Chapter 746 The global communication industry is fried (1)
Nokia Headquarters in Finland, Europe.
On behalf of Changtian Technology, Luo Ning officially signed an acquisition agreement for the mobile phone business with Nokia.
Because this headquarters building used to belong to the Nokia mobile phone business group, after the cooperation agreement is signed, the Nokia Finland headquarters will belong to Changtian Technology's assets.
Kevinson signed his name on the agreement on behalf of Nokia.
Then he shook hands with Luo Ning awkwardly, and showed a smile to the camera that was uglier than crying.
Nokia is already aware of some decisions made by Changtian Technology.
Simpson will become CEO of Nokia's mobile phone business.
From now on there will be two Nokia's in the world.
A Nokia will be a supplier of communication equipment.
Another brand, Nokia, is a brand in the mobile phone industry and belongs to Changtian Technology.
Nokia's board of directors and senior executives looked at Simpson with strange expressions on their faces, and they must have felt very uncomfortable.
There is a question on everyone's mind.
After going around in a circle, Nokia finally cooperated with Changtian Technology.
However, if this cooperation was done a few years ago, both parties would be equal.
But today, Nokia is committed to Changtian Technology.
"Finally, we can save a mobile phone brand like Nokia." A certain director on the board of directors said this awkwardly, as if to save Nokia's respect.
At the request of Changtian Technology.
Nokia did not announce the entire acquisition process to the outside world, nor did it invite media reporters to the signing ceremony today for interviews.
Nokia also doesn't want the news of the sale of its mobile phone business to be made known to the world.
After all, you have sold yourself, which is not a particularly glorious thing.
It's just that in the mobile phone industry and the capital world, such a major transaction cannot be hidden.
Finland's local "Helsinki Times" was the first to report the relevant news.
"For $6 billion, Nokia sold its mobile phone business and related intellectual property rights to Changtian Technology."
The report was placed on the front page of the "Helsinki Times", but because all the agreements signed by Changtian Technology and Nokia were not made public, the "Helsinki Times" only knew the acquisition price and did not know more details.
So although today's report is on the front page, the entire report does not exceed 100 words.
Now, the entire Western world is in a state of shock!
Nokia's mobile phone business was actually sold! And it was sold to Xia Guo's Changtian Technology.
This is something that all the media and industry people have never thought about.
Everyone knows that Nokia has been having a hard time in the past few years.
But everyone never thought that Nokia would actually sell its mobile phone business.
Major media outlets around the world immediately reprinted relevant reports from the Helsinki Times.
"The Times" commented: "The end of a great era."
"Because for most Westerners, Motorola and Nokia started the era of mobile phone popularity.
Nokia's classic ringtone and startup screen have been engraved in the hearts of a generation.
I never expected that Nokia’s mobile phones would end in this way around the world.”
"Wall Street Journal": "Nokia's mobile phone business is committed to Changtian Technology, and Changtian Technology is likely to enter the mobile phone retail field with the help of Nokia."
The Wall Street Journal used the word "succumb" in its English report.
In the Chinese version of the report, Xia Guo's word was used as "committed to".
Obviously, "succumb" is more emotional. The Wall Street Journal is obviously unbelievable and unfavorable about Nokia selling its mobile phone business to Changtian Technology.
Nokia is a mark of an era in the eyes of Western capital and technology circles.
In the impression of many people, Nokia can represent the craftsman spirit of the West, a devout and elegant knight in the Middle Ages, and the beautiful earl's daughter with rich knowledge and culture in the castle of a Western aristocrat.
In the eyes of Western capital and technology circles, Xia Guo's companies, including Changtian Technology, are all Xia Guo's coolies who come from afar to do dirty work.
A Xia coolie actually married the daughter of an earl. This is unacceptable in the hearts of many Western capitals.
But for the majority of Western consumers, they don’t even know where Xia Guo is on the map. They think that Dongyang is a province of Xia Guo, so they don’t pay attention to the acquisition news in the technology world at all.
To them, a Nokia phone is still a Nokia phone, no matter who it is sold to, it is a European Nokia phone.
Just like a Land Rover will always be a Land Rover, even if it is sold to an Indian, it will still be a British Land Rover.
As a person of two generations, Chen Xiao understands the thoughts of ordinary people in the West, which is one of the reasons why Chen Xiao’s acquisition price dropped.
