But Apple obviously did not leave more time for Duke to find a solution. In fact, they could not ignore it. Watching the new Nokia phone continue to conquer the market, Apple, whose market share was declining, could no longer sit still.

A week after I issued the lawyer's letter, the Apple president summoned senior executives to discuss countermeasures against the new Nokia mobile phone.[..com]

"Well, gentlemen, our sales volume fell by 15% last month compared to the same period last year. I think everyone knows the reason." President Cook said to a group of senior company executives and pointed to the data just counted. "According to market forecasters' estimates, we will further decline this month if effective measures are not taken in time."

"Mr. Peter, are there any new progress on voice technology?" After saying the opening remarks, Cook turned to Peter, the vice president of technology, who was on the side. "How long does it take for us to make up for the gap in voice technology between us and the new Nokia Mobile?"

Peter, who is responsible for the company's technical planning, has been under great pressure recently. Apple phones, which were originally technologically leading, have been overwhelmed by emerging sal companies in many aspects, which has surprised the industry, and has also put Apple's technical department under heavy pressure. Now there is nothing special, and R&D personnel have canceled all additional vacations.

"Mr. President, based on our current research on this technology, if we adopt the basic principles explained in Duke's thesis, we will be able to improve speech recognition technology to practical level in about half a year to a year, but it may take 3-5 years to catch up with the current level of the new Nokia mobile phone." Peter was already sweating when he was staring at Cook's cold eyes.

There is no way. Although Duke's paper explains the principles more clearly, it still takes a lot of time to study many things from the principles to the implementation, such as speech feature sampling. Peter does not have as strong computing and analysis capabilities as Kerry, so it takes time to accumulate.

Peter said that in half a year, in fact, it was based on the recent purchase of the latest Titan iii supercomputer. Since the research found that it was necessary to accurately sample and analyze the voice in large data volume, Peter strongly demanded to purchase a supercomputer with amazing computing power. Now this supercomputer has finally been c

The people from AY Company have completed it, and the voice feature sampling application has been developed for a long time and is now transplanted to supercomputers to operate.

However, the analysis of massive sampled data is a reality that Peter cannot avoid now.

"And," Peter gave everyone more than just bad news, "our voice recognition technology now actually uses Dr. Duke's invention. From the perspective of intellectual property rights, we will inevitably infringe on Dr. Duke's technology."

The executives here almost choked to death by Peter's words. You sister, you're not talking about the slow progress for a long time, and they even follow others' technically. Is this technology interesting even if it is developed?

"Is there no other technical path to go?" Cook was also uncomfortable with Peter's words. "For the moment, we can't find any other way to achieve such an effect as Dr. Duke." Peter said with his head down.

"What should we do now?" Cook glanced at the executives, hoping that someone would stand up and come up with an idea to turn the tide. To be honest, he is under great pressure now. In the past seven or eight years, everything Apple has made very satisfactory progress. The mobile phone business has formed the current pillar products, with annual sales of more than 100 billion US dollars and also has an extremely high profit margin.

Such good market performance is reflected in Apple's stock price, and its market value has exceeded US$800 billion.

Such a dilemma like this has not happened for many years. Cook has been working at Apple for more than 30 years, and I have never seen such a situation a few times.

The technological gap cannot be easily made up. Everyone here knows that over the years, Apple has been the leader with technology that has always been a small step ahead. Therefore, these executives are very clear about this reality. According to Peter just now, there is basically no hope of catching up with competitors in voice technology.

At best, you must approach your opponent, and you must risk infringement of the other party's intellectual property rights.

“We can initiate patent infringement lawsuits to drag New Nokia into the quagmire,” Will, vice president of intellectual property, stood up and said. “We have solid evidence that New Nokia has adopted several of our 4g patented technologies, which are standard-grade technologies of 4g that they can never avoid.”

"Mr. Will, I know you've sent a lawyer's letter to New Nokia for this, but we can't do it too much," said Miss Michel, vice president of public relations. "We have launched many lawsuits in the past few years with patents, and although we have the majority of the lawsuits."

"However, the frequent use of patented weapons has had a great negative impact on our image. The media has begun to constantly accuse us of overuse of patented weapons, believing that this is a concrete manifestation of our lack of innovation. Gentlemen, the media is now keen to shape us as a big empire that is not enterprising."

"They would ask, why are we not negotiating patents with the other party and resolving patent disputes by resolving the grant fee?"

Seeing Miss Michelle oppose the lawsuit, Will shook his head. "Frankly speaking, the rise of the new Nokia Mobile is too strong, and we cannot afford to have a huge impact on letting it live. They are now threatening Apple's roots," Will said.

"So, the purpose of this lawsuit is to maximize the attack on competitors, and before it becomes a behemoth, restrain the opponents, cause them to enter a risk period, and defeat them. Then we can acquire them when they are in trouble." Will expressed his wishful thinking.

"Behind the new Nokia company is an emerging technology company. It is they who developed the most competitive phone of none. I think they have extraordinary capabilities in technological innovation, so it will be our best result to defeat them financially."

Everyone was attracted by Will's idea. To be honest, Apple did not do this on the first day, but before they acquired some small companies, and the merger scale generally did not exceed billions of dollars. But now Will is actually focusing on SAL, even if it curbs the development of the new Nokia, it is an extremely large company.

Relying on the sales of the Chinese domestic market and the other party in navigation devices, there is still no big problem in selling 30 to 40 billion US dollars a year. If this is the case, then this merger will be another huge merger in the history of it.

"Mr. Will's suggestion is very creative," Cook said after considering Will's suggestion carefully, "Do you have any other suggestions?"

"If there are no other additional suggestions, then we will implement it according to Mr. Will's suggestion. All units must unite and fight this life-and-death battle." Cook said with the final say.

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