Hollywood Hunter

The next day was Wednesday, September 11.

Simon left for San Francisco early in the morning, at the same time that Tinkerbell held a press conference at 9:00 a.m. to formally announce an acquisition proposal with Apple involving a total of $4 billion.

The public outcry was immediate.

Apple's current state of decadence is well known, these two years and even become the industry's media like to criticize the taunt of a company, with Microsoft's windows operating system natural monopoly advantage is becoming clear, coupled with the wintel alliance more and more entrenched, now no one believes that relying on powerpc architecture and lagging behind the Macintosh system Apple can still turn the tables against the trend.

I didn't expect that Tinkerbell, who has risen to prominence in recent years, would suddenly come to this move.

As the press conference was held and the press release was released on various platforms, a large number of targeted comments appeared on the Internet, with most of the professional or non-professional almost overwhelmingly not optimistic about the acquisition of Tinkerbell, believing that it is actively recruiting a burden.

You know, although as of yesterday's close of Apple's market value has only $2.1 billion left, but after all, has been established 20 years of the United States, the old electronics giant, Apple's current annual revenue still reached $10 billion level, its in addition to various types of personal computers, but also involved servers, printers, tablets, digital cameras and more than a dozen product lines.

Even this year's irec's success and icam and two products continue to sell a big increase in sales to Ting Kobayl annual revenue growth is expected to reach 60%, the company's annual revenue is only about $ 20 billion. The two companies, which are so disparate in terms of market capitalization that they are more than 100 times apart, are actually only twice as far apart in terms of revenue.

This is also enough to show that Apple's skinny camel is bigger than the horse.

It's widely believed that Tinkerbell's acquisition of Apple was probably to expand its own product line in the shortest possible time.

This is definitely a faint move.

Because Apple has come to this day, in addition to the core personal computer business serious mistakes, another important reason, is the uncontrolled expansion. Seemingly 'blossoming', but in reality, most of the rush to achieve success in the peripheral products business are in the loss of the state.

With the decline of the core PC business, the other peripheral product line is to become a domino effect caused by the burden.

Of course, there are smart people associated with the Tinkerbell or Westeros system ate Apple's real purpose, for the patent, as well as the entire PC industry. Even if Westeros is one of the major shareholders of Microsoft, but the friction between the two sides of the disagreement, is not a secret.

Therefore, many professionals also wrote an article analyzing Tinkerbell's acquisition of Apple, most likely to join forces with Ygritte to enter the PC industry together, to avoid encountering Microsoft's constraints on Internet terminal equipment. Similar discussions also caused widespread heated debates, but most of the tendency conclusion is still not optimistic, after all, Microsoft's advantage in the operating system market at this time is really too big.

All these disturbances are directly reflected in the North American stock market.

When the West Coast acquisition news was officially announced, the East Coast is already noon, as of 4:00 p.m. EST close, Apple shares soared 19% in one day, closing market capitalization reached $2.53 billion, a one-day market capitalization increase of $400 million, only $300 million short of Tinkerbell's $2.8 billion acquisition offer.

Because the market was generally not optimistic about the acquisition, Tinkerbell shares fell 2.7 percent to close at $272.3 billion. Although its share price shrank by only 2.7%, Tinkerbell's market capitalization evaporated by $7.55 billion because of the company's huge size, which is almost as much as three Apple companies according to the closing market capitalization.

At the same time, Microsoft was also affected by the media's analysis of the acquisition's purpose.

That afternoon, Microsoft shares fell 2.5%, closing market value of $269.7 billion, Microsoft shareholders also lost $6.9 billion in one day.

In fact, this period of time Tinkerbell on Microsoft's market value overtaking, is also one of the hotspots of media discussion, because the two market value of similar volume, showing tug-of-war state, and both are hitting the $ 300 billion mark.

It must be said, the original time and space should be leading the new technology wave of Microsoft, this time by the Westeros system has really taken away too much 'luck', so that the next highest market value, it is difficult to break through the 60 million mark like once.

Now, although the true intent of this acquisition has not yet been revealed, Microsoft has been affected by the waves, easier than the outside world to guess the purpose of Simon's acquisition of the big door students suddenly hard to calm down, after the West Coast lunch, Simon just left the restaurant with C girl and others, the other side of the phone call over.

