Super Island Tycoon

Chapter 363: Chapter 362: Phone

Appearance? It’s a transparent phone.

Hardware? Its camera capabilities rival those of a DSLR camera valued at ten thousand dollars, and its ROM and RAM have reached numbers that Apple’s current technology cannot achieve.

System? The Elf Phone system is regarded by researchers as the world’s only true intelligent system, and Jiang Cheng even won the Turing Award for it. Can Apple compare?

No matter what they do, Apple cannot compete with Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company in terms of phone products.

So now, the main focus for Apple is on devices like tablets and laptops, and their research department is in a frenzy trying to develop innovative technology.

However, when it comes to phones, a device people cannot be without, Cook has always been obsessed. Although it can’t compare to a transparent phone, he has never let go of the phone department, which is foundational to Apple Company.

So he came up with a plan, tentatively contacting many department heads at Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company, attempting to entice them to leak valuable technology from Cosmic Umbrella with hefty rewards.

The initial results were quite disappointing for Cook. However, just a few days ago, he received great news: someone had changed their mind and, after receiving partial payment from Ge Guo Company in advance, leaked some critical parts of Cosmic Umbrella Technology’s Virtual Reality Device and Transparent Phone technology to Apple Company.

This news took Cook by surprise, and with these technologies, Apple Company felt much more confident about regaining its former glory.

After a few days of research, they found they could modify the Transparent Phone technology for use in the next generation of iPads. Now, the only thing missing is the new graphene preparation technology. If they can find the key points of that technology, Apple’s researchers are confident that they can produce groundbreaking ”innovative” products.

So Cook has been fixated on this, constantly trying to obtain the new graphene preparation technology from some executives at Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company.

However, he was completely overthinking it.

Because the new graphene preparation technology is extremely complex, even knowing the technology does not guarantee the ability to mass-produce graphene.

Moreover, the companies globally focusing on the graphene preparation field have all been suggested by Jiang Cheng for acquisition by Zhang Manlin. Therefore, it’s simply impossible for Apple Company to make transparent phones or transparent tablets with graphene.

Just as Cook was brainstorming with his subordinates on how to contact some executives from Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company to use unscrupulous means to acquire the graphene preparation technology, a phone call suddenly came through to Cook’s phone.

1313131313? FUCK, what kind of number is this, how can there be such a strange number?” When Cook saw this phone number, he had a feeling that something was amiss.

The number 13 is considered extremely unlucky in Western culture, more so than the number 4 in Huaxia culture. So when Cook saw this phone number, he couldn’t help but curse.

Answering the call, Cook directly asked in English: ”Why do you have such a weird phone number? Who are you? What do you want from me?”

Hearing Cook’s words on the other end, Jiang Cheng coldly laughed and then said, ”President Cook, long time no see. I’m Jiang Cheng, the chairman of Huaxia’s Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company. By the way, is your company interested in selling? Our Cosmic Umbrella plans to penetrate the elder phone market. I think your Apple phones are quite suitable for our Huaxia senior citizens. As for pricing,

a hundred RMB should be about right.”

Elder phone market?

Pricing around a hundred RMB?

Upon hearing Jiang Cheng’s words, Cook couldn’t help but hear the ridicule in Jiang Cheng’s tone, and he felt a bit embarrassed and angry: ”Mr. Jiang Cheng, I don’t know why you called, but I don’t have the time, so I’m hanging up first.”

”Oh, Mr. Cook, aren’t you very concerned with our company’s technology? After obtaining the critical technology for the Transparent Phone, you must be interested in the new graphene preparation technology, right? Why don’t we discuss it, how about that?” Jiang Cheng said.

”Oh?” Cook’s expression turned extremely grim. Upon hearing Jiang Cheng speak this way, he immediately knew that Jiang Cheng was aware of Apple’s improper acquisition of commercial secrets.

Discuss the new graphene preparation technology? Cook certainly knew Jiang Cheng was joking, and he angrily said: ”Mr. Jiang Cheng, I don’t understand the point of making such a joke. Why don’t you just tell me your purpose for calling?”

Jiang Cheng chuckled on the other end and casually said: ”Here’s the thing, Mr. Cook, your company stole our technology, shouldn’t there be compensation?”

”Compensation? How much?” Cook was a little taken aback. He hadn’t expected Jiang Cheng to just want compensation over the phone. He always thought Jiang Cheng was going to inform him that Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company would take Apple Company to court.

Regarding technical infringement, Apple Company isn’t afraid because they haven’t yet released products based on Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company’s technology.

As for compensation, this surprised Cook, as everyone knows the speed at which Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company makes money; Jiang Cheng, as the chairman, shouldn’t be bothered by such a small amount of money.

”Just two hundred billion US Dollars then. That’s not much. As long as you compensate us two hundred billion US Dollars, you can directly use the technology you’ve stolen, and Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company won’t pursue it,” Jiang Cheng said casually.

”Shit, two hundred billion US Dollars? Why don’t you just come and rob our company?” Cook cursed outright in anger, after all, two hundred billion is still in US Dollars.

But from Jiang Cheng’s tone, it seemed as if it was just like two hundred US dollars, such a trivial number.

This enraged Cook beyond measure. He naturally knew that Jiang Cheng uttered this number without any sincerity, and that Jiang Cheng had no intention of having a proper discussion.

Even though your Cosmic Umbrella Technology Company is now the overlord of the mobile phone industry, nearly monopolizing it, can your technologies really be worth that much?

At least from Cook’s perspective, even though those technologies are critical for Apple’s future, they definitely wouldn’t be worth more than ten billion US Dollars, let alone two hundred billion US Dollars.

Moreover, the current situation at Apple Company is not optimistic; even the available liquid assets on their accounts don’t reach two billion US Dollars, let alone two hundred billion.

Jiang Cheng’s release of the Elf MIN1 phone and subsequent actions have been devastating to companies like Apple Company, which rely on the mobile phone industry, engraving a massive reduction on their assets manifold.