The senior is still here, senior sister, please respect yourself

Rotten fruit, headquarters.

In the top-level meeting hall, most of the Directors of Rotten Fruit came over, but none of them looked very good, and few of them could even laugh.

In the first place, Cook's face was slightly gloomy. He did not expect that Xiao Zhang suddenly caught him off guard and directly pushed the future man out at such a fast speed.

Not to mention that he spent 50 billion US dollars, it is very likely that this money will be wasted. The key point is that Xiao Zhang's navy team paved the way for future people, so that it became a stepping stone for future people.

Now, 50 billion is a small matter.

The development momentum of future people has exceeded everyone's expectations. In just a short time, five million mobile phones have been directly sold. What is this concept?

If five million units are sold, then at least three million units will be sold less. After all, the market share is limited. If three million units are sold less, what is the profit?

Calculating the minimum profit of 300 US dollars per unit, it is almost 1 billion US dollars.

The key thing is that this is only the sales volume in the next few days. The final data will be far more than this. Apple's direct losses in this wave are likely to reach 3 billion US dollars.

And the indirect losses are huge!

After all, if a user locks other mobile phones, he may not repurchase Apple for many years. In other words, the loss in ten years will directly exceed 30 billion.

"Chairman, everyone is here!"

An assistant in a suit came to Cook's side at this moment, leaned over and said something.

"Okay!" Cook nodded, then looked at everyone, and said in a deep voice: "Fellow directors, I have called you here today. I think you all know why."

"Future mobile phones are developing at an incredible pace. In just a few days, sales across all platforms have exceeded five million units."

"According to this momentum, in the future, the number of mobile phones is likely to exceed 10 million units in a short period of time, and the annual shipment volume may also exceed 20 million or even 30 million units."

"The positioning of future people and Apple are highly overlapping, and they are both high-end people. If it sells 30 million units, this will inevitably seriously affect our company's sales."

"Right now, our company's stock price has been declining for several consecutive days, and its market value has shrunk by 350 billion, which is very serious."

"Everyone, tell me what you think." After Cook finished speaking, he put down the manuscript, clasped his hands, and looked at the many directors around him. He was also very anxious.

Listening to Cook's words, no one was surprised.

After all, they knew before coming that this meeting was for people from the future.

They really didn't expect that a foreigner would sweep the entire country in less than a month, and the momentum has been so fierce in recent days.

Cook then signaled to the assistant at the side. The assistant understood and immediately turned on the projector. Then Cook solemnly said: "Everyone, this is the conclusion that I arranged for top engineers to come to."

"These are Future People's data and our company's data. After multiple comparisons, our company's mobile phone performance generally lags behind Future People's by about 50%."

"This value is an average value. If we cannot make up for this gap in a short time, more and more of our users will turn to Future People."

Cook flipped through the reports, feeling slightly depressed.

If Future People only rely on marketing to succeed, then they don’t need to be afraid at all, because the rotten fruit has been settling for a long time, but Future People’s reputation will definitely be unbelievably good.

When the users of these five million machines spread, their company's share will be squeezed again, which is inevitable.

Looking at these values, the directors started to discuss.

Obviously, people in the future will not only bring pressure, but also crisis, because no company in the world can guarantee that their company will be ahead of the pack.

Not to mention being so far ahead.

You know, a 50% lead is on the same level as Rotten Fruit leading domestic machines.

"Chairman, how about we release the latest mobile phones as soon as possible and try to win back part of the market?" someone immediately suggested.

This is also their usual routine. In the past, they suppressed other brands and almost relied on this trick, which is to put the sales date together with other mobile phones, so that customers with the same price range will most likely choose them.

In later generations, they were far ahead with many stops.

"Haha, the latest model?" Cook chuckled, and then turned the page with his finger again: "This is a change of the latest mobile phone, although the performance of our latest model has been improved in all aspects."

"However, the maximum improvement will not exceed 25%. In other words, when the latest model is released, there will be a gap between us and future generations. In this way, wouldn't it make people look down on it even more?"