After receiving the phone, Simon did not avoid C-girls and others, while continuing to walk to a conference room in the Tinkerbell headquarters building, while saying into the microphone: "Hi, Bill ...... Of course, otherwise I buy Apple what to do.... ...I certainly haven't forgotten that I'm a major shareholder in Microsoft, but, Bill, do you think it's a good thing that Microsoft has complete control of the operating system market? ...... Let's not argue about that, but you have to understand that I'm not overly suppressing Microsoft's networking business because I know that an industry wants to grow. Progress, competition is the best catalyst, so what you have to do is wait to meet the challenge instead of trying to get people not to compete with you."

Putting away the phone call there that he had voluntarily hung up on, Simon just smiled, and the group arrived at the conference room as well.

Several heads of the desktop linux operating system development team from Ygritte's side also arrived at the same time, and everyone sat down in the conference room to begin the afternoon's topic: combining the upcoming takeover of Apple and Ygritte's accumulated years of operating system development results, developing a linux version of the Tinkerbell brand of personal computers.

Simon sat down at the conference table and naturally took the initiative in the meeting, saying first: "As you all know, the content of this meeting is about the development of the Tinkerbell PC after the acquisition of Apple, tentatively called the imac series, which is one of the many trademarks that Tinkerbell has applied for. I will only say two things, first, the imac series will use Ygritte's linux desktop operating system, and second, this personal computer will abandon Apple's original powerpc architecture and use an intel processor."

Simon's voice dropped, and a dozen executives from Tinkerbelle, Apple and Igret's three companies in the conference room burst into discussion, buzzing around them.

Tapping a few times on the table to draw attention to the crowd, Simon looked around and spoke in an unquestionable tone, "This is the final decision, and you only have seven months between now and next Easter's spring launch at Tinkerbelle, I don't want to hear your objections, this meeting, I just want to hear you discuss how this should be done. "

"But, Mr. Westeros," an executive from Apple couldn't resist, "seven months to complete a personal computer with a new operating system and a new processor architecture that are mutually compatible is simply not possible."

Simon looked at Peter Bacall, Apple's vice president in charge of the PC division's R&D business, and shook his head: "Not just seven months, five years and seven months to be exact, because Ygritte's development of the linux system can be said to have started five years ago, and the version of the desktop operating system with the graphical interface was based on the x86 architecture from the beginning, before that. The prototype has been completed over at Ygritte and will be ready tomorrow, if you wish."

"Mr. Westeros, I still think you're taking the problem too literally," Peter Bacall, still shaking his head, said, "A senior computer engineer could have spent years developing a prototype set of operating system designs from scratch on his own if he wanted to, but that's not the same as a marketable Personal computers are two concepts, the development of a full-fledged personal computer is a massive systemic project, for example, how do you solve the software, Mr. Westeros, have you considered that?"

This meeting didn't even include Apple's chairman and ceo, but instead invited Peter Bacall, and not without reason.

The other side is in the c girl side carefully screened and then submitted to Simon personally patted an internal decision to promote candidates.

The company's main business is the development of a new software platform, which will be used for the development of linux system software. The advantages of the java language, I think you know very well, and next year, the launch of the new software platform will be the first time that the company will be able to develop a new software platform. The imac is accompanied by linux versions of the major applications on the market, especially the Internet-related software owned by Ygritte."

Peter Bacall was speechless at Simon's words.

And suddenly a little sad.

If ...... Apple's recent heads can have the vision pattern of this young man across the street, why has Apple, for which he has served for more than a decade, fallen to this state.

Thinking of this, this middle-aged man in his forties this year with thick rimless glasses suddenly could not help but want to say something from the heart, so he said: "Well, Mr. Westeros ......"

"Peter, you can call me Simon."

"Well, Simon, I was actually going to say that, although, it's out of date, but, Microsoft has left us so far behind that it might be better to just use Microsoft's Windows system rather than ......."

"If you look at it from a purely commercial point of view, that's certainly the best option," Simon said, nodding slightly, "But, Peter, I acquired Apple in order to open up an operating system platform that is entirely part of the Westeros system, in addition to the Windows system. In order to avoid encountering possible constraints from Microsoft and to preserve the platform position of the user terminal, this is something that both Ygritte and Tinkerbayer must do."

