Chapter 360: Under the Table
When Apple launched its smartphone that year. Qiao Buying once made a bold statement: To lead the entire industry for five years!
In fact, to this day, Apple has been leading the way, and the time has been almost five years, but when Joe Budie said this, he didn't expect Apple's product to be so successful.
Many people are analyzing Apple's success, some say that the unified standard has contributed to Apple's success, some say that Apple's business model is more mature and advanced, some say that Apple's design style and concept are more pleasing to consumers, and some say that Apple's endless marketing has created a large number of diehards.
Each has its own arguments, each with its own reasoning, but no one has been able to make a second apple. Where Apple's success is, perhaps only Qiao Immortal's heart knows best, and it is because he knows it himself, so he came to Dongyang.
The editor-in-chief of Dongyang Daily analyzed that Qiao Budying's trip was to block the opening on his high road, but he only guessed a small half correctly, and it was actually very, very easy to open his mouth on Apple's high road, even a lone ranger like Wonder Boy Holtz can do it, but the problem is, you opened this opening. Can you really steer those cars to other roads, take a step back, and say, is there another way to get these cars to run?
Even if the time can go back to five years ago, Apple's competitors still can't stop Apple's success, in addition to brand accumulation, at that time Apple was a new mobile phone, he could completely customize and plan his own mobile phone model, and none of the others could do it, at that time, Nokia, Blackberry, Microsoft were very successful, everyone was making money, to make them give up the mature business model, to switch to another completely unfamiliar business model, that is impossible.
Nokia has become accustomed to their model of selling goods by grade, even if they can install 12oo million pixel lenses on all mobile phones, they will divide them into several grades from 1oo00000 to 12oo000000, stimulating consumers to continue to pay for new styles of mobile phones and higher-performance mobile phones.
It is impossible and unrealistic to want to run the same effect on these mobile phones with different configurations and different operating systems, so it is difficult to replicate the Apple model.
The reason why Figo Security makes it difficult for Joe to sleep and eat is because Figo Security's technical solutions have infinitely leveled the differences of those mobile phones, which means that various old mobile phone manufacturers can use the lowest risk to "trial and error", and they can try to move closer to the Apple model without any obstacles, and even if it fails, it will not affect the layout of existing products, and it can be attacked. Retreat can be defended.
But fortunately, Figo security did not rush to exterminate, they also left a way back for Apple, according to Figo security standards designed software, can be used in any smartphone, but not for Apple mobile phones; And the solution provided by Figo Security is also a kind of solution without guardrails, the roads are interconnected without obstacles, in this mode, you can't build a closed high road, and you can't get the dominant position like Apple.
That being said, it is difficult to guarantee that Figo's safety will not play again, and Joe Budie's visit to Dongyang this time is to obtain a commitment from Figo's safety, promising to maintain the status quo and not further pressure Apple.
"Since it's cooperation, then I also have to see what kind of conditions Figo Security can come up with!" Joe knew very well that he didn't have any advantage in the negotiation, but he was not busy throwing his hole cards.
"Figo Security is just a small company, and there are no two taels of meat on it, Old Joe, if you want to rub oil from us, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed!" Hu Yifei dispelled Lao Qiao's luck with one sentence. "The minimum commitment we can come up with is to block Zm's worry-free antivirus, so that they can't get involved in the mobile phone market and safeguard the interests of the app alliance, but as for how much they can go, it's hard to say, it depends on how sincere you are. Figo Security has been betrayed by the App Alliance once, but I don't want to be fooled a second time! ”
Qiao Budie's old face flushed, it seems that those negotiation skills are completely inapplicable to Hu Yifei, this guy is simply a vegetable seller in the vegetable market, paying money with one hand and delivering goods with the other, it is useless to go around in circles, "This time, it is completely fair cooperation, you can rest assured of this!" ”
"I hope so!" Hu Yifei was noncommittal, picked up the cup and stirred the coffee, and put it down again, he was still used to drinking tea.
The negotiations downstairs were just for show, but even so, it still took more than two hours.
The boss was very unhappy, signed the cooperation agreement, went out upstairs, reported to Hu Yifei, and scolded in his mouth: "Damn, this group of foreign devils is really fucking difficult, grinding and chirping wasted so much saliva, in the end, you have to follow Lao Tzu's plan!" ”
When I got to the top of the building, I saw Hu Yifei and Qiao Buying standing by the railing on the top of the building. Pointing at a building in the distance. The boss knew that Hu Yifei's conversation was also going well, so he took two steps forward and said, "The two masters have all been negotiated, and they will be signed according to our plan!" ”
Hu Yifei nodded, as expected, he turned his head to look at Qiao Buying, "I am honored to be able to successfully reach a cooperation with Apple this time, Figo Security has prepared a conference for this, and I want to invite Mr. Qiao Buying to participate?" ”
A smile bloomed on Joe's face, "I must be there, Apple also attaches great importance to this cooperation with Figo Security!" ”
"Then it's decided, at eight o'clock in the evening, it will be held at Yangjiang Hotel, and I will pick you up then!"
