Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1752
This is a bit beyond Zhou Buqi's expectation. I didn't expect Apple to move so fast.

I thought it would be postponed until October 10, when Microsoft releases its own Windowsphone mobile phone that is comparable to the iPhone, before it will start taking action.

On second thought, it's normal.

Jobs was in poor health.

Pancreatic cancer can be called the most brutal cancer. If ordinary people get pancreatic cancer, they can live for more than half a year.Even if Jobs is the world's top rich man and can enjoy the best medical treatment in the world, it may be difficult to persist for too long.He was already too weak and haggard, and it would be nice to live another year.

Time was not on Jobs' side.

When Zhou Buqi went to visit Jobs in the hospital, he himself said that there was only one effort in his life, and that was Apple.

Before he dies, he wants to do as much for Apple as possible.

His life is coming to an end, but he wants to keep the iPhone, the most outstanding product in his life, alive!
Mainly two things.

One, withstood the impact of Google;

Second, withstand the impact of Microsoft.

The plan to counter Google has been finalized, and the next step is to fight a patent lawsuit with Samsung regardless of the cost.This kind of patent lawsuit between giants, not to mention the losers, even the winners have to pick up their skins.

But this is a strategy, related to the sphere of influence of the iOS system and the Android system, it must be used.

Now that Estar is in charge, Apple has a bigger chance of winning.

As for Microsoft, that's the trickiest part.

Microsoft is a giant, with much higher technological content than Apple, and the various patent portfolios in its hands can crush Apple.It is impossible for the smartphone system developed by Microsoft to copy iOS like Android, and there must be obvious differences in functions and usage.

It is impossible to hit Microsoft with a patent stick.

Jobs wasn't actually afraid of Microsoft, but he was afraid of cancer.If he stays healthy, he doesn't care about Google, Samsung, Asda, and Microsoft. With his ego and self-confidence, he doesn't care about all these companies together, and he will only leave a "garbage" " comments.

But not now.

His life is numbered.

At the last moment of his life, what he has to do is to make decisions about his affairs, to ensure that Apple can remain invincible after his death.

At this time, Asda took the initiative to seek cooperation, and his heart softened and moved.

Now the global smart phone market, there are two trump cards, iPhone and Aster.If these two join forces, there is a great possibility to resist the subsequent offensive of those entrants!

The number one opponent in Zhou Buqi's eyes is Samsung, and the number one opponent in Jobs' eyes is Microsoft.

Same way.

Promoting the cooperation between Asda and Apple is beneficial to both parties.

Zhou Buqi was very happy when he received a call from Zhou Shaoning, "Okay! When are we going to negotiate?"

"9:[-] tomorrow morning."

"It's quite urgent."

"Not only urgent, but also very important."

"Ok?"

"The meeting will be at Stanford Hospital."

Zhou Shaoning's words couldn't help being a little more serious.

Jobs, who is now being treated at Stanford Hospital's cancer center, wanted to take part in the negotiations himself.

Zhou Buqi was silent for a while, and said slowly: "Okay, I will go there tomorrow."

Here, Zhou Buqi talked to Kurian and Alex Jones successively, and Lu Qi also came to report on his own initiative.In addition to financial and personnel aspects, it is mainly Helo business development.

There is good news.

Helo has more than 4500 million overseas users and more than 4000 million daily active users.This means that as long as Helo is installed in the smartphone, there is no possibility of "zombie users", and users are actively using this product.

Looking around the world, Ziweixing International is the world's largest mobile Internet company!

In addition, Lu Qi also sued Kurian, "His style is too strong, and he is not good at uniting partners."

"Huh? What's going on?"

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, he knew that it was not worthwhile for Lu Qi to come here to give a small report, it must be more important.

Lu Qi coughed lightly, "The current cloud computing technology is not yet mature enough. Amazon Cloud has had two major failures this year, which has attracted doubts from the industry and turmoil in the stock price."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Kurian told me that this is Ziwei Cloud's biggest advantage over Amazon Cloud."

"What advantage?" Lu Qi shook his head again and again.

"Isn't it?"

Zhou Buqi was a little puzzled.

