Today's board meeting broke up unhappily without any results. All the directors saw it and Cook and Howard were at loggerheads.
Many directors are inclined to let Cook serve as CEO again. After all, Cook is experienced and has a strong ability to deal with various things.
There are also some directors who believe that although Howard is not performing as well as Cook now, they must support Howard in the future.
Because Cook is really not young, although Howard has some shortcomings, he is better than his youth, being more than 20 years younger than Cook.
Howard can be tempered by going through some hardships.
One is the present and the other is the future. How to choose? It is difficult for the directors to make a decision at the moment.
Time has passed unknowingly. Many people know the news that Guoguo Company held a board of directors. Now it has been one day since Guoguo Company held a board of directors meeting.
Guoguo Company has not issued any statement. This situation only shows one thing, that is, Guoguo Company does not have a good response plan at the moment.
The threat posed by the third-generation Starlight mobile phone cannot be solved for the time being.
Think about it, artificial intelligence is a real cutting-edge technology, and it is not easy to break through.
The reason why Xingling Group can make breakthroughs should be related to the large-scale spending of money by Gao Jin, the chairman of Xingling Group. According to the news, the research and development expenses of Xingling Group last year exceeded 45 billion euros.
This is not a small number. This number is more than the annual net profit of many giant companies.
Gao Jin, the chairman of Xingling Group, spends so much money every year. One can imagine how deep the technical foundation of Xingling Group is now.
Ordinary people don't know much, but people in financial companies know a lot. While Xingling Group has maintained a year-on-year increase in R&D funding, the number of technical patent applications has shown a cliff-like downward trend.
It's not that the research institutes under the Xingling Group haven't made breakthroughs, it's that these technologies have been sealed away as heritage.
This can be seen from the bonuses received by scientific researchers at the research institutes under the Xingling Group every year and their chic vacations.
The pessimism that is not optimistic about Guoguo Company has begun to appear, and the most direct reaction is that Guoguo Company's stock price continues to maintain a continuous downward trend.
Not only Guoguo Company, Shanxing Company's stock price also continued to fall, and the decline was even greater than that of Guoguo Company.
This time, not only the U.S. stock market, but also the share prices of all listed mobile phone companies around the world fell, with varying degrees of decline.
This situation is not unique. This situation also occurred when Guoguo 4 was released.
However, the Guoguo 4 mobile phone still had the potential to catch up and surpass it. Now the third-generation Starlight mobile phone has redefined smartphones by using artificial intelligence technology.
This kind of technology cannot be solved by your assembly plant spending money to purchase technology.
Guoguo Company did not issue a statement, and other mobile phone companies did not issue any statement. All mobile phone manufacturers know that this is an absolute crushing brought by technology.
You simply can’t break the situation without equivalent technology.
Tianchao, Rizao Market, Xingling Group Headquarters.
Gao Jin was talking to Zhang Hongbin in the office. Today, Zhang Hongbin came to see Gao Jin out of help.
Among the top ten mobile phone brands in the world, except for Guoguo Mobile, Shanxing Mobile and LG Mobile, the remaining seven are all Chinese companies.
Now these mobile phone manufacturers are in trouble, and they are starting to ask mothers to come forward to solve the problem.
"I can give them authorization to fully access the Nebula system and fully introduce artificial intelligence systems. However, this comes at a cost."
Gao Jin said this slowly and at the same time glanced at Zhang Hongbin with a fascinated smile on his face.
When Zhang Hongbin saw the smile on Gao Jin's face, he knew that Gao Jin was starting to plot, so he said directly, "Speak directly, don't beat around the bush."
"It's very simple. They give up the existing ecosystem and integrate it into the Starlight mobile phone ecosystem, and just assemble the phone honestly."
Gao Jin stated his conditions calmly. Zhang Hongbin narrowed his eyes after hearing this. He could already see that Gao Jin was planning to wipe out all domestic mobile phone manufacturers.
"Brother Zhang, they have been established much longer than Starlight Mobile Company. What core technologies do they have now?"
"No, not any core technology"
"At present, all the application software they develop are based on the Android system. It can be said that their lifeblood is under the control of others."
"Why, they can accept the Americans controlling their life and death, but they are not willing to accept the Chinese controlling their life and death."
"In that case, let's just let them die."
"They continuously provide money and nutrients to Android. If they keep it, they will become a disaster sooner or later."
Gao Jin said these words indifferently. Zhang Hongbin watched Gao Jin open his mouth but said nothing. What Gao Jin said was not easy to refute.
Because everything Gao Jin said is true.
Domestic mobile phone manufacturers all use Android systems. Once Android prevents you from using the system, your phone will immediately become a waste product and become worthless.
Android can control your lifeline, why can't our Xingling Group's Nebula system.
If you are willing to be controlled by Android or not controlled by Nebula system, just kill these mobile phone manufacturers. This is what Gao Jin wants to express.
"Monopoly has to pay a price" Zhang Hongbin said this while looking at Gao Jin.
"oh"
"You mean that using the Android system is not a monopoly, but using my Nebula system is a monopoly!"
