Chapter 2038: Betting

On a lawn in Cupertino, Feng Yiping and Page stopped again.

Feng Yiping walked towards Page, "Aren't you in a hurry to return to the company? What's wrong?"

"Sit down," Page invited Feng Yiping to sit down this time.

Feng Yiping looked at his phone, but there was still no news there. This meant that there was still no result for the time being, that is, the negotiations were still going on. Well, it might as well take a while.

Page didn't speak. He closed his eyes and raised his face, as if feeling the breath of spring.

It can be seen that he has not felt so relaxed for a long time.

"After I finish this work, I will go on vacation. Do you want to come together?" Feng Yiping touched him.

"Where? Caribbean or Mediterranean?" Page knew him well and knew what he liked.

First of all, the destination must be warm. He probably has no interest in places like the Antarctic or the North Pole.

"Good guess, but this time, I don't want to go to the seaside. Tuscany in Italy or Burgundy in France are good. You know, if you want to feel the breath of spring more deeply, you have to go deep into agriculture. developed areas,"

"If you don't believe it, your purpose is certainly not that simple," said Page, who still had her eyes closed.

Where are the areas with developed agriculture? Do you need to go to those two places?

"What else is the purpose of vacation?" Feng Yiping said with a smile.

"It's not convincing at all, just like what you just said," he opened his eyes. "Do you really think that there will be very fierce competition between us and Apple in the future?"

"Don't deny it, Steve and I both feel your anxiety,"

Feng Yiping was very pleased. What Page said was "between us and Apple", which meant that he was subconsciously in the same camp as Feng Yiping.

You know, at present, there is no competition between the two of them and Apple, but there is already a lot of competition between Google and Feng Yiping's company.

What Page means is to treat these competitions as conflicts within the people.

This is enough to show that Feng Yiping's feeling is right. Regarding the thinking of some issues, Page and Brin are in sync with him, at least in the same direction.

It's no wonder that he just blurted out such words in front of Steve Jobs.

The issue discussed with Huang Jingping is whether we can retire at the age of 30 or 35 as promised in the future. Judging from this trend, that is really not an extravagant hope.

Feng Yiping patted him on the shoulder, "What do you think the specific cooperation plan mentioned by Steve Jobs will be next year?"

"Although I don't know how he will cooperate with us, it is definitely inseparable from the search," Page said without thinking.

Although Apple claims to be the company with the best combination of software and hardware, from the beginning, what they did better was obviously in the hardware sector, while Google naturally focused on software, especially search technology.

Whenever Apple talks about cooperation, search is definitely not an issue.

"Perhaps, it will also include mapping," Page said. "But in terms of what you said about the fierce competition that will happen with Apple, I don't see any indication,"

"You see, even in the field where many companies in Silicon Valley have recently invested a lot of resources and have great expectations, cloud computing, Apple has made no movement so far,"

What Page stated is a fact. Compared with its size and its success in hardware, Apple was later regarded as unknown in the field of cloud computing.

"You know, what Steve didn't like the most was to follow the trend. This seems to me, oh, no, I seem to be somewhat similar to him in this,"

"What he likes to do most is to create demand, which can also be said to be creating a new blue ocean,"

"So, you said, how can we compete with Apple? You also said that Steve Jobs likes to create new blue oceans," Page said.

He didn't quite understand why Feng Yiping added a new word in front of "blue sea". Since it was "blue sea", weren't they all new?

In any case, since it is a blue ocean, it is naturally not a field that is already very popular. In this case, where is the competition?

"A long time ago, we discussed the importance of software and hardware. Do you still remember the conclusion at that time?" Feng Yiping said.

"How to perfectly combine software and hardware and match them together, then naturally it is the most ideal result. It should be this conclusion. I remember correctly, right," Page said.

"Of course you remember correctly," Feng Yiping nodded, "We all know that Apple's biggest advantage is still in hardware, and whether it is Google or my NEXTDOOR, it is mainly software."

"I don't see the need for us to do hardware," Page said.

That’s because you don’t know how big a market the iPhone has created since it came out.

