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In summary, there were too many issues with this approach, making it impossible for a normal person to solve problems this way. However, these companies were exhausted by the previous nine meetings, and the twenty to thirty companies could not reach a consensus or compromise.
But the pressure from Jiangnan Group was mounting. The board of directors was either forcing these companies to join the oo mobile game platform, but with a minimum revenue share of 20%.
The board's logic was simple: since other mobile companies could get a 20% share, if they couldn't, it was their failure, and all their senior management would be held responsible. Their year-end bonuses would be withheld, and they might even be fired. After all, there was no shortage of executives these days.
Naturally, the senior management was unwilling. They stated that they were about to launch their own mobile platform, where 50% of the profits would be theirs, which would be much better.
The board of directors would generally agree with this reasoning. However, upon learning that the alliance had been in discussion for nearly two months without even settling on a name, they became furious and told the senior management.
Either join the oo mobile game platform immediately, or come up with their own platform within a month. Thus, the senior management of these mobile companies were forced to come together. However, the previous disagreements could not be resolved, so they decided to try this approach of bypassing the disagreements and getting the mobile platform out first.
The thinking of these mobile company executives was simple: get the mobile game platform out first and appease the board's reprimands. As for how this mobile platform would develop and how the disagreements would be resolved, there would be plenty of time to figure it out later.
After all, this mobile game platform would still be usable for half a year after its launch, and the disagreements would not fully erupt within that time. Everyone would have at least half a year to resolve these differences.
This idea was not wrong, but the problem was, could a platform that hadn't even settled on a name in two months truly resolve so many disagreements with another six months?
Regardless, under the pressure of the board of directors, this unnamed mobile game platform was hastily established, and the mobile manufacturers immediately dispatched their programmer teams.
To ensure fairness as much as possible, the alliance required all manufacturers to send 10 programmers... This number was fixed, no more, no less.
This rule was naturally very fair and was soon implemented. However, if one were to investigate the participating manufacturers closely, it would be discovered that the 19 mobile companies that had already signed with the oo mobile game platform also sent their own programmers to participate in the development.
This seemed quite strange. Hadn't they already joined the oo mobile game platform? Why were they going back on their word now?
This was not strange at all. These mobile companies were still unwilling to accept the harsh terms of the oo mobile game platform, but they had to deal with the board's reprimands.
Therefore, they came up with a plan that would kill two birds with one stone. First, they would go along with the oo mobile game platform, at least to get it launched and satisfy the board.
On the other hand, they also joined the development of this new, self-owned platform. Once this platform was launched, they would immediately abandon the cooperation with the oo mobile game platform and switch to their own platform, achieving a seamless transition.
It had to be admitted that this was indeed a very nice idea, at least from the current perspective.
At this time, Mr. Huang was not concerned about what these mobile companies were doing. He was attending a developer conference, which was one of his last engagements in the United States. After completing these final engagements, Mr. Huang would return to China.
It should be noted that Mr. Huang had spent a considerable amount of time in the United States this year. He stayed in the U.S. from March to April, and then again from June to September, spending nearly half the year in this country.
However, this also indicated that Jiangnan Group's steps towards internationalization were accelerating. Jiangnan Group's profit focus was gradually shifting from the domestic market to the broader U.S. and international markets.
Let us focus back on this developer conference. As the name suggests, this was a conference for program developers.
Such conferences had emerged in the last 20 years or so. The first company to host such a developer conference was Microsoft. They gathered all the companies developing software for the Windows system, announced some incentive policies at the conference, and released new Windows systems.
Through these developer conferences, Microsoft further consolidated its developers, and the effect was very significant.
However, it was Apple that truly popularized these developer conferences. After Apple launched the iPhone, the annual Apple Developer Conference became a major event in the technology industry. Developers of Apple phones and systems would come to the United States, receive guidance from Apple, experience Apple's high-tech baptism, and then dutifully develop various programs and software for Apple, giving 30% of all revenue back to Apple, making them filial children.
