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Chapter 1759 Foresight and Foresight

Zhou Buqi is very happy to have settled the negotiation with Apple.However, the others couldn't do it. They all felt that Boss Zhou's move was too risky.

This is desperate!
No need!

Whether it is Ziweixing or Astar, the current development momentum is very good, and it is enough to make steady and reasonable progress slowly. Is it necessary to choose between the two giants?
Only small companies that cannot survive have to make similar choices passively in a passive situation.

This makes Zhou Buqi very helpless. You can't tell them that Microsoft's mobile business will not develop in the next few years, and even Ballmer will step down?

Except for the US market, Microsoft's mobile phones simply don't work in other countries.

But even in China, the market share of Microsoft mobile phones continues to slump.At one point, Microsoft bought Nokia's mobile phone business for $50 billion to save the phone business.

Sure enough, after the in-depth integration, Microsoft's mobile phone market share in the local market has picked up. At its peak, the market share reached 4%.

What is the concept of 4%?
Less than half of a Lenovo phone!
With such a small market share, it would be a waste of manpower, material and financial resources to ask Ziweixing to develop various adaptation applications for them.

Even if there is no drama with Apple, Ziweixing and Asda do not have any need to cooperate with Microsoft in the mobile business.Now Apple has jumped out, the free cake, if you don’t eat it, don’t eat it!
Of course, the main reason is that Boss Zhou is kind-hearted.

Jobs almost died!

Almost got it!
Hurry up and sign the contract to make him happy, relieve his emotions, adjust his condition, and avoid trouble.

Still, a way had to be found to explain the matter clearly.

On the Ziwei Star International side, many executives are from Microsoft, and they all have fellowship.Among other things, after Microsoft's mobile phone operating system was announced, an old Microsoft colleague called and said that they hoped that the project they managed could develop an adapted version for the Microsoft system. A strong decision, and nine times out of ten they agree.

Shen Xiangyang is one of them.

The next day, Zhou Buqi called Zhou Shaoning, Lu Qi, and Shen Xiangyang to have lunch together.

Before he could speak, Lu Qi became a little impatient, "Helo is fine, we can always find some reasons to shirk. But all the products under Ziwei Star refuse to face Microsoft's new system, which is too obvious, yes Deliberately targeting!"

Shen Xiangyang did not participate in yesterday's negotiation, but last night Lu Qi called him to chat for more than two hours, talking about this risky decision of Boss Zhou.

What should I do?
How to deal with it?

That's the giant Microsoft!

Shen Xiangyang was also having a headache, and said obediently: "Yes, as far as I know, Microsoft has devoted all its resources to this new mobile phone system, and almost used all the elite engineers in the operating system department. If Ziweixing and Aisi If Dada does not cooperate, this is equivalent to boycotting Microsoft at the strategic level, which is a complete turnaround!"

Zhou Shaoning also said worriedly: "I have received definite news that Samsung is indeed developing a mobile version of Microsoft's new operating system. Samsung is now working closely with Google, and is even willing to go head-to-head with Apple in a patent lawsuit. But even so, Samsung will not If you dare to completely abandon Microsoft, you still need to adopt a cooperative attitude.”

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Who is Asda's main opponent? Google? Apple? Neither, Asda is far from reaching this level. We need to clarify this idea. Asda's main opponent is Samsung .”

Zhou Shaoning nodded slightly.

Zhou Buqi went on to say: "Samsung's main partner is Google, and its secondary partner is Microsoft. It's double insurance. What about Asda? On Google's side, it's not as popular as Samsung, and then went to cooperate with Microsoft... In your opinion, in the eyes of Microsoft, is Samsung important, or Asda important?"

"Uh……"

Zhou Shaoning had nothing to say.

Yes, in the Android camp, Asda is now the veritable No. [-] in the world.So what?In the current chaotic smartphone market, Google lacks long-term confidence in Asda and is more willing to cooperate with Samsung for a long time.This is true for Google, and even more so for Microsoft.

Zhou Buqi snorted and said, "If Asda launched a smartphone with Microsoft system, its status would not be comparable to that of Nokia, but it would definitely not be as good as that of Samsung. A hot face to a cold ass? Caught between the three giants of Microsoft, Google, and Apple." Among them, Asda lacks sufficient negotiating resources, so we must use the contradictions and differences among the three giants to find a way to maximize our own interests!"

Zhou Shaoning took a deep breath, "Maximizing benefits also means maximizing risks."

The greater the risk, the greater the benefit.

On the surface it seems so.

If Zhou Buqi hadn't been foresighted, he wouldn't have dared to bet on Apple unswervingly in the current market of smartphone operating systems that is still relatively vague.

But with such an advantage, he can completely reverse the inverse relationship between risk and benefit.

Cooperating with Apple has the greatest benefit and zero risk.

Cooperating with Microsoft, the benefits are small and the risks are huge!
For others, it's an alternative.

