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Cote d'Azur Lab.

"...Our goal is to popularize Azure-C and become the main programming language for writing mobile applications in the future. It is very practical. Programs written in Azure-C are basically as big as their original codes, and it is fully compatible with standard C language. ."

In an indoor hall of the Azure Coast Laboratory, more than 600 engineers gathered together and listened to Luo Sheng's remarks. The Azure-C language has been developed for three months. It will host the AoS operating system and mobile applications. write.

"For all programming languages, there are two ultimate goals: one is to improve the efficiency of hardware operation, and the other is to improve the development efficiency of programmers." Luo Sheng looked at hundreds of engineers and said, "Unfortunately, it is impossible to have both. You can only choose one. In terms of improving the efficiency of hardware operation, C language has no competitors and is invincible. For example, C language uses array inta[3], which becomes [base address + offset] after compilation. For computers , no method is faster than the access method in this way."

Bai Lang, who was at the scene, immediately said: "Although the C language has compressed the operating efficiency of the hardware to the extreme, the problem brought by this design idea is the lack of ease of use and security. For the wrong offset C language But don't hear it."

Saying that, Bai Lang spread his hands helplessly.

Luo Sheng nodded and smiled: "Yes, this is the notorious cross-border problem in the C language. The only purpose of the C language is to be fast, either to run fast or to crash fast. It only cares whether the program is flying high or not, and never cares about the program. Whether you are tired or not. There is no language that is 'easy to develop and fast to run' in this world. After all, easy development comes from the packaging of the underlying layers."

Having said this, Luo Sheng paused for a moment and added: "A popular question now is... Can we invent a language that is as fast as C language, but doesn't have as many pitfalls as C language? The answer is yes, and there are already such languages. , the name is [D language], and it was released five years ago by a company called DigitalMars to improve the C++ language, but it didn't catch on."

Luo Sheng continued eloquently: "Because we have to face a very basic practical problem, there are too many C codes, and they are basically working normally. Linux, Windows, Unix, etc., these operating systems have The kernel is all C, and the kernel of our AoS system is also C.”

"Although I am not sure how much C accounts for in Window, I believe that Microsoft engineers will not rewrite the kernel of an operating system with C#, and want these people to use your brand-new language. Kind of silly and naive."

"It's like you're an IT engineer,

Now let you change your career to write, would you like to? Think about it? That means that the experience, knowledge and effort you have accumulated in the past are worthless. You are a god in the IT world, but you are a novice in writing. You have to relearn how to write. "

"So you definitely don't want to, the reason is the same, D language has not become popular, developers would rather continue to optimize C, this is an ecological problem, the outlet has been occupied by C, you want to start a new stove to replace it, no less than restarting the entire human Internet Infrastructure, is this possible?"

"So all those Chinese translations are just fooling investors who don't know how to do it, cheating them of their money. There are actually Chinese translations. It seems to be pretty good, but what can you do?"

"And some codes can't be changed at all. After a simple 5 CPU flight control software is written, a kind of full coverage test should be performed on it. What will happen if one or more of the CPUs are broken? A simple math can be done. Combination. After testing, you will find that, let alone rewriting, even adding a comment will not work.”

"Then why do we insist on using C? In the future, when the near future is accompanied by the rise of embedded and instant systems, artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, etc., these seem far away but the future is promising, and these are the C language core application, and at this level of application, C has no competition.”

"Can we miss these vents? No!"

A few minutes later, when Luo Sheng was about to continue, a vibrating sound came from the mobile phone in his pocket, he took it out and glanced at the call from Qin Weimu.

"Okay, that's it for now. We only have less than the second half of the year left. We must pass the AoS beta version and complete the bottom-level optimization in the past few days." Luo Sheng left the hall first with those words.

As expected of the boss, he was eloquent, and all the engineers present were immediately awe-inspiring and adored.

Luo Sheng got out of the hall and answered the phone: "It's me, what's the matter?"

On the other end of the phone, Qin Weimu replied, "Apple's CEO Steve Jobs came to visit in person and is now in the company's waiting room."

Luo Sheng was stunned: "In the company? Why is there no news?"

Qin Weimu: "I heard them say that this visit is very low-key, and the outside world doesn't even know about it."

Hearing this, Luo Sheng was stunned. After a little thought, he roughly guessed the intention of Gang Master Qiao. Most of them came because of the problem of patent barriers. Many key patents have now been registered by Cote d'Azur.

Let's talk about multi-touch screen technology, which is a touch panel with a transparent sensing medium that detects simultaneous multi-touch or proximity touches at different locations on the touch panel, and for each point in the multi-touch Touch is a patented technology that generates different signals representing the location of the touch on the touch panel.

Apple has been working on this technology internally, but the patent squatting is one step late, to be exact, it is a month late.

"Okay, I'll be right here."

Luo Sheng ended the communication, and after a few orders, he left the Azur laboratory and went to the company office building.

About ten minutes later, I met Jobs in the reception room.

Aside from other factors, Luo Sheng still respects Gang Master Qiao. Although Apple's iPhone series in the last generation has become more and more ugly in terms of industrial design.

However, the industrial design of the iPhone 4 generation of mobile phones has indeed broken people's inherent cognition of mobile phones. Qiao Gangzhu just made a consumer electronic product into a work of art.

