After Jobs had a seizure, he calmed down and said, "You go and tell his lawyer that the price can be negotiated." But he had to talk to me in person. ”

Old Neha glanced at the vice president next to him, and quickly slipped out of the office at the signal of Cook's eyes. The big boss is angry, and it doesn't feel good to stay inside at this time.

Jobs said to Cook, "Tim, the iPod business is imperative, and we have to develop new products to drive iMac sales."

Apple now has only $250 million in cash reserves, but has a loss of $500 million. The iPod music player project cannot afford to be missed, and it has even reached the point where it is ready to be released.

Chen Bo's leisurely days in a foreign country have finally come to an end, just after New Year's Day in 01, Depp brought good news, old Neha couldn't stand it, and informed him that if he wanted to continue talking, he had to go over in person, and this time the real boss Jobs Joe gang leader finally came out.

"You've worked hard these past few days, go back and rest, and welcome the joy of harvest." Chen Bo patted Depp's shoulder and said with a smile, Depp has been drinking passively in the past few days, and his body has been tortured uncomfortably, and he has to be unkempt in order to pretend to be more realistic. In the past, I was self-defeating and didn't feel anything, but now I am conscious, and I hate myself for my previous appearance when I look in the mirror every day.

Chen Bo came to Apple again alone and met the legendary Steve Jobs as he wished, he was wearing a black sweater and blue jeans, and he was really persistent in his old tradition. Tim Cook was also there, but it was really uncomfortable to look at Chen Bo with his eyes. Why? You won't feel good as a straight guy stared at by a gay. And it is said that his boyfriend is still Chinese, of course, he has not come out yet, many people don't know, Chen Bo is clear in his heart. Although he can't accept homosexuality, he is not against other people, existence is reasonable, and there should be more tolerance.

"Young man, it is undeniable that I am very interested in the trademark in your hand. But that doesn't mean I'm going to do whatever it takes. Jobs took the slap in the face and said unceremoniously. It is to point out to tell you that although I am interested, it is not that the earth will not turn without you.

"Does Mr. Jobs want to give up the huge cake of the Chinese market?" Chen Bo asked with a sly smile.

"At present, our data show that the market sales data of Huaxia Mainland is not impressive." Now that Apple products are only computer products, Tim Cook, who is in charge of the iMac, naturally wants to refute it.

Chen Bo smiled confidently and said, "The negotiations on China's accession to the WTO will have results this year, and China's GDP growth rate is 8.4%, ranking first in the world." There are 1.3 billion people in the mainland alone. In the next few years, China will overtake Japan to become the world's second largest economy. With such a huge consumer electronics market, do Mr. Steve and Mr. Cook really not care? ”

The market is the biggest reliance, and China is different from India. Although India has a large population, its economy is backward, and the level of big cities is unbearable, and there are even many primitive federal tribes, and the development is extremely uneven. And the Chinese market has not been affected in the slightest in the Southeast Asian economic crisis in 98, as long as you are not stupid, you can know what this represents.

"Both the iPod and iTunes are in line with the product positioning of the iMac and Apple, and I can't find any reason for Mr. Jobs to refuse."

Jobs didn't doubt the Chinese market, let alone think how bad the trademark was, but the price offered by the young man opposite was too outrageous.

"I can't accept your offer. $60 million and royalties, do you know what it is? It's no different from a scam! Apple and I are going to be the laughing stock of the whole industry. ”

Jobs had an angry face, glared at Chen Bo and shouted, "And in the United States, whoever uses it first is the owner of the trademark." Do you want to see you in court? Then Apple will be glad to do it. ”

"I advised Mr. Jobs to look it up on the Internet, I registered a website in the United States last year called iTunes Music Network, and it just so happened that I also pre-sold an iPod. It's just that it closed after a few days. Chen Bo handed over the information in his hand, and Cook looked at it with a gloomy face and handed it to Jobs.

It was a snapshot of the web page and the registration information on the website that Yahoo searched, and the servers were all hosted, an English website facing the continental United States, and it didn't cost much to make it, which was also a precautionary shot that Chen Bo did casually after injecting the trademark into the trademark, without leaving home, for a few hundred yuan. Register a complicated and terrible domain name at random, and pioneer the use of iPod and iTunes trademarks.

This kind of lawsuit will be lost as soon as it is fought, but as long as your product is put on sale, regardless of whether you are in the litigation period, you can ask the court to issue an injunction to stop the sale of your product.

Jobs's wishful thinking has come to naught.

"I also have a music website in China, but don't worry, it has nothing to do with iTunes, and I have obtained all the electronic music copyrights of Chinese songs." Chen Bo didn't explain much, Jobs has been able to fully foresee the obstacles in the Chinese market, without electronic music licensing, you sell a hairy iPod, the main thing is to use the iPod to earn equipment fees and then use iTunes to earn song download fees. The main thing is to promote Apple's iMac.

