As early as 1998, Jobs, who had returned to Apple for a year, was determined to reorganize the supply chain and hired Cook from Compaq at a high price. This was the beginning of Apple's abnormal level of control over the supply chain.

Apple has control over the supply chain, its huge shipments are its confidence, and its methods are even more proficient.

Purchasing a large quantity from one manufacturer will spread the cost and reduce the unit price, but there is a marginal effect here. With Apple's huge sales volume, the cost of placing an order with one supplier will not be much lower than that of placing an order with two or three suppliers.

The risk has increased exponentially.

This kind of risk is multi-faceted. It is a risk for suppliers to have problems with their supply. It is also a risk for suppliers to be too powerful and difficult to control.

In order to prevent suppliers from becoming bigger, Apple on the one hand strictly controls the number of suppliers, and on the other hand ensures that at least two suppliers of the same components supply it, and will introduce a third or fourth supplier at any time.

In order to ensure quality and standards, Apple spent a lot of money to develop an ERP system. All design, R&D, and production links can only be carried out on Apple equipment and are strictly confidential. Some content and data are not even available to suppliers.

If you are qualified to contact, if any problems are discovered, Apple needs to point them out remotely and provide authorization so that the supplier can go on-site to check and solve the problems.

In addition to this kind of perverted control, Apple's coldness and cruelty towards the cooperative relationship include some very disgraceful methods, such as telling the other party that it needs a technology, and after the other party has invested a lot of money in research and development, then saying "

"I don't need it anymore", and then when the other party's funds were wasted and the company's capital chain was broken and it was unsustainable, Apple took the opportunity to lower the price or simply acquire it; other matters such as cutting orders, removing the company from the list, etc.

Daily operations.

As a result, many companies were severely hit and even went bankrupt. For example, the aforementioned Shenghua Technology was the main screen supplier when the iPhone 4 was released, but it was abandoned directly when the iPhone 5 was released. At that time, Shenghua Technology

Because Huazheng was worried that its production capacity would not be able to satisfy Apple, it spent money on its own growth and expansion of production.

After this incident, Shenghua Technology quickly fell into a debt crisis. After holding on for several years, it was acquired in 2016.

Regarding this matter, there are many theories in later generations. For example, Apple was worried that the new in-cell display technology was immature and wanted to use Shenghua as a backup tire, which accidentally killed Shenghua. There are also darker speculations: Shenghua Technology controlled the screen at that time.

The technology is still at the top level in the industry. Apple is worried that cooperation with other mobile phone manufacturers will reduce its advantage in screens, so it deliberately wants to kill Shenghua - investing a lot of money to increase factories and expand production, which is obviously not easy.

The decision was made, and Apple may have revealed some information that contributed to the other party's decision in the process.

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It was a good time. On the one hand, it entered the electric car and Yuanverse. On the other hand, it relied on the breakthrough of optical lens door to hook up with Huawei and Xiaomi, and got out of the crisis.

——From this perspective, Wei Qingfan feels that Apple is more of a scumbag than himself. Of course, people do live a good life, so even if there are so many negative examples, there are always countless manufacturers flocking to Apple.

Of course, as a businessman, Wei Qingfan does not despise Apple's behavior and methods, but only admires them.

From a company perspective, Apple is the best teacher and strongest idol in this regard.

Wei Qingfan's goal is also to create such a scumbag company and supply system: those who follow me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish!

He plans to start with BYD Electronics and cooperate with them to manufacture ancient poetry mobile phones.

If Goodix is ​​compared to Li Miaoyu in the supply chain system, then BYD Electronics is Li Wanyi. Both are very important and both are necessary - the difference is that Li Wanyi and Li Miaoyu are just the two in life, and they will not change.

, and in terms of career, every time a Li Miaoyu is conquered, there will be another Li Miaoyu, and the same is true for Li Wanyi.

The supply chain is very complex, this is a huge project, and in the early stage, it is necessary to show charm and show enough goodwill, so he, who has never liked dealing with these things, has to go out on his own.

After going through several partners, Wei Qingfan returned to the capital in mid-September. During this period, he learned a rumor from the supply chain:
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