Chapter 397 The Tragedy of Jobs [Request for full order]

Chapter 397 The Tragedy of Jobs [Request for full order]

Jobs said: "Our industry chain is basically broken."

"Our domestic chip companies are almost all dead now."

“Our software business is pretty much dead.”

"We have been struggling for so long in China, why can't we make a suitable smartphone that can be mass-produced?"

“It’s because the industry chain is finished.”

"It's not just the industry chain within Giant Eagle that's finished."

"Even the relevant industrial chains in areas such as foot basins and bangbangs have been declining."

"So, there is absolutely no way we can form a complete industrial chain in our alliance!"

“This is the saddest thing.”

Wozniak sighed.

He said: "Rebuilding the industrial chain is an urgent matter."

“I know it’s hard, but we have to do it.”

"Otherwise, our high-tech industry will be doomed."

Jobs nodded and said, “Who says it’s not?”

"But it's not that easy to rebuild the industrial chain!"

“That requires overcoming many technical difficulties.”

"In the chip industry alone, there are hundreds of process steps and hundreds of equipment and auxiliary materials required."

“These all need to be conquered one by one.”

Wozniak said, "Can't we just buy it from the dragon?"

Jobs shook his head: "They don't sell it."

"Haven't we tried this in the past? We hope to be able to purchase equipment such as lithography machines, etching machines, and packaging machines."

“They don’t sell it.”

"They are willing to give us finished products. But they won't give us the machinery."

"Their equipment manufacturers are all state-owned. Even if there is performance pressure, no one dares to do anything as long as the dragon does not allow it."

"It's a sad thing."

"This is our tragedy. We were deceived by the dragon's scheme."

"They destroyed our related industries with cheap chip products and software products."

"We have become a country that can only assemble and produce computer casings."

“So, we are destined to have no future.”

Wozniak was silent.

After a moment's silence, he said, "It seems that we don't have much time left."

"Those guys are now crazy about performance. They want us to increase profit margins and sales."

"But it's not that easy!"

"Relying only on the domestic market, we have no room for growth!"

"There is also no room for us to develop in overseas markets."

"We finally discovered the smartphone, a new product with great potential for rapid growth, but we ran into a collision with Pangu Technology."

"What hope do we have?"

Jobs sighed.

Yeah, Apple's future feels hopeless.

But Jobs didn't want to give up.

He hopes to make some adjustments to give Apple more room for survival.

But this is really not easy.

An assembly company has absolutely no future.

Jobs said: "Let's go back and discuss this with the shareholders. If we want to make more money in the future, then we must continue to increase our investment in scientific research!"

Jobs stayed in the dragon for more than two days.

He hopes to be able to contact other companies on the Dragon side.

Pangu Technology is not the only company in Julong that produces a full set of equipment, auxiliary materials and other products for the chip industry chain, such as lithography machines.

In fact, there are still many other companies that have similar products.

However, the products of those companies are relatively low in technological level.

But even so, if it can be purchased back, it will be quite attractive to Apple.

Unfortunately, after negotiations, Jobs found that the companies other than Pangu that he had contacted were basically supporting companies of Pangu Group.

This shocked him.

This is a total monopoly!

How big is the Pangu Group of the Julong family?
He couldn't even imagine it now.

This company almost monopolizes the production of high-end chips, and can handle all the high-end chip industry chain equipment and auxiliary materials by itself.

Many of Pangu Group’s companies are actually subsidiaries with independent accounting.

There may even be competition between subsidiaries.

In addition to the huge chip industry, Pangu Group also monopolizes the production of computers, mobile phones and even communication equipment.

It is said that it has even been involved in automobile production and the research and production of high-end radars and jammers in the military field.

The number of employees it employs is said to have reached four to five million.

Of course, the number of employees supporting the industrial chain is estimated to exceed 10 million.

This is a high-income group of more than 10 million people!

Including the service industry it supports, it is estimated that two to three hundred million people in the entire dragon live around Pangu Technology.

Jobs was very impressed.

Such a huge super-giant enterprise! It is really unimaginable.

