After hearing about Jobs, Song Yang was not suspicious. Silicon Valley, technology, and the Internet are actually a circle, and people in this circle can more or less be related to each other.

As for Ken Williams, he will definitely have some relationship with "old friends" such as Jobs, but Song Yang feels that Ken Williams can distinguish the priorities and know how to make choices in major matters.

, whether to choose his career and net worth, or to choose his "old friend", he will definitely make the "right" choice!

"Is Steve Jobs going to return to Apple?" Song Yang also asked Ken Williams. Song Yang met Steve Jobs at the Microsoft Developer Conference last year. He personally stood up for Microsoft and greatly stimulated the Apple board of directors.

Think about it, the founder of Apple actually got together with his sworn enemy, which is equivalent to making the conflict completely public. Steve Jobs's attendance at the Microsoft Developer Conference is almost equivalent to saying that he thinks Microsoft is more important than Apple. For Apple, it is a shame.

Swollen.

In addition, Apple has suffered huge losses in the past two years, with its stock price falling below $10 and a huge loss of nearly one billion U.S. dollars. Its market value has been surpassed by Netscape, which is less than three billion U.S. dollars. Jobs and Microsoft are together, and it is even more...

Rumors began to circulate in countless media that Apple seemed to be close to bankruptcy.

Eileen, who was sitting next to Song Yang, also listened carefully. No matter what happened to Apple, it was still in the technology industry. It was one of the few companies that could challenge Microsoft. To put it bluntly, if Apple failed, Microsoft would probably

My heart will tremble a few times. Without Apple, Microsoft will be sued for monopoly in the operating system field.

As long as Apple still has 1% operating system share, Microsoft can say that it does not have a monopoly. But without this 1%, Microsoft may have to consider when it will be chased and bitten by the crazy dogs of the American Justice Department.

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So at this time, Microsoft is probably even more anxious than Apple's board of directors, and they want to personally go to battle and invite Jobs back to Apple. The last invitation to Jobs was actually a demonstration to Apple, asking them to do some personnel work quickly!

Jobs' return to Apple was promoted by almost all parties. If nothing else happens, once it comes true, it will become one of the annual news in the technology industry, and Eileen will naturally pay some attention to it.

Ken Williams listened to Song Yang's words and shook his head, "I'm not sure. You've also heard of Steve's character. He..."

He hesitated to speak, and Ken Williams paused before saying, "If he returns to Apple, it will be the beginning of Apple's turmoil!"

Williams knew Jobs, and he knew what kind of person Jobs was. Jobs was paranoid and aloof. If he returned to Apple, he would definitely seize the power of Apple. And the people who drove him away before and the current Apple

If the president, directors and the like were not wiped clean by Steve Jobs, he would definitely not announce his return to Apple.

At that time, Apple still doesn’t know what kind of turmoil it will experience, and if Jobs cannot save Apple, then Jobs may be stained with a stain that will never be washed away for the rest of his life. Ken Williams is a little worried about Jobs returning to Apple.

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Song Yang stuffed a few mouthfuls of the party snack, listened to Ken Williams' words, took a sip of brandy, thought for a moment, and then said, "If Steve Jobs returns to Apple, if necessary, I can support him."

he!"

"The Americas Global Investment Fund can subscribe for Apple bonds, and Snow Mountain can publish games for the Apple system, or jointly launch a co-branded computer!"

Listening to Song Yang's words, Ken Williams couldn't help but smile on his face. No matter how important Song Yang's support was, at least this statement was definitely beneficial to Jobs, "I miss Steve, I'm glad to hear that.

Song your statement."

Irene, who was familiar with Song Yang, couldn't help but look suspicious. She knew Song Yang's character and never made a nest without fish. Irene couldn't help but wonder if Song Yang had any thoughts about Apple.

Song Yang really doesn't have much idea about Apple right now. He just wants to make a nest first and take advantage of Apple's low stock price.

Now that Apple is on the verge of collapse, the person who can save Apple, apart from those legendary professional managers, is probably Steve Jobs.

As for being one step ahead of Steve Jobs and acquiring Apple, there is no chance at all. If Song Yang really wants to abandon America Telecom, ICQ, Double Click and other industries, privatizing Apple may be possible, but it is not cost-effective.

Even if you buy it, you probably have to clean up the mess of Apple that is about to go bankrupt. Even if you are as powerful as Steve Jobs, it took a lot of effort to finally bring Apple out of the pit at the turn of the century.

During the mania period, Apple's market value reached US$5 billion, which was still not as good as Netscape today, and even worse than Yahoo!

