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Why didn't Apple from another world build its own factory?

Not to mention that there is no factory, but all of Apple's products, from parts to assembly, are completed by foundries. This is completely unimaginable for a company that already has tens of millions of loyal users around the world.

Everyone knows that if you hand over the work to others, the benefits must be distributed to others. Without worrying about sales, why not build your own factory?

Wen Ming believes that this has something to do with Apple's non-controlling shareholders.

Apple founder Jobs once held 30% of Apple's shares, but after financing and listing, his shares were diluted to 11.3%, which made Jobs completely lose the opportunity to control Apple.

When he was kicked out of Apple, he sold all his Apple shares because of anger, and only kept 1 share of Apple shares symbolically. And even if Jobs was invited back to Apple, he would no longer be a major shareholder of Apple.

According to the information of Apple in Wen Ming's memory, there are more than 2,440 institutions around the world that jointly hold 60% of Apple's stock, and the rest are also extremely scattered, and many of them are in the stock market.

Therefore, no one person or institution can claim to control Apple. The decision-making power of Apple is in Apple's board of directors.

How is the board of directors constituted?

The game between 2,440 institutions formed Apple's board of directors, and how many interests are involved in the board of directors formed in this way?

Investing in building a factory is not something that can be solved with hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars. Judging from the sales volume of all Apple products, if you want to set up your own factory so that you will never need the help of an OEM in the future, then , at least need to invest tens of billions of dollars to build factories.

There are still many questions, where are those factories built? Who will be responsible for the construction of these factories? Who will be in charge of running the plant after construction is complete? Whether it is an external OEM, if not, if Apple's product sales decline, wouldn't the factory be idle?

There are too many interest groups involved, and these problems cannot be solved at all.

And why does Samsung Group have its own factory? Moreover, while being able to meet the production needs of your own company's products, what about meeting the needs of other companies' products including Apple's?

Because although the Samsung Group has many shareholders,

Among them, more than 55% of the equity is controlled by foreign capital, but Samsung has actual controlling shareholders. That is the Lee Group, which can call itself the uncrowned king in South Korea. Its leaders, Lee and his son, have a direct holding of 5% on the surface, and then through cross-shareholding and pyramid structure holdings of other Lee family members, the agency group holds shares. Shares and other methods have reached the point where they can truly grasp the decision-making of the Samsung Group.

And other interest groups that hold Samsung Group shares have no decision-making power within the Samsung Group.

Of course, there are many reasons for these two differences, including Samsung's status in South Korea and other factors. But if Jobs is still alive, and has the controlling power of Apple, or the real decision-making power, he will definitely build a factory belonging to Apple.

Compared with Jobs, Wen Ming is undoubtedly much luckier.

Therefore, he wanted to build his Apple factory a long time ago. And building a factory from scratch is the most troublesome and time-consuming.

"I'd love to buy Nokia too."

Wen Ming agrees with Cage's guess, in fact, this is what he has always thought in his heart. If it was just for revenge, he could have waited for a while and let Aaron Martin do it instead of doing it himself so impatiently.

How could the world's richest man, whose net worth could be said to be hundreds of billions of dollars, be able to kill people by himself?

Not worth the price.

"So, I hope you can take advantage of this opportunity to get all the Nokia shares held by the three dead Nokia shareholders."

Cage didn't have any surprises, he had already guessed the matter before he came, and after hesitating for a while, he said: "There must be no problem in acquiring the shares in their hands, but one thing to note is that if we acquire Nokia now If not, the price to pay must be much higher.”

Nokia's market value at this time is still US$80 billion. Even if it continues to fall because of the death of three shareholders, it is impossible to fall to the US$7.9 billion when Nokia was acquired by Microsoft in another world.

The price gap between the two has reached ten times, and Wen Ming knows this better than anyone else.

Cage continued: "If we can wait for a while, we launch the second-generation iPhone, and at the same time, Android phones in the market continue to encroach on the market share of Nokia phones, then, at most, it will only be a year, and Nokia's market value will be very large. It may fall below $50 billion."

Rao Wenming is very rich now, but most of his money is in the valuation of Apple and Tesla. If the cash in his hand is deducted from the $5 billion investment in Facebook, there is not much left.

It is obviously not enough to acquire Nokia, which still has a market value of 80 billion US dollars.

Cage did not directly say that the money is not enough, but he also expressed this meaning euphemistically.

Wen Ming laughed and said, "Who said I want to acquire Nokia? No, I mean, what about acquiring all of Nokia's businesses?"

Cage froze for a moment, and then said: "You mean, only buy 10 Nokia factories around the world? Of course I know that this is the most appropriate, because the Nokia brand is of no use to us. Even Nokia's global sales channels are not very useful to us now. However, it is impossible for Nokia to just sell their factories to us, because they have not yet reached the point of desperation, and they still need Those factories help them make Nokia phones."

Wen Ming is very pleased that Cage can think of so much, but perhaps because of the difference in status and wealth between the two, Cage's thinking is not comprehensive enough.

"If we only approached Nokia to make an offer to acquire their factories around the world, then Nokia would definitely refuse."

Wen Ming smiled confidently: "However, if we use the way of Nokia shareholders to propose that because of the serious decline in Nokia's sales, we don't need so many factories, and we don't need to pay so many workers' wages every month. Then, What do you think Nokia shareholders will do?"

Cage's eyes lit up, and he said: "Then, they are very likely to agree to close some factories, and the loss of direct closure is the greatest. At this time, we can obtain the ownership of those factories as Nokia shareholders. Even if it is not 10 With all the factories in hand, it’s about the same.”

"And most importantly, if we do this, we can even ask for shares in exchange for those factories because those factories are about to close, and Nokia has to pay a lot of money to the workers. In this way, we will either get Nokia at the time Cash grants from other shareholders, or, keep some Nokia shares and sell them when their market value has not completely fallen below."

Wen Ming nodded and said: "If we do this, although there will still be losses, compared to the time it takes to build 10 factories, we are actually making money. Moreover, when I bought shares in Nokia, do you think, Will Nokia's share price go up?"

Cage was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "But if Nokia's stock price rises, what if other shareholders are unwilling to sell the factory?"

Wen Ming laughed and said, "At that time, I will have the final say on everything."

Based on the technology he currently has, it is not impossible to bring Nokia back to life. It is just a few new models, and Nokia will be able to dominate the mobile phone industry again.

Of course, to rule out Apple.

Although the sales of Apple mobile phones in the other world are very good, those Android mobile phones are not very bad. Take Samsung as an example, it once occupied the top of the global mobile phone sales list.

Let Nokia launch a mobile phone that should have been launched by Samsung Group, and then withdraw after earning a lot of money?

Or... turn Nokia into an Android empire while keeping Apple?

Wen Ming still needs to consider this issue. ) Download Free Reader!!