Hammer of Technology

Immediately afterwards, under the passionate music, the young man swept away the previous decline, and came to a new company for an interview with a newly bought Huawei mobile phone in his hand.

"The last question, our programmers need to be able to respond to the supervisor's request 24 hours a day. Can you accept it?"

"Of course there is no problem!" The young man said with high spirits.

As soon as the screen changed, the young man was formally employed. The first thing he did was to say to his mobile phone in a secluded corner of the company: "Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, I will entrust my work group to you!"

"Meow, Xiaoyi wants to fight with the master!" On the screen of the new phone, a kitten clenched its paws tightly.

Sure enough, from then on, young people will always be the first to reply to the task WeChat issued by the supervisor in the WeChat work group, no matter how late it is.

Young people encounter difficulties in programming: "Xiaoyi, Xiaoyi, there are bugs here!"

"Meow, Xiaoyi wants to solve the problem with the master!" Soon a piece of code appeared on the phone, the young man touched the notebook with the phone, the code was directly uploaded to the computer, run, ok!The only problem is that Xiaoyi did not remove the last source of the code. Of course, this is not a problem for the owner, so he removed the forum URL and the task was completed.

At night, the young man was playing Glory of Kings. In his promotion match, the jungler Li Bai had a record of 0:9:2, but he kept spraying his concubine dish. The young man smiled coldly and said: "Xiaoyi, Xiaoyi, help me humiliate that jungler Li Bai."

"Meow, Xiaoyi wants to advance and retreat with the master!"

The chat area of ​​the game became lively in an instant, and all the channels began to refresh the screen just right. The Chinese language was so beautiful that it didn't contain any dirty words or typos, but it could irritate people to the point of embarrassment, which directly made Li Bai feel ashamed.

Standing there typing non-stop but never being able to keep up with the speed of the young man, even the enemy on the opposite side began to worship Yu Ji's language organization ability, wishing to express some opinions from time to time, but was drowned in Yu Ji's trash talk During the storm, the four of them worked together with all their strength, and they managed to turn the tide against the wind and turned defeat into victory.Not only was he promoted successfully, but a backhand report was accepted, and Li Bai deducted 7 points.

One day, the young man ran into a young girl from the company next door on the elevator. Her every frown and smile were so beautiful, and the feeling of falling in love at first sight was so disturbing. Even when he was working, his mind was full of the girl's image...

Finally, by chance, he added the girl's WeChat, but the young man who has never been in love doesn't even know how to get along with the girl.

"Xiaoyi, Xiaoyi, I want to pursue her, but I dare not."

"Meow, Xiaoyi and Master share what they want!"

The next day, the guy suddenly received a WeChat message. After looking at it, the last sentence of more than 200 chat records was sent by a girl, "Are you free tonight? Let's have dinner together!"

The video speeds up from here, with praise from the leaders in career and various medals; in love, the girlfriend is like a bird, smiling like a flower every day, but at the end of the video, when the boss of the company wants to give the young man a promotion and salary increase, the young man looks confident Slapped a resignation letter on the boss's face...

An offer from a top company in the industry lies quietly in the mailbox, and there is a particularly clear line of words on it: "Our company does not need to reply to the superior's message within 24 hours."

The screen finally went dark, and a kitten crawled out from the darkness, lay down, shook its head, its little paws twitched twice, and a line of large characters appeared above it: "Hongmeng Intelligence, change your life and mine."

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After watching the entire video, Huang Yunjian finally laughed. Cisco should not be the only one in a hurry, after all, Cisco doesn't make mobile phones.Although this is obviously an urgently produced video, the content of the expression is already very clear.

You can think of it with your feet, this video must be only the first issue.

Smart applications in March are definitely not limited to mobile phones, future smart cars, smart homes, and the entire ecology...

He seemed to have seen the desperation of many people.

Just at this time, the conference system on the computer sent a notification tone, Huang Yunjian immediately calmed down and clicked to accept.It was obvious that the meeting was over, and the opposite side was no longer the scene of the headquarters meeting, but facing Luo Zhuoke alone, and the enlarged face obviously carried a lingering sense of depression.

"Okay, Huang, please tell Mr. Ning Wei that Cisco can give them all the semiconductor data they have, but we need to obtain the official authorization of the turbulence algorithm. This is our bottom line."

"Okay, Mr. Zhuo Ke, I understand. In addition, I just saw some interesting content on the Internet. I believe you will also be interested. Why don't I send it to you now?"