It was completely impossible for him to find an opportunity in the dragon.

Jobs had to go back home with Wozniak.

At this time, Pangu smartphone has become extremely popular on the entire Internet.

On many websites in the Giant Eagle area, especially on Weibo, there are a large number of Pangu smartphone usage experiences and various guides.

This made many elites within the Giant Eagle a little tempted.

They all want to have a smart phone to play with. At the very least, it can save face, right?

After Jobs returned, he was summoned by several important shareholders to inquire about the relevant situation.

What shareholders are concerned about is: When will Apple be able to mass-produce its own smartphones?

Will the functions of Apple's future mass-produced smartphones be comparable to those of Pangu Technology's smartphones?

They were deeply disappointed by Jobs' response.

Because they couldn't tolerate the fact that when Pangu Technology's smartphones were starting to be mass-produced and launched on the market, Apple couldn't even organize a production chain.

They gave Jobs a severe beating.

They thought Jobs wasn't giving it his all.

If we really go all out, shouldn't we be able to quickly build our own production chain like Pangu Technology?
Jobs told them that it was because of the dragon's blockade that they were unable to obtain the equipment and main materials needed for the production chain.

And those shareholders think: Since you can even build an engineering prototype in the laboratory, doesn’t that mean you have mastered all the technologies?

Since you have all the technology, why can't you set up the entire industrial chain yourself according to the situation of laboratory equipment?

Shareholders won't reason with you.

If they think you should be able to do it, then you shouldn't make excuses saying you can't do it!
Jobs was naturally tough.

He had a violent argument with those guys.

The argument was quite intense.

Shareholders were furious.

They immediately convened a board meeting to remove Jobs. They couldn't stand it anymore. Apple, which could have made more money, was becoming weaker and weaker under Jobs' leadership! There must be something wrong with Jobs' own ability.

So, they want to replace him with someone capable.

They hope this guy can get the production chain set up as soon as possible.

Jobs was fired in mid-May 88.

Wozniak was soon kicked out, too.

The shareholders elected their preferred professional managers.

In fact, at this time, IBM was also making various efforts.

IBM also wants to continue to obtain support from Pangu Technology in the same way as before.

However, they also suffered a setback.

Pangu Technology’s response to them is actually the same as that to Apple.

They were all told that Pangu Technology must first meet the needs of the domestic market and then cooperate with external partners.

This may take at least two or three years.

IBM was dumbfounded.

In fact, they have no experience at all with smartphones.

After all, their researchers have never set up a project on this!
By the way, Colt from CNN also flew to Julong for an interview the day before Pangu Technology's smartphone was mass-produced and released.

He himself is not a CNN correspondent in Julong.

This time I went to Julong purely to look for materials for myself.

Of course, he also hopes to buy a Pangu smartphone.

So that he can write a series of blog posts around this.

He can also post on Weibo more conveniently.

I just don’t know if posting on Weibo will be particularly slow under 2G mobile data.

These are all matters of public concern.

Colt happened to have not taken his annual leave yet.

After Colt took leave, he flew to Hong Kong Island with his wife.

He has to go to Hong Kong Island first and then go to the dragon.

This way, it can be more concealed.

Colt is currently a big commentator on Weibo.

He also registered with Pangu Technology.

After he arrived in Hong Kong Island, he received help from the relevant departments of Pangu Technology.

Afterwards, Colt was able to enter the dragon's territory without leaving any trace.

Moreover, Pangu Technology also rewarded him with a smartphone.

This can be regarded as the best gift for Colt.

Colt immediately tried to use his Giant Eagle feature phone SIM card to insert it into the smartphone.

He wanted to see if he could use it.

As a result, after inserting the SIM card, he happily discovered that there was no problem at all and the SIM card could be used because the SIM card signal was displayed!
Colt was very happy.

Without hesitation, he made a test call.

The call can be made normally, and the quality of the call is very high.

Text messaging is great too.

However, Colt did not dare to use his Giant Eagle mobile phone number to access the Internet.

