Crossover: 2014

Chapter 175 A Quotation That Exceeded Expectations

Huang Jing patiently explained to Lin Hui, in fact, Lin Hui understood what Huang Jing wanted to say just by listening to a few words.

Because this is not the first time Lin Hui encountered such a description, Lin Hui remembered that he had seen a description similar to Huang Jing's in the developer incentive plan before:

"The selection of high-quality apps is in the charge of the αpple team.

For general apps, we will score from several aspects such as UI design and user experience to select high-quality apps..."

This so-called test Lin Hui originally thought it was just a test for selecting high-quality apps.

It turns out that this thing is called "Apple Fit Test" in Huang Jing's mouth.

Huang Jing continued to describe: "...in the fit test, if you get a score of 90 or more, it will be listed as a high-quality app, and the software with a score of 98 or more is also a useful tool software or efficiency app. On the software side, Apple will organize an additional team to evaluate..."

Hearing this, Lin Hui suddenly realized.

This is not in vain before Lin Hui spent a lot of painstaking efforts to meet Apple's aesthetic requirements.

If this is the case, Lin Hui can follow this rule to create a bunch of applications as soon as possible, waiting for Apple to acquire them.

As a well-known big dog, Apple has acquired hundreds of software and hardware companies.

(Lin Hui remembers seeing it on the news not long ago:
At the end of May this year [2014], Apple officially acquired Beats with a huge sum of US$30 billion that far exceeded public expectations.

The acquisition is notable not only because it is the largest single transaction in Apple's history.

On the other hand, it is because beats is somewhat inconsistent with Apple, regardless of brand image, values, etc., so that many people are puzzled.

Of course, it's just that many people in this time and space don't understand it.

Lin Hui still knows, and the signs of Apple's move are very clear.

Apple is already brewing to enter the wireless headset market.

Of course, maybe the people in this time and space are not ignorant.

I just don't want to believe why Apple's entry point for wireless earphones is the beats of "buy a necklace and get earphones"
But this has nothing to do with Lin Hui.

Even if Apple has plans to enter the wireless headset market.

According to the normal timeline, the first generation of Airpords was released in 16.

If Lin Hui really wants to use this information, he is not in a hurry.

What's more, things involving hardware require long-term layout.

Really want to make quick money or the software is easy.

When it comes to software, Lin Hui has the impression that the software acquired by Apple is more than just a shortcut command.

The shortcut command app is really not the most valuable one in Apple's series of acquisitions, only tens of millions of dollars.

Lin Hui remembers that when Apple acquired Texture, it spent US$4.85 million.

Texture is an app-based digital magazine subscription service.

Users who use this software have access to more than 9.99 magazines for a monthly subscription of $200 after a seven-day free trial:

Including "Time/Time", "GQ", "Vanity Fair", "Atlantic Monthly", "New York/Yorker", "Bloomberg Businessweek" and other famous periodicals.

Although the integration of resources related to these journals is quite troublesome.

But the development of this software is really not complicated, it is simply free.

Moreover, even if such software is developed to Apple Forest Ash, it seems that there is no need to feel guilty.

Hu, who cuts off the fruit company, why do you feel guilty?
Not many people even know about APPLE NEWS+ in the previous life.

Lin Hui silently remembered this matter.

Although it is troublesome to integrate resources, it is only for now.

After all, Lin Hui couldn't always fight alone.

In the future, Lin Hui's network will weave a huge network that will cover the sky and cover the sky.

In addition to this software, there are many insignificant applications that Apple is interested in that can be sold.

Coupled with the professional model corresponding to the overseas version of Nanfeng APP not long ago, it seems that the capital will exceed 1 million US dollars soon.

In fact, it seems that there is no need to wait that long. The software "HILL CLIMB RACING" that Lin Hui made earlier will also be acquired in the near future.

If these two mergers and acquisitions can go smoothly in a short period of time, the decisive liquidity will directly exceed 1 million US dollars ($_$)
However, Lin Hui cannot be blindly optimistic, which is different from a small company like Super Cell.

Apple had previously signed a sharing contract and sent eight people. What happened to the acquisition of an app worth tens of millions of dollars?

Moreover, for the tens of millions of dollars of mergers and acquisitions, it seems that no one in Apple zg in the period of the four business groups can come out to make a decision on this matter.

So there is a high probability that Apple headquarters sent someone?
Lin Hui asked Huang Jing, "By the way, do you know who is in charge of mergers and acquisitions at Apple headquarters?"

Huang Jing said: "It should be Adrian Perica (Adrian Perica), who joined Apple in 2009 and has since been responsible for overseeing a series of important technologies and successful mergers of new businesses in the fields of hardware, software and services. He should be in charge of this merger involving this software you worked on."

Adrian Perica, Lin Hui remembers.

