"The size of the K1 LCD screen is set at 9.7 inches."
"Not too big, not too small."
"This is how our team found the golden ratio through a large number of templates, which is equivalent to a blank sheet of paper in the office."
"The reason for this decision is that our ultimate ambition for tablet computers is to replace all paper used by users in the fields of office, education, and reading. All we need is a kindlepad!"
Lu Fei introduced K1 like a work of art.
These are all our words!
9.7 inches is also the best size for iPad1 design!
Compared with the dismissive colleagues around him, Cook was so angry that his teeth itched and his whole body was shaking. He was glad that Jobs did not come this time.
Otherwise, the ambulance outside the theater should have been prepared for him or Lu Fei, and one of them would have to lie down today.
As you can see on the slide on the projection screen, various performance parameters of the kindlepad 1 are displayed.
Resolution 800×600, equipped with 256Mb RAM.
And the 1Ghz processor jointly developed by Logic and Freescale.
Harman Kardon dual speakers are specially designed to amplify the characteristics of audio-visual tablets, focusing on audio-visual effects as a breakthrough...
"It is not enough for the tablet market to rely solely on technology. We also need to combine technology, art and humanities."
Lu Fei kept talking and glanced around. He felt that the atmosphere of the scene was almost perfect. It was time to reach the climax of the press conference——
Reveal the price.
“So how much do these remarkable products cost?”
He pressed the PPT page-turning pen, and glittering golden numbers popped up on the huge curtain, starting with lphone4.
8G version, $199.
16G version, $299.
They are all contract machines bound to wireless communication manufacturers.
"Bah bang bang."
The audience cheered and applauded. The price was reasonable and not too expensive after the subprime mortgage crisis.
Cook's heart twitched. It was at the same price as the iPhone 3GS, but it was slightly inferior in communication, battery life, performance, and imaging. Maybe it could only be like last year -
Be prepared for price cuts.
Apple is not alone in thinking the same way.
Manufacturers such as Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and even Nokia, the mobile phone overlord, must admit that they must accelerate the transformation to smart phones in the face of the double-fist attack of Logic and iPhone series, which is a matter of life and death.
As for tablets, still dismissive.
"The model of kindlepad 1 with Wi-Fi is priced at US$399." Lu Fei finished talking about the prices of headphones, MP3 players, and then the tablet computer. "The model with Wi-Fi and 3G cellular connectivity is priced at US$529." .”
"Hiss~"
There was an unexpected silence, with only sparse applause, not strong at all, and the quiet atmosphere seemed extremely strange.
Cook's eyes lit up, as if he saw a turning point.
There is actually not much difference in price between Kindle and KindlePad. At most, they are $50 to $100 more expensive. But in the past, this pricing might not have been a big deal at all.
However, this time and that time.
The economic crisis is coming, and the landlords have no food left!
What's more, the middle class, in such a tight time, spend so much money to try out a weird tablet computer that is between a computer and a mobile phone. No matter how you calculate it, it is not worth it.
The more he pays attention to the audience's reaction, the more convinced Cook becomes in his judgment. Kindlepad is likely to be born at the wrong time, it is likely to have poor sales, and it is likely to be a logical Waterloo.
If K1 fails and iPad comes out again, it can step on K1's corpse and become the first product with Apple's counterattack logic, and it can sound the clarion call to counterattack Mr. Lu.
Just as he was happily dreaming about it, Lu Fei surprised everyone, as if he had already expected this situation:
"I know this is the darkest moment, but no matter what, logic will strive to let more people enjoy our products, so that even the poorest people can enjoy the light of technology."
"Therefore, we have cooperated with Amazon, Feigou.com and T-Mobile to launch new package activities."
While he was talking, a line of words appeared on the projection screen behind him——
“Activity to get iPhone 4 and K1 with zero down payment!”
"What!!"
"Oh my God?"
The whole room was shocked for a moment, their eyes widened, and they were shocked and speechless. It was as if a nuclear weapon had landed.
