Global monopoly of technology

Côte d'Azur laboratory.

"...Our goal is to promote Azure-C and become the main programming language for writing mobile applications in the future. It is very practical. The program written in Azure-C is basically as big as the original code, and it is fully compatible with standard C language. ."

More than 600 engineers gathered in an indoor hall of the Blue Coast Laboratory, listening to Luo Sheng's narration. The Azure-C language has been developed for three months. It will host the AOS operating system and mobile phone applications. write.

"For all programming languages, there are two ultimate goals: one is to improve hardware operating efficiency, and the other is to improve programmer development efficiency." Luo Sheng looked at hundreds of engineers and said, "Unfortunately, you can't have both. You can only choose the same. In terms of improving the efficiency of hardware operation, the C language has no competitors and is invincible. For example, the C language uses the array inta[3], which becomes [base address + offset] after compilation. For computers , There is no method faster than the access method in this way."

Bai Lang immediately spoke at the scene: "Although the C language has compressed the operating efficiency of the hardware to the extreme, the problem with this design approach is the lack of ease of use and safety. For the wrong offset C language But he doesn’t care."

Said Bai Lang helplessly spread his hands.

Luo Sheng nodded and smiled: "Yes, this is the notorious cross-border problem in the C language. The only purpose of the C language is to be fast. It either runs quickly or crashes quickly. It only cares about whether the program flies high or not, and never cares about the program. The staff is not tired. There is no language in this world that is easy to develop and run quickly. After all, easy development comes from packaging the bottom layer."

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng paused for a moment and added: "Now there is a popular question... Can we invent a language that is as fast as the language without the pitfalls of the C language? The answer is yes, and there are already such languages. , The name is [D language]. It was released by a company called DigitalMars five years ago with the intention of improving the C++ language, but it did not become popular."

Luo Sheng continued to talk eloquently: "Because we have to face a very basic practical problem, there are too many C codes now, they are basically working normally, Linux, Window, MacOS, Unix, etc., these operating systems The kernel of all is C, and our AOS system kernel is also C."

"Although I am not sure how much C accounts for in Window, I believe that Microsoft engineers will not use C# to completely rewrite the kernel of an operating system. I want these people to use your brand new language. It's kind of silly and naive."

"It's like you are a man in IT science and engineering. Now you are asked to change your career to write novels. Are you willing? Have you thought about it? That means that your accumulated experience and knowledge and contributions are all worthless. You are a great god in the IT world. But you are Xiaobai writing novels, and you have to learn how to write novels again."

"So you definitely don't want to. The reason is the same. The D language has not become popular. Developers would rather continue to optimize C. This is an ecological problem. The wind has been occupied by C. You want to start a new stove to replace it, no less than restarting the entire human Internet. Infrastructure, is this possible?"

"So those investors who don't know how to compile Chinese are fooling investors who cheat them money. There are actually Chinese compilers. They seem to be pretty good, but what can you do without it?"

"Moreover, some codes cannot be changed at all. After a simple 5 CPU flight control software is written, a full coverage test must be performed on it. What happens if one or more of the CPUs fails? You can do simple math Combination. After the test, you will find that, not to mention rewriting, even adding a comment will not work."

"Then why do we insist on using C? In the future, when the near future is accompanied by the rise of embedded and real-time systems, artificial intelligence, robots, autonomous driving, etc., these seem distant but the future is promising, and these are all C languages The core application of C language, and at this application level, the C language has no competitors."

"Can we fault these outlets? No!"

A few minutes later, when Luo Sheng was about to continue, there was a vibrating sound from the mobile phone in his pocket, and he took it out and glanced at the call from Qin Weimu.

"Okay, let's do it for the time being, we only have less than half a year left. We must pass the AOS test version and complete the bottom-level optimization in these few days." Luo Sheng took the lead in leaving this hall with such a sentence.

Worthy of being the boss, the leverage, the engineers present suddenly became respectful and admired.

Luo Sheng got on the phone after leaving the lobby: "It's me, what's the matter?"

On the other end of the phone, Qin Weimu replied: "Apple's CEO Steve Jobs personally visited, and he is now in the company's waiting room."

Luo Sheng stunned: "At the company? Why don't you even have any news? Didn't Old Joe look down on our Chinese, ha ha."

Qin Weimu: "I heard from them that this visit is very low-key, and the outside world doesn't even know."

After hearing this, Luo Sheng suddenly guessed the intention of the Qiao gang after a little thought. Most of them came for the issue of patent barriers. Many key patents are now registered by the Blue Coast Company.

Let’s talk about multi-touch screen technology. This is a touch panel with a transparent sensing medium. It is used to detect simultaneous multi-point touches or proximity touches at different positions on the touch panel, and it is each point in the multi-point touch. Touch is a patented technology in which different signals representing the touch position on the touch panel are generated.

Apple has been working on this technology internally, but the patent squatting is one step late, to be exact, it is one month late.

"All right, I'll come here."

Luo Sheng finished the communication, and after a few instructions, he left the Azure Coast Laboratory and went to the company office building.

About ten minutes later, I met with Jobs in the reception room.

Apart from other factors, Luo Sheng still admires the Qiao gang. Although the iPhone series of Apple in the last generation is more and more ugly in industrial design.

However, the industrial design of the iPhone4 generation of mobile phones has indeed broken people's inherent cognition of mobile phones, and Qiao Gang has just turned a consumer electronics product into a work of art.

