I Am the President of the University

Beautiful country, Cupertino, California.

Apple Park, the Apple spaceship headquarters building, was designed by Steve Jobs during his lifetime and was put into use in 2017.

Cook sat in his office, his head lowered and looking at the table, motionless.

He seemed to be in a daze, or thinking about something.

Looking along his line of sight, there was a mobile phone with a chrysanthemum logo printed on the back on the neat table.

"Hoo~"

He slowly exhaled a stream of turbid air, as if this could channel the irritable air out of his chest.

He stretched out his hand and played with the phone.

After a while, a sigh sounded in the office.

"What a devilish technology, what a pity."

Today is October 3rd. Apple's stock price continued to fall as soon as the stock market opened. As expected, it will fall by more than four or five points today.

US$200 billion has evaporated in the past two days.

What does this mean?

It shows that investors in beautiful countries are not optimistic about Apple.

And the culprit behind this turmoil is...

Cook looked up at the YouTube interface on the computer screen. What was playing on it was an evaluation video. In fact, he had played this video on a loop several times.

"Two hundred billion US dollars can buy billions of photonic screens."

Speaking of this, Cook couldn't help but frown.

The big boss of Guanghua Semiconductor is actually the president of a university.

It's normal for a university to conduct scientific research, but it's weird to produce it on its own after doing it.

Licensing patents directly to major mobile phone brands, as long as each mobile phone is equipped with a photon screen, the other party will receive money.

There is no need to do anything, no need to build a factory, no need to recruit workers, and no need to be responsible for production. Isn’t it nice to just sit back and collect money?

He really couldn't understand what this guy named Chen Hao was thinking!

Why did you refuse the money delivered to your door?

In this world, are there really people who don’t even need money?

After complaining in his mind for a while, Cook made a phone call.

"Dr. Howard, I would like to know to what extent the laboratory's research on photon screens has progressed?"

Dr. Howard is in charge of Apple's internal top-secret laboratory, which develops world-leading technologies!

The laboratory gathers all the talented engineers in the United States, and many of the technologies used by Apple were born here.

As for this laboratory, the outside world only knows that it exists, and doesn't even know its name. (The author’s bacteria cannot be found)

The other party was silent for a moment, and then said discouragedly:

"I'm sorry! The knowledge designed into this photon screen technology is too complicated, and we can't crack it yet."

Upon hearing this, Cook suppressed his anger and asked:

"Then how did Guanghua University in China develop it? This university is not even ranked in the top 100 of our most beautiful countries! And our laboratory has gathered the world's top geniuses, and you tell me that it can't be cracked?"

"I can only say that...the other party's material technology is already ahead of this era."

Howard sighed, understanding Cook's current state very well. After all, this is a major crisis for Apple!

He also had countless troubles in his mind. How did the other party develop the photon screen?

"Photon screens have been proposed by scholars in the scientific community a few years ago, but this is a conceptual technology. All the scientists in the world cannot solve this problem in terms of diamond materials, and Sakura Country, which is the leading country in this area, also needs 5 It takes more than 20 years to break through. So... the emergence of this technology in China is incredible. "

After talking to Howard on the phone for a while, Cook hung up and turned around in his chair to think alone.

Could it be that the other party has obtained alien technology?

Otherwise, it cannot be explained why this technology was born in a Chinese university!

Thinking about Guanghua University's recent big move in chips, the optical core is even more outrageous than the photon screen.

But now, he actually had a feeling.

Cook said something that he couldn't believe: "Can they really make an optical core?"

Photon screen + optical core, what a fart!

You can go bankrupt right where you are!

He regretted it at this moment!

At first, I thought that as long as the sanctions were imposed on the chip, the other party would definitely have to beg for mercy if it didn’t have a chip.

But I didn't expect that it would force the other party to unite and work on chips.

China is a magical country. When there are no foreign enemies involved, there will be a lot of internal fighting.

But once a foreign enemy appears, unprecedented unity will break out.

"Boom!"

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Please come in."

In came his secretary Sophia.

"Boss, several directors of the company are preparing to hold an emergency board meeting in the afternoon."

As for the reason, of course it is because the company's stock price has been impacted by photonic screens in the past two days.

Cook nodded expressionlessly and said, "Okay, I understand, is there anything else?"

Sophia shook her head and was about to turn around to leave, but was stopped by Cook.

"The phone number of Chen Hao, the president of Guanghua University, will be sent to me later."

"ok."

In a blink of an eye, it’s afternoon.

Apple's impromptu board meeting has also ended.

Cook left the meeting room expressionlessly and dragged his tired body back to his seat.

The purpose of this board meeting is to hope that Apple can place an order with Guanghua Semiconductor as soon as possible. As long as Apple mobile phones are also equipped with photonic screens, all problems will naturally be solved.

As for the entity list of the Ministry of Commerce of the United States, just lift the chip blockade on Huaxing.

They don't care about any confrontation between Zhong and Piao, as long as their own interests are not affected.

It’s just that they seem to have lost their collective memory. Huaxing’s chip sanctions were collectively promoted by these capitalists.

Now in order to increase the stock price, they are thinking of lifting sanctions in exchange for Guanghua Photonic Screen.

Simply shameless.

As for Cook, of course he's fine.

These major shareholders prefer Cook to Jobs.

Cook is an excellent CEO. In his hands, Apple has become the company with the highest market value. At the same time, it is no longer a proud leader. With popularity, it becomes more like a company.

There is nothing to say about Jobs' ability, but in terms of management, he was a rough manager with a notoriously bad temper. If you don't meet his requirements, you'll scold him every minute. On the contrary, Cook pays great attention to details and is patient.

But this does not mean that Cook’s requirements are low.

Cook likes to ask questions to his subordinates. If you can answer the 10 questions he asks you every time, then he will ask you 9 questions every day for the next year. But if you get one of the answers wrong, he will increase the number of questions to 20 or 30.

This is a man who single-handedly changed the entire corporate culture of Apple!

Cook has a nickname called "The King of Supply Chain."

His comprehensive thinking and layout capabilities for supply chain management and production operations are exactly what Jobs and other design and product geniuses do not possess.

This is one of the important reasons why Jobs and the company's board of directors selected him to take over Apple in the "post-Jobs era."

Even Steve Jobs once said: "Cook is the best employee I have ever hired."

Some people conclude that there are two major factors in Apple's success, namely Jobs' aesthetic + Cook's values.

But what’s interesting is that on Zhihu in China, or the entire Internet, if you ask Cook/Apple how they are, you will only come to two conclusions:

1. Cook is Apple’s sinner;

2. Apple will go out of business next month.

A company that has become a global technology giant must have something special about it.

It's not sad to be defeated by the other party. What's sad is that you don't acknowledge the other party's strength, but instead find a bunch of reasons to criticize Apple and Cook.

A man who can lead Apple to become stronger and stronger is actually being looked down upon?

For the strong, even if they are not on the same path as the other party, they should still have the respect they deserve.

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Ludao, Bailu International Hotel.

Chen Hao had just finished breakfast when a phone call came from Meiliguo.

Looking at the number, he muttered in confusion:

"From the beautiful country? Who is it?"

Although there is no note, it may be the phone number of an acquaintance.

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Without thinking much, I connected.

What he didn't expect was that the caller turned out to be Apple's Cook.

"Hello Mr. Chen Hao, I am Cook, CEO of Apple, and I want to talk to you..."

ps: Please recommend me and ask for monthly votes! There are so few tickets recently, I’m crying...

It’s really difficult to code in winter. Fortunately, the update was not postponed until 12 o’clock today, which can be regarded as a small improvement! I'll try to update as much as possible tomorrow!