Reborn Millennial Gamer

Chapter 626 Jobs is sick (5k)

"The size of the K1 LCD screen is set at 9.7 inches."

"Not too big, not too small."

"This is our team looking for the golden ratio through a large number of templates, which is equivalent to a piece of white paper in the office."

"The reason for this decision is that our ultimate ambition for tablet computers is to replace all paper used by users in the fields of office, education, and reading, and only need a kindlepad!"

Lu Fei introduced K1 like a painting.

These are all our words!
9.7 inches is also the best size for ipad1 design!
Compared with the dismissive colleagues around him, Cook's teeth were itchy and his whole body was trembling with anger. It was fortunate that Jobs did not come this time.

Otherwise, the ambulance outside the theater should be prepared for him, or Lu Fei, and one of them is destined to lie down today.

On the slide of the projection screen, various performance parameters of kindlepad1 are displayed.

Resolution 800×600, equipped with 256Mb RAm.

And the 1Ghz processor jointly developed by Logic and Freescale.

Harman Kardon dual speakers, specially amplifying the characteristics of the audio-visual tablet, focusing on audio-visual effects as a breakthrough...

"Technology alone is not enough for the tablet market. We also need to combine technology, art and humanities."

Lu Fei was eloquent, glanced around, and felt that the atmosphere of the scene was pretty much the same, and it was time to reach the climax of the press conference——

Reveal the price.

"So how much are these great products selling for?"

He pressed the PPT page presenter, and then the huge curtain popped out glittering numbers, first of all was lphone4.

The 8G version costs $199.

The 16G version costs $299.

They are all contract machines bound to wireless communication manufacturers.

"Clap clap clap."

The audience cheered and applauded. After the subprime mortgage crisis, the price was reasonable and not too expensive.

Cook's heart twitched. At the same price as the iphone3GS, but communication, battery life, performance, and video are all slightly inferior. Maybe it can only be like last year——

Get ready for a price drop.

Holding the same idea, not only the Apple family.

Manufacturers such as Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola, even Nokia, the overlord of mobile phones, have to admit it if they don’t want to admit it. Facing the two-fisted attack of the logic and lphone series, they must speed up the transformation to the direction of smart phones, which is a matter of life and death.

As for tablets, still dismissive.

“kindlepad1带有Wi-Fi的型号售价是399美刀。”陆飞说完耳机、MP3的价格，再说平板电脑，“而具有Wi-Fi和3G蜂窝连接性的型号售价为529美刀。”

"Hi~"

In the unexpected silence, there were only sparse applause, which was not strong at all, and the quiet atmosphere seemed extremely strange.

Cook's eyes lit up, as if he saw a turning point.

The price of kindle and kindlepad is actually not much different, at most it is 50 to 100 dollars more expensive, but this price may not matter at all in the past.

However, this moment and that moment.

The economic crisis is coming, and the landlord's family has no food left!
What's more, for the middle class, spending so much money in such a tight day, it's not worth it to try a weird tablet computer that is between a computer and a mobile phone.

The more he pays attention to the audience's reaction, the more confident Cook is in his judgment. The kindlepad is likely to be untimely, it may not sell well, and it may be a logical Waterloo.

If K1 fails and the ipad can take the opportunity to come out again, it will be able to step on K1's corpse and become the first product of Apple's counterattack logic, and it will be able to sound the clarion call to counter Master Lu.

Just as he was fantasizing happily, Lu Fei was beyond everyone's expectations, as if he had already expected this situation:

"I know this is the darkest moment, but no matter what, the logic will strive to let more people enjoy our products, so that even the poorest people can enjoy the light of technology."

"So, we've partnered with Amazon, Flygo.com and T-Mobile to launch a brand new package campaign."

While speaking, a line of words appeared on the projection screen behind——

"Zero down payment get lphone4 and K1 activity!"

"what!!"

"Oh my God?"

The whole hall was shocked instantly, everyone's eyes widened, and they were so shocked that they were speechless, it was comparable to the landing of a nuclear weapon.

