Chapter 1593 Change of Gua

On the top floor of Sony's headquarters building, a group of elites who have created Sony's brilliance are silent.

The Japanese are a very disciplined nation, and also a nation that pays attention to respect and inferiority. This is very similar to South Korea. Young people in Huaguo are now only in awe of money and power, but for elders, teachers, seniors, etc., But lack the necessary respect.

But when doing business, a large multinational club like Sony hopes that everyone can express their opinions during discussions, and does not advocate silence and wait for orders from the people above.

But today's matter is so big that the executives of various departments and the general affairs of the headquarters who are usually known for their "firecracker battles" are silent.

The ones who really make decisions at Sony are usually the two people sitting at the head and the tail—Takakawa Teruki and Morita Masashige.

The two hold more than 40% of Sony's shares through various means, and coupled with the name of the founders of their fathers, it is natural to promise.

However, when the two of them put forward the proposal today, even the two of them themselves were not so sure.

What can make Sony so difficult is the transaction with Fairy Company.

Before Sony wanted to obtain 5% of the shares in the app store, Xiao Qi considered that joining an electronics giant in another country could further check and balance Samsung and Apple, so he agreed with them, including the acquisition of Ericsson's mobile phone patents and wireless communication patents , a total of 11 billion US dollars in acquisition requests.

It's just that some time ago, because Sony didn't get back Ericsson's American patents, the acquisition was incomplete, so Xiao Qi didn't agree for the time being.

Now it seems that Xiao Qi's disapproval is actually a good thing for Sony.

Otherwise, it costs a huge price of 11 billion US dollars to enter the app store, and it will be beaten by the Android store. At that time, LE, Motorola, and Nokia were all invincible overlords in the past ten years. Although Xiao Qi's rising trend is very obvious, after all, his background is very lacking. Just talking about the accumulation of technology is a few blocks away from others.

Among Sony's internal executives, there is now a kind of argument circulating, discussing whether to choose the app store or the Android store.

Today's meeting is to solve this problem.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Masashige Morita simply said by himself: "Let me say first, I called Xiao Qi yesterday, and his request was still so arrogant, requiring us to pay other things besides Ericsson patents and a large amount of US dollars. As for what it is, he didn’t say, we need to consider it ourselves.”

"Hehe, this young man from Huaguo is really arrogant!" Gui Dongcun, the executive director of the development department, laughed, "Don't he know that all the big companies and big media in the world are looking down on him now? An app store? At this time of crisis, we sony are willing to join in, and it’s a blessing to them. We don’t want to beg them for rewards!”

"You can't say that." Gao Chuan Huishu said lightly: "The app store is the most profitable app store now, with a daily turnover of more than 100 million U.S. dollars. No matter how strong the Android store is, it will be sold by Nokia and Apple in February next year. Motorola’s mobile phone can only start operating after it goes on the market. And it will take at least half a year to reach the scale of the app store, so it will be at least 8 months from now. With 8 months, the app store will be able to continue To what extent it has developed, none of us know."

Seeing that one of the bosses, Gao Chuanhuishu, was saying good things to Fairy Company, Dong Cungui quickly shut down his laughter and dared not speak.

Masashige Morita frowned slightly.

In fact. The reason why the atmosphere of Sony's talks today is so weird is naturally because the two bosses have different ideas.

Morita Masashige prefers the Android store, but Takakawa Teruki insists that the app store is the best. Even if the two are friends, no one can convince the other in private, and they can only discuss it publicly.

Alas, if only the two eldest ladies and Mr. Liu are willing to come forward, where will there be any disputes?

Masashige Morita sighed with emotion, and slowly said: "Hui Shu is right, the current app store is indeed the best. But everyone, don't forget that Xiao Qi's asking price is very high, and we only hope to have 5% of it now." ratio, you need to pay a total price of 11 billion U.S. dollars, which is simply a joke in terms of price-earnings ratio!"

