Chapter 2409: So That's It

Cupertino, Apple headquarters.

Several people were nervously surrounding Jobs to report. These were the project leaders of the R&D team for the new iPhone, the 3G version.

After the success of the first generation of iPhone, the pressure they faced was undoubtedly much less, mainly because the confidentiality requirements were no longer as high as they were a year or two ago.

At least, within Apple, they don't have to hide it like before, and there are no restrictions between different groups in the R&D team like before.

The previous strict confidentiality measures have successfully kept the secrets of this epoch-making product, but setting restrictions everywhere is equivalent to closing oneself off.

On the one hand, the pressure on R&D is unprecedentedly huge, and on the other hand, you can't talk to anyone about the pressure you face, let alone other people in the company, even the people in the team, even your wife and children can't reveal a word. For many people, that is equivalent to double pressure.

Fortunately, now, such restrictions have been relaxed a lot.

These days are really getting better and better.

But that was for the ordinary members of the team. For those who reported to Jobs at this time, the pressure they faced had never been relieved.

After the first generation of iPhone was successfully launched on the market and became very popular, they obviously felt that Jobs was much more impatient. They could actually understand the reason because they, including them, felt the urgency.

Whether it was Nokia, Samsung, BlackBerry or Motorola, they must be racing against time to develop products that could compete with the iPhone.

They could not let the mobile phone market be controlled by new entrants like Apple from now on.

If Apple wants to continue to maintain its first-mover advantage in the next competition, then quickly developing the next more advanced product is naturally the most effective approach.

When other companies launched products based on the iPhone and their competitors, they had already developed the second generation of iPhone. When other companies came up with products that could compete with the second generation of iPhone, their third generation of products had already been released... In other words, only by always maintaining an advantage of one generation ahead of other competitors in the market can Apple achieve the expected success in this new field.

However, although they understood Jobs' urgency, even they could not accept his attitude in the past two days.

Looking at Jobs's posture, it seemed that other mobile phone companies had a very threatening product about to be released, so it seemed that he hoped that the research and development work could be completed by the end of the year.

But, is that possible?

Besides, your requirements are so high!

But Jobs didn't seem to care about these sufficient reasons. As they expected, after the last person finished speaking, Jobs had already exploded, "The progress is seriously lagging behind."

This means that if you knew our progress yesterday, can you still expect that when you hear the report today, our work will move forward a lot at once?

In their complaints, Jobs sometimes put his hands on his waist and sometimes waved his hands back and forth, from them personally to their team, all-round and multi-angle denunciation of their work.

Although they have become accustomed to this rhythm, no one can adapt to such things. Every time this happens, everyone feels very uncomfortable.

Jobs is a well-known figure in Silicon Valley, but these people are not unknown, either in Apple or in the outside world. It is really unpleasant to be criticized from head to toe.

But what can be done?

A vice president in the team just made a little defense, which attracted Jobs's more fierce criticism. Immediately, he also resigned himself to his fate and stood there honestly like the others, watching his nose and his heart, and letting Jobs criticize him without saying a word.

It is never a good idea to argue with Jobs when he is angry, because it will only arouse his greater anger.

They can only comfort themselves that the more times they survive such difficult times, the stronger their capital will be.

Although Jobs has a bad temper, his ability is also outstanding anyway.

To make an inappropriate analogy, Jobs's temper is like a hammer. Many of Apple's products have been transformed from a piece of black iron into fine steel under the repeated hammering of his hammer.

Their abilities were also greatly improved under such training.

This was also the main reason why they could endure.

"... If we fail, you will take full responsibility," Jobs looked at them and said.

This also meant that his anger had temporarily come to an end. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and was preparing to welcome the next wave. At this moment, the savior came. They saw Jobs' secretary hurried in and whispered something to Jobs. Jobs frowned, glanced at them coldly, and finally left with a gloomy face.

Several people were immediately pardoned. Is this the end?

As soon as Jobs disappeared, several people immediately breathed heavily and pulled a chair to sit down.

Several people who were still frightened looked at each other and laughed silently almost at the same time.

Similar to the popular four irons in China, working under Jobs and enduring his temper together... also have the same effect.

"Steve's health..." someone said tentatively.

Otherwise, why is he so impatient?

Someone shook his head, "It has nothing to do with his health,"

"Why is that?"

"I heard that Feng is Mr. Feng,"

Everyone nodded immediately. The Mr. Feng mentioned here naturally refers to Feng Yiping.

"One of his companies has developed a very good system named Android, which is very suitable for mobile phones and other smart platforms,"

"So that's it,"

They immediately understood why Jobs was so impatient these two days.

If Android is really good, then someone may catch up with them soon.

At this time, Apple was far less confident in the field of mobile phones than it was later. After all, their first generation of products really had flaws such as poor signal.

"Also, do you know?" The guy who broke the news whispered, "Do you know who developed Android?"

"Who?" Everyone immediately became interested. Could it be that the guy who made Jobs so anxious was an acquaintance?

"That guy's called Andy Rubin,"

Everyone looked at each other, who is that? No one had any impression!

"When John Scully was CEO, Rubin was a somewhat eccentric employee in our R&D department. Later, his department was disbanded. He and several colleagues founded a new company and developed an Internet TV, which was quite successful. Then, Microsoft acquired their company, so he joined Microsoft again,"

"Later, for some reasons, he resigned from Microsoft again, and then started a business several times until his latest company, Android, was acquired by Feng,"

Hearing this, several people thought in unison, this is a talent, first Apple, then Microsoft, including Feng Yiping's company now, which is also well-known in Silicon Valley, so, is he going to check in all the well-known high-tech companies in the United States?

They also understand why Jobs was so angry.

Because, the threat to the current good situation turned out to be a former employee abandoned by Apple, which is a bit ironic no matter how you look at it.

How can such a thing give people a sense of retribution?

But Jobs was just angry at this time. He had long known that Rubin had been involved in the development of smartphone operating systems and interfaces when he was at Apple.

In his opinion, this was also a betrayal, a betrayal that was even more unforgivable.

But he had to answer the call at this moment, and he knew that receiving such a call at this time would definitely not be a good thing.

He hurried into the office and picked up the phone, "Lawrence,"

The caller was Lawrence Fink, whose company ranked second among Apple's top 10 institutional shareholders.

"Steve," the other party's voice was steady and relaxed, "We heard that there is a new product that will have a significant adverse impact on Apple?"