Reinventing the Millennium.

There are some small situations in the cooperation between Yike and Sohu that hit it off.

But Fang Zhuo was not in a hurry.

He feels that he has expressed his respect for the independent operation of the Sogou team, and now it is only a matter of course to reach an agreement on the general direction of development. This should be done and should be understood by the other party.

Wang Xiaochuan might twitch, Zhang Chaoyang needs to wake up.

On the second day of the reply, Fang Zhuo still rejected Nokia's request for another meeting. Through Elop, he conveyed his attitude that Nokia should deeply review its patent hooliganism, and sincerely and publicly apologize to all the victimized manufacturers and pay the dues. Royalties.

According to Elop's feedback again, Simmons will seriously consider it.

But according to the arrangement of the Nokia team, they no longer stayed in Shanghai and set off for the capital.

Fang Zhuo guessed that Elop was a mixed bag, and he invited the Microsoft executive to stay and talk about the patent licensing between Yike and Microsoft, which must be the kind that both parties are willing to firmly abide by.

So far, Nokia's team in China this time has been divided into two halves, and the small Microsoft team is temporarily in Shanghai to meet with the executives arranged by Yike, and the handling is considered serious.

On that afternoon, Fang Zhuo invited Zhang Chaoyang to the company again and asked him to attend a YMS manufacturer seminar with him.

It is normal for business cooperation to fluctuate, and it is common to talk about it once or twice, a month or two months, or even a year or so.

Looking at the domestic search market, Baidu, Google, Microsoft just launched Bing, Penguin’s Soso, Alibaba’s Yahoo for e-commerce search, NetEase’s Youdao shopping search, Sohu’s Sogou engine...

No one is willing to be acquired, and some even have no room for cooperation.

Sina does have search technology based on portals and Weibo, but they are not very proficient in this area. Based on the win-win concept of seizing the mobile Internet track, today's Sogou engine deserves to be revised and cooperated.

Fang Zhuo invited Zhang Chaoyang to come here either to discuss the search market or engine technology with him, or to let him listen to the development of smart phones today.

Yike has been promoting YMS since the beginning of the year, and the effect is not satisfactory. Hanvon and Meizu, which have released mobile phones, and Kesheng, which is about to release products, have all been awarded YMS certification for the three major entry-level phone brands.

Compared with the open source Android system, YMS will review the application software and provide a unified message push service. Yike will also conduct software and hardware tests for manufacturers certified by YMS, and provide test suites such as security and compatibility.

Once the mobile phone products of YMS manufacturers are different from other non-certified mobile phones in terms of user experience, consumer groups can provide counterforce from the market, and the YMS camp is expected to continue to expand in scale.

This set of design is not new, it just learns from Google GMS, but unlike the binding between Google and Android, Yike is still more relaxed in China.

Zhang Chaoyang, who was invited, quickly understood what Mr. Fang meant during the meeting.

There are four manufacturers in the conference room, Yike, Meizu, Hanwang, and Kesheng. Among them, Meizu has transformed from a music player to the mobile phone field. Hanwang has experience in communication products earlier, and Kesheng is the former head of Changhong. The brand founded by Ni Runfeng received investment from Yike.

Because of Fang Zhuo's appearance at this YMS meeting, the three leaders of Meizu Huang Zhang, Hanwang Liu Yingjian, and Kesheng Ni Runfeng all attended in person. In addition, Yike also has key employees in technology, marketing and supply chain.

Fang Zhuo didn't say much, but the three manufacturers with similar positioning talked happily.

Meizu M8 is the product of switching to Android. Huang Zhang has devoted a lot of effort to this. The touch IC supplier has been stalking for several months, and the mobile phone frame plan has been discussed for several months. After a long time, it was finally priced at 2199 yuan and went on sale in February this year.

The research and development process of Hanwang mobile phone is easier, because with the help from Yike and the guidance of the domestic supply chain, the product started from scratch without delaying the progress. The two mobile phones named H1 and H2 are priced at 1699 and 2199 yuan. Available in March.

Neither Meizu nor Hanvon purchased Qualcomm chips. Considering the cost, they used the products that MediaTek had cooperated with Yike before, and the two companies had a very direct competition.

However, Zhang Chaoyang sat in Yi Ke's meeting room and saw that the two families were talking and laughing happily, and he didn't regard each other as rivals at all.

After the lively discussion atmosphere stopped, he asked with a smile: "Mr. Huang, Mr. Liu, you didn't discuss the price of this product before, and there is a conflict on the price."