Investing in Apple now is not only a pitfall, but also for the hardware industry. Apple still has many design masters and supply chain talents. Cooperating with Apple will be of some use to Song Yang's hardware industry, which is still under establishment.

As for whether they will compete in the field of smartphones in the future, that will be at least ten years from now. Who knows what the scene will be like by then. Anyway, in more than ten years, Song Yang’s hardware industry has

If you can't surpass Apple, then there's no need to compete.

The party lasted for half the night. Song Yang, Erin, and the Williamses stayed at the party for a while and then left early. But Mike Mowaimi, Gabe Newell, and the Hauser brothers

, stayed at the party until late at night, and then left with his tired body.

The next day in the American gaming industry, big news came out. Sierra Mountain, which had just been acquired by icq, welcomed back its founders, Mr. and Mrs. Williams. This news quickly spread throughout the entire gaming industry.

After Ken Williams and Roberta became the presidents of Sierra, Sierra announced a reorganization. Blizzard, V Club, and R Star were announced to become the three major game studios under Sierra.

After the reorganization, Xueleshan announced that its main focus will be on game distribution, promotion and game derivatives, that is, publishing games and selling game peripheral products. In addition to traditional game products, there are also game character models.

Posters, game toys, clothing and many other products.

In an interview with ign, a professional gaming media that was just established this year, Ken Williams and Robert declared, "Sierra Mountain will be a brand new beginning. We will provide the best to game players around the world."

Games and experiences, if necessary..."

At the end of the interview, Roberta even said, "Xueleshan will build the world's first game theme park!"

The newly reorganized Xueleshan was so popular that it even called for building a world-class game theme park, with an attitude of not being short of money. This actually made American game users agitated.

Although the suspicion of bragging is high, this operation has allowed Xueleshan, who has been slightly silent in the past two years, to return to the C position in the gaming industry. In view of this, icq's publicity department took the opportunity to stir up the fire again and hired professional

The design company designed a game theme park drawing for Xueleshan, including game characters, derivative movies, game props, snacks, hotels and other complete facilities.

No matter when the construction starts, Xuele Mountain can use the game theme park to increase its popularity every year. The higher the popularity of Xuele Mountain, the more favorable it will be for ICQ to go public!

In addition to hyping up Snow Mountain, Ken Williams and Roberta began to make large-scale adjustments to Snow Mountain's business, both internally and externally.

Ken Williams is responsible for re-signing agreements with Nintendo, Microsoft, Dell and offline game store distributors, etc., so that games and peripheral products published by Sierra can be sold on game consoles, PC computers, and game retail stores at the same time.

Roberta is responsible for helping Blizzard, V Club, and R-Star develop new games and contact other game developers. In addition, Xueleshan also secretly began to develop the "Xueleshan Online" platform.

Before the online development of Xueleshan is completed, Xueleshan will not announce it to the public to avoid affecting the distribution business. After the development of Xueleshan's first digital game platform is completed, publicity and promotion will be carried out directly. It is expected that by the first half of next year, the digital game platform will be launched in the future.

Operating time!

In addition to boasting and secretly preparing to develop Sierra Online and going head-to-head with Nintendo and others, Sierra's other two fires have set the entire game industry on fire.

The "Dawn" plan mentioned by Ken Williams in an interview with ign has also begun to spread widely in the gaming industry. The subsidy of "300 million US dollars" sounds particularly attractive.

The news that "Sueleshan's US$300 million will shine a light on the gaming industry" instantly hit the gaming industry screens.

Almost as soon as the news came out, a large number of small and medium-sized game manufacturers and independent game studios immediately came to the door of Xueleshan.

Even the cooperation conditions of the "Dawn Project" are actually somewhat harsh. If you accept the subsidy from the "Dawn Project", 20% of the revenue from the games developed by the partners will belong to Xueleshan, and the distribution rights will be directly owned by

Xueleshan is the agent, and the game copyright will also be managed by Xueleshan within five years!

Some media questioned that Xueleshan was cutting leeks in disguise, tying all game manufacturers to Xueleshan's chariot, and letting small and medium-sized game manufacturers and independent game studios work for Xueleshan. There are precedents in the film and manufacturer industries!

However, in the face of this kind of doubt, small game manufacturers and independent studios did not run away. On the contrary, overseas game manufacturers also began to come to their door.

The annual subsidy of 30 million U.S. dollars for game development costs is late, but it is about to disappear. As for cutting leeks, there is no game development cost, and I can barely eat, and I still don’t care about leeks.

If the Sugon Project is to make small and medium-sized game manufacturers flock to it, then the subsequent operation of Xueleshan will make the entire game industry uneasy. Nintendo's three major game platforms and several major game manufacturers have all begun to follow suit.

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Chapter completed!