It was obviously a press conference that did not seem successful to insiders. Thanks to the strong public relations capabilities and reputation of the Android Alliance, it actually turned into a grand and successful press conference, which left many people stunned.
Gang Leader Qiao belongs to a different kind of person. When he called Xiao Qi, he said disdainfully: "Are these two mobile phones from the backward era worthy of being called smartphones? They are not as good as your DreamStars, even more so.
Don’t talk about my IPHONE, give those idiots 100 years and they won’t be able to catch up!”
When Xiao Qi put down the phone, he couldn't laugh or cry. Gang leader Qiao never forgets to suppress DreamStars on the basis of promoting himself every time. It seems that this has become a habit.
But Gang Leader Qiao's extremely powerful confidence was something Xiao Qi admired very much.
No matter when or where, Gang Leader Qiao has never lost confidence in himself. For example, when he was kicked out of Apple, when Pixar struggled to maintain itself, or when he faced the aggressiveness of Samsung and the Android Alliance in the future, he never lost confidence in himself.
They all have the mentality that I am the best in the world.
It has to be said that it is precisely because of Gang Leader Qiao's character and determination to go all the way to the dark side that Apple can be so successful. If there were just a little compromise, Apple would not be what it is today or what it will be in the future.
Through the phone call, Xiao Qi learned that Gang Leader Qiao, like himself, really didn't care about Motorola and Nokia, so he was relieved.
It doesn't matter how powerful the enemy is, the key is that you can't be dragged down by others, and developing your own is the right way, and there can't be panic in the app store.
On the other hand, another thing Gang Leader Qiao told Xiao Qi was somewhat interesting.
That is the Apple shares that Gang Leader Qiao recently acquired.
Gang Leader Qiao borrowed US$5 billion in cash from Xiao Qi. He also borrowed about US$1 billion from other good friends, for a total of US$6 billion, and secretly began the process of acquiring shares in Apple.
Apple's shares have performed very strangely in the past few years. Even with the advent of iPod and IPHONE, there is no way to explain why it fluctuates high and low.
In addition, the subprime mortgage crisis has continued to spread, and the U.S. economy has been hit hard.
Under such circumstances, it actually made it easier for Gang Leader Qiao to secretly absorb shares.
However, Gang Leader Qiao has temporarily stopped buying 1% of Apple's shares because he feels that the current crisis in the United States is not just as simple as the subprime mortgage crisis. The consequences of the subprime mortgage crisis will definitely be worse than they are now.
Much more serious.
Today, Apple's total market value is about 120 billion U.S. dollars, and it is still rising steadily, but Gang Leader Qiao keenly feels that it may be best to wait.
Xiao Qi secretly admired Gang Leader Qiao's judgment when he heard it.
In fact, in the six months after the financial crisis broke out in 2008, Apple's stock price plummeted from US$180 to around US$80, and its market value shrank by more than half.
If Gang Leader Qiao spends all 6 billion US dollars now, then by the beginning of 2009, Gang Leader Qiao himself will be extremely depressed.
But if Gang Leader Qiao waits for the best time, then the US$6 billion in his hand can buy at least 12% of Apple's shares. That is a very impressive number, and he is Apple's largest shareholder.
With a huge loan of 6 billion US dollars in hand, Gang Leader Qiao can still be so stable. People have to admire his big heart.
Moreover, the meaning of what Gang Leader Qiao told Xiao Qi was that he persuaded Xiao Qi not to be busy buying Disney stocks. If things really go as he expected, then Xiao Qi seems to be able to buy more than 10% of the shares at the same price.
Disney stock, and not just the 5% previously expected.
Of course Xiao Qi readily agreed, as he could spend less money. Buying more shares to give to little Taylor was naturally a good thing.
Anyway, he has entrusted this matter to Gang Leader Qiao with full authority, so he doesn't have to worry about it.
Gang Leader Qiao is very calm and composed, but for Samsung's Li Jianxi who is also in Asia, he is a little on pins and needles.
Samsung some time ago, when the Android Alliance was coming with force, Li Jianxi knew that he could not hide Xiao Qi's behavior by sitting on the sidelines, but for him, this was the most correct way to deal with it, and it was very important to the future of Samsung.
most beneficial.
Even if this will destroy some of the friendship and cooperation between Samsung and Fairy Company, if it had to happen again, Li Jianxi would make the same decision.
Don't doubt it.
Li Jianxi is such a ruthless hero. From a certain perspective, he is much more hateful than Gang Leader Qiao.
Everyone is a pawn for his use, and he will never have any real friendship with others, only the relationship between interests.
