Chapter 736 Monopolizing the Future
Cupertino, California, where Apple's Airship headquarters is located. The 2.8 million-square-foot circular building is like a castle, the castle of Apple's empire. In Steve Jobs' own words during his lifetime, the new building is like "a landing spaceship", while the American media likened it to a "giant glass donut".
At this moment, 48 hours have passed since Futureman Technology held the future mobile phone conference. Apple CEO Tim Cook sits in the office, leaning on an office chair in silence. For the first time since Jobs died, he was so worried about the company's future.
By the way, in just these two days, Apple's market value has evaporated by 20 billion US dollars. Wall Street analysts believe that Futureren Technology's announcement of entering the mobile phone manufacturing industry will change Apple's dominance in the field of mid-to-high-end smartphones.
In the face of future mobile phones, Cook pessimistically found that the iPhone 8 does not have any advantages except for the price.
For the Apple 8, which is positioned in the high-end market, this is undoubtedly very ironic.
Looking at the future in his hand, Tim Cook sighed.
Even his competitor has to admit that Future's design is perfect, especially the function of the holographic screen, which makes people unable to put it down. If he wasn't worried about those media fanning the flames, he would have wanted to change his phone.
There was a knock at the door.
Putting the future aside, Cook said listlessly.
"Please come in."
The door opened, and in came his assistant, Bernard Behrmann. As soon as he stepped through the door, the assistant spoke.
"Two news, one good and one bad, which one do you want to hear first?"
"It's an old meme, which one do you think will make me feel better, just say what you want." Cook waved his hand.
Behrman's expression was a little awkward, he hesitated for a moment, and said.
"The product development department has reverse-engineered the future mobile phone, and combined with the documents we obtained from the US Intellectual Property Office, we have almost analyzed their technology."
"Oh?" Cook's eyes lit up, he sat up, and crossed 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 called -n1..."
"Sir..." Behrman said with some embarrassment,
Quietly interrupted Cook's fantasy.
"What's wrong? There's bad news, right?" Cook said. "It doesn't matter, how much are they going to charge for the patent? If the price is too high, we can sue them."
"It's not a matter of patent fees." Behrman 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 foundries can do it." arrive."
Cook froze for a moment, then leaned back on the chair with a wry smile.
"I knew it."
Why has Future Heavy Industries entered the electronics industry with a high profile since the beginning of the year, acquiring a series of electronic equipment manufacturers ranging from screen design to cameras? Integrating graphene technology, they built a complete production line from scratch, and their plans were not small from the very beginning.
This is not to dominate the smartphone industry, they want to monopolize the rhythm of the entire graphene industry from the source.
future? Welcome to 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, future has even been fired up to more than ten times the high price on the black market in some countries. However, even so, future mobile phones are still priceless. You can see news about buying future mobile phones everywhere on the major forums, just like when the Phantom helmet was released.
Whether it is in terms of style or practicality, this mobile phone that can stay in the hand, can be stuffed into the wallet, and can project holographic images can be said to have taken the limelight. Coupled with the marketing of Future Technology and omni-channel promotion, it will add fuel to the fire.
It is precisely because of this that after the launch of Future, it has won the favor of young men and women.
"I want to buy a future mobile phone for 10,000 yuan, please private me if you want it! Contact xxxx..."
"Upstairs, if you're talking about dollars, I might think about it."
"Little sister is 18 this year, and I want a future mobile phone. Can any good brother satisfy my wish? You can make a video first~"
"..."
There are also some weird people who directly ait Jiang Chen's scarf, throwing all kinds of selfies without PS traces or pirated watermarks, all kinds of hook-ups and unspoken rules are just for a future, Jiang Chen looks at it Such an unscrupulous person is speechless.
Not only is the sales of future mobile phones booming, but the mobile processor designed by Future Heavy Industries, the deep blue m1 chip, has also been favored by major mobile phone manufacturers. Within a month, Future Heavy Industries received a full two million chip orders. If it is not for the priority to meet the needs of future mobile phones, the deep blue m1 chip alone can make the Future Group a lot of money.
There are also graphene screens.
With many features such as lightness, drop resistance and high toughness, graphene screens can be said to have completely outperformed the most advanced OLED screens at present and become the most promising display material in the future. More than a dozen companies, including future rivals Apple, Samsung and other smartphone giants, have bit the bullet and placed orders with Future Human Heavy Industries, hoping to update the screens of their mobile phones.
Regarding these competitors, Jiang Chen did not make things difficult for them.
On the premise of meeting the future mobile phone production capacity, he doesn't mind letting these competitors help him absorb excess production capacity. After all, the more you produce, the lower your costs will be. Is there anything more pleasing than using the money earned from competitors to expand and improve the production line and strengthen one's own strength?
Most importantly, they had to pinch their noses to admit it!
The patent is in the hands of Jiang Chen, do you want to develop it yourself? Okay, every screen, battery, chip, and patent fee you produce will directly explode the cost of your mobile phone! Moreover, the self-designed products that cost more than one billion US dollars may not be comparable to Future Heavy Industries, which has more mature graphene technology.
In the end, you still have to buy screens, chips, and batteries from Future Heavy Industry...
As for the most critical interactive holographic projection component, which is the main selling point of future people's technology mobile phones, Jiang Chen will never sell it to competitors.
monopoly? Unfair competition? Hehe, if you are capable, come to Xinguo to sue me.
The high-tech equipment is all completed in the high-tech park on Anga Island, and will not enter the market at all except for supplying technology to future people. If you want to copy the interactive holographic projection technology, then take the patent documents and study it slowly by yourself.
In less than five years, don't try to figure out the production process. And five years later, Jiang Chen doesn't need to keep this technology in his pocket anymore. When the time comes, more powerful technologies will be brought out, and these outdated technologies can be packaged and sold directly.
This is the advantage of having an advantage in technology. Others can not only pick up what you eat, but also swallow it with their noses squeezed. With the guarantee of the technology in the last days, at least for a hundred years, Jiang Chen doesn't have to worry about technology being overtaken at all.
As for a hundred years later...
Jiang Chen doesn't want to think about things that are too far away. If he cannot overcome the crisis 20.5 light-years away, let alone his future human group, whether the earth civilization on this timeline can continue is a question. (To be continued.)