Rebirth of the internet boss

Chapter 399 A Gift for Lei Jun
The reason why Li Feng values ​​this HTC so much is because the current HTC is the most suitable one for Fengrui!
HTC, full name Hongda International Electronics Co., Ltd., was founded in 1997 by Wang Xuehong's investment in Baodao. The company's English name is High Tech Computer Corporation.

People in the industry generally call it HTC for short, which is the origin of the name "HTC" that we see every day. Wang Xuehong is also from a famous family. Wang Xuehong's father is Wang Yongqing, the "God of Management" of Baodao.

HTC Electronics did not have very successful products at the beginning of its establishment, and its popularity was not high. It was not until it cooperated with Compaq to develop the popular product iPAQ (which was once listed as the most powerful PDA in the Guinness Book of World Records) that it became truly popular. Established its leading position in the PDA (handheld computer) market, and gradually became the world's largest PDA OEM manufacturer,

Taking advantage of this opportunity, HTC has gradually become the world's largest smartphone OEM, providing OEM smartphone business for major telecom operators in Europe and America, including a full range of services from design to production, and only operators will be marked on the final product. Logo, so far HTC has officially become a global OEM (OEM) manufacturer, and this is why Li Feng values ​​HTC the most, as it has the most complete industrial chain of smartphones!

But just being an OEM is not what Wang Xuehong and HTC under her leadership really yearn for. HTC also had the idea and attempt to launch its own brand in the early days, but the Qtek brand it launched directly failed miserably. HTC, which has suffered a lot, only talks about OEM and not its own brand.

Until this year in 2006, when Fengrui found HTC with the mobile operating system developed by himself, and said that he wanted to cooperate with HTC to develop a real smart phone, Wang Xuehong, the chairman of HTC, was also a little moved!
In fact, Wang Xuehong already had this idea. Coupled with the deterioration of the relationship with partners and the accelerated development of the mobile phone market, how could HTC, which has accumulated several years of OEM experience and technology, not consider its own independent brand.

It’s just that she still has some hesitation. It’s not because she’s worried about HTC, but because she’s worried about Fengrui. A mainland company that has never developed a smartphone, and it’s an Internet company that develops a mobile worry system for smartphones. Don't worry!

Therefore, Liu Zhiping's second question is, "Although we had a good discussion with HTC, Wang Xuehong from HTC was also moved, but when HTC started to do it, Wang Xuehong hesitated again!"

Li Feng also understood what Liu Zhiping meant, "If you say it nicely, you won't do it", but he still turned his head and asked Long Xiaotian: "Didn't you and Andy Rubin take our mobile operating system and let Wang Xuehong see it? Didn't she say it was fine?"

Long Xiaotian also nodded and said: "Yes, Brother Li, that's right. Andy Rubin and I went to Baodao to meet with HTC. At that time, Wang Xuehong was very surprised when he saw our mobile operating system. We praised our system so well, we couldn’t believe it was done by us, and we talked with Wang Xuehong for two or three days only on the development of smartphones in Baodao.
It’s just that I didn’t expect that she still couldn’t make up her mind. How should I say, Brother Li, to be honest, I can understand it, not to mention Wang Xuehong, even we all lack confidence. No one knows if this thing can succeed. ! "

yes!Except for Li Feng, who can really see the future clearly? Even when the contemporary giant Jobs actually released the first-generation iPhone, wasn’t he a little uneasy, and didn’t dare to stock up on a large scale!
But Long Xiaotian suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said to Li Feng: "Brother Li, Wang Xuehong from HTC is not inactive, I heard that she bought our domestic Dopod some time ago!"

Here I have to mention another name that is closely related to HTC and is more familiar to mainland consumers: Dopod.

In order to march towards a more grand smartphone strategy, in July 2002, Wang Xuehong's HTC Electronics and VIA Electronics jointly established Dopod International Co., Ltd., whose main projects are product design, marketing and sales of mobile phones and handheld devices. customer service,

Subsequently, Dopod obtained the mainland mobile phone license and officially sold Dopod's own brand of smart phone products.Therefore, the Dopod mobile phones that were common in China at the beginning were actually HTC behind them.

And just like what Long Xiaotian said, after the meeting with Fengrui, Wang Xuehong did not fail to take action. In October 2006, HTC acquired all the assets of Dopod International’s nine regional market channels for US$10 million. , began to accelerate the integration of its own brand resources,

Even just entering December, HTC released a new self-owned brand smart phone Touch Diamond, which is a Dopod brand in China, but this phone is printed with the HTC Logo for the first time in addition to the dopod logo.

Li Feng nodded after hearing this, "It's human nature, I was a little too hasty, I should be more steady, it's just a little bit of time..."

Then Li Feng remembered something, and suddenly asked Liu Zhiping: "By the way, Zhiping, have you got Apple's internal prototype?"

Liu Zhiping said embarrassingly: "I'm sorry boss, although I have found many connections, but Apple's confidentiality work is very strict,
Except for the executives of the two major Internet companies, Google and Yahoo, no one has ever seen Apple's first-generation iPhone.

The reason why Google and Yahoo, the two major Internet companies have Apple's prototypes, seems to be because Apple needs them to develop corresponding supporting development applications.
However, I do have a few invitations from Apple’s global openers in my hand, which are the admission tickets for Apple to release the first-generation iPhone. "

After speaking, Liu Zhiping took out several exquisite invitation letters from the briefcase beside him and put them in front of Li Feng's desk.

Li Feng then picked up an invitation letter and looked at it. It was extremely delicate and generous, like Jobs' style. The date was January 2007, 1, and it was only 9 days from now.

Li Feng glanced again, and then said: "Forget it, it's still a few days away anyway, since Wang Xuehong wants seeing is believing, then seeing is believing,
Just wait until Jobs officially releases the first-generation iPhone before discussing cooperation. Don't force it now, or she will be killed, and she will still disagree! "

Then Li Feng thought for a while, and took another invitation letter from Apple Global Opener and asked Song Jia to pass it to Zhou Hongyi who was below, and then said: "Take it, maybe it will be useful when you meet Lei Jun later, just treat it as an invitation letter." I gave Lei Jun a gift."

Because Li Feng is in the middle of the meeting room, and Zhou Hongyi is on both sides of the meeting room, the two are far away, so Song Jia has to pass it on. As for why Zhou Hongyi is on the side, that is still a question. Well, the main reason is that there are too many Fengrui bosses, and Zhou Hongyi has to be a bit late in Fengrui's level.

"Since the HTC matter is like this, let's wait, let's talk about the third matter..."

(End of this chapter)