Reinventing the Millennium

Chapter 901 If you don't hand it in, then I won't either

In the second week of July, with the official release of Yike Mars2, the competition in the global mobile phone industry is becoming increasingly fierce.

In other words, the competition among giants in the global mobile phone industry has become extremely fierce.

On July 7, the second day after Mars11 was released, Motorola and Samsung announced the release time of their new phones.

Motorola is July 7 and Samsung is August 20.

It is worth mentioning that the two giants will soon have more specific news, quite similarly said that the new opportunity adopts the touch method of the capacitive screen.

So far, the world's top five Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and LG have all come to an end. In addition, HTC, which is a partner with Microsoft and has a strong foundry strength, and the two dark horses leading the emerging track, Yike and Apple, have a total of 8 manufacturers to work together in the field of touch-screen smartphones.

The intensive release of new products will surely drive more manufacturers to participate in the competition from top to bottom.

On the same day, Apple responded to Nokia and will file a corresponding lawsuit in the US court.

Consumers see products, and manufacturers calculate patents.

Only in the early hours of the morning in Silicon Valley, Schmidt, who flew to Europe and pulled people to meet with Nokia, sent the latest contact news.

——Nokia asked Yike to pay up to 5 million US dollars in patent fees, and it was paid in one lump sum.

According to Schmidt's analysis and speculation on the phone, a lump sum payment can probably be negotiated in installments, this 5 million US dollars...

What does this number equate to?
It is equivalent to biting off the fattest piece of meat from Yike, and compressing the smooth operation of Yike's liquidity to the greatest extent.

In the past half a year or so, Yike has sold more than 700 million Mars units, not counting the subsequent share of customers, because most of them are the purchase price of operators, and the profit of hardware alone is more than 7 million US dollars.

In addition, the costs of research and development, acquisitions, and publicity are not included.

And, for Fang Zhuo, this is equivalent to half of the ice core production line.

Oh no, with the improvement of the manufacturing process, the price of the production line has also risen, but it is equivalent to half a production line.

Fang Zhuo's reply to Schmidt was very simple: "Nokia is opening its mouth like a lion. It is impossible. Such patent fees are pure blackmail, and there is no need to talk about it."

"Nokia's attitude is relatively firm. I have an appointment with Kallasvuo tomorrow." Schmidt said, "You can see his attitude tomorrow."

Fang Zhuo thanked Teacher Shi for his sincere efforts, and was a little guilty of perfunctory treatment of him.

After just a few hours, Schmidt brought Kallasvuo's original words.

——"This is the patent fee that Nokia is asking for. If Yike is unwilling, the court will turn this figure into $10 billion."

Schmidt was afraid that Fang Zhuo would get angry with him, so he promised not to change a word. However, he didn't hear the expected anger.

Fang Zhuo just said calmly: "Nokia is shamelessly blackmailing. If this is the case, there is no need to talk about it. See you in court."

"Eco's Mars has a good prospect. The payment of 5 million US dollars seems a lot. If it can be divided into two or three years, I think it is not unacceptable. The most important thing is to solve the worries of patents." Schmidt gave made his own suggestion.

Even, Schmidt said with great certainty: "If the funds in Yike's account are tight, Google can lend funds."

He doesn't doubt Mr. Fang's personal wealth, but the individual belongs to the individual, and the company is the company, sometimes they are two different things.

Fang Zhuo never expected that Mr. Shi could talk to such a level, he couldn't help being very moved, and refused: "Schmidt, it's not that we don't have bargaining chips, I'm waiting for Nokia to enter the capacitive screen, he wants 10 billion US dollars, then Let him get it!"

Schmidt persuaded him a few more times on the phone. Hearing Mr. Fang's resolute attitude, he had no choice but to consider working harder with Nokia.

When the phone call ended, Fang Zhuo put down his phone and said to Yu Hong with emotion: "Schmidt is willing to ask Google to borrow funds to pay us patent fees. It seems that I think Schmidt is too bad. "

"Well, I don't know much about the affairs between you Iron Triangle." Yu Hong frowned, "I don't even know who the other corner is."

Fang Zhuo didn't talk about things that he sometimes didn't know very well, and gave his opinion on Nokia's request for sky-high patent fees: "We need to invest more in research and development, apply for more patents, and sell more products."

Also, attract more shorts.

"Now that the competition is so fierce, Nokia wants to take away our working capital, complete the patent authorization of the capacitive screen, and launch a touch-screen mobile phone without patent troubles." Yu Hong sighed, "If we go through the legal process, Nokia will Is it really worth the time sacrificed for this?"

It is not impossible to bypass the touch screen patent, but it will definitely take more time.

Nokia has already slowed down a step in its products, but should it continue to slow down because of such entanglements?
"Who knows, if we do our best, even if we are fined more patent fees in the end, tomorrow's Yike will be stronger than today's Yike." Fang Zhuo has evaluated Nokia many times on different occasions, and he doesn't want to do it again. Think about your opponent.

Yu Hong nodded slightly. She believes that this year's Mars2 will definitely be better. Judging from the rival products that have been seen so far, they are not as good as her own.

"Oh yes, why is there no movement from HTC?" Fang Zhuo remembered another thing, "Didn't I ask us to come to us at the press conference? Let someone remind us of the patent fee and see if HTC can give us a Nokia The patent fee of [-] million yuan is no good, and [-] million yuan is also good."

Yu Hong: "..."

You are blackmailing, right? Yike has sold more than 700 million products, and HTC has not seen the splash yet.

Fang Zhuo knew what Xiaoyu was thinking: "Maybe we shouted, maybe they paid it back, let's talk about it, there have been enough lawsuits recently, one thing more is worse than one thing less, everyone just quietly make products."

Yu Hong took the order to leave, and she planned to urge LG Electronics along the way.

Among the eight powerful companies entering the market today, Echo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Apple all have their own patent authorizations, and Motorola, which is about to release products, is also in contact. Generally speaking, everyone wants to compete with their products.

As for the other three companies, Nokia was arrogant, LG tried to resist, and HTC seemed to hesitate.

When the news from Yike was transmitted to HTC, as a treasure island company, Wang Xuehong, the head of the company, was surprised by the development of Yike on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was also hesitant about the way to deal with the patent fee.

After repeated internal discussions, Wang Xuehong planned to lead the team to Silicon Valley to have a chat with the person in charge.

However, just as she was about to set off, news broke out in the industry.

The negotiation between Nokia and Yike broke down on the patent fee. Yike is unwilling to pay the fee demanded by Nokia and will continue to seek a legal solution.

When Wang Xuehong heard the news, her original decision was suddenly overturned.

— If you don’t pay, then I won’t either.

Soon, HTC gave Yike a firm reply, willing to carry out cross-licensing of patents, and did not recognize the way of paying patent fees.

Fang Zhuo was extremely surprised by this, and he was unwilling to hand it in at all?Could it be that you also have a backup?

This is really embarrassing.

On the golf course, Fang Zhuo welcomes a new friend who works at the ITC in the United States. He originally just wanted to remind about the ban on sales of LG Electronics.

Sometimes, it's not as cruel as he thinks.

　Stay up all night and write another chapter.

I've been quite busy recently, and I have to wait until the middle of the month to add monthly tickets, and I'm almost not busy by then.

　
(End of this chapter)