Chapter 887 I Am Familiar with This Scene

If consensus is reached on core issues, subsequent negotiations will go very smoothly.

At the beginning of May, news came from Singapore that it will fully introduce Dafeng Group's cloud intelligence and 5G technology, and start to build Singapore's 5G smart country.

At the same time, Dubai is even more anxious to express its willingness to cooperate with Dafeng Group.

Dubai, Singapore, two transportation hubs, two financial centers in different directions, and two 5G smart targets, have all become supporters of Dafeng Group.

After concluding several key negotiations in Dubai, Meng Qian planned to stay in Dubai for a few more days, but he came back on May 5th, because the UK has started to make troubles again recently.

"What's the specific situation?" Before returning to China, Meng Qian checked the situation.

"The so-called strong attitude has begun to appear about Fengxin's withdrawal from the UK and the disabling of 5G. Now the disputes in the UK about our Gale Group issue have entered a white-hot state.

In the past two days, several of our main partners in the UK have been contacting me, hoping that we can do something here.

They are now in a serious standoff. "Xiao Boshi told Meng Qian the latest situation.

"What do they want us to do?"

"Our counterattack against IBM and Motorola has caused a lot of concerns, and the attitude of American companies is still very tough after our counterattack, so."

"So they want us to adjust our relationship with American companies?"

"That's pretty much what it means."

Meng Qian smiled, "But the question is why do we want to show our friendship first?"

"Maybe, they think it's a little bit more likely that we'll compromise for the sake of the bigger picture.

It's like everyone is always used to trouble those who won't reject themselves. "Xiao Boshi made an analogy.

"Then maybe their perception of us is still a bit biased, but since they want us to react a bit, we have to agree."

On May 5, Meng Qian returned to China by plane, while on the other side of the country, Cook was in a good mood recently.

When Meng Qian was in Dubai, Apple held this year's press conference and launched this year's Apple phones, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR.

Apple has now given up the plan of arranging the press conference behind Hongmeng and considering the countermeasures after seeing the selling points of Hongmeng. The current Apple conference is held earlier every year, and it has always been ahead of Hongmeng.

This year's Apple mobile phones all use the 7nm A12 bionic chip, which is manufactured by TSMC. In the technology competition that is gradually falling behind in the United States, Apple is finally not far behind.

At the same time, two mobile phones have been replaced with OLED screens this year, which is also a change for Apple mobile phones.

In addition, Apple continued to lower the price. In another time and space, the iPhone XS Max started at 9599, and now the domestic price has become 5999.

But even so, Apple still has no sales in China.

And now it is rare to see Apple doing publicity in China. Apple, which is not as good as it is, has basically given up on the market of China.

Apple put more energy into the United States and some European countries, where Apple still cultivated its own user base, and sales in popular markets did begin to explode soon after the press conference.

Ten days after the press conference, the Apple mobile phone handed over a good report card, and Cook publicly stated that he would give employees a large bonus.

Apple stock also rallied.

But shortly after Cook finished speaking, on May 6, a collective complaint was suddenly placed in front of Apple.

Dafeng Group, Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, and ZTE, the five major Chinese mobile phone companies collectively sued Apple for unfair competition.

The reason is that in the past few years, Chinese mobile phone brands have been lifted out of the US market one by one. Now US users can only choose Apple or Motorola, and even Nokia has been lifted out.

In this context, Apple has obviously become the biggest beneficiary, so Huaxia mobile phone brands jointly sued Apple.

No, many people in the U.S. market have begun to say that Apple's sales increase is because the Chinese brand is no longer there.

Facing the lawsuit from Huaxia, Cook seemed to be quite calm.

"In fact, these things are not promoted by Apple, so don't worry too much about this lawsuit. Huaxia enterprises are just making noise." Cook confidently comforted other shareholders on the board of directors.

"But our stock price has suffered."

"This year's capital market is already sluggish, and it is normal for everyone to be easily influenced by some rumors and choose a conservative strategy.

Huaxia Enterprise is doing this at this time in order to bring us public opinion pressure. We are already planning to make an announcement, and the impact of this matter will pass soon. "

"But don't you think that this kind of pure pressure on public opinion is not very similar to the style of Huaxia enterprises, especially Dafeng Group?"

"Meng Qian has always wanted justice in public opinion, isn't this his style?"

"However, every time Meng Qian seeks justice in public opinion, there will always be some substantive results, rather than simply enjoying the mouthful."

"But this matter really has nothing to do with us. What can they do?" Cook still expressed his attitude firmly, "The court can't force us to charge us with a crime that doesn't exist?"

Faced with Cook's confidence in handling this matter, the rest of the board of directors stopped talking. In any case, Apple's sales in the United States have indeed increased.

Coupled with Apple's recent frequent news about building cars and AR glasses, the overall market expectations are positive.

After reassuring the board members, Cook returned to his office to continue working.

"Cook." As soon as he turned on the computer, Williams, Apple's chief operating officer, broke into Cook's office.

"What's wrong?" Cook looked at Williams with some doubts.

Williams put the phone directly in front of Cook, "There is a problem with our OLED screen supply!"

"OLED screen supply?" Cook realized something, picked up his phone and looked at it, "Dafeng Electric."

"Da Fengguang suddenly issued a statement stating that it will no longer supply OLED screens to some American companies for the time being, including us!"

"What's the reason?"

"Tariffs are too high, normal adjustments."

Cook's expression changed quickly because he saw the seriousness of the problem. If Dafeng Power suddenly refused to supply OLED screens to Apple for no reason, Apple could sue him immediately.

What Cook is most puzzled now is why did this matter fall on Apple?

"The Gale Group has been making trouble in the UK recently." Williams guessed.

"Why do things in the UK push the flames of war on us Apple?!" Cook felt outrageous.

"From IBM to Motorola, haven't you understood yet?" Williams frowned. "In Huaxia's words, if there is a grievance, there is a debt. The Dafeng Group wants to blame the British affairs on us."

Cook shook his head to express his disapproval, "Then what happened between Australia and Neon Country?"

"Those two things ended up hurting U.S. companies, not to mention that the meaning of the UK is completely different, and the companies in the UK are not feeling well right now."

Cook pondered for a while, not sure for a while whether this was simply targeted at Apple by the Gale Group, or whether Apple was really cannon fodder in a counterattack.

It's just a bit unacceptable that Apple has become a cannon fodder.

After thinking for a while, he couldn't come up with a result, and he didn't worry about it anymore, because he cared more about the solution, "Can we find an alternative company?"

Williams showed a more uncomfortable expression, "The problem now is that there is no."

Cook unconsciously looked at Williams' expression, "How is that possible?"

"OLED screens have always been the home field of Dafeng Group and Samsung, but last year Samsung completely packaged and sold the OLED screen business unit.

Now in the entire OLED screen market, Dafeng Group is the only king. "

"Where is the Neon Country?"

"The quality of the products in the Neon Country is simply not comparable to that of Dafengfeng. The LCD screens in the Neon Country are quite replaceable, but the OLED screens in the Neon Country are not as good.

If we choose the OLED screen of Neon Country, it will definitely affect the quality of our products.

And it is impossible to predict the reaction of subsequent users. After all, we just tried OLED screens for the first time this year. If we cannot give users a satisfactory experience, the follow-up will be very troublesome. "

Cook frowned more and more, "After Samsung completely abandoned OLED screens, is there no suitable alternative?"

"There is an alternative to consider."

"Which company?"

"BOE."

"." Cook was inexplicably upset, but suddenly felt that it was okay, "As long as the product passes the customs, then choose BOE. We have to ensure the operation of the production line now."

"However." Williams hesitated, "BOE just entered the list not long ago, and we are not sure whether BOE's follow-up will be the same as that of Dafeng Electric.

If we choose BOE now, then BOE will suddenly come out like this, which will have a greater impact on us. "

Cook finally couldn't help getting angry, "So there's nothing I can do now?"

"The safest solution now is to use Neon Nation's products and bet on user reactions."

Cook couldn't decide to pay attention for a while, so he decided to find out about this matter himself, and asked Williams to suppress the matter first.

However, not only did this matter not be suppressed, but it became more and more fermented.

Even if there is no rumor in the United States, this matter is still on Twitter because of its topicality.

"Can't Apple even make an OLED screen? Just brag about one of the greatest companies in the United States every day?"

"I'm dying of laughter. An American technology giant can't even fix a mobile phone screen. How difficult is it to get a screen?"

"Isn't Cook bragging about Apple's world's best industry chain every day? The industry chain is stuck on a single screen? Then why do you say that you are the world's best industry chain?"

"Silicon Valley companies just hype and operate every day to boost stock prices, and they don't even have a full-industry chain company. If Samsung was not cheated by Android, there would be two full-industry chain companies in Asia, and not even one in the United States."

"Apple's screen, camera, battery, which one is your own? The chips are still manufactured by TSMC, and you don't have the ability to make chips yourself, rubbish."

"Isn't Apple just an assembly plant? Isn't the earliest system stolen?"

"Is the low configuration and high price of the standard Apple mobile phone, a special machine for cutting rice and leeks."

In one of Huawei's conference rooms, Ren Zhengfei, who was watching the news, called out to an expert.

I am familiar with this scene!