Chapter 313

Henry asked people to contact General Motors to acquire Hughes aerospace and communications company, and began to pay attention to Apple company.

In August this year, Sony took the lead in launching the Playstation home game console. The performance of PS is much better than Nintendo's SFC, but much weaker than that of Jaguar. However, 3D game images are OK. Sony has acquired and won over many third-party game companies, and has entered the home video game industry.

Sony Playstation has entered the home game industry, which makes the competition in the industry unprecedented fierce. The price of home game machine drops again and again!

Jaguar is down to $180 and Sony's Playstation is down to $150.

And Nintendo's SFC is the most outrageous, down to $100! Nintendo saw that the market was gradually taken away, and the SFC could not be reduced. There is a wolf before and a tiger after Nintendo. In particular, the yadali Jaguar is really like a tiger in general, it will devour Nintendo! With its excellent console performance and a variety of fun classic games, yadali is deeply loved by players. In addition, the patent system, which is much cheaper than Nintendo, has attracted many Nintendo's third game companies to join the Jaguar platform! And not long after that, Jaguar launched a new game handle, which has three functions: analog rocker, trigger button and vibration package! Once released, it was wildly sought after by the players, greatly driving the sales of Jaguar game!

Nintendo tried its best to keep the market, only to reduce the SFC to $100!

The battle of home game industry is so fierce that Nintendo can't defend its own territory, but Apple has come to this muddy water!

On November 15, Apple released its home game console, which suffered an unprecedented fiasco! On the day of the launch of the new machine, only about 500 game machines were sold in the United States, and then more than 40 cases returned because the game was not fun. Usually, a new machine on sale, at least to sell thousands of machines! Nintendo's game console went on sale on the same day, with hundreds of thousands and millions of them.

Apple only sold 500 machines, and many people returned them. You can imagine how failed it was!

The next day, the major media have been singing Down apple, and even a newspaper compared apple to a clown painted in the newspaper. The clown is lying on the ground, holding an apple game machine in his hand. He looks up and looks at the four "giants" who stand in front of him and grin at him with fear - Nintendo, Atari, Sony and Sega.

On the same day, Apple's share price fell again.

"The failure of Apple's game console is inevitable," analysts said. In 1994, yadali, Sony and other powerful companies entered the home game industry one after another, but Apple chose this opportunity to enter, which is obviously a mistake! "

"Apple has three failures. First, the performance of the game machine is insufficient; Second, the lack of third-party game company support; The third is expensive. The prices of both Atari's Jaguar and Sony's Playstation are below $200. They trade losses for the market. And apple has been a candle in the wind, can't afford to lose, pricing in 250 dollars! Imagine, who would like to buy such an expensive Apple game console? Anyway, I don't want to! "

Apple can only rely on the brand to deceive some of Apple's iron powder to buy, but others are not stupid. Why should they pay for Apple's failed products?

On December 1, Apple's market value plummeted to $4 billion.

Since then, Apple's share price has been falling every day, and the company is also losing money. By December 20th, Apple was unable to hold on and formally filed for bankruptcy protection with the local court.

As soon as the news spread, it immediately shocked the United States.

Apple, founded by jobs in those years, is the pride of Americans. It created the era of personal computer, created a legend on Nasdaq, and became a giant among the PC manufacturers in the computer industry! It's a pity that such a company is going to apply for bankruptcy protection in an instant!

"Now apple is a mess. Who would like to take over?" Many people have doubts in their minds.

At this time, sun actually took the lead in sending someone to contact Apple and proposed to buy apple for $3.7 billion. Henry has always been concerned about Apple, and sun's action immediately alerted him. Henry also immediately sent a team to buy apple, and proposed to buy apple for $4 billion.

Originally, Sun company's acquisition of Apple Company surprised many people, but when Henry Williams launched the acquisition of Apple company, the United States was shocked!

"What's so good about apple that it has attracted Henry Williams?"

"I don't understand. I don't understand at all. But I'm sure that what Henry Williams looks forward to is a good thing! "

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On the same day, Apple's share price soared to $4 billion.

Henry Williams' valuation of Apple's acquisition is 4 billion US dollars, so apple is worth 4 billion US dollars, but the investors have great confidence in Henry!

At this time, Sun company was speechless, and he said that he had a good time to buy Apple company, but he didn't think that he would be the richest man on the way?

It's a question whether to quit or not. Sun company has a bit of a headache.

In recent years, with the rise of the Internet, the computer industry is booming. Sun company has made a lot of money selling workstations, and the company's market value has soared to nearly 50 billion US dollars. It can be said that Sun company is a leader in the industry and a terrible mess! Especially in the field of workstations, it's like beating IBM and kicking HP. No one can beat it. The acquisition of apple, intended to enter the personal computer market, thereby expanding the company's business. However, in the face of Henry this behemoth, can not help but some counsels!

Apple is more likely to be acquired by Henry when facing sun and Henry.

But Apple's shareholders still want Henry to pay a higher price. Apple was just in trouble for a while, and its market value dropped to less than $4 billion. Therefore, the company's shareholders were not willing that Apple could only sell $4 billion.

It's like a rich man suddenly becomes poor, but he doesn't adapt to it in a short time, still with a trace of pride.

"I've been rich before. What's this money? Is it a beggar..."

Yes, that's roughly what Apple's shareholders are thinking.

In a previous life, sun offered $3.7 billion and almost bought apple. However, a major shareholder was a little unwilling and did not reach an agreement in the end.

This time, sun quickly pulled out of the acquisition. When Apple saw Henry join in the acquisition, it immediately stood up, and the price was $5 billion. Sun company although the market value is high, but the liquidity is not much! What's more, apple is still in a mess. After the acquisition, I don't know if I can turn around the profit and loss. Maybe it will drag down sun company!

After comprehensive consideration, sun naturally decided to withdraw from the acquisition.

Henry, however, thinks it's worth spending $5 billion to buy apple. Henry wanted Apple's brand, talent, technology and patents. Before making cameras and game machines, Apple had a market value of more than $5 billion. The reason why the market value is so low is that the investors' confidence in it has declined, and the other reason is that they have suffered a heavy loss and are burdened with heavy debts!

Henry bought apple and had to pay its debts, but not much, about $200 million.

On Christmas day, Henry formally signed a purchase contract with apple, and then held a press conference to announce the matter.

The wind was cold and the sky was snowing like goose feathers.

In a villa in California, Steve Jobs watched Apple's news conference in amazement. The whole person seemed to have lost his soul

(jobs is hiding in the corner crying... Continue tomorrow! Please vote hard to support subscription!)