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Text 144. Apple Inc.

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    'Steve, Miss Li is gone' Steve Gary Wozniak, the vice president of Apple, heard the employee's report and learned about Li Xiujing's arrival. He also wanted to see her, so he came to Jobs.  Pushing open the door of Steve Jobs' office, Woz saw that Li Xiujing was not in the office, and knew that the beauty had left.  ¡°Yes, I just left,¡± Jobs sighed in frustration and said feebly to his old friend.  'Haha, Steve, haven't you given up on Li yet? I think it's quite difficult for you to pursue her. I haven't seen any progress from you after so long. I think you should give up.' Seeing Steve Jobs  In this way, Woz, as his old friend, was a little gloating. Jobs was quite charming. In the past, pursuing girls had always been successful. In this regard, Woz and Jobs were exactly the opposite. Woz was a bit fat.  Woz had never been popular with women since he was a child. He had always been envious and jealous of Jobs's performance in this area. Seeing that Jobs finally failed in front of women, Woz couldn't be happy.  "Woz, you are still not my friend. Not only did you not comfort me, you also hit me like this." Jobs may have seen the other party's dark heart and said angrily.  'NO, I don't mean to hit you, I'm just telling the truth. I heard that there are many people pursuing Li, and I also heard that your competitors are not weaker than you. The vice president of Ms. Li's company seems to be Bo.  Just pursue her again. The Chinese have a saying that the first person who gets the clear water is the moon. They are both Chinese and they are so close. I think you can't compete with Bo. "Who said that? That guy is taller than Bo.  He's not as handsome as me, and he's Xiujing's subordinate. I don't think Xiujing likes that guy at all. How could I be afraid of losing to him?" Jobs said a little excitedly.  Apple is so close, and people in the office have a lot of business dealings with Apple and are familiar with each other. Both Jobs and Woz knew Ying Bo, the vice president of the office, and the fact that the other party was pursuing Li Xiujing was not a secret in the whole company.  Jobs and the two knew about this easily. Regarding competitors, Jobs was also particularly unhappy with Ying Bo.  'Really, I think Li doesn't like that guy Bo, but he doesn't seem to like you either.' After a pause, and seeing Jobs' expression a little excited, Woz didn't want to give the other party a chance to quibble, and then said, 'Steve,  What's the matter with Li coming here to ask you this time?' 'It's nothing. It's just that Chen wants us to help him buy some more equipment.' Jobs saw Woz changing the subject. Although he was very reluctant, he still answered. After all, he was talking about the right thing.  No matter how much he liked Li Xiujing, Steve Jobs would never forget his own interests.  "What equipment?" "This is the equipment list, take a look," Jobs said as he handed Woz a document. This document was the list of equipment that Li Xiujing had just given to Jobs and needed to be purchased by Apple.  'These are large wireless receiving devices, and these devices can be used for digital transmission and reception. Steve and Chen don't seem to need these if they are only used for pager transmission. He is not engaged in wireless phones.  ' Woz's technology in the field of telecommunications is much better than that of Jobs. When he saw this list, he guessed exactly what Chen Yihua wanted to do. Influenced by his father who was an engineer, Woz showed great interest in electronics since he was a child.  He received his father's step-by-step electronics enlightenment training since he was a child, so he showed his talent in mathematical logic earlier than other children of the same age. When he was only 12 years old, Woz showed his talent in electronics to the world -  -He made a homemade adder-subtractor using a few transistors he got from Fairchild Company, and won the highest award in the electronics category at the technology expo held in California. The organizers of the expo couldn't believe that this achievement was actually made by a teenager.  The hands of children!  At the age of 13, he obtained a U.S. amateur radio license and assembled a Hayleycrafts radio transceiver by himself, becoming one of the youngest hams in the United States.  As a schoolboy, Woz was a constant winner in science exhibitions. At the age of 15, he successfully assembled an addition and subtraction machine expressed in binary.  When he was 18 years old, his electronics teacher introduced Woz to work at Sylvania Computer Company, where he learned how to write the FORTRAN programming language.  Working in a computer company gave Woz the opportunity to come into contact with computer operation manuals that contained the internal structure of mini-computers, so he began to practice drawing computer design drawings on paper. This allowed Woz to slowly move towards computers in the field of electronic and wireless communications.  develop.  'Well, maybe. It's not impossible for Chen to want to study wireless phones. You forgot how many pager accessories he bought. I think wireless phones are the future direction of wireless communications. It's impossible for Chen to ignore wireless phones when he develops pagers.  