Super Invincible Battleship
Chapter 925

Chapter 925: Chapter 376 Great Invention Chapter 925: Chapter 376 Great Invention Apple Inc. had fallen into a crisis, because Dream Island had rejected any form of collaboration with Apple, and Apple's technological reserves were depleted, unable to launch a smartphone more advanced than China's. Although the US Government could use information security as a pretext to temporarily hinder Chinese phones from entering its market, such actions surely wouldn't last long. Once Americans began to yearn for Chinese smartphones, Apple smartphones would be facing a dead end.

Feeling the chill to their bones just like Apple was Simsung Company from South Korea, whose smartphone sales had also plummeted due to their inability to acquire products and technological support from Dream Island. What was worse for Simsung than Apple was that, in addition to smartphones, their mobile phone components business had seen a steep decline. This was because China and Dream Island had both launched similar products with better cost performance. Failing to cope with this intense competition, Simsung's product sales had nosedived.

Therefore, at a loss for alternatives, the traditionally feuding Simsung Company and Apple Inc. surprisingly set aside their past grievances and banded together. Each opened up their technology departments and shared their reserves of technology and products, hoping to achieve a significant technological upgrade and launch competitive new products.

Yet even with the comprehensive collaboration and sharing of many cutting-edge technologies, their overall technological level saw only limited improvement due to the originally insufficient technical content, which still couldn't produce a competitive smartphone.

It was precisely because Apple Inc. found itself cornered that it kept holding meetings to discuss this issue. If Dream Island continued the technological blockade against Apple, the company had no other choice but to declare bankruptcy and shut down.

A department head at Apple suggested, “Boss, maybe we can notify collaborators in the Apple Mall and have them withhold various apps from Chinese smartphones. By depriving Chinese smartphones of apps, we could force Dream Island to make concessions to us.”

The CEO of Apple Inc., with a stern face, said, “Don't you follow the market situation? There are now a multitude of domestic apps in China that are very similar to those in our mall, yet we can find no evidence to sue them. Thus, Chinese smartphones are not lacking app support at all. Their domestic apps may even outcompete our app collaborators. How can we pressure Dream Island to make concessions?”

Unknown to many, when Dream Island had made a forceful entry into the smartphone market, Yan Fei had foreseen the issue with mobile phone apps. Thus, he had the Artificial Intelligence “Dream” collect all the mobile apps available on the market, then began to replicate them in large quantities before uploading them to the app stores of China's four major smartphone manufacturers, allowing everyone to download and use them.

With the superior intelligence of “Dream,” as long as the ideas behind these apps were known, it could code numerous similar apps in a very short time. Consequently, Chinese smartphone manufacturers weren't worried about a shortage of apps at all, but rather were troubled by the sheer number of similar apps to choose from for priority promotion.

Furthermore, the Dream Assistant itself encapsulated many functions of apps, allowing most mobile operations to be completed simply through conversation with the Dream Assistant. The demand for standalone apps wasn't great among Chinese smartphones; the desire to download apps came more from habit and a craving for novelty. Once users adapted to the Dream Assistant, their dependence on standalone apps would diminish.

Since these apps were written in Chinese by “Dream” and had minor modifications made at key points, original app producers couldn't secure evidence of infringement against the apps produced by Dream Island, and could only watch their market share being taken over by Dream Island's apps.

The department head then said, “We could have all the app producers sue those domestically-produced Chinese apps. Even if we can't bring them down, it might slow down their app promotion, which could be to our advantage when negotiating with Dream Island.”

The CEO of Apple replied, “Our Apple Store takes a whopping 30% cut from those app producers. Do you think they will side with us? Moreover, if the situation doesn't reverse and Chinese smartphones become the mainstream, marginalizing us, do you think those app producers will continue to make apps for us?”

The thought of their company's past deeds made everyone somewhat anxious. At this critical moment, would those app producers abandon them? Nobody had even considered that they might step forward to help…

Then another department head said, “Boss, perhaps we could contact the Gautube Company to prevent them from supplying mobile chips to Chinese companies, using this as leverage to persuade Dream Island to yield. Though Gautube has a grudge against us, I believe they might be willing to help us for the right price.”

The CEO of Apple shook his head and said, “According to the latest information I have from Gautube, a new company within China has already produced a brand-new 5nm chip that surpasses Gautube's in various performance aspects. In other words, Gautube is now struggling to take care of itself; its products are at risk of being completely replaced. How then can they possibly help us?”

Relying on two 5nm chip production lines provided to the nation by Dream Island, this new Chinese company had finally produced viable 5nm mobile chips and was gradually replacing the imported chips from Gautube and other foreign companies.