Chapter 906 Notebook and MP3
At the beginning of the year.x Chinese x novel...
Han Xuan purchased it from Apple, a low-end notebook maintosh series, a full set of production technologies and equipment, developers.
This is a product line that Jobs cut off after he returned to Apple.
Compared with the laptop with the latest model of Apple, the Poer Book-540, sales of these low-end products are sluggish.
Jobs was not that honest and obediently handed over the company's important scientific research and development personnel to Han Xuan.
The people in that development team who have the most cutting-edge research technology have been quietly left by Apple.
Jobs used various tricks to lay off employees for Apple to reduce the financial burden.
And Han Xuan pretended not to know.
Most of them were stuffed into the hardware development department of their own company.
I hope to use them to help my company employees learn about Apple’s work atmosphere, learn from their strengths and weaknesses, and form their own unique company culture.
If Jobs looked down on him, it does not mean that these people are not capable, otherwise they would not have been admitted to Apple back then.
Let’s take a step back, even if hope technology companies take them as a waste of money for ten years, if they suddenly get inspiration that day, they will make a big profit.
In Han Xuan's eyes.
They are all valuable talents who have seen the world and have work experience.
In order to purchase the maintosh product line, Han Xuan paid Jobs a high price of 30 million US dollars, plus other various technologies and patents such as LCDs and batteries, and paid a total of 51 million US dollars.
In Jobs's opinion, this was a crazy move. In fact, even if he was given 20 million US dollars, he was willing to get rid of those big burdens.
But, did Han Xuan lose?
He gave so much money and only made one request to Jobs.
That is the technology used when producing these laptops, and Apple needs to give it permanent authorization to continue production.
This is a very reasonable request.
Perhaps he was blinded by the joy of re-employing Apple. Jobs thought that Han Xuan really wanted to continue producing this low-end notebook that no one wanted to buy on the market, so he immediately agreed when talking on the phone.
He did not expect that as soon as Han Xuan signed the contract, he asked someone to use those technologies to start redeveloping new notebooks.
He also drew drawings for the scientific researchers and asked them to apply for patents.
Judging from the appearance, it is clearly the appearance of the Dell PPS series laptop in the future, and it is integrated with Apple's Ma-Port ok.
In general, its shape is still similar to that of Mabok, but it successfully bypasses Apple's appearance patent barriers.
Although Apple sells low-end notebook production lines, customers can almost use them as calculators and learning machines when they go home.
However, most of the technologies used to develop a laptop are included. Buying patents from other companies is much more expensive than this, and it is not as complete as Apple.
This is the real reason why Han Xuan gave such a high offer that tempted Jobs to agree to the authorization.
If you study the contract carefully, you will find that it says authorization to hope Technologies, not to a single notebook product.
What the two mean is completely different, this is the contract trap...
The research and development of notebook hardware is still in the early stage of exploration.
Companies such as HP, Dell are able to produce entire desktop computers, but there are not many patents that really belong to them in their products.
Han Xuan does not want to fall into the OEM model, and independent research and development is essential.
With hardware, software support is required.
There can be an Apple ma-os operating system in the world, and then a be-os operating system can also appear.
After Han Xuan acquired be-in, he did not ignore it, but immediately injected 35 million US dollars into it to recruit soldiers.
He personally tried the now-imperfect operating system and gave some suggestions for improvement.
In the future, Bill Gates and Jobs paid attention to this operating system at the same time and did not leave any effort to suppress it because they were afraid of threatening their products, so they did not give it a way out.
No one helped the be-in company back then, and in the end it became a tragic ending of being acquired. In fact, its operating system is even more amazing than Jobs's.
Now with Han Xuan as his backer, I believe that Be Company will embark on a completely different path from its previous life...
The big discussion on which is better to "open" (Microsoft) or "closed" (Apple) has lasted for decades.
Now that Apple is not good, people naturally think that "closed" has no future.
Han Xuan wanted to use this to tell them that even if the closed system is attractive, customers will still come and buy it one after another, just like Apple will do in the future.
In fact, Apple's total market value is only about 2 billion US dollars, and it's not that he can't afford it.
But Mr. Han Xuan thought it was boring to acquire it, and it would be interesting if the product he developed was successful.
At this point, money is no longer different from paper to him. It is most important for him to be happy.
Han Xuan had the confidence to say such words...
The company is still developing an mp3 audio player that is very popular and has not begun to decline until the smartphone becomes popular.
mp3 turned out to be an audio compression technology, and those hardware engineers are making machines used to play this kind of audio.
After knowing the general principle, it is not difficult to make it, and the development work goes smoothly.
The prototype has been made now, and now we need to find a way to reduce the large plastic box like a radio to a shape that users can accept and reduce the high cost.
“The sound is not very clear, the noise is a bit loud.
I felt dizzy after listening to three songs. The company is not studying headphones and asking them if there is any solution.
If it doesn't work, then find a way to acquire a company that specializes in developing high-quality products and use their experts to solve this problem.
Mr. Charlie, please help me check this mp3 audio compression technology, and now it is in the hands of which company, and try to buy it back.
When our products are on the market, major music companies will seek patents to purchase this technology and should be able to make a fortune from it.”
Han Xuan took off his headphones, changed into a soft music again, and stuffed the in-ear headphones into Anya's ears.
The girl was very interested in this new thing that looked like a radio but was different from a radio. She took it and looked around with a confused expression on her face, like a curious baby.
"I know this, it seems to be a German company.
I need to check the information for the specific situation. I saw it in an IT magazine a few years ago, and the mp3 technology had just been opened up at that time."
Christopher said.
After visiting Han Xuan for most of the day, he and Old Charlie were a little relieved when they saw that the boss was in a good mood. It seemed that Han Xuan was quite satisfied with the company's work during this period.
"Hi!
Boss, long time no see!
I thought you forgot that you had a company!"
The person who spoke this resentful words was naturally Executive Anthony who had just arrived from Los Angeles by helicopter.
As soon as he received a call from Secretary Dawson, he interrupted the meeting and came. It would be a big deal to let Han Xuan talk about important things.
Han Xuan rolled his eyes and defended: "I haven't been contacting you by email."
In the future, online office will be the general trend. When the video call technology develops, you can solve official duties anytime and anywhere. You must learn to adapt to the times.
Don’t say that I seem to have handed over everything to you. I heard that I was in the mood to go on vacation in Las Vegas some time ago?
If it weren't for Mr. Wynn's talk about this, I wouldn't have known it."
After he grabbed the braid, Executive Anthony choked and said nothing, and said in disappointment: "I'm going to help you inspect the Treasure Island Hotel."
I haven't seen you for a few months and I've grown taller again.
Looks handsome, Han."
“It’s useless to flatter me.
I went to the construction site of the Fengzhong Zhuhuo Building with me, and I happened to talk to you about something..." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!