It's been a day or two for Microsoft to fight Apple.

Although everyone thinks that Microsoft's indos plagiarized Apple's windows operating system, it is undeniable that indos's success in the operating system field is simply incomparable to Apple, and indos almost achieved its domination, but this dream was destroyed by the antitrust law of the United States.

If it weren't for the antitrust law that dragged Microsoft's back, Microsoft could have almost ruined Apple's Os system in the first few years before it was launched.

Apple is not a fuel-efficient lamp. It relies on the antitrust law to continue to go to court with Microsoft. In the past few years, the US court ruled that Microsoft must provide technical support to Apple for five consecutive years based on the antitrust law. That is to say, in order to ensure that Microsoft's indos will not form a monopoly in the market, the US court ruled that Microsoft must provide Apple with a large amount of Microsoft's own technology and product support on Apple's maos to enhance the survival of Apple's maos so as not to be completely destroyed by indos.

The IE browser on indos is the best choice for most users to access the Internet, but there is no IE on maos. At that time, Apple's own safari was not developed. What should I do? Microsoft must develop the IE browser on maos for Apple...

Indos's office software is one of the biggest reliances in the commercial field of indos system, and it is also a major foundation for users to be inseparable from the indos system. What should I do? With the anti-monopoly law coming, Microsoft must develop the office used on the ma side for mas...

In addition, in order to make Apple give up accusing Microsoft of infringing its copyright, Microsoft also invested US$150 million in Apple, giving Apple the most critical food and supplies.

Such an anti-monopoly law is almost unimaginable in China, which means that Tengxun QQ is almost monopolizing the market. When Sina uc is dying, it can go to the court to sue Tengxun, and then ask Tengxun to provide Sina uc with various proprietary technical support. It even requires Tengxun to invest in Sina uc for a certain amount of money. It was already holding on to kill him, but it beat his opponent to death. Not only can he not continue to fight, but he also had to turn his head back and save him. Why?

It is because of the Antitrust Law...

Therefore, even if Microsoft is a shareholder of Apple, it is a complete enemy in its core. It is just that the referee of the Anti-Monopoly Law does not allow Microsoft to kill its opponents. Microsoft also has countless sentences in its heart that cannot be expressed.

What Microsoft never dreamed of was that Apple had a new opponent, which was an Internet company from China. Moreover, this new opponent did not compete with Apple on the operating system, but cut off Apple's back-end on the music player!

In Microsoft's eyes, this is so fucking cool! Because the Anti-Monopoly Law cannot keep Apple's lifeline this time. There are so many music player companies and so many products. Even if the ipod is completely killed by Muye Technology, Muye Technology will not violate the Anti-Monopoly Law!

Seeing the big collapse of Apple's stock price, Microsoft immediately decided to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and make up for Apple.

So, before the close of the market, Microsoft issued an announcement, announcing several of its own decisions:

First, Microsoft will stop updating the ie browser on the ma side and no longer provide new technical support for ie on the ma side;

Secondly, due to the reorganization of Microsoft's internal team and business, they can only be forced to suspend the R&D support of the ma-side office and will be opened after the reorganization of the team and business is completed;

Again, after discussion, Microsoft's board of directors announced its latest plan to reduce its holdings in Apple stocks and continue to reduce its holdings of Apple shares.

Microsoft has been selling Apple's stocks one after another since 2000. There are not many left now. It originally planned to sell them all this year, but it did not think about selling them so urgently. However, it happened that Muye Technology started a war with Apple, so Microsoft decided to take advantage of Apple.

When the stock price plummets, the market is most afraid that investors will lose confidence in the stock. If even institutions and major shareholders announce their share reduction, retail investors will lose confidence even more.

Microsoft's final shot this time is actually very terrible. Last time, the US court's five-year penalty for Microsoft was expired last year. Under normal circumstances, Microsoft did not dare to turn against each other immediately after the penalty period ended. In that case, Apple can sue Microsoft on the grounds of the Antitrust Act. Microsoft will definitely lose the lawsuit and will definitely bear huge compensation, which is not worth the loss.

However, Microsoft has now had a perfect solution to stop supporting ie on the Mac side because at the beginning of this year, the safari beta version developed by Apple itself was launched. Since Apple already has a browser, Microsoft will stop supporting ie to Apple, it will not violate the antitrust law, so there is no problem to stop the update directly.

In addition, Microsoft did not dare to really terminate the support for office on the Mac side, so they changed their path, not to stop the service, but because the internal team and business need to be reorganized, and they will passively suspend support and will continue to serve soon.

Microsoft's intention is very simple. Even if this suspension of support cannot last too long, the announcement at this time is mainly to give Apple a critical damage to its already dark market prospects. If it cannot kill Apple by itself, then Microsoft will of course be happy to see Apple die at the hands of others. In order to avoid Li Mu not being able to kill him, Microsoft has made such an indirect final blow.

Microsoft's final strike, during this trading day that had been dark for a whole day, Apple, which had originally guarded the $6 mark and the capital behind it, instantly suffered a fatal blow, and its stock price plummeted like a flood that opened the gate.

The stock price fell from US$6.02 to US$5.76, US$5.9, and US$5.8 in an instant, and was completely crushed.

Wall Street and Silicon Valley were both stunned. They could not imagine that Apple, like a star, would lose so thoroughly in one round. This also made people begin to re-examine Makino Technology and begin to feel awe of the company.