For Zhou Buqi, there is no possibility of choice at all. There is only one way to go, and that is to cooperate with Apple.It is impossible to go against the sky, go to cooperate with Microsoft, right?Not to mention whether Microsoft can pay attention to Asda and Ziweixing, even if it does, and the two parties cooperate sincerely... Can it really beat the iPhone?

Microsoft doesn't have that level.

It's better to honestly make some zero-risk, high-reward choices.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "For Asda, giving up the cooperation with Microsoft does have some risks, which is equivalent to giving up a road. But don't forget, Asda is not Samsung, and Asda's strength is not enough. It allows you to step on two boats. Just make an Android phone safely and securely."

Shen Xiangyang said: "It can also reduce the cost of developing new system versions."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "That's right, the more versions there are, the higher the development cost. Not only Astar, but Ziweixing is the same. Not developing for Microsoft's new system can reduce costs."

Lu Qi sighed, "This will offend Microsoft to death."

Zhou Buqi said indifferently: "It's a choice, after all, you have to bear some costs. The benefits lost from Microsoft will be made up more from Apple."

Lu Qi asked: "Didn't you say that Microsoft intends to deploy Office series products on Ziwei Cloud?"

"Don't mention it," Zhou Buqi felt a little irritated when he heard this. "This just shows the correctness of our choice of in-depth cooperation with Apple. Deploying Office on Ziwei Cloud is my proposal to Bill Gates. Suggested. He said he would communicate with Ballmer. I received an email from Gates last night, saying that Ballmer disagreed."

Shen Xiangyang said helplessly: "Ballmer's sense of struggle is too strong. Microsoft is also transforming into cloud computing. He will not let his core products support Ziwei Cloud."

Lu Qi sighed, "Anyway, this is a complete offense to Microsoft!"

"No offense, they won't give you office use either!"

Zhou Buqi snorted.

"At least we can cooperate in many other fields." Lu Qi is the president of Ziwei Star International. On the business level, he doesn't want to have too many conflicts with Microsoft.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, and said lightly: "It's no big deal. In the 90s, there was Yahoo, then there was Google, and in recent years, Facebook also popped up. They all grew up under the siege of Microsoft. Especially Yahoo and Google, then They are all mortal enemies at the tip of a needle, so what? The era of Microsoft's dominance is over, don't be afraid of them! If you offend, you will offend!"

Lu Qi nodded and had nothing to say.

Zhou Buqi went on to say: "There is a deeper reason, and that is cloud computing. The core business of Ziweixing International is cloud computing, and Microsoft's core business in the next few years must also be cloud computing, not mobile business. Purple MSI International and Microsoft are rivals who confront each other directly. It is doomed to go head-on, and it has nothing to do with the choice between Apple and Microsoft.”

Shen Xiangyang narrowed his eyes, "If this is the case, cooperation with Apple is the best choice. Since sooner or later we will turn against Microsoft, choosing Apple this time will at least allow us to have another friendly partner instead of offending Apple this time. Then I fell out with Microsoft again."

Lu Qi was a little puzzled, "Microsoft's current core layout is the mobile business!"

Zhou Buqi glanced at him, and said confidently and firmly: "Microsoft can't develop! Under the joint siege of Apple, Google, Ziweixing, and Asda, they will definitely die! Again, the times have changed long ago, Don't trust Microsoft!"

The atmosphere of the conversation was somewhat dull.

Zhou Shaoning said with a smile: "If you exclude Microsoft, and just look at our cooperation agreement with Apple, it's really great. This kind of all-round, multi-business cooperation will greatly promote Astar... and The development of Ziweixing’s business. Not only overseas business, but also domestic business.”

In fact, Zhou Buqi has not been very worried about Microsoft.

Even if the sincere cooperation with Apple in the short term will deeply stimulate Microsoft and offend Ballmer... so what?In a few years, Ballmer will step down!

After Ballmer stepped down and Indian-born CEO Nadella came to power, the first thing he did was to abandon Microsoft's struggle line and turn all the "enemies" of Microsoft in the past ten years into friendship. All reconciled.

Office series products are deployed in Apple's system.

For Zhou Buqi, he has nothing to worry about, and he is not afraid of offending Microsoft.More precisely, he is not afraid to offend the current CEO of Microsoft, Ballmer.

Not for Apple.

In the next few years, Apple's CEO will be Cook, and it is necessary to maintain a long-term and good cooperative relationship with him.

Zhou Buqi said: "You will know in a few years, um... In fact, you can see the prototype now, Netflix, Spotify, and Goal have all closed the payment channels for Apple terminal devices, so it can be seen that the 30% commission is too much. In the past year, Facebook’s open platform has taken a 30% commission for all game developers, earning $4 million.”

Speaking of this, Lu Qi resonated very much.

Because Ziweixing International has a game business group, which mainly develops some lightweight small games, many of which are deployed on the Facebook open platform, and they all face the pressure of 30% commission.

Lu Qi frowned slightly, "Yes, the commission issue is my next topic."

(End of this chapter)