467: Chapter 467 The Fruit of Hesitation

Everyone present nodded, and he turned his gaze to Wang Hua:

"Wang Hua, you just said that people are resigning over there. How many are ready to come to us now? Can you have the headhunters poach more core personnel?"

Wang Hua was also well-prepared: "It has already been handled. Currently, several core teams such as window management, display frameworks, and application compatibility testing meet our requirements. After screening, a total of 26 people fit our needs. These are senior engineers who have participated in the full iteration of versions 4.0 ~ 4.4, and their technical skills are very solid. These people are likely to be made scapegoats, so we have already had the headhunters take action."

"Not enough!"

Shen Fei nodded and grandly unleashed his 'money power':

"Take advantage of this window of opportunity and poach everyone you can. Max out the salary and benefits, but there is one condition: they must all come to China. Also, besides Google, if people from other competitors are willing to come, as long as their skills are solid, take them all. We can afford to support this many people."

After giving these instructions, Shen Fei tapped the table, his tone carrying a hint of a warning:

"Don't let your guard down just because Google is in a sorry state right now. Even if an enemy only has 1% of their health bar left, they can still bite you if they counterattack. Especially since they have the United States behind them; this is a technological war, and they won't let Google fall so miserably. Remember, being kind to an opponent is being cruel to yourself. When it's time to strike, you must never leave any room for hesitation."

Wang Hua immediately noted it down: "Understood, Mr. Shen. I will send out more headhunters this week and strive to have the first batch of people on board by the end of the month."

After finishing this task, Shen Fei looked at Liu Zhihong again:

"The system iterations need to speed up even more. Full-screen Display 2.0 and even 3.0 must be developed as soon as possible. We don't have to release them yet, but we must have them."

"Rest assured, Boss. Version 2.5 is already developed and is smoother overall, it's just that our competitors are too incompetent, so we haven't released it yet. We won't forget the tactics of our ancestors."

"Li Qing, you don't need to actively ride on Google's coattails for publicity, but you don't need to hide anything either. For news from Vivo and Oppo, release what should be released. After all, they have just started transitioning from Android, so help them with some publicity."

"Huang Tianya, the investment department should keep acting. If there are any good projects, invest in them immediately. There hasn't been any movement from the United States for so long, and I suspect they are plotting something big!"

Everyone nodded.

They were all very clear that the more urgently overseas companies banded together, the more it showed they were afraid, but Transsion must not become arrogant because of this. Moreover, this revealed a message: overseas entities have clearly realized that no single country or enterprise can sanction the industry; they must unite. However, Transsion would not let them succeed easily; they must be made to clearly realize that even if they unite, they are just a bunch of small fry.

After the meeting ended, Shen Fei received another message from Mr. Adebayo.

Sales in the Africa market have increased by 130% year-on-year, with the average price of mobile phones rising from $70 to $85, and the sales of Smartphones are getting higher and higher. The overall market share has reached 75%; one company has captured three-quarters of the entire Africa market.

Meanwhile, at the Apple Inc. headquarters, because of the news on the internet, Cook once again took a transsion s5 Pro out of his drawer.

Used for comparison was the Apple 6; this phone had not yet been released. But it didn't seem to have much comparability with the transsion s5 Pro. After all, the Apple 6 still had a traditional 16:9 screen, with wide foreheads at the top and bottom, and a circular home button in the center. Although it was a classic design that Apple had used for several generations, compared to the Transsion next to it, it instantly appeared outdated and bulky.

After Cook lit up the screen, the overall look was very comfortable, and the phone even automatically switched to the United States mode based on his input method habits. This kind of detail really made one feel respected.

Looking at the Apple 6, although the entire team had been trying their best to change some of the flaws from the Steve Jobs era, some classic "features" [bugs] were still retained; in short, using it would make some markets feel less comfortable.

He took out the next-generation Full-screen Display plan pre-researched within Apple again; it had no physical buttons, a narrow bezel, an elongated screen ratio, and even the arc of the rounded corners was detailed.

The more he looked, the more his brows furrowed. After all, this was no Apple Full-screen Display concept phone; it was more like a youth version of the transsion s5.

He had repeatedly emphasized that Apple must stick to its own originality so it could go far, but those designers simply wouldn't listen, as if their aesthetics had to lean towards Transsion. This made him a bit curious.

Seeing this, he was reminded of some words Shen Fei had told him when he visited the industry: good design always shares a common understanding.

Which generation of the previous S2 and S3 wasn't imitating Apple? This made him very angry. Now, summarizing these news items again gave him an inexplicable feeling, as if Apple's design drafts had been seen by someone, and the plans had been preemptively registered. And their designers could only modify them based on Transsion's plans?

But that was impossible. Not to mention that there were no such things as reincarnators or transmigrators in the world, Apple Inc.'s confidentiality mechanism was the ceiling of the industry.

Perhaps it was just a coincidence? Or perhaps it was the inevitable direction of industry development, and Transsion just happened to move faster than everyone else.

The biggest possibility was still that Transsion had poached too many of their researchers during the economic crisis, leading them to bring out a plan ahead of time. After all, he had thought about this question a lot, but there was still no answer.

Just as he was spiraling into a dead end again, his secretary interrupted his thoughts.

"Mr. Cook, Ive and Federighi have arrived!"

"Let them in."

Cook casually put the design draft and the transsion s5 into the drawer next to him.

Jonathan Ive and Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi also saw Cook's action of putting away the phone when they pushed the door open to enter. But they weren't surprised, because they also had one at home.

"You should have both seen the news about Google splitting Android, right?"

"We know." Federighi nodded, "Sundar Pichai is truly panicked this time; he would rather give up control than fail to bind the manufacturers together!"

On the surface, it's about upgrading the ecosystem, but in reality, it's targeting our Taishan System. If Android's historical baggage is too heavy and each company has its own hidden agenda, it will be difficult to form a true synergy in the short term.

"Whether it's reasonable or not is their business."

Cook tapped the table, his eyes regaining that hint of shrewdness.

"What we need to care about is that once the Android camp catches up, a large number of models will hit the market. And our iPhone 6 is entering the mass production stage next month, but it still has a traditional screen. Transsion will not let us off; our products will definitely appear on various PPTs labeled with the name of 'Competitor A'."