Although Peter Bacall was drunk on technology, he was not ignorant of the strategic level of corporate considerations, Simon explained it this way and quickly understood. Since the young man had considered it to this extent, he would say no more.

7 months is 7 months, nothing more than a fight.

In the following hours, everyone began to speak freely about the imac plan, such as the R&D budget, team size, product positioning, etc. When the meeting ended, everyone realized that time was running out.

When the meeting was over, everyone realized that it was already after 6pm, and the meeting lasted for more than five hours.

Simon simply invited everyone to dinner again, which is why he left the Ygritte campus in Mountain View with the A and C girls and headed to the mountain house in Woodside on the other side of the city.

Inside the black Mercedes Benz ride.

The a and c girls sat on either side of Simon, with the c girl affectionately holding Simon's arm, her body pressed against the man's, her expression a little petulant, "Boss, you haven't been congratulating me."

Simon felt the fragrance of the woman around him, and asked with a smile, "Congratulations on what?"

Claire showed a small, half-hearted grudge: "Congratulations on being the third richest person on last month's Forbes list!"

"Well, congratulations, Miss Super Rich C."

"Well."

The c-girl was suddenly satisfied, her head still resting on Simon's shoulder, and quickly said, "Boss, I was there for b's wedding last Saturday, and d."

"Did you get the bride throwing flowers?"

Claire moved her head but didn't leave Simon's shoulder, seemingly disgruntled, "Do you want me to grab it, boss?"

"Yeah, too many women around, trying to get rid of some so I can find new chicks."

Claire finally reared her head to look at Simon, "Are you trying to get rid of me, boss?"

Simon reached out and put his arm around the girl's waist and patted her, "As long as you're all good, and remember to keep an eye on your wallets if you're looking for a boyfriend in the future, so you don't get scammed, and even more remember to sign a prenuptial agreement if you get married. I don't want to see myself help you guys make so much money and end up being cheated by another man, it's quite maddening."

Girl C pursed her lips slightly, "Boss, you're still so distrustful of the human heart."

Simon nodded, "Yeah, I don't believe it, so I don't force it."

The c-girl leaned back into Simon's shoulder and said carefully, "So, boss, what about you and the missus?"

"Me and Jenny, ah," Simon didn't shy away from saying, with a smile on his face, "Actually, I'm the passive one, the very passive one."

The c-girl blinked and suddenly smiled again as well, "I see."

Simon, of course, knew what Claire was thinking, shook his head slightly and smiled, "No, you don't understand."

"Of course I understand."

"No."

"Of course."

"......."

On the other hand, the A girl who quietly listened in, unconsciously also hooked up the corner of the mouth.

Back to Woodside's mountain villa, in addition to the early arrival of the team of waiters, d girl after work also rushed over, in addition to Simon just off the bus and jumped forward to ask for hugs, little Jenny, girl entered Stanford in 1991, not only in only five years to complete the undergraduate and master's studies, these two years also within instagram to become d girl's right hand man.

Only, already 23 years old girl, when we first met only 155 cm tall, is still so small.

Simon easily took little Jenny in his arms and also held up and weighed her, teasing: "Still not taller, just like, fat."

Jennifer Bree little koala-like hands and feet around Simon, while kissing Simon's face as she pampered, "It won't grow any longer, and my type also allows you to change your taste Simon, and, fat, actually more feel oh."

Simon pretended to be disgusted to avoid the girl who kissed his cheek and then leaned in for a kiss on the small mouth, came to the living room and left the girl on the couch before greeting the d-girl.

It was a long time coming after being away from America for half a month.

So this evening was a bit ridiculous.

Although the mouth pretended to dislike, but for the women who have been with him for many years, Simon still feel a little more. At the end of the night, also depicted in the c girl white naked back taught the women a small Chinese poem.

Jagged white rabbits, east and west. Clothes are not as good as new, people are not as good as old.

After some explanation, but also with a doohickey, after listening to the story teary-eyed little Jenny said to tattoo on their own body, Simon recommended the footboard, saying that all other areas belong to Westeros, forbidden to scribble.