Chapter 427: Stunning

"We have reached an agreement with Apple Inc. that they will jointly develop touch screen-based technologies with FingerWorks, and both parties will share all patents generated on this basis."

Listening to Ivanta's words, Barron was not too surprised that such a result could be achieved.

After all, although Apple also knows that IC Capital, the owner of FingerWorks, has acquired Android, a company that develops smartphone operating systems, even if Apple itself has the idea of ​​developing a similar system, that system, according to Apple's tradition, will only be exclusive to their products and will not be authorized to other companies.

In addition, compared with Apple, Android at that time was not worth mentioning in terms of popularity and number of employees, and they would not have thought that this company would become the biggest competitor of the IOS system in the future.

Compared with Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and even Palm, which had already been launched in smart handheld devices, were more threatening to Apple.

After leaving China, Barron came to New York again.

After all, after the wedding, the women here still need to be comforted.

Just like Ivanta beside him at this moment, when she was learning knowledge, it was inevitable that she had some small emotions at the beginning, but with Barron's hard work, it has been completely eliminated, and he has even generously injected a lot of positive energy into her...

Although Baron's investment company is a major shareholder of Apple, he has not asked too much about the development progress of some of Apple's products, and has not even asked whether they have started developing the iPhone.

After all, although Android is owned by IC Investment, when they launch Android-based mobile phones in the future, his relationship with the company will not remain secret.

In order to avoid suspicion, Barron will not pay too much attention to Apple's business.

Just like in the original time and space, Jobs once said this later:

"If necessary, I will use my last breath and all of Apple's $40 billion in the bank to destroy Android because it is a stolen product."

Why do I say that?

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was also a member of Apple's board of directors from 2006 to 2009.

At that time, Apple and Google were in their "honeymoon period", known as "AppleGoo". As one of Apple's directors, Jobs not only often discussed their mobile phone plans with Schmidt, but also allowed Schmidt to attend some meetings related to iPhone design. Of course, although Jobs knew that Google was making mobile phones, he subconsciously felt that Google was making a sliding cover design mobile phone and its competitor should be Microsoft.

But it was not until HTC launched the first Android phone that Jobs discovered that the phone was so similar to the iPhone, and thought that Google had copied them... He was very angry, and for this reason, Apple later launched a series of patent lawsuits against Android companies...

It is precisely because Baron knew about this matter, and in fact, other manufacturers of future smartphones did "borrow" the layout and operation mode of the IPHone to a certain extent - of course, this was in the initial stage, and later, Apple and other mobile phone manufacturers would also "borrow" from each other - but the Android smartphones that Honor Electronics will launch in the future will inevitably have many similarities with the IPHone, so in order to avoid suspicion, he will definitely not do anything that will easily make Jobs suspicious in the future.

In the following days, in addition to handling some affairs in the United States, Barron often made many suggestions on the development of Android's operating system through Ivanta.

It should be noted here that when IC Capital acquired Android, the operating system they were developing was not based on the later touch-screen control form similar to the IPHone, but an operating system designed based on a side-sliding keyboard - this is because the mainstream of current "smartphones" is keyboard control, and Android also hopes to develop this type of operating system as soon as possible so that their completed products can be put on the market as soon as possible.

But through Ivanta's message, Barron completely rejected this technical route. In addition, IC Company later acquired FingerWorks, a company with accumulated technology in touch screen control, which also showed its determination to directly develop a smartphone operating system based on the touch screen.

Obviously, if it is an operating system based on a sidesliding keyboard, there are already operating systems on the market including Symbian, Windows Mobile and Palm, and the basic operating methods have also been "borrowed", so it will be easier to develop a finished product.

But if they were to take another path and develop a touch-screen-based smartphone operating system, there would be too many technical challenges to be solved, and they would need to start research and development from scratch, which would increase the difficulty exponentially.

However, no matter how difficult it is, they have to do it, because after the iPhone appears in 2007, what they are doing now will become useless.

If Barron just wanted a keyboard-based operating system, there was no need for him to acquire Android in the first place. He could have directly acquired Symbian. At that time, the company had not yet been acquired by Nokia, and the acquisition was not too difficult, but the price would be much higher than that of Android.

In addition to hoping to quickly launch a finished product, Android actually had another route at the beginning, which was a mobile phone operating system based on a touch screen. However, this was too difficult, and coupled with their difficulties at the time, they made the "quick success" choice.

But now funding is no longer a problem, and as for staff, we can also expand recruitment.

IC Capital will provide Android with sufficient funds to complete the research and development of the touch screen-based operating system - after all, after selling MySpace, IC Capital still has nearly $350 million in funds on its books.

Moreover, Barron had used both the iOS and Android systems of Apple phones in his previous life, so he was familiar with them enough.

Through Ivanta, he described as many aspects of the operating system as he could remember and handed it over to Android.

Next, it is the Android team's job to implement them - this also greatly reduces the difficulty for them to develop such an operating system.

It is worth mentioning that, in addition to hiding the existence of Baron, the provider of the information, as Baron requested, Ivanta described these as his own ideas. This made the Android team, after initially disapproving, immediately astonished after carefully reading these "ideas", and they began to look at Ivanta in a different light.

Afterwards, they had completely different attitudes towards some of the opinions relayed by Ivanta, and began to discuss them carefully.

In this way, after continuing to add funds to Android, the team began to speed up the research and development of the new mobile phone operating system.

During this period, in addition to participating in the development of the Android system, Barron also gave Ivanta another task - to acquire another company.