Chapter 3627 Am I Qualified?
Jobs! Lin Feng frowned. Jobs is not Lin Feng's guest. In the previous list of advertisers, there is no 'Apple'.
"Why, Mr. Lin doesn't seem to welcome me as an uninvited guest!" Jobs walked up with a smile.
"No, welcome, this is an open auction, anyone who comes, I welcome!" Lin Feng smiled slightly, temporarily put aside the doubts in his heart, and said with a smile.
"Haha, that's good. This time we 'Apple' didn't get an invitation letter, so it's not easy for me to appear on the red carpet before, but I am particularly interested in this advertising auction, so I have to be an uninvited guest. Fortunately, Mr. Lin is very magnanimous and didn't pursue it, otherwise I'm afraid I would be kicked out." Jobs laughed.
"No, Mr. Jobs is the president of 'Apple', but our predecessor is famous in the IT industry. The company he created, 'Apple', is famous all over the world. Who dares to drive Mr. Jobs away!" Lin Feng said with a faint smile.
Hey! This is not normal! There is something strange! Many CEOs were surprised, whispering to each other and exchanging information. Soon, everyone roughly understood the reason for the somewhat frozen atmosphere between the two.
Jobs's 'Apple' will launch the first mobile phone in the history of 'Apple' at the beginning of next year. It is said that it will be a brand new mobile phone that will create a new world. At the same time, Lin Feng also announced that he will launch a brand new mobile phone at the beginning of next year. The two sides are facing naked competition when launching new mobile phones at the same time. In this case, Jobs came to the 'Second World' to advertise. Isn't this a slap in the face? When the two sides jointly launch a new mobile phone next year, it turns out that the advertisement of 'Apple' is published in the most critical advertising section of the 'Second World'. Isn't this annoying for Lin Feng?
Now there is a good show to watch! Many CEOs were secretly happy. They rushed here. Finally, they can watch a good show. They want to see how Lin Feng will respond to Jobs' strong offensive. Is it to allow Jobs to spend money to advertise in the 'Second World', or to directly use Lin Feng's identity as the chairman of the 'Second World' to reject it. Regardless of that, there will be something interesting to watch today.
"Mr. Lin, am I eligible to participate in the auction tonight?" Jobs asked with a smile.
Lin Feng looked gloomy. Jobs' move really caught Lin Feng off guard. If allowed, with Apple's financial resources and Jobs' determination, it would be no problem to win the final advertising position. At that time, every time Lin Feng logs into the game, he will see Apple's ads, which is not a big deal. After all, it is impossible to publish all the ads of his company in his company's ad space, which would not make money. Moreover, this overly family-style management and paternalistic support will also make the company lack competitiveness. It's just that next year, when both parties jointly launch new products, they will see each other's ads on their own game websites, which is really annoying. As for being robbed of the advertising position by Nokia, Lin Feng doesn't care at all. Nokia is already old. Since defeating Motorola and becoming the throne of the mobile phone market, Nokia's technological innovation has slowed down. Now Nokia is more fond of changing the shell and putting old wine in a new bottle. Unlike before, when new products were launched repeatedly and the company became the market trend leader.
But now, if Lin Feng refused, wouldn't today's auction become a joke? Moreover, 'Second World' is a listed company. Listing in the United States is subject to the review of the Securities Regulatory Commission. Even if Lin Feng is the chairman of the company. But if Lin Feng makes a decision that is unfavorable to the company, the Securities Regulatory Commission has the right to review it, and can even strongly request Lin Feng to stop participating in any management of the company, and even make a decision to delist 'Second World'. Once 'Second World' is delisted, Lin Feng must come up with enough funds to recover the stocks in the market. And with the current stock price of 'Second World',
Lin Feng needs to come up with at least hundreds of billions of dollars, and it may cause 'Second World' to encounter difficulties in raising funds in the future. Even, it may be difficult for the country's Ministry of Commerce to operate in other countries' markets.
So, Jobs's move was very powerful and caught Lin Feng off guard.
Jobs smiled. Although he seemed to have the upper hand at the moment, he was not so happy in his heart. The reason why he came here was because he was very worried about Lin Feng's company. Lin Feng's 'Phantom Technology' was about to launch a new mobile phone, which made Jobs very worried. According to some of the information he got, this new mobile phone of 'Phantom Technology' might be very amazing, it might be really epoch-making, and it might have something in common with 'Apple's' mobile phone.
