Rebirth in a Perfect Era Chapter 1432: Start acquisition negotiations
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The news that Andy Rubin joined Muye Science and Technology gave Apple a huge blow.
It was difficult for Tim Cook to get the board of directors to agree to the plan to fully upgrade the next-generation iPod. Even this plan is only staying at the top of Apple. Li Mu responded with actual action.
Muye Science and Technology solicited Andy Rubin, the purpose of which was to upgrade Mangi-ME. Apple although did n’t know what Li Mu was going to do, but from their knowledge of Andy Rubin, they could already infer, The direction selected by Li Mu is consistent with the direction that Apple has just reached consensus.
In fact, even if Apple executives decided to fully upgrade the iPod, and even developed an independent operation system for the iPod, named IOS, but this IOS and Jobs IOS is just a coincidence in name.
OS means Operating-System. Starting from MacOS, “OS” is the code name for operating system in Apple, while Jobs ’“ I ”refers to the iPhone, but Apple ’s“ I ”refers to the iPod.
Tim Cook is far from the long-term job Steve Jobs considered in 2005, he does not have a smart phone and mobile internet architecture in his mind, his entire strategic thinking has not jumped out of the iPod.
It ’s no wonder that Tim Cook ’s ability is insufficient, mainly because everyone is in a different stage, so the way of thinking is also different. The ancients said that they are full of warmth and thought **, the prerequisite is to eat and wear warm first. previous life Jobs played a beautiful turn-around battle with iPod and iTunes to make Apple full and warm, so he could plan and plan a longer-term strategy of landing. Tim Cook was in danger and tightened his belt. One thing, how to make Apple eat and wear warm. At this time, if the pattern is really too large, it is easy to lead Apple to a path of no return that consumes itself.
Now, Tim Cook, the silk version of IOS, is also completely dead.
Apple never dared to face up with Li Mu again. They wanted to upgrade iPod in an all-round way, they just want to temporarily avoid its edge and lie down, and then came up with a new generation of products to beat Li Mu, but no one expected, Li Mu’s responded. The speed will be so fast.
In this case, the stop-loss group that had just been humiliated at Microsoft lost confidence in Apple ’s future again, and the counter-attackers also united again from division, agreeing that the possibility of counter-attacking Muye Science and Technology no longer exists. , No matter what method is used.
Tim Cook also lost his confidence. After the meeting ended on the same day, he decided to resign to the board of directors. The excuse for his resignation was that he had no ability to save Apple, so I hope that Apple can find a new one that can lead Apple out of the crisis. CEO.
Everyone will say decently, just like when a girl refuses a boy ’s courtship, he will say that he is a good person, and he will say that he is not good enough, not worthy of him, and that he deserves to have a better one. In fact, she just looks at it Not just him.
Tim Cook said that he wanted to resign because he felt that he was not capable enough. In fact, he did n’t want Apple to end up in his hands. If a professional manager had a company with a market value of several billion USD This professional manager is bound to have an uncertain future.
Everyone is out of the world. Who does n’t know what Tim Cook is doing? The Apple board quickly summed up and told Tim Cook that it ’s OK to leave, but you have to wait another three months, Within three months, they will try to find a good buyer and sell a good price for Apple. If they ca n’t sell it, Tim Cook can leave after three months.
For Apple executives, they were so engaged in Li Mu, they also looked forward to quickly getting Apple off.
However, who sells it to, or who wants to, becomes a bigger issue.
The Apple executives almost slammed all the big players and companies in the internet industry. They think that now enough funds can be used to acquire Apple, and there are really few companies that have practical significance in collecting Apple. In any case, the value of Apple ’s current shots It has to be a little higher than the market value. How can it be considered a billion-dollar USD business? Few companies have such a big appetite.
Moreover, Apple has considered all the first-line internet companies, but has not considered Muye Science and Technology, not that they are not willing to sell the company to Muye Science and Technology, but they think that Muye Science and Technology will not be too interested in Apple, especially Mango-ME2 is very popular, and Muye Science and Technology is not ready to operate system, Muye Science and Technology is Apple is really useless.
Of course, Apple will not know that Li Mu wants not the mess they have, but the huge market value of hundreds of billions of USD in the future.
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Louis Martin ’s news is superb. On the evening when Apple passed and the IOS program was abolished, Li Mu got the news from him. Louis Martin believes that the time window for the acquisition of Apple has come.
Li Mu felt that it was almost time to sit down with Apple and have a chat, so he asked him: “What kind of offer do we think we give Apple now, at the lowest cost, and at the same time ensure that they accept?”
