The polite words were almost over, and Luo Sheng took the initiative to ask straightforwardly: "Then Mr. Cook, what is the purpose of your coming to see me on behalf of Apple this time?" ”

Hearing this, Cook also decisively explained the purpose of this visit: "We hope to obtain the authorization of 12 technical patents from your company, including multi-touch screen technology on the smartphone side, and flexible board for connecting antennas to motherboards to reduce signal loss and improve network performance." ”

Luo Sheng understood it instantly when he heard this, and the meaning of this was that Apple clearly said that it was going to enter the smartphone market, and he could imagine that Qiao Gang Leader had been very painful recently, and an arrogant boss finally faced the reality and compromised.

As a major competitor of the Cote d'Azur, Apple has more than one competitive plate, Luo Sheng is of course also paying attention to the situation of this company, knowing that Apple's recent situation is very miserable, and he probably predicted that Qiao's compromise this time is probably unable to withstand the pressure of Apple's board of directors and shareholders.

If you don't compromise, you may be kicked out of the company you founded again.

However, Luo Sheng pretended to say: "Oh? Is your company going to enter the field of mobile communication terminal equipment? ”

Cook did not hide it, and nodded directly to admit it, since he came here, he showed that he recognized that the Côte d'Azur is the current leader in the field of smartphones.

Luo Sheng smiled: "No problem, I gave these 12 patents to you, on the condition that your company's mobile phone products are supported by the WOS system, and the annual patent fee of 350 million US dollars is offset by the 74.8 million US dollar patent fee paid by Apple on the Côte d'Azur." ”

When Cook heard this condition, a nameless fire suddenly rose in his heart, but he still held back, locked his eyebrows and shook his head: "Mr. Luo, your three major conditions are too much, they are simply a lion's mouth, and we can't accept them." ”

Such conditions, in Apple's eyes, are no different from hooliganism, and if Qiao helps the leader to talk, he may have to pat his ass and leave like last time.

Fortunately, this time it was Cook.

"The patent fee is $170 million, our products don't need WOS, we will develop our own operating system, $74.8 million can't be offset, this is Apple's bottom line." Cook said in a categorical manner.

Luo Sheng was happy when he heard it, didn't the bottom line use this thing to break through?

"The current situation is tilting towards a seller's market, Mr. Cook, if I guessed correctly, your company's shelved iPhone project is actually very complete, and if I am in charge of Apple, since I have decided to restart the iPhone project, then I will definitely do everything I can to launch it this year." Luo Sheng said slowly.

The current changes in the smartphone industry are changing every year, and the update speed is quite fast, and Luo Sheng of the iPhone project does not know the specific amount of research and development expenditure, but it is certainly not a small amount, plus Apple's current situation, there is not so much money to give up and then overturn and start over.

It is still necessary to try to recover the cost and launch it as soon as possible.

The last time Apple almost went bankrupt, it was Bill Gates who took a hand, this time if Apple faces a bankruptcy crisis again, Luo Sheng will not pull it, and it is best to die directly if he has the opportunity.

Next is rip-off time.

But then again, Luo Sheng actually still hopes that Apple can live, at least not too quickly, and also hopes that Apple can live a more nourishing life in recent years.

But only if you don't ride on the head of the Côte d'Azur.

Luo Sheng has his own strategic considerations, Apple is a long-established high-tech company in North America, and it must have its place in the history of IT.

But this is not the key, the key is that Luo Sheng hopes to deepen cooperation with Apple, so that the United States will launch sanctions in the future, and a large number of local North American companies will also suffer.

Then these affected North American companies will definitely jump out to oppose fiercely, and the resistance will become greater, and the North American authorities are really determined to sanction, and they have to think twice, at least to delay the time.

Although there was a lot of talk in the process of this consultation, a consensus was reached on the same day, as Luo Sheng said, it is now a pattern that tends to be a seller's market, the Cote d'Azur has the initiative, and Apple has little room for bargaining.

And Luo Sheng also gave concessions to a certain extent, and the patent fee was only 50 million US dollars, and at the same time offset the patent fee paid by the Cote d'Azur to Apple, but Apple's iPhone must support the WOS system.

