Neil Brantley introduced the basic technical details of iPlayer. Simon played with a prototype the size of a Sony Walkman in his hand and asked Girl C: "How much is the approximate cost?""
Claire Gain said: "The micro hard disk used in the prototype has not yet been mass-produced, and other components also need to be customized according to the finished model confirmed in the future. The approximate cost should be controlled at about 200 US dollars."
Simon shook his head slightly: "It's a bit tall."
Once the digital music player is released, the direct competitor is Sony's Walkman Walkman.
The price of the Walkman in North America is about 300 US dollars. Since it is going to compete, the standard starting price of iPlayer should also be set at 300 US dollars.To achieve this goal, the hardware cost of the player needs to be controlled within 150 US dollars, so that sufficient marketing and profit margins can be reserved for Tinkobair and distribution retailers at all levels.
Now, the hardware cost is 200 U.S. dollars, and to ensure the future promotion and profit of the player, the retail price needs to be set at 400 U.S. dollars.
Claire understood why Simon said that, and said: "In recent years, the development of hard disk technology and thin-film liquid crystal technology has been very rapid, and the cost has continued to decline. If we launch a formal product next year, the cost should be lower by then. .Simon, I think the biggest obstacle facing this player if it wants to be promoted is the issue of music copyright."
Simon nodded. He was still very impressed by Apple's battle of wits with major record giants for iPod music copyright in his memory.
The record industry is no less conservative than Hollywood.
Daenerys Entertainment already owns Universal Records, which is an advantage.
However, if only this record company provides content support, it is obviously not enough. The world's major record giants must join the digital music player camp.
This is obviously not an easy task.
When Sony launched the video recorder that year, it was directly sued by the major Hollywood studios. In the end, although it won the lawsuit, it lost the market.
Now, once Tinkobair's digital music player is launched, the record giant will definitely not rebound much less than the Hollywood studios after the advent of video recorders in order to protect the interests of physical records and related hardware.
In the original timeline, the rise of the Internet industry in the late 1990s, because of the wanton spread of pirated music on the Internet, the record industry was once very seriously affected.Out of instinctive hostility to the Internet, the major record giants are very reluctant to promote genuine music on Internet platforms, which has further caused the proliferation of pirated music.
In Simon's view, if the major record giants can unite to promote genuine music through Internet channels, even if piracy is still inevitable, the extent to which the record industry will be affected by the Internet will not be so serious.
On the contrary, even in Western societies with strong consumer awareness and copyright awareness of music, once they get used to free pirated music on Internet platforms and then want to charge for it, the difficulty will definitely increase significantly.
AOL is upgrading its own network services with ADSL technology, and other Internet service providers will definitely follow suit in the coming years.
In the plan, after the completion of this technology upgrade, the Internet speed of Internet users in the U.S. online service area can basically reach the level of 256kbps, and the download speed is about 32Kb/s.
Compressed in the MP3 audio format developed by Igrit, it only takes two or three minutes to download an MP3 music of 3M to 5M size.
Such Internet speed is enough for the rapid popularity of pirated music on the Internet.
The best way to avoid the impact of Internet pirated music on the recording industry is to provide a genuine music sales platform.
It's like the videotape industry.
If Hollywood had resolutely resisted the popularity of video recorders at the beginning, there would not be a huge output value of the videotape industry equivalent to twice the movie box office every year.
It's just that the truth is easy to understand. It's not that easy to get conservative record companies to follow the trend.
After all, it is the benefit.
Sony used to be the staunchest opponent of Internet digital music. The key is that Sony not only owns Columbia Records, but also has a considerable hardware interest in tape players, CD players and other fields. Related.
Thinking of the possible obstacles to the promotion of digital music players in the future, Simon frowned slightly, and then quickly relaxed.
It's nothing less than soldiers coming to block the water and cover the soil.
Since it is determined that digital music is the inevitable development trend of the entire recording industry, let's go on firmly.
Regardless of others.
What's more, he is not without chips in his hands.
Thinking of this, Simon made up his mind to accelerate the layout of Daenerys Entertainment in the record industry. In the past two years since completing the acquisition of MCA, most of his attention has been focused on film-related fields. Although he took over Universal Records, this subsidiary has not developed much.