Louis Martin said: “The biggest pain point of Apple is where the iPod business is going. No one wants this part of the business and it will face huge losses. In fact, from the current situation, no one will be willing to buy the iPod business. Now, if someone expressly expresses their willingness to take over the iPod business together and let all shareholders of Apple immediately sell off all their shares, they will definitely agree without hesitation. “
Li Mu nodded and said: “So, I will let my vice president contact the Apple core layer tomorrow and let them meet each other as soon as possible.”
“Good!” Louis Martin said with a laugh: “I think the acquisition of Apple may be much simpler than we thought. Microsoft has really helped us a lot indirectly.”
“Yes.” Li Mu sighed, said with a laugh: “Microsoft is really a **** assist this time. It is because of their unreasonable bargaining that we are given a good chance to get into the bottom of the bargain!”
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When Tim Cook received a call from Lin Qingya, he was stunned for a few seconds before he gradually relaxed.
Lin Qingya is the vice president of Muye Science and Technology, and is also person in charge of Muye Science and Technology US branch. It is a female executive with the strongest influence of Silicon Valley. With the continuous development of Muye Science and Technology, the reputation of Lin Qingya in Silicon Valley is also growing. But this is not the reason why Tim Cook was stunned. The reason why he did not react out of shock was a long time because he probably guessed the actual secret of Lin Qingya calling himself.
So Tim Cook asked respectfully: “Miss Lin, I don’t know what you asked me to call me?”
Lin Qingya smiled slightly and said: “Tim, I heard that Apple wanted to find a strong individual or group to take over. I do n’t know if this happened?”
“Yes.” Tim Cook said without hesitation: “We are indeed looking for a strong buyer for Apple.”
Tim Cook is not surprised. The entire Silicon Valley knows that Apple wants to rush to cash out stops, and it ’s not surprising that Lin Qingya knows.
But Tim Cook is a little curious. Is Lin Qingya interested in Apple?
At this time, Lin Qingya said: “Tim, Muye Science and Technology is somewhat interested in Apple. If you have time, we can sit down and talk.”
Tim Cook immediately felt happy, Muye Science and Technology although is the enemy of Apple, but from the business level, Muye Science and Technology is the most suitable company to acquire Apple.
However, Tim Cook thought about it carefully and said after a while: “Miss Lin, remind us in advance that what we are looking for is that the shares of the core shareholder are acquired by wholly-owned and wholly-owned assets. This is not financing nor sub-licensing. Shares, you must accept this before we can continue to talk. “
Lin Qingya said with a laugh: “Of course, we do n’t want to simply take a share in Apple, because that does n’t make any sense to us, and the wholly-owned acquisition is still barely a bit operational.”
“Wholly-owned acquisition ?!” Tim Cook asked, his voice sounded calm, but his heart was already in shock.
Muye Science and Technology wants to buy Apple wholly-owned. This is really Tim Cook ’s didn’t expect, because he thinks that Li Mu ca n’t use Apple at all, so why spend money to buy a loser who he ca n’t use?
Moreover, why did Li Mu buy Apple to operate system and the whole machine business? These two sections are of no practical significance to the current Muye Science and Technology. As for the iPod, it is easy to explain that Li Mu may be the same as Microsoft, which is to remove obstacles for its own products.
As requested by Li Mu’s, Lin Qingya has been too lazy to continue to circle around with Apple, so she went straight to the point and said: “Tim, our chairman believes that Apple is a company with certain potential, out of recognition for you, and Some of the needs of our own business line, he decided to buy your business, and he heard that you were insulted by Microsoft for this matter, including that he also felt that Microsoft was doing too much, so let me come with you Talk about it, if you can reach an agreement price, then he pays, and then all the people in your company will be compiled into Muye Science and Technology. If the negotiation fails, you can accept the split agreement of Microsoft and only sell the operation system to They. “
As soon as Lin Qingya mentioned Microsoft, Tim Cook ’s heart was particularly depressed. Microsoft really hurt the self-esteem of all Apple core personnel. In their view, the software they worked hard for, Hardware, I dare not say that the industry is the first, but at least it is extremely top-ranked. But now, in the eyes of Microsoft, these efforts have absolutely no practical value. The only value of Apple to Microsoft is to ensure that Microsoft will no longer be controlled by antitrust laws, just like a tool, nothing more.
Thinking for a moment, Tim Cook asked Lin Qingya: “Lin Zong, if we sell Apple to Muye Science and Technology, what kind of quotation can Muye Science and Technology give us? Apart from the quotation, about our company and team, he all Any other ideas? “
Lin Qingya smiled slightly: “Chief Li has any specific ideas, I don’t know this, so we can make an appointment and have a chat to see what you all want, and then I will talk to Chief Li.”
Tim Cook immediately agreed to come down and blurted out: “Then choose tomorrow, I will have time all day tomorrow!”