This internal meeting at Apple ended with a chorus of lamentations.
At the meeting, after discussions among several directors, Cook finally announced that he would abandon several new Apple mobile phones that were under development and instead work with Samsung's existing LCD factory to focus on flexible technology in order to quickly narrow the gap in flexible mobile phones with Emerald Island and China's four major mobile phone manufacturers.
When making this decision, Cook almost said it with tears in his eyes.
It's so pathetic!
As a senior manager who has worked for many world-renowned companies, Cook has never felt so aggrieved.
This time, he can be said to have failed completely in dealing with the changes brought about by flexible technology.
Of course, more reasons were that he did not clearly realize that Emerald Island’s technological strength was so strong that it could overcome the difficulties of flexible technology in just a few months, and eventually join forces with several potential mobile phone manufacturers in China to advance the arrival of the flexible era by several years!
It was not until then that he realized that Emerald Island was Apple’s lifelong enemy!
And the price Apple paid for this was obviously very painful!
It will directly interrupt the research and development process of future generations of Apple mobile phones, which will directly lead to the complete failure of Apple’s business strategy for several years. The losses caused by this will be immeasurable.
Even with a conservative estimate, it would be over tens of billions of US dollars!
Secondly, the large amount of existing inventory will collapse due to the official launch of flexible mobile phones. Even if the price is greatly reduced, the losses will be heavy.
In addition, other supporting production line facilities and component reserves will also have to be abandoned.
Therefore, on the whole, the sudden arrival of the flexible mobile phone era will directly lead to a loss of more than 100 billion US dollars for Apple, which is absolutely devastating!
Fortunately, after more than ten years of accumulation, Apple has a large amount of current reserves, which is a life-saving measure for Apple, which is in a bad situation now.
After Cook announced at the meeting that Apple had officially entered a period of transformation, this technology company, which once stood at the top of the world, had to enter a stage of rise again.
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Compared with Apple’s tragic experience, Huawei and three other Chinese mobile phone manufacturers have entered a period of rapid development. Whether in terms of order volume, market share, or company valuation, they have all shown an explosive trend!
After Huawei entered the global sales stage, Xiaomi, OPPO and VIVO, three mobile phone companies, also launched their own mobile phone brands and expanded into the world market.
With the support of Emerald Island's second-generation flexible mobile phone production line, the four companies were able to effectively solve the problem of massive supply, and their market shares all increased exponentially.
Prior to this, the market share of the four major mobile phone manufacturers was all concentrated in China. From a global perspective, the total market share did not exceed 40%, even though China has a large population.
However, when the four major mobile phone manufacturers expanded globally, they ushered in a full-scale expansion.
In just a few months, the market share has exceeded 80%. Huawei, as the leader among them, has seized 35% of the market share because of its first-mover advantage, becoming the world's undoubtedly largest mobile phone manufacturer and firmly sitting on its dominant position!
Users who are still using mobile phone brands such as Apple and Samsung will gradually replace them with flexible mobile phones after facing problems such as aging mobile phones. Therefore, it can be expected that the market share of the four major mobile phone manufacturers will continue to increase, continuously squeezing the living space of other mobile phone manufacturers.
This is a devastating blow to the entire mobile phone company worldwide!
However, there is no way. The flexible mobile phone technology is all in the hands of Emerald Island. It is undoubtedly a huge challenge to catch up or even surpass it.
The technical barriers one after another are enough to stop them from moving forward.
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Compared to the troubled Apple, Jiang Cheng seemed much more relaxed at this time.
Octopus Island.
102 meters below the sea, the future ship laboratory.
Through the sightseeing glass, Jiang Cheng looked at the various fish swimming on the seabed while tasting the fine wine in the glass, feeling very comfortable.
Today's four major mobile phone manufacturers, including Huawei, have fully grown up, and Jiang Cheng no longer needs to focus all his attention on the development of flexible technology.
As the saying goes, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.
After nearly a year of planning, flexible technology finally bore fruit, not only defeating its biggest potential rival Samsung, but also completely supporting several major technology companies in China.
As a result, Emerald Island's allies became stronger again.
In fact, after such a long period of experience, Jiang Cheng has deeply realized the importance of integrating all available forces to develop and strengthen himself.
Relying solely on the Emerald Island, it still seems a little weak, especially at the current stage when the powerful forces around it are trying their best to curb its growth.
This can be seen from the fact that the Han country dared to send out a fleet to threaten Emerald Island.
Although Jiang Cheng successfully destroyed the enemy with the fleet he developed secretly in the end, this also made Jiang Cheng deeply aware that the geographical location and narrow strategic space of Emerald Island were really factors that hindered Emerald Island from becoming a powerful force.
In fact, think about it, with such a small area, even if it has a strong military force, it will still be extremely vulnerable when facing the enemy's powerful firepower attack.
Therefore, after this incident, Jiang Cheng realized that it was time to expand the strategic space of Emerald Island.
Long before, when Jiang Cheng was developing the artificial island Nanyao Island, he secretly set such a future development direction, that is, relying on the suction dredger in his hands, he would build artificial islands in the sea area near the Emerald Island by blowing sand to create islands.
In this way, the strategic space of Emerald Island can be greatly expanded!
Although the amount of island area that can be increased by this method is insignificant, it is equivalent to expanding the territorial waters in disguise. In this way, the strategic space can be expanded geometrically!
Today, with Nanyue Island guarding the gate to the south, Emerald Island is no longer a concern.
But the gates to the north and east are wide open and we have to be on guard.
You know, in these two directions, there are threats from maritime powers such as Japan and the United States, so Jiang Cheng had to make preparations in advance.
Especially when the technological level of Emerald Island is constantly improving, it has seriously threatened the core interests of Japan and the United States.
In addition, Jiang Cheng has a large number of technological products to launch around the world in the future, which will continue to have an impact on the world's technology companies.
In order to preserve these scientific and technological achievements in the future, Jiang Cheng felt that it was necessary to strengthen the land-based defense capabilities of Emerald Island before that, to prevent Japan and the United States from launching military threats against him like Korea!
(End of this chapter)