Both are about 2000 yuan, and they are all Android phones. Hanwang also has the same price.

It stands to reason that the two should have red eyes when they meet.

Liu Yingjian of Hanwang understood Zhang Chaoyang's meaning as soon as he heard it, and replied: "Mr. Zhang, to tell you the truth, Mr. Huang and I have also talked about product prices, positioning, and markets. There is no need for the two of us to shy away from it, including Brother Ni's Kesheng. There will always be competition, but the biggest competition right now is between Android smartphones and non-Android."

Ni Runfeng also nodded: "What's the reason for the internal strife within Android? Oh, it may be that Yike and Samsung are fighting, but of course our domestic market is to expand the new smart phone market, don't look at the fact that Hanwang has been on the market for less than three months. 50 mobile phones, next year I dare to call out the sales target of 500 million units for Hanwang.”

The two Android phones launched by Hanvon in March were very popular. 1699 is really small profits but high sales. This year's sales seem to be rushing to 100 million.

Millions of sales can be achieved just after making a mobile phone. This is an eye-catching transformation and a shiny new track.

In the same way, Meizu is the same. It cut off the original M8 plan and hesitated in the process of switching to Android. The sales performance of 2 units since its launch in February this year also proves that Android phones have sufficient vitality and a broad consumer group.

At present, there is still a good point in the domestic consumer market.

The entire Android camp has Yike set up a signboard, and other manufacturers can push their products to consumers with twice the result with half the effort. After all, Yike mobile phones cover mid-to-high end, and many consumers' first choice is still mid-to-low-end price.

When the price is in place, the next-level or even lower-level supply chain can bring a steady stream of benefits in the incremental market.

Of course, in the long run, the more markets Android manufacturers occupy, the more competition among them will intensify.

The discussion atmosphere in the conference room was very good. Yike has searched and cultivated some supply chain links in China. However, after some comparison, most of them still use parts from foreign manufacturers. Now, other manufacturers who are actively cooperating with the domestic supply chain also have Some great chemistry.

After the half-day meeting, one of Zhang Chaoyang's feelings was that the people who made mobile phones were very energetic.

From this, this is also a microcosm of the vigorous development of the domestic mobile phone market.

"Mr. Zhang, I have a foreign online meeting to attend temporarily. I wanted to chat with you at dinner tonight, but now I can only postpone it." After Fang Zhuo received a forwarded call from his secretary Some apologies, work in different time zones often has temporary situations.

"You're gone, Yi Ke still has to take care of my people's meals?" Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile.

"That's no problem. You can eat whatever you want, and you will be reimbursed by Yike. If you want to drive your yacht out to sea, I will also reimburse you for the gas." Fang Zhuo and Zhang Chaoyang shook hands.

"Mr. Fang, how long does it take for the development of the mobile market to see obvious results?" Zhang Chaoyang asked a serious question abruptly.

"Three to five years?" Fang Zhuo thought about it carefully, and then said, "When you can see obvious results, others have already started from the first year. What's the use of you entering the game in the fifth year?"

Hearing this, Zhang Chaoyang took it for granted.

The team from Sohu didn't go out to eat, but directly tasted the food in Yike's staff cafeteria.

However, Zhang Chaoyang was thinking while eating, and the discussion from behind caught his attention.

"The research team's budget was approved before, but Mr. Fang called me to the office yesterday and asked me a question, why the research I saw was so closely integrated with commercialization."

"I was in a daze at the time. How would the company's research take the commercial route? What's more, this cloud computing was supported by Mr. Fang himself, and it had to be implemented in the application prospects of Yike and Yigou. Bar."

"I thought about it and thought about it, but I still came out without an answer."

The voice behind spoke a little regretfully.

Another voice was a little joking: "This shows that we are moving towards a large international company. I suspect that Mr. Fang must have compared the research atmosphere in Silicon Valley. To be honest, I went to Yike Silicon Valley R&D Center for a rotation before, and there is indeed More freedom, um, or a kind of academic relaxation.”

Small and medium-sized companies are striving for survival and development, and only large companies have room for surplus.

Listening to the enthusiastic and gradually divergent discussion voices of the group behind, Zhang Chaoyang suddenly felt that today, whether in the conference room or here, what he saw was a kind of vitality that is rarely seen in Sohu.

When was the last time you felt this spirit in Sohu?
Zhang Chaoyang's mood fluctuates, and there is a kind of fluctuation that confirms each other between companies.

Sohu, now Sohu is like, like... like the Rayleigh-Jeans formula with UV catastrophe, it needs to be corrected...