"Can I understand it this way?"
The smile on Gao Jin's face disappeared, and when he saw Zhang Hongbin say this, his tone was a bit cold.
Zhang Hongbin's words made Gao Jin extremely angry.
The atmosphere became tense. Zhang Hongbin realized that he had said the wrong thing. He took a few deep breaths and looked at Gao Jin and said, "You know very well that I didn't mean that."
"That's not what you mean. What do you mean?"
Gao Jin asked directly, without giving Zhang Hongbin any chance to react or think.
"Gao Jin, it is undeniable that your Starlight Mobile Company is very strong, and your Xingling Group is very strong economically and technologically."
"Have you considered the international influence when you do this? Do you think the United States will let you directly sink the Android system?"
"In order to launch the Hongmeng system for companies, why don't those companies connect to it? Don't they know the benefits of getting involved in the Hongmeng system?"
"They have to take foreign markets into consideration. The domestic market alone cannot allow these companies to continue to maintain sufficient profits to develop themselves."
"In recent years, among the annual profits of these domestic mobile phone manufacturers, foreign profits have been on an upward trend year by year, while domestic profits have been on a downward trend year by year."
“This increase and decrease explains a lot of things.”
"Your Xingling Group has the strength and will not be challenged by greedy people in the international market, but they are different. They do not have the strength of your Xingling Group."
"They also need to survive and develop."
"The total number of domestic employees of these manufacturers is no less than 150,000. This is the number of employees directly under them, which can indirectly affect the employment of more than 500,000 people."
"There is not enough profit to sustain the company, so they can only lay off people, which will indirectly affect the jobs of many people."
"If you tell me that you can provide enough jobs for these unemployed people, I will turn around and leave without saying a word, and I will never care about this again."
"In other words, if you move the headquarters of Starlight Mobile Company to China, I will stop telling you about it."
Zhang Hongbin looked at Gao Jin and said these words, letting Gao Jin understand that now is not the time for your Nebula System to dominate the world, and there is no environment for your Nebula System to dominate the world.
After listening to Zhang Hongbin's words, Gao Jin began to think deeply, and began to analyze the pros and cons in his mind. After a while, he slowly shook his head.
"I admit what you said is reasonable."
"It's just that if you don't do this now, you will have to do it sooner or later."
"This is a trend brought about by technological development and cannot be changed. Unless technology stagnates, otherwise, as technology continues to develop, their living space will become smaller and smaller."
"Starlight Mobile is the first to use artificial intelligence technology on mobile phones. Next, Guoguo mobile phones and Samsung mobile phones will definitely apply artificial intelligence technology to mobile phones."
"Guge is basically everyone's big brother in terms of artificial intelligence technology. They were the first to develop this type of technology, and the technology they have is no less than ours."
"The reason why our Starlight mobile phone is developing rapidly now is because Guge did not pay attention to the application of artificial intelligence to mobile phones."
"With their technical background, if they are determined to develop artificial intelligence technology into mobile phones, it will only take about half a year to do it."
"The future market is a market where artificial intelligence technology competes with the world. Guoguo Company is not my biggest competitor. Guge is my biggest competitor."
"Now if I don't deal with these mobile phone manufacturers and let them continue to transfuse blood for their opponents, I will be subsidizing the enemy."
"To be kind to your enemies is to be cruel to yourself!"
Gao Jin looked at Zhang Hongbin with a serious face as he said these words. Zhang Hongbin was dumbfounded after hearing this. He didn't expect that there was such a big involvement behind this matter.
It also involves the future competition in artificial intelligence technology, which is completely beyond Zhang Hongbin’s thinking.
After a while, Zhang Hongbin took a deep look at Gao Jin and understood deep down that he and Gao Jin were no longer on the same level.
Based on the current incident, I only see Gao Jin forcing domestic mobile phone manufacturers, but I don't see that behind this is the Xingling Group and Guge Company competing for the right to speak in artificial intelligence technology.
This matter is no longer something that I can make the decision about. I have to report it. I will report what Gao Jin said today. As for how the higher ups will consider it, it is not something I can control.
"What is the current level of Guge's artificial intelligence technology?" Zhang Hongbin looked at Gao Jin and asked.
"To be precise, Guge's artificial intelligence technology is superior to that of Xingling Group"
"Although we currently apply artificial intelligence technology to mobile phones, this is just an application and not a manifestation of artificial intelligence technology."
"Strictly speaking, ancient songs are currently the pinnacle of artificial intelligence technology."
"none of them!"
Gao Jin said this very seriously, not joking at all. In terms of pure artificial intelligence technology, the technology currently mastered by Xingling Group is indeed not as good as Gu Ge.
Regardless of the fact that Guge has not disclosed news about artificial intelligence in recent years, in fact, the research and development of artificial intelligence technology has never stopped.
The annual funding is also showing an increasing trend, which must not be underestimated.
Although Gao Jin is spending money and trying hard to catch up, this gap cannot be equaled in a short time. It takes time and even more luck.