There was a wail in the market. Apple's stock price was like an airplane that had lost its engine and wings. It not only could not climb, but it was even possible to glide. It was simply a straight downward sprint. No investor could withstand such a plunge trend.

No institutions dare to buy the bottom of the plunge stock price, because from the perspective of the business, Apple has almost no chance of turning around now. This is already the case before mango-me2 was listed. At this time, the stock price cannot bottom out. It has to wait until mango-me2 is officially listed in the United States. By that time, if the anti-dumping duty can help Apple defend the domestic market in the United States, the stock price still has the possibility of rebound. If the anti-dumping duty completely cannot resist the trend of mango-me2 in the United States, then Apple's ipod business can be buried.

What's even more serious is that Apple's other business lines cannot see any possibility of standing up and turning the tide. Now Microsoft has come out to take advantage of the situation. The market of maos and Apple computers will inevitably be affected by Microsoft. This is undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire and adding insult to injury. Maybe under this double pressure, Apple will collapse.

In the capital market, good products and strong R&D capabilities are not the most important. The most important thing is to be recognized by the market. Once the market loses confidence, everything else will be a bubble.

In the Internet bubble two or three years ago, countless companies' market value shrank by more than 90% overnight. Even the giant American Online, whose market value was close to US$200 billion, has a market value of less than one-tenth of its glorious period.

Apple's stock price plummeted from $7.36 to $5.74, and its share price fell by 22% in one trading day, and its cumulative decline in several trading days was nearly 34%. Its original market value was nearly $8 billion, but now it has barely $5 billion left.

But in comparison, Apple's stock price collapse rate is not the most serious stock in the Internet industry, and it cannot even rank in the top ten.

However, this is enough to bring a devastating blow to Apple from top to bottom.

Even Jobs, who was extremely confident, began to doubt his life at this time. He always insisted on hardware as the main and software as the supplement because he felt that the bubble of software development was far less powerful than that of hardware taking root. Just like those companies that fell overnight when the Internet bubble burst, most of them were software companies.

However, he never expected that Apple, which has hardware as the core, would suffer such a tragic blow. A company from China, alone, reduced Apple's market value by almost 3 billion US dollars. It is not known how long the subsequent negative news will last. Maybe, this time, Muye Technology's tit-for-tat this time will reduce Apple's market value by more than half.

Now, there are two problems facing Jobs.

First, how to recover the stock price in a short period of time?

Second, how to reverse the passive situation in the business in the next few months?

Apple's shareholders and investors questioned Jobs nothing more than these two questions.

Sadly, Jobs couldn't find any way to break the deadlock.

He has always insisted on hardware as the main focus, but at this time he saw that the biggest disadvantage of hardware companies is too slow to turn around and the cost is too high!

Hardware companies are like a heavy truck that is moving at a fast speed. Not to mention turning completely, even if there is a little problem with the direction control, the car will be destroyed and people will die. Any hardware will take at least a few months of R&D cycle. Even if mango-me2 has completed all the design and R&D work, it will take time to prepare for the official launch of the global market. If Apple develops a new hardware now and hopes that it can reverse the predicament, the possibility is almost zero.

When Jobs and the entire Apple fell into despair, Li Mu, who stayed up late to work overtime in the office, was staring at the US stock market and stunned.

He expected that Apple's stock price would plummet today, but he did not expect that it would plummet so thoroughly, and he did not expect that Microsoft would suddenly stab Apple at this time.

Seeing Apple's stock price continue to break through the two levels of $5.7 and $5.6, Li Mu checked Apple's latest market value and had fallen below $5 billion.

As expected, at the last moment of closing, Apple still failed to keep the $5.5 mark, closing at $5.47, with a single-day decline of 25.6%, becoming Apple's dark Monday...

The day's killing was over, and there was no smoke of gunpowder, but you could feel the blood flowing behind you, and this was far from over.

If this continues, Apple's stock price will only get lower and lower, and its market value will only get smaller and smaller. If mango-me2 is listed, it would be great if it would be left with $3 billion.

It seems that the remaining 3 billion dollars of a company seems to be a lean camel bigger than a horse, but it is actually bullshit!

With Apple's current corporate scale, not only are there a lot of people waiting to have a meal, but there are also a lot of projects under development that urgently need blood transfusions. The stock price has caused a market value to plummet, and the subsequent capital chain problem is Apple's biggest explosive package.

If there is a problem with the funds, Apple will take a market value of less than 3 billion yuan, and the possibility of refinancing is very small in the context of market disparagement. At that time, you can only watch the capital chain break. Once the capital chain breaks, all projects that have been invested in a lot of hard work in research will be abolished, and all talents will be lost one after another. At that time, Apple will either apply for bankruptcy liquidation, or can only ask other bigwigs to take over the market at the reserve price, but who dares to take over this hot potato?

Suddenly, Li Mu's eyes lit up.

He said to Li Ziwei beside him: "Help me contact the people of Sequoia Capital and let them immediately send a senior person who is proficient in US stock capital operations to my office tomorrow."

Sequoia is the capital party behind Muye Technology and is also a world-class capital. Li Mu asked them to find someone who is proficient in US stock capital operations. Li Ziwei was shocked after hearing this and blurted out: "Mr. Li, are you preparing to ipo?"

Li Mu waved his hand: "Ipo is not the time. I want to consult about how feasible it is to acquire Apple, then delist Apple from Nasdaq, and then achieve privatization..."

Speaking of this, Li Mu sighed and said, "Microsoft is really a magical finalizer today!"
Chapter completed!