Super Island Tycoon

The internal meeting of Apple Inc. concluded amidst a chorus of sighs.

During the meeting, after discussions among several board members, Cook ultimately announced the abandonment of several new Apple phones in development, opting instead to collaborate with an existing Samsung Company LCD display factory, focusing all efforts on flexible technology to quickly narrow the gap with Jade Island and the four major mobile manufacturers of Hua Country in the flexible phone sector.

When making this decision, Cook almost spoke through tears.

It was truly frustrating!

As an experienced manager who had worked in many world-renowned companies, Cook had never felt so aggrieved.

This time, in dealing with the revolution brought by flexible technology, he could be said to have been utterly defeated.

Of course, the major reason lies in the fact that he didn't clearly realize how formidable the technological capabilities of Jade Island were, allowing them to overcome layers of challenges posed by flexible technology in just a few months, eventually partnering with Hua Country's major potential phone manufacturers, thus advancing the arrival of the flexible era by several years!

Only now did he realize that Jade Island was indeed a lifelong adversary for Apple Inc.!

And because of this, Apple Inc. paid a very heavy price!

Directly interrupting the development process of future generations of Apple phones, which will lead to a complete failure of Apple Inc.'s operational strategy over the next few years, the resulting losses will be incalculable.

Even conservatively estimated, they would exceed several billion USD!

Additionally, existing massive inventories will also collapse as flexible phones officially go on sale, incurring heavy losses even with significant price reductions in sales.

Moreover, other supporting production line facilities and component reserves will also have to be abandoned.

Therefore, on the whole, the sudden advent of the flexible phone era will lead to losses exceeding tens of billions of USD for Apple Inc., undoubtedly a destruction-level impact!

Fortunately, after accumulating for over a decade, Apple has a substantial cash reserve, which is lifesaving for Apple Inc. in its current dire situation.

After Cook announced Apple's entry into a transitional period, this former global top-tier tech company had no choice but to enter a phase of resurgence.

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In contrast to Apple Inc.'s tragic plight, Hua Wei Company and the other three Hua Country mobile manufacturers have ushered in a period of rapid growth, showing explosive trends in order volume, market share, and company valuation!

After Hua Wei Company entered the global sales stage, the three mobile companies Mi, OPPO, and VIVO also launched their own mobile brands, fully expanding into the world market.

Supported by Jade Island's second-generation flexible phone production line, the four companies successfully solved the problem of mass supply, achieving exponential increases in market share.

Previously, the market share of the four major mobile manufacturers was concentrated within Hua Country, accounting for less than 40% worldwide, even with Hua Country's vast population.

However, when the four major mobile manufacturers expanded globally, they achieved comprehensive growth.

In just a few months, their market share exceeded 80%, with Hua Wei spearheading the charge, capturing 35% of the share due to its early advantage, becoming the world's unquestionably largest mobile phone manufacturer and firmly holding the dominant position!

And users of brands like Apple and Samsung will gradually replace their phones with flexible ones, facing issues such as phone aging, so it is predictable that the four major mobile manufacturers' market share will continue to rise, gradually squeezing the survival space of other mobile manufacturers.

This is destruction-level impact across the mobile company industry globally!

But there's no way around it, as Jade Island holds all the flexible phone technology, making it an enormous challenge to catch up or even surpass.

Those towering technical barriers are enough to halt them on the path of advancement.

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Compared to the beleaguered Apple Inc., Jiang Cheng seemed much more at ease at this time.

Octopus Island.

102 meters below sea level, the Future Vessel Laboratory.

Through the observation glass, Jiang Cheng was leisurely sipping his wine while watching a variety of fish swim by.

Now that Hua Wei and the other four major mobile manufacturers have fully matured, Jiang Cheng no longer needed to focus all his attention on the development of flexible technology.

The saying goes, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

After nearly a year of planning, flexible technology finally bore fruit, not only defeating the biggest potential rival Samsung but also fully supporting several major tech companies in Hua Country.

As a result, Jade Island's allies have grown even stronger.

In fact, Jiang Cheng had long come to realize the importance of integrating all available resources to develop and expand his strength after such a long period of honing.

Relying solely on Jade Island still felt somewhat weak, especially at this stage, where strong forces around were making every effort to curb its growth.

This became evident when South Korea dared to send a fleet to threaten Jade Island.

Although Jiang Cheng successfully annihilated the enemy with his secretly developed fleet, it also made him acutely aware that the geographical location and limited strategic space of Jade Island were indeed factors hindering it from becoming a strong power.

Upon reflection, it made sense that, despite having a strong military force, Jade Island was still incredibly vulnerable if faced with powerful enemy attacks due to its small size.

Therefore, after this incident, Jiang Cheng realized it was time to expand Jade Island's strategic space.

As early as during the development of the artificial island Nanyao Island, Jiang Cheng had secretly laid down a future development direction, which was to use cutter suction dredgers to create artificial islands in the surrounding sea area around Jade Island by land reclamation.

Using this method could greatly expand Jade Island's strategic space!

Although the increased island area this way was trivial, it indirectly expanded maritime territory, allowing strategic space to grow geometrically!

Currently, Jade Island has Nanyao Island guarding its southern gate, which is no longer a concern.

But the northern and eastern sides are still wide open and must be guarded against.

It's important to note that in these two directions, there are maritime powers like Japan and the United States posing threats, so Jiang Cheng had to be prepared in advance.

Moreover, with Jade Island's continuously advancing technological level, already severely threatening core interests of Japan and the United States.

Additionally, in the future, Jiang Cheng plans to launch a large batch of technological products worldwide, which will continue to impact global tech companies.

To protect these future technological achievements, Jiang Cheng considers it necessary to strengthen Jade Island's land-based defense forces beforehand to prevent Japan and the United States from posing military threats like South Korea!