"Oh? Interesting?"

"Yes, very interesting, I believe it will make many people nervous, but there is no English version yet, you may need a Chinese translator."

"Okay, then send it over!"

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It's hard to say whether Huawei's friends are nervous at the moment, but when this video began to be forwarded frantically, it immediately attracted the attention of countless people.

The hot discussion about March on the Internet has not dissipated, and the expectant and worried have each occupied their own territory, causing more controversies.Ericsson's statement already put those who are vigilant and worried about strong artificial intelligence into a passive position. Huawei's sudden release of the video directly added fuel to the fire.

After all, there are really a lot of fans in March.

"Huawei's official announcement today is a bit interesting, because March is a cat, and Xiaoyi has also become a cat. Brothers and sisters, the peripherals you want are here."

"Is this video serious? So in the future, the WeChat of the Hongmeng system can really be controlled by artificial intelligence?"

"Let's make an irresponsible guess, is it possible that such a work group in the future will be controlled by March except for the leader after a period of time?"

"Fuck, just look at this function, not to mention that the next generation of Huawei can support 4G, even if it can only support 3G, I will buy one!"

"The point, brothers, haven't you noticed that Xiaoyi can help the master complete the programming? Although I don't know what function it realizes, but if Xiaoyi can find function codes on the Internet by himself, what are you guys who know nothing about? What are the patchwork, copy-paste guys doing?"

"It's not just programmers. Are we not worthy of using Xiaoyi for sales? No matter if it works or not, grab one first. Even girls can handle it. I don't believe that Xiaoyi can't help me get customers."

"Suddenly thought of a joke. In the past, people often said in the group that everyone in the group except you is my alias. So does this count as technology to make the joke come true?"

"As a fruit fan, I think Huawei is not very authentic. Why do you want to compare it with Apple? The most important thing is that if artificial intelligence really controls everything in the future and wipes out human beings, Huawei will be an accomplice!"

"Hehe, don't be so sour upstairs. It seems that Apple's deliberate Siri retardation is intentional. If Apple developed March and used it on Siri, wouldn't you use Apple?"

"Huawei, my tm name is Lu Bin. I will wait for you until 12 o'clock in the morning today. If I fail to grab it, you can figure it out yourself!"

All kinds of comments grew wildly this night, and soon rushed to the hot searches on major platforms, such as Zhihu, Weibo, Hupu... If you click on any forum, you will not miss this promotional video of Huawei.

There is no doubt that this clip is not an exquisite video, mastering the traffic password...

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260 Prisoner's Dilemma Standard Model

Huang Yunjian's judgment was correct. Huaxia suddenly released such a promotional video in the middle of the night, and it happened not long after the exhibition had just ended, which indeed made many friends and businessmen suddenly unable to sleep at night.For example, a tycoon in the industry directly commented on this video in his circle of friends, "The cards are going to be reshuffled again, everyone, let's play and cherish it."

This sentence probably expresses the aspirations of countless practitioners.After all, everyone knew how well the high-end mobile phones of the Huawei brand used to be in the market.At that time, the biggest shortcoming of Huawei's high-end series of mobile phones was probably the poor intelligent voice system.Although Siri is also jokingly called artificial mental retardation, there is no doubt that if mental retardation is also divided into grades, it is obvious that Huawei's Xiaoyi has gone further on the road of mental retardation than Apple's Siri.

But now this video clearly tells everyone that Xiaoyi and Ning Wei are going to fit together in March, a complete fit, and even borrowed the image of the signature pastoral cat directly.Of course, the most terrifying thing is the sentence at the end of the video, "Hongmeng Smart, change your life." This means that after the new phone is released, will this set of intelligent systems be gradually extended to the entire Hongmeng ecosystem?

Really, this night will be the most entangled problem for countless Chinese mobile phone industry leaders. If they can't complete the intelligent transformation of their own mobile phones, then whether it is necessary to continue to optimize their own Android system.

Of course, domestic manufacturers still have a choice, but as an Android provider and Apple, which is more closed, it is probably in the worst mood at this time.Especially for Apple, one can predict the mood of the managers of the world's top giant enterprises at this time.

In fact, at the exhibition, when March turned out, everyone had already thought that there would be such a thing, which is why they couldn't wait to form an alliance to put pressure on Ningwei to open up or restrict the development of the smart platform. It is no longer a problem that can be solved by racing against time, but can only rely on its own advantages to buy time to deal with the upcoming competition.

