Chapter 2372 Origin

As smartphones become more and more popular, I believe many Android users may have thought about a question: Can Android, which is free and open source, not make money?

If it makes money, how much can it make?

Feng Yiping has also thought about this question. Of course, he mainly thinks about the latter question. As for the former question, is there any need to think about it?

Later, the successful Lao Ma said a very true thing, "Free is the most expensive thing in the world!"

Because all the BAT in China have grown and developed with the free strategy.

Although Google has always claimed to be a company with ideals and aspirations, as long as it is a company, it will never do a business that loses money.

So Feng Yiping was very clear at the time that Android would definitely bring Google high profits, but he didn't know how high it would be.

However, although he didn't know, he still had a rough guess about the relevant amount. 360, the red-robed leader, Zhou Doushi, is a good reference.

360, which also started with free and always claimed to serve the people, had a market value of nearly 10 billion US dollars on the New York Stock Exchange before Feng Yiping was reborn.

Considering that 360 software users are obviously much less than Google, and investors highly recognize American high-tech companies, if Android is also listed, it will not be difficult for its market value to be 10 times that of 360.

In other words, if Android is listed later, its market value will definitely be more than 100 billion US dollars. According to the average price-earnings ratio of nearly 20 times of US stocks, Android's annual net profit will be at least more than 5 billion US dollars.

If we take into account the Android application market, it is hard to say whether the net profit is a multiple of 5 billion.

If he had not been reborn in 2014 and had kept his attention on these issues later, he would know that the profits brought by Android to Google far exceeded his imagination.

In 2016, in the patent lawsuit, which is common among American high-tech companies, Oracle's Ellison instructed his subordinates to disclose an internal financial document of Google. The document showed that Android had generated 31 billion US dollars in revenue for Google, of which 22 billion was profit, with a profit margin of 70%!

More detailed data shows that the revenue of the Android application market alone in 2015 was as high as 12.25 billion US dollars!

Of course, Feng Yiping was not so carefree at this time, but in any case, a project that could bring him nearly $5 billion in returns a year was naturally worthy of his high attention, so he not only contacted Samsung, but also HTC.

HTC, because of its English name HTC, is jokingly called a ham sausage in China. This ham sausage has never made any splash in the domestic mobile phone market, but people who know something about the mobile phone market will probably know that in the early days of the rise of smart phones, especially in the US market, it was really better than Samsung and was the only Android mobile phone brand that could challenge Apple at the time.

In fact, to be honest, HTC still has some achievements in the domestic mobile phone market. In the domestic mobile phone camp, Dopod, which is still a high-end brand, is a company of HTC...

In short, now that Android is in his hands, Feng Yiping will certainly not give up such a capable person.

It's just that he didn't expect that the other party would act so quickly.

But if you think about the other party's personality, it seems that there is nothing incomprehensible.

For this Formosa Plastics princess, well, there are a lot of Formosa Plastics princesses.

At present, there are 7 princesses in the third branch of the Wang family. In addition to the anecdotes that Feng Yiping knows, in the future, there will be two sisters from the Luo family who have been living outside and will return to their family. In total, Formosa Plastics will have 9 princesses - Feng Yiping suddenly felt that he could work hard.

But the most famous one is naturally Wang Xuehong, who later became the richest woman in Taiwan and said, "If you want to have a son, you should have Morris Chang, and if you want to have a daughter, you should have Wang Xuehong."

For the most famous princess of Formosa Plastics, both her partners and partners have such an evaluation of her, "very bold, with a man's heart."

She is indeed more decisive than many men in doing things.

The next afternoon, Feng Yiping met this second-generation rich man in Taiwan in the office.

Accompanied by several middle-aged men in suits and leather shoes, a middle-aged woman who was not tall and also dressed in a black suit came over with her head held high. She really looked like she was walking with the wind. In the room, her long hair also swung up.

Feng Yiping's first impression was that this lady, who was about the average height of us women, was taller than the men around her who were over 180cm tall.

Yes, she was really bold and had a manly mind!

"Mr. Wang, welcome, welcome," Feng Yiping stood at the door and stretched out her hand.