But for the people of Xia Kingdom, this move by Changtian Technology is of symbolic significance.
Nokia has been the god in the hearts of Xia users for a long time.
Just a few years ago, many consumers in Xia were proud to own a Nokia mobile phone.
In the eyes of consumers and many technology companies in Xia, Nokia is like a mountain, an insurmountable mountain.
Now Changtian Technology has actually acquired Nokia!
Does this prove that Xia Guo’s technology companies have surpassed Western technology companies?
Countless domestic media reported the news frantically.
I even learned about some of Changtian Technology’s policies for acquiring Nokia from various channels.
Xinlang Technology: "Changtian Technology invested heavily in acquiring Nokia's mobile phone business, and more than 30,000 Nokia employees are about to be laid off."
"Renren Daily": "Changtian Technology's acquisition of Nokia represents Xia Guo Technology's move to the forefront of the international stage."
The netizens of Xia Kingdom cheered.
"Five years ago, I always thought Nokia was an unattainable company. At that time, there were many Xia Guo's copycat companies, imitating Nokia's logo and secretly selling copycat mobile phones. I just thought that Nokia was our Xia Guo's The brand is good, but I didn’t expect that Changtian Technology would directly acquire it now.”
"Six billion dollars, this Nokia may be a big sum of money, but it is just a drop in the bucket for Changtian Technology." Some netizens from Xia State rationally analyzed Changtian Technology's behavior, "I think Changtian Technology Purchasing Nokia may mean that you are really entering the mobile phone industry. It is very likely to use Bird mobile phones as the brand in China and Nokia as the brand in overseas markets, implementing dual strategic measures for mobile phones."
“We strongly look forward to Changtian Technology launching its own mobile phone! This should be Changtian Technology’s countermeasure against the United States’ rejection of Changtian Technology hardware.”
Netizens in Xia Guo are abuzz with various analyses, and some are even speculating whether Nokia's future mobile phones will use Symbian or Android.
In response to this issue, many netizens believe:
"I heard that Changtian Technology has begun to close the R&D center in Symbian, so it will definitely use Android system!"
USA, California, Apple headquarters.
Apple CEO Cook also learned the news immediately.
In fact, it has become a consensus in the industry that Nokia will die.
It's just that everyone doesn't know when Nokia will die and how.
Nokia's acquisition by Changtian Technology is also one of the ways to die.
However, in the eyes of many Western capitals and many technology industries, selling to Xia Guo’s technology companies is one of the more cowardly ways to die.
Having said that, everyone knows that with the current state of Nokia's mobile phone business, not even Microsoft is interested, let alone other Western technology companies.
It's pretty good if it can be sold, so don't pick people.
Cook also knows very well that Changtian Technology is going to enter the mobile phone industry.
It is very likely that it will compete directly with Apple.
But Cook is confident.
Next month is September.
Apple is about to release a new generation of iPhone, iPhone5.
The iPhone 5 has made great progress compared to the iPhone 4 in terms of chips. Samsung has done a lot of work on the chips to make the phone's computing power more powerful and faster.
At the same time, it was stimulated by the carbon crystal hardware of Changtian Technology.
Companies such as Samsung have also developed new generations of memory and flash memory standards.
This will allow the overall performance of the iPhone 5 to surpass the iPhone 4S, which uses carbon crystal hardware.
Since then, even if Creative Technology acquires Nokia, it will not be able to shake Apple's position as the world's leading mobile phone company.
Cook was determined and told the marketing department: "It is time to announce the specific time of the iPhone 5 launch event and send invitations to the global media, relevant companies and our friends."
Cook said with a smile: "Remember to send an invitation letter to our old friend Changtian Technology."
On the same day, Apple announced on its official website and multiple media outlets that the iPhone 5 launch event would be September 13, 2012.
Apple also gave a promotional slogan for iPhone5——
“The most changed iPhone ever!”
This sentence is actually a pun.
On the surface it is a change of the iPhone, but in fact it is a change of Apple.
After all, this is the first iPhone released by Cook after joining Apple.
Cook’s minimum requirement is to make the overall performance of iPhone 5 more powerful than iPhone 4S.
A higher requirement is to completely erase all traces of Steve Jobs on the iPhone.
