Li Mu had to admit that the feeling of hammering an apple was really not an ordinary pleasure for him!
This feeling is like beating Muhammad Ali in a crushing way, but traveling back in time and beating Muhammad Ali when he was three or five years old.
But this still makes Li Mu feel satisfied. Anyway, there is no law to protect minors in the financial industry.
As a person who was reborn from the future, Li Mu has respect for Apple, but this respect is not enough to offset the threat that Apple will bring to Makino Technology in the future. Therefore, as a qualified businessman, Li Mu has no feelings in his heart, nor No respect, only life and death.
Just imagine, if Apple’s development is not interfered with, in a few years, the iPhone will sweep the world, and the APP-Store will also become a powerful tool for making money for Apple because of the success of the iPhone. Apple is famous for its toughness. By then, Makino Technology YY and other applications are launched in the APP-Store, but they have to hand over 30% of all value-added revenue to Apple. What the hell is that
Imagine again, Apple relies on iPhone and iPad to quickly funnel the profits of the global hardware industry into its own pocket. That is not 110 or 20 billion, but hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars. Li Mu does not have the ability to go to the Middle East to grab it. Oil is worth trillions, but there is still a chance to grab Apple’s future market value of trillions of dollars.
Now, Apple has been punched in the face by itself, and Microsoft has come to put a black foot in it. If it continues to increase the pressure on Apple, Apple will inevitably fail and go bankrupt. Moreover, Apple's current size is far from big enough, and the US government will not They will see the potential in it, and they will not stand up to protect it.
Therefore, Li Mu felt that the possibility of acquiring Apple was very high. If Apple plummeted to such a low level, who else would be willing to take over except himself? Even if someone else takes over, they will definitely keep the price extremely low. For me, money is not the most important thing. Even if I give Apple a little more premium, it is very worthwhile to win this company.
Moreover, Li Mu does not simply want to become Apple's shareholder, major shareholder, or controlling shareholder. What he wants is that as long as he can get Apple's existing major shareholders, become Apple's controlling shareholder, and have a majority of voting rights. , you can apply to Nasdaq to proactively privatize Apple, buy back Apple shares in the hands of all institutions and retail investors, and then delist Apple from Nasdaq.
Once the acquisition and privatization are completed, Apple will become a 100% wholly-owned subsidiary of Makino Technology. In that case, there may no longer be Apple as a company in the future. Li Mu can always wave his hand and integrate Apple into Mango , From then on, the apple turned into a mango, and the future pride of Americans became the adopted son of Chinese enterprises.
Li Mu carefully considered the feasibility of this, and even carefully deduced the operating model after acquiring Apple. Apple's greatest value is not Jobs, Tim Cook, or anyone else, but Apple's core technology and products. Now, Apple's operating system team is already large enough, and it has already made MacOS very good. Based on Apple's technical background and this R&D team, it can build the iOS system and the iPhone without Steve Jobs. And make it on iPad.
For Apple, Jobs was a strategic commander and product manager. At that time, Jobs's strategy was invincible, but as a person who witnessed all his efforts and witnessed Apple's market value from 3,000 to 3,000 after Jobs's death, The miracle of US$100 million skyrocketing to US$900 billion. Li Mu is no longer superstitious about Jobs' image of "Almighty God". As long as he gives himself Apple's technical background and R&D talents, there will be someone like Tim Cook who understands the market and does not show off. CEO, Apple, or rather Mango, will definitely be a success.
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In order to witness the collapse of Apple's stock price with their own eyes, Li Mu and Li Ziwei stayed up until four or five o'clock in the morning. Li Mu slept soundly on the sofa in the office for several hours, but almost all of his thoughts were on how to acquire and privatize Apple. Although The quality of sleep was very poor, but the whole person was extremely excited.
Li Ziwei returned to her office and did not bother to rest. Instead, she immediately contacted the interface person at Sequoia headquarters. For Sequoia Capital, companies like Makino Technology are simply their largest investment project at the moment and the most important. It is a promising investment project, so everyone at Sequoia Capital, from top to bottom, maintains 24/7 service for Makino Technology.
On the phone, Li Ziwei conveyed Li Mu's request to Sequoia's interface person and told them that she hoped they could send an executive who was proficient in U.S. stock operations to interview Li Mu as soon as possible. However, Li Ziwei did not tell Sequoia the reason for Li Mu's request. and what is the purpose.
However, Sequoia Capital is a bunch of old foxes. Li Mu has just hammered Apple to death with his front foot, and then he needs to understand the capital operations of the US stock market. This must not be for Makino Technology's own IPO, but must be related to Apple.
Could it be that Li Mu wants to take advantage of Apple's plummeting stock price to buy Apple at the bottom? !
Sequoia Capital can't see any future prospects for Apple now. The operating system has been dominated by Microsoft, and the progress of the computer business is not so promising. The iPod and iTunes, which are the most capable of making money, now seem to be almost dead. , if Sequoia looks at such a company, its investment value cannot even reach C-level.
