Chapter 918: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Hearing that Eric complied with his request and asked all the existing board members of Apple to resign, Steve Jobs did not relax his expression and was still a little aggressive: "So, Eric, what about the technical authorization of the arm architecture?"

Eric knows exactly what kind of person Steve Jobs is. This kind of manipulative guy, if you respond with his emotions, you will be unknowingly influenced by the other party.

Leaning on the office chair, Eric shook his head and said, "Steve, I can't agree to this request. However, as a shareholder of Apple, Apple will need to use arm chips in the future, and Firefly Electronics will naturally not refuse."

The arm chip technology is related to Eric's layout for the entire smartphone era in the future.

Eric plans to let Qualcomm, Yahoo, Firefly Electronics, and Nokia form the current strategic pattern of Intel, Microsoft, IBM and other manufacturers, and completely monopolize the entire smartphone industry chain.

In order to complete this layout, it is a necessary prerequisite to prevent arm technology from spreading everywhere like the original time and space.

If the arm mobile chips deployed by the Firefly system can reach Intel's dominant position in the PC chip market, even if Apple wants to make smartphones in the future, it must purchase chips from manufacturers in the Firefly system.

In the past, the reason why Apple mobile phones accounted for more than 90% of the profits of the smartphone market, in addition to its main high-end accident, the fierce internal competition under the Android platform is also the main reason for the unprofitable manufacturers using this system.

As long as the Firefly system can master the core chip technology and operating system and realize its monopoly position in the smartphone market ahead of time, it can avoid the recurrence of that kind of fierce competition, or limit the competition to the most downstream manufacturers. In this way, the Firefly system You can safely enjoy the richest and most stable pieces of fat in the smartphone industry.

Steve Jobs is still a little reluctant: "Eric, if you refuse to open the arm license to Apple, Apple will file a lawsuit based on the evidence in our hands."

In the conference room, when they heard Steve Jobs' words, everyone looked at Jobs with strange eyes, and even Larry Ellison, who was sitting next to Eric, couldn't help but wink at his friend.

Eric simply and neatly expelled all the original board members of Apple, which has already helped them solve the biggest obstacle to controlling Apple, and now he is still staring at such trivial matters. Isn't this uncomfortable? Larry Ellison couldn't help feeling at this moment that Jobs was too ignorant and flattering.

"Whether or not to sue, that's your business," Eric said indifferently, "However, Steve, if I were you, I wouldn't waste time on this kind of thing, what you should consider now is How to bring Apple back to life. In addition," Eric looked around at several members of Apple's original board of directors and said, "Although they have left, Firefly Investments still has to get their seats and corresponding votes on the new board of directors. Right, there is no room for negotiation on this point, and you don't threaten me with words like this is a condition for you to take control of Apple, Steve, seriously, I don't care if you want to take control of Apple again. , On the contrary, everyone knows very well that in this conference room, the one who cares about Apple the most should be you. So, now, are there any other questions?"

Steve Jobs' face was cloudy for a while. When everyone thought he was going to run wild, Jobs still stared at Eric without moving.

He said again: "Apple doesn't have enough liquidity on its books, I need $300 million."

"Larry has raised a total of 2.5 billion US dollars. After buying Apple, there are 50 million left. I will say hello to everyone. This money will not be returned to investors. Firefly will invest another 50 million. You 100 million, you can spend it later."

"The release time of Yahoo's software on operating systems other than the Windows platform has been delayed, and it is very imperfect. I want Apple's operating system to receive the same treatment as Microsoft."

"I can't guarantee that Yahoo's software will be synchronized with Microsoft on Apple's operating system, but I'll tell them to improve if it's not perfect. Anything else?"

Steve Jobs thought for a moment and shook his head.

"That's it, I have to go to Oakland to see, let's go first." Eric said, nodded to the others, got up and walked outside the conference room, Larry Ellison made a call to Jobs With a wink, seeing that he didn't move, he got up helplessly and sent Eric away.

In the conference room, others also got up and prepared to leave. Jobs still sat on the chair like a wooden sculpture, watching Eric's figure disappear, but his eyes were a bit complicated.

With the rise of Silicon Valley, a large number of billionaires who rely on the high-tech industry to accumulate billions of wealth have emerged, and Atherton, northwest of Palo Alto, has gradually become one of the most well-known wealthy areas in San Francisco.

Near the evening, in a mansion in the lush and pleasant Atherton community, Caroline politely sent several cleaning company employees away and returned to the living room. Melanie was standing in front of a fax machine receiving a message from Los Angeles. The information passed over, but his eyes stared at a long solid wood table next to him.

"Mei, what are you looking at?" Caroline came over and helped Melanie sort out the information together, while curiously looking at the table along Melanie's line of sight.

"Look," Melanie pointed to the long table and said, "Most of the decorations in this house are in warm colors. Although this table is a pale yellow log color, it looks like a cool color."

Caroline was even more puzzled: "What's the matter, I don't think there's anything wrong with it?"

"Didn't our boss say that because cleanliness is getting worse and worse, he didn't want to live in a hotel before buying this house. Cleanliness is actually a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder," Melanie said: "You think about it, he saw this Wouldn't it be uncomfortable to have a table?"

Caroline smiled and said, "Eric is not such a harsh person."

"It doesn't matter if the boss is harsh or not, it's a disease, didn't some people say that the boss is very similar to Howard Hughes back then, Howard Hughes is because the obsessive-compulsive disorder brought more and more clean addiction, and in the end he couldn't even eat anything. , which is slowly dying."

A worried look appeared on Caroline's face, and she turned around the table and said, "Yes, it shouldn't be that serious, right?"