When Tianyi was first established, Chen Yihua transferred many of his equipment from Apple, and Apple also cooperated with Motorola.Booth and Woz knew pagers and cell phones well.  "Yes, Chen has always been very far-sighted about technology." Woz paused and then asked Jobs, "Steve, I heard that the floppy disk drive is making great progress. Can our company develop it ourselves before the Apple II goes on the market?"  "No, it will take a while, and even if we can develop a removable floppy disk in advance, our current production capacity will not be able to produce a mature product before the Apple II goes on the market. Anyway, now there is a window to connect the disk drive to the computer."  , as long as the removable floppy disk is produced, we can sell the disk drive separately.' Apple's two major projects are currently in charge of Woz and Jobs respectively. Woz is better at research and development in the field of electronic circuit boards, so  He specifically develops Apple Computer's own chips and processors.  Steve Jobs was responsible for disk storage technology. Disk drives connected to computer peripherals are much easier than memories. They have been developed now, but machines with disk drives are not enough. They also need storage devices. Chen Yihua proposed the concept of removable disks. He asked Apple to  The company first studies removable floppy disks, and then moves to removable optical disks (CD-ROM). Removable floppy disks are a simplified version of the floppy disk drive on computers today. In fact, there is already technology for removable floppy disks on the market, but Apple is a new company and has accumulated technology in this area.  After all, there are not many, and it still takes time to produce driver disks yourself.  However, Apple is in the United States and has a lot of talents. Chen Yihua asked Jobs to develop a mobile floppy disk, which is not as complicated as a CD-ROM disk. Even if a CD-ROM disk is developed, it will still need a unique set of laser reading equipment technology.  The mobile floppy disk is a simplified floppy disk drive in the computer. This product is relatively mature. As long as there are talents, Apple can quickly produce a mobile floppy disk even if it is copied.  'Steve, do you think it is necessary for our company to spend so much effort on storage devices? If we develop a mobile floppy disk and we want to produce it ourselves, we will need a floppy disk manufacturing company. I just looked at the company's budget.  , If we act like this, our company will have very little liquidity left.' "Woz objected to Chen Yihua's instruction for Apple to research storage devices. He didn't think this technology was unimportant, but he just thought Apple should focus on computer assembly and software.  In the development field, rather than in the manufacturing industry, the upfront investment in storage devices is very large, and it is better to buy products from other companies to be more economical.  'Woz, didn't we agree on this matter? If the company's funds are insufficient, Chen Na will provide funds. With Chen's funds, it is good for Apple to have its own core manufacturing industry. I am very optimistic about the storage disk product.  As long as this kind of product is on the market, our company will soon make money. If Chen Yihua hadn't lent Apple the half-million dollars with very low interest, not only Woz would object to Apple's entry into the manufacturing industry so quickly, but even Jobs would object because Chen Yihua  Jobs and Woz agreed that Apple would enter the two major manufacturing industries of chip development and storage disk development after agreeing to the condition that they would lend money as long as Apple ran out of funds.  'Steve, what do you think Chen does? How can he have so much money?' 'I don't know, but the Chinese have always been very mysterious. I heard that many of them are rich. I guess Chen's  The family must be a very wealthy family in Asia. Chen¡¯s funds should come from his family. Chen Yihua has invested nearly one million US dollars in Apple. This is a figure that not everyone in the United States can come up with.  Without much doubt, Jobs and the two had already identified Chen Yihua as a rich man.  Chen Yihua now has an absolute controlling stake in Apple, but it is quite pleasant to work with the two of them. Although Woz is older than Jobs, his personality description is that he is introverted and not good at social interaction, but he is loyal, hard-working and technical.  As a man, he is kind to others and likes a harmonious atmosphere. He is not as strong as Steve Jobs.  Steve Jobs was a perfectionist, more aggressive than Woz, and had a strong desire to control. However, this may be due to his young age, and the fact that today's Apple was started by Chen Yihua, who originally approached Jobs and Woz.  The two of them worked together. Apple's total assets now exceed one million U.S. dollars. Calculated by shares, Jobs's net worth is more than 200,000 U.S. dollars. In one year, Jobs earned such a net worth without spending a penny, and became Apple's  The company's president, Jobs, was quite satisfied with this matter. He always thought that if it weren't for Chen Yihua, he might still be a small employee of the company, so he doesn't care that Chen Yihua controls such a large stake in Apple.
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