"You can reserve lphone 4 online with your own social security number. The booking method is to fill in your personal information on the official website of Logic and T-Mobile and choose the 'zero down payment' activity package. There is no fee or interest. "
“For just a small fee, you can get a mobile phone!”
Lu Fei opened his hands and raised the corners of his mouth.
"Snapped."
"Bah bang bang."
"Whoa whoa whoa whoa~"
The venue fell into a brief silence, and then was greeted by a ferocious explosion, applause and shouts, one after another.
"This is all thanks to our partner, T-Mobile."
Lu Fei pointed his finger at John Legere.
Soon, applause also poured in to John Legere, but the three major wireless communication manufacturers, including American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Verizon Communications, looked confused.
what's the situation! What's happening here!
What kind of play is this?
Are you two crazy?
Cook was greatly shocked. Although he could not understand it either, he could see the excitement written on the faces of the audience. Apparently the core users of Logic and the believers of the Trisolaris Cult were very satisfied with this.
"The same goes for kindlepad 1. As long as you order it on Amazon or Feigou.com, you can participate in the zero down payment event."
With a smile on his face, Lu Fei brought a little trick of China's e-commerce to America in advance, with interest-free installment payment.
Amidst the noise, he quietly put his hands on his hips and pretended to be cool.
The crowds are like boiling water, bubbling.
Listening to the thunderous applause, Cook felt bad.
Damn it, Lu Fei!
How many tricks do you have that we don’t know about?
………………
Since the bankruptcy of Lehman, the explosion of P2P and subprime mortgages has pushed the financial tsunami to a climax, and financial institutions have collapsed every day.
People are increasingly tightening their belts, especially the middle-class families who are the main consumers, but Lu Fei's "zero down payment" installment payment gave them an illusion.
You must know that the pain of one-time payment and installment payment are completely different. You may hesitate to pay the full amount, but after the installment is amortized, you will buy more irrationally.
Especially for Americans, who have long been accustomed to credit cards and excessive consumption, this is a perfect fit.
After all, the economic crisis will be over in a year or two.
At least that's what the government and media have been reporting, and Capitol Hill has passed a $700 billion asset rescue plan.
The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve, headed by Henry Paulson, are bailing out crumbling banks and the U.S. financial system.
That day, the Dow Jones rose 11%.
It set a record for the largest single-day increase in 76 years!
It seems that the U.S. economy is showing signs of rebounding.
It has greatly stimulated people's desire to consume. The number of pre-sales on T-Mobile, Feigou.com, Amazon and Logic websites has increased crazily. The "campaign of getting iPhone and Kindle Pad with zero down payment" has had a good start.
It can be considered a dazzling firework in the darkest hour!
And T-Mobile, riding on logic, took off again.
The trend of user churn has disappeared, and instead the number of paid users is increasing, all for iPhone 4.
Seeing that Mr. Lu's tactics were working, John Legere and T-Mobile executives could no longer sit still and immediately agreed to start pre-sales of K1 flat-panel TVs with zero down payment.
Even crazy enough to include logicX2.
The performance is booming. John Legere excitedly expressed his goodwill to Lu Fei and Logic Madness on Twitter, saying directly: "We need to give potential users a reason to spend less and use a smaller network. What better than a Logic phone, A tablet is better?”
T-Mobile has messed up the entire U.S. market. The other three major wireless communication manufacturers are jealous and aggrieved. A spokesman for American Telephone and Telegraph commented unhappily——
This guy is definitely here to cause trouble!
At the same time, every mobile phone manufacturer can't stand it anymore, especially after looking at their own dismal sales, and looking at the logic that they are still outperforming in such a depressed market.
Pre-sales of iPhone 4 exceeded 500,000 units in 3 days.
KindlePad 1 is also rising steadily, breaking the record of the fastest 100,000 pre-orders held by Kindle 3.
The first person to be unhappy is Apple.
The development direction of smartphones should focus on "intelligence", screen, performance, and even charging. Logically focusing on camera breakthroughs is a completely evil path!
Logic's tablet isn't really a computer either!
Nokia, BlackBerry, etc. followed closely and joined in. Because of logic, the manufacturers actually shared the same hatred.