Melanie walked over with a smile, pointed to a spot beside the fruit plate on the table, and said, "This table may not be anything, but you see, there is a scratch here, although it is only a short one, it is very Obviously. Hehe, when the boss comes back, I'll show him, and then we can admire his fidgeting look."

Caroline picked up the fruit plate and placed it on the scratch, then raised her face and said to Melanie, "Mei, you are not allowed to play tricks on Eric like this."

Melanie looked at the fruit plate that had left the center of the table, with a sly smile on the corner of her mouth, but nodded and said, "Okay, I won't say it. However, I'm angry for you, that guy, obviously doesn't want to be responsible for you, It's abhorrent to keep you by my side."

Caroline sorted out the information in her hand, shook her head and said, "I, I don't want Eric to be responsible for me, and I'm not a child."

"Hey, poor little Carly," Melanie walked over and forcibly hugged Caroline, and then the two of them sorted out the documents that had just arrived from Los Angeles, which were all personal resumes. After Melanie and Caroline left Eric's assistant office to serve as his personal assistants, the two girls' original positions became vacant and needed to be filled.

The two women sorted and bound more than a dozen resumes at the table together, but Melanie suddenly took out another one, stared at the photo on the resume, and said, "This is so beautiful, Carly, for your own sake, I suggest sneaking away this resume."

Caroline reluctantly grabbed the resume from Melanie and said dissatisfiedly: "May, we can't do this, it's very unprofessional." Caroline said and looked down at the resume, it was A girl named Marissa Mayer, although only an ID photo, still looks very beautiful: "Well, she is just an undergraduate student in the Stanford Department of Computer Science, it should not meet Eric's requirements."

Melanie knew that this girl would not allow herself to mess around, but she picked up the resume again, stuffed it at the bottom of the pile of documents, and said, "Ms. Haines interviewed herself, if she doesn't meet the requirements, you Do you think you can show up here?"

Caroline didn't stop Melanie's small movements this time. The two sorted out the information together, and the sound of the car's engine was already sounding outside.

The two women greeted them together. Eric was already looking at the mansion with great interest. This mansion covering an area of ​​about one hectare was recently bought by Eric. On the one hand, with the development of Firefly Electronics and other companies, he will come to San Francisco frequently in the future and need a place to live. On the other hand, Eric really does not like living in hotels more and more, and his current net worth is enough to support He bought a house anywhere he was interested, so he had this house.

Melanie said hello to Eric, and took a few bodyguards to a small villa dedicated to security personnel on the west side of the manor. After briefly introducing them, Melanie returned to the main villa. , walked into the living room, and saw Caroline coming out of the kitchen with a pot of coffee in hand, Eric sitting leisurely on the sofa with his legs crossed, flipping through a document.

Eric looked up at Melanie and asked, "Is it arranged?"

Melanie nodded and glanced at the long table on the west side of the living room. The stack of resumes just now was still on it. She rolled her eyes and said nonchalantly, "Eric, Los Angeles has just applied for the assistant office position. I have sent the resumes of the personnel, do you want to take a look now?"

Eric took a cup of coffee from Caroline and followed Melanie's direction. He felt that it would be more convenient to read at the long table, so he nodded and got up and walked over.

Caroline looked at Melanie's face with some mischievous expression on her face.

Eric sat down at the long table and was about to pick up the stack of resumes when he accidentally caught a glimpse of the fruit bowl on the table.

Melanie noticed Eric's actions and almost burst out laughing.

Caroline glared at Melanie, and was about to say something to distract Eric when she noticed that his eyes fell on the small scratch.

Eric stared at the scratch for a long time, reciting it a hundred times in his heart, but he couldn't help but look up. He was about to say something, but he happened to notice Melanie's smile that he didn't have time to take back.

Seeming to understand something, pointing to the scratch, Eric asked, "What did you do?"

Melanie shook her head quickly: "Of course not, it was there."

"Didn't I tell the furniture here to be replaced with new ones, how could there be any flaws?"

Melanie was stared at by Eric, and involuntarily began to feel guilty, moved to Caroline's side, and continued to shake her head: "I don't know either."

Eric looked at the place where he had just sat, his eyes retracted, he landed on the fruit plate just now, then glanced at the resume in front of him, and said, "That's what you did, you are very courageous to dare to make fun of the boss. "

Caroline felt that Melanie looked like she wanted to run away, and quickly explained for her: "Eric, this scratch is already there, and I moved the fruit plate over there."

Eric probably already understood the ins and outs of the matter at this time, and said: "Well, Mei, call someone to bring a new table, and the table money will be deducted from your salary."

Melanie opened her mouth, and she felt the urge to cry.

How could the furniture in this mansion be cheap, just this table, maybe her salary for a few months is gone.

Caroline happened to have seen the purchase budget of all the furniture in this house, and she knew that the price of this seemingly simple long table imported from Germany was an outrageous $25,000, so she pleaded for Melanie: " Eric, please don't do this, this table is expensive."

Listening to the pleading in Caroline's tone, Eric saw Melanie's appearance of crying but no tears, so he didn't frighten her anymore, smiled, but didn't sit here anymore, picked up the stack of documents and got up, He said to Melanie, "Okay, I'll let you go this time. Next time you dare to tease me, you will definitely be deducted from your salary for a few months."

Melanie breathed a sigh of relief. Although she had been complaining about Caroline in private, in fact, due to Eric's increasing wealth and power, Melanie was in awe of the boss in her heart. Yes, she has more life experience than Caroline, who has a simple personality, and she understands what Eric's current power and status represent in this society.

This small self-defeating, Melanie involuntarily began to reflect, and vowed to never use these careful thoughts again. After all, she actually cared more about this lucrative and promising job than Caroline.