Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant

"HTC is banned in the United States!"

A piece of news suddenly appeared in Qu Li's sight. He had forgotten that there was such a thing at first, but he didn't expect that what should happen happened after all.

With Google's acquisition of Motorola, the patent dispute between Apple and Samsung has basically come to an end. It is still the same formula. Apple lost the patent lawsuit and was supposed to be banned from sale, but it was stopped by Aoguanhai.

Why was HTC banned? Of course, they killed themselves, chose sides and deeply bonded with Andy Rubin of Google Android, and then Barbie Q. Although Pichai, the chosen son of Google, has not yet won the victory, he has already taken advantage and began to break off Andy Rubin's wings. First, Google mobile phones no longer cooperate with HTC to develop, and then maintain a tacit understanding with Honor, not providing HTC with Patent Protection……

Qu Li and Lei Jun understand the situation and know that there are many stories behind it:

"HTC has made a lot of money in the past few years. It is difficult for Samsung mobile phones to subvert our market position for a while, but it is not a problem to crush HTC. Nokia does not like this shit stick."

In the final analysis, it is still not strong enough. A company with no patented technology has made profits that it shouldn’t have in the market. , Glory has more background, more friends, and can hire better lawyers.

Honor originally grew up with Google's Android thighs, but now it is a friend of Google, and at the same time, it has become friends with Microsoft. Every time it sells a WP mobile phone, it can get 5~10 dollars from Microsoft. Isn't it a good friend?

Qu Li and the others gloated over HTC's misfortune in Beijin, and soon Wang Xuehong from HTC flew to Beijin to meet Qu Li and Lei Jun through various relationships. The proud woman finally lowered her proud head.

It's a pity that Qu Li has a thick face and a dark heart. He didn't suppress HTC for "face" at all. It just happened to be an excuse at the time. Just like the VC who offended him before, Qu Li also promised to have the opportunity to meet in public in the future, and he is willing to cooperate with them in taking pictures.

He can tolerate taking pictures of his table and splashing water on him, not to mention that Wang Xuehong just wants to use the momentum to suppress others, and wants to use Google and relevant departments to suppress the development momentum of Honor. The contradiction is not big, it seems so?

Qu Li looked at Lei Jun not confidently. He didn't regard HTC as an opponent, but they regarded him as a competitor. Only they themselves know how many obstacles Wang Xuehong has caused to Glory these years.

"Forgiving others is the prerogative of the successful." Someone said next to him, in case of failure, don't say forgive others. At that time, the sentence "You are also worthy" made people laugh for nothing.

"What bargaining chip does she have for us to forgive her?" Qu Li didn't want to waste time, if this woman had an unrealistic fantasy, thinking that an apology would forgive her, it would be better not to see her.

"I'll get in touch." Gao Yushan: "Does she have anything we need?"

"A lot, CDMA patented technology and authorization, X86 architecture..."

"What do we want x86 for?"

"Just talking casually, just consider patents related to CDMA and mobile communications."

In fact, Wang Xuehong is really a strange woman. If she has a firm stand and is willing to take root in mainland China, not to mention becoming the uncrowned king of the domestic smartphone market, she will definitely not quit the smartphone market.

Wang Xuehong also has a company called VIA, which acquires the CDMA part of LSI Logic and owns CDMA patents and technologies, which can be licensed to other companies such as MediaTek, as well as the X86 architecture and authorization obtained after the acquisition of Cyrix, an X86 chip company. It once became the world's second largest chipset giant, and has made certain achievements in the fields of CPU, GPU, and communication chips. It has a proper framework for giants.

When the two parties formally met, Wang Xuehong saw many foreign executives, knowing that it was useless to talk about "ethnic sentiments", they said some polite words and rearranged their speech.

Honor’s Spreadtrum Technology owns full Netcom chips, but they have various cooperation and authorization with Qualcomm, but because the technology is developed by itself, the authorization is limited, so looking for CDMA technology and authorization from VIA is a kind of competition and cooperation strategy.

Then why did Wang Xuehong look for Honor, because Apple can ban the sale of HTC in the United States, even if the sale is not banned in China, but will European countries follow suit? Wang Xuehong was worried that the situation would deteriorate further. If he could reconcile with Glory, there might be hope.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible." Wang Xuehong left angrily

"what should we do?"

"Just pretend she hasn't been here, and everything will be business as usual."

"Including prosecutions in Europe?"

"..."

HTC is in trouble, and domestic mobile phone companies are both happy and uncomfortable. Such an excellent company may be cheated to death. Do they really have a chance?

Not everyone knows that HTC died due to Google’s infighting. There are some companies in China who think that Honor and Apple’s inexplicable cooperation has killed this mobile phone company that is qualified to challenge them, so they have contacted Honor to strengthen cooperation and popularize high-end phones. KMS.

Honor's KMS includes KCM "Kunlun system cloud information push", including WeChat, there is no need to stay in the background to start automatically. With various measures, Honor has improved the Android user experience, including battery life.

However, this obviously limits the independent and controllable rights of mobile phone companies. Some problematic pre-installations may be identified and uninstalled by the KMS security mechanism. In addition, Honor does not directly pay money like Ali subsidizes yunOS, so many mobile phone manufacturers have concerns about this. conflict.

Of course, Qu Li has a solution. The first is to send a soft article to do science popularization, let everyone know the advantages of KMS and KCM push, safety, and power saving. Only by confirming that the word-of-mouth of KMS is recognized by consumers can they give priority to choosing smartphones with KMS services in their shopping choices.

The same is true of the fact that the domestic sales of Nokia smartphones pre-installed with KMS services surpassed that of Samsung and HTC, which greatly touched China Cool Union OV Meizu TCL. KMS is an original version of Honor, which can be considered as the domestic version of GMS. It is jointly promoted by Google and Honor, so most mobile phone companies in the Android Alliance have no choice.

Nokia is really a good company. Zhou Shaoning took a more radical approach, not pursuing profit sharing on the operating system and KMS, and went all out to sell mobile phones. Nearly 50 million mobile phones were sold throughout the year, nearly 60% of which were Android smartphones, and another 20 million were WP phones in charge of others. Microsoft subsidized Nokia with $10 for each WP phone.

Nokia sells more Android smartphones, but sells WP phones with higher profit margins. I don't know how the Indian CEO will choose.

In addition, moto also uses KMS in China. Unfortunately, Motorola's annual mobile phone sales have dropped sharply, less than 10 million units, to be exact, less than 5 million units. Under the control of Google, moto sales have declined very seriously.

As for HTC, with a sales volume of 35 million, the U.S. market has the largest market share, followed by the European Union region. This is the critical period for the industry to explode. It is clear that there is still hope to become a giant. Can Wang Xuehong not be in a hurry? Seeing that Glory was unmoved, he still took the initiative to come to the door.