Cupertino, California, where Apple's Spaceship headquarters building is located. This 2.8 million-square-foot circular building is like a castle, belonging to the Apple empire. In Steve Jobs' own words during his lifetime, the new building was like "a landing spaceship", while the American media likened it to a "giant glass donut".
At this moment, 4 hours have passed since Futureman Technology held a mobile phone conference. Apple CEO Tim Cook sat in his office, leaning on his office chair and remaining silent. It was the first time since Steve Jobs' death that he was so worried about the company's future.
By the way, in just these two days, Apple's market value has evaporated by US$20 billion. Wall Street analysts believe that Futureren Technology’s announcement to enter the mobile phone manufacturing industry will change Apple’s dominance in the field of mid-to-high-end smartphones.
When it comes to mobile phones, Cook pessimistically discovered that Apple 8 has no advantages other than price.
This is undoubtedly very ironic for the Apple 8, which is positioned in the high-end market.
Looking at it in his hand, Tim Cook sighed.
Even his competitor has to admit that the design is perfect, especially the function of the holographic screen, which is simply hard to put down. If he wasn't worried about the media fanning the flames, he would have wanted to change his mobile phone.
There was a knock at the door.
Putting it aside, Cook said listlessly.
"Please come in."
The door opened and his assistant, Bernard Behrman, came in. As soon as he stepped through the door, the assistant gentleman spoke.
"Two news, one good and one bad, which one do you want to hear first?"
"It's an old joke. Just say whichever one you think will make me feel better." Cook waved his hand.
Behrman looked a little embarrassed, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke.
"The product development department reverse-engineered the mobile phone, and combined with the documents we obtained from the U.S. Intellectual Property Office, we have almost parsed their technology."
"Oh?" Cook's eyes lit up and he sat up, crossing his fingers on the table. "How long will it take to apply it to our 9... No, it can't be called 9. The epoch-making product series must be renamed. Just call it -N1…”
"Sir..." Behrman spoke awkwardly, interrupting Cook's fantasy in a low voice.
"What's wrong? There's still bad news, right?" Cook said, "It doesn't matter, how much royalties do they plan to charge? If the price is too high, we can sue them."
"It's not a matter of patent fees." Bellman gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind to say, "Although we have analyzed the technology, how to mass-produce their parts... None of our foundry factories can do it. . ”
Cook was stunned for a moment, then leaned back in his chair with a wry smile.
"I knew it."
Why did Futureren Heavy Industries start a high-profile entry into the electronics industry at the beginning of the year and acquire a series of electronic equipment production companies from screen design to cameras? Integrating graphene technology and building an entire production line from scratch, their plans were not small from the beginning.
This is not about dominating the smartphone industry. They are trying to monopolize the entire graphene industry from the source.
Let’s welcome the future together
It would be more appropriate to put it another way.
monopolize the entire future.
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Due to limited production capacity, the price is even more than ten times higher on the black market in some countries. However, even so, mobile phones are still expensive but not marketable. News about buying the phone can be seen everywhere on major forums, just like when the Phantom helmet was released.
Whether it is in terms of style or practicality, this mobile phone that can be kept in your hand, stuffed into your wallet, and can project holographic images has completely dominated the limelight. Coupled with Future People Technology’s marketing and omni-channel promotion, it adds fuel to the fire.
It is precisely because of this that it has won the favor of young men and women as soon as it was launched.
"I want to buy a mobile phone for 10,000 yuan. If you want it, please send me a message! Contact information XXXX..."
"Upstairs, if you were talking about dollars, I might consider it."
"My little sister is 18 this year. I want a mobile phone. Can any good brother fulfill my wish? Can I make a video first~"
“…”
There were also some weird people who directly liked Jiang Chen's scarf. They threw all kinds of selfies without any trace of S or stolen pictures and watermarks. They asked for hookups and unspoken rules just for one. Jiang Chen looked so excited. The unscrupulous people are speechless.
Not only are mobile phone sales booming, the Deep Blue M1 chip, a mobile processor designed by Future Heavy Industries, has also been favored by major mobile phone manufacturers. Within a month, Futureren Heavy Industries received orders for two million chips. If it were not for the priority of meeting the needs of mobile phones, the Deep Blue M1 chip alone would make the Future Group make a lot of money.
There are also graphene screens.
With many features such as lightness, resistance to falling, and high toughness, graphene screens can be said to have completely defeated the most advanced OLED screens and become the most promising display material in the future. More than a dozen companies, including Futureman Technology’s rivals Apple, Samsung and other smartphone giants, have placed orders with Futureman Heavy Industries in the hope of updating their mobile phone screens.
Regarding these competitors, Jiang Chen did not make things difficult for them.
On the premise of meeting the mobile phone production capacity, he does not mind letting these competitors help him absorb excess production capacity. After all, the more you produce, the lower your costs can be. Is there anything more pleasurable than using the money earned from competitors to expand and improve production lines and strengthen one's own strength
The most important thing is that they had to hold their noses to admit it!
The patent is in Jiang Chen’s hands. Do you want to develop it yourself? Okay, every time you produce a screen, battery, chip, and patent fee, the cost of your mobile phone will explode! Moreover, products designed independently at the cost of more than one billion US dollars may not be as good as Future Heavy Industries, which has more mature graphene technology.
In the end, you still have to buy screens, chips, and batteries from Future Heavy Industries...
As for the most critical interactive holographic projection component, which is the main selling point of future technology mobile phones, Jiang Chen said that he would never sell it to competitors.
monopoly? Unfair competition? Haha, if you have the ability, come to Xinguo and sue me.
Equipment with high technical content is completed in the high-tech park on Anga Island. Apart from supplying technology to future people, it will not enter the market at all. If you want to copy the interactive holographic projection technology, then take the patent documents and study it yourself.
In less than five years, don’t even think about understanding the production process. Five years later, Jiang Chen no longer needs to keep this technology in his pocket. When more powerful technologies come out, these outdated technologies can be packaged and sold directly.
This is the advantage of having an advantage in technology. Not only can others pick up your leftovers, they also have to hold their noses and swallow them. With the technology from the apocalypse side as a guarantee, Jiang Chen would not have to worry about being overtaken in technology for at least a hundred years.
As for a hundred years from now…
Jiang Chen didn't want to think about things that were too far away for the time being. If the crisis 20.5 light-years away cannot be overcome, let alone his future people group, whether the earth's civilization can continue in this timeline is a question. (.)