Chapter 1028 (1/2)
The next day was September 11, Wednesday.
Simon went to San Francisco early in the morning. At the same time, dinkobayer held a press conference at 9 a.m. to officially announce a $4 billion acquisition plan with apple.
Public opinion was in an uproar.
As we all know, Apple's current state of decline is well-known. In the past two years, it has even become one of the most popular companies in the media to criticize and ridicule. With the natural monopoly advantage of Microsoft's windows operating system gradually becoming clear, and the growing roots of Wintel alliance, no one now thinks that apple, relying on PowerPC architecture and backward Macintosh system, can still reverse the trend.
Did not expect, in recent years, the rise of the cutting-edge tingkebaier, will suddenly come to this move.
With the press conference and the release of press releases on various platforms, a large number of targeted comments first appeared on the Internet. Most professional or non professional people almost fell to the ground and were not optimistic about the acquisition of tincobail, believing that it was actively soliciting a burden.
You know, although Apple's market value was only $2.1 billion by yesterday's close, it is an old US electronics giant that has been established for 20 years. At present, Apple's annual revenue still reaches the level of $10 billion. In addition to various types of personal computers, it also involves more than 10 product lines such as servers, printers, tablet computers and digital cameras.
Even this year's success of IREC and the continued sales of ICAM and iPlayer products are expected to increase tingcobaier's annual revenue by 60%, and the company's annual revenue is only about $20 billion. In terms of market value, the difference between the two companies is more than 100 times, but in terms of revenue, the difference is only twice.
This is also enough to show that Apple's thin dead camel is bigger than the horse.
It is generally believed in the industry that dinkbaier's acquisition of apple is likely to expand its product line in the shortest time.
This is absolutely a trick.
The reason why Apple has come to this day is that besides serious mistakes in its core PC business, another important reason is its unrestrained expansion. It seems like a hundred flowers are blooming, but in fact, most of the peripheral products businesses that are eager for success are in a state of loss.
With the decline of the core PC business, other peripheral product lines have become the burden of domino effect.
Of course, there are also smart people who think of the real purpose of dinkbaier or westero system to eat apple, for patents and the whole PC industry. Even though westero is one of the major shareholders of Microsoft, the friction between the two sides is no secret.
Therefore, many professionals have also written articles to analyze that Tinkerbell's acquisition of apple is likely to be a joint venture with igritte to enter the PC industry and avoid the constraints of Microsoft on internet terminal devices. Similar discussions have also caused widespread heated discussion, but most of the conclusions are still not optimistic. After all, Microsoft's advantage in the operating system market is too great.
All these disturbances are directly reflected in the North American stock market.
When the West Coast acquisition news was officially announced, it was already noon on the east coast. As of 4:00 p.m. EDT, Apple's share price rose 19% in one day. The closing market value reached US $2.53 billion, with a single day market value increase of US $400 million. It was only US $300 million short of Tinkerbell's US $2.8 billion bid.
Because the market is generally not optimistic about the acquisition, tingcobaier's share price fell by 2.7%, closing at $272.3 billion. Although the share price has shrunk by only 2.7%, because of its huge size, tincobail's market value has evaporated a total of $7.55 billion, which is almost equivalent to three apple companies according to the closing market value of the day.
At the same time, due to media analysis of the purpose of the acquisition, Microsoft has also been affected.
At the end of the afternoon, Microsoft's share price fell 2.5% in a single day, with a closing market value of $269.7 billion. Microsoft's shareholders also lost $6.9 billion in one day.
In fact, during this period of time, dinkbaier's anti surpassing of Microsoft's market value is also one of the hot topics in the media, because the market value of the two companies is similar, showing a seesaw state, and both are hitting the $300 billion threshold.
It has to be said that Microsoft, which was supposed to lead the wave of new technology in the original time and space, has been deprived of so much ”luck” by the westero system this time that it is difficult to break through the 60 million mark as it once did.