Because the roaming charges are really too high.

The communications business of the Giant Eagle family is extremely shady.

In the past, there was a tourist from Giant Eagle who went to Old Europe for a vacation. He turned on the roaming function for a few days and made a few calls during the trip. After he returned, the telecommunications operator sent him an oversized bill, asking him to pay more than $10,000.

Colt applied for a local SIM card from Julong.

He discovered that the local mobile phone card charges in Julong were really too low.

The local mobile phone cards in Julong also have different packages. If you don't use the package, you will be charged 4 cents per minute for receiving a call and cents for sending a text message. And the charge is one-way, and receiving and making calls are free.

If you use a package, the minimum package per month is only 20 yuan.

This is much cheaper than Giant Eagle’s.

The cheapest mobile phone package in Eagle is $50 per month. Moreover, if you use it for one year, the price will increase to $55 per month in the second year, and so on, with no upper limit. This is the most basic package.

Some people may ask, doesn't the Eagle family have many telecom operators? If this one raises the price, which one should I switch to?

The result is the same, there will be no difference.

The capitalists have formed an alliance. If you switch to another company, they will continue to raise your prices in the same way.

Someone very smart said, just use it for a year and then immediately switch to another carrier's service.

It's not impossible, but what about your connections? People remember your phone number, and every time you change it, you have to notify the relevant people. Isn't it annoying?

There are so many tricks used by capitalists.

In fact, in the previous life, the tricks used by the Dragon family's companies, including pyramid schemes and the like, were all passed down from the Giant Eagle.

After knowing all this, will you still believe that white people are honest and kind?
Colt got a mobile phone number from Julong in order to test how it works to chat on Penguin QQ and send messages on WeChat.

After testing, he found that chatting on QQ was very smooth, with almost no lag or delay.

However, sending via WeChat is much slower, mainly because it contains a lot of characters, and usually requires photos or something.

It usually takes at least seven or eight minutes to upload a blog post like this.

However, this is already very good.

Being able to post on Weibo using a mobile phone means that when you encounter meaningful events, you can post them online immediately.

This is so important for breaking news!

Colt was thrilled.

He also felt sorry.

Because, he already knew that in the short term, Giant Eagle would not have any smartphone sales.

This is actually an opportunity for him.

He can use the smartphone he bought from Dragon to post on Weibo anytime and anywhere in Eagle's house.

This will help him grab more exclusive news!
Exclusive news is so important.

Colt traveled to Julong for more than a week.

Whenever he arrives at a place, he will stay there for a day or two and find a series of topics to post on Weibo.

His Weibo posts are novel in angle, highly readable, and rich in pictures and texts, which has resulted in very good reader traffic in recent days.

When the readers at Giant Eagle’s house found out that Colt was actually using his cell phone to post on Weibo, they were extremely envious.

Everyone has strongly called for the market to be opened up as soon as possible to allow Pangu Technology's smartphones to enter.

But this appeal was actually of no avail.

Giant Eagle will not open the market easily.

Unless that company is controlled by the Giant Eagle family.

At the same time, because of the influence of Colt's Weibo, many of Colt's fans sent private messages to Colt, hoping that Colt could help them bring back a Pangu smartphone.

But that is also unrealistic.

If he carries too much, customs will consider it smuggling, and Colt might be severely fined.

Colt would never do such a thing.

Probably because Colt’s blog post became popular again, more and more Giant Eagle citizens flew from Giant Eagle to Giant Dragon specifically to buy Pangu smartphones.

Colt himself has seen several foreigners excitedly running to the business hall of Julong to inquire about purchasing Pangu smartphones.

However, they all came with high hopes but left disappointed.

This is because after the first wave of smartphones were sold out, they were out of stock on the market for nearly ten days.

Wang Haoran could have expected that the first wave of Pangu Smart would be sold out quickly, but he didn't expect the market to be so hot. He deliberately left a market window of ten days. During this period, he ordered the rapid expansion of production capacity and the establishment of additional production lines, increasing the production capacity to 50 units per day. (End of this chapter)