Chapter 355 Itinerary
Apple headquarters.
After learning that Liu Haoyu, the chairman of Universe Technology Company, had come to their company, Cook immediately greeted him in person.
"Welcome, welcome, Mr. Liu is welcome to visit our company!" Cook extended his arms generously and gave Liu Haoyu a big hug.
Although the two parties were competitors before, they are now the closest partners. Especially when Apple gave up its own iOS system and adopted the Qiankun system specially customized for them by Universe Technology Company, the two parties were destined to be together. The company is inseparable.
Of course, Apple cannot do without Universe Technology.
However, although Apple has temporarily given up on using its own system in new mobile phones, this does not mean that they have given up on the iOS system. It is just that they are preparing to accumulate hard work and one day develop a system that is as good as Qiankun. Even when they surpass the Qiankun system, it is when they return to adopt their own system.
"Mr. Liu came without notifying us so that I could arrange for the company's car to pick you up. Now it seems that our company has not provided good hospitality." Cook said with a slight complaint.
"Mr. Cook, you're welcome." Liu Haoyu smiled. These are just polite words. If you take it seriously, you will lose.
"Mr. Liu must be tired after coming all the way. I will ask someone to arrange a good hotel for you."
"Then thank you for your company." Liu Haoyu was not polite. After getting off the plane, he rushed directly to Apple's headquarters without really booking a place to stay.
After Cook called his assistant to check in for Liu Haoyu and others, the two chatted for a while in the conference room.
Finally, they had lunch together, and then someone arranged for a vehicle to take Liu Haoyu and the three of them to the reserved hotel. They also agreed to go to Apple's experimental site for secretly developing cars at noon tomorrow.
Three people, each with a deluxe room.
Liu Haoyu was resting in his room, while Chen Qiang came to Gao Peng's room.
"Do you feel that our experience on the plane this time was really weird?" Chen Qiang frowned and asked Gao Peng with a puzzled look on his face.
Gao Peng nodded and agreed: "It is indeed a bit evil."
"I feel like this matter has something to do with our boss? His behavior on the plane was too calm. Also, you were also very calm. I feel that both of you are very abnormal. Say, do you know What?" Chen Qiang looked at Gao Peng up and down and said with doubt on his face.
Gao Peng was stared at by Chen Qiang and felt nervous. He said with an unnatural expression: "I don't know! I just have a calm face. In fact, I am scared to death. It is the boss's money that we are taking. Our duty is Guarding the safety of the boss, when it comes to this, I have to tell you that your behavior on the plane is very inconsistent with your current status."
At the end of the sentence, Gao Peng rolled his eyes and quickly changed the topic, staring at Chen Qiang with slight dissatisfaction.
"Oh, my bad!"
Sure enough, Chen Qiang was successfully led away from the topic. In fact, he was only slightly suspicious of the boss. Facts have proved that the boss really did nothing at that time.
"You really shouldn't do this again in the future. Since you have taken the boss's money, you must obey the boss's instructions. Don't you see that you have disappointed him?" Gao Peng said in a teaching tone, secretly chuckling in his heart. He breathed a sigh of relief and finally diverted this guy's attention.
After seeing his boss's abilities, he took his boss's words to heart and did not dare to reveal anything to the outside world.
"Come on, stop talking about me, I got it. I won't talk to you anymore. Something happened on the plane and I'm jet-lagged. I have to take a nap first to replenish my sleep."
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the next day.
After having breakfast in the hotel, we took a car sent by Apple and arrived at Apple's headquarters.
Then, under Cook's personal leadership, after some twists and turns, he came to Apple's secret test site for car research.
"Mr. Liu, look, this is the self-driving pure electric vehicle developed by our company."
In this secret experimental site, Liu Haoyu saw with his own eyes the car developed by Universe Technology Company. As expected, Apple's most distinctive Apple logo was on the front and rear of the car.
The size of the car is similar to that of other four-door sedans. It is all white. The space inside the car is reasonably distributed and the seats are comfortable. Cameras, radars, detectors, etc. are installed around the car and on the roof. These are all for autonomous driving. Necessary for functionality.
In addition, there are two models of this car, one is a model with only automatic driving, and the other is a two-in-one manual and automatic model.
It can be seen that although Apple wants to make self-driving cars, its confidence is still a bit lacking. It has prepared a manual and automatic two-in-one model to prepare for the fallback.
"Mr. Liu, we are currently focusing on researching the battery life of this car, followed by the autonomous driving function. After testing, the car can travel up to 800 kilometers after being fully charged. The engine technology has also been specially developed by us. Optimization and power are still relatively ideal. As for the automatic driving function, it is still our weakness and the progress is not very great."
After listening to Cook's brief introduction, Liu Haoyu nodded. These two products still have advantages. At least they have good battery life.
In addition, he also heard that it was precisely because Apple had made little progress in autonomous driving that it chose to cooperate with Universe Technology.
An advanced AI system is really helpful for autonomous driving functions.
"Mr. Cook, please ask someone to sort it out and give me the software and hardware data on your car's autonomous driving." Liu Haoyu said without hesitation.
Cook was quite happy. Since he had already signed a contract to cooperate, and there was no ink stain, he directly asked Liu Haoyu to sort out the information about autonomous driving that Liu Haoyu needed, listed a thick stack of documents, and handed it to Liu Haoyu. hands.
In fact, he had nothing to refuse. All Liu Haoyu wanted was car data on autonomous driving, and they happened to have not made much progress in this area of research, so there were no commercial secrets, and they were not afraid of being exposed by the universe. Tech companies are taking advantage.
After briefly looking through it, Liu Haoyu said to Cook: "Okay, Mr. Cook, I will take this document. I will study it first. When I return to the company in a few days, I will have someone develop a suitable document for this car as soon as possible." The car's autonomous driving system will be directly installed on the car for testing, and don't forget to be prepared to apply for listing."