"You can reserve lphone4 online through your social security number. The reservation method is to fill in your personal information on the official websites of Logic and T-Mobile, and choose the 'zero down payment' activity package, which requires no tariffs or interest. "

"You can get a mobile phone with only a small fee!"

Lu Fei opened his hands and the corners of his mouth turned up.

"Snapped."

"Clap clap clap."

"Huh, huh, huh~"

The venue fell into a brief silence, and then a ferocious eruption greeted them, with applause and shouts one after another.

"It's all thanks to our partner, T-Mobile."

Lu Fei pointed to John Legere.

Soon, applause poured into John Legere like a tide, but the three major wireless communication manufacturers such as American Telephone and Telegraph and Verizon Communications looked confused.

what's the situation!what's going on!
What kind of play is this?
Are you two crazy!

Cook was greatly shocked. Although he also couldn't understand it, he could see the excitement written on the faces of the audience. Obviously, the core users of logic and believers of the Three-Body God Sect liked it.

"The same is true for kindlepad1, as long as you order it on Amazon or Feigou.com, you can participate in the zero down payment event."

With a smile on his face, Lu Fei brought a little routine of Huaxia e-commerce to America in advance, and paid in installments with no interest.

Amidst the noise, he quietly put his hips on his hips and pretended to be aggressive for a while.

The crowd is like boiling water, bubbling and bubbling.

Hearing the thunderous applause, Cook felt bad.

God damn Lu Fei!
How many routines do you have that we don't know?

………………

Since the bankruptcy of Lehman, the P2P and subprime mortgage explosions have pushed the financial tsunami to a climax, and financial institutions have failed every day.

The people are increasingly tightening their belts to live, especially the middle-class families who are the main force of consumption, but Lu Fei's "zero down payment" installment payment gave them an illusion.

You must know that the pain of paying in one lump sum and in installments is completely different. You may hesitate to pay the full amount, but after the installments are evened out, you will buy and buy irrationally.

Especially for the United States, who have long been accustomed to credit cards and advanced consumption, it is simply perfect.

After all, a year or two later, the economic crisis will be over.

At least that's what the government and the media have been reporting. Capitol Hill has passed a $7000 billion asset rescue plan.

Henry Paulson's Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are bailing out the crumbling banks and the American financial system.

On the day, the Dow rose 11%.

Created the record for the largest single-day increase in 76 years!
It appears that the American economy is showing signs of recovery.

Greatly stimulated the public's desire to consume, the number of pre-sales on T-Mobile, Feigo.com, Amazon and Logic's websites are all rising crazily.

It can be regarded as a bright firework in the darkest hour!
And T-Mobile with logic took off again.

The trend of user loss has disappeared, and instead, the number of payments is increasing, all for lphone4.

Seeing that Master Lu's routine was working, John Legere and T-Mobile executives couldn't sit still any longer, and immediately agreed to open the pre-sale of K1 flat-panel TV with zero down payment.

Even crazy enough to count logicX2.

The performance is booming, and John Legere excitedly expressed his favor to Lu Fei and Logic on Twitter, saying: "Need to give potential users a reason to spend less money and use a smaller network, what else is better than a logic phone, A tablet would be better?"

T-Mobile has caused a mess in the entire American market, and the other three major wireless communication manufacturers are jealous and aggrieved. The spokesperson of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company commented rather uncomfortably——

This is definitely here to make trouble!

At the same time, mobile phone manufacturers couldn't stand it anymore, especially after looking at their own dismal sales, and seeing that Logic is still leading the way in such a depressed market.

The pre-sale of lphone4 exceeded 3 units in 50 days.

Kindlepad1 also climbed steadily, breaking the record of the fastest 3 reservations held by kindle10.

The first one to be unhappy is Apple.

The development direction of smart phones should focus on "intelligence", the screen, performance, and even charging. Logically focusing on camera breakthroughs is a downright evil path!

Logic's tablet isn't really a computer either!
Nokia, BlackBerry, etc. followed closely behind and also joined in. Because of the existence of logic, the manufacturers turned out to be the same enemy.