Zhang Chaoyang's thinking suddenly became smoother. If he wants to modify the Rayleigh-Jins formula, he can consider the energy quantization of the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator, and then use the Boltzmann distribution formula to find the thermal average energy of the harmonic oscillator. The classic result correction can finally successfully obtain the correct Planck black body radiation formula.

"Mr. Zhang, what are you laughing at?" The vice president of Sohu next to him also listened to the discussion behind him, and suddenly saw a smile on his boss's face.

"I laughed at Planck." Zhang Chaoyang replied.

Vice President: "?"

Without waiting for him to ask, the discussion behind has already gone from Silicon Valley to China, and it happens to also talk about the Lin'an meeting two days ago, and the rumor that Yike and Sogou cooperated to launch a challenge to Baidu.

"I think that Sogou is not very good. This year's input method is good, but it is difficult to make a final conversion. There is a problem with their three-level strategy."

Such a sentence hit the ears of the Sohu team.

Wang Xiaochuan didn't come with him today, but Zhang Chaoyang also came with people from Sogou's business, so he couldn't help turning his head back unconvinced.

It’s fine if it’s Mr. Fang, but it’s fine if it’s not Mr. Fang, Mr. Li from Baidu, and Mr. Ali Ma who criticize the strategy. Are you so good at eating and drinking in the cafeteria?
As the Sogou people turned their heads, Zhang Chaoyang also turned around and looked at the few people who had been chatting behind him.

Wearing ordinary clothes, wearing glasses, strangers, ordinary.

Zhang Chaoyang is the head of a faction, so naturally he wouldn't get angry just because of a word, instead he said with a smile: "You said there is a problem with our three-stage rocket strategy? Why is there a problem?"

Several employees of Yike recognized that this was Mr. Zhang from Sohu, and they were inevitably embarrassed. They were pointing at the monk and calling him a donkey.

Seeing that a few people were silent, Zhang Chaoyang added: "No way, are people in Yike so shallow? Seeing me, I dare not even speak up?"

The obvious aggressive method but very easy to use.

The man with glasses who was talking about Sogou just now put down his spoon and said calmly, "Mr. Zhang, we are just chatting. Since you are willing to listen, I will share my opinion."

"Needless to say the situation in the domestic search market, all companies are competing under Baidu."

"Sogou has developed well this year. The input method-browser-engine of the third-level rocket seems to be in order, but its effect will not last long. The penetration rate of Sogou input method is very high, and it seems that there will be a continuous huge flow."

"But this kind of traffic scale is very false. The input method is just a tool. What is the attitude of users towards tool-based products? They just leave when they are used up, and they come and go when they call. It leads to the opposite result, so I say this is false traffic, and using it as a strategic basis will be very limited.”

"Similarly, what about Sogou Browser? The browser is an entry point for users, and it is destined to become more and more homogeneous. A user uses a browser just to explore the Internet, and it is by no means interested in this browser."

"The Sogou engine of the terminal wants to continue to expand and compete with the inherently deficient first two levels. How is this possible?"

The man with glasses said disapprovingly: "Baidu has such a large domestic market share, it can almost be said that it is definitely not another engine that beats Baidu, and it is definitely not another homogeneous search + information model. Yike wants and adheres to this strategy. Sogou cooperation, if it is really aimed at Baidu, there will be a big problem.”

Hearing these words, Zhang Chaoyang sighed, and suddenly fell in love with talent.

He is a person who likes and values ​​talents very much. At the beginning, he also had the attitude of "I can wait for you as long as you go to school" towards Wang Xiaochuan.

"What's your name?" Zhang Chaoyang asked, "Are you interested in coming to Sohu?"

He sits in Yi Ke's cafeteria and digs Yi Ke's people.

The man with glasses and his colleagues looked at each other, he smiled, did not respond to the solicitation from the head of Sohu, nodded, got up and left.

Looking at the leaving figures of these Yike employees, Zhang Chaoyang suddenly felt lost.

The unknown generation also has elegant words.

Yike still has a vigorous momentum, but Sohu seems to be a product of the previous era.

Zhang Chaoyang was silent for a while, and his mind flashed through several colleagues who had been sought after in Lin'an in turn a few days ago, and sighed: "I need to have a good talk with Xiao Chuan, and I also need to think about the development of Sohu."

The vice president next to him nodded: "Is Planck the one from quantum mechanics? What's so funny about him?"

Zhang Chaoyang couldn't help touching his chin, Planck wasn't funny, if this went on, Sohu would become very funny.