Chapter 1677: In Person
When Feng Yiping was struggling, Sandberg's husband, Dave Goldberg, took a serious look at the living room again, "I still think this vase is a bit abrupt and too deliberate here, so I'd better remove it."
Today, Dave, the dignified senior vice president of Yahoo Music, did not go to work at all and stayed at home to prepare for Feng Yiping's visit in the evening.
The words on the wall, as well as the Chinese teapot on the table and other new decorations, look relatively natural and match the overall decoration style. However, the large vase next to the door does have Chinese characteristics, but it is too unique. There are some Chinese characteristics, but some are too much.
"Okay," the beautiful woman in uniform agreed immediately, but in her heart, she had already classified this middle-aged man who seemed to be a successful person into the category of Virgos with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
She accompanied Dave from inside to outside the house, from the front to the back of the house, and discussed and adjusted a few seemingly innocuous places before Dave said, "That's it for now."
In fact, from the perspective of Dave's neighbors, after a dozen professionals worked for a day, his house didn't look much different from before.
This is the effect that the Sandbergs want, to make Feng Yiping feel friendly and comfortable, but not to let him see at a glance all the thought they have put into it.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, Sandberg arrived home with the flower shop's flower truck, and started preparing dinner non-stop. Although it was more convenient and the dishes would be better to have professionals do it, Feng Yiping seemed to prefer home-cooked food. , don’t really like eating out.
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At half past seven, Feng Yiping came to Sandberg's house with a bottle of wine and smiled. The host and hostess came out to welcome him, "Welcome, Feng,"
Although he clearly knew that Feng Yiping was very young, after seeing him in person, Dave could not help but marvel at his youth. He was really too young. If he walked on the road, he believed that those who were not familiar with Feng Yiping would , would never think that this young man would be one of the richest people in the world at this time.
I would never have imagined how big the company he owned was and how much potential it had.
"I can't wait to read your masterpiece. Like the last one, it will be very helpful to many people."
"Thank you," Dave's handshake was strong and he acted like the head of the family in front of him.
Indeed, his past and current achievements are pretty good, whether it is his previous venture - the company he founded, which was acquired by Yahoo for US$12 million, or his current position - Vice President of Yahoo Music, they all stabilize Sander Berg head.
But as history would have it, he will soon be the man behind the dazzling Sandberg.
From a man's perspective, to be honest, Feng Yiping really didn't know whether this was a good thing or not.
"Oh, sweet-scented osmanthus," he suddenly smelled the familiar aroma, and saw that there was an sweet-scented osmanthus tree about three meters high in the yard, "It's really nice,"
The owner and his wife had sincere smiles on their faces. With his words, the newly transplanted osmanthus tree was considered worthwhile.
When he arrived at home and saw the familiar decorations and tableware, Feng Yiping still couldn't tell how much preparation the host had made for his visit.
It seems that no matter whether they are Chinese or foreign, the way of hospitality is similar, and they will try their best to create a feeling of being at home.
The Sandbergs had put so much effort into preparing it, and Feng Yiping had always been very accommodating, so the meal was naturally very enjoyable.
While entertaining Feng Yiping, Dave also made some observations about this young rich man who reportedly rejected Chief Yang’s proposal to be the president of Yahoo. He found that this young rich man ate very seriously and was very interested in this home-cooked meal. The appreciation is also sincere from the heart. It seems that this is a person who really focuses on his work and doesn't care much about external things or enjoyment.
However, after that, he was completely excluded by those two people. They knelt down and had a heart-to-heart talk in the living room, while he could only silently clean up the mess in the dining room.
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"From your perspective, which one will have more potential in the future development of Google or Facebook?"
Feng Yiping did not ask Sandberg what he thought about it, but asked this question.
"Both are excellent projects, and each has its own merits," Sandberg said of the results of her discussion with her husband, Dave, on this issue.
"Really?" Feng Yiping looked at her with a smile.
Sandberg was stunned, wasn't he? Is it not that each has its own strengths, but that Facebook has better development prospects than Google? is it possible?
“I acquired a startup called Android last year,” Feng Yiping said.
"I have also heard of Rubin. The mobile phones launched by their company have good ideas, but there is still a lot of room for improvement in terms of user experience. Of course, this may be mainly due to the current development of some technologies. " Sandberg said.
"So, Silicon Valley is actually a small circle," Feng Yiping said with a smile. "The Android founded by Rubin this time is not to produce hardware, but to produce software."
Sandberg thought for a moment, "The mobile phones he produced before seemed to be greatly restricted by the system. Could it be...?"
"Android is currently developing a system for handheld devices that are smaller and more convenient than traditional PCs. Our goal is to develop a semi-open source operating system that is not very large and does not require high hardware for the device,"
"I don't know much about the specific technology, but from the context of hardware development, or from Moore's Law, coupled with the development of communication technology, you can see that many flights can actually connect to the Internet... Combining the above, I think that in the near future, handheld devices that are similar in size to current mobile phones, but may have similar performance to some current PCs, and have fast Internet access speeds, should be popularized soon,"
"Of course, this is just some of my personal inferences,"
Sandberg held the coffee cup and stared blankly. In the future, handheld devices with functions similar to current PCs and sizes similar to current mobile phones will be popularized soon?
Is this possible? She asked again.
However, according to Feng Yiping's reasons, this does not seem to be a fantasy.
The size difference between mobile phones and PCs is actually much smaller than the size difference between PCs and PCs when they were first invented. Now, these much smaller PCs are much more powerful than the original big ones.
So, based on this, we can boldly speculate that in the future, handheld devices the size of mobile phones can have the same hardware performance as current PCs.
So, what if there is a matching system?
She looked at Feng Yiping in shock. If this can be achieved, it can be described as an epoch-making change.
"Based on this prediction, if our Facebook is also installed on handheld devices like mobile phones in the future, and it can also be connected to the Internet at high speed very conveniently, how much time do you think you will spend in a day to check your Facebook status? The status of your friends on Facebook?"
"By that time, on these handheld devices, will we use Facebook more or Google more?"
This answer is obviously self-evident. How many people will check their WeChat every few minutes no matter how busy they are?
"Of course it's Facebook," Sandberg said after taking a breath.
"But when will such a goal be achieved?" She then asked a very critical question.
I really know this, and I know it better than Steve Jobs, who is still saying that Apple will definitely not make mobile phones, but has been secretly developing mobile phones for a long time. However, it is difficult to say it too sure.
"I have asked some professionals for their opinions in a more obscure way. According to them, with the current technology, it is not too unrealistic to achieve such a goal, but it is indeed a difficult task to launch hardware that satisfies all users,"
"Considering the problems faced by mass production, this is a more difficult task, but even so, they all agree that it is not an unrealistic and optimistic idea to have such a product in the next three to five years,"
"In the next three to five years," Sandberg couldn't help but repeat, "You make me look forward to it very much,"
PS: Sorry for being late. I sat down after finishing my work in the afternoon and felt a severe headache and some symptoms of heat stroke. In addition, I will ask for votes as usual on Monday.