According to Jobs' analysis, if both parties launched mobile phones at the same time, Lin Feng's 'Phantom Technology' mobile phone might be more popular than 'Apple'. For the future of 'Apple', Jobs had to come here and choose to fight back against Lin Feng at this advertising auction. He hoped to gain an upper hand before both mobile phones were launched on the market. He was not like the other company presidents present who had no knowledge. He had a detailed investigation on the game population of 'Second World', the daily game time, and the money that players invested in the game in a year. These were all investigations he made at his own expense, and the results of the investigation made him feel terrible.
‘The Second World’ is an endless gold mine. Although ‘The Second World’ only has games and computer hardware now, these two are the most indispensable. Games are the best entertainment for humans to kill time, while computer hardware is an indispensable tool for games. Lin Feng has perfectly combined these two. He even began to impact other fields. For example, ‘Microsoft’ was killed by Lin Feng in its most dominant field - the operating system market.
Although ‘Apple’ now occupies a very unique position in the notebook computer market, this market is now also slowly infiltrated by Lin Feng. The ‘Ultrabook’ developed by Lin Feng occupies an increasingly important position in the notebook computer market. ‘Apple’s’ profits have been directly affected, and Jobs has to open up new markets for ‘Apple’. Mobile phones are what Jobs values. Of course, in addition to mobile phones, there is another product under research. But now, mobile phones are the top priority.
Since mobile phones are the top priority, Jobs will never allow the mobile phones he developed to be suppressed by Lin Feng again. Last time the two sides jointly launched the MP3 player, Jobs was severely slapped by Lin Feng. If it weren't for Apple's counterattack with copyright, which made Lin Feng finally choose to withdraw from the MP3 player market, Apple would have suffered a big loss. However, there is no song copyright in the mobile phone market. In this regard, once Lin Feng suppressed it, the billions of dollars of research and development expenses invested by Apple in recent years would be completely lost.
So, being a little mean is nothing. Everyone is just serving their own masters. And in the business world, it is common to play tricks. In this battlefield, success or failure is the only thing that matters, not means.
"Mr. Lin, am I qualified?" Jobs asked again with a smile.
Lin Feng took a breath and regained his mind.
"Mr. Jobs is interested in tonight's auction, that's the best. Please sit down! Come on, bring a chair to Mr. Jobs!" Lin Feng said loudly.
Jobs smiled and waited for the staff to bring a chair, and smiled and sat aside. Although it was very abrupt to suddenly have an extra chair, Jobs didn't care at all. He was totally unaware of the frequent stares from all around. These surprised looks were like nothing in Jobs' eyes.
"Beautiful Melissa, I bid 100 million for 3 years." Jobs smiled and raised his hand.
As Lin Feng's secretary, Melissa naturally knew the trouble that Jobs's move had brought to Lin Feng. She smiled sweetly immediately.
"Thank you very much for Mr. Jobs' generous bid, but tonight we are only auctioning the advertising rights for one month. Mr. Jobs, please make a new bid?" Melissa smiled and used the advertising time to limit Jobs's bidding.
Jobs smiled. Since he came, it was naturally impossible for him to bid only for one month's advertising price.
"Mr. Lin, a month's advertising space is difficult for an advertiser to have any effect. Most of our companies advertise, and a contract will be signed for at least half a year. Otherwise, one month or two months may not have any effect at all. Except for the competitive advertising price, such as the Olympics and the 'Super Bowl', one-time advertising will be carried out. You only auction one month's advertising, which is really insincere! I think it's better to bid for a year." Jobs protested.
Lin Feng frowned and was about to refute.
"Yes, I think one year is better. One month is a joke, it's clearly teasing us!" Mitsubishi Motors President Nishioka Joe shouted loudly.
"Yes, what effect can a month of advertising have? It's clearly teasing us! Such an insincere advertising auction requires us to be at least at the level of presidents to participate. This is too insincere!" The other presidents protested.
"If it's insincere, we'll leave!" Many presidents even stood up and turned to leave.
For these presidents, today's auction may have nothing to do with them. But it's still okay to make a scene. As for why they do this, it is in line with an old Chinese saying - watching a play is not afraid of the stage being high. It's so interesting that Jobs and Lin Feng are fighting against each other. They don't want Lin Feng to avoid the battle and let a "war" dissipate. If that happens, it will be really boring.
Of course, there is another reason for them to do this, that is, Lin Feng is too young. So young, but so successful, this is too enviable! Envy, jealousy and hatred are not exclusive to ordinary people. CEOs also feel jealousy, and even more so! (To be continued)