Chapter 234: Cai Siqiang's Mental Breakthrough Up
Although Cai Siqiang is very confident in Terry, it is just an instinctive performance to encourage Terry's spirit, and in Cai Siqiang's heart, he actually does not have that kind of confidence.
Some time ago, Duke had roughly screened the patents, and although it was found that many Apple were suspected of using the infringing functions of the new Nokia patents, none of these could be directly proven, but they just looked a little suspicious.
This thing is now used to entangle with Apple, and there is not much problem with fishing in troubled waters, but these are just small tricks to fight in public opinion, and it seems that the company is not so powerless, giving people the impression that they only use other technologies, affecting the bright spot of product technology leadership.
But if you really want to win the case with the specious evidence in front of you, it is an impossible task from the current point of view.
So after sending Terry away, Cai Siqiang was still very bored, and instructed his two assistants to block the car without any major matters, and deal with small things directly, leaving some time for himself, and preparing to stay in the office and clean up the recent things clearly.
The situation in front of Cai Siqiang is very grim, it can be said that it is the most dangerous moment since the establishment of SAL, and the external environment for the development of the enterprise that he has been lacking attention to is extremely bad, because the rocket-like development speed of SAL, and now entering the field of mobile phone business, has begun to threaten the traditional territory of the international giants' profits, and there is no doubt that these giants are bound to suppress and destroy SAL.
This is due to an invisible war in which the new forces redraw their spheres of influence with the old ones, which was not thought of before, and now the situation is very clear from a strategic point of view. The existing giants have formed a relatively balanced ecosystem through years of trade-off.
SAL now wants to break in and break the system, how can it not cause an instinctive backlash from the system?
The patent war that has emerged from Apple now should be just an opening ceremony, and there are more challenges waiting for it to deal with in the future. Apple is not the only one that is in direct competition with SAL, and many giants may be watching their weaknesses exposed.
It's just that the appetizer caused by this apple alone has already made me a little overwhelmed, because so far, no one can think of a way to get the best of both worlds. Apple made a single move to force SAL into a dilemma.
There seem to be only two paths in front of SAL now. But both paths don't look like living roads, but more like a dead end with no future.
The first way is that SAL's new Nokia Mobile simply withdrew from the international mobile phone market, retracted into the country, and tried its courage while deeply cultivating the domestic market in the market, while investing heavily in the development of the next generation of 5G communication technology in technology, accumulating strength to wait for a new round of opportunities, but this cycle is inevitably a little too long, after all, for 5G, we are still doing things in advance of conceptual planning.
According to the activation time of the first three generations of standards, from concept to standard, and then from standard to product, it will take at least five years before it can start 5G, and it will take more than 8-10 years to mature, that is, at least before 2020, the development of SAL's new Nokia Mobile is basically limited to the limited market space of more than 100 million mobile phones in China.
Although in terms of total volume, this market space is not small, but considering that the Chinese market is an open market, it is not easy to occupy 30 to 50 percent, and the chance of the new Nokia Mobile dominating this market is even more slim. In this way, the new Nokia Mobile can basically be supported half-dead, and if you want to develop by leaps and bounds, you can't even think about it.
So this path is basically an unacceptable option. But if there is a glimmer of possibility, Cai Siqiang does not want to take this road, not to mention that the protection of the domestic market is becoming less and less, if Apple pushes the US government to exert pressure on domestic intellectual property rights, it is difficult for him to stay in the domestic market.
Thinking about how the DVD industry was brought down, Cai Siqiang feels that the worst may not be without a chance to happen.
So burying one's head in the face and being an ostrich is not a way to live.
The second way is to accept Apple's patent blackmail and promise to negotiate a settlement with a huge compensation nature. From the foreground, the road is not smooth, and it may even be more dangerous than the road ahead.
According to the current sales forecast, if the licensing fee of $20 proposed by Apple is accepted, then it is conservatively estimated that the new Nokia new mobile phone will be sold at 50 million units a year, and the licensing fee of $20 per phone will be one billion dollars.
To be honest, if it were only the patent licensing fee that Apple was asking for, there wouldn't be much pressure on the new Nokia mobile payment. After all, this fee is not a lot of money.
I'm afraid that this is only the first step in Apple's patent offensive, in Apple's plan, they certainly don't plan to make much profit from this patent, Apple makes tens of billions of dollars a year, and Apple, which has more than $200 billion in cash, is definitely not a small amount of money.
Therefore, their purpose is not to pay for this patent licensing, but to provide a successful sample of other giants of the same kind to attack a new Nokia Mobile through such a successful patent attack case.
Knocking on the door of the new Nokia with patents, providing a successful case for latecomers to learn from, and making the new Nokia Mobile a target for owners of 4G core patents, perhaps this is the real intention behind Apple's patent war.
It must be like this, Cai Siqiang said to himself. Otherwise, Apple's blow will not be a fatal blow to the new Nokia Mobile at all.
If this is the case as speculated, then SAL has dealt with Apple's patent blackmail, and how should it deal with the new blackmail of other 4G core patent holders?
Cai Siqiang rubbed his somewhat swollen head, and he really didn't dare to imagine what to do next.
The situation is really too complicated and dangerous, and it is full of countless undercurrents and dangers. As the person at the helm, sailing in this confusing and strange business red sea, I really don't know how difficult it is to find a way out.