Chapter 2035: Prelude

Page stopped the car at a roadside near the Cupertino Central Plaza. He saw Feng Yiping's handsome face parked nearby, but where was he?

"Boss, over there," the security guard wearing sunglasses following him gestured.

Page looked over and saw Feng Yiping holding a cup of ice cream and gesturing to him at the door of a small shop with a conspicuous purple sign across the street.

Page pointed toward Apple headquarters, Feng Yiping shook his head and waved at him, "Come here quickly,"

When he arrived at the door of the store, Feng Yiping was already sitting at the counter waving at him, "Come and try it,"

Page nodded to the smiling boss and looked at his watch, "Why don't you wait for me at the company first?"

"Don't mention it. I can't stay at the company. I left half an hour earlier,"

The strategy of angering Whitman failed. Instead, Whitman's inquiries made him unable to resist, so he had to slip out early.

By the way, if he really didn't intend to reconcile with Whitman, it didn't matter. He just kept confronting her.

But he was determined to sell Skype, a seemingly beautiful project, to eBay at a high price, and also planned to invest in PayPal shares. In addition, Whitman not only came to his house in person this time, but also had a very humble attitude. Even from the perspective of etiquette, it was not good to embarrass her too much...

In general, Feng Yiping was still the outstanding socialist youth who was imbued with the virtues of five virtues, four beauties and three loves, inherited the fine tradition of respecting the elderly and loving the young, and emphasized the custom of not embarrassing the guests who came to his house...

At this time, leaving Whitman there under the pretext of such a schedule and slipping out in advance was already a bit excessive for him.

Whitman, who was a little depressed at this time, would be overjoyed if she knew that she had successfully forced Feng Yiping out in his territory.

You know, since she had an intersection with Feng Yiping, whether publicly or privately, whether actively or passively, in the end, she was defeated without exception.

Feng Yiping knew this, and because of this, he would never tell her this.

Haha, he is honest, not simple-minded.

Besides, you really can't be simple-minded to someone like Whitman, otherwise you might be bullied to death by her.

Page was stunned for a moment. I just put down my work and was still immersed in the world of 0 and 1, so I don't understand your logic?

What is the causal relationship between you leaving the company early and not waiting for me at Google?

There is a connection, of course, Feng Yiping is a little avoiding Mayer.

To be honest, maybe for Mayer, Feng Yiping's relationship with her has dragged on for too long, so her current enthusiasm makes Feng Yiping a little overwhelmed.

If you just go to Google for a meeting in a hurry these two days, it's okay. If you stay there for more than half an hour, Feng Yiping can't guarantee that nothing will happen in the middle.

If you want to try not to let people see the clues, it's better to meet her outside of work hours and outside the company.

"How does it taste, you two?" The boss asked the two rich men who suddenly sat in his store with a smile.

"Jobs and his wife have also visited my shop several times. Look, this is their photo," he said proudly, pointing to the photo in the middle of the wall.

"It tastes good. Ask him to pay the bill," Feng Yiping wiped his mouth and pointed at Page.

Page touched his pocket and was stunned for a moment. Owen, who was standing next to him, had already handed over the money with a smile. He found that the colleague with a beard who Page brought with him finally took off his sunglasses in the store and looked at him with a sympathetic look.

Yes, they are not security guards in normal times, but more like nannies.

Although these two uncles knew that they had to pay for food, they probably hadn't carried cash on them for a long time.

"Hey," Page patted Feng Yiping on the shoulder.

The latter was staring at the photo on the wall.

In the photo, Jobs, who still had a fat face, hugged Laurene and smiled brightly.

In the small place of Cupertino, Jobs visited a store several times, which was actually nothing, because Cupertino can be said to be the Apple City.

There are only more than 50,000 people in the city, and more than 30,000 of them are Apple employees. There are Apple buildings and logos everywhere.

Two years later, this place will usher in a more glorious scene, but, alas.

Page didn't know why Feng Yiping was looking at the photo. People often see it, and they will see it next.

He looked at his watch again and pushed Feng Yiping out the door, "You are so interested in PayPal. Do you think it can be applied offline in the future? For example, the scene we just saw?"

Feng Yiping glanced at him, you monster! Just because I am interested in PayPal, you can think of this?

He now understands why Schmidt obediently gave the position of CEO to Page.

Because it will be an aggressive attack against Facebook, and only a monster like Page can deal with the monster Zuckerberg.

"The main reason is that I am optimistic about the convenience of online payment tools. Our online payment tools in China have proved this point."

"Of course, you are right. In the future, if the technology is mature, we can indeed develop offline. But now, do you think it is more convenient to pay with a computer, or to swipe a card or pay in cash?"

Page didn't say anything again. Feng Yiping knew that his mind must be spinning rapidly at this moment.

However, he would never know that the tool that would change everything in the future was currently being tinkered with in an unknown but believed highly confidential place in the Apple headquarters campus that they were about to visit.

"However, I suggest that Google can also develop such a payment tool, and Facebook can also consider it,"

Page stopped thinking, "If you say it's okay, let's discuss it carefully when we have time,"

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In front of Apple headquarters, beside the straight asphalt road, the two rows of roadside trees and the flowers and trees in the isolation belt were all unusually energetic, which was consistent with Apple's current rise again.

However, the helmsman of this company now looks a little inconsistent with such a vigorous state.

Jobs also looked very energetic, and his wave was still as powerful as before, but he was obviously much thinner.

Later, I didn't feel that Jobs, who was used to being thin, didn't feel that at this moment, Feng Yiping suddenly felt that his face seemed to have grown a lot - that was because he was thin.

"Have a seat," he waved to several executives who were discussing work. Feng Yiping noticed that Cook was among them, smiling. He nodded politely to Cook.

"We have less and less time to meet," Jobs clenched his fists, sat on the sofa with his feet up high, and smiled rarely.

"That's right. This era is a revolutionary era," he said with some emotion, "Some revolutionary products may be in the making, or may appear tomorrow. We must be highly focused on our work,"

Feng Yiping thought that he might be the person in the world who understood what Jobs meant by this.

The so-called revolutionary product he mentioned would undoubtedly be the iPhone, which is currently under development, but I don't know if it has a name.

"Feng just mentioned online payment tools to me. What do you think, Steve?" Page asked.

Jobs blinked his eyes, "That can indeed effectively promote the development of e-commerce,"

Obviously, Jobs was not omnipotent. He could not imagine at this time how big a market such a payment tool would derive with the help of the real smartphone he was developing.

"Steve, look, I just acquired a film company. Given your successful experience in running Pixar, do you have any good suggestions for me?" Feng Yiping asked.

He and Page both agreed not to ask about Jobs' health, but to discuss work directly, because they knew that this was what Jobs wanted.

"Try to choose universal themes and make them carefully like carving works of art. Don't be like the programs we release, which are updated every once in a while after going online. The movies we make must be the most perfect version," he said.

Then he added, "Just like the hardware we launched at Apple,"

No one is so confident.

"Feng, you have successfully walked ahead of us in terms of content,"

"Haha, I have always liked the content industry," Feng Yiping laughed.

"And Steve, I think that in the future, Apple's iTunes Store will not only sell music, but also allow users to choose our Marvel TV series and movies?"

"Oh," Jobs touched his lips, lowered his head and thought for a while, and when he raised his head again, his eyes behind the lenses were shining, "This is a good direction,"

"But Feng, won't this compete with your YouTube?"

"Haha, what's the matter, I think in the future, competition between us is inevitable, what do you think, Steve?" He also looked at Jobs.