Super Tycoon

When Zhiduoxing was about to launch a cheap smart phone, suddenly a news came out that the PALM system announced that it would stop upgrading the smart phone system.

The PALM system was once the system with the highest share of smartphones, surpassing Symbian and Microsoft. This system was also initially applied to PDAs, beating Souni and other companies and becoming the mainstream of the market.

Unfortunately, during the millennium bubble, the company was hit hard and its development momentum was hindered. In particular, the founder was dissatisfied with the company's continuous mergers and acquisitions, broke up with the major shareholder, and re-founded a company by himself.

Because he held the patent of PALM in his hands, the company that forced the major shareholder had to sign an exclusive licensing cooperation agreement with him, and this agreement lasted until 2005.

Before 2005, the PALM system could be regarded as having a bright future, but after 2005, the market share of smart phones soared, the market share of PDA continued to decline, and the market of PALM system began to decrease continuously.

In addition, the development strategy set by the founders for the company is to follow the enterprise customer base model, so they continue to expand the number of enterprise users, allowing more than 8,000 enterprises to use their smartphones.

But it's a pity that they didn't build a brand. Many people still have the impression of PDA. What surprised them even more was that many people who have non-business needs have also started to buy smart phones.

Especially Symbian and Microsoft continue to compete in the market, coupled with the sudden popularity of BlackBerry, the share of the PALM system in smart phones continues to decline.

At this time, the Zhiduoxing system came out again, and its rise was even faster, and PALM was beaten and retreated steadily. Some of their hardware manufacturer partners have now joined the Zhiduoxing system camp.

The decrease in the number of users, the high speed of software updates, the unsightly appearance of the mobile phone, the lack of functions, and the low brand awareness have led to the continuous decline in the benefits of PALM, and even now it is no longer profitable.

Fortunately, they still have some patented technologies that can be licensed to other companies for profit. At this time, PALM began to consider transformation, or simply sell the company.

With those patents, it is still very attractive to many hardware manufacturers. Some of their software, ported to Zhiduoxing platform or Symbian platform, can also perform well.

At this time, HP contacted PALM and expressed its willingness to acquire.

Hewlett-Packard does not manufacture smart phones, but manufactures various office supplies such as PCs, servers, printers, and fax machines. They have taken a fancy to some document transmission processing methods of PALM, hoping to optimize the functions of their products.

Originally, they also purchased some patent licenses from PALM, so it is better to buy the entire company to improve the company's software strength, or to suspend some patent licenses to other companies to squeeze out competitors.

Hewlett-Packard also supports the Zhiduoxing system camp. They have measured that there will be no market for smartphones with the PALM system, and the direction of development is biased, focusing too much on business office.

Many young people who use smartphones now do not use them for office work, but for surfing the Internet, taking pictures, editing pictures, watching videos and so on.

Therefore, the PALM system is doomed to fail. Instead of losing money, it is better to stop this business altogether. Anyway, the smartphones of this system have not been sold much in the past two years.

Therefore, PALM company announced the news of stopping the update of the smart phone system, and current users can still use it, but PALM company will not be responsible for security in the future.

Of course, there is another reason why HP wants to acquire PALM, and that is that this company has developed a new system. The core is somewhat similar to PALM, but the function is stronger. It is called WebOS. HP believes that this system can be used as a tablet computer, or even Yes netbooks are enough.

If HP can launch its own computer system, even if it is only a tablet computer, then profits will also climb steadily. At this time, the stock of PALM company has been temporarily suspended.

When Zhang Yang was watching the news, Duan Yongping hurried in.

"Chairman, PALM company announced that it will no longer upgrade the smartphone system, and the stock has been suspended. Do you know about this?"

"Just now, what do you think?"

"If it's just that the mobile phone system stops upgrading, then the stock should not be suspended. I asked Edson to find out that PALM is in contact with several PC giants such as HP, and it is very likely that it will be acquired by one of them."

"Palm, in particular, has developed a new system that can be used on smartphones, but also on handheld computers and tablets. I suspect that is why their company is being acquired."

"In the smartphone system market, we have one less competitor. The next step is to crush the BlackBerry and Apple systems to death. I guess we will see the outcome this year."

"The Symbian and Microsoft systems are hard to beat in a short period of time, but in terms of market share, we have a chance to get the biggest piece."

Xiao Wang came over, poured tea for the two of them, and then sat down in a well-behaved manner without interrupting, just listening to what the two had to say, and learning by himself, which was allowed by the chairman.

"Blackberry still has a lot of fans. Although Apple's sales are poor, they don't seem to give up. How can you guarantee that those two companies will be trampled to death?" Zhang Yang asked rhetorically.

"Because BlackBerry insists on full keyboards, the mobile phone is getting wider and wider, but the screen is not growing much. And now that touch screen technology is getting more and more developed, many people have become accustomed to touch screen phones. Especially we have changed the basic buttons into touch screens. The control mode is very popular in the market.”

"Now the main selling point of those two promotions is security. They are both closed systems, and the technology is considered mature. However, we now have anti-virus software specially developed for smartphones, and we have added functions such as screen password unlocking. The next step is to Introduce mobile phones with fingerprint unlocking.”

"When this fingerprint unlocked mobile phone goes on the market, the advantages of the two companies will disappear. How can we compete with us? Of course, the number of our application software is also second to none, which is also very popular with consumers."

Zhang Yang tapped his finger on the table: "Old Duan, one thing to remember is that the quantity of software is important, but the best-selling software is more important. Just like our game software, those masterpieces that sell well are always the most profitable. It is also the best way to help us attract users.”

"PALM is likely to be acquired by HP, because HP is the best at developing smart office products. They need to improve the convenience and relevance of the system, and they will not adopt our Zhiduoxing system or Microsoft's system."

"However, we can't let HP just acquire PALM and expand it so simply, find someone to raise the price, and delay the time of being acquired."

"We have to take steps step by step. First kill Apple and BlackBerry, and the next step is Microsoft Symbian, but in the end we can't kill all smartphone operating systems, otherwise we will definitely be accused of monopoly."

"Even if each company launches its own unique system, after all, the core is our Zhiduoxing. So we can think about which one is not easy to grow."

"It's unrealistic to eliminate BlackBerry this year. Don't forget that with the advent of 3G networks, many old BlackBerry users will replace their phones with new ones. Next year, BlackBerry will be eliminated next year, and Apple, Motorola and Suoai will be eliminated this year."

"I understand, but we want to adjust our strategy of launching cheap phones."