Chapter 1415 Another Thunderbolt
Li Mu had to admit that the feeling of hammering an apple was not an ordinary pleasure for him!
This kind of feeling is like crushing and beating the boxing champion Ali, but it is just a trip back to the past and beating the boxing champion Ali when he was three or five years old.
However, this made Li Mu feel very addicted. Anyway, there is no underage enterprise protection law in the financial industry.
As a person reborn from the future, Li Mu has respect for Apple, but this respect is not enough to offset the threat that Apple will bring to Muye Technology in the future, so as a qualified businessman, Li Mu has no feelings in his heart and No respect, there is, just life and death.
Just imagine, if you don't interfere with Apple's development, a few years later, the iPhone will sweep the world, and the APP-Store will become Apple's powerful tool for making money because of the success of the iPhone, and Apple is famous for its toughness. At that time, Makino YY and other applications of science and technology are launched in the APP-Store, but they have to hand over 30% of all value-added income to Apple. What kind of crap?
Think again, Apple relies on the iPhone and iPad to quickly gather the profits of the global hardware industry into its own pockets. That's not 11,200 billion, it's hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars. Li Mu doesn't have the ability to go to the Middle East to grab it. There are trillions of oil, but there is still a chance to grab Apple's trillion-dollar market value in the future.
Now, Apple was beaten by itself, and Microsoft ran over and put a black foot. If it continues to increase pressure on Apple, Apple will inevitably go bankrupt, and Apple's current size is far from being large enough, and the US government does not It will see the potential in it, and will not stand up to protect it.
Therefore, Li Mu feels that the possibility of acquiring Apple is very high. Apple has plummeted into such a bird shape. Besides himself, who else would be willing to take over? Even if there are people who take over, they will definitely keep the price extremely low. For me, money is not the most important thing. Even if I give Apple a little more premium, it is very worthwhile to win this company.
Moreover, Li Mu did not simply want to become Apple's shareholder, or a major shareholder, or a controlling shareholder. What he thought was that as long as he could get Apple's existing major shareholders, become Apple's controlling shareholder, and have the majority of voting rights, after , you can apply to Nasdaq to take the initiative to privatize Apple, repurchase all Apple shares in the hands of institutions and retail investors, and then delist Apple from Nasdaq.
Once the acquisition is completed and the privatization is completed, Apple will become a 100% wholly-owned subsidiary of Makino Technology. In that case, Apple may no longer exist in the future. Li Mu can always wave his hand and let Apple integrate into Mango. , Since then, apples have turned into mangoes, and the pride of future Americans has become the adopted son of Huaxia Enterprises.
Li Mu carefully considered the feasibility of this, and also carefully deduced the operation mode after the acquisition of Apple. Apple's greatest value is not Jobs, not Tim Cook, not anyone, but Apple's core technology and products. Now, Apple's operating system team is already large enough, and it has already done a lot of work. On the basis of Apple's technical background and this research and development team, he can make the IOS system without Jobs, and he can also make the iPhone, and iPad made.
For Apple, Jobs was a strategic commander and a product manager. In that era, Jobs' strategy was invincible, but as a witness to all his efforts, and to witness Apple's market value from 3,000 after Jobs's death. The miracle of the billion dollar skyrocketing to 900 billion US dollars, Li Mu is no longer superstitious about Jobs' image of "Almighty God", as long as he gives himself Apple's technical background and R&D talents, there is another Tim Cook who understands the market and does not pretend to be forceful. The CEO, Apple, or Mango, is sure to be a big hit.
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In order to witness the collapse of Apple's stock price with their own eyes, Li Mu and Li Ziwei stayed up until four or five in the morning. Li Mu slept soundly on the sofa in the office for several hours.
But what I think about is almost all about how to acquire and privatize Apple. Although the quality of sleep is poor, the whole person is very excited.
Li Ziwei returned to her office and did not take a rest, but immediately contacted the interface person at Sequoia headquarters. For Sequoia Capital, a company like Muye Technology is their biggest investment project at the moment, and it is also the most important investment project. I am optimistic about the investment projects, so the entire Sequoia Capital, from top to bottom, maintains 7x24 hours for Makino Technology.
On the phone, Li Ziwei conveyed Li Mu's request to Sequoia's interface person, telling them that they hope they can send an executive who is proficient in US stock operations to interview Li Mu as soon as possible, but Li Ziwei did not tell Sequoia the reason for Li Mu's request. and what is the purpose.
However, Sequoia Capital is a group of old foxes. Li Mu just hammered Apple to death with his forefoot, and then he has to understand the capital operation of the US stock market. This must not be for Muye Technology's own IPO, but it must be related to Apple.
Could it be that Li Mu wants to take advantage of the plummeting stock price of Apple to buy Apple at the bottom? !
