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Chapter 672 Dealing with Apple's Defaults

Cloud computing projects do not have a year or two of openness and perfection, it is not possible to produce results in a short time. Even with Dr. Ye's core procedures, further development by the team is required, but the development time will be greatly shortened as a result.

After all, time represents tremendous wealth in the field of IT.

The next day, Richie Green, who had been notified by telephone, came to the company and signed a work contract, and Andy, as the big boss, introduced him to all the staff, and his twenty-third company officially welcomed him as its CEO.

“Well, this office is yours, and I can safely go to the UK. As you heard at the meeting earlier, the company also needs to recruit a professional to speed up the development of the operating procedures, as well as the talent pool required for a range of AI components. ”

Andy was holding the coffee, and some leisurely looked across the street at Richie Green and said, to be honest, he was also interested in managing the operations of a large company before, but with the accumulation of wealth, the number of companies under the company grew, and the idea became a little faint, or somewhat impractical.

Instead, this direct management model of professional managers is more responsive. Loyalty is something that Andy has never wanted for foreigners, but more reassuring to him than honesty, professional integrity, and the spirit of contract, which take a long time to cultivate and test.

Of course, oversight is essential, so he has been following through with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Finance in selecting and managing from his think tank talent pool so that if he knows each company, he will not deviate at the strategic level.

The most important thing is that all of Andy's companies are unlisted companies, and the shares are firmly in his hands. He doesn't have to worry about the power of the company, and the competent professional managers themselves will reuse them, give them full trust, and those who distort their minds don't need to come forward. One authorization can get the company's legal department to fire them directly, and Andy doesn't even need to come forward.

“I understand.” Richie Green's expression was so serious, he didn't expect the company to hold two big killers in its hands, cloud computing kernel operating procedures, and the initial model of artificial intelligence.

It made him so excited inside that he would now run a future super unicorn business, which would, it had to be said, make his career even brighter.

“Boss, I think technology like image recognition technology, facial core technology, speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language understanding and other technology artificial intelligence component programs, if we build our own studio from scratch, the time and human and material resources involved are a bit uncompensated.

Studios with expertise like this are not uncommon in Silicon Valley, and we are well placed to refine our own needs by screening potential development teams for mergers and acquisitions as needed.

Spending tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars more is not unacceptable to you, boss, and our company can rely on annexation to absorb digestion to get a complete technology tree, which is undoubtedly the easiest and shortest way to boost the company's technological leap. ”

Andy very much shares Richie Green's view, and he has considered this solution as well, although at present he believes that cloud computing is the first task that the company needs to develop. After all, artificial intelligence evolution and learning require a huge data base.

But it seems that it is time to prepare the company's technology reserves, the so-called company technology tree, to deepen the Musica company's heritage.

“Okay, I'll leave this to you, too, and I'm sure your judgment choices and vision won't disappoint me. ”

Listening to the young boss, Richie Green did not show any flattering expression, just smiled. He was still very confident in running the company. After all, he was able to get BEA and IBM to rob the market and rely on erosion market share to eventually defeat this giant bully company. As for the eventual acquisition of BEA by Larry Ellison, it was a non-war crime, only the result of the capitalist's beneficial xing.

Andy left Musica Cloud Computing after saying hello to Dr. Ye, who is nestled in the data center, because it is a new company and Andy is naturally aware that he will enter the melting phase for some time to come, but the good news is that he has repeatedly made it clear that the administration and operation of the company is the responsibility of the CEO, and that Dr. Ye, a CTO who is a shareholder, can only manage the technology of the company, but does not have the authority to conduct administrative and personnel, the investigation of operations, the division of labour is very clear, and there is no overlapping management conflict.

Tickets have been booked to London, England, and tonight at 10: 00 he will personally travel to England to complete the acquisition of the Tottenham Thermal Assassins. Before that, he came to Mockingjay Games and called Michael Wright, CEO of the software APP store on the other side, into the conference room.

“You've all received a letter from Apple wanting to restart negotiations, and they want to change some of the terms they signed.” Andy was prepared for Apple's greed long ago, but he didn't want to relax easily and without enough profit, he would never eat Andy Smith's stubborn loss.

“Jobs' attitude was more resolute, even in the face of a blanket breach of contract, and then went to court to delay it, and even when Apple eventually paid the liquidated damages, they built a new platform to take away our current strengths.” Michael Wright frowned.

“The key is the download platform jump option. Apple still controls the hardware of the phone and the IOS system. They also want to solve our problem before launching a new model, blocking or modifying the system according to the situation.” Blair also said with a slightly ugly face.

However, there is no competition between the Mockingjay and Apple companies that he represents, and he does not want to influence the game company's expansion planning because of the contradiction between the Free City APP app mall and Apple, just the final choice or the choice of the big boss.

After a moment of silence, Andy finally decided: “Blair, the difference between the gaming company and Apple is not so great, it's just a matter of downloading to jump to the preferred app store. After all, our game relies on the IOS system. At this time before Android is launched into the market, our gaming company really can't help but support Apple, so negotiations with Apple can make concessions. ”

And he looked at Michael with a gloomy face and he said, "Michael, didn't we already think about this? After all, it's a hundred billion dollar market, and Apple has a huge advantage in itself, so how could they let others earn their knives?

One more phone, do you think in the system menu of the factory machine, two app stores will be prepared at the same time? So, since Apple and Jobs were planning to kick Freedom City out of default from the beginning, you should focus more on what moths they play to reduce liquidated damages in the next negotiations. You know, $300 million is not much of a valuation for a big company like Apple, but after all, it's outward payments, and I don't think they're going to fulfill the deal painfully.

So, your task is to get the liquidated damages without giving in, and then I'm going to leave you $100 million in development publicity to defend against the official backdrop of Apple's official app store. After all, we are a unique player in the current APP download market, and software developers make a lot of money, and programmers who taste sweet tips know how to choose. ”

After hearing the big boss's analysis, Michael Wright couldn't help but smile. He nodded. “It seems that's the only way to go. Next, the mall will score the most popular APPs to increase the number and variety of apps in the mall. Since it can't take its own shortcut, then our mall will take a full, many, cheap route to consolidate its position. ”

“Nice idea!” Andy nodded satisfactorily, not surprisingly, to modify Michael Wright's operating strategy.