20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2763 Jim's Persuasion

Zhao Changan did not plan to stay in Seattle for too long this time, because his presence here would obviously hinder the power transfer between Jim and Li Xin, as well as the friction and integration among the members of the new Seattle team.

Although it would take at least ten days for Li Xin to become generally familiar with the power transfer.

The next morning, Zhao Changan invited Jim to dinner privately at a high-end seaside restaurant in the bay.

"Although I will be leaving BlackBerry, I am still a shareholder of BlackBerry. Through communication with BlackBerry during this period, I have roughly understood your next plan, and I disagree with it. I also said the same thing to Mike and Doug. If you insist on this, I will contact other shareholders and hold a general meeting of shareholders to express our opposition to you."

Because Jim is the president of One Nano North America, he is in charge of the personnel, R&D, and salaries of the various branches below.

He has data on all aspects, and the only thing he really cares about is BlackBerry. He has also reconciled with Mike and Doug, so it can be said that he knows everything he needs to know.

The reason why the three of them were able to put aside their past grudges was because BlackBerry's worldwide fame made Mike and Doug confirm the elite customer route that Jim had always insisted on.

Zhao Changan could guess without thinking that in Waterloo, Doug must have complained a lot about Mike, and even in Toronto and Canada, many people would be sarcastic about Mike and himself.

As the Waterloo Weekly put it bluntly, 'Jim has built an amazing high-tech Internet company, and now a few Orientals have come over and bewitched Mike, and they are so self-righteous that they want to hold down the noble head of this unicorn and make it grind to the mill!'

There is no doubt that this is a serious information leak in BlackBerry.

Afterwards, Mike took the initiative to call Zhao Changan and told him that he had discussed these things with Jim and wanted to hear his opinion. However, not only was he scolded by the furious Jim, but he also reported the matter to the newspaper.

This caused a particular uproar in Canada, where opinions were almost overwhelmingly one-sided accusations.

So much so that Qi Xidong, Qiao Hang and Mike were all confused.

The most important purpose of Zhao Changan's trip to Canada is to sort out this matter, unify thoughts, and go into battle with light equipment.

"RIM should not be vulgar for the sake of short-sighted sales, and should not abandon the core concept of our company, which is to serve the elites in business and politics, rather than to make everyone use RIM! Because no one can make everyone use their products, and it is impossible to monopolize all market share. Instead, we should segment the market and get the market share that best suits our corporate capabilities and concepts and has relatively reasonable profits."

Jim didn't think he could convince Zhao Changan, because he knew that this overly young man in front of him was not only as cunning as a fox, but also even more paranoid and tough than him.

He just wants to say these words frankly, and then give him enough time to think, and then see what choice he will make when the general meeting of shareholders is held.

Because until now, although BlackBerry has been preparing for the popularization of the company's products, it has not officially started after all. At this time, it is still continuing the direction and process that Jim set for BlackBerry.

Jim still hopes that Zhao Changan can realize his mistake and turn back from his wrong path!

Although it is not easy to hold a general shareholders' meeting without Zhao Changan's approval, the reality is that this is North America, and BlackBerry is currently the most eye-catching and dazzling star company in Canada. If Jim can unite some shareholders and strongly request to hold a general shareholders' meeting in the name of the survival of the company, it will be difficult for Zhao Changan to stop it.

Seeing that Zhao Changan seemed to be in deep thought and did not speak, Jim continued, "In this incident, for consumers, what they trust is RIM's unique email channel, which is also the reason why the market is chasing after RIM. But you actually plan to develop an email system that incorporates the use of telephone operator channels, which is equivalent to completely abandoning the essence of its success this time. I don't know how much of a blow it will cause to the company's stock price and reputation if this news gets out!"

It can be said that whether from the standpoint of the stocks he held or his feelings towards BlackBerry, Jim was extremely angry about Zhao Changan's plan to provide an email system that used telephone operator channels in RIM phones, but he did not leak it to anyone.

"Jim, the plan for this email system that uses the telephone operator's channel is not to cancel the original dedicated email channel in the phone, but to provide a switch back and forth between the two. RIM's mobile phone sales target is not just in North America, but for the whole world. If the phone does not make this change, then RIM phones will lose the ability to send and receive emails outside of North America."

When Tianyue Future cooperated with BlackBerry before, because it was a private-label Xinyu 180 mobile phone, the email channel in the phone completely used the public channel of the mobile phone operator, and the BlackBerry-specific channel settings were deleted.

Moreover, Zhao Changan actually saw the future direction more clearly. BlackBerry's separate email communication channel, which made a sensation in September, has actually only been so impressive a few times in such a small range in the entire history of BlackBerry.

There was also the blackout in the U.S. and Canada in 03 and Hurricane Katrina in 05, when its dedicated North American channel performed twice more.

Later, with the rapid development of wireless mobile technology, the problem of mobile operator channel congestion became less and less, and later BlackBerry itself abandoned this dedicated channel which gradually became useless.

The reason is that this dedicated channel is currently only used in North America, and BlackBerry has to negotiate contracts with other countries one by one.

Moreover, the transmission speed, capability and capacity of this dedicated channel are too low. It is OK for sending and receiving emails now, but it is not realistic to transmit pictures, voice or even videos in the future.

In other words, things will be eliminated sooner or later.

The reason why Zhao Changan spent unnecessary funds to build this dual email channel system even though he knew it was going to be eliminated, and even asked the company to pay for the right to use the dedicated channel, is because what makes RIM phones so popular now is its dedicated email sending and receiving channel which will have very little use in the future.

This dedicated channel can be used as a gimmick, or to meet users' unexpected needs.

However, you can't be a fool and trap yourself in it until you are eliminated.

In the design of Jim, Mike and Doug, the core of BlackBerry is not the dedicated email channel, but the mobile email device based on two-way paging technology. The device is combined with RIM's server, relies on specific server software and terminals, and is compatible with existing wireless data links, realizing the dream of sending and receiving emails anytime and anywhere throughout North America.

The channel is just a path. The email storage and bridge function between RIM's servers and BlackBerry email registered users is the core of the company.

In fact, in Zhao Changan’s original time and space, it should be the year after next that BlackBerry received too many complaints from users about the signal defects of the dedicated channel, so it was forced to implement a dual email channel switching mode on the new mobile phone.

However, this is also one of the reasons why BlackBerry gradually declined.