Chapter 2349 Rubin's Thoughts

Feng Yiping really forgot about Rubin for a moment, "Sorry, Rubin, tell me,"

"Von, congratulations," Rubin said.

He doesn't know how much Feng Yiping spent to invest in NAVTEQ, but what he does know is that judging from Feng's appearance, the return on this investment is obviously very high.

"Thank you. When I originally invested, I never thought that Nokia would acquire it and at such a high price,"

"I was going to talk about Nokia, too," Rubin said.

Obviously, Feng Yiping put up such a big battle yesterday. If he is targeting, in addition to Apple, it naturally also includes Nokia, which is currently the leader in the mobile phone industry, and another company that is welcomed by many high-end people because of its own characteristics. Mobile phone brand, BlackBerry.

"Nokia," Feng Yiping sighed with emotion. He didn't know what to say.

From the fact that it spent so much money to acquire NAVTEQ, it can be seen that they are not insensitive, or that they have a very strategic vision and strong execution.

However, their timing was really bad. Just like Blackstone's previous acquisition of Hilton for more than 26 billion US dollars, if the subprime crisis continues to ferment for a few more months, it is obvious that they will not need to spend such a high price now.

Because by then, I believe the stocks of these two companies will fall with the decline of the market.

If Blackstone couldn't see clearly at the time, Nokia should at least understand now how important it is to reserve more cash on hand. After all, almost all central banks in developed countries in the world have invested heavily in solving bank liquidity problems. .

In particular, now that the new generation of smartphones represented by the iPhone is selling like hotcakes and has the tendency to reshape the layout of the entire industry, at this time, they should invest heavily in developing corresponding products.

The last thing he didn't know was why they were still unwilling to produce a mobile phone equipped with Android after hesitating for so many years even though Android had become so popular.

Otherwise, with its technological reserves, its strength, and its current absolute advantage, how could Samsung, which is so far behind it at this time, rise?

"Do you know why I said yesterday that the vast majority of mobile phone manufacturers in the world, not all except Apple, are eagerly looking forward to systems like Android?" Feng Yiping asked.

"Nokia probably didn't want a system that was better than their Symbian," Rubin said.

"Yes," Feng Yiping thought, is it possible that Nokia really refuses to use Android just because of face issues?

It seems that at least there will be factors in this regard.

Unexpectedly, a company developed in a cold country like Finland would also have such virtues.

"So obviously, it will be difficult for it to join the Open Handset Alliance we are planning to establish," Feng Yiping said.

The reason is equally simple. Putting aside the fact that they are one of Android's imaginary enemies, judging from Nokia's current style, it is obvious that they will not join an alliance related to mobile phones that they did not initiate and lead.

"Feng, it's just right, my idea, and Nokia..." Just as Rubin mentioned it, the phone on Feng Yiping's desk rang again, and Wu Qian said, "Yiping, Miss Ivanka is coming up,"

Feng Yiping looked at his watch and saw that it was the time for Ivanka to arrive. "Wait a moment," he said to Rubin.

Rubin suddenly didn't know what to say. If I don't make an appointment in advance, I won't be able to finish what I need to say.

Ivanka had already stepped out of the elevator. She was wearing a white skirt with a black top and bottom. It was very eye-catching, but she looked a little tired.

From a distance, someone on the other side of the corridor laughed, "Hello, Feng,"

"Hello Ivanka, this is Rubin. Rubin, this is Miss Ivanka, who works in our fashion department,"

Rubin stood up, a little excited. In fact, he could recognize who this person was without Feng Yiping's introduction.

"Miss Ivanka, nice to meet you," his eyes shined behind the lenses, "I originally thought it was just a coincidence of the same name, but I didn't expect it was you, Miss Ivanka,"

"Nice to meet you," Ivanka smiled, "Feng, are you still busy?"

"It's okay," Feng Yiping said, "Please sit down,"

"What was the harvest this time?" he asked.

Ivanka, who had just sat down, stood up again. "It's a great harvest." She took out a CD from her bag and looked at the TV over there. "Is it okay?"

"I'll do it, I'll do it," Rubin was very attentive now, and it seemed that he was not in a hurry to exchange ideas with Feng Yiping.

Immediately, exciting music sounded, and a model with amazingly long legs and a good-looking face walked toward the camera on the T stage with full aura.

Feng Yiping and Lu Bin couldn't help but trembled together. They were extremely energetic, or in other words, they were energetic.

"This is me at Milan Fashion Week..."

"Sorry Ivanka, can you give me and Rubin a few minutes first?" Feng Yiping said.

Ivanka picked up the remote control and pressed pause, "Of course,"

"But Feng, can you bring me something to eat? I just arrived and I haven't eaten breakfast yet,"

"No problem," Feng Yiping picked up the phone next to him and dialed the number of an assistant, "You can tell him yourself,"

"Thank you," Ivanka walked to the window with the cordless phone in hand. "Please, please bring me a Caesar salad..."

Feng Yiping looked at Rubin and said, "Okay, tell me what you think."

Ivanka had already ordered her meal. She put the phone on the table. Feng Yiping pointed to the small restaurant in front. She nodded and walked over with a smile.

Rubin sat up straight, "Feng, I was thinking, why don't we just make mobile phones?"

This time, he got straight to the point.

He was really worried. According to Feng Yiping's work pace, if there was another ups and downs, he might not be able to express his thoughts all morning.

"We all know that the Open Mobile Phone Alliance you planned is very necessary for the long-term development of Android. Then I discovered that many of the members you planned to develop into the alliance are actually important members of the smartphone supply chain. It also includes companies such as telecom operators that need to focus on cooperation when selling mobile phones,"

"So I thought, why don't we just make mobile phones?"

"We can fully imagine that in the future this will be a very large market, with an annual demand of at least hundreds of millions of units, and almost every year, users have replacement needs,"

"Because we develop the Android system ourselves, I believe that our mobile phone must be the most suitable for our system, that is, it must be the best smartphone equipped with Android system,"

"Considering the high revenue Apple has generated from hardware products in the past two years, I think we can definitely get involved in this field,"

"Personally, I have full confidence in getting it right,"

Feng Yiping looked at Rubin with a smile, "I'm glad you can consider this aspect. I also believe you can make the best Android phone. However, before that, we need to consider an issue."

“The most important thing right now is, should we promote our Android system or develop our own smartphones?”

"In other words, for us, which one is better, the increase in the installed base of Android system in the future or the hot sales of our own smartphones?"

"This," Rubin was still pondering, Feng Yiping himself answered, "relatively speaking, it must be the former,"

Including Rubin, their current ideas have not completely changed. They all believe that smartphones, like current feature phones, only have two main channels for making money: mobile phone manufacturers make money through hardware, and telecom operators make money from communication fees.

None of them could have imagined, including Jobs, who didn't quite understand at this time how much revenue those apps that he was originally unwilling to accept installed on the mobile phones he developed would bring to Apple.

For Feng Yiping and others, the Android system has been successfully developed. In the future, one more mobile phone with Android installed and now called Android Market, which is the Android application market, will be equivalent to one more terminal that can generate income.

Therefore, Google’s original withdrawal from China caused huge losses. Not only did it suffer losses in search, but the potential losses caused by those phones that installed the Android system but did not install the official Android app store may be even greater.

Because in the mobile phone market, Android’s installed base far exceeds Apple’s iOS.

In China's search market, Google's best result was to occupy more than 30% of the market share. Later, in China's smartphone market, Android occupied at least more than 80% of the market share.

"In addition, we must also think about a question. Look, Nokia's Symbian system is also an open source system. Why can't it be promoted?"

"This..." Rubin pondered.