Now, although the real intention of the acquisition has not yet appeared, Microsoft has been affected. It's easier than the outside world to guess that Simon's goal of the acquisition is at Damen. It's hard to calm down. After lunch on the west coast, Simon and C girl just left the restaurant, and the other party's phone call came.
After connecting the mobile phone, Simon didn't avoid C girl and others. As he continued to walk to a conference room in tincobail headquarters building, he said to the microphone: ”Hi, Bill Of course, what else would I do if I bought Apple Of course, I haven't forgotten that I am also a major shareholder of Microsoft, but Bill, do you think it's a good thing that Microsoft has a full share of the operating system market Let's not argue about this. You should understand that I didn't suppress Microsoft's network business too much because I know that competition is the best catalyst for the development and progress of an industry. Therefore, what you have to do is to wait for challenges instead of trying to make others not compete with you. ”Put away the phone over there, Simon just laughed, and the party came to the meeting room.
Several leaders of the desktop Linux operating system development team from igritte also arrived at the same time. Everyone sat down in the conference room and began the afternoon topic: combining the operating system R & D achievements accumulated by apple and igritte for several years, we will develop the Linux version personal computer of tincobail brand.
Simon sat down at the conference table and naturally grasped the initiative of the conference. First of all, he said, ”we all know the content of this conference. After the acquisition of apple, tincobail's personal computer development plan is tentatively named IMAC series, which is one of many trademarks that tincobail has applied for. I just want to say two points. First, IMAC series will adopt igritte's Linux desktop operating system. Second, this PC will abandon Apple's original PowerPC architecture and adopt Intel processor. ”
Simon's voice dropped, and more than a dozen executives from Tinkerbell, apple and igritte began to talk in the conference room. There was a buzz around.
He tapped on the table a few times to attract people's attention. Simon looked at the people around him and said, ”this is the final decision. Besides, you only have seven months from now to the spring press conference of tincobail next Easter. I don't want to hear your different opinions. At this meeting, I just want to hear you discuss how to finish it.”
”But, Mr. westrow,” an apple executive said, ”it's impossible to complete a PC with a new operating system and a new processor architecture in seven months.”
Simon looked at Peter Bacar, Apple's vice president in charge of PC R & D business, shook his head and said: ”it's not just seven months, to be exact, five years and seven months, because igritte's research and development of Linux system has been started five years ago. Moreover, the desktop operating system version of graphical interface was based on x86 architecture at the beginning. Before that, igritte's development of Linux system was based on x86 architecture We have finished the prototype, and you can see it tomorrow if you like
”Mr. westero, I still think you think the problem is too simple,” Peter Bacar still shook his head and said, ”if you want, a senior computer engineer can spend several years to develop an operating system and design a prototype independently from scratch, but this is different from a PC that can be sold to the market, a mature PC It's a huge systematic project, for example, how to solve the problem of software, Mr. westero. Have you considered it? ”
Even the chairman and CEO of Apple didn't attend this meeting. Instead, Peter Bakar was invited. It's not for no reason.
The other side is in the C girl side after careful screening and submitted to Simon personally clap a candidate for promotion.
Therefore, Simon was very patient with Peter Bacar. He nodded again with a smile: ”of course, I have thought about it. Peter, from a few years ago, igritte has quietly cooperated with sun to develop java software platform, which is planned to be used for the development of Linux system software. I think you are very clear about the advantages of Java language. Next year, when IMAC is launched, the market will be open The mainstream application software on the field, especially the Internet related software of igrit, will launch Linux version. ”
Peter Bacar was speechless at Simon's words.
And suddenly it's a little sad.
If Apple's recent leaders have the same vision as this young man. How can apple, which has been working for it for more than ten years, fall into this situation.
Thinking of this, this 40 year old middle-aged man with thick rimless glasses suddenly couldn't help saying something from his heart, so he said: ”OK, Mr. westrow...”
”Peter, you can call me Simon.”