Crazy Entertainment System

♂』 Chen Yu was lucky; he avoided the massive traffic jam. Traffic congestion in the capital is a serious problem, and Chen Yu truly "hates" it. But there's nothing he can do; after all, this is the capital, and the city's population capacity is nearing saturation, even exceeding its normal capacity.

"Zhuge, I'm here, in parking lot number four!" Chen Yu called Zhuge Yun from the underground parking garage and said.

“Okay, I’ll have someone pick you up!” Zhuge Yun said.

"Okay, my license plate number is xxx, and my car is located at No. 123, D section of the fourth parking lot!" Chen Yu reported the specific location.

About ten minutes later, a young man appeared in Chen Yu's field of vision. He had a sign hanging on his chest, so he should be the person sent by Zhuge Yun.

Just as Chen Yu had predicted, the man walked over.

I walked up to the car and gently knocked on the window!

Chen Yu revealed his face and smiled, "Did Zhuge Yun send you here?!"

"Yes, I am Huang Zihu from the Operations Department of Zhanlong Technology. Please come with me, I will take you inside!" Huang Zihu said with a smile.

"Okay, thank you for your help~" Chen Yu nodded, took out the key, and got out of the car.

The two arrived at the press conference venue, where Chen Yu saw Zhuge Yun busy at work.

"Hey Zhuge, do you really need someone as important as you to handle this kind of thing personally?!" Chen Yu joked.

"No need for that, but I arrived early and had nothing to do, so I just started doing it together!" Zhuge Yun said with a smile.

"I knew it! If you have to do this kind of work yourself, you really need to be held accountable!" Chen Yu said with a smile.

"Haha, that's right~" Zhuge Yun laughed.

Then he said, "Chen Yu, everything is ready here. Why don't you go over the script with Xiao Liu? Although I've witnessed your ability to give a speech without notes, it's still good for you to familiarize yourself with something like PowerPoint!"

Chen Yu nodded and said, "Of course, I took your hosting position this time, you wouldn't be cursing me in your heart, would you?!"

Hearing Chen Yu's teasing words, Zhuge Yun laughed and said, "What are you talking about? I'm a company manager, not a celebrity. Showing off in the public eye isn't my main job. You're a celebrity, you're in the spotlight, you'd be better than me. But it seems you only care about your own products. I doubt you'd even look at the products our company develops!"

"That's not right. What do you mean by looking down on it? I was giving you an opportunity. Since the product came from your hands, you're naturally the most familiar with it, so it's most suitable for you to take charge. But I created the iPhone, so I'm very familiar with it. I'm confident in my abilities; I know its advantages and its purpose."

"Of course, it's also partly my selfishness. I want to introduce my own 'child,' so naturally I don't want someone else to endorse it," Chen Yu said with a smile.

“That’s true. You created the iPhone yourself. But Mr. Chen, are you really planning to make this system free?!” Zhuge Yun nodded, then paused for a moment before speaking.

This issue has always been a knot in my heart.

It's definitely difficult to make money if the operating system isn't free. He felt they should learn from Microsoft.

"It's true that the system is free, and it's permanently free. However, the mobile operating system is different from others. It can only be used on our iPhones. There are also more open-source systems for other manufacturers, but these systems won't be given to you. Instead, they will be given to cloud technology, because the main purpose of these systems is not to make money by selling the system, but to generate advertising revenue!"

"Ads?! How do system ads make money?! That's a system, after all!" Zhuge Yun was a little confused. Logically speaking, once the system is given to the user, the ads basically no longer belong to the system developers, but to the online advertising network, such as Google AdSense in the United States.

"It's actually very simple. Cloud Technology's system is an open-source operating system. Do you remember Java that we acquired before?!" Chen Yu said with a light smile.

Zhuge Yun nodded.

He knew, of course, that it was a language that Chen Yu had acquired for over 12 billion US dollars. He didn't understand why Chen Yu would acquire such a not-so-popular language.

"The system I have here is developed using Java. I call it a cloud system. The cloud system consists of two parts: AOSP and GMS. The AOSP part is free, so I won't go into that. The GMS part is where cloud technology makes a profit. This part mainly consists of cloud technology's software and services. Every cloud phone needs to install these frameworks, and when phone manufacturers install these, they need to pay cloud technology some licensing fees. Cloud technology can also insert advertisements in it to collect fees."

In fact, these are practices of Google, the owner of Android on Earth, except that Google does not own the language copyright or technology patents for developing Android.

Oracle owns the patent for this language, and later Oracle even used it to sue Google, only to lose in the end.

To avoid future lawsuits, Chen Yu acquired all the copyrights and patents for this language in advance.

This language wouldn't normally be sold so cheaply, but unfortunately, Java doesn't hold much sway among developers these days, and Sun's open-source policy hasn't been very effective in the face of the sudden economic crisis.

Faced with a $12 billion acquisition price, they decided to sell after discussion because Chen Yu created an atmosphere for them that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and that they had only bought the language on a whim, and that they wouldn't buy it if he didn't sell it.

Having already fallen into a financial crisis, Sun was ultimately forced to sell Java, along with some other businesses.

The most important of the other businesses is storage. Chen Yu has acquired almost all of Sun's storage technology patents.

In Zhuge Yun's view, this was a completely unreasonable deal, because neither of the two companies Chen Yu acquired had much of a future. The storage business was currently facing a bleak outlook with very low profits, so acquiring it was not worthwhile at all. As for Java, what could be done after the acquisition? The popularity of Java among developers was already evident.

However, Chen Yu was well aware of the power of the Java language. Several years later, when cloud technology, which is essentially a rebranded version of Android, was officially launched, Java would truly be reborn.

Back then, Java could easily outperform C, C++, VB, HTML, and Ruby, which are now the most powerful languages.

All of this relies on the foundation of Java's open-source nature. (To be continued.)