Chapter 3000 Ripples

"Please," the opponents also laughed and walked in one after another. Cummins whispered to Charlie Kidd, "When I saw his smile, I felt that we were all lambs to be slaughtered,"

Apple's Jeff Williams listened to their muttering calmly, and thought to himself at this time, you don't have to be slaughtered at all, it would be better if you didn't come.

Kidd nodded, and Cummins immediately turned to Jeff Williams, "Jeff, what do you think?"

I said... If I say I am a fool, doesn't that mean I am eavesdropping on your conversation? "What?" He pretended not to understand.

"Haha, nothing," Cummins just smiled.

Just for Williams' shameless energy, he and Kidd must not be so relaxed this time.

"I hope everyone had a good rest last night, haha," George Riddle laughed again.

He didn't want to be like this, he really didn't want to be too proud, he knew very well that it was not good for him to be like this at this time.

But he just couldn't help it.

To be honest, it was too long.

These few days are really the most comfortable days for them since the bankruptcy in 2009.

He also believed that whoever met such world-renowned companies rushing to give money, how could he contain his joy?

He especially looked at Williams and Cummins. Good people, if it weren't for Apple and Android, which quickly popularized smartphones, how could their patents be so popular?

Well, Microsoft also contributed a lot. Thank Microsoft for initiating so many patent lawsuits.

"Thank you all for coming again. Today's auction starts with Intel's offer yesterday, $1.5 billion," George Riddle tried not to laugh when he spoke.

$1.5 billion!

You know, they were actually very satisfied with Android's offer of $900 million. As patent owners, they naturally had a stock price for 6,000 patents. Normally, the book value would only be $200 million, but Android's price increased by 4.5 times!

In the first round of auctions, Intel actually raised the price to $1.5 billion at the beginning!

This was so happy that they couldn't believe their ears, and they were a little sad and doubtful that money was so easy to make now.

But they also know that this must not be the final result. This can be seen from the faces of the guys participating in the auction today. Yesterday's rich Intel is quite calm today, but the other three parties, who doesn't have the face of a must-win?

This is good!

I hope you can bid more fiercely.

Will it soar to more than 2 billion US dollars at the beginning today?

He is looking forward to it!

"At the same time, considering this starting price, each bid increase in this round of auction shall not be less than 50 million US dollars," he said with a trembling smile looking at everyone.

"Then, if there are no other questions, let's start now!"

As soon as he sat down, the Apple team signaled, "1.55 billion US dollars,"

George Riddle repeated it, and the smile on his face faded a little. To be honest, he was a little disappointed. You are Apple, holding more than 50 billion US dollars in your hands, and you are also facing multiple patent lawsuits, so you need this batch of patents very much.

But your first bid was only 50 million US dollars, which is really stingy!

He looked at Intel, you were very brave and heroic yesterday, we are optimistic about you!

But Intel was very calm at this time, or rather, a little indifferent.

Could it be that you guys were planning to scare off other bidders yesterday?

He looked at the alliance led by BlackBerry. I know that your hardware business is declining sharply, so you really need these patents to strengthen your ability to make profits through intellectual property rights, and you can get a lot of subsidies from the government afterwards, so...?

He immediately turned his eyes away. Too many members in an alliance is troublesome. You have to negotiate the price increase of at least 50 million US dollars.

He actually knew that this was mainly because BlackBerry was smaller and had much less money than the other three parties.

He just glanced at the alliance of Android and Microsoft, and happened to see Charlie Kidd of Microsoft looking at Cummins next to him with some strangeness. Could it be that you also want to negotiate?

He was just thinking that his previous forecast was a little too optimistic, and then he saw Cummins smiled and opened his mouth, and Kidd immediately lowered his head.

What's going on? Do you still have a conflict?

He then repeated Cummins's offer, "1.9 billion..."

He was overjoyed, and he added it up to 1.9 billion, so awesome!

This is what a company like yours should be like.

But he became a little embarrassed because he found that he couldn't even repeat Cummins' offer completely.

"1.9 billion 2..."

He only remembered that there was more than 2 million US dollars at the end, which was a bit strange.

Cummins smiled and repeated it again, and spoke slowly. George Riddle took the note handed over by the person next to him and read, "1.9 billion 2.16 million and... 583 US dollars!?"

He glanced at Cummins. Is this your offer?

There are both whole and decimal places, and there is also a decimal of 583 US dollars?

Brother, you are auctioning, and your offer is more than 1.9 billion US dollars. Let's not talk about the 2.16 million, but there is also a decimal of 583 US dollars?

What the hell is this?

By the way, I can give you a small change on behalf of Nortel, okay?

Cummins smiled and nodded at him, yes, this is our offer.

George Riddle suddenly understood why Microsoft's Charlie Kidder was still keeping his head down. Although he thanked you for raising the price to nearly 2 billion US dollars, is such a price a little bit unserious, brother dei!

The other three parties were also whispering at this time. They were obviously as puzzled as Riddle, but soon, some people looked at Cummins strangely. What's going on?

The subordinate whispered something to him, George Riddle looked at him uncertainly, and the subordinate nodded.

Brown's constant, what is this?

Okay, I really don’t appreciate the interest of you science and engineering men. He looked at other parties, what numbers will you report next?

Will it be some constant that is accurate to single digits?

He saw that the representative of the BlackBerry alliance moved his mouth several times, but in the end he was dumbfounded and did not speak... Isn't it difficult for you to speak because you can't find a similar and close number?

Riddle really wanted to say, this is an auction, everyone!

Can you be more serious?

He then saw that after the three parties exchanged a few glances, Apple's Jeff Williams actually suggested, "I suggest that this round, let's do this first!"

"agreed, agreed!"

Hey, I said, it’s less than 2 billion US dollars!

Riddle looked at the groups of people leaving one after another, who were they?

…………

"What? Brown's constant?" Cook frowned.

"Yeah, the Cummins quote, that's Brown's constant," Jeff Williams said.

Cook looked at the number that appeared on the computer and couldn't help but "tsk". It was actually accurate to $3. What kind of bad taste are you doing?

But Williams thought differently. He was a little worried, "Tim, I think Android is obviously determined to win, so it made such an offer."

Cook stood up, "You're right,"

If you weren't confident enough, how could you quote such a random price?

"So, do we need to adjust our strategy now?" Williams asked.

Cook paced back and forth a few times, "It seems like it's necessary to make some adjustments."

He thought for a moment, "Since BlackBerry and the others haven't quoted a price yet, we can first go and find out what they have to say."

Cook also took a fancy to BlackBerry's innate advantages, and also saw BlackBerry's dilemma - they were the weakest, unlike the other three parties, who had money in their pockets and did not panic in their quotations.

"Intel, since there is no quotation today, you can still contact them,"

Speaking of which, although Apple and Intel have been cooperating again since 2005, there are too many grievances and grievances between them. When cooperating on matters such as patent auctions, there will definitely be a lot of details to discuss. Now Not necessarily in time.

"Okay Tim,"

Cook hung up the phone and couldn't help but think, Feng Yiping, can you be more outrageous?

Or are you using this method to express your contempt for what I said yesterday?

ps: The alarm clock was set for 2 o'clock, but it was completely useless. Even the watch with the alarm clock set was taken off without knowing when. Sorry, sorry!