But it is still difficult to stop the wave of pre-orders of logic.

"What the hell is going on!!"

Jobs' sickly face was full of abnormal redness, and he paced back and forth: "Why is he always one step ahead of us and come up with something that looks like us? Why is he always one step ahead of us!"

"I thought it might be next year or the year after next from kindle to kindlepad, but I didn't expect it to be this year."

Cook showed a wry smile, and from the corner of his eye, he glanced at a World War II poster hanging in the office, which read——

"If the mouth is not firm, the battleship sinks."

Obviously this time it can no longer be attributed to secrecy, the ipad project has achieved their greatest degree of secrecy.

Unless Lu Fei is either 007 or has a time machine.

"kindlepad and lphone4 are two pieces of shit!!"

Jobs yelled loudly, swearing and swearing in different ways, all of which were all kinds of fancy words composed of faq and bitch.

"But it's also a piece of shit."

Cook reassured: "Steve, although we have lost the first-mover advantage, as long as the ipad surpasses in terms of performance and experience, there will be no problems. In this era, user experience is the first driving force, not just It's technology-driven."

"But we can't just leave it at that. What does ATT and Verizon say?"

Jobs gritted his teeth, veins popping out of his nose.

The closed system of IOS makes Apple doomed to regard all mobile phone manufacturers as the opponents of iPhone, especially the Android system. It must not allow the leader Logic to develop so satisfactorily.

"They all refused to cooperate with us to engage in a similar logic 'zero down payment' campaign." Cook sighed.

"Can we patent the logic?"

Jobs didn't believe that there were no patent loopholes in logic.

It is absolutely impossible for any company to design a new mobile phone operating system without violating patents, just like if a mobile phone is to be plugged into a Windows system and used as a USB flash drive, it must use a file system that Microsoft can recognize, right?
Both FAT and NTFS are Microsoft patents.

The reason why Apple's devices can't be used directly as USB flash drives is to avoid Microsoft's patents and not to pay Microsoft.

"It's a bit difficult right now."

"Where is the difficulty?"

"The difficulty is that Lu has already made preparations."

Cook looked helpless, and Lu Fei acted first. Logically, manufacturers such as Nokia, Google, Microsoft, and Motorola can exchange their patents if they can, and pay if they can’t.
For example, Microsoft.

The Android system is developed based on the Linux platform, so each Android device will pay Microsoft a license fee of US$3.

With patents authorized by Microsoft, Apple can be ignored on many patents, and Apple has very few weapons to sue logic for infringement. On the contrary, logic is still stuck in Apple's neck.

"So we just do nothing?"

Jobs was so angry that his liver ached and he was sweating coldly.

"No, of course not. Nokia wants to do it more than we do. The strength of logic has already made Kallasvuo feel the crisis. It is said that they are discussing patent litigation to teach Lu a lesson."

Cook adjusted his glasses.

"And then suddenly withdraw the lawsuit like Yangtze River Storage?"

Jobs squeezed out the words through his teeth in pain: "We can't place our hopes on unreliable others, not to mention that Nokia's doing this is just to recover the loss of lost market share, and it will not hurt the root of the Android system. Think of ways to."

"Maybe we don't deal with logic directly, we can deal with the wings of logic first."

"Are you talking about dealing with members of the Android Open Alliance? But Samsung, Motorola, and Sony are not good at it."

"No, no, there is one, Wanwan's HTC."

A shrewd gleam flashed in Cook's eyes.

HTC was a mobile phone assembly factory before, and the number of patents is very small. As long as Apple can attack HTC, Google and Logic will be the two speakers of the alliance. up.

"Okay, let's do it like this, you are responsible..."

Jobs gasped in pain, his eyes darkened.

"Steve! Steve!"

Cook was shocked, and under the premise of strictly preventing leaks, he quickly sent Jobs to the San Francisco branch treatment center.