But it’s still hard to stop Logic’s pre-order surge.
"What the hell is going on!!"
There was an abnormal redness on Jobs' sick face as he paced back and forth: "Why is it that he can always come up with something so similar to us one step ahead of us? Why is he always one step ahead of us!"
"I thought that the transition from Kindle to KindlePad would probably wait until next year, or the year after that, but I didn't expect it would be this year."
Cook showed a wry smile and glanced at a World War II poster hanging in the office, which read——
"A weak mouth will sink a battleship."
Obviously, secrecy can no longer be blamed this time. The iPad project has achieved the utmost confidentiality.
Unless Lu Fei is either 007 or has a time machine.
"kindlepad and iPhone 4 are just two pieces of shit!!"
Jobs roared loudly and uttered a variety of curse words, all of which were composed of various French and Bichi words.
"But it's also a piece of shit."
Cook reassured: "Steve, although we have lost our first-mover advantage, as long as iPad surpasses us in performance and experience, there will be no problems. In this era, user experience is the first driving force, not just It’s technology driven.”
"But we can't just let it go. What do America Telephone and Telegraph and Verizon say?"
Jobs gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his nose.
The IOS closed system has doomed Apple to regard all mobile phone manufacturers as rivals of the iPhone, especially the Android system, which must not allow the leader Logic to develop so satisfactorily.
"They all refused to cooperate with us and engage in a 'zero down payment' campaign with similar logic." Cook sighed.
“Can we file a patent lawsuit against Logic?”
Jobs did not believe that logic would prevent patent loopholes.
It is absolutely impossible for any company to design a new mobile operating system without infringing patents. Just like if a mobile phone is to be plugged into a Windows system and used as a USB flash drive, it must use a file system that Microsoft can recognize, right?
Both FAT and NTFS are Microsoft's patents.
Why Apple's devices cannot be used directly as USB flash drives is to circumvent Microsoft's patents and not pay Microsoft.
"This is a bit difficult at the moment."
"What's the difficulty?"
"The problem is that Lu has already made preparations."
Cook looked helpless, and Lu Fei acted first. He logically said that manufacturers such as Nokia, Google, Microsoft, and Motorola would exchange their patents if they could, but if they couldn't, they would spend more money.
For example, Microsoft.
The Android system is developed based on the Linux platform, so every Android device will pay Microsoft a licensing fee of US$3.
With the patents authorized by Microsoft, Apple can ignore Apple on many patents. Apple has very few weapons to sue for logical infringement. On the contrary, logic is still stuck in Apple's neck.
"So we just do nothing?"
Jobs was so angry that his liver ached and he was sweating coldly.
"No, of course not. Nokia wants to take action more than us. The strong logic has made Kallasvuo feel in danger. It is said that they are discussing through patent litigation to teach Lu a lesson."
Cook adjusted his glasses.
"And then suddenly withdrew the lawsuit like Yangtze River Storage?"
Jobs squeezed out the words through his teeth in pain: "We can't place our hopes on unreliable others, not to mention that Nokia is just trying to recover the loss of market share. It will not hurt the foundation of the Android system at all. We have to do it ourselves." Think of ways to."
"Maybe instead of dealing with logic directly, we can deal with the wings of logic first."
"You mean to deal with the members of the Android Open Alliance? But Samsung, Motorola, and Sony are not easy targets."
"No, no, no, there is one, the HTC of BayWan."
A shrewd light flashed in Cook's eyes.
HTC used to be a mobile phone assembly factory with very few patents. As long as Apple can crack down on HTC, Google and Logic, as the two parties involved in the alliance, will not be able to protect the safety and interests of their younger brothers. People will be scattered and the entire team will be difficult to lead. .
"Okay, let's do it like this, you take the responsibility..."
Jobs gasped in pain and his eyes turned black.
"Steve! Steve!"
Cook was so inspired that he quickly sent Jobs to a treatment center at the University of San Francisco while strictly guarding against leaks.
"Did he work irregularly for a long time and become angry and angry after the tumor was removed?" The attending physician flipped through the test sheets, X-rays and other inspection reports.