But then again, after returning to reality, Luo Sheng will not hold this emotional sentiment, but will not give Apple and Joe any way, and must let him have nowhere to go.

The Côte d'Azur company still owes a debt to the bank. Qiao's gang leader ran over this time, and it won't work without knocking on Apple.

Keke, you can't say that, it's a patent fee, it's justified, this is a foreigner's gameplay.

You must know that many domestic classical prescriptions have been patented by foreigners. They were originally invented by the ancestors, but in the end, they have to pay the foreigners when they use them.

This meeting was a full 30-year-old meeting between the two parties, but the magic of the classic "reality distortion field" of the gang leader Qiao failed here in Luo Sheng.

Flicker vs. Flicker, the result must be nothing.

The two parties briefly talked about Apple's first failed entry into the mobile phone market-Rockr.

Luo Sheng smiled and said: "I also bought one of Rockr when it went on sale. This product is doomed to fail because Rockr's impact on the iPod is inevitable, but the iPod has already brought a lot of money to Apple. Your company hopes to slow down its impact. On Rockr, I tried my best to limit the functions of the iTunes software to reduce the threat to the iPod."

"Obviously, this is tangled, and Motorola does not want to make new attempts with digital music on its best-selling models, and Apple does not want to show the essence of its iTunes playback software on Rockr."

"This phone is like a child with intellectual disabilities born to two extremely intelligent and gifted parents. It cannot download music directly. It needs to be connected to a computer to upload songs to the phone. It can only save 100 pieces of music. As a consumer, I deeply feel that Disappointed, I wasted more than three hundred dollars in vain, you have to pay me."

Leader Joe: "..."

Luo Sheng's current mentality is to talk with Old Qiao. This is not a question of respect or disrespect. It is now a dialogue scene of equal status.

Facing Luo Sheng's ridicule, Gangmaster Qiao felt embarrassed but also helpless, because he could not find a reason to refute.

This topic was quickly swept away. Despite the huge age difference of 30 years between the two sides, Gang Leader Joe did not despise the young man in front of him.

A company that can do well in the capital circle and created a company to complete an IPO in just three years, and now the market value is above Apple, how can such a person seem so simple on the surface.

If he is really a simple kid as young as he appears on the surface, can he create such an achievement?Come on.

Instead, age has become his best disguise, making others despise him.

Strictly speaking, Apple is now competing with the Bluestar Technology Group. This point is that the Joe gang is actually angry. Apple has not entered the social network, but Bluestar Technology has entered the digital music market.

Old Qiao is extremely convinced that Luo Sheng wants to kill iTunes. Although MusicSpace's market share is only about 15%, iTunes firmly dominates the digital music market share under the popularity of the iPod, but this is enough for the Qiao gang to pay attention to.

This scene is also very interesting. Between the lines, Gang Qiao seems to be inquiring about what the Riviera is doing, while Luo Sheng is full of nonsense, flicking Gang Qiao. The Riviera company makes a flip machine with a plastic keyboard.

Old Qiao laughed in his heart, obviously suspicious, and was testing each other.

"Sometimes life will pick up a brick and slap it on your head. The patent barrier of the Côte d'Azur is to pat a brick against Apple." Jobs shook his head with a smile and looked at Luo Sheng in front of him, he added : "Mr. Luo, Apple hopes to obtain 26 patents from your company, including multi-touch screen technology."

The assistant of Qiao’s gang leader took out a text file from the briefcase and handed it to Luo Sheng. The latter closed it at a glance, and said with a smile: "These 26 patents are no problem, but the licensing fee is paid by Apple every year. To pay 350 million US dollars in licensing fees, sign a five-year contract, and pay 350 million US dollars on time today."

"What?"

Qiao's helper heard the amount he offered, and it was impossible to say that he was not angry.

It costs 350 million U.S. dollars per year and it is signed for 5 years. That is 1.75 billion U.S. dollars. It's like a big mouth, and it's uglier than Qualcomm.

Why don't you grab it?

"The annual licensing fee of 350 million U.S. dollars is very unreasonable, and I can't accept it." Qiao's gang leader said without hesitation, simply robbing the money.

"No, we have consumed a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources. The company's operations also need to be maintained by profit. I can't accept it below this price." Luo Sheng said categorically, he is determined to take Apple, and this It was Luo Sheng's refusal of Qiao's price.

If the leader of Qiao or other people in Apple did not take the initiative to seek patent authorization, Luo Sheng may not be able to handle it. After all, he himself has come to this world and has undergone tremendous changes. His appearance and the appearance of Bluestar Technology Group are the biggest Change.

But Lao Qiao came in person, which allowed Luo Sheng to judge that Apple must be secretly pursuing the research and development of the iPhone project. As a result, when the fog was lifted, he found that there was a huge patent barrier in front of him.

And this also gave Luo Sheng another extremely important basis for judgment. Apple's iPhone project is at least ten months behind the [Azure] plan, or even more.

If Luo Sheng is here to give Apple a card, I am afraid that it may not be able to launch the iPhone product smoothly in 2008, and even with the pissiness of Qiao's helper, will the iPhone be shelved because of arrogance?

This is possible. The iPad project is not because of the research and development of multi-touch screens. Now it is because of the old Qiao who is in the cold, the grandmother does not care for the uncle or not.

You know, before a large group company launches a product, it doesn't know how many projects it has killed.

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