The acquisition of Apple was 60% complete long before the money arrived.

Li Mu used Mango-ME2 and YYtunes to uproot Apple's profits, and through the addition of Andy Rubin, Apple gave up resistance, and then asked Jobs to agree to sign a non-compete agreement.

Now, the arrival of the money means that the knife has been sharpened, the acquisition progress has been completed by 80%, and the last hurdle left is the NASDAQ, after all, part of this piece of meat is still in the hands of the NASDAQ investors, and the remaining problem is to liquidate the NASDAQ investors.

If it is listed in Hong Kong, according to the way of privatization in Hong Kong according to the number of shareholders, even if Li Mu holds more than 66% of the shares, he may not be able to pass the privatization vote, once the number of people is not enough, it is difficult to succeed in privatization, but in the United States stock market there is no such "people-oriented" operation mode, as long as Li Mu gets the majority of the shares, he can directly pass the privatization process at the shareholders' meeting, and then force the shareholders of those tradable shares to be liquidated.

In contrast, Li Mu prefers the simple and crude operation mode of the United States.

During the meeting, Li Mu immediately formulated a strategic process for acquiring Apple and completing the privatization, and he said to Lin Qingya and Ding Jian: "Mr. Lin is responsible for following up Apple's shareholders' meeting and completing the contract signing in the fastest possible time; ”

The two immediately nodded solemnly, and Louis Martin from Sequoia spoke at this time: " As long as Apple's shareholders sign and the equity transfer is completed, we will immediately convene a general meeting of shareholders to vote on the issue of privatization, but as long as these shareholders of Apple sign as scheduled, the shareholders' meeting is a process, we will directly inform the results of the NASDAQ shareholders' meeting, and then the funds used for privatization will be transferred to the NASDAQ regulatory account, and we can apply for compulsory privatization, and the shareholders who hold the outstanding shares have no room for refutation, and the various stock agencies will assist us in completing the follow-up share repurchase work. ”

"Very good!" Li Mu nodded with a smile and said, "Since our money has arrived, let Apple's senior management sign it as soon as possible." ”

After that, Li Mu said to Li Ziwei: "Ziwei, notify Cook now, and let Cook inform all Apple board members that they are ready to sign in the afternoon, and after signing, we will immediately pay 50% of their purchase price, and the remaining 50%, I will also pay all within three months according to the agreement." ”

Li Ziwei nodded and asked Li Mu: "Mr. Li, will it be a bit hasty to sign in the afternoon?"

Li Mu said: "It's better to choose a date than to hit the day, anyway, all the details have been negotiated, the framework agreement has been signed, the actual transfer agreement has been drawn up, and our money has arrived, so what else is there to wait?

The contract template stipulates that 50% of the purchase price will be paid immediately after signing, and the remaining 50% will be divided into three months, and Li Mu can divide 50% into three months to pay a little bit, or pay all in one go on the same day, or all of them will be paid on the last day of three months, in short, within the scope of the contract, as long as he likes, he can do anything.

Therefore, Li Mucai decided that as long as Apple signed today, he would pay them 70% of the purchase price today, and they have been in a hurry to cash out recently, and 70% of the purchase price will be taken away on the same day, which must be very attractive to them.

Li Ziwei immediately said: "Then I'll contact Cook now, and ask him to communicate and reply as soon as possible." ”

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Recently, Apple has been in a special state of apprehension.

This apprehension stems from their distrust of Li Mu, who is looking forward to Li Mu's acquisition of Apple, but also worried that Li Mu will tear up the framework agreement anytime and anywhere, leaving Apple to fall into the abyss alone.

The reason why I have such a mood is because Apple's stock price has fallen a little in the past two days, when I communicated with Li Mu about the framework agreement, the stock price was 4.15, and at this moment, the stock price has fallen to 3.74.

The reason why it has bottomed out and is slowly declining is that the mess left by the iPod business is constantly fermenting, like a box of spoiled fruit, which is only bad at first, and then it starts to rot, mold, smell, and smell all over the ground.

A large number of iPod users who want to return the product have not been effectively processed, and the dealer has not yet paid back the money prepaid to Apple, let alone received Apple's funds for processing the return, at this time they dare not accept the user's refund application, otherwise, the cost and risk will be all tied to themselves.

However, the user's appeal has not been effectively resolved, which has caused the user's anger to continue to build, and they continue to protest against Apple and Apple dealers online and offline, which has had a serious negative impact on Apple.

In addition, dealers have also begun to tear up with Apple, and some dealers have even joined forces to sue the court, which has added to Apple's current scandal.

At this time, the foundry began to jump out to join in the fun, and they announced that Apple still has a considerable amount of money that has not been paid, which has brought huge financial pressure to the foundry and made Apple anxious for a while.

Because of this, Apple is particularly looking forward to Li Mu's acquisition as promised, after all, the stock price is still falling, if Li Mu suddenly announces that he will give up, then their assets will shrink a lot.

If Li Mu abides by the framework agreement, then Li Mu will have to buy according to the stock price of $4.15, according to the agreement, the actual purchase price is 90% of the $4.15, that is, $3.73, but if it is converted to 90% according to the current 3.74, then the actual purchase price will only be 3.36, and by that time, their assets will shrink by more than 60%. This is too tragic for Apple's shareholders.

