My Age of Investment

"Daren, after getting your reminder, we found someone to secretly inquire about Apple."

Speaking of this, Andy Robin adjusted his glasses on his nose, and continued to speak solemnly: "They are really developing a big project, which should be a mobile phone."

Sears took out a document, held it up and introduced: "This is the "multi-touch screen patent" that Apple applied for in April, specifically referring to a touch panel with a transparent sensing medium.

It is used to detect multiple touches or proximity touches occurring simultaneously at different locations on the touch panel and generates, for each of the multitouches, a different signal representing the location of the touch on the touch panel..."

The various technical terms of the patent were very convoluted, Xia Jingxing directly asked Sears to hand over the documents.

After getting the file, Xia Jingxing looked at it carefully, this is commonly known as "multi-touch".

"Is there a way around this patent?"

After asking, Xia Jingxing realized that he asked this question in an amateurish manner. If he could avoid it, Apple, Google, and Microsoft would not have had so many patent lawsuits in his previous life.

"Hard to get around!"

Andy Rubin shook his head first, and then said: "The best way is that we also invent a patent and exchange licenses with Apple."

Xia Jingxing frowned, did he force himself to pre-register the patent for the circular home button?

This patent is a kind of appearance patent, which is very disgusting.

To use a joke from the previous life to describe: Apple sued those who made them round, Meizu sued them who made them oval, Samsung sued them who made them rectangular, Motorola sued them who made them square, Sony sued them who made virtual buttons...

What shape will it be made into?

Heart shape, sickle shape, trapezoid shape, irregular shape.

Xia Jingxing asked Andy Rubin to continue, the latter nodded and continued: "According to your proposal, we abandoned the keyboard design and adopted a full touch screen design.

Some mobile phones currently on the market use resistive screens that support single-point touch.

And we plan to use a capacitive screen, which is less accurate than a resistive screen, but it can perform multi-touch..."

At this moment, single-touch mobile phones have been born on the market.

It is also equipped with a stylus, which can be pulled out from the fuselage and poked on the screen.

Compared with multi-touch, it can touch a relatively large area with fingers.

Users can perform a single touch with both hands, or touch the screen with different gestures such as single-click, double-click, pan, press, scroll, and rotate.

If you want to play games or play audio and video, the experience difference between the two is very big.

The reason why Apple feels like black technology after its launch is that Fruit Ninja's multi-touch operations like chopping melons and vegetables directly smashed the user's mind.

The shock brought by this is indeed epoch-making, and it has also led the development of smart phones.

After Andy Robin finished speaking, he did not forget to add: "Although we haven't come up with mature technology, I firmly believe that the design direction you proposed, Darren, is correct."

Xia Jingxing said, "Have you all seen the design drawings I took out?"

All three nodded, and this happened not long after Android was acquired.

Before the acquisition, Xia Jingxing kept hiding and did not take out the concept map of the mobile phone.

It was not until the dust settled that the design drawing of the full touch screen mobile phone was produced.

Moreover, Xia Jingxing produced a lot of blueprints, including exterior design drawings, interface design drawings, and even some function realization logic diagrams.

After getting the drawings at that time, all the technicians, including Andy Rubin, counted as one, were all shocked.

Whether it can be realized is another matter.

But as far as the avant-garde design is concerned, it is far ahead of the times, and also surpasses the original designs of Andy Rubin and others.

Their original design still retains several buttons at the bottom of the screen, answer button, home button, home button, return button, and hang up button.

But compared with the full touch screen, it does look a bit ugly, or lacks a sense of technology.

They don't know what the mobile phone developed by Apple looks like, but as far as Xia Jingxing's concept map of the mobile phone is concerned, if the above functional ideas can be realized one by one, it will definitely deal a dimensionality reduction blow to the current mobile phones on the market.

These days, Andy Rubin's team has done nothing but expand its manpower. It has been figuring out how to build such a mobile phone all day long.

"The touch screen technology patent should not belong to which one?"

Xia Jingxing, a layman, once again exposed his unprofessionalism in the electronics industry.

Chris White smiled and shook his head, "Don't worry about it, in 1965, Johnson invented the first finger touch screen.

In addition, in 1970, Dr. Samuel Hearst of the United States invented the first resistive touch sensor.

In 1993, IBM first produced the world's first phone equipped with a touch screen - IBM Simon.

In addition to being applied to mobile phones, a large number of touch screens are used in supermarkets, stations, and banks.

This technology is almost public, and no one or any group has come out to swear to have sovereignty over this technology. "

Xia Jingxing nodded, and then said: "Now that Apple is one step ahead of us, we must come up with mature technology as soon as possible.

Don't wait until Apple sells mobile phones publicly, we are still in the lab. "

Andy Rubin said, "Steve Jobs was a very scary person, his head was always full of all kinds of wonderful ideas.

However, we needn't be afraid of him.

It is with such an opponent that I feel more motivated to work. "

Until now, Xia Jingxing has not met Jobs.

He has dealt with the heads of the three giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.

However, even if he didn't deal with Jobs, Xia Jingxing knew that he was a person who pursued extremeism and perfectionism.

Such people are naturally suitable for product development.

"Darren, when will the mobile phone brand you mentioned be launched?"

Sears has never forgotten that the boss said that he would also build a mobile phone brand, but he has not seen any movement for so long.

Hearing this, the other two also cast their eyes on Xia Jingxing.

This mobile phone brand undertakes the important task of promoting the Android system and firing the first shot, so there is no room for loss.

"How easy it is to find a mobile phone manufacturer. You have to come up with the first Android phone before I can set up a supply chain and produce according to it?"

Xia Jingxing laughed, he wasn't in a hurry yet, and Andrew and the others were in a hurry first.

He waved his hand, "Even if I launch a mobile phone brand now, I can't produce smartphones, I can only produce functional phones on the market.

But at present, the functional machine market has already separated its respective market share.

Even if we launch our own brand, we cannot gain any special advantage. "

"It's good to accumulate industry experience?" Sears continued.

"It's too low-end, and it's easy to be labeled; it's too high-end, and it won't sell."

Xia Jingxing has seriously considered that now is not a good time to launch a mobile phone brand, and he can make preparations, but the first mobile phone must be equipped with Android.

In order to reassure them, Xia Jingxing said a few more words.

"Don't worry, I already know it in my heart, and I will start to focus on mobile phones in the near future, so I won't delay the Android business."

"I'm still in touch with T-Mobile execs if there's a problem, and it's okay to hand over the first Android phone to them," Sears said.

Xia Jingxing waved his hand, "Take this as a backup plan for now!"

Sears didn't go to the boss to make trouble, just explain his point of view clearly.

Xia Jingxing remembered that the first Android mobile phone, the HTC G1, was customized by the US operator T-Mobile USA and manufactured by HTC (HTC).

But the road to cooperation was extremely difficult, and it was almost because Andrew begged his father to sue his grandmother.

However, HTC had great luck and completed the transformation from a foundry to an Android machine king.

If you can handle everything yourself, why pretend to be a grandson.

Instead of mentioning the mobile phone brand, Xia Jingxing talked with the three of them for a few hours about the development direction of the Android operating system, and determined the main direction for the next step.

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