In the United States, Chen Bo's hand is definitely not that long, but the market in Huaxia has been equivalent to his monopoly, which is a threshold that cannot be bypassed. Unless you choose to give up!

There is also the market on Hong Kong Island, although it has a population of only 7 million, and the market is not large, but Hong Kong Island is a free port, and many goods from the Asia-Pacific region have to transit from him. You can only take a detour elsewhere, and you need to pay more customs duties.

Jobs's heart had already begun to waver and compromise. If there were no law in this country, he would have wanted to stand up and kill this young man who took advantage of the fire, but he knew that he couldn't do it. In business, if it were him in the other party's position, he might ask for more than that.

"But out of respect for Mr. Jobs, I hope to exchange $20 million for Mr. Jobs' friendship." Chen Bo continued, "All the trademarks of 40 million US dollars were transferred to Apple, and I reached a strategic partnership with Apple on a domestic music website. We will give the greatest support to the iPod after it enters China. At the same time, I would like to get the exclusive right to sell the iPod network in China. ”

From $60 million to $40 million, and it's not a royalty, it's a direct transfer. Jobs doesn't care about what kind of support he can give to his domestic music website, how far a small website can develop in that barren country, the most important thing is the online music copyright in his hand, that is the point.

The right to sell online is not a difficult thing, what about e-commerce giant eBay, what about Amazon, not all of them are still losing money, this condition is also acceptable.

Jobs made eye contact with Cook, and said with a slight heave, "I agreed to this condition, but Apple's cash reserves are not enough, and I need to use a part of the stock to pay." ”

"No problem." Of course, Chen Bo is very happy, Apple's stock will only rise and not fall. At least in the next ten years, it will be much stronger than the dollar and gold. And you're not a bunch of numbers, this is a white banknote, 40 million US dollars, and the yuan is worth 300 million.

In the end, the two parties agreed that the agreement for $25 million in cash and $15 million in Apple stock was signed.

The money will be transferred from Apple's bank account in the Cayman Islands to the company that Chen Boxin registered, and the shares will be delivered to the company's name, and there will be no taxes and fees. Cayman, a subsidiary island of the United Kingdom, all companies registered here have tax exemptions, pay a little management fee every year, nothing else, and the business information will be strictly confidential, even if you have never been to the Cayman Islands in your life, as long as you are at least 18 years old, you can register a company in the local area with 50,000 US dollars. If it is to be transferred to Chen Bo's company in China, this tax will be too much, value-added tax, local tax, national tax, income tax, 40 million US dollars, and it would be good to have 30 million left in the end. There are about 250,000 companies registered in the Cayman Islands, about one-third of which are registered by Chinese enterprises.

Chen Bo originally wanted to take the initials of Pangu to register a P&G fund, but after being reminded by Depp, he remembered that this was not Procter & Gamble, so he casually took the name BP Investment Fund.

At the same time, Chen Bo, Steve Jobs and Cook discussed the sales model of "hunger marketing". And also suggested that if iMac wants to occupy the high-end consumer market, it must cooperate with Intel to be compatible with Windows, although the mac OS system is good, but it is too closed, Windows is the monopoly of this system industry, and now it is facing the situation of being spun off by the US government. But Microsoft's position in the operating system dictates, can you not choose to cooperate? It is too difficult, those who follow the trend live, and those who go against the trend die is an eternal truth.

And Chen Bo also suggested that Jobs should check his body more, he didn't want this cash cow to hang up so early, the world needed Jobs' great products. When I finally shook hands with Jobs and said goodbye, I saw the Porsche limited edition watch in Jobs' hand, and suddenly remembered the joke that had been circulated on the Internet.

So he said, "Steve, you want to be exquisite with this watch, I don't know where to buy it in San Francisco?" I think there is always a commemoration when I come to the United States. ”

Jobs laughed and said, "Young people have a good eye!" I took it off and handed it to Chen Bo, "I'll give it to you, this is a limited edition watch, but I bought two boxes at home." ”

Chen Bo sweated in his heart, this joke was actually true, sure enough, he was a big tyrant, and he could buy two boxes of limited watches worth more than 1,000 US dollars. It's really capricious to be rich, and I don't realize that I am also rich now.

Although it cost $40 million to get the two trademarks, Jobs and Cook are now full of affection for this young man who has a lot of ideas and a bold style. I hope you don't become an opponent in the future, otherwise you will have a headache. Cook even faintly felt in his heart that the information that broke to the media this time was released by Chen Bo, but from what channel did he learn about it?