Cook said gloomily, this is also the scariest place for people in the future.

If Rotten Fruit cannot win the high-end market, then it is impossible for them to capture the low-end market. What's more, in the low-end market, China's Mi people are still very powerful.

"This," everyone frowned, feeling troubled.

Because it seems that the situation is indeed not favorable to them. In all these years, Rotten Fruit has never seen such a serious crisis. This future boss has something.

"If we don't come up with an effective solution, the stock price may continue to fall, and our market share will continue to decline."

"You have to know that this is still a situation where people in the future have not opened up the supply of headsets. You all know the pros and cons of that game. We will wait until it is fully supplied,"

"With the power of this game, it will sweep across all mobile phone industries. By then, let alone us, the mobile phone industry around the world will be in a cold winter."

Cook said in a very serious tone.

He is more convinced of this because he has played games, because you can hack some things for a while, but you can't hack them forever.

For the virtual reality game Future Man, you can ask the navy to set the pace for a short period of time, but as time goes by, those normal customers will side with Future Man.

What's more, when it comes to naval warfare, how could they possibly defeat Xiao Zhang? Xiao Zhang's hacking skills alone could easily defeat him, so he didn't dare to fight a naval battle at all.

Everyone looked solemn, and everyone had their own secrets. Some were even thinking about whether to sell some stocks and cash out. After all, people in the future are indeed so cautious.

"Chairman, do you think you can ask the higher-ups to help suppress it? Even if we don't suppress it, we should support enterprises like ours."

"Otherwise, wouldn't the country's lifeline be placed in the hands of an outsider?" A director pondered and immediately suggested.

"Yes, Chairman, we can't come forward in this matter, but it may be possible to suppress it through the hands of the superiors. Our company pays so much tax to the superiors a year, so we have this right after all, right?"

Someone immediately echoed.

Mainly, the hard power of future people is too strong. At the moment, it is a bit unrealistic to rely on technology to defeat them. Since technology cannot defeat them, this is the only way to go. “Haha, you are so naive, you are so naive!”

"What is Xiao Zhang? That is a hot commodity. With his talent and status, how can the higher-ups dare to put pressure on him? If pressure is exerted and Xiao Zhang runs away, whose loss do you think it is?"

"Not only will the higher-ups not exert pressure, I even think they will be more supportive and increase Xiao Zhang's sense of belonging. It is unrealistic to expect the higher-ups to suppress Xiao Zhang."

Cook sneered and shook his head. These directors had fought too many rubbish opponents in the past, but suddenly they felt that everyone was rubbish, and their minds were like lumps in the elm, and they were not enlightened.

He even thought about letting the superiors kill a person like Xiao Zhang. Obviously, no one dared to do this, because even if the superiors did not use the things in Xiao Zhang's hands, they would not dare to release them to other countries.

You know, countries like the Elephant Country, the Northern Bear Country, etc. are all looking forward to it. As long as Xiao Zhang feels a little wronged, they will immediately offer enough attractive conditions to welcome Xiao Zhang.

Moreover, once these two countries possess Xiao Zhang's technology, their room for improvement will be much greater than theirs. Doing so is tantamount to shooting themselves in the foot.

This is the only thing the higher-ups dare not do.

"Then what should we do? Is it possible to just watch and watch?" Someone spread his hands, a little anxious, because he really felt that it was unfair.

However, when they use these rules to suppress the weak, it is not fair or unfair.

"I'm letting you come up with solutions now, not create problems for me. If I know how to solve them, why would I summon the Supreme Board of Directors?"

Cook couldn't help but say something.

The directors fell silent. Indeed, they had to find a way.

"Chairman, I think, in the words of the Chinese ancestors, it is not to care about the gains and losses of one city or one place, but to plan for the distant future and prepare for a rainy day."

A young director said.

"Elaborate!" Cook nodded, and all the directors also looked over.