Think about it, how can a person who treats his elder brother and daughter like that have the loyalty to help his business partners? Stabbing him hard is his true nature!
Fortunately, not only Li Jianxi was watching with cold eyes, but also Gang Leader Qiao, so while Li Jianxi breathed a sigh of relief, he also felt that Xiao Qi would not settle a score with him or Gang Leader Qiao.
Although he thought so, Li Jianxi still gave Xiao Qi's wife a favor by purchasing Gmarket as an expression of his apology.
Li Jianxi directly saw the mobile phones released by the two major mobile phone giants of the Android Alliance, N80 and A1600, from the press conference video. He compared them with the Samsung S2 mobile phone he was working on, and immediately discovered that these mobile phones were simply not the same.
What is the gap? Even in terms of hardware and software equipment, Samsung is still slightly behind, just like its ranking in feature phones in recent years.
Those who have a slight upper hand will still have to rely on the many apps in the App Store, otherwise Samsung will almost be defeated by them based on its strength.
Even so, Lee Kun-hee doesn't have much confidence that he can compete with the new smartphones from Nokia and Motorola.
Samsung has a complete hardware industry chain. The failure of several mobile phone models is not in Li Jianxi's eyes. The key is that it will affect Samsung's position in the app store.
Li Jianxi has never doubted the power of the App Store!
If you get kicked out, you will regret it!
It seems that it is time to do something more!
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If Li Jianxi is just thinking about how to break through the siege on mobile phones, how to win over Xiao Qi and further increase his share of the app store, other people's considerations are not that simple.
Of course, this does not mean that a group of senior executives from Sony Ericsson have already decided to join the Android camp and have reached a substantial intention. They will wait for another month or two at most to announce it.
The person in trouble is the husband-and-wife CEO of HTC.
Wang Hong and Cheng Wen, one in charge and the other in charge, work closely together on weekdays, bringing HTC to the current stage of vigorous development of OEM mobile phones and self-developed mobile phones, and it has become one of the top ten technologies in Baodao.
company.
But being in such a position happens to be a very embarrassing position.
If HTC wants to take a step forward, it must face various giants, whether it is Apple, Fairy, Samsung Super Alliance in the App Store, or the three giant overlords of the Android Alliance. No matter which alliance, HTC cannot
Object to defeat.
The only possibility of success is to join one of the camps.
From the bottom of their hearts, Wang Hong and Cheng Wen are definitely inclined to join the app store camp, not only because there is the Fairy Company with the same origin, but more importantly because the development potential of the app store is absolutely unlimited.
It is even more attractive for the newly founded Android Alliance.
But what was very helpless was that no matter how they inquired or asked various people, Xiao Qi never let go and had no intention of accepting another company.
They didn't understand what Xiao Qi meant, and thought Xiao Qi looked down on small companies like theirs. However, they didn't know that Xiao Qi was aware of HTC's development trajectory, lack of sustained R&D investment, and shortcomings in market grasp.
, are all their fatal weaknesses. This is not related to the strength of their company, but to the thinking of the two decision-makers.
There has never been any large international group in Baodao. This has a lot to do with the thinking of Baodao people. In this regard, this province is different from Japan. Many of the Japanese ideas and thinking are really not Baodao.
Comparable to humans.
Returning to the topic, since they cannot join the App Store camp, Wang Hong and Cheng Wen are also practical people, and they began to think about how to join the Android camp.
After all, Nokia and Motorola, the two major companies in the Android camp, have a deep cooperative relationship with HTC and have a deep understanding of HTC's potential and strength. Therefore, at the end of last year, they strongly invited HTC to join the Android Alliance.
, became a sharp knife for them to insert into Xiao Qi's lair.
The problem is that HTC wants to use the Android Alliance to develop, but it does not want to become the cannon fodder of the Android Alliance.
Their real goal is the same as in their previous life, which is in developed countries such as Europe and the United States. They don't care much about the backward high-tech market of China.
Moreover, there is a fierce tiger like Xiao Qi entrenched in the mainland. Once a war breaks out with Xiao Qi, only HTC will be defeated on a large scale, not Fairy Company.
I want to gain benefits, but I don’t want to be taken advantage of.
How to find this balance is really a big problem for the weak HTC!
PS: You can’t guess HTC’s decision. I won’t make the opponent so simple! Also, a few words aside from the topic, this morning, I was woken up by an earthquake at 6:10. It felt like it was shaking sideways.
I had the intention to get up to see if I could escape to the open space, but when I woke up, I remembered that I was at my parents' house on the tenth floor, so I could only sigh and go back to sleep... This feeling of natural disaster is really bad! In the past few years