In Changzezhou, Chen Xiao also received an invitation from Apple and smiled.
Wang Xiang is in Yanjing at this time and is negotiating with Xia Guo's China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom and Warwick, and there will be news soon.
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The U.S. mobile phone communications industry is also evaluating the subsequent impact of Changtian Technology’s acquisition of Nokia.
Everyone’s analysis revealed that Changtian Technology must first get rid of Nokia Symbian’s negative equity before it can restart Nokia.
Analysts in the United States are not optimistic about Changtian Technology's entry into the mobile communications industry.
On a program, an expert from MIT analyzed and said:
"Changtian Technology's acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business is likely to just delay the death of Nokia's mobile phone brand."
Host: "How do you say this?"
Expert: "We admit that Changtian Technology has advantages in carbon crystal memory and carbon crystal storage, but mobile phone products are high-precision products based on human wisdom. More important than memory and storage are communication basebands and chip screens.
System, etc.”
Moderator: "So, even if Changtian Technology acquires Nokia, hoping to inherit Nokia's industry status and continue to make a fuss in communications, it will actually be very difficult?"
Expert: "That's true. Changtian Technology has acquired Nokia's mobile phone business this time, including all the patents of Nokia mobile phones. Therefore, if Changtian Technology makes mobile phones, there will definitely be no problem with the communication baseband and motherboard."
The host interjected: "Nokia has always been known for its excellent mobile phone signals."
Expert: "Yes, but Nokia originally placed all its bets on the Symbian system, and neither the mobile phone screen nor the chip was effective."
Expert: "Many of Nokia's mobile phone chips use Infineon, Texas Instruments or Qualcomm chips. The overall chip level is more than one level behind the current Apple and Android chips."
Expert: “Furthermore, Changtian Technology’s dumping of carbon crystal storage semiconductor products around the world offended almost all semiconductor companies in the world. Therefore, if Changtian Technology makes mobile phones, it is very likely that it will not be able to obtain high-end chips, and there will be no way to compete with them.
Apple, HTC, Samsung and other companies compete.”
Expert: "The same is true for the system. Apple's iOS system is definitely not open to the public. If Changtian Technology wants to use the Android system, it must obtain authorization and consent from Google. Google is an American company and often targets Changtian Technology.
The fact that Google is playing tricks on user security will definitely seriously consider whether to authorize the Android system to be used by Changtian Technology."
This is not only the view of private individuals and experts, but also the view of experts in the entire Western science and technology community.
Everyone has reservations about Nokia's future and Changtian Technology's entry into the mobile phone industry.
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California, Steve Jobs Villa.
Jobs was lying on the sofa scrolling through Twitter. He placed a cup of coffee and an invitation to Apple's iPhone 5 launch event on the table.
It took nearly half a year of recovery.
At this time, Jobs could feel that his physical indicators had completely returned to normal.
Just yesterday he got the test report results from the hospital, which showed that all cancer indexes were normal.
If this physical condition can be maintained for half a year to a year, it will prove that Changtian Technology's cell-based omnipotent treatment is successful. Jobs, the anti-cancer is completely successful.
Changtian Technology acquires Nokia?
interesting!
Jobs said to himself: "This time, Apple is in trouble!"
The reason why Jobs expressed such emotion was because he had lived in Changzezhou for several months and had a deep understanding of Changtian Technology and Chen Xiao.
This time, the US market took a series of measures to restrict Changtian Technology, but Changtian Technology never responded. Jobs knew that this was not because Changtian Technology had no cards to play, but that it was holding back a big move.
Acquiring Nokia should be just the first step.
In fact, Jobs himself had no idea how Changtian Technology would respond to the release of the iPhone 5.
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The media have been near Changzezhou, hoping to interview the spokesperson of Changtian Technology so that Changtian Technology can express some opinions on the release of iPhone 5 and its acquisition of Nokia.
However, Changtian Technology has not responded in the past month.
Today, Changtian Technology actually took the initiative to hold a press briefing.
By this time, reporters were excited and swarmed in. The venue was packed with reporters.
Xinlang Technology: "After Changtian Technology acquires Nokia, what are its future plans or arrangements for Nokia?"
Spokesperson Song Yi just said one sentence, which instantly silenced all reporters: "Changtian Technology will use Nokia as a platform to develop 4G mobile phones."