But what I never expected was that the efficiency of the Huaxia people was not only reflected in the infrastructure, but even things like cooperation were completed with lightning speed.In the eyes of Westerners, it will take at least a month to complete this level of cooperation and coordination of the interests of all parties, right?Who would have thought that in just two days, Huawei has released all the promotional videos in such a grand manner.

To be honest, Flash shouldn't have this kind of speed, which has even overturned everyone's cognition.After all, the alliance under construction is being stabbed in the back by European counterparts, but now the Huaxia people have begun to push the technology to reality for deployment, and the partner is Huawei, the most threatening technology company to them...

Tricky, very tricky.

Take Apple as an example. You must know that Apple’s product conferences have been complained about for several years without new ideas that have caught the public’s eyes. The influence of the Spring Festival Gala in the technology industry has been weakening. A grand occasion watched by billions of people.This also makes Apple mobile phones have begun to consider taking the cost-effective route to ensure that its ecology has enough influence.

At the same time, Apple’s car project, code-named Titan, is also in a dilemma. The continuous resignation of executives two years ago made Apple’s car launch unprecedentedly difficult. At the same time, the process of finding suppliers and partners was not smooth because of some requirements put forward by Apple. For example, there are two well-known battery manufacturers in China that both decisively rejected the request to join Apple's car battery supply chain.

Although these do not prevent Apple from being the most profitable technology company in the world, it is undoubted that its products can still sell well all over the world as long as the price is slightly lowered. Control is enough for many consumers to pay their premium.

But for Tim Cook, the sense of crisis has grown stronger.That's how Nokia, which was so popular back then, withdrew from the stage of history.The emergence of Apple has changed people's expectations and product logic for future mobile phones, and then a bunch of manufacturers armed to the teeth with Android, waving bricks in conjunction with Apple, ran forward and knocked down the once giant company...

It's not that Nokia didn't think about struggling during this period, but whether it was the Saipan era or the WP era, a bunch of younger brothers were guarding next to his broken body. A brick swung over.In the end, even if Microsoft took action, it failed to rescue the mobile phone business of this level of overlord. Now this Finnish company can only rely on the network equipment business to hang its breath.

It seems impossible to restore the glory of the past. In the 5G era, Nokia's technology is not leading, and its market share is suppressed by Huawei, Cisco, Ericsson, Samsung, etc., and the mobile phone business has long since disappeared. ringing.

Just think about the history of Nokia's decline, and Tim Cook will feel cold sweat on his back.

The waves of the times rushed over, and I really wouldn't discuss it with anyone.What's even more frightening is that the technology that disrupts the industry appears in China. Cook doesn't even dare to think about what will happen if those wolf-like manufacturers in China use the new technology collectively?If there is a chance to pull Apple from the altar, these manufacturers will definitely spare no effort. Apple, which still maintains a market value of more than ten trillion yuan, represents the highest profit margin in the industry.

At this time, Tim Cook, who is in the office of the president of Apple Headquarters in Silicon Valley, is looking at the report on these, the report on the market ownership rate of Apple's mobile phone and the maintenance of Apple's ecology.Hardware and software have always been complementary.As a closed mobile phone system, tens of thousands of developers can have the enthusiasm to help Apple build a software ecosystem only if it has enough market share.

Why did Microsoft's wp ecosystem finally invest a lot of resources but still fail to develop?It's not just because the market share is too low. Even if Nokia is pulled into the chariot, it only has less than [-]% of the market share, and it is impossible to maintain the enthusiasm of developers.From the consumer's point of view, who would consider buying a mobile phone without a lot of software available?

This is why Apple has also begun to consider the cost performance of mobile phones.Market share cannot be guaranteed, and without enough customers, it is impossible to maintain sufficient profits in the value-added field of software applications. Without sufficient profits, it is impossible to attract developers who design high-quality software and applications for ios interfaces. Entering the step of pursuing cost performance, the high-end brand image that took 20 years to build may collapse...

At the beginning, I chose to implement the Titan Project and started building cars, in order not to make the products monotonous, and to grasp the context of the times, so as not to be like Nokia, when the mobile phone product is eliminated, it will immediately disappear from everyone.But now that the car has not yet been built, it has encountered the emergence of strong artificial intelligence. For Tim Cook, it is not just about smartphones, because the strong artificial intelligence on the next generation of trams The application may be more extensive...

So, what to do next?