Tinkobair's current flagship product is still digital cameras.
The development of a digital music player is only to complete the patent layout in advance. If you want to launch a formal product, it will not be until next year at the earliest. AOL will complete the upgrade, and the USB interface will be officially launched at the same time.
Everyone continued to discuss some issues, and before they knew it, it was time to get off work.
Girl C proposed to have dinner together, and Simon agreed.
Everyone left the office building together and agreed on the location of the restaurant. As soon as Simon got into his car parked on the side of the road, Jennifer Bree's petite figure leaned over to stop the bodyguard who wanted to close the door. He leaned forward and looked at the man in the car expectantly: "Simon, can I take your car?""
Simon originally wanted to explain something to Girl A. When he saw the little girl coming over, he didn't refuse, and said with a smile: "Okay."
The man's voice fell, and the little girl had already got into the carriage, as if she was worried about being robbed of her place.
Alison was right behind her. She was originally going to take a car with Simon. Seeing this situation, Girl A smiled at Simon in the car, pointed to Girl C, and turned and walked away.
The bodyguard closed the car door outside.
In the car, little Jenny fumbled awkwardly, and finally opened the baffle between the rear car and the front driver's seat.
Simon watched the movements of the little fairy next to him and said with a smile: "Actually, I can still hear it."
Jennifer blinked, with a little cunning in her eyes, "As long as you can't see it."
With that said, the girl's petite body approached the man, put her arm around the man, and asked, "Simon, will you stay in San Francisco tonight?""
Simon casually turned off the talker connected to the driver's seat, shook his head and said, "No, I have to go home at night."
Little Jenny posted on Simon again, holding the man's arm and shaking slightly: "But, you used to stay in San Francisco?"
"It's different this time," Simon didn't resent the girl's almost non-jerky familiarity and closeness. Looking at the little girl wrapped around him, he smiled and said, "It's awkward, it's flat, and I don't feel it at all.""
Little Jenny didn't have low self-esteem at all. She put her chin on Simon's shoulder and leaned into the man's ear and whispered softly: "In fact, there are also small benefits to being small. Touch it. I'm only 12 years old this year. It's very exciting."
When two cool thin lips were held in his ears, Simon was really stimulated by this pseudo-Loli who claimed to be 12 years old and actually 20 years old.
It took less than five minutes for the car to reach a nearby restaurant.
After everyone got out of the car, they all obviously noticed that Jennifer Bree's face was flushed as if she had just experienced something.
However, even though everyone was aware of what had just happened, the little girl was very sensible and did not stick to Simon as when she was in the car, but walked to Girl C with her eyebrows down and took Claire's arm, as if she was following the shy and shy little sister next to the big sister.
This kind of cover-up is very effective. Except for the two girls A and C and Neil Brantley, no one else in the restaurant showed any special look at the strange blush on the little girl's face.
After dinner, although a certain little fairy's eyes were very resentful, Simon still didn't stay in San Francisco after all.
Watching Simon's car leave and separate from Neil Brantley, Girl C got into a white BMW car with little Jenny.
Girl C rented a house in the wealthy Atherton area north of Palo Alto. Although it cannot be compared with Woodside's mountain mansion, it is also very magnificent and spacious. The courtyard covers an area of more than 600 square meters. It is a two-story European-style villa with four bedrooms and six bathrooms. There is no shortage of gym, screening room and private wine cellar.
After following Simon for a few years, although he has not been able to buy it for the time being, it is more than enough to rent such an apartment.
In fact, when she chose to rent this apartment, Girl C still had the idea that Simon might come and stay.
It's just that the man has never been here.
Unexpectedly, a certain little fairy was able to succeed.
Starting the car and driving towards the Atherton area in the twilight, she looked at little Jenny who was no longer strange next to her. Girl C paused, but couldn't help but joked: "It only took 5 minutes?"
5 minutes?
Jennifer Bree suddenly gave Girl C a blank look, and said dissatisfied: "How could Simon be so useless?"
Girl C felt the instinctive protection of a certain man in Little Jenny's tone, shrugged, and asked, "Then what have you all done?""
Little Jenny suddenly felt a little lost again, and said, "Just kiss and touch."