Lu Qi said: "It's an advantage, but it's a temporary solution rather than a permanent solution. From the perspective of stability, Ziwei Cloud is indeed better than Amazon Cloud. But to provide cloud services for video streaming media requires extremely powerful technology."

"Video streaming media?" Zhou Buqi seemed to understand something, "Netflix? You mean the cooperation between Netflix and Ziweiyun broke down?"

Lu Qi said: "This is all normal. The data volume of streaming media is too large, far greater than that of e-commerce platforms. Failures are inevitable. Last month, the cloud data center in Texas failed, causing the area to Netflix's 180 million paying subscribers were unable to watch the video online for more than an hour."

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "What else?"

Lu Qi said: "Netflix is ​​very upset, Kurian is very strong, and he suppressed it, and the two sides have not resolved it yet. If it weren't because you are the big boss of Ziweiyun, Netflix would have publicly stated that gone."

Zhou Buqi said: "I knew that I can't believe everything this Indian says!"

This Kurian is indeed a typical Indian style, reporting good news but not bad news... That's all, he also likes exaggerating, mysterious, and all kinds of bragging.

For such a big matter, you don't want to resolve it amicably, but want to suppress it forcefully... It's right to suppress it, but we have to talk about ways and means.

After suppressing the matter, Ziweiyun is comfortable here, what about Netflix?
After a long time, isn't there a crack in the partnership between Ziweiyun and Netflix?Once a big conflict broke out between the two sides, wouldn't Zhou Buqi himself have to bear it in the end?

This Kurian is a bit irresponsible.

For this incident alone, Zhou Buqi and Kurian were sentenced to death.No matter how much he contributes to the Ziweiyun project in the future, he will never be the CEO or president of Ziweixing International.

His ability is fine, but the thinking of a professional manager is too obvious.

He only thought about his own performance, but he didn't weigh the pros and cons from the perspective of the boss Zhou. In the final analysis, he was a foreigner, not a direct confidant.From this point of view, Indians are not even as good as Americans and British.

For example, San Dezi, the vice chairman of the board of directors of Manchester United, although he is British, has gradually become Zhou Buqi's confidant.It's not because San Dezi will recommend women to Zhou Buqi, but because San Dezi has a clearer self-positioning. He didn't rely on his personal ability to get his status this year, but he relied on the opportunity given by Zhou Boss.

Taking the interests of the big boss as their own interests, this is the thinking that a confidant should have.

Seeing that the big boss was a little unhappy, Lu Qi quickly explained, "This is a matter of personality and habit, and has nothing to do with ability or character. Kurian's character is impeccable, and everyone in the company respects him very much. Ability is even more important." No problem, in the B-side field...it is an exaggeration to say that he is the number one in the world, but the top three in the world is still guaranteed."

"I know," Zhou Buqi nodded, "This person is still unreliable, talking like an old horse... Anyway, you usually keep an eye on it, if there are some things that are difficult to handle, just tell me."

Lu Qi smiled, "Okay."

When Lu Qi left the office, Zhou Buqi instinctively wanted to call Kurian over and criticize him.But this is a bit too obvious. It seems that Lu Qi is making small reports, which will affect the relationship between Lu Qi and Kurian's colleagues.

At Kurian's level, there can be less or less criticism on the surface.

These are extremely smart people, and some things don't need to be said clearly.

Uncritical hints are sometimes more effective than direct criticism.

Zhou Buqi asked Ning Yaxian to reschedule, he would go to Netflix for research work in the afternoon.During the investigation of Netflix, "just happened" to know the conflict between Netflix and Ziweiyun, and then resolved it smoothly.

It can not only avoid the conflict between Land Qi and Kurian, but also give Kurian some hints and warnings.

The itinerary is arranged, Zhou Buqi will go to Netflix in the afternoon.

The current Netflix has a strong momentum. At the capital level, the market value has exceeded 60 billion US dollars; at the strategic level, the cooperation between Netflix and Ziweixing Global has been fully launched, and more and more Ziweixing Global content has appeared on Netflix. On the business level, "House of Cards" has already started filming.

Zhou Buqi came over, mainly focusing on the strategic level.

That is cloud computing.

