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Chapter 286 Let It Be Done
Here's the thing.

Mr. Wen, who always takes things one step further, analyzed based on relevant information that Apple would be stimulated by various factors and cause the stock price to fall.

As we all know, US stocks can be shorted.

The process is very simple, borrow shares when the stock price is high, and return them when the stock price is low.

But there is another important factor here: time.

There is a deadline.

And according to the amount of borrowed shares and various agreements, if the stock price soars in a short period of time, it will lead to forced liquidation and other liquidation.

In short, shorting is to look down on a certain stock for a period of time in the future.

For a period of time, Apple's market performance has not been very satisfactory. There are many bearish people and not many hands-on ones.

Wen Liang is one of the few big bears in recent times.

After persuading Wang Wanyu, Wang Wanyu led the borrowing of 100 million Apple shares, and then quickly sold them. According to the market price at that time, the proceeds from the sale were more than 6 million US dollars.

In fact, Wen Liang wanted to eat a fat man in one go and borrow more shares, but it was not easy for Wang Wanyu to pay little attention to the capital market in East America.

First, the guarantee cost is too high.

Second, the market fluctuates too much, and the supply of goods may not be sufficient.

The value of the main US$6 million is already equal to one-thousandth of Apple's total market value. In other words, this wave of operations is worth one-thousandth of Apple's total share capital.

Not a small deal.

Since the beginning of this week, Apple's market performance has continued to slump, and it has been falling slightly, but it is only slightly profitable.

This past trading day, Apple fell sharply, so Wang Wanyu quickly bought back 100 million shares at a low price.

Take it when you see it.

When Wang Wanyu said this, Chen Jiaxin and the others, who had stayed up all night, looked at it, and they were all puzzled.

Seeing this, Wang Wanyu briefly explained: "Mr. Wen arranged to use the funds of our asset management company to short Apple with leverage, and the floating profit was about 1 million US dollars. Excluding various costs, the actual profit is based on our shareholding ratio. About 2800 million RMB."

The asset management company divides the shares into 20 equal shares.

5% per person.

But now the number of people is only 11, so it is actually 50% for Wen Liang and 5% for everyone.

This time Xiaoxiaoyi shorted, based on a 5% share, it was about 450 million US dollars per share, or about 2800 million yuan.

Strictly speaking, Wen Liang is not worried about the short-selling loss this time.

Because the institution has given the asset management company a relatively strict liquidation line, according to the buying market price, it only needs to rise by 2% to be forced to close the position. Unfortunately, Apple has been manipulated to death, and it has been falling.

Li Bowen was dumbfounded: "Is there such a windfall?"

"Didn't Mr. Wen say that asset management companies only make prudent investments? In my impression, they are basically government bonds." Tang Pu was also very puzzled this time, as he had never experienced it.

On the contrary, Chen Jiaxin shook her hand indifferently: "You didn't misunderstand the word "steady", but you misunderstood the word "steady" in Mr. Wen's mouth. For Mr. Wen, shorting Apple right now is a stable investment. Don't forget Mr. Wen set his sights on Apple in September.”

"Moreover, the funds of the asset management company seem to have invested in a very inaccurate thing called Bitcoin in addition to investing in government bonds."

"I checked for a long time, and they all said it was a deceptive thing, but in our President Wen's point of view, it is called stable investment."

Li Bowen and Tang Pu looked at each other and nodded approvingly: "Indeed."

Wen Liang glanced at a few people, and said lightly: "Bolang's revenue has stabilized, and there are not many surprises. It just happened to have an opportunity, so I made some steady investments, and I will help everyone earn a little money and improve their living conditions. "

Before a few people opened their mouths, Wen Liang said again: "The play is over, and the harvest is in hand, let's go take a nap, there are still things to do today."

After the three of Chen Jiaxin left, Wang Wanyu turned and walked into the inner lounge.

Instead, Wen Liang left the office and went home.

Both Wen Liang and Wang Wanyu were in the company, so it was impossible to leave Li alone at home. It happened that the lounge in the general manager's office was comparable to that of the president, so it was not a big problem to get a good night's sleep.

No matter how sensible Li Rang is, he is only six years old this year, so he can't feel at ease leaving her alone at night.

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This sleep lasted until twelve noon.

After washing up, Wen Liang went to the cafeteria next door to have lunch before going to the company.

Something really happened today.

And it's a big deal.

Because, today is the 9th.

Yang Xingshan's studio and Dai Li's studio in Luzhou are preparing for the final crossover of the first generation of products.

This is the most important thing on the mobile phone business line.

As someone who has experienced the blossoming of future generations, not to mention the first generation of products, Wen Liang will take time to participate in the finalization meeting for each generation of products.

Now we can still play with the technical moat, but with the development of the process to the extreme, there is no breakthrough in basic science as always, and only the user experience is the competition.

For example, the future Qualcomm 888 and Apple A15, the process and performance are not very obvious, at least the consumer side is difficult to distinguish in general use, the competition is the ecological maturity and the small experience.

……

Wen Liang, who was full of energy after sleeping for about six hours, walked into the company.

Leisurely brewing a pot of tea lifted my spirits.

At 02:30, the online meeting started on time.

Right now Li Ze is going to England, and Wen Liang presided over the meeting.

"Are they all online?"

Wen Liang cleared his throat, and soon got affirmative answers from all parties.

