Chapter 293 The sales of the father of Android

At 9 p.m. on November 26, Gao Yang met Andy Rubin, the father of Android, for the first time at the airport.

Andy Rubin is very tall, and looks 188 cm tall. He is not strong. He is really smart. There is a large area above his forehead, all of which are bald.

In Gao Yang's memory of his previous life, I remember that there was information introduction to Andy Rubin was a Jew.

Now that I see a real person, Andy Rubin's face is indeed significantly different from that of typical European and American white people. The big nose, face shape and chin are relatively round and smooth, rather than the angular face shape.

After Wu Fei introduced Andy Rubin to Gao Yang, Andy Rubin shook hands enthusiastically with Gao Yang: "Mr. Gao, I didn't expect you to be so young."

Gao Yang smiled slightly: "Mr. Rubin, my wife gave me an English name called Lucas. My Chinese name means Sun. You can call me Lucas."

Lucas comes from Irish and Latin, with the meaning of light and brightness. This is a suitable English name that Gu Yawen thought about for a long time before she helped Gao Yang think of.

Foreigners are accustomed to taking their name as respect, and after getting familiar with it, they like to call them by their name directly.

Although Gao Yang felt strange, he still agreed to choose an English name.

Gao Yang could understand the American language spoken by Andy Rubin, but Gao Yang's English speaking is really not good, so Gu Yawen helped him translate.

Wu Fei can naturally translate it.

As soon as they met, Gao Yang asked Andy Rubin to call him his name. Andy Rubin also had a smile on his face and said that he could call him Andy.

Gaoyang drove the guests to the Friendship Hotel near the North Third Ring Road to settle down, and then made a brief exchange, saying that Andy Rubin would be invited to visit his company tomorrow morning, and then formally negotiated in the company.

Wu Fei also accompanied Andy Rubin to stay in the Friendship Hotel.

After getting settled the guests and drove home, Gu Yawen joked: "In the past, you asked you to practice speaking with me, but you didn't want to, otherwise, you might not need anyone to translate now."

Gao Yang shook his head: "You have been learning foreign languages ​​since you were 4 years old and graduated from the Foreign Languages ​​College. I can't catch up with you no matter how hard I learn. Just have you. You will teach foreign languages ​​every day in the future and let him translate for me in the future..."

At 9 a.m. on the 27th, Gao Yang and Gu Yawen went to the hotel to pick up Wu Fei and Andy Rubin and rushed to the Weber Building. Wu Ruohan also joined in the fun.

On the company side, Gao Yang notified Jin Yang, He Guangwen and Zhang Xiaolong to accompany him.

Jin Yang’s undergraduate studies are English and has good speaking skills. He can introduce the situation of 51.com and 51 people.

He Guangwen and Zhang Xiaolong are both programmers and can communicate some technical issues.

Then it was Lu Tao.

The group met at Weber Building. After Gao Yang introduced Andy Rubin, they began to visit the company. Jin Yang introduced Andy Rubin to Andy Rubin two Internet companies, 51.com and 51 Renren, and also briefly introduced Jiaoyang Company, which made solar magazines.

Andy Rubin was still a little surprised by the development of China's Internet, especially the SNS social platform like 51 Renren, whose user scale has grown so quickly that Andy Rubin was a little shocked.

Although 51.com and 51 Renren are not big companies, Jiaoyang Company has two or three hundred people, and the office conditions are much better than Andy Rubin's garage company android.

Android is just a small company with more than ten people, and the size of Gaoyang's company is not a small difference.

During the visit, Andy Rubin couldn't help asking: "Lucas, web2.0 projects like 51.com and 51 Renren will also be popular in the US market. I wonder how much money you have raised?"

After listening to Gu Yawen's translation, Gao Yang smiled slightly and replied:

"We have not raised funds, our partners are the angel investors of the company. Overall, we are not short of funds and do not need VCs to invest in it.

For example, the 51.com project, the cash flow was turned into regular in the first year of its establishment.”

Andy Rubin nodded: "The development level of China's Internet has exceeded my expectations. Both of your projects are great and have good development prospects."

After a brief visit, the group came to the conference room and Andy Rubin began to formally introduce his android.

Andy Rubin carefully prepared a PPT, which was divided into two Chinese versions.

He Guangwen then brought another projector, used two laptops, and projected both versions of PPT on the wall.

Andy Rubin started a formal introduction, first introducing his career resume:

"Gentlemen, ladies, I am from New York State, USA. I am 41 years old and graduated from Utica College, New York. I joined the optical instrument company Carl Zeiss as a robotics engineer. I like robots very much and am an enthusiast.

In 1989, I joined Apple for research and development. Apple was very strong at that time. I participated in the research and development of Apple's first tower computer, Quadra and the first soft modem.

In the following years, the smartphone operating system Magic Cap was developed, but the concept was very advanced at that time and it was not accepted by the market in the end.

Later, Artemis developed WebTV. The project was successful, with an annual revenue of more than US$100 million. In 1997, Microsoft acquired Artemis and I joined Microsoft again.

In 1999, I left Microsoft and I didn’t like this company. I just built a walkable robot, equipped with a camera and microphone, and wandered around the company’s office, and they were regarded as a hacker.

I just like robots, I love it very much.

Leaving Microsoft, I continued to work on robots with my friends in Silicon Valley, and later established Danger and made a smartphone that can access the Internet. We named it Sidekick.

Unfortunately, it is still too advanced. Yes, the concept products we make are always ahead of the curve.

Then, in October 2003, we established an Android company in Silicon Valley. At first we were working on a digital camera operating system. We tried to learn from the lessons of the previous years, but the market for digital cameras was too small and was monopolized by several large companies.

Later, we turned to the mobile operating system android, a smartphone operating system based on the open software platform Linux. This time, we are very firm and we think the prospects for this project are very bright.

Gentlemen, ladies, let's see a fact:

In 2003, the global mobile phone shipments were 520 million units, four times that of PC shipments.

In 2003, the global shipment of smartphones was more than 11.2 million units. Professional institutions predict that its shipment volume will increase by 30% this year, which is three times faster than the average sales growth rate of each industry.

We are ushering in a rapidly growing era of smartphones.

Currently, the smartphone operating systems on the market include Symbian, Windows Mobile, and the more niche BlackBerry OS.

In fact, there are open source systems based on Linux platform, but they are still rare.

Symbian and Windows Mobile, relying on the support of major mobile phone manufacturers behind the scenes, are trying to dominate the future smartphone market. They look powerful, but we don't think so.

This world needs an open source platform, and many software engineers like Linux. Everyone believes that Linux can benefit hundreds of millions of users around the world, be popular with users, and be able to get rid of the monopoly and control of major manufacturers.

This is true. Linux has developed rapidly in various industries. Based on its open spirit, its developer ecosystem is getting better and better and stronger.

Android is also a firm believer in open source software. We believe that Android has great hope to gain a place in the future smartphone market.

For the development and development of the Android operating system, we have the following plans..."
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