"Okay, okay!" Qiao Buying shook hands with Hu Yifei, "Then I'll leave first, I hope our cooperation is very pleasant!" ”
"Yes!" Hu Yifei knew what the cooperation Qiao Buying was talking about.
After sending the Apple team away, the boss asked Hu Yifei, "What conditions did you promise Qiao not to die, I see that he is very happy!" ”
"In addition to the APP standard technology, I promise to provide the optimization technology to those mobile phone companies in the APP Alliance free of charge!"
"Are you crazy?" The Boss glared. "Xu Minjie will find you desperately! Mobile phone companies have mastered the anti-virus technology, if they master the optimization technology, then they can completely design their own security modules, how can we and Li Anfang! ”
Hu Yifei smiled, "I dare to guarantee that Zm will soon come up with the same technology, and we can exchange a lot of benefits if we take out the technology now, and if it is two days later, I am afraid it will be worthless." Old Joe didn't understand that it was never Figo's safety to bury the apples. It's Zm! What we seek is to create a new system, the rules that really belong to Figo's security, and Zm is a complete rule breaker! ”
The boss was relieved, "Then what benefits did we all get?" ”
"A lot!" Hu Yifei looked mysterious, "Go, go back and talk!" ”
At the Yangjiang Hotel in the evening, surrounded by the media, Qiao Buzhi kept claiming that he went to Dongyang to cooperate with Fei Ge safely, and now there is finally a result, everyone is looking forward to it, and wants to know what kind of cooperation it is, so that Qiao Buying can come over to talk in person.
The lineup of the cloth meeting was very strong, and the person in charge of Figo's security was all present, and Joe was not dead in front of the stage, with a smile on his face.
The media suddenly seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, so that Joe would not die to be present, this must be a very important cooperation project. Before the meeting began, everyone was already speculating about how valuable this cooperation is, billion? Billion? Or is it more?
The anxious reporter has already edited the headlines, leaving only two blanks, one blank is the name of the cooperation project, and the other is the value of the project.
Dong Hongfeng walked up to the stage in a spirited manner, cleared his throat, and said: "Thank you friends for coming, there is a very important thing to spread for Figo's security today, just three hours ago, Figo Security and Apple, the world's most valuable technology company, reached a cooperation!" Dong Hongfeng said, picking up the agreement and showing it to everyone.
The long guns and cannons below suddenly crackled and flashed, and the agreement was filmed.
According to the agreement, within the next year, Figo Security will cooperate with Apple on the update mode of mobile phone software, according to preliminary estimates. This study will generate a market value of $5oo million! ”
As soon as these words came out, the whole audience changed color, and no one dared to believe their ears, and when it was confirmed that they had heard correctly, everyone collectively collapsed! 5oo thousand? What are you kidding, Qiao can earn this money even if he sneezes, just because of 5oo thousand, he can come to Dongyang in person? You can't fool people like that! If you have to say 5oo words earlier, Lao Tzu is not uncommon to come here today.
No one believed it, and they all chased Dong Hongfeng and asked, but no matter how they asked, Figo was safe and the cooperation between the two sides was limited to this, which was also confirmed by Qiao Immortal.
The media was very depressed, and the headlines that had been made in advance could only be overturned and rewritten, and the rewritten headline became "Joe doesn't die to come to Dongyang, thunder and rain are small!" ", "Joe doesn't die in a drizzle in Dongyang", "Flicker? Or is it a farce? That's a problem! ”、“……”
But real industry insiders think that this is just a cooperation on the desktop, Apple and Figo Security itself are difficult to form a cooperative relationship in business, and it is already very good to have a cooperation of 5oo million, but the two sides must have more important cooperation under the table.
Two days later, the facts proved that the inferences of these industry insiders were correct.
Apple suddenly announced that it would set up a software center in Dongyang, which is responsible for the review and approval of software vendors' qualifications, and all software vendors registered in Dongyang will be given priority to review their applications, which greatly shortens the review cycle, and Apple will also give certain discounts and subsidies to software vendors who meet the standards, so as to reduce the cost of these software vendors entering the Apple App Store.
Subsequently, Figo Security responded by announcing that the complete anti-virus technology on the mobile platform will be provided to the members of the App Alliance, and any member of the App Alliance will be able to use this technology for free in the future.
After such a long time, the APP alliance finally fought back against the aggressive security enterprise alliance, and it was a fatal blow, and the mobile phone manufacturers themselves to make security modules, which is equivalent to completely expelling security companies from this market.
But no one saw what Figo Security had gained from it, and it seemed that the matter was far from over. (! )