"Did he work long hours irregularly and get angry after the tumor was removed?" The attending physician flipped through the test sheets, X-rays and other inspection reports.

"Occasionally."

Cook smacked his lips, he couldn't say he was pissed off by Lu Fei every day, could he?

"Being angry for a long time will cause liver damage." The attending physician frowned and announced the bad news to them.

Jobs was diagnosed with advanced liver cirrhosis.

Right now, a liver transplant must be performed immediately!

"what!!"

Jobs gritted his teeth, [-]% of his liver was caused by Lu Fei's anger, Lu Fei, you god damn it!
My liver!

Although he agreed to the liver transplantation plan, the source of liver was not always available. According to the list registered by the California Liver Transplant Center, it would take at least 10 months for Jobs to turn.

In order to save lives, it can only be registered in other states.

Externally, he announced that he would take a 5-month sick leave.

During this period, Tim Cook acted as Apple's CEO.

All of a sudden, Apple's stock price plummeted 5.3 points.

"Only a week ago, Jobs said that he was undergoing treatment for a hormonal disorder and would soon recover to continue leading the company, but apparently his health was not as healthy as Apple announced, and worse than expected... "

On TV, the host bad-mouthed Jobs' health.

Lu Fei held the remote control, turned it to mute, and gave orders to Xu Xin on the other end of the phone, not to do anything to Apple.

"Really don't buy a share?"

"No hurry, Sister Xin, Apple's stock price, no, it should be said that the entire US stock market has to plummet, and then is the time for us to buy the bottom."

"No way? I think the US$7000 billion stimulus plan is still passed, and the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 are starting to rebound."

"These rebounds are not going to make a difference at all. This bear market in US stocks will last at least two or three months. Just wait."

Lu Fei knocked on the desktop. If I remember correctly, Apple's stock price once fell to $2.38 per share during the subprime mortgage crisis.

"dong dong dong~"

Guo Xing knocked on the door, "Mr. Lu, according to the latest news, Apple may be preparing to initiate a patent lawsuit against HTC."

"Is the source reliable?"

"It's more reliable, it's from Sol."

"Old Guo, what do you think?"

"Could it be that Jobs was venting his dissatisfaction? Knowing that he couldn't sue us, he went to bully HTC."

"Then why does he bully HTC, why is he a member of our Android camp?"

"You mean, Apple is here for Android?"

"Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is aimed at Pei Gong."

Lu Fei rubbed his chin, "Notify HTC's Mr. Wang as soon as possible, and let them prepare for it. Apple has obviously weaponized the patent lawsuit. It seems that our patent acquisition plan is about to speed up. What is Nortel Networks now? Condition?"

"It has reached the edge of life and death."

Guo Xing showed a gloating expression.

Nortel Networks was already in debt, and the subprime mortgages detonated the global financial crisis. The financial problems were further magnified, and they had no choice but to ask the Canadian government for 10 billion US dollars in assistance.

However, it was ruthlessly rejected.

"That is to say, as long as the interest on a debt is not paid, you can only apply to the court for bankruptcy, right?"

From a pile of documents, Lu Fei pulled out documents such as the balance sheet of Nortel Networks. Almost all CDMA and LTE assets, enterprise network business, and VoIP business were losing money.

Only Metro Ethernet and Optical Networks are making money.

"Yes, Huawei is also eyeing this piece of fat, and wants to take the opportunity to acquire some high-quality assets, and wants to say hello to us in advance, so as not to bid with each other and cause discordant friction."

Guo Xing handed him a cigarette.

"Huawei is thinking too much!"

Lu Fei smiled coldly, "Whether it's him or us, Nortel Networks is not qualified to serve it at all."

Guo Xing nodded and lit the fire: "You're right, even if Canada agrees, the United States will never agree to give any of us a chance to acquire it alone."

"We can only find Microsoft, Google, Blackstone and other forces to form a consortium to acquire. This is the only way."

Lu Fei took a breath, "Someone report the route to New York for me. I have already asked Bill Gates to record a dialogue program about the future development of computers."

(End of this chapter)