

Rubin stood up, a little excited. In fact, there was no need for Feng Yiping to introduce him, he could recognize who this person was.

"Miss Ivanka, I'm glad to know you," his eyes shone behind his lenses. "I thought it was just happening to be the same name, but I didn't expect that it was Miss Ivanka, you,"

"It's great to know you," Ivanka smiled, "Feng, are you still busy?"

"It's okay," said Feng Yiping, "please sit down,"

"How did you get this time?" he asked.

Ivanka, who had just sat down, stood up again, "The harvest was great," she took out a CD from her bag and looked at the TV over there, "Is it OK?"

"I'll do it, I'll do it," Rubin was very attentive at this time. It seemed that he was not in a hurry to exchange ideas with Feng Yiping.

Immediately, the exciting music sounded, and a model with amazing legs and beautiful face walked towards the camera on the runway with a strong aura.

Feng Yiping and Rubin couldn't help but be shocked, and they were extremely energetic, or in other words, they were excited.

"This is my fashion week in Milan..."

"Sorry, Ivanka, can I give me and Rubin a few minutes first?" Feng Yiping said.

Ivanka picked up the remote control and pressed the pause, "Of course,"

"But Feng, can you give me some food? I just arrived and didn't even eat breakfast,"

"No problem," Feng Yiping picked up the phone next to him and dialed an assistant's number, "You can tell him yourself,"

"Thank you," Ivanka walked to the window with a cordless phone, "Please give me a Caesar salad..."

Feng Yiping looked at Rubin, "Okay, tell me what you think,"

Ivanka had already ordered a meal at this time. She put the phone on the table. Feng Yiping pointed to the small restaurant in front. She nodded and walked over with a smile.

Rubin sat upright, "Feng, I was wondering, why don't we just make mobile phones?"

This time, he said straight to the point.

He was really worried that according to Feng Yiping's working rhythm, if he had another start, inheritance, turn and turn, he might not be able to express his thoughts for a whole morning.

"We all know that the open mobile phone alliance you plan is very necessary for the long-term development of Android. Then I found that many members of the alliance, in fact, are important members of the smartphone supply chain, and companies like telecom operators that need to cooperate with when selling mobile phones," he said.

"So I was wondering, why don't we just make mobile phones?"

"We can completely imagine that in the future, this will be a very large, very large, and the annual demand is at least in a large market of hundreds of millions of units, and almost every year, users have the need to replace it,"

"Because it is the Android system we developed ourselves, I believe that our mobile phone must be the most suitable for our system, that is, it must be the best one among the smartphones equipped with Android systems."

"Considering the high revenue Apple has brought about by hardware products in the past two years, I think we can also get involved in this field,"

“Personally, I am fully confident to do it well.”

Feng Yiping looked at Rubin with a smile, "I'm glad you can consider this aspect, and I also believe you can make the best Android phone, but before that, we need to consider a problem,"

"The most important thing at the moment is to promote our Android system or develop our own smartphones?"

"Or, for us, which one has better performance, or our own smartphones will be sold in the future?"

"This," Rubin was still pondering, and Feng Yiping replied by himself, "relatively speaking, it must be the former,"

Their current concepts, including Rubin, have not yet completely changed. They all think that smartphones are the same as current feature phones, and there are only two main channels for making money: mobile phone manufacturers make money through hardware, and telecom operators make communication fees.

They could not imagine, including Jobs, how much money would be brought to Apple by those apps he was unwilling to accept to install on his mobile phone.

For Feng Yiping and others, the Android system has been successfully developed. In the future, one more mobile phone installed on Android and now called Android market, which is the Android application market, is equivalent to an additional terminal that can generate revenue.

So, Google's original launch in China was really huge. Not only did it suffer from losses in search, but the potential losses caused by mobile phones that installed Android systems but did not install the official Android app store may be even greater.

Because in the mobile phone market, the installed capacity of Android far exceeds that of Apple's iOS.

In the Chinese search market, Google's best result is that it occupies more than 30% of the market share, while in the Chinese smartphone market, Android later occupied at least more than 80% of the market share.

"In addition, we must also think about one question. You see, Nokia's Symbian system is also an open source system, why can't it be promoted?"

"This..." Rubin pondered.
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