"Occasionally."
Cook smacked his lips. You can't say that you are angry with Lu Fei every day, right?
"Being angry for a long time can cause liver damage." The attending doctor frowned and announced bad news to them.
Jobs was diagnosed with advanced liver cirrhosis.
Right now, a liver transplant must be performed immediately!
"What!!"
Jobs gritted his teeth. His liver was 200% sick because of Lu Fei's anger. Damn you, Lu Fei!
My liver!
Although he agreed to the liver transplant plan, the liver source was not always available. According to the list registered at the California Liver Transplant Center, it would take at least 10 months for Jobs' turn.
To save lives, you can only register in other states.
He announced to the public that he would take a 5-month leave of absence due to illness.
During this period, Tim Cook acted as Apple CEO.
All of a sudden, Apple's stock price plummeted 5.3 points.
"Only a week ago, Steve Jobs said that he was undergoing treatment for hormonal imbalance and would soon recover and continue to lead the company, but it is clear that his physical condition is not as healthy as Apple announced and is worse than expected... "
On TV, the host badmouthed Jobs' health.
Lu Fei took the remote control and turned it to mute while giving orders to Xu Xin on the other end of the phone not to do anything to Apple yet.
"You really don't want to buy a share?"
"Don't worry, Sister Xin, Apple's stock price, no, it should be said that the entire US stock market will still plummet. At that time, it will be the time for us to buy the bottom."
"No way? I think the US$700 billion stimulus plan will still pass, and the Dow Jones and S&P 500 will start to rebound."
"These rebounds will not achieve anything at all. This bear market in the U.S. stock market will last at least two or three months. Just wait."
Lu Fei knocked on the table. If I remember correctly, Apple's stock price fell to $2.38 per share during the subprime mortgage crisis.
"Dong dong dong~"
Guo Xing knocked on the door, "Mr. Lu, the latest news is that Apple may be preparing to initiate a patent lawsuit against HTC."
"Is the source reliable?"
"It's more reliable. It was handed over from Sol."
"Lao Guo, what do you think?"
"Could it be that Jobs was venting his dissatisfaction? He knew he couldn't sue us, so he went to bully HTC."
"Then why does he bully HTC? Why is he a member of our Android camp?"
"You mean, Apple is here for Android?"
"Xiang Zhuang dances with the sword, aiming at Pei Gong."
Lu Fei touched his chin, "Notify Mr. Wang of HTC as soon as possible so that they can be prepared to deal with it. Apple has obviously weaponized patent litigation. It seems that our patent acquisition plan will be accelerated. What is Nortel Networks doing now?" Condition?"
"We have reached the brink of life and death."
Guo Xing showed a gloating expression.
Nortel Networks was already debt-ridden. Subprime mortgages triggered the global financial crisis, and its financial problems were further amplified. It was forced to ask the Canadian government for US$1 billion in aid.
However, he was ruthlessly rejected.
"That is to say, as long as the interest on one debt cannot be paid, you can only apply to the court for bankruptcy, right?"
Lu Fei pulled out Nortel Networks' balance sheet and other documents from a pile of information. Almost all of its CDMA and LTE assets, enterprise network business, and Internet phone business were losing money.
Only metro Ethernet and optical networks are profitable.
"Yes, Huawei is also eyeing this piece of fat. It wants to take the opportunity to acquire some high-quality assets. It wants to say hello to us in advance to avoid discordant frictions in bidding against each other."
Guo Xing handed him a cigarette.
“I’m afraid Huawei is overthinking!”
Lu Fei smiled coldly, "Neither he nor we are qualified to serve this dish of Nortel Networks."
Guo Xing nodded and lit the fire: "You are right. Even if UC agrees, the United States will never agree to give any of us the opportunity to acquire it alone."
"We can only find Microsoft, Google, Blackstone and other forces to form a consortium to acquire it. This is the only way."
Lu Fei puffed out his smoke and said, "Have someone report the route to New York for me. I have made an appointment with Bill Gates to record a dialogue program about the future development of computers."
(End of chapter)
