Siheyuan: The Era of Core Generation

Chapter 208 Never Short of Competitors

The tabloid office that Jenny works for mainly provides readers with reviews of various electronic products on the market.

Through such evaluation articles, newspapers can not only get some money from readers, but also get a considerable amount of returns from producers.

Therefore, the boss of the newspaper immediately agreed to Jenny's request and bought an Apple computer.

But he doesn't plan to spend an extra dollar for this. Although it cost a lot to buy this computer, he feels that he can earn more through their review articles.

Now it's time to find out the various advantages and disadvantages of this personal computer.

If such a conclusion can get a satisfactory price from Apple, then their articles will be biased towards the advantages.Once the price cannot be negotiated, then their articles will be full of shortcomings, trying to belittle Apple's products.

Robert happened to come to this newspaper office. He originally wanted to chat with beautiful women, but who would have thought that he would start a voluntary work of training people here to use computers.

But soon he developed the newspaper's intentions.

After learning their ways, Robert had long since lost his mind to flirt with the beauties.

For him, the treatment given by Apple is still good.Between work and beautiful women, he decisively chose the former.

Following his teaching, the people here carefully took notes, and then went up to try it separately.

To be honest, this device is really convenient. If you want to find a disadvantage, it is estimated that its price is really expensive.But for a computer that integrates so many functions, the current price is very close to the people.Didn't you see the quotations for those commercial computers before, and they all start at millions of dollars!
The advantages of Apple computers were quickly discovered by everyone.However, they are review articles, and it is their job to find shortcomings.So no matter how difficult it is, they have to try their best to find the shortcomings of a product.

Although Zhao Ye has tried his best to make this first personal computer balance as much as possible in terms of price, function, and alien aesthetics.But in the eyes of these professional troublemakers, many thorns can still be picked out.

Robert listened to the discussion of these people, and secretly recorded the conversation of these people, planning to pass this important information back to his company.

When he finished today's "work" and returned to the company, he immediately told the company's senior management the news.

It's a pity that this news did not attract too much attention from the top management. At this time, the company's top management had long been shocked by the current hot sales scene, petrified, and equally happy and crazy.This kind of news appeared at this time, and everyone felt indifferent. This is a world of free speech, and it is normal for a little discordant voice to appear.Besides, according to their traditional concept, the buyer is the one who dislikes the goods. No matter how good your things are, how can you keep them from being talked about?Besides, if others say that your stuff is not good, can you still find it and make a theory?

At this time, the difference in cognition directly made Wang Hai, the person in charge of the overseas asset management company stationed in Apple, not take the information reported by Robert too seriously.

Just the next day, a newspaper with some weight in the circle directly commented on Apple's new computer.In terms of function, they did not discuss too much.Because obviously, Apple has done amazing enough in this regard, and this cannot be changed by them crookedly saying a few sour words.However, this does not prevent those professional reviewers from evaluating this personal computer from another angle.

For example, security, and then for example, national sentiment.

Don't think that the United States has no national sentiment. Although they have established a country for a short time, it is still a country, and it is one of the most powerful countries in the world today.As a citizen of this country, there is naturally a sense of pride in it.

A sentence in this newspaper is written like this: "Our great country has sent humans to the moon, but it is invented and produced by foreigners, which seems to have potential safety hazards, and is used to handle company secrets or Computers for personal privacy. Shouldn't our scientific researchers be ashamed? Are the giants of Wall Street blind?"

Of course, the business tycoons on Wall Street were not blind. In a short period of time, they realized the Apple company founded by the Chinese.At first, they didn't know what the personal computer was used for, until they moved a personal computer into their office, and they immediately smelled Franklin.

I don't know when, various investment companies, banks, or other companies or groups began to visit Apple frequently.

At first, Wang Hai was excited, but with more and more visitors, he became more and more nervous.Because everyone who comes will ask a question: Will Apple's shares be sold?

Apple is a wholly-owned company of overseas asset management companies, and of course it will not sell a penny of shares.But every time Wang Hai expressed his refusal, the face of the visitor would become extremely ugly.No matter how dull Wang Hai was, he knew that he would definitely be targeted.