The cooperation between Netflix and Ziweixing Global has a platform to connect both parties, which is Ziweiyun.It is Ziwei Star Global that transmits the data content to Ziwei Cloud, and then Netflix uses Ziwei Cloud's services to launch streaming media content to users.

In this process, the stability of Ziweiyun is very important.

This year, Amazon Cloud has experienced two relatively major technical failures, which have been greatly questioned by the industry. The biggest source of failure is Amazon's e-commerce business.

Both e-commerce and cloud computing are owned by Amazon, the relationship between the left hand and the right hand.

In contrast, Amazon now cares more about the e-commerce business.

Therefore, whenever Amazon's e-commerce platform fails, Amazon's official announcement will shift the responsibility to Amazon Cloud to protect the brand and reputation of the e-commerce business.

The current cloud computing business is still very immature, and Ziwei Cloud will of course encounter many technical failures.

Especially cloud services for video streaming.

The greater the amount of data transferred, the greater the probability of failure.

Zhou Buqi attaches great importance to cloud computing, and he does not want Ziwei Cloud to suffer the same negative reputation as Amazon Cloud.

Ziweiyun has a good reputation and strong brand. When the market makes a choice, it will give priority to Ziweiyun instead of Amazon Cloud.

However, failures of Ziwei Cloud are inevitable, especially when the streaming media business transmits such a large amount of data.If something goes wrong, if Ziweiyun doesn't take responsibility, who will take responsibility?Then it can only be Netflix.

This is the reason why Boss Zhou wants to go to Netflix in person today.

We need to clarify the big picture here.

When I went to Netflix to meet Hagentings, Zhou Buqi was unambiguous, went directly to his office, and cut straight to the point: "Kurian told me that there were some minor problems in the cooperation between Netflix and Ziweiyun last month. "

Hagentings immediately complained, "It's not a small problem. The 180 million paying users in Texas all encountered 75-minute lag in the transmission of information."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "How can that be so exaggerated? There are 180 million paid subscribers in the Texas area. How many subscribers will use Netflix during the 75-minute downtime?"

Hagentings was very speechless, "This is not a small problem, Netflix is ​​based on users."

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course, users should be the core. This is the basic philosophy of Internet companies. If there is a failure, we have to admit that the interests of users are damaged, and we have to make compensation. This is very normal."

"Compensation?" Hagentings was bitter and helpless, "How can we simply pay compensation? Since it is user-centered, we have to solve the problem from the root, so as to prevent users from encountering similar failures in the future. Seriously affect Netflix's brand image."

This sentence is very true.

However, how to solve it from the root?

The cloud computing industry is still in the early stages of development, and various technologies are not mature enough. It does not mean that it can be solved if you want to solve it. It takes time and experience to accumulate.

It even needs a few more failures on Netflix's side before Ziweiyun can really find out the problem and solve this matter.

Zhou Buqi glanced at him with a flat expression, "I heard that Kurian said that he managed to convince you?"

Hagentings was a little embarrassed, "Netflix has to explain to users that an accident occurred, and then downplay it as if it never happened, which will affect Netflix's brand image."

Zhou Buqi said firmly: "Of course we have to explain, but we must not damage Ziweiyun's brand image. In the public statement, there must be no negative news about Ziweiyun!"

"Then how do you explain it?"

"This is the fault of Netflix's technical team, and has nothing to do with Ziweiyun."

"Uh……"

Hagentings had a complex expression and remained silent.

That is to say, in the past two years, Boss Zhou has brought too many benefits to Netflix, and even pushed all the copyright resources of Ziweixing Global.Otherwise, if any other investor makes such a request, he will definitely shoot the case.

How can this be the case?
So bullying!
Obviously Zi Weiyun made a mistake, so why should Netflix be responsible for it?Ziweiyun's brand and reputation have been preserved, but Netflix's reputation has deteriorated.

However, he also participated in the overall planning conference on the "Ziwei Galaxy" held by Boss Zhou in Modu.

From an overall point of view, it is indeed better to let Netflix take the blame.

Let Ziweiyun take the blame, a bit immovable, the loss is too great.

Let Netflix take the blame...Of course there is an impact, but it is not that big and it is within the controllable range.

Looking at the "Ziwei Galaxy" as a whole, Netflix still suffers less losses.

(End of this chapter)