Tim Cook is also worried about Li Mu's appointment, because he also holds a considerable amount of Apple shares, under normal circumstances, because of Apple's internal restrictions, these stocks need several years to gradually cash out, but if it continues like this, it won't be long before Apple's stock price falls below its net worth, and at that time, he will have nothing left, but, according to the company's regulations, if he leaves early, the remaining shares will be repurchased by the company at a very low price, and it will basically be a hair.

However, if Li Mu fully takes over, the Apple shares in his hands can be cashed out in one go, no matter what, the price of $4.15 will be much higher than the price of the company's repurchase, so that he can cash out a fortune in advance.

In addition, Li Muyun promised to give himself 150% of his salary after joining Makino Technology, not only making a lot of money, but also joining the world's top Internet companies, so Tim Cook feels that it is most suitable to be acquired no matter how he calculates this account.

It's no wonder that Tim Cook is not loyal enough to Apple, after all, everyone comes out to eat, and in front of individuals and companies, everyone first thinks about the individual, and then the collective.

When resisting, he should carry a gun and a gun, and he should fight a war; if he loses a war, he throws away his gun, bends his waist, and surrenders and confesses; if he has the opportunity to transform into a leading party, he will certainly not hesitate; this is the logic of normal people's thinking in capitalist society.

There are not a few people in the company who have such an idea as Tim Cook, because when Li Mu proposed the acquisition conditions for Apple, he had asked the vast majority of Apple's middle and senior management to stay, so at that time, the company organized a large-scale conversation to inform these employees of Makino Technology's acquisition intentions and solicit their opinions, and it is surprising that almost the vast majority of Apple's middle and senior management are willing to join Makino Technology after Apple is acquired.

For the current Apple employees, waiting for the company to be acquired, and then integrated into Makino Technology, enjoying higher wages, this attraction is too great, I don't know how to refuse, just like BAIC employees have the opportunity to work in Mercedes-Benz and get 1.5 times the salary, no one can think of a reason to refuse.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Tim Cook drove to the company, and Apple worked from half past nine to ten in the morning, but Tim Cook was used to arriving early.

After arriving at the company, Tim Cook asked his secretary to prepare a cup of coffee for himself, and took the time before going to work to look through the latest newspaper of the day that the secretary had prepared.

Tim Cook cares most about newspapers in two places, one in Silicon Valley and the other on Wall Street, with the former leading the global internet and the latter leading the money in the United States.

In the process of flipping through quickly, Tim Cook saw a news item published in the Wall Street Journal today, and the headline of the news made him break out in a cold sweat: "According to reliable sources, Makino Technology is planning to acquire Apple Inc. and privatize Apple!"

Reading the content of the news carefully, Tim Cook found that the news was cut from the perspective of "according to insiders", although there was no source, but the content was described in great detail, including that Makino Technology is preparing to buy non-tradable shares in the hands of Apple shareholders at 90% of the stock price, and then buy liquid shares in the hands of Nasdaq retail investors at 150% of the stock price.

The news also commented on Makino Technology's approach, they deduced that Li Mu gave Nasdaq investors a 150% premium, which seems to be a big wrong, but in fact, he is quite scheming, he hopes to take this opportunity to win the favor of Nasdaq investors and build a bridge for Makino Technology's listing on Nasdaq.

Tim Cook's face turned blue after reading the news, and he immediately turned on the TV in his office and began to watch the pre-market news of the financial channel.

There are still ten minutes left before the opening of the Nasdaq, and the pre-market news at this time can easily affect the trend of today's stock price.

Sure enough, economists in the pre-market news are interpreting the veracity of the Wall Street Journal report, economists support the report, and believe that most of the content of the report has sufficient basis for judgment, and the truth should be very high, and he also predicts that Apple's stock price will usher in the first big rebound in many days today.

Rebound......

Tim Cook's lungs are about to explode! Today's stock price rebound is meaningless, no matter how much it rebounds, because even if today's stock price rebounds, it is all due to the good news of Makino Technology's acquisition of Apple, Apple's real shareholders because they have signed a framework agreement, so they can't enjoy such a benefit at all, even if the stock price soars to the eight-yuan level before the fall, it is useless, because Li Mu will only buy the shares in their hands at a price of 90% of $4.15.

Moreover, none of them dared to bargain with Li Mu again at this time, because once Li Mu was angry and officially announced that he would not buy Apple, Apple's stock price would suffer a retaliatory decline.

Therefore, Tim Cook is particularly angry, because such news leaks will not benefit Apple at all, but will annoy Li Mu because of this, because Li Mu will definitely think that the news is leaking out of Apple, and it seems that this possibility is indeed very large, and at the same time, if Apple's stock price rebounds more sharply today, exceeding the $4.15 in the framework agreement, Li Mu's privatization offer will change from "premium" to "discount" , could have used a generous repurchase to win the favor of NASDAQ investors, but being tossed like this, in the eyes of investors, Li Mu became the culprit who bought the stocks in their hands at a low price, and it is no wonder that Li Mu is not angry!