"Everyone, we may have fallen into a misunderstanding, that is, how to solve the problem of people rising in the future. In fact, it cannot be solved by doing it, so you have no idea."

"Futureman, in terms of appearance, charging, performance, etc., is superior to all mobile phones on the market. Since this kind of mobile phone exists, it is impossible to curb its development."

"Instead of wasting time on this meaningless thing, it is better to think about the next step in advance, that is, our plan after people take charge in the future."

"Otherwise, we will still be passive after waiting." The director said solemnly.

Listening to the director's words, many people were thoughtful. Cook squinted his eyes, as if he wanted to understand something. Just as the director said,

No one can stop the future trend, so instead of trying to contain it, it is better to minimize the losses. This is the message Cook heard from this director.

"So, what are your plans?" Cook asked.

"I think the first thing is to do the next step, which is to bind the technology of the virtual reality game we purchased and connect it to the next mobile phone as soon as possible."

"In this way, at least we don't have to lose our resistance in the next round of competition. Otherwise, the gap between us and future people will be even greater in the second round of competition."

"The second thing is to actively communicate with future people instead of trying to fight with them. As the chairman said before, Xiao Zhang is not a normal person."

"That is to say, he probably has abilities that we don't know about. If this is the case, if we force him to be his enemy, we may end up in a place of no return."

"Active communication and active cooperation may be the way out." The young director responded immediately using his own set of analysis standards.

Hearing this, some people were thoughtful, while others were angry.

"Fake, do you know what you are talking about? Our company is the best in the world. We have tens of thousands of engineers and top scientists. You want us to choose to be second to none?"

"And he actively cooperates with people from the future? Have you ever seen a strong person take the initiative to show weakness to a weak person?" The speaker was also a director, but judging from his age, he was relatively older.

"That's right. If we take the initiative to show weakness, wouldn't it increase his ambition, and it will be counterproductive at that time? This is definitely not a good idea. You are driving us to destruction."

Seeing the two directors starting to attack him, the young director did not show weakness, but said solemnly: "Huh, two directors, you have also experienced great storms!"

"You should know better than me the principle of survival of the fittest, right? Nokia was so powerful back then, but because it didn't understand change, it had old ideas and the same old routine,"

"In the end, I don't need to say more about what happened, right?"

"Right now, the technological content of future people is definitely beyond ours. If we insist on being enemies with them and don't understand change, our final outcome will probably not be much better than Nokia's back then!"

The director was also young and energetic, and he actually said such things directly, but some people could listen, while others thought it was nonsense.

"Nokia is Nokia, not our rotten fruit. What qualifications do they have to be compared with us? As for what you said, it is all about boosting other people's ambitions."

"That's right. Are you already planning to invest in the Future People? Do you think we will surrender to the Future People?"

"Shopping malls are like battlefields. It's hard for you to say so if we expect our colleagues to show mercy to us."

Immediately, a group of people began to reprimand the director. Obviously, they did not think that Rotten Guo's current survival needs required him to beg for food from Xiao Zhang. At least, this would not be possible in the short term.

The young director was very angry when he saw that these people were so confused about the current situation.

"That's enough!" Cook snorted coldly, interrupting everyone's discussion.

As the chairman, it is naturally impossible for him to do such a thing. Even if people in the future overturn Apple, he still cannot do such a thing. This is called cowardice before fighting, which is a taboo.

"Reserve this opinion. You have seen the attitudes of the directors. What's more, although the current situation is critical, it is not a life or death situation."

Cook looked at the young director and said in a deep voice.

Although he also felt that Xiao Zhang's future potential was much greater than that of Rotten Guo, but as the director of Rotten Guo, it was impossible for him to do so.

All I can say is, take it one step at a time.

The young director did not answer the call. No one agreed with his point of view, so forget it. Anyway, the market value of the rotten fruit he had solved was unlikely to come back in a short time.

After all, being number one and number two in the world still has a huge impact.

And this meeting also ended hastily without any results! (End of chapter)