As he said, he stretched out his hand and made two strokes on his jeans. He regretted that he shouldn't wear tight-fitting jeans today.The man wanted to reach in in the car because his clothes were too tight and he couldn't succeed. I don't know if he would be disappointed.
Girl C glanced at Little Jenny's expression, stopped saying anything, and continued to look ahead.
In fact, I am a little envious.
I spent a lot of time with Simon at the beginning, and occasionally took the initiative, but I never succeeded once.
Now, leaving Simon's side, there will definitely be no chance in the future.
For her own boss, Girl C knows very well that whether it is the four of them A, B, C, and D or the housekeeper Alice Ferguson, they are actually very greedy.
Such a dazzling man is so powerful that he can't be more powerful. As long as he is a woman, it is probably inevitable that he will be moved.
I still remember once in New York, I accidentally broke through the scene of Girl A while watching the boxing video of her boss KO dozens of people in a row in the Australian boxing ring while satisfying herself.Later, I also copied a copy of that video, occasionally fantasizing about being severely ravaged by my own boss.
Driving through the streets of San Francisco, Girl C couldn't help but feel a little hot when she thought of this.
Leaving Simon's side, she started her own business. According to the industry's valuation of Tinkobair, Girl C is also worth more than 100 million, so of course there is no shortage of suitors around.It's just that Claire couldn't help but compare the men who pursued her with her boss every time, and then she was a little interested.
If you want to get along with those mediocre men, it's better to be single.
So I am still single until now.
The two women in the carriage fell into their own thoughts and stopped talking for a while.
On the other side, Simon boarded the plane without wasting more than half an hour from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
When Girl A walked into the Boeing 767 front cabin office with coffee, Simon was holding a pencil and writing something in her notebook.
Pouring a cup of coffee and putting it in the man's hand, Girl A paused, and was about to turn around and leave after a while, but was stopped by Simon.
The man gave an order, did not look up for a while, and continued to focus on his work, Alison quietly sat down on the sofa next to the porthole, waiting for Simon's order.
Simon continued to list in his notebook for a while, and finally tore off the next page of paper, and said: "Help me collect these technology-related information, including major manufacturers, patent distribution, industrial scale, etc., as detailed as possible."
Alison agreed, got up and took the page and glanced at it.
The above is a series of technical terms.
Mechanical hard disk, flash memory, thin film LCD, battery, ARM, touch screen...
Following Simon all day today, Girl A knows that most of these are the technologies involved in digital music players.Others, although they didn't quite understand, Alison didn't ask much. Seeing that Simon had picked up a script and looked through it, Girl A turned and left the office.
Behind the desk, looking through a script in his hand, Simon was still sorting out today's work in his mind.
Igrit's US11.5 billion financing plan, once completed, how to plan the money has not been finalized at the small meeting in the afternoon.
However, there is no doubt that an exclusive Igrit office park will be built as soon as possible.
Simon does not have much preference for building a luxurious company headquarters park. The reason for doing so is mainly due to the need for confidentiality.
Igrit's expansion is very rapid, and the company's recruitment has never stopped. Now it has more than 5,300 employees in North America and overseas, most of whom are in Silicon Valley.Because of the lack of a unified office space, a team of thousands of employees can only be dispersed in different office spaces.
The dispersion of office locations has caused poor communication between teams. Secondly, the most important thing is to greatly increase the difficulty of corporate confidentiality.
Igrit launched cloud computing last year. In the actual application process, only Igrit's own business and the closely related Blockbuster Online can enjoy instant flexible space leasing treatment, because the relevant technology is still being improved, while avoiding the rapid follow-up of traditional server and data center manufacturers, and the consideration of obtaining more revenue, ordinary customers generally can only enjoy leasing services similar to traditional server leasing manufacturers.
The difference is that compared with traditional server leasing, the price of the leasing services provided by Igrit is relatively low, and the leasing steps and practical applications are more convenient than traditional server leasing manufacturers.
Even with such a low profile, many details of Eagrit's cloud computing technology have been discovered by other manufacturers. IBM, SUN, Microsoft and other companies have set up related R&D teams.
In this situation, the key lies in the imperfect confidentiality system of Igrit Company, and the decentralized office space is also a major obstacle to the implementation of strict confidentiality regulations by Igrit Company.
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