"I think it's worth the money, because the app store is very good, so Xiao Qi is reluctant to let it go." Gao Chuan Huishu retorted, "Now the era of smart electronics has just begun, and in the future, Apple, Fairy, Samsung, Sony has developed together, at least 500 million smartphones will bring us much profit, have you ever thought about it?

Although Xiao Qi has encountered some difficulties now, I think this is the time for us to build a relationship with him! Come to think of it, folks, it's better than icing on the cake! As long as we can bundle our smart electronic products with the app store, how much sales will our smartphones and smart tablets have? This is a step for Sony to go global in the communication field! "

Quite a number of high-level officials nodded after hearing the words, obviously thinking that Gao Chuanhuishu's words made sense.

Although Sony is controlled by the Morita family and the Gaochuan family, there are still many other shareholders. Today, Teruki Gaochuan and Masashige Morita are seeking the support of the middle forces to overwhelm each other.

But joining the Android store is different. First of all, it is free for us to join, and then this Android system is a free system for all mobile phone companies. Just now Huishu said that there are 500 million app store users, so I can now say that the Android store There are at least 2 billion users! With so many users, is it still afraid that those developers and development companies will not keep coming? As soon as there are more good games and programs, there will naturally be more users, and our sales will also increase!

By agreeing to the Android Alliance, we will not only save the trouble of developing and optimizing the system, but also join the world's largest and most used application store-the success and failure of both open and closed, haven't we seen enough in the past few decades? ? , Microsoft and Apple, in the end, openness defeated closure! "

It has to be said that Masashige Morita's "battle between open and closed" and the word "free" completely moved the middle power, and he applauded involuntarily.

Gao Chuanhuishu looked at everyone's expressions, even his own subordinates were moved, and naturally knew that this time the situation was over.

However, he still has to make a final effort, "Since everyone is inclined to Changfan, I have nothing to say. But I don't think it can be done. It is okay to suspend the transaction of joining the app store, but Xiao Qi It is useless for us to keep the mobile phone patents and wireless communication patents of Ericsson that we were entrusted to acquire, so we might as well sell them to Xiao Qi and leave a way out.”

"Well, what Huishu said is very good! We can't completely fall out with Fairy Company." Masashige Morita said with his jaw lowered: "Except for the right to use the wireless communication patent in Japan, sell the rest to Xiao Qi, and say Maybe this is the opportunity for us to have a good time in the future!"

"Hahaha……"

There was a burst of joyful laughter in the conference room.

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The kddi headquarters is also in the same situation.

KDDI's representative director, Domoto Taro, comes from Toyota Corporation, and has inextricable relationship with its ruling family.

Like all cooperatives, as long as there are different factions, there will be many positions.

The previous cooperation with Fairy Company was led by Yusuke Ogawa from Kyocera. Now that such a big event happened suddenly, Taro Domoto finally had the opportunity to come to a meeting to discuss it.

The result of the discussion, of course, is to terminate the Dream Stars underwriting contract with Fairy Company. For this reason, KDDI needs to pay Fairy Company a huge compensation of 20 million US dollars.

But it doesn't matter, this time Domoto Taro dared to do this, naturally there is his reason - after the Android Alliance learned of kddi's dream stars exclusive contract, it immediately got in touch with kddi, promising to give away its first The smartphone was given to kddi as a contract machine, and the price and conditions were much more favorable than Fairy Company.

Even the 20 million US dollars in compensation was quietly given by the Android Alliance.

Ogawa Yusuke left the meeting angrily, but it couldn't stop the top executives of kddi from being optimistic about Xiannv Company.

A company that has yet to prove itself in the mobile phone market. Although dream stars look dazzling, they are not as powerful as Motorola and Nokia.

From another point of view, the Android Alliance's action against Sony and KDDI is pressing step by step, compressing the living space of Dream Stars!

It's really vicious! (to be continued..)

ps:  Scholars secretly think that when our country's enterprises are dealing with the outside world, they lack the spirit of turning their faces and ignoring others and being shameless. I have suffered too much internationally! It's not like this at all to use half of the internal energy to deal with foreign companies! All should be self-improvement!