However, even if Sequoia was surprised, they did not dare to neglect Li Mu, so they immediately sent a senior VP to fly to China on the private jet of the boss of Sequoia Capital at six o'clock in the afternoon, US time.
At six o'clock in the morning, Yanjing time, the plane took off from the United States. Due to the insufficient cruising range of the medium-sized business jet, the plane needed to land midway to replenish fuel. Normally, the overall flight time takes about 15 hours. The plane landed in Yanjing. At that time, it happened to be the opening time of the US stock market on Tuesday.
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New York, Wall Street.
All capitalists are still immersed in today's cliff-like plunge in Apple's stock price and cannot extricate themselves.
This time, they saw another kind of power.
A force that is not at the capital level, but purely targeted at the business level.
When the business level suffers a devastating blow, any capital operation is meaningless. Just like today’s Apple stock price, the whole world is full of news about the launch of Mango-ME2 by Makino Technology. Almost all YY users around the world have lost their money in just a few days. Tian Nei became a user of YYtunes. This huge disadvantage has turned Apple into a black hole that no one can save.
And this also allows people to see the strength of Makino Technology. A company that started with software, its only hardware product line is Mango-ME, and this product line only has two generations of products, but it has destroyed a company that was already in the hardware field. Apple, which has been taking root for decades, has this kind of offensive capability that is simply unbelievable.
Capitalists can’t help but speculate that with a terrifying existence like Makino Technology, if it were to announce an IPO one day, what kind of crazy capital feast would it be
Cupertino, California.
A heavy gloom hangs over Apple's headquarters.
The board members all had serious expressions. For them, today was the end of the world.
A blow from Makino Technology, like a huge meteorite that is about to hit the earth, will not be able to stop it based on the earth's defense capabilities.
One hour before the market closed, the senior American investigation company released survey results showing that the recovery strategy formulated by Jobs was basically useless.
Even if Apple cuts the price of iPod3 by 10%, more than 90% of potential users will still give up buying it.
While the board members were sitting in the conference room without saying a word, another news like a bolt from the blue fell from the sky:
Throughout the day today, Apple received statistical data from Apple-Stores and agents across the country. The number of consumers who applied for after-sales services received by them in one day has reached more than 500,000.
What makes Apple's scalp even more numb is that most of these consumers are not here to receive the 10% subsidy, they are here to return goods...
Apple's no-reason return policy is within 14 days of purchase, which is infinitely close to the time limit they just set for users to subsidize 10% of the price difference within 15 days. Therefore, what Apple did not expect is that basically all purchases that meet this time limit All of them applied for a return instead of taking away the 10% subsidy.
Returning the product and waiting for Mango-ME2 is the biggest wish of these users.
This is not just because Mango-ME2 has a better design and is extremely cost-effective, but also because YYtunes is so damn easy to use. These days, music lovers all over the world are obsessed with communicating with the world through music. Music lovers socialize online.
Michael Jackson's hit song has more than one million comments, which perfectly reflects users' love for this software.
Li Mu's "opinion leader" model has also begun to work. In the past few days, YYtunes has given birth to hundreds of "opinion leaders" with tens of thousands of fans around the world. The in-depth cross-fertilization and learning of users has begun to take effect.
Under the influence of YYtunes, users are even more looking forward to Mango-ME2, because Makino Technology said when it released Mango-ME2 that Mango-ME2 will be deeply integrated with YYtunes. By then, Mango-ME2 users will be able to download songs through YYtunes. Not only is it more convenient, but it can also download song lyrics, download song essence comments, and download friend listening information for each song. For example, a user downloads a Michael Jackson song, not only downloads the lyrics and essence comments at the same time, but also downloads the lyrics and essence comments while listening to the song. At this time, he can also see how many of his friends have listened to the song through the display of Mango-ME2.
Since Mango-ME2 does not have a network module and cannot access the network, this information can only be downloaded through a PC and then synchronized to the player through a data cable. However, even so, Mango-ME2 is transformed from a simple player. It has risen to the level of half "Internet hardware", and social and interactive information can be synchronized into Mango-ME2. When it reaches Mango-ME3 or 4, you may be able to consider replacing the color display screen and adding a WIFI display module. At that point At that time, it had half the features of iTouch.
From the perspective of future generations, this innovation seems to be nothing, but in this era when the mobile Internet has not yet been born, being able to download more Internet information to their own mobile hardware is definitely a huge benefit to users. surprise.
Moreover, who knows what other interesting attempts Makino Technology will make between YYtunes and Mango-ME2? Therefore, owning a Mango-ME2 is the most important thing right now.
Since the iPod in your hand is within the return period, why not return it and wait for the cheaper, better-used, and more stylish Mango-ME2
(End of chapter)