The people at Apple were in a terrible mess. They had invited Jobs over for two reasons. Firstly, he was the genuine ancestor, and his current standing in the world was exceptionally high. Especially with the recent hype from various tech self-media, Jobs had earned the title of the "American Huang He."
That's right, Jobs' most obscure nickname now was "American Huang He," used to praise the immense and astonishing achievements of Jobs in technology and electronic products. After all, not everyone could be called "American Huang He."
Secondly, it was Jobs' profound influence within Taoism. The conversation between the two reporters was not wrong; the current Jobs was not merely a former CEO of Apple who had retired from the front lines.
He was a genuine Heavenly Capital True Person, a registered True Person in the Jade Butterfly lineage of Longhu Mountain's Heavenly Master sect in China, and the undisputed second-in-command of American Taoism, holding a supreme position.
Currently, prominent figures in America had sparked a trend of joining Taoism. And Jobs, who had escaped pancreatic cancer through cultivation and was still alive today, with a ruddy complexion and appearing to have decades left to live, was their greatest idol and goal.
After all, once one possessed wealth and status, gods like the one in Christianity became less important. Being able to live one more year was the most crucial thing, and cultivation of immortality happened to fulfill their wish.
Therefore, Taoism now held an extremely high status in America, protected by many influential figures, and many members of the four major families had joined. Even the nominal state religion could not shake Taoism. Thus, Jobs' attitude was very important, and unexpectedly, it led to such a statement.
Of course, even if Jobs didn't openly support them, he didn't oppose them either. Jobs' personal appearance at the press conference was the greatest support.
As for the two issues mentioned by Jobs, Apple was actually well aware of them. Therefore, they had no intention of selling and developing the market through normal channels, but rather planned to employ other, more direct means.
Thus, shortly after the release of Apple's "i-terminal," an accidental privacy breach case occurred. A video of a middle-aged woman and two men was posted online. After investigation, it was found that someone had likely stolen the video from the woman's terminal and then sent it.
Moreover, the method of theft was not through network intrusion, but by first stealing the person's terminal, and then manually accessing the video data from the hardware.
However, after investigation, the court deemed that the entire five-进制 terminal system had serious security vulnerabilities that would greatly compromise user privacy. To protect users' personal privacy and security, the court issued an injunction against the five-进制 personal terminal system, stating that new approvals for the five-进制 terminal system would be temporarily suspended until Jiangnan Group successfully resolved the privacy leakage crisis. xxs壹贰
Good heavens, they pulled out the big guns right from the start.
Without going into further detail, as soon as this news broke, the stock price of Jiangnan Group plummeted by dozens of percentage points. What, you say Jiangnan Group isn't listed? Oh, then there's nothing more to say.
Regardless, with human assistance and the inability of the five-进制 terminal system to be sold, Apple's terminals had almost the entire market, and even competitors ceased to exist.
Therefore, Apple optimistically released its market forecast for the next quarter, believing that Apple terminals would at least capture the entire American market and hold around 30% market share globally.
However, half a year later, the prosperous era Apple terminals had expected did not arrive. The popular products in the market remained those based on Jiangnan Group's chips and the five-进制 system. Apple terminals sold less than 2 million units in six months, becoming an almost complete joke.
Apple didn't even need to investigate; European media outlets conducted the investigation for them and published the results.
According to the investigations by these European media outlets, the core reason for the abysmal sales of Apple terminals was that Americans were unwilling to purchase Apple products.
Over the past six months, Americans had either decided to postpone their terminal replacement plans and continue using their old terminals, or they had gone to great lengths to purchase terminal products manufactured in other countries, rather than buying Apple terminals.
There were many reasons, but the fundamental reasons could be summarized as follows.
Firstly, although Apple terminals were indeed available, the ecosystem surrounding these terminals had not been built.
The so-called ecosystem referred to the various applications developed around Apple terminals.
As of now, Jiangnan Group's personal terminals had over 1.2 billion applications available. While many of these applications were very rudimentary, and many were simply version updates, the staggering number of 1.2 billion still told all users how rich the user experience provided by Jiangnan terminals could be.
However, Apple, up to this point, had less than 10,000 third-party applications in addition to their own 200-plus official applications. This completely deprived any user who had purchased an Apple terminal of the user experience.
More than 90% of the software that was previously commonly used on personal terminals could no longer be used after switching to Apple terminals.
It wasn't that American local third-party application developers were unwilling to support their own personal terminals, but rather they lacked the corresponding technical talent.
Apple used a completely new system, a binary system, and its logic was entirely different from Jiangnan Terminal's five-进制 system. The programming languages used were also different.
Jiangnan Group's five-进制 system logic language was Chinese, while Apple's programming language remained English.
Currently, almost all programmers who specialized in developing applications for personal terminals used the Chinese language as their development language. Asking them now to write binary programs in English was something they couldn't do in a short period; they would have to learn from scratch.
This required a significant amount of time and a much larger amount of cost. But the problem was that Apple was unwilling to bear this cost itself, instead expecting those third-party software development companies to bear it.
Remember that back then, Jiangnan Group, to promote its own personal terminals and Chinese language programming,
stopped directly issuing oo Network stock as rewards to all companies that developed third-party applications for Jiangnan terminals. Later, these companies that received oo Network stock became billionaires, with unlimited rewards.
In addition to this, they established Jiangnan University specifically to train a large number of students, who then went on to train Chinese language programmers in batches.
Yet, Apple Group wanted to be completely stingy, expecting third-party companies to handle everything themselves. How was that possible?