Sequoia Capital can't see any prospects for Apple's future. The operating system has always been under the pressure of Microsoft, and the progress of the computer business is not so promising. The most profitable iPod and itunes now seem to be almost dead. , If Sequoia looks at such a company, the investment value cannot even reach the C-level.
However, even if Sequoia was surprised, they did not dare to neglect Li Mu, so they immediately dispatched a senior VP to fly to China in a hurry on the private jet of the owner of Sequoia Capital at 6 pm US time.
At six o'clock in the morning, Yanjing time, the plane took off from the United States. Since the cruising range of a medium-sized business jet is not enough, the plane needs to land on the way to replenish fuel. Normally, the overall flight time takes about 15 hours. The plane landed in Yanjing. At that time, it happened to be when the U.S. stock market opened on Tuesday.
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New York, Wall Street.
All capitalists are still immersed in the cliff-like plunge in Apple's stock price today.
This time, they saw another kind of power.
A force that is not at the capital level, but purely targeted at the business level.
When there is a devastating blow at the business level, any capital operation is meaningless. Just like today's Apple stock price, the whole world is full of news about the launch of Mango-ME2 by Muye Technology, and almost all YY users around the world are in just a few days. I have become a user of YYtunes within days. This huge negative impact has turned Apple into a black hole, and no one can save it.
And this also makes people see the strength of Makino Technology, a company that started with software, its only hardware product line is Mango-ME, and this product line has only two generations of products, but it has destroyed a company that was already in the hardware field. Apple, which has been rooted for decades, has an incredible offensive capability.
Capitalists can't help but speculate that with such a terrifying existence as Muye Technology, if one day it wants to announce an IPO, what a crazy capital feast would it be?
California, Cupertino.
A heavy haze hangs over Apple headquarters.
The members of the board of directors have serious expressions, and today is the end of the world for them.
The blow from Muye Technology, like a huge meteorite that is about to hit the earth, can't play any blocking role at all in terms of the defensive capabilities the earth has.
An hour before the close, the survey results released by the senior research company in the United States showed that the recovery strategy formulated by Jobs was basically useless.
Even if Apple reduced the price of iPod3 by 10%, more than 90% of potential users still gave up the purchase.
When the board members sat in the conference room without saying a word, another thunderbolt-like news fell from the sky:
Throughout the day, Apple received statistical data from Apple-Stores and agent dealers across the country. The number of after-sales consumers they received in one day has reached more than half a million people.
What makes Apple's scalp numb is that most of these consumers did not come to receive the 10% subsidy, they came to return the goods...
Apple's no-reason return policy is that within 14 days after purchase, it is infinitely close to the time limit they just set for users to subsidize 10% of the price difference within 15 days. Therefore, what Apple did not expect is that basically all consumptions that meet this time limit Those who have applied for a return, instead of taking the 10% subsidy.
Returning goods and waiting for Mango-ME2 is the biggest wish of these users.
This is not only because Mango-ME2 is better designed and cost-effective, but also because YYtunes is so fucking easy to use. These days, music lovers all over the world are obsessed with using music to communicate with people around the world. Music lovers socialize online.
Michael Jackson's hit song has more than one million comments, which perfectly reflects the user's love for this software.
And Li Mu's "opinion leader" model has also begun to play a role. In the past few days, YYtunes has created hundreds of "opinion leaders" with over 10,000 fans around the world, and the deep crossover and learning of users has begun to play a role.
Under the influence of YYtunes, users are even more looking forward to Mango-ME2, because Makino Technology said when Mango-ME2 was released that Mango-ME2 will be deeply integrated with YYtunes. At that time, Mango-ME2 users will download songs through YYtunes , not only more convenient, but also download the lyrics of the song, download the essence of the song, and download the friend audition information of each song. For example, if a user downloads a Michael Jackson song, not only the lyrics and the essence of the comment are downloaded at the same time, when listening to the song At that time, he can also see how many of his friends have also listened to this song through the display of Mango-ME2.
Since Mango-ME2 has no network module and cannot access the network, this information can only be downloaded through PC, and then synchronized to the player through the data cable, but even so, Mango-ME2 is changed from a simple player to It has risen to the level of half "Internet hardware", and social and interactive information can be synchronized into Mango-ME2. When it comes to Mango-ME3 or 4, it may be possible to consider replacing the color display and adding a WIFI display module. At the same time, it has half the characteristics of iTouch.
From the perspective of future generations, this innovation seems to be nothing, but in this era before the mobile Internet was born, being able to download more Internet information to one's own mobile hardware is definitely a huge problem for users. surprise.
Moreover, who knows what kind of interesting attempts Makino Technology will make between YYtunes and Mango-ME2? Therefore, owning a Mango-ME2 is the most important thing at the moment.
Since the iPod in hand is in the return cycle, why not return it and wait for the cheaper, better, and more compelling Mango-ME2?