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“Google finally couldn’t help but take action!”

Christina's slightly solemn voice came over the phone. Before Xia Jingxing could respond, she continued without stopping: "We must take some measures! We can't just watch them successfully acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings." company!"

"Don't worry! As long as I'm here, Peppa Pig and the others can't succeed."

Xia Jingxing put his legs down from the desk with a smile. He was holding his mobile phone in one hand and playing with the Tesla car model on the table with the other. It was obvious that he didn't take the news that Christina brought to heart.

"How can you guarantee they won't succeed?"

Kristina was a little dissatisfied and asked like a barrage of questions: "What if they acquire Motorola as quickly as we acquire Android?

Don't be careless!

If they acquire Motorola before they do, then our acquisition of Android will really be a joke. "

Xia Jingxing gave a soft "hmm" and basically agreed with Kristina's point of view.

Because if you only acquire Android and not Motorola, it is equivalent to only half the job. Not only does it not open up new business for Facebook, it also leaves many hidden dangers for the company's future.

On the surface, the commercial promotion of the Android system is very successful. Mobile phone manufacturers of all sizes around the world are eager to join the Android camp. It is about to sweep these old antiques like Symbian system into the garbage heap of history and completely consolidate the new market. The throne.

But this is actually just an appearance!

There are countless overt and covert attacks waiting for Android.

Taking the most common patent disputes as an example, Android, which has been established for less than ten years, is obviously no match for those old patent thugs.

Therefore, Android has received a lot of lawsuits in the past two years.

Normal business competition cannot be fought, and opponents can only use this kind of off-board tactics to delay the development of Android.

To put it bluntly, I am bullying you because you are young, you do not have enough background, and you lack countermeasures in the patent library. I can sue you, but you cannot sue me.

A typical case is the ongoing infringement lawsuit between Android and Oracle. Oracle said that Android used 11,500 lines of Java code written by its subsidiary Sun Microsystems Internet Company when developing the system.

Regarding being sued, Android could only stare blankly, rummaged in his pockets, and found that it was cleaner than his face. He had no idea what technology he should counterclaim Oracle for infringing upon.

If Android had a patent library that covered a wide enough range of technologies and was old enough, things wouldn't be so passive.

For example, you can check whether Oracle has any leverage that has fallen into your hands. If there is any evidence, then you can directly counter-sue Oracle. Everyone will be at each other's throats for a while. In the end, they find that no one can do anything about the other and can only choose to reconcile.

This is the motivation behind Google's acquisition of Motorola. Once it successfully obtains Motorola's wireless communication technology patent library that has been accumulated for more than 80 years, it will be good whether it is retained as a defensive weapon or thrown out to attack opponents who lack knowledge such as Android. use.

Google was not founded a few years earlier than Facebook and Android. Even it lacks a sufficiently impressive patent library, and Facebook and Android naturally lack it.

Motorola Mobility Holdings was spun off from the old Motorola Corporation. Unlike Motorola Systems, which inherited government and enterprise businesses, it inherited Motorola's mobile phone business and technology patents accumulated over decades.

How good is Motorola? Take an example to understand. For example, during World War II, walkie-talkies were made for the US military. They were military handheld phones that were one size larger than a mobile phone. They were classic props that often appeared in Hollywood movies.

With the end of World War II, Motorola also followed the US military bases and blossomed all over the world, developing into a multinational enterprise and an unavoidable giant in the history of the development of the wireless communications industry.

Therefore, it is not surprising that when this high-quality target is put on the market, it attracts great attention from Google and Facebook.

"Page and the others just contacted Motorola secretly, and the relevant information was revealed to us by Motorola's people. It seems that these old white men want to sell it at a price, and we have to be prepared for a heavy hemorrhage."

After reminding Xia Jingxing a few words, Kristina talked about the attitude of Motorola executives.

Xia Jingxing was not surprised at all and said with a smile: "It's normal. Who doesn't want to sell their shares for more money? But don't worry, when it comes to acquiring Motorola, we have advantages that Google doesn't have."

Kristina immediately asked: "What advantage?"

"Isn't it engraved on the forehead that people are stupid and spend more money? After all, we are even willing to spend more than 20 billion to acquire Android, so why would we be reluctant to buy another "sports car" with insurance?"

Xia Jingxing's humorous metaphor made Kristina laugh. It took a while before she calmed down and said, "No wonder they are so enthusiastic. It turns out they took us for granted."

"Yes, the conflicts accumulated between Google and us are getting more and more serious. Now they are facing each other in the field of mobile phone systems. It would be strange if the people at Motorola don't take advantage of this."

Kristina said bitterly: "Even if Motorola takes advantage of it, we still have to teach Google a profound lesson. They blocked Facebook's acquisition of Android, and we haven't settled the score with them yet."

"Don't be so stingy. If it were me, I wouldn't refuse to do two things to create trouble for my competitors."

"Well, forgetting those annoying people, how much do you think it will cost to acquire Motorola Mobility?"

Xia Jingxing pondered for a moment and then said slowly: "At least it will start with tens of billions of dollars."

"So much? If you add in the deal to acquire Android, wouldn't it cost more than 30 billion? Shareholders will definitely have objections!"

"If you have any opinions, please hold them back for now. If you don't win Motorola Mobility, you'll have to wait to be blackmailed by major giant companies in the future."

Kristina on the other end of the phone was silent, probably thinking about how to deal with the shareholders. After all, their recent series of actions seemed to some people to be a bit exaggerated.

Once the capital operation fails, Facebook's stock price will definitely be shattered.

Xia Jingxing thought about it seriously and felt that it was really hard for Christina to deal with all the internal noise by herself, so he made two moves: "I estimate that the internal pressure faced by Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility will not be greater than ours. Wherever they go, they will even be in more trouble.

At least we have an Android system with the largest market share. What do they have?

A system that has just emerged from its shell? Even before his fur has even grown, he wants to learn to fly.

Under the premise that the market prospects are even more uncertain than ours, I guess Page will be scolded by shareholders for spending tens of billions of dollars to acquire a patent library that matches the mobile phone system.

We can take advantage of this and try to lower the price as much as possible. Don't raise the acquisition price to the sky, lest you be criticized by shareholders again. "

"I know, we'll see what happens."

…

The two exchanged opinions on the acquisition of Motorola. After that, Xia Jingxing was concerned about the growth of the two children. Hearing that Christina said that the two little ones missed their father very much, Xia Jingxing felt a little embarrassed.

He is indeed too busy. He just ended Vision Capital's fundraising activities yesterday and flew from New York to San Francisco today.

I probably haven't had time to see the children in the past two days, because Tesla still has a lot of troubles waiting for him to solve.

No, he just hung up the phone from Kristina and was immediately notified of another meeting.

When Xia Jingxing hurried to the conference room, he was still a few minutes late. The room was already full of shareholders with different expressions.

Seeing this scene, he smiled and joked to everyone: "What's wrong? They all look worried?"

As soon as Xia Jingxing finished speaking, a shareholder stood up angrily, "Darren, you must give us a reasonable explanation!"

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