Back in 2006, Apple's new headquarters building had not even been put on the agenda, because the company did not have that kind of "spare cash."
So its headquarters was still in that rather ordinary-looking office building.
Wang Ye had only visited once before, when he invested in Apple a few years ago. This was his second visit.
When he arrived downstairs at the headquarters, Cook came down to greet him.
After warmly shaking hands with Wang Ye, Cook said apologetically, "Steve has gone to the launch venue to prepare, so he could not come greet you himself. I'll accompany you there later. You know what he is like—a perfectionist. And since this is the debut of our phone, his standards for every detail of the launch are extremely high. He has been over there for several days already..."
Wang Ye smiled and nodded in understanding. Steve Jobs was obsessive-compulsive, a textbook perfectionist...
He was also a product manager who pursued perfection to the extreme. But it was precisely because of that personality that Apple products differed from other brands.
Its electronics even carried the air of works of art. Honestly, among all the brands in the world, only Apple had achieved that.
Of course, after Steve Jobs died a few years later and Apple was handed over to Cook, the company would become nothing more than a money-making machine, relying on the foundation Steve Jobs had left behind to rake in enormous profits.
From a consumer's perspective, Wang Ye did not like people like Cook. He was too profit-driven, and he loved fleecing customers...
In the future, Apple users would joke that Apple's memory and storage were made of gold. That was because Apple computers, tablets, and phones already had high starting prices, yet Apple was extraordinarily stingy with