Sure enough, a few months after the release of Apple's first-generation personal computer, a subpoena from the court made Wang Hai feel a little overwhelmed.

That's not to mention, from this day on, the summons from the court seemed to be agreed, and one was sent almost every day, for various reasons.Some companies sue Apple for using their technology.Some sued Apple for losses and damages caused by the use of computers.The most outrageous thing is that someone sued because he disassembled the circuit board inside without permission, and then got charged.

The large number of lawsuits made Wang Hai even more confused. Under the suggestion of the local employees in the company, they needed to hire a law firm to deal with these huge number of lawsuits.In the United States, some seemingly nonsensical and subversive lawsuits are likely to be supported by judges, and the company will face huge compensation.

Wang Hai immediately accepted this suggestion, but when he contacted various law firms in Los Angeles, either the fees were high, or the other party did not accept their entrustment at all.

Wang Hai rushed to the house in such a hurry, and after the news was sent back to China, it caused a lot of waves.At present, there is a serious shortage of talents who understand the law of the other party in China.Everyone was confused by the copy of the indictment that was worn back.Some people who say that Apple Computer is infringing are understandable, but looking at those indictments that were charged for dismantling the computer, everyone feels that the court of the United States is joking?Isn't this common sense?If you demolish anything with electricity, there is a risk of being electrocuted, okay?
However, even if it is such a nonsensical lawsuit, everyone has to take it seriously.In the current environment, all problems are easily rectified.Therefore, this matter was immediately transferred from the commercial department to the foreign department.Not long ago, senior diplomatic officials of the two countries held a formal meeting on an informal occasion and discussed many topics of mutual concern.But what they didn't expect was how long had it been?Over there, they used such means to attack their own companies.

Yes, in the eyes of diplomats, this behavior is an attack.A commercial attack is also an attack.

If the other party makes a move, then you have to face it and solve it.So, after more than a year of leaving the capital, Zhao Ye came to the capital again by plane.

There was no time to go home for a reunion, so Zhao Ye was sent directly from the airport to the relevant unit.

"Comrade Zhao Ye, what you see is all the documents that have been sent back over there before the 14th of this month." After Zhao Ye entered the Haizi Management Company, the person in charge here took out a stack of documents. Show the copy to Zhao Ye.

Zhao Ye didn't say much, just took the stack of documents and read them.

After reading a few pictures, Zhao Ye stopped flipping through them one by one. "Leader, why don't you tell me about the situation, I can't see anything from this."

"Well, well, in fact, we have very limited information here. The sales of our personal computers are very good, but since last month, many banks, companies, and institutions have approached us, and they proposed Our request to acquire a portion of our Apple shares has been rejected by us."

Hearing this, Zhao Ye basically understood the cause of the incident.He couldn't help smiling wryly in his heart, this United States is really a virtue.Whether in the previous life or in this life, the capital of the United States will always pursue profits without stopping.Once someone refuses to cooperate with them and blocks their way to make money, they will show their fangs.

Obviously, Apple's attitude is the fuse. In the United States, it is difficult for any company to be able to prevent the needle from being inserted into the water.As long as they are targeted by capital, they will basically end up being slaughtered.Unless you are strong enough, you are a member of this capital club, and you have to be the kind that exists at the top.

However, such enterprises are not without troubles. For example, the steel tycoon back then, his steel conglomerate, was forcibly split up by capital.

"Leader, this battle is not going to be easy!" Zhao Ye was not optimistic at all. It wasn't that he was afraid of the opponent's capital power, but that he was worried about the United States government being manipulated by capital.In order to force Apple to make concessions, it may come up with even more disgusting tricks.

"Comrade Zhao Ye, we must confirm one thing, and that is whether our technology overlaps with the other party's."

The leader was very cautious in his questioning. He didn't use the word "plagiarism". On this point, Zhao Ye can guarantee that the plagiarism must be plagiarism, but it is not something from this life.

"Leader, are you really planning to find a lawyer to file a lawsuit with the other party?" Zhao Ye couldn't help asking back when he heard the question from the leader.

(End of this chapter)