And now, Mr. Huang also had a group of such filial children. However, these filial children were still too weak, and most of them did not have their own companies. Even if they did, they were small companies or studios. More than 90% of the attendees participated in their own names.
In fact, these attendees were not even invited by Jiangnan Group. Jiangnan Group, through various professional channels, informed all relevant individuals about this developer conference. There were no restrictions, and anyone who wished to attend just needed to make a reservation in advance and cover their own travel expenses.
There wasn't even anyone checking tickets at the entrance of the entire conference. Even a passerby who happened to want to go in and take a look could successfully attend this conference.
For example, Huang Xingwu was one such passerby who wandered in by chance.
As his name suggests, he was a Chinese national. However, unlike international students like Hao Jianguo, Huang Xingwu was simply visiting for tourism. His current full-time job was as a teacher at a tutoring center in China. Due to his excellent teaching performance, he was rewarded with an opportunity to travel to the United States. Thus, Huang Xingwu excitedly came to the United States alone for a tour.
Initially, Huang Xingwu was traveling with a tour group. However, because their tour bus stopped at the same station as two other tour buses, and both of those other tour buses were also filled with Chinese people, Huang Xingwu became confused.
As a result, after all three groups finished their tours, and after a chaotic boarding process, Huang Xingwu did not board his own tour group's bus, but instead boarded the bus of another group of Chinese people.
He didn't even realize he had gotten on the wrong bus until the bus stopped in front of a large public theater. Huang Xingwu followed the crowd into the theater and found that the entire theater was packed, and most of them were foreigners. Only when he, a small group of Chinese people, were sitting in one section did Huang Xingwu realize that he might have gone to the wrong place.
Well, no one stopped Huang Xingwu in the middle, asking him to show his credentials or anything.
Naturally, Huang Xingwu wanted to leave immediately. However, he had no sense of direction, and he was absolutely incapable of finding his way back in this foreign land. Therefore, Huang Xingwu decided to wait there first. After the people here finished their meeting, he would see if he could get help from his Chinese compatriots to find his way back to his hotel.
Huang Xingwu was not interested in the conference itself until the keynote speaker walked onto the theater stage and appeared before everyone. At that moment, Huang Xingwu was completely stunned.
This was because the keynote speaker was too famous. He was so famous that Huang Xingwu, a humble teacher, had seen his photos passively several times and knew his identity clearly.
He was, of course, China's richest man, our handsome and dashing Mr. Huang He!
When Huang Xingwu saw his namesake appear on stage, he was dumbfounded. He never expected that he would accidentally meet the esteemed richest man in China during his trip abroad.
This was an opportunity that countless people in China yearned for but could never encounter in their lifetime, as China's richest man felt so distant to ordinary people. Moreover, due to some social traditions in China, the richer the richest man, the more he liked to conceal his whereabouts and move among the common people. Except for some high-end gatherings and a very few large-scale events, it was difficult to see any wealthy magnate who could appear on the rich list.
If you don't believe it, you can state here who the richest person you have ever seen in your life was.
Ahem, after seeing Mr. Huang appear, Huang Xingwu completely abandoned the idea of leaving. He had to attend the entire conference, after all, such a bizarre opportunity was unlikely to be encountered a second time in his life.
Moreover, seeing Huang He in person was much more impressive than traveling to the United States. If he took hundreds of photos with his camera and showed them off back at the company, he would be the most popular person in the entire company.
Well, at this point, Huang Xingwu only had the intention of using photos of Mr. Huang to show off. He had no idea how much of a significant impact this conference would have on his future life.
Finally, Mr. Huang also began to speak eloquently on stage, and he started with a sentence that made everyone's jaw drop: "Dear guests, since you are all here today, it is your greatest fortune."
"Let us set a small goal for ourselves in the future, which is to earn 100 million yuan in the next 5 years!"