Although this person is not visible now, he became Apple's vice president of corporate development in 19.

In the next few years, it will probably rank 18th among Apple's 16 global executives.

After 2019, this person ranks even higher than Phil Schiller that Lin Hui heard Huang Jing mentioned before.

However, Lin Hui was not very familiar with this person.

Huang Jing continued: "If he is really in charge of the merger and acquisition, and you have the intention to transfer this software.

Then this acquisition is basically a certainty. "

Lin Hui asked, "Oh, why?"

Huang Jing: "Because Adrian Perica is your senior."

Lin Hui: "My senior?"

Huang Jing: "That's right, when you chatted with the twin sisters that day, didn't you say that you went to MIT to study?

And Adrian Perica is also a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Although he is studying for an MBA at MIT, he is certainly your senior in a sense.

This person also often regards himself as a member of MIT, with a fairly good personality, and has always been supportive of MIT's backwardness.

In the previous several mergers and acquisitions, he was said by some people inside Apple that he was too inclined to take care of MIT's backward...

But this man still goes his own way,

Speaking of which, I really envy you, you actually got your MIT degree without making any noise.

As long as you enter MIT, it is basically equivalent to being able to get involved with most of the IT circles in the United States.

Even if there is no direct relationship, it is easy to climb into the relationship.

With a little management, it is a super network..."

Lin discouraged, is it okay if I and the boss are alumni?
Huang Jing and Lin Huilu chatted for a long time.

If it is as Huang Jing analyzed, then this matter is indeed stable.

Having said that, it involves such a transaction of tens of millions of dollars.

Do you want cash or stock?
However, it does not matter whether the form of transaction is cash or stock.

One thing Lin Hui knew very well, he was about to take off.

And this is inseparable from the little bit of momentum before.

As the saying goes, "the wind rises from the end of Qingping, and the waves form between the small waves".

Lin Hui probably had an online preliminary contact with the Apple/Apple acquisition team on the afternoon of the 24th.

There were some deviations in the previous predictions of the acquisition of Lin Hui involving shortcut commands.

Apple/Apple’s acquisition plan for the shortcut software:
Although Apple/Apple has plans to launch the shortcut software as soon as possible.

But Apple/Apple does not intend to launch the shortcut software in a hurry at the WWDC Global Developers Conference in early June.

Apple/Apple intends to launch the shortcut command software in the new phone officially released in mid-September.

Uh, although mid-September and early June are just two and a half months.

But as one of the largest technology companies in the world at this time, Apple/Apple.

It took two and a half months to thoroughly understand the technology involved in shortcut commands, which can be said to be effortless.

As a result, Lin Hui has almost no room to sit on the ground and raise prices.

But despite this, the first round of quotations given by Apple/Apple still exceeded Lin Hui's expectations.

$6000 million offer!

Hearing this quote Lin Hui felt overwhelmed and overwhelmed.

For some reason, Lin Hui suddenly remembered the scene in a certain anime where a big dog looks for a rabbit to buy missiles.

Lin Hui is naturally a rabbit, and Pingguo plays the role of a big dog.

To be honest, this quotation from Apple/Apple made a lot of rhetoric prepared by Lin Hui useless.

Lin Hui's original psychological expectation for the transfer of the shortcut command software was about 4000 million US dollars after tax.

Among them, the software itself is worth about 3000 million U.S. dollars, and the market compensation is 1000 million U.S. dollars.

The so-called market compensation is because the software that Lin Hui made before was transferred directly to Apple/Apple without going online.

In this case, it seems unreasonable not to compensate Lin Hui.

In fact, Lin Hui would be satisfied if he could earn 4000 million US dollars after tax, but after all, the software Shortcuts in his previous life was only sold for 3000 million US dollars.

Now Apple/Apple directly gives an offer of 6000 million US dollars after tax.

Ah, this is directly impossible for Lin Hui.

Through further contact, Lin Hui learned about Apple's thinking.

There is a reason why Apple/Apple offered $6000 million.

Apple/Apple believes that the software that Lin Hui made with shortcut commands is worth 3000 million US dollars, the software creativity is 2000 million US dollars, and the software market compensation is 1000 million US dollars.

Can creativity be sold?

Ideas do sell money.

But under normal circumstances, abstract "creative ideas" are rarely singled out and sold for money.

Generally, the products based on creativity are sold.

Isn't software the embodiment of creativity?
What is it about "creativity" being brought out independently?

Wait, it seems like a generalization to say that software is the embodiment of creativity.

After all, some software has no creativity at all.

After thinking about it carefully, Lin Hui felt that it is reasonable to separate "software" and "creativity" to measure the value.

And this approach can also avoid some potential disputes.

After all, in reality, the actual developers of some software and the creators of the software are two different groups.

When this kind of dispute was involved in the previous life, the role played by the software creator was often buried.

(End of this chapter)