"According to our Chinese philosophy, everything is a harmonious unity. They seem to be opposites, but in fact they transform into each other. You know something about Tai Chi, right? The end of yin is yang,"

Page frowned and looked at Feng Yiping.

Although he still doesn't quite understand what Feng Yiping said, he does know that since Feng Yiping said this, this problem may be really serious in the future.

"Similarly, software and hardware are also the same." Fortunately, Feng Yiping did not continue to discuss ancient Chinese philosophy with him.

"When we have achieved perfection in the field of software, will we be dissatisfied with the hardware carriers provided by the market, and then we will have the idea of ​​building our own hardware system? Do you think this is possible?"

"The same is true in reverse. Will Apple, which has achieved a high level of hardware, consider further improving its software system?"

Page was thinking, this trend is really possible.

"Or, we can put it another way. One day, when Google has achieved the largest share in the search field and the online advertising field, what will happen? We know that after the peak, even if it is not the trough, from a financial perspective, an evaluation of weak growth is inevitable, right?"

"So, do you think that by then, will we find a way from the hardware side, hoping to make the hardware business a growth point for our performance?"

Page immediately understood this statement, "It is possible,"

"The same is true. Hardware innovation also has limitations. When Apple reaches a certain height in hardware, it will also experience weak growth. I think at that time, they will definitely find a way in software. Search is probably not going to be done, but maps are possible,"

"I believe that by then, they will also make efforts in online payment and cloud computing, where they did not invest much resources before,"

Feng Yiping knew that he was not stating a possibility, but a fact.

That's what Google and Apple, both of which had weak growth, did later.

Google is having difficulty growing its revenue in the online advertising sector, and is facing fierce competition from up-and-coming companies such as Facebook. It has also entered the manufacturing of mobile phones, notebooks, and other smart hardware.

Later, even Microsoft, the most worthy software giant, has been spending a lot of money in the hardware field.

As for Apple, as the subsequent iPhones are becoming less and less innovative and can only rely on Jobs's old capital, and as competitors are growing stronger, it has naturally increased its investment in software...

"I still have the same opinion. In the future, successful high-tech companies must have good achievements in both software and hardware. If we don't develop hardware and Apple doesn't increase its investment in related software, it will definitely be quickly surpassed by competitors,"

"It sounds like what you said makes sense," Page leaned back on the bench.

Before today, I thought I might never get involved in hardware manufacturing, but after listening to Feng Yiping's words, it turned out that it's best to prepare now?

He looked at the children playing on the lawn, "The reason you chose to talk about this issue now, is it because of Jobs' health...?"

"There are factors in this regard. Of course, I think Jobs' health should not be as bad as you think now,"

"There are other reasons, and I am not sure now..."

He is actually very sure.

If the competition between Google and Apple may be delayed, but the competition between him and Apple will definitely heat up quickly after Jobs releases the iPhone and Rubin's Android has achieved something.

Page patted his shoulder, "Don't worry, if there really comes a day, I think Jobs will also carefully consider what you said today,"

"And, you know, there will be no such situation between us,"

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After seeing Feng Yiping and Page off, Jobs was not in a hurry to get back to work at this time.

He was also thinking about Feng Yiping's words.

He could also see that the examples Feng Yiping cited were a bit far-fetched, but he could deeply feel that Feng Yiping cherished the current situation and the relationship between everyone.

He could also feel Feng Yiping's respect for him, although part of that respect might be because of his age.

But in his heart, Jobs himself also cherished a friend like Feng Yiping.

Not only was his personality somewhat congenial to his, but the key was that they could agree on many issues, or in other words, their views on some issues were even more accurate and unique than his own. Such a friend was particularly rare.

Could it be that something that would lead to a fallout with him, could it really happen in the future?

Jobs couldn't think of the result.

But he remembered Feng Yiping's efforts today.

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On the other side, when he was about to reach Google, Feng Yiping received a call from Cummins, "Feng, we should have received the final offer from eBay. The offer is good, but their offer includes a bet agreement,"