But then again, after returning to reality, Luo Sheng wouldn't hold such sentimental emotions, but he wouldn't give Apple and Qiao Gang any way, and they had to be left with nowhere to go.

The Côte d'Azur company still owes the bank a lot of debt, and the gang leader Qiao ran over this time, and it would be impossible without knocking Apple.

Ahem, I can't say that, it's a patent fee, it's just right, this is a foreigner's way of playing.

You must know that many domestic classical remedies have been patented by foreigners. They were originally invented by our ancestors, but in the end, they have to pay foreigners to use them.

This meeting was a meeting with a 30-year age difference between the two parties, but the classic "reality distortion field" magic of Gang Master Qiao failed here in Luo Sheng.

Fudge against flicker, the result must be nothing to flicker.

The two sides briefly talked about Apple's first failure to enter the mobile phone market - the Rockr.

Luo Sheng said with a smile: "I also bought one when the Rockr went on sale. This product is doomed to fail, because the impact of the Rockr on the iPod is inevitable, but the iPod has already brought a lot of money to Apple. Your company hopes to slow down its impact, so in the Rockr, trying to limit the functionality of the iTunes software to mitigate the threat to the iPod."

"Obviously, it's confusing, and Motorola doesn't want to try new digital music on its best-selling model, and Apple doesn't want to show off the best of its iTunes playback software at Rockr."

"This phone is like a mentally handicapped child born to two extremely smart and gifted parents. It cannot download music directly. It needs to be connected to a computer to upload songs to the phone, and it can only save 100 pieces of music. As a consumer, I deeply feel Disappointed, I wasted more than three hundred dollars in vain, you have to pay me."

Gang Master Joe: "..."

Luo Sheng's current mentality is to talk with Old Qiao on an equal footing. This is not a question of respect or disrespect, but now it is a dialogue scene of equal status.

Facing Luo Sheng's ridicule, Gang Leader Qiao felt embarrassed but helpless, because he couldn't find a reason to refute.

This topic was quickly passed over, and despite the huge age difference of 30 years between the two sides, the gang leader Qiao did not despise the young man in front of him.

A company that can do well in the capital circle and has completed the IPO listing in just three years, and now the market value is higher than that of Apple, how can such a person be as simple as it seems on the surface.

What if a simple little kid as young as he appeared on the surface could create such an achievement? Come on.

Age has instead become his best camouflage method to make others despise him.

Strictly speaking, Apple is now competing with Bluestar Technology Group. Qiao Gangzhu is actually resentful. Apple has not entered the social network, but Bluestar Technology has entered the digital music market.

Old Qiao was absolutely convinced that Luo Sheng wanted to kill iTunes. Although MusicSpace's market share was only about 15%, iTunes firmly dominated the digital music market share under the popularity of the iPod, but this was enough for Qiao to pay attention.

This conversation was also very interesting. Gangmaster Qiao seemed to be asking between the lines what the Cote d'Azur was doing, while Luo Sheng was full of nonsense, fooling Gangmaster Qiao. Cote d'Azur made a flip machine, the kind with a plastic keyboard.

Lao Qiao smiled inwardly, obviously very suspicious, and he was testing each other.

"Sometimes life picks up a brick and slaps it on your head. The patent barrier of Côte d'Azur is a brick slapped at Apple." Jobs shook his head with a laugh and looked at Luo Sheng, he added. : "Mr. Luo, Apple hopes to obtain 26 patents from your company including multi-touch screen technology."

The assistant who accompanied Qiao Gang took out a text document from the briefcase and handed it to Luo Sheng, who closed it at a glance and said with a smile: "There is no problem with the authorization of these 26 patents, but the authorization fee is Apple's annual To pay $350 million in licensing fees for this, sign a five-year contract, and pay $350 million on time each year today."

"What?"

When Gang Master Qiao heard his asking price, it was impossible to say that he was not angry.

350 million US dollars per year, signed for 5 years, that is 1.75 billion US dollars.

Why don't you go grab it?

"The annual licensing fee of 350 million US dollars is very unreasonable and I cannot accept it." Qiao Gangzhu said without hesitation, it was a blatant grab for money.

"No, we have spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. The operation of the company also needs to be maintained by profits. I can't accept the price lower than this." Luo Sheng said decisively, he was determined to Apple, and this It was Luo Sheng's rejection of Gang Master Qiao's price.

If Gang Master Qiao or others from Apple did not take the initiative to seek patent authorization, Luo Sheng might not be able to handle it. After all, his own arrival in this world has already undergone tremendous changes. His appearance and the appearance of Bluestar Technology Group are the biggest change.

But Lao Qiao came in person, which allowed Luo Sheng to judge that Apple must be secretly promoting the research and development of the iPhone project. As a result, when the fog was lifted, he found that there was a huge patent barrier in front of him.

And this also gave Luo Sheng another extremely important basis for judgment. Apple's iPhone project is at least ten months behind the [Azure] plan, or even more.

If Luo Sheng is here to give Apple a card, I am afraid that it may not be able to launch the iPhone product smoothly in 2008, and even with Qiao's urgency, will the iPhone be shelved because of arrogance?

This is possible. The iPad project was rejected because of the research and development of multi-touch screens. Now, it has been put into the cold palace by Lao Qiao, and my grandma doesn't love my uncle.

You must know that before a large group company launches a product, it does not know how many projects have been killed behind it.

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