Crossover: 2014

Chapter 208 Overseas Expansion Plan
Of course, Lin Hui was not interested in such a company entirely because it was cheap.

The reason why I have a strong interest in such a company is because this company fits the direction that Lin Hui will start:

- machine learning.

People in the next few years may not be interested in machine learning.

But objectively speaking, almost all the advancements in the digital circle from 17 to 21 are inextricably linked to machine learning.

Taking Apple's products as an example, it seems that Guozi has not deliberately advocated machine learning.

But a lot of it is actually a product of advances in machine learning.

For example, use machine learning to support Siri voice recognition, language translation, device-side dictation, and categorize photos.

Using machine learning, the machine can optimize the battery life and charging of the device according to the user's usage habits.

Another example is the new feature called "Live Text" introduced in some systems of Apple in the next few years.

The feature recognizes text in images, so users can select text in these images just like normal text.

Users can take a photo of the sign, which can be translated, searched for more information or shared with friends through machine learning.

This is also a product of advances in the field of machine learning.

Although in 2021, most of the latest machine learning projects will be PPT products.

But this does not hinder the value of machine learning in the time and space of 2014.

For now at least, machine learning is the way to go.

Except for the company deepmind.

Lin Hui also intends to acquire a game engine company.

Like a game engine, even though Lin Hui has a very mature game engine in his hands.

But after all, it is impossible to take it out in a grandiose manner.

Game engines are industrial software after all.

The advent of a game engine requires polishing.

It is impossible for Lin Hui to carry it out directly.

Therefore, if you want to move the high probability reasonably, you need to borrow the chicken to lay the egg.

Although the game's game engine is not very much.

But bad game engines are everywhere.

Some game engine companies may not be very expensive.

Especially some 2d game engines are even cheaper.

And in this time and space, it is the winter of the game engine industry.

Under such circumstances, Lin Hui feels that acquiring a game engine company may not cost more than acquiring deepmind.

It is not difficult to acquire a company like DeepMind or to build a company that develops a game engine by the way.

Lin Hui estimated that neither of these two matters would involve too much of his energy, and it should be settled soon.

For future plans, Lin Hui only has a preliminary idea.

As for the specific content, Lin Hui needs detailed and careful planning.

The reason why planning is still needed is not because Lin Hui's initial idea is very crude.

On the contrary, Lin Hui had many and mixed thoughts.

As a result, sometimes Lin Hui has difficulty choosing because of too many options.

Too much opportunity is a real pain.

Although there are many options, it is impossible for Lin Hui to do them one by one.

Having a choice means having an opportunity cost.

Although Lin Hui can do some things, it means a huge opportunity cost.

It's probably similar to the kind that doesn't pay off.

So even though there are many opportunities.

Lin Hui has to make a trade-off, and the process of making a trade-off is very complicated.

When it comes to the macro planning of future development, it is impossible for Lin Hui to rely solely on himself.

Lin Hui still needs some help.

And it even requires an extremely professional and systematic think tank team.

This requires a long-term plan.

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Speaking of which, the current Lin Hui is not exactly a "lonely old man".

After reaching a shortcut command with Apple to transfer this software.

Lin Hui has many "attendants" around him.

In addition to translators, these people are mainly software engineers sent by Apple to carry out further handover with Lin Hui for the shortcut command software.

These technicians are basically Westerners.

As for which country the forest ash is from, I didn't bother to distinguish it.

Anyway, except for the black sorghum, in Lin Hui's impression, Westerners look very similar.

Lin Hui only remembered that the leader was named Elizabeth Nishi, and Lin Hui didn't bother to remember the rest.

Speaking of which, the technical team sent by Apple to handover with Lin Hui are all women.

Although the IT world has programs.

But it is not an easy task to cobble together such a technical team composed entirely of programmers.

Anyway, Lin Hui remembered that he basically never met a few women when he was working in his previous life.

Perhaps this is the background of big companies.

In other words, this arrangement is based on the fact that Lin Hui is young.

Or is this the legendary humanistic care? ?
Uh, Lin Hui does not reject this.

And there is one thing to say, a team with the same technical level.

For things like software handover, it is better to be in charge of a technical team composed of women.

After all, it is generally believed that women are more patient than men in complex verification tasks.

The handover of a piece of software does not involve too many complicated technical problems, but involves many procedural troubles.

Such as product requirements documents, general design documents, detailed design documents (flow charts, design framework diagrams, upstream and downstream component interaction diagrams), interface design documents, etc. must be handed over,
In addition, it also involves test coverage documents, unit test documents, development progress documents, usage documentation...

In addition to these endless documents.

It is also necessary to make sure that the developer finally modified the source code, make sure that the project source code has detailed comments, and make sure that the source code directory structure is explained...

In short, a whole lot of trouble.

This kind of thing is slightly better handled by female technicians.

Lin Hui believes that these people should be able to quickly handle the handover of the software involving shortcut commands.

As for the three technical upgrades after the shortcut command software, it is not troublesome.

Lin Hui had considered it before.

As for the adaptability upgrade, it is easy to say, it is nothing more than to make Lin Hui make the shortcut software compatible with the upcoming iOS8 version.

This thing is a piece of cake for Lin Hui.

The $500 million corresponding to the adaptive upgrade is basically free for Lin Hui.

The functional upgrade is a function that Apple/Apple requires Lin Hui to further develop the shortcut command software.

Functional completeness is at least 40% higher than the basic version of shortcut instructions
This is even more difficult for Lin Hui.

Lin Hui thought about it when he was developing the shortcut command software.

If Apple/Apple really buys it, it will definitely ask Lin Hui to upgrade its functions.

So when I built the shortcut command software earlier.

The main function of this software is to realize the required action modules/built-in operations.

Lin Hui only built [-] built-in actions at that time.

In fact, if Lin Hui wanted to add built-in actions blindly, he could add more than 50 more.

(End of this chapter)