"Mr. Feng, I've heard a lot about you," Ms. Wang also stretched out her hand from a distance, and her handshake was indeed as strong as a man's.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Feng, we came too presumptuously,"

"No," Feng Yiping said with a smile, "As the host, I should be sorry for not meeting you now, Mr. Wang, everyone, please!"

"Mr. Feng, I have something to say, I hope you don't mind," Mr. Wang said after sitting down and looking at Feng Yiping for a few times.

"How could it be, Mr. Wang, please," Feng Yiping smiled and raised his hand.

"Although I have read a lot of your information, including some news films, and have been mentally prepared, but after meeting you, I still want to say, Mr. Feng, you are so young that we are surprised,"

"Standing in front of you, we all suddenly become old,"

Feng Yiping smiled. He had heard too much about the topic of age. Frankly speaking, he didn't really want to bring it up because sometimes, being young is actually a disadvantage.

But Mr. Wang's words did not mean to belittle him because of his youth.

It's just that these words are a bit difficult to answer, "How could it be, you are so young?" and so on. Considering that the other party is a lady, it is a bit unceremonious in such an occasion.

There are many people there who praise him, "What surprises us even more is Mr. Feng's achievements. Compared with Mr. Feng, we are all old guys who are doing nothing and wasting our time."

In fact, this person is not waiting for someone else. He is the CEO of HTC, Mr. Zhou.

"No way, you two deserve the prize," Feng Yiping said, "I just came across a good era and was lucky enough to seize a few good opportunities."

"Mr. Feng, you are too modest. Success is never a matter of luck," said Mr. Wang. "For someone like me, who takes care of my parents, if I can achieve something, that would be a real luck."

"Mr. Wang, you are too self-effacing. I believe that there are many people like me who admire Mr. Wang's courage and ability. I think that when I first started my business, I chose a giant like Intel as my competitor, and also... There are not many successful people in the world," Feng Yiping said.

Another important company of Mr. Wang is VIA, a chip company that was on the verge of bankruptcy, acquired from an American businessman in 1988.

Although this company has recently been unable to compete with the Wintel alliance formed by Intel and Microsoft, and has been somewhat marginalized, it was quite dazzling in the years at the end of the last century. The chipsets they launched seized many of Intel's markets. share, forcing Intel to fight a patent lawsuit with them for several years.

By the way, the reason why Lenovo was able to rise rapidly in the field of PC manufacturing and quickly occupy the market with its low-price strategy was mainly due to VIA's affordable chipsets in the early stage.

However, this also resulted in the plan of academician Ni Guangnan, Lenovo's chief engineer at the time, to develop his own chips without support, and he had no choice but to cancel it.

In any case, Feng Yiping believes that the vast majority of people, including the rich second generation, will not compete with giants like Intel at the beginning of their business.

What's more, as a second-generation rich man, she received limited support from her family, at least in the early days. What Mr. Wang likes most is the children of the third brother-in-law, but in fact they are all daughters, four daughters.

Of course, after she moved VIA from the United States to Wanwan, she would naturally enjoy a lot of convenience and support because of her status.

Her company accounts for as much of Taiwan's GDP as Samsung does to South Korea.

"Thinking about it now, I can only say that I was a newborn calf and not afraid of tigers," Mr. Wang said with a smile.

If VIA was doing well now, she probably wouldn't have said this, but given VIA's current situation, it's hard to say how correct her original decision was.

"What we admire most is Mr. Feng's vision. Speaking of which, we, Mr. Zhou, have a very good relationship with Mr. Rubin, but it was Mr. Feng who first discovered the value of the products developed by Rubin."

Feng Yiping looked at Mr. Zhou, who smiled and nodded, is there such a thing? To say that this world is really small.

He also somewhat understood why HTC was the first to launch a mobile phone equipped with Android system.

"I was really lucky. When I cooperated with Rubin, I really didn't expect that there would be a product like the iPhone," Feng Yiping said with a smile.

But in the eyes of Mr. Wang and others, Feng Yiping's smile was very unpredictable and profound.