Chapter 1769
Words:1755Update:22/11/08 06:35:50
"Actually, we also feel that Fruit's iPhone 3G is very good and is only second to our 4th generation smartphones. To be honest, only Fruit can imitate our products so well … "
Jobs switched off the TV, and he can't hide his anger.
At first, he thought Xu Lihua was complimenting Fruit, but he is making use of this opportunity to belittle them.
What do you mean our 4th generation smartphones are only second to them? What do you mean by imitating our smartphones so well?
We had developed this smartphone ourselves, and we came up with all the ideas, OK?
In order to develop this smartphone, we have specially acquired a processor company to develop our own A-series processor.
Everyone is using the ARM architecture, and that's ARM's patented technology. How can we be imitating you?
What do you mean our operating system is imitating yours? Are you kidding me? Our Fruit company has been developing operating systems for many years. We are even earlier than Lenovo Kingsoft.
No one wanted to be labeled as an imitator, even if he was said to be the best imitator!
It's like many sports stars being praised by the reporters. Even if you are the top star in the industry, you will not be happy. He was definitely roaring in his heart, "I'm not like anyone, I'm me, I'm unique!"
What angered Jobs the most was Xu Lihua had praised Fruit's product design capabilities and even invited their designers to work at Taihua Holdings's US Mobile Phone R&D center.
No company's senior management would be able to tolerate this kind of open and blatant poaching of people.
Xu Lihua even said that Fruit's software engineers are good and welcomed them to work at Lenovo Kingsoft's US branch.
This is trying to poach all the talents in Fruit!
Also, when Xu Lihua was interviewed, he talked about the Fruit Company like a teacher commenting on a student's homework. His attitude was very arrogant.
Jobs was also a very proud person. How could he tolerate this kind of thing? Who are you to comment on Fruit's products?!
The Fruit company immediately held a meeting to discuss their counterattack.
Feng Yu had a smug smile on his face when he saw the Fruit company's counterattack on the media.
Look at what the media is saying. Fruit is challenging Wind and Rain's position in the mobile phone industry!
Some said that the Fruit Company was overestimating itself, while others said that the Fruit Company's courage was commendable. There were also some who objectively commented on the Fruit Company's products and the price-performance ratio of the Wind and rain mobile phone.
But no matter what, Wind and Rain Mobile and Apple kept appearing in front of people's eyes, while Nokia, Motorola, and other mobile giants were slowly forgotten by people.
The other mobile phone manufacturers are also studying it. They can also see that the future will be dominated by smartphones. The functions will gradually fall behind and the sales will gradually decline.
Just like with tractors, who would still be willing to use oxen to plow the land?
Perhaps functional phones would not completely disappear, but the sales volume and profits would definitely not be as good as smartphones.
Among them, the one who felt the greatest crisis was Rakia. They persisted with the Saiban system alone, and seemed to be walking further and further away from the path of smartphones.
Those mobile phone manufacturers were already giving them a headache. Now that the Fruit Company popped up, they felt even more pressure.
Fortunately, their new generation of Saiban system was about to be launched. They firmly believed that there would still be more people who liked their Saiban system!
The CEO of Lancia had just turned on the news today and saw a report that he was very dissatisfied with.
What did Wind and Rain Mobile say? The only company that can compete with them in the future will be the Fruit Company's iPhone? How dare they look down on the world's number two mobile phone manufacturer?!
Don't forget that in Europe, Rakia's sales are higher than Wind and Rain Mobile!
Last year, they had a production volume of more than 300 million. What was the sales volume of the Fruit Company's iPhones? It was only 10 million units. How could they be compared to them?
Nokia, Motorola, and other mobile phone manufacturers start to pay attention to the iPhone. They realized it is not enough to focus on Wind and Rain Mobile phones. They must not let the iPhone take advantage of them when they are competing with other mobile phone manufacturers!
Microsoft is even more unhappy with the Fruit Company. They claim that the Fruit Company's operating system is better than Microsoft's. This is bullshit!
We can sell a few hundred million phones using Microsoft's operating system every year. Even if it is only a smartphone, we can sell at least tens of millions a year. The Fruit Company's IOS system is nothing!
This is the strategy that Feng Yu and the rest came up with to deal with the iPhone. The Fruit Company is a new mobile phone manufacturer, and they are not as good as Wind and Rain Mobile!
The Fruit Company suddenly realized that they are being targeted by other mobile phone manufacturers. But they do not care about this. It is normal for them to be targeted by other mobile phone manufacturers, and they had also thought of this.
But Microsoft's Paul Allen had scolded them publicly. This is something they did not expect. The relationship between Microsoft and the Fruit Company had improved over the past few years, and Microsoft's biggest enemy had become Lenovo Kingsoft.
The Fruit Company did not expect Microsoft to target them again. Not only the smartphone operating system was scolded. Even the PC operating system was scolded.
The Fruit Company's operating system is only used on their own products. What's wrong with them? We are selling PCs and mobile phones, and we can't use our own operating system? Our own operating system will optimize our hardware performance, and who dares to say we are not performing well?
If Microsoft is really so powerful, why didn't you defeat Lenovo Kingsoft?
At this time, Feng Yu posted another tweet. "Microsoft's smartphone operating system cannot be compared to HOS and IOS. How smart is it?"
Feng Yu's tweet was retweeted by more than a million people on the same day. The frequency of retweets increased, and the influence of his tweet increased. There were also people who liked to stir up trouble and specially Bill Gates and other people who were slightly soft.
Microsoft was furious and immediately responded.
They compared some of the features and highlighted Microsoft's advantages. After that, they criticized some of the features of HOS and IOS.
HOS has a lot of users, and Feng Yu and the rest do not need to worry. But IOS is different. The number of users is still not high. Some consumers, who had wanted to buy the Fruit Company's smartphones, hesitated. The Fruit Company's iPhone 3G sales had dropped significantly.
The higher they are praised, the harder they will fall.
The Fruit Company was recommended as the mobile phone manufacturer after Wind and Rain Mobile, but there are so many problems. Not only the software, but the hardware is also the same.
Someone even brought up the Fruit Company's first-generation products' price cuts. This makes people suspect that Fruit Company's mobile phone is still making high profits!
When their competitors are in trouble, Wind and Rain Mobile continues to grow, and their sales are getting higher.
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