"Bang bang..." There was a knock on the office door, interrupting Tim Cook's contemplation, looking up, his secretary walked in with a piece of paper.

"Mr. Cook, this is a fax from Huawei, please have a look."

"Oh, give it to me."

Tim Cook took the fax, nodded at his secretary, and watched his secretary turn and leave, before the Apple president set his sights on the thin A4 paper.

This should be regarded as a not-too-formal cooperation invitation letter. There is not much nonsense, and the meaning is very clear. It can be roughly translated as: Brother, you should have seen our promotional video. I believe you have the same idea in your heart if it can be realized. Number, look, we are friends in the mobile phone market, and now you want to build cars, we provide a complete set of smart car solutions, if we join forces, what about Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Tesla, the two of us Trample them all underfoot!As long as we can achieve mutual technical trust, the development path of the two century-old technology companies can be clearly planned in minutes.

Of course, in addition to this, this cooperation letter also politely mentioned another possibility. The reason for finding Apple is that although the two parties have competition, they still have a basis for cooperation. If Apple is unwilling to cooperate, Huawei can only choose to transfer to Apple. Cooperate with other friends.

For example, help Google upgrade their assistant, and then other Android phones will not only be able to help consumers make a phone call.

If it is added that the future intelligent platform may provide intelligent transformation services for Android applications, think about how much impact it will have on Apple mobile phones when so many Android manufacturers access the future strong intelligent system.On the other hand, if Apple's car is excluded from Huawei's upgraded smart car solution, even if Apple's car is launched this year, how can it compete with the next generation of cars that may achieve L5 autonomous driving?

Don't think about negotiating with Ning Wei to find it unpleasant. Dr. Ning Wei is a pure research scientist. The two parties have signed a contract on specific market behavior, and our professional team will discuss it.In short, we got this kind of good opportunity for rapid development, and we immediately thought of Apple, because Huawei has always felt that although Apple has always been a competitor, it is also a respectable high-tech enterprise, but we also advise you Apple not to be unreasonable. If you believe that the so-called alliance and friendship will really unite and buy time for Apple to catch up, then I'm sorry, when the allies choose to betray for their own interests, it also means that the horn of the global siege of Apple may sound at any time .

Especially dear Mr. Cook, Ericsson has turned his back on him and stabbed him in the back, and Cisco has come to him for peace. Your so-called alliance is really fragile...

So the win-win cooperation is still waiting for us to cooperate with other friends to slowly squeeze the living space of Apple, and it depends on your choice.

After reading this fax, the first word that popped up in Tim Cook's mind was "Prisoner's Dilemma".

Really, Tim Cook never imagined that he would face such a standard prisoner's dilemma model one day.

As stated in this invitation letter to explore the possibility of cooperation between the two parties, the alliance's joint campaign against the three major functional platforms may indeed slow down the opponent's speed, but the disadvantages are also obvious.Cut off the way of cooperation, the first damage is indeed Apple.According to the performance in March at the exhibition, if it is used in the field of smart phones and smart cars, it will indeed start to develop cross-century products in a very short period of time, which will directly threaten the sales of Apple products, and then affect Apple's sales. Closed ecology.

For Google, Microsoft, and Intel, they can last longer, and they do have the motivation to abandon Apple and cooperate with Huawei.

For example, Google, their Android system has been serving the Google architecture from the beginning to the end. If Google chooses to cooperate with Huawei, it can easily integrate the Google architecture into the Hongmeng system. Then other mobile phone manufacturers use Hongmeng or Android. For Google, the impact may not be as great as imagined, of course, the premise is that the two parties can continue to cooperate.

Likewise if Microsoft could also betray the alliance.Thinking of Microsoft's Cortana also turning into a cat and merging into the windows system, it will further reduce Apple's PC market share. The relationship between Microsoft and Intel is enough to keep the two sides on the same footing to a certain extent, especially In the era when Moore's Law is already on the verge of failure due to the quantum Suichuan effect, perhaps Intel engineers are also looking forward to the contribution of strong artificial intelligence to the breakthrough of semiconductor technology...

What's even more frightening is that Tim Cook knows very well that these large multinational technology companies have the ability to influence higher-level decision-making.

Now the question is, can he reject Huawei's request for mutual technology credit, can these temporary allies really resolutely reject this request after receiving the olive branch?In the so-called modern management system, the position of president and CEO is for shareholders, and the priority is always to take care of the interests of shareholders, or the interests of the capital side. Tim Cook finds it difficult to believe the so-called allies They can really resist the temptation strongly.

