"Steff, this is what you want, and I finally bought it."

After the office door was opened, a middle-aged and elderly man with engineering all over his body came in and said to Steve Joe Booth behind the desk. This was Grignon, a senior manager and senior engineer in charge of radio communications in Apple, and also the confidant assistant of Joe Gang.

While speaking, he pushed a box in front of him.

Above the pure white box, a huge Letong logo was printed in gold, and below is a rendering of a mobile phone. The boxes on both sides were also printed in gold with lophones.

This is the highest configuration version of lophones, which is priced at $988 in the United States, and it has multiple functions such as 16g of super memory and fingerprint recognition unlocking.

Since its launch in North America, although the appearance has not changed much, some of the newly upgraded functions have attracted many people's preferences. Lophones are also highly sought after in North America. If you want to get a machine, although it cannot be said that it is as in short supply as before, it is not an easy task.

Hearing Grignon's words, Qiaobus raised his head and stared at the packaging box on the table with an obscure and complex gaze in his eyes. After a long time, he reached out and opened the seal outside the packaging box, took out the phone inside, and pressed the power button to light up the screen.

During the process of turning on the computer, he kept playing with the phone in his hand. The smooth feeling was passed through the rubbing of his fingertips to the depths of his heart, like the smooth skin of a beauty, making people addicted to it and unable to extricate themselves.

Even the proud leader of the Qiao Gang had to admit in his heart that the lophones felt the best among all the phones he had seen.

"Is this their new work?" Qiao Bus tried the fingerprint unlocking function with great interest. While playing, he murmured, but his voice was very soft. I don't know if he was asking Grignon or talking to himself.

After a moment, he threw the lophones aside and looked up at Grignon. Grignon, who was standing opposite him, could already see the clouds gradually spreading on his face, making Grignon's heart slightly sag.

He had long been accustomed to Qiao Booth's moody and irritable personality. After all, genius is always a bit strange than ordinary people.

But even so, it doesn't mean he won't be nervous.

"Why have their products been launched in new models, but our products still cannot be solved?" Qiaobus looked at Grignon and said in a deep voice. Although his tone sounded relatively calm, Grignon, who is familiar with him, had already smelled a little before the storm came.

However, Qiao Buss' words still made him silent. After a long time, he showed a wry smile on his face: "Steve, you also know how long it took us to make an iPhone project before. The previous project is destined to be unable to continue. Everything has to start from scratch. How can this be completed in one go?"

It was a long time ago that Apple wanted to enter the field of mobile phone communications. It started discussions after proposing the idea of ​​telephone in 2001, and to the formal establishment of the project in 2004, during which Apple designed and developed three different versions of iPhones in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Then it designed and developed six complete prototypes, each with its own hardware, software and design features. Such a huge plan and the project is so complex, and the manpower and material resources are also expended. Moreover, Apple's profits in other aspects are also declining year by year, so this iPhone project almost often threatens the regular operation of the entire company.

For all this, many top Apple engineers were transferred to the project, so other work was involuntarily forced to slow down. Apple could almost be said to be a desperate bet on the iPhone project.

However, just as all their designs were gradually becoming clear and the first prototype after the integration was about to be launched, the lophone made an extremely gorgeous appearance at this critical moment, making all their achievements almost vanish in one go.

Almost the whole Apple was shocked about the design of the lophone because it has similarities with the iPhone project they are doing in many design concepts, but it is more beautiful, more perfect, and has a smoother system. Compared with it, even if the iPhone project is finally completed, it still has a huge gap with it, which makes everyone feel frustrated.

More importantly, in 2005, Lotong had already registered all registered patents including appearance, completely cutting off Apple's pace of progress in this project.

Therefore, even though she was extremely angry, Apple could only helplessly launch Apple TV products at the new product launch conference that year to replace the iPhone that had been dead, and then on this project, she started over again with depression.

As Qiao Booth expected, Apple TV was originally a project he was not optimistic about. After it was launched, it did not receive a good response and became a completely niche product.

"I know this is difficult, but in some aspects, have we all achieved results? For example, our Osx system is ready-made? Don't give me these excuses to cover up your incompetence!" Qiao Boss said with a gloomy face and shouted at Grignon without mercy.

"Jobus, are you sure you want to use the Osx system? What exactly does this system full of bugs rely on to compete with the Android system used by lophones? So far, we have not solved many program conflicts." Faced with Qiaoobus's rebuke, Grignon was not angry, but said to him in a reasonable manner.

"Then find a way to solve it for me. What I want to see is the result, not to complain to me incompetently here!" At this time, Qiao Bus was already a little unreasonable.

"Sdev, we have 6 prototypes. It is actually very easy to launch a product, but do you think that if we just create a product casually, we can really compete with lophones? What about your pride of striving for excellence? Or are you now succumb to the pressure of shareholders?" Seeing that Jobbos was on the verge of anger, Grignon had no intention of fear and still responded loudly to Jobbos without any weakness.

Among Apple now, there are probably no one else who dares to argue with Qiaobos in this way except his confidant Grignon.

Outside the office, the employees were listening to the constant quarrels, and they couldn't help but shrink their necks in fear, with a wry smile on their faces. Such a scene has been happening almost every day in the past two days, just like they kept playing it looping, and they were almost getting used to it.

Hearing Grignon's words, Qiaobus looked at him angrily. He didn't like being in the company. Someone challenged his authority so much, but under his intimidating gaze, Grignon had no intention of retreating at all, and insisted on looking at him.

The two of them stared at each other like big eyes, and no one wanted to take a step back. Even the air in the office seemed to become sticky, full of gunpowder, which was like rolling up their sleeves and starting to dry without saying a word.

But after looking at each other for about three or four minutes, the anger on Qiao Bus's body gradually dissipated, and he calmed down and restrained his momentum first. The feeling was like a deflated ball.

"That's right, you're right. I'm under great pressure now. Now the sales and profits of the company's products are falling across the board, and the demand for the main products has been greatly reduced. The company urgently needs a representative fist product to open up the market and create new profit points." Qiaobus said to Grignon, and even his tone became calm.

"I know, Stiff, I know you are under a lot of pressure now, but when lophones are already doing so perfectly, we cannot make products that surpass it or compare with it in a hurry." As Qiaobos's confidant, why didn't Grignon know about this, so he could only speed up the pace of research and development as much as possible, which is also a kind of support for Qiaobos.

"Well, I'll leave this to you. Please try to speed up the speed!" Qiaobus said bitterly to Grignon. At this moment, he could only place his hope on him.

The two of them exchanged some core issues of the iPhone project for a while before Grignon left the office. He could imagine how much pressure the Qiaobos was under from shareholders at this time. The project team he led must come up with results as soon as possible, not only for Qiaobos, but also to narrow the gap between him and his opponents.

After Grignon left, Jobs sat there alone for a long time. After a while, the phone suddenly rang without warning. He picked up the phone, not knowing what the other side of the phone said, and could only tell that his face was not good at this time.

He hung up the phone irritably, and Jobs sat there with a depressed look on his face. After a while, he was bored and accidentally saw the lophones he put aside. He hesitated for a moment. He held the lophones in his hand and slowly began to play with them.

After putting down his proud thoughts, Jobs began to seriously face the communications company that produced such a perfect mobile phone. He vaguely felt that in the future, this company that has grown rapidly will be a big rival to Apple.

But now, he can only watch the other party continue to grow unscrupulously, but he has no ability to curb this powerless mood, let alone how depressed he is...

The second update today!
Chapter completed!