The news that Titan Biotechnology's battery technology had been stolen delighted not the battery manufacturers, but the various phone makers.
Why? Because the battery market wouldn't be dominated by Titan Biotechnology alone anymore!
That meant they had choices, and room to negotiate prices. Their lifelines would no longer be in the hands of a single company.
Apple, which hadn't bought batteries from Titan Bio, was the happiest of all. They'd been debating whether to buy batteries from the Xia Kingdom.
When they saw the news, they immediately decided to wait until knockoff bio-batteries hit the market before making a move. By then, a price war would surely have driven the cost of bio-batteries down.
Apple had plenty of money, but it hadn't fallen from the sky. Naturally, they wanted to cut costs wherever they could.
Companies that had already purchased batteries, meanwhile, could only wait until their contracts were fulfilled and all the batteries had been delivered before negotiating prices with Titan Biotechnology. By then, it would be a buyer's market. The prices, heh heh heh, definitely wouldn't be high.
Of course, if those companies knew that Tang Shizhe had staged the theft of the technical files himself to avoid an antitrust investigation, would they be furious enough to spit blood?
Three days later, in Japan, a passenger jet that had taken off from Xia Kingdom touched down smoothly at Jingdong International Airport.
Tang Er, wearing a baseball cap, stepped off the plane. The hotel he'd booked in advance had sent a Rolls-Royce to wait for him at the exit.
Tang Er lowered the brim of his cap and wheeled his suitcase straight into the car. After helping him stow the luggage, the driver started the engine and headed for the hotel.
Tang Er had a very simple reason for