"The New York Times": "Huaxia Continent brings China's 'Apple' and logic into America."
"Washington Post": "Lighter, more technological, and cheaper, Logic MP3 proves that 'Made in China ≠ Low Quality.'"
"Seattle Times": "Big iPod crisis! The iron throne of the global personal portable digital audio market is facing the strongest challenger..."
Countless newspapers, radio stations, and TV networks have launched fierce campaigns, but none of them are as shocking as the sales figures. From the first week of launch on December 20, a total of 73,900 units were sold. In just three days before and after Christmas, with 6.14
10,000 units broke the US MP3 market sales record.
The first batch of 50,000 fantasy1 units with a mileage of 100,000 miles were all sold out.
In the offices of Sony Music, Andy Lack took a cold breath as he picked up the latest issue of Billboard magazine.
"Numb" turned out to be No. 1 on both charts. It topped the Alternative Songs Chart and also broke "In".
the
end" record, ranking first on the singles chart.
"Billboard evaluates the new hard rock force that is undoubtedly the new force in hard rock to win next week's sales, but it is also boosted by off-site factors."
The secretary looked in disbelief, "This off-site factor should be the logic of cooperation. It's really crazy. MP3s for 99 US dollars and 199 US dollars are actually selling better than cassettes. Damn it."
"You can only listen to one song on a tape, but you can listen to countless songs on an MP3 every day."
With a solemn look on his face, Andy Lac opened the newly downloaded Spotify on his desktop. As soon as the interface appeared, his tense nerves suddenly relaxed.
It is not much different from iTunes, it just has an additional community chat function, but there is always an ominous feeling hovering around it.
He left everything behind, no matter hardware or software, it’s none of my business!
I'm only responsible for the music business!
However, Apple cannot ignore its own concerns.
Although my thigh is still a computer, the iMac launched
The G4 is an all-in-one computer with a screen suspended on a semicircular host base. It's amazing, but it's useless. The stock price fell to $14.33, and 40% evaporated in a year.
iPod is another leg of Apple, so there is no room for failure!
"New York, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and other major metropolitan areas are all covered with lmusic?"
"lMusic has very high sales on Amazon and Newegg, and the praise rate exceeds our iPod?"
"Microsoft has taken a stake in the Internet music instrument software that supports Windows systems, Spotify?fuxk!"
"..."
As the marketing department reported that a large number of iPods were unsold at Christmas, and more and more information emerged, Apple executives, including Jobs himself, suddenly realized that a Chinese dragon had quietly crossed the Pacific and attacked half of the MP3 market.
Go against it, go against it, China has created the Devourer!
Jobs looked gloomy. The news he received from Doug Morris was that Microsoft assisted Spotify to compete with iTunes, and online McDonald's competed with music vending machines. He never expected that in addition to software, hardware would compete with hardware.
He rudely terminated the regular meeting, leaving only Riccio, the president of the hardware department, and Jonathan Ivey, the chief designer.
Riccio looked serious, "Steve, it must be Microsoft's conspiracy!!"
Jobs stroked the stubble on his chin, "According to the information I have, the root of all this is not in Microsoft, but in logic. The Chinese mainland connects record companies, Microsoft, retailers, and Amazon. He is
We did it all under our noses.”
"I knew it, I knew it, how could it be possible with Ballmer's donkey-like IQ?"
Riccio felt deeply pressured and couldn't help but sigh: "Microsoft has found a terrible ally. We are in big trouble now. I don't think iPod2 or even iPod3 has an advantage, do you, Ivy?"
"Yeah~"
Jonathan Ivey frowned. The three people present had all seen the iPod 3 and knew it well, so they added a sophisticated touch wheel and base interface to the iPod 2.
Apart from that, from appearance to performance, they cannot be said to be exactly the same, but at least they are almost the same.
Jobs remained silent. Although he didn't want to admit it, he acquiesced in his heart that if lMusic could beat the iPod 2, it could beat the iPod 3!
"It's too late to go back and redo it. The press conference is at the end of April. All we can do now is lower the price and support the trade-in of old items for new ones..."
Riccio had no choice but to use price cuts to offset lmusic's price advantage.
Jobs looked the vice president in the eye, put aside his previous violent temper, and immediately told him to get out.
But it had already learned a lesson with the Macintosh. Because of the excessively high price, Microsoft refused to lower the price, so Microsoft seized the opportunity to launch Windows 1.0, leading to -->>
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Sales were sluggish, and he was famously ousted from the board of directors.
Lu Fei was the first to force him and Apple to cut prices!
"Huh~"
Riccio and Jonathan Ivey were relieved to see the dictator make a rare concession.
Jobs narrowed his eyes. In addition to cutting prices, he also wanted to use black public relations.
Use "made
in
china" belittles Logic's brand value. After all, it is recognized that the quality of China's products is average, has no core technology, is low-end and cheap.
"We don't have to do it ourselves. We can let magazines like Wired do it. They are the professionals."
Riccio readily agreed that the biggest threat right now is Spotify, the roadblock to iTunes' