The news that Andy Rubin has joined Makino Technology has dealt a huge blow to Apple.

Tim Cook finally got the majority of the board of directors to agree to the plan to fully upgrade the next generation of iPods, and even this plan only stayed at the top of Apple, Li Mu responded with practical actions.

Although Apple doesn't know what Li Mu is going to do, but from their understanding of Andy Rubin, they have been able to deduce that the direction chosen by Li Mu is consistent with the direction that Apple has just reached a consensus.

In fact, even if Apple's top management decided to upgrade the iPod completely, and even developed an independent operating system for the iPod, named IOS, but this IOS and Jobs' IOS are just a simple name coincidence.

OS stands for Operating-System, starting from MacOS, "OS" is synonymous with operating systems in Apple, and Jobs's "I" refers to iPhone, but Apple's current "I" refers to iPod.

Tim Cook is nowhere near as far as Jobs had thought in 2005, he doesn't have a smartphone and mobile Internet architecture in mind, and his entire strategic thinking hasn't jumped out of the iPod.

This is not to blame Tim Cook's lack of ability, mainly because everyone is at a different stage, so the way of thinking is also different, the ancients said that full of warm thoughts**, the premise is to eat and dress warmly first, in the last life, Jobs used iPod, iTunes to make a beautiful turnaround, so that Apple is full and warm, so he can plan and implement a more long-term strategy, Tim Tim Cook was ordered to tighten his belt and think about one thing, how to keep the apple full and warm, if the pattern is really too big at this time, it is easy to lead the apple to a road of no return that consumes itself.

Now, Tim Cook, the sling version of IOS, is also completely stillborn.

Apple will never dare to be tough with Li Mu again, they want to upgrade the iPod comprehensively, just want to temporarily avoid its edge, lie down and taste the courage, and then come up with a new generation of products to catch Li Mu off guard, but no one expected that Li Mu's reaction speed would be so fast.

In this case, the Stop-Loss faction, which had just suffered humiliation at Microsoft, once again lost faith in Apple's future, and the counter-offensive faction was once again united from a split and agreed that the possibility of counterattacking Makino Technology no longer existed, no matter what method was used.

Tim Cook also lost confidence, and after the meeting ended that day, he decided to submit his resignation to the board of directors, citing his inability to save Apple, so he hoped that Apple could find a new CEO who could lead Apple out of the crisis.

Decent words will be said by anyone, just like when a girl refuses a boy's courtship, she will say that he is a good person, and she will also say that she is not good enough, unworthy of him, and that he deserves better, but in fact, she simply looks down on him.

Tim Cook said that he wanted to resign because he felt that he was incompetent, but in fact, he didn't want Apple to end up in his hands, and if a professional manager smashed a company with a market value of billions of dollars, the professional manager's future was uncertain.

Everyone is out of the mix, who doesn't know what Tim Cook is thinking, Apple's board of directors quickly summed up, told Tim Cook, it is okay to resign, but must wait another three months, within three months, they will try their best to find a good buyer for Apple, sell at a good price, if they can't sell, Tim Cook can leave after the expiration of three months.

For Apple's top management, being messed up like this by Li Mu, they are also looking forward to getting rid of Apple as soon as possible.

However, the question of who to sell to, or who is willing to ask for it, becomes a bigger problem.

Apple's top management has almost gone through the big names and companies in the Internet industry, thinking that there are indeed very few companies that can come up with enough funds to acquire Apple, and that there are indeed very few companies that have practical significance in acquiring Apple, no matter what, Apple's current value is slightly higher than the market value, how to count it is a multi-billion dollar business, and there are really few companies that can have such a big appetite.

Moreover, Apple has considered all the first-line Internet companies, but has not considered Makino Technology, not that they are unwilling to sell the company to Makino Technology, but they feel that Makino Technology will not be too interested in Apple, especially when Mango-ME2 is very popular, and Makino Technology is not ready to make an operating system, it is really useless for Makino Technology to ask Apple.

Of course, Apple will not know that what Li Mu wants is not their current mess, but their huge market value worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the future.

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Louis Martin's news is very powerful, and on the night that Apple passed and abolished the IOS plan, Li Mu got the news from him, and Louis Martin believes that the time window for acquiring Apple has arrived.

Li Mu felt that it was almost time to formally sit down with Apple for a chat, so he asked him: "What kind of offer do you think we can give Apple now, so that we can ensure that they accept it at the lowest cost?"

Louis Martin said: "Apple's biggest pain point is where to go in the iPod business, this part of the business is now no one wants to want, and will face huge losses, in fact, from the current situation, no one will be willing to buy the iPod business, now if someone clearly says that they are willing to take over the iPod business together, so that all Apple shareholders immediately sell all the shares and leave, they will not hesitate to agree." ”

Li Mu nodded and said, "That's it, I'll ask my vice president to contact Apple's core layer tomorrow and let them meet first as soon as possible." ”

"Okay!" said with a smile to Louis Martin, "I think this acquisition of Apple may be much easier than we thought, and Microsoft has really helped us a lot." ”

"Yes. Li Mu sighed and said with a smile: "Microsoft is really a god assist this time." It is precisely because of their unscrupulous bargaining that we have a good opportunity to take the opportunity to enter the bottom!"

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When Tim Cook received a call from Lin Qingya, he was stunned for several seconds before he gradually came to his senses.

Lin Qingya is the vice president of Makino Technology, and is also the head of the American branch of Makino Technology, and is the most influential female executive in Silicon Valley.

So Tim Cook asked very respectfully, "Miss Lin, I don't know what you have to call me?"

Lin Qingya smiled slightly and said, "Tim, I heard that Apple wants to find a powerful individual or group to take over, I don't know if there is such a thing?"

"Yes. Tim Cook said without hesitation: "We are indeed looking for a strong buyer for Apple." ”

Tim Cook is not surprised by this, the whole of Silicon Valley knows that Apple wants to rush to cash out the stop loss, and Lin Qingya knows that it is not surprising.

However, Tim Cook is very curious, is Lin Qingya interested in Apple?

At this time, Lin Qingya said: "Tim, Makino Technology is a little interested in Apple, if you have time, we can sit down and talk." ”

Tim Cook was immediately overjoyed, although Makino Technology is Apple's sworn enemy, but from a business perspective, Makino Technology is the most suitable company to acquire Apple.

However, Tim Cook thought about it carefully, and after a while, he said: "Miss Lin, let me remind you in advance that what we are seeking is that the shares of the core shareholders are fully owned and acquired, this is not financing or sub-granting part of the shares, you must first accept this before we can continue to talk." ”

Lin Qingya said with a smile: "Of course, we don't want to simply invest in Apple, that would make no sense to us, and the wholly-owned acquisition barely has some room for maneuver." ”

"Wholly Owned Acquisition?!" Tim Cook asked, his voice sounding calm, but his heart was already turbulent.

Makino Technology wants to wholly acquire Apple, which is really what Tim Cook didn't expect, because he thinks that Li Mu can't use Apple at all, so why spend money to buy a defeated subordinate who he can't use?

Moreover, why did Li Mu buy Apple's operating system and the whole machine business? These two sections have no practical significance for the current Makino Technology, and as for the iPod, it is easy to explain that Li Mu may be like Microsoft, clearing obstacles for his own products.

At Li Mu's request, Lin Qingya was too lazy to continue going around in circles with Apple's people, so she went straight to the point and said: " Tim, our chairman thinks that Apple is a company with some potential, out of recognition of you, and some needs of our own business line, he decided to buy your company, and he heard that you were insulted by Microsoft because of this matter, including he also thinks that Microsoft is doing things too much, so let me talk to you, if you can reach an agreed price, then he pays, and then all the technical people in your company are incorporated into Makino Technology, if it can't be negotiated, you can accept Microsoft's split agreement, and only sell the operating system to them。 ”

As soon as Lin Qingya mentioned Microsoft, Tim Cook's heart was extremely depressed, Microsoft really hurt the self-esteem of all Apple's core personnel this time, in their opinion, the software and hardware they worked so hard to make, dare not say that they are the first in the industry, but at least they are extremely high. But now, in Microsoft's eyes, these efforts have no real value at all, and Apple's only value to Microsoft is to ensure that Microsoft is no longer controlled by antitrust laws, like a tool, nothing more.

After thinking for a moment, Tim Cook asked Lin Qingya: "Mr. Lin, if we sell Apple to Makino Technology, what kind of offer can Makino Technology give us? In addition to the quotation, what other ideas does he have about our company and team?"

Lin Qingya smiled slightly: "I don't know what Mr. Li has specific thoughts, so we can make an appointment to have a good chat and see what you all want, and then I will talk to Mr. Li." ”

Tim Cook immediately agreed, and blurted out: "Then choose tomorrow, I will have time all time tomorrow!"