Chapter 2988: Asking for Trouble

In Silicon Valley, Rubin listened to Kwon Oh-hyun's threatening words and said lightly, "That's your freedom."

Kwon Oh-hyun, who was furious, was like a long-awaited seven-injury punch that suddenly hit the air, failing to hurt the enemy, but hurting himself deeply.

Coupled with the damage that this punch originally caused to him who was not well-equipped, the two combined, he was already annoyed, and was so angry that his teeth hurt. Just as he subconsciously covered his cheeks, Rubin added, "We fully respect your freedom!"

Kwon Oh-hyun's face was really deformed by anger. At this time, he couldn't help but say a sentence that many people would say in this situation, but it was actually quite weak, "Samsung is an important partner of Android. Is this how you treat this partner?"

"Then have you ever thought about why Samsung's smartphones are so successful?" Rubin knocked on the table a few times with a cold face, "Do you think it is Samsung that made Android, or Android that made Samsung?"

The most annoying thing is these guys who look polite in front of others, but actually don't know how to be grateful!

Quan Wuxuan felt that another Seven Injury Fist had missed...

He couldn't help but take the phone to look at it. Is this true?

No matter how you look at it, shouldn't it be Android that has failed us? Isn't this a rare opportunity to criticize Android?

Why does it sound like I am still in the wrong now?

How did it become like this?

This is not right!

But Rubin's continuous tit-for-tat and powerful retorts forced him to calm down. "Rubin, I think you know very well that you are planning to acquire Motorola without informing us in advance. This naturally owes us an explanation,"

"As the main initiator, you are fully aware of our respective divisions of labor within the Open Handset Alliance. Operators create infrastructure, we manufacture hardware, and Android provides software support."

These are indeed the foundations when the Open Handset Alliance was first established.

"I think you know better than anyone why Nokia's Symbian system failed..."

"That's because Symbian is rubbish," Rubin interrupted him bluntly, "So, not only can they not help other companies, they can't even save themselves,"

Kwon Oh-hyun was hit back again, he covered his liver with one hand...

He was about to say something, Rubin's venomous tongue hissed again, "Besides, Samsung only makes hardware? What about Bada OS?"

This time, Kwon Oh-hyun really felt a little guilty.

At the end of 2009, they launched their first smartphone operating system, Bada, which is a very meaningful name, Bada, meaning ocean.

But now it seems that the ocean? It's almost like a small drop of water.

Although they released several devices equipped with this system in 2010, including the well-received S8500, and spent a lot of money to promote it around the world, including using various means to encourage developers to develop applications for this system, but all their efforts, in front of Android, are like morning dew after sunrise, and soon disappear without a trace.

Until now, although this system is still there, they have not released any equipment equipped with this system, let alone other manufacturers.

Samsung is currently a giant in the Android camp. Other manufacturers are not ready to defend against it, so how can they sacrifice themselves to promote this system for it?

So it is not tenable for Kwon Oh-hyun to blame Android for suddenly preparing to get involved in hardware manufacturing without consulting them.

Kwon Oh-hyun, whose arrogance suddenly dropped, faced the next round of questioning, "By the way, how is the progress of the new system you are currently developing in cooperation with Intel?"

He was a little speechless at this time. Should I say thank you for your concern or deny it immediately?

Because of the chairman's instructions, they have never given up their efforts in the operating system. Originally, seeing that the Bada system seemed to end up dying before fulfilling their ambitions, and they really had no confidence in developing a better system, they were just helpless and hesitant when a new opportunity came.

Nokia and Intel had previously worked together to develop an operating system called MeeGo, but just before the terminal devices of this system were released, Nokia, under the leadership of new CEO Stephen Elop, turned to Microsoft in an all-round way.

This is really not surprising at all. Before becoming Nokia's CEO in the third quarter of last year, this first non-Finnish CEO of Nokia was originally the president of Microsoft's business department and the product manager of the Office project. Office2010 was successfully developed under his leadership.

Shortly after he took office, he laid off the Symbian team, canceled Nokia's Android phone plan that was already under development, gave up the effort to launch hardware equipped with the MeeGo system, and turned to Windows Phone in an all-round way.

- Because of his actions, and because he led Nokia's acquisition by Microsoft, and was quickly re-appointed by Microsoft as the head of mobile devices and Xbox game business after the acquisition was completed, he was later always considered to be a Trojan horse implanted by Microsoft in Nokia.

In short, after Elop canceled MeeGo, the former employees of Nokia's MeeGo department developed another project, Sailfish OS, the other developer Intel, so it was also hesitant.

They didn't want to give up this system, because the main purpose of their development of this system was to catch up with competitors in the late-starting mobile market - in fact, it was to sell their chips.

They immediately found the Samsung Bada team that needed external help, and after Nokia, Samsung could be said to be the most ideal partner, so they only looked at each other and agreed to work together in the future...

The crystallization of their agreement was named Tizen.

Android had not opposed their behavior before, and Quan Wuxuan and others would certainly not take the initiative to mention it, but now that Rubin mentioned it, he had to explain, "Rubin, in some cases, you know better than us. The reason why we made efforts in this regard is also under pressure from operators."

"You know, with Android's market share increasing, many operators are a little worried about the mobile market..."

Rubin thought this was completely nonsense, "Worried about a free and open source system?"

Quan Wuxuan thought, since you are not satisfied with this reason, it doesn't matter, wait for me for a minute, I can think of other reasons immediately - he was very regretful at this time, why did he choose to start in that way at the beginning.

If he could calmly say that you are going to acquire Motorola and get involved in mobile phone manufacturing when we are not prepared at all, this really makes us uneasy, then Rubin should have comforted himself in a good tone anyway.

Now, not only is he being pressured by him, but he also has to work hard to find a more reasonable excuse.

Fortunately, Rubin didn't want him to waste his energy.

He put his feet on the table, "Whatever, if you want to do it, then do it."

With you and Intel, how can the system you developed threaten my Android?

Just because you have achieved some results in the hardware field, you think you can get involved in the software field at will?

The alliance between Intel and Microsoft, and your alliance with us, have all achieved great success, so you think software development is nothing?

Quan Wuxuan was a little hurt by the disdain in Rubin's words. For you, our efforts are so unconcerned?

Apart from other things, you know that he has hired thousands of engineers for this.

In this situation, it is best to say those harsh words that can make a hole in the ground when spoken out, but unfortunately, Quan Wuxuan really can't say such harsh words.

Although they and Intel have some foundation in this regard, and although they have invested a lot in this, the current progress of the Tizen system is quite unsmooth.

According to the current progress, the original release next year seems quite unrealistic.

Even if the next work is like God's help and it can be released on time next year, the promotion of this system is also not optimistic. At present, except for themselves, no other hardware manufacturers are interested in this system.

This means that it will be difficult for them to build an ecosystem based on Tizen, and it also means that they now have to rely on the Android system.

Rubin said at this time, "But Quan, from the perspective of a partner, I can give you a piece of advice. Stopping related work now is a very timely stop loss."

"Of course, it's up to you whether to listen or not."

Quan Wuxuan wanted to slam the phone, listen to your uncle!

Why don't I learn from my elders and always hide behind everything?