Andy Rubin, the so-called "creator of Android", recently founded a company called Essential, with the role of launching a new premium smartphone with the Android operating system. Essential was supposed to receive an investment of 100 million euros from the Japanese mobile phone operator SoftBank, but the deal fell through.
Although the agreement was almost perfect, it fell through due to the pressure put by the Apple company and SoftBank's fear that a conflict of interest might arise between it and those from Cupertino. SoftBank was supposed to help Essential to launch its new smartphone in Japan, but that would have affected even more the good relationship it has with Apple.
Although the investment would have increased the value of Essential to 1 billion dollars, because of the Apple company, nothing will happen now. Despite this, Essential is working hard to complete its project of a premium smartphone, which will be launched in the spring of this year, or at the latest in the summer, if everything will be completed in time.
Essential is developing products with artificial intelligence, but also a smartphone with a 5.5-inch screen that covers the entire surface of the front panel. Although Essential's plans are very interesting, this is the first time we hear that because of Apple, an agreement regarding such an important investment in a company falls through.
"SoftBank Group Corp. scrapped a planned $100 million investment in a smartphone startup founded by the creator of Google's Android software, partly because of the Japanese investor's increasingly close relationship with Apple Inc., according to people familiar with the matter."
The power of Apple
… da într-adevăr puterea Apple !!! … merg pe gheata subțire. Trebuie sa se reinventeze asa cum știau mai demult sa o facă. Le trebuie un produs ceva sa fie toată lumea “oau”. Cam slabe șanse cu nenea Tim. Nu e totul doar despre profit. What about customer satisfaction ???
Valoarea companiei Apple crește neîncetat. Acțiunile au ajuns la o valoare inimaginabila în urmă cu 7-8 ani. În momentul lansării iphone (ianuarie 2007) o acțiune valora 87$, azi aproape 1000!
140$,nu 1000$.
https://www.idevice.ro/2017/03/02/valoarea-actiunilor-apple-continua-sa-creasca-fara-oprire/amp/
Informații de actualitate. Mulțumim. 140 sau 1000 e ceva gen iarna nu-i ca vara.
Eh, el face referire la pretul vechi inainte de impartirea in cota de 7 la 1.
Astea sunt practici imorale, și mă surprinde că ditamai corporația nu are un cod de bune practici în afaceri, un cod dr conduită etică.
Sincer, iau informația cu o doză despre neîncredere, pentru că este anormal ca Apple să facă presiuni de genul ăsta. Nu cred că este atât de disperată să își demoleze concurenții din fașă.
E vorba de valoarea veche, înainte de împărțirea la 7
daca nu era Apple, traiam inca cu clapete laptopuri de 5kg,ecrane 0.05k etc
stiu parca era prada nu?