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Chapter 293 The Promotion of the Father of Android
After 11 pm on November 26, Gao Yang met the father of android, Andy Rubin, for the first time at the airport.

Andy Rubin is tall, 188 centimeters by visual inspection. He is not strong, and he is really smart. There is a large area above his forehead that is bald.

In Gao Yang's previous life memory, he remembered that there was information that Andy Rubin was a Jew.

Seeing a real person now, Andy Rubin's face is obviously different from the typical European and American white people, with a big nose, a smoother face shape and chin lines, rather than a sharp-edged face shape.

After Wu Fei introduced Andy Rubin to Gao Yang, Andy Rubin shook hands with Gao Yang warmly: "Mr. Gao, I didn't expect you to be so young."

Gao Yang smiled slightly: "Mr. Rubin, my wife gave me an English name called Lucas. My Chinese name means the sun. You can call me Lucas."

Lucas comes from Ireland and Latin, which means bright and bright. This is a suitable English name that Gu Yawen thought for a long time before helping Gao Yang think of it.

Foreigners are used to respecting each other by their first names, and they like to call them by their first names after getting familiar with them.

Although Gao Yang felt weird, he still agreed to choose an English name.

Andy Rubin's American English, such a simple spoken language, Gao Yang can understand, but Gao Yang's spoken English is really not good, so Gu Yawen helped him translate.

Wu Fei can also translate naturally.

As soon as they met, Gao Yang asked Andy Rubin to call him by his first name, and Andy Rubin also smiled and said that he could call him Andy.

Gao Yang drove, sent the guests to the Friendship Hotel near the North Third Ring Road to settle down, and then briefly communicated, saying that he would invite Andy Rubin to visit his company tomorrow morning, and then formally negotiate in the company.

Wu Fei also accompanied Andy Rubin and stayed at the Friendship Hotel.

After settling down the guests and driving home, Gu Yawen joked: "I asked you to practice oral English with me before, but you didn't want to, otherwise, maybe you don't need someone to translate now."

Gao Yang shook his head: "You have been learning foreign languages ​​since you were 4 years old, and you graduated from a foreign language school. I can't catch up with you no matter what. I just need you. From now on, you will teach foreign languages ​​well every day, and let him be my interpreter in the future. ..."

At 27:9 am on the [-]th, Gao Yang and Gu Yawen went to the hotel to pick up Wu Fei and Andy Rubin, and rushed to the Weber Building. Wu Ruohan also came to join in the fun.

On the company side, Gao Yang notified Jin Yang, He Guangwen and Zhang Xiaolong to accompany him.

Jin Yang's undergraduate degree is English, and his oral English is good. He can introduce the situation of 51.com and 51 Renren.

Both He Guangwen and Zhang Xiaolong were programmers and could exchange some technical questions.

Then there is Lu Tao.

The group met in the Weber Building, and after Gao Yang introduced Andy Rubin, they began to visit the company. Jin Yang introduced two Internet companies, 51.com and 51 Renren, to Andy Rubin, and also briefly introduced the solar energy magazine Sunshine Company.

Andy Rubin was a little surprised by the development of Huaxia Internet, especially the SNS social platform like 51 Renren, whose user scale grew so fast that even Andy Rubin was a little shocked.

Although 51.com and 51 Renren are not big companies yet, Sunshine also has two to 300 employees, and the office conditions are much better than Andy Rubin's garage company android.

Android is just a small company with more than ten employees, and the size of Gao Yang's company is not a little bit different.

During the visit, Andy Rubin couldn't help asking: "Lucas, web51 projects like 51.com and 2.0renren will also be popular in the US market. I wonder how much money you have raised?"

After listening to Gu Yawen's translation, Gao Yang smiled slightly and replied:

"We did not raise funds, our partners are the angel investors of the company, in general, we are not short of funds and do not need VC investment.

For a project like 51.com, in the first year of its establishment, the cash flow became positive. "

Andy Rubin nodded: "The development level of Huaxia Internet has exceeded my expectations. Both of your projects are great and have great prospects for development."

After a brief visit, a group of people came to the meeting room, and Andy Rubin began to formally introduce his android.

Andy Rubin carefully prepared a PPT, which is divided into two Chinese versions.

He Guangwen moved another projector and used two laptops to project both versions of the PPT on the wall.

Andy Rubin started the formal introduction, first introducing his professional resume:

"Gentlemen and ladies, I am a native of New York State, USA. I am 41 years old. I graduated from Utica College in New York State with a major in computer science. In 1986, I entered the optical instrument company Carl Zeiss as a robot engineer. I like robots very much. I am a fanatic. fans.

In 1989, I joined Apple to do research and development. At that time, Apple was very strong. I participated in the research and development of Apple's first tower computer Quadra and the first soft modem.

In the next few years, he developed the smartphone operating system Magic Cap, but the concept was very advanced at the time, and it was not accepted by the market in the end.

Later, I went to Artemis to develop WebTV. This project was successful, and the annual revenue exceeded 1 million US dollars. In 1997, Microsoft acquired Artemis, and I joined Microsoft.

In 1999, I left Microsoft, I didn't like the company.I just built a walking robot, equipped with a camera and a microphone, and wandered around the company's office, and they were considered a hacker.

I just love robots, super.

After leaving Microsoft, I continued to make robots with my friends in Silicon Valley. Later, I established Danger and made a smartphone that can access the Internet. We named it Sidekick.

It's a pity that it is still too advanced. Yes, the concept products we make are always advanced.

Then, in October 2003, we established an android company in Silicon Valley. At first, we worked on a digital camera operating system. We tried to learn from the lessons of the previous few years, but the market for digital cameras was too small, and it was replaced by several big companies. monopoly.

Later, we turned to the mobile phone operating system android, a smart phone operating system based on the open software platform Linux. This time, we are very firm, and we believe that the prospect of this project is very bright.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's look at a fact:
In 2003, the global mobile phone shipments were 5.2 million units, four times that of PC shipments.

In 2003, the global shipment of smartphones was more than 1120 million units. Professional organizations predict that its shipments will increase by 30% this year, which is three times faster than the average sales growth rate of the industry.

We are ushering in a rapidly growing era of smartphones.

Smartphone operating systems currently on the market include Symbian, Windows Mobile, and the smaller BlackBerry OS.

In fact, there are also open source systems based on the Linux platform, but they are still rare.

Symbian and Windows Mobile, backed by major handset manufacturers, are trying to rule the smartphone market of the future. They look powerful, but we don't think they are.

The world needs an open source platform, and there are many software engineers who like Linux. We believe that Linux can benefit hundreds of millions of users around the world, will be welcomed by users, and can get rid of the monopoly and control of big companies.

The fact is also the same. The application of Linux in various industries is developing rapidly. Based on its open spirit, its developer ecosystem is getting better and stronger.

The android company is also a firm believer in open source software. We believe that android has great hope to occupy a place in the future smart phone market.

For the development and development of the android operating system, we have the following plans..."

(End of this chapter)