"There are a few things to be determined today, the first draft of the graphical interface, the first draft of the appearance process design, and the conclusion of the discussion on the image of the star system."

"In addition, there are some small things, the security protection capabilities of the system, since they have been targeted by various hacker organizations, they just use them to further improve the bottom layer of the system."

"The most important thing at the moment is the appearance process design, Mr. Dai, you should report first."

After the voice fell, Dai Li's voice came out quickly, and the online call was switched to a live broadcast.

By sharing his desktop, Dai Li showed his completed exterior renderings and details from multiple angles.

"At the beginning of this design, the company conducted market research on its behalf, and selected some consumers' favorite color schemes. Based on the three background colors of moon white, carbon black, and rose gold, the composition design was carried out."

"It needs to be pointed out that after sufficient research, some of the current designs of the iPhone series are indeed good. It is a very good balance of craftsmanship, and it has laid a foundation for recognition."

"..."

Dai Li talked eloquently.

Three very different designs were shown again, one of which required adjustments to the internal industrial design.

Without the inspiration of a full screen, Dai Li's design failed to make a particularly amazing breakthrough.

But standing on the shoulders of his predecessors, Dai Li still came up with some interesting ideas in a small way.

Obviously, the design with the most changes conquered everyone in the meeting.

Everyone voted for support.

Wen Liang also expressed his support, and the plan was finally finalized.

Finally, Dai Li made a brief summary: "This design does not consider the addition of fingerprint recognition for the time being. On the other hand, we still need to finalize the brand and image of the mobile phone as soon as possible."

Wen Liang confirmed: "Another team will follow up on this. After the discussion on the image of the star system is concluded, a final decision will be made. It will only take these two days."

After Dai Li finished his report, Wen Liang was not in a hurry to let Yang Xingshan speak, but called Zhang Yulin's name: "Mr. Zhang, you have specific rules and regulations for overseas network technology competitions."

Zhang Yulin's voice came out: "Before uploading the first version of the system flash file, we had already considered issues such as security and confidentiality. It is unlikely to break through from this level. The confrontation is mainly online;
The weak link is the cloud service that we have not yet had in-depth research results, and it is very likely to penetrate from this aspect. "

"Of course, we have some confidence in every aspect. After all, although the surface display is similar to the mainstream system, the deep-level framework is built from scratch by us, which is completely different. Realizing that the framework is completely different It takes a lot of energy."

"..."

Zhang Yulin talked about a lot of technical solutions, and also mentioned that the team is observing the already ongoing technical field confrontation.

Filling in the gaps.

In the technical field of the operating system, Zhang Yulin has a very strong self-confidence through the success of the star system promotion, and is not afraid of challenges.

There's not much to worry about in this regard.

No defense is impenetrable, but as long as updates are iterated fast enough, there will never be a high-risk vulnerability.

Coincidentally, Zhang Yulin is now in need of these external forces to accumulate more experience.

He is not satisfied with the star system that is already available.

In the end, it was Yang Xingshan's turn to show.

Like Dai Li's process, Yang Xingshan also shared his desktop through live broadcast, actually showing the graphical interface named 'world'.

Different from the previous report, Yang Xingshan came up with two solutions this time.

The underlying logic of the two solutions is slightly different, but the superficial display is very different, and one of them obviously subverts the existing display.

Obviously that was not Yang Xingshan's true level.

The opinion of the soul in there is gentle.

Wen Liang directly denied this version: "Mr. Yang, you need to learn how to squeeze toothpaste when making products. The surface display of this version is not ready yet. In addition, the current mainstream screen size and mainstream technology standards cannot support it."

"Let's improve slowly, we need reserves."

This rejected version was copied by Wen Liang, referring to the design of iOS15, subverting the previous simple icon display scheme.

Seeing what Wen Liang said, Yang Xingshan had no objection, and introduced his version of his true level in detail.

The display of the interface is very special. It does not choose Apple's unified rectangular rounded corner display scheme, which allows icons to be 'shaped'.

Certain display rules have been changed, so that each icon and the background are nested together, which has a little 3D flavor.

However, this version has a problem that needs to be solved, and the app store needs to cooperate with the picture design standard.

Yang Xingshan pondered and said: "I personally tend to divide this issue into two;

At this stage, the app store is open to individual developers. For the sake of aesthetics, the app store actively provides third-party designers for individual developers;

It may not be friendly to enterprise application developers, but because our application system has just started, it will help us establish a rule system belonging to the star system, which is more beneficial to future derivatives;
The downside is that our size is too small, and it is easy to backfire, causing developers to find it troublesome and not far from adapting to our rules;
After all, Apple has established a set of standard solutions with both balance and compromise. "

Wen Liang thought for a while, and finally made a decision: "The surface display of this scheme is more recognizable and better-looking, and it doesn't look messy when matched with various desktop backgrounds. The main reason is that the icon design is more demanding. As for other aspects That is a problem of another dimension, and I believe Bolang Terminal has the confidence to solve it.”

"Let's settle it."

The design itself is excellent, Wen Liang made the final decision, and the next details should be the affairs of various departments.

The problem is not big.

However, in the end, the surface display of this version was not directly launched, but some underlying logic was iterated.

Always leave some surprises, gimmicks and so on at the mobile phone conference.

After all, it is the first generation product.
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PS: I've been feeling down recently. I've tried sweets and rest, but they can't lift me up. Do you have any good ideas?
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