Chapter 86 (1/2)

Apple headquarters conference room.

The atmosphere was a little dull. The meeting table, the directors in suits, all eyes on the first cook.

Apple's stock fell again and again, they are losing a lot of money every moment, and their value is also shrinking.

This is not good news.

”Cook, when you go to China, what's the harvest this time?” Opposite cook, a middle-aged man with glasses asked.

People who know him in the circle will admire him three points.

At that time, he joined gene technology company as a scientist, turning gene technology company from a small company on the verge of bankruptcy to a giant in biological field with annual income of 13 billion US dollars and market value of more than 100 billion US dollars, creating the myth of Wall Street.

He is the chairman and CEO of Genentech, the largest pharmaceutical company in the United States. He is also the member of Apple's board of directors who has the highest known shareholding. At present, Levinson is the chairman of Apple's board of directors.

When Levinson spoke, cook immediately rallied. Although Apple was under his management, he was also restricted by the board of directors.

”Levinson, this time in China, to be honest, didn't get much useful things, but did a lot of stupid things.” Cook said.

”We're not interested in hearing your stupid things, we just want to know what you've got.” A close to 70 year old man opened his seat.

As soon as he spoke, the whole conference room straightened up.

Schuger is a former CEO of Northrop Grumman. This is the third largest arms dealer in the world. The famous B2 stealth bomber, global Eagle drone and Nimitz class aircraft carrier are all products of this company. No one outside knows how many shares he holds in apple, but people who know him are in awe of him.

The old man with a two shaved beard is definitely one of the top members of the American food chain.

Cook was awed to hear shugel speak. Although he is the CEO of Apple company, he is really in charge of the board of directors.

”I met with the chairman and President of marching ant and put forward the idea of acquiring their company.”

”And the result?”

”They were rejected without hesitation. They said they would not sell the company.” ”So I talked to them about the idea of developing intelligent assistants for IOS,” Cook said

All the directors present, with their eyes on cook, listened to cook without expression.

Former Vice President Gore, current chairman and CEO of Disney Robert, former chairman of Avon group Zhong Binxian, partner of East BlackRock Susan, former chief financial officer of Boeing James, this is the most luxurious board lineup.

Anyone, facing this kind of lineup, has no bottom in mind.

”Finally, they let us open the source code of IOS. Because of the design of intelligent assistant, it is necessary to understand the core code of IOS, otherwise it cannot be developed. ” Cook said, with a black face.

Even he didn't know whether what Chen Mo said was true or false, so he had to believe it.

They didn't answer, so cook continued.

”I propose that both sides open source. We open the IOS source code to them, they open the smart assistant source code to us, and finally they are rejected. They insisted that unless we open the source code of Apple's system, we can't develop the intelligent assistant on IOS side. There is no result in the conversation. ”

”Tell me about the company.” James says.

”In the Greater China region, the mobile phone business was 9% lower in the last quarter and the market share was fourth. After the emergence of smart assistant, the sales volume of marching ant company is even more serious. If we still can't support smart assistant, or our Siri doesn't have a technological breakthrough, in the near future, the mobile phone will say goodbye to the Chinese market. ”

Cook's face was overcast, which was why he had to go to Binhai himself.

Smart assistant has upgraded the mobile phone for a whole generation, without keeping pace with the times. Apple's mobile phone business is the next Nokia. In the future, marching ant companies will enter the international market, and they will be more dangerous.

”What better ideas do you have? Or open the source code of mobile phone system to marching ant company? ” Cook asked.