This is not negotiable.

It seems that Luo Sheng has made great concessions, missing the huge amount of 300 million US dollars that can be obtained by lying down every year, and giving WOS system support, but in fact, it directly led to the bankruptcy of Apple's dream of wanting to be its own closed-loop software ecosystem.

Not only that, the WOS open source system is regarded by Luo Sheng as a core weight of international competitiveness.

As everyone knows, Google used Android to sanction Turkey in the previous life, and the new Android phones there are facing an embarrassing situation of shock without Google services.

Technological hegemony, this is what Luo Sheng values and wants most.

Europeans and Americans just use technological hegemony to bully customers, I have to say that this is a good thing, Luo Sheng also likes it, and they can happily hurt each other when the time comes.

Who's afraid of whom.

Three hours later, Luo Sheng signed and stamped the agreement, and then exchanged documents with Cook and said with a smile: "Happy cooperation." ”

"It's a pleasure to work with."

Cook forced a smile, and when he took the contract in his hand, he also had mixed feelings in his heart.

There was no need to stay long after the matter was negotiated, and Cook greeted him with a few polite words and took his leave.

A few minutes later, there were only two people left in the waiting room where there were originally more than twenty people, Luo Sheng looked at the document in his hand with a beautiful face, closed the document and handed it to Qin Weimu and said with a smile: "From now on, the great Apple company has also become one of my little brothers, and in the future, I have to live by looking at my face, if you want to eat and drink spicy food, you must first serve the eldest brother." ”

Qin Weimu gave him a blank look: "Boom..."

Luo Sheng stretched out his hands: "Yes, that's right, it's Dase." ”

Qin Weimu glanced at him and smiled playfully: "Don't you have to serve the palace willingly?" ”

Luo Sheng: "emmm......"

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Cook's visit was quite low-key, and there was not much coverage in the media, and there was not even a grand signing ceremony, but he silently returned to North America when the contract was in hand, and Apple also silently restarted the iPhone project.

Apple has become the first overseas mobile phone manufacturer partner of the WOS open source system, but it is obvious that Luo Sheng will not be satisfied with this, as long as there is an opportunity, he will try to win over more allies, so as to squeeze the living space of the Android system, and the best strategy is to include as many international mobile phone manufacturers as possible into the WOS open source ecosystem.

However, Luo Sheng also knows that such an idea is a bit unrealistic, and Apple's compromise this time is something that cannot be done, and Apple's shareholders are to blame for the pressure.

Multi-touch screen is undoubtedly a core patent in today's electrical products, especially in the smartphone industry, and this patent is also very complex, and the patent itself is quite complex between large companies, especially multinational giants.

First of all, multi-touch screen patents are actually quite vague, so the Côte d'Azur uses more than 400 pages of A4 paper documents to describe them, and secondly, it is not only the Côte d'Azur that has patents, nor is it only Android that has patent disputes.

There is no doubt that Google has infringed on multi-touch patents, but Google also has a number of patents that the Cprida d'Azur has to use.

Even if the Cote d'Azur has a large legal team, as a Chinese technology company, it may not be able to win the lawsuit internationally, which are potential variables.

Apple's answer this time to apply the WOS system to support iPhones and mobile phones, to a certain extent, accounted for a lot of luck so that Luo Sheng picked up a leak, in a sense, it all depends on the arrogance of Qiao's gang leader.

But the Côte d'Azur isn't alone, as new patents will be filed this year, one of the core patents being a revolutionary CAD tool for multi-touch screens, which details an innovative user interface for computer-aided design and drafting that allows users to manipulate tools on a variety of screens through a multi-touch display.

In general, core technology is king, and everything else is virtual, at most it is just icing on the cake.

With the passage of time, entering July, the smartphone industry ushered in a new heavyweight player in China, and the first generation of Rebus's small Mi mobile phone is about to go on sale, and it will be in the limelight in July.

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(The third watch is over, irritable Xiaoyu, ask for votes online~~)

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