Especially when his eyes fell on the last sentence on the fax, the translation of what he saw was probably: "This invitation is judged and issued by March through the data model it established, and the copy is also completely from March , the most important work done by Huaxia Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., the only partner at present, is to stamp a seal on the contract."

This sentence made Tim Cook feel broken...

There is a reason why the model of the Prisoner’s Dilemma is so standard. Is the behind-the-scenes man the kitten who is showing its teeth and claws at the exhibition...

Sitting at his desk in his office, Tim Cook pondered for a long time before picking up the phone.

"Hey, Sundar, why don't we talk frankly, if our alliance is established, will Google completely open your lab to Apple?"

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261 When Love Lost to Reality

Tim Cook spent about half an hour and made four phone calls. He never mentioned the fax he just received, but he could feel that friends and merchants haven’t received similar faxes. This should be from sincerity in artificial intelligence.

Of course, this is just a feeling. Maybe the friends and merchants have also received the sincerity from Huaxia Artificial Intelligence, but they can act naturally.But no matter what, now Tim Cook needs to make a choice. This choice may determine the rise and fall of Apple. He doesn't think he can really bear the pressure and responsibility that comes with it alone.

So after hanging up the phone, Tim Cook picked up the landline on the desk and issued an instruction: "Avery, inform all board members that an online board meeting will be held in half an hour, and everyone must not be absent. "

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Half an hour later, when the nine directors of Apple, including the chairman, read all the contents of the faxed document, they fell silent collectively.

Apple's shareholding is extremely scattered, and Tim Cook has been in charge of Apple for many years. Although he has been widely criticized for technological innovation, he can say that he has done a perfect job in creating profits for the company. The profits earned even exceeded the expectations of many shareholders.

Therefore, among many high-tech companies in the United States, Tim Cook can definitely be regarded as a super CEO, extremely strong.The so-called board of directors does not have a high sense of presence in Apple. At this time, Tim Cook put this cooperation invitation in front of everyone. All board members actually understand what it means.

If it weren't for the content of this fax, it would be inconvenient to disclose it to the outside world before the company's top management makes a substantive decision. The board members are already thinking about calling a shareholders' meeting to discuss it.

The more people make decisions, the less responsibility is allocated to each person, especially if there is a strong CEO in front of it, even if the upper board is laid down, Tim Cook will carry it in front as well. Directors who do not have a sense of presence in the company, as long as they can guarantee the profit of dividends every year, it is actually fine.

It's a pity that it's obvious that Tim Cook thinks so too. In the online board of directors, everyone's opinions will be completely recorded and can be read at any time, so no one really wants to express their views at this time.

Fortunately, Tim Cook had already anticipated this situation, and there was no surprise. He said directly: "Does anyone want to comment on the invitation you just saw? Everyone has 5 minutes to explain. Your own opinion, you can choose to express your opinion, or give up this 5 minutes, does anyone want to say something now?"

Everyone was sitting upright, but no one decided to make a statement. Tim Cook waited for about a minute, then nodded and said: "I probably understand, so let's be straightforward. I will ask questions, and then everyone agrees to raise their hands." Can you express your approval or disapproval in this way?"

Soon, everyone nodded and approved Tim Cook's proposal.

"The first question is whether the members of the board of directors agree that the strong artificial intelligence platform launched by Huaxia is extremely important to Apple's strategic layout at this stage. If you agree with this point of view, please raise your hand."

No one hesitated at all, almost all directors in the video raised their hands at the same time.

"The second question is whether the members of the board of directors agree that the strong artificial intelligence launched by Huaxia is also extremely important to Apple's competitors in various fields at this stage. The new competitors that will be encountered in the layout link.”

Very simply, everyone raised their hands again.

"The third question, do the board members agree that in addition to competition between Apple and Huawei, there is also complementarity in industrial technology and patent licensing?"

Many people hesitated this time, and only five of the nine directors who attended the meeting raised their hands.

Tim Cook nodded and continued to ask: "The fourth question, do you agree that if Apple refuses to cooperate with Huawei, including Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Intel, Samsung, and other Chinese mobile phone manufacturers? If we choose to cooperate with Huawei, this will make Apple lose all the advantages it currently has, and may lose our market share in future market competition.”

This time it was very neat, almost without hesitation, another nine people raised their hands at the same time.