20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2617 Mike

Zhao Changan did not ride in Jin Chenxiao, Li Mei, and Qi Peng's car, but sat in Mike's passenger seat. As soon as they got in the car, the two began a heated discussion about the direction of future smartphones/PADs.

The previous discussions between the two of them, separated by vast distances across the ocean, were all through emails. Zhao Changan himself was busy with work, and Mike's product research and development in BlackBerry was also the core of the soul level. In addition, the time difference between the two countries happened to be opposite. , the emails between them are basically staggered time "question and answer, question and answer" style of exchange between you and me, and there are very few opportunities for real-time communication.

So after getting Jim's consent and inviting Zhao Changan, Zhao Changan agreed to restart negotiations and would arrive in Canada soon.

Mike's heart has been filled with excitement these past few days. He has too many topics about blackberry os and wants to communicate face-to-face with Zhao Changan.

"The Windows CE operating system launched by Microsoft in 96 was updated to the universal version WinCE3.0 last year. In addition to PAD, it can also be installed and used on standard PCs, home appliances, and industrial control equipment. WinCE3.0 is a paid software, and the installation license ( License) costs US$20 per copy. Microsoft encourages the use of WinCE3.0 on any hardware platform. It is obvious that it wants to replicate its dominance of Windows on PCs, but they have not yet truly entered the field of mobile smart operating systems. There is the Symbian S60 operating system of Symbian,——"

"Mike, can we first discuss your Canadian food, wine, and whether the girls are enthusiastic or not? As for these brain-consuming purely technical discussions, can we wait until later, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and then talk slowly. This time I plan to stay in Canada for at least half a month.”

It was late at night in China. Zhao Changan had been in an excited state of thinking and looking forward to the future on the plane. He didn't sleep much at all. At this time, his eyes were a little red and he was dozing off again and again.

Apart from fine wine and delicious food, only beautiful girls can cheer him up.

"There's no problem with good wine and delicious food, but I don't know anything about enthusiastic girls."

Honest Mike told the truth, making Zhao Changan laugh.

It's not that he is unwilling to discuss these issues with Mike, but it is also necessary for him to discuss these issues with him carefully, so as to try to draw Mike into this camp.

It's just that these brainstorming conversations need a suitable, comfortable and leisurely environment and atmosphere, not on a busy highway with people and cars.

Besides, Zhao Changan really needed to relax and rest at this time.

Knowing that Zhao Changan was tired from traveling and traveling, the dinner in the evening did not last too long. They just drank a little red wine and chatted casually in a friendly atmosphere, and it ended quickly.

Mike was placed next door to Zhao Changan.

Mike was a little restless and anxious sitting in the room. In 84, at the age of 23, he and Doug invested their personal funds and borrowed US$15 from the government to establish RIM.

The name RIM is taken from Research In Motion, which means continuous research and creation.

This was also the dream, ambition and positioning that Mike, who was only 23 years old and not afraid of tigers, had for himself.

In the early days of the company's establishment, it was actually just a small outsourcing team. Together with Mike and Doug, it was just a small team of less than ten people. They relied on undertaking some electronic system projects to keep the company running.

For example, they built an Internet display terminal for General Electric, a system that displays scrolling information through LED lights on the assembly line. We have also produced a barcode reader for movie editing, which can save a lot of time when editing movies. And this movie editing barcode reader, for the first time, showed Mike's technical genius and won the Emmy Award (the highest award in the American television industry, used to recognize outstanding people and programs in the television industry) ).

However, RIM at this stage is actually a solution studio for advanced electronic technology enthusiasts.

Customers can do whatever they need. As long as it is related to electronic engineering, RIM will accept any project that it has the ability to do.

Whether it is from Mike and Doug's own perspective or from the perspective of outsiders, RIM is actually an electronic technology outsourcing company with no future, making hard money.

The life of this kind of small company has always been tepid, and in the past few years, he and Doug have married and had children, living a life of small bosses of a unique local small technology company.

I originally thought that in the eyes and minds of my family, friends, wife, partners and colleagues, this plain but still rich and happy life would continue peacefully until I finally retire. .

However, only Mike knew that he had dreams, fire, and unwillingness in his heart!

The opportunity came in the seventh year after the company was founded. Cantel Communications needed to deploy a wireless data network, so it outsourced some gateway systems and modem-related software projects to RIM.

This makes RIM enter the field of wireless communications for the first time.

This project also made Mike think that he had truly found his hobby and life career direction, so RIM transformed into a solution provider focusing on wireless communication technology. In 92, it cooperated with Ericsson on the wireless email project. It was at this time that During the project, Jim, RIM’s soul and core in the business field, joined in.

Technical genius, business genius and perfect cooperation have since changed RIM's decade-long low. In 96, RIM 900, the world's first two-way pager (two-way paging means that pager users can not only be called, but also A paging method that sends messages to other pager users through pagers) was launched and shocked the market.

However, due to the roughness and flaws in the input design of the RIM 900, the input efficiency is low, it is inconvenient to send and receive emails, and the success rate of wireless signal capture and transmission is low, so it often becomes a small brick.

This makes the product more like a concept product for the future, but its sales in the market are bleak and ugly.

In the fourteenth year, in 97, RIM took over BellSouth (BellSouth: one of the seven local subsidiaries that the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was forced to split into by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1984, mainly engaged in wireless and broadband businesses. ) a $5 million order for wireless email equipment.

It was this order that allowed RIM not only to obtain a large amount of funds, but also to gain more expertise in the field of wireless transmission. In the second year, RIM98 was born in 950 and began to capture the market crazily.

A major innovation of RIM950 is the PocketLink email system. Enterprise customers need to deploy BlackBerry's enterprise-class servers. Emails and information are first sent to the virtual device of BlackBerry's network operations center through the enterprise-class servers, and finally sent from the network operations center to the end customer's physical device. on the terminal.

Another major innovation was Mike's sudden inspiration one day and the creative use of a full QWERTY keyboard. Because the buttons on the keyboard looked like strawberry seeds, it was named 'BlackBerry phone'.

The next three years were an era of rapid expansion and rupture of territory for RIM. It was listed in Toronto in 99 with a share price of US$1. It was listed on Nasdaq in 00 with a share price of US$1. The share price continued to rise, and the market value expanded astonishingly. Currently, BlackBerry's stock price is as low as US$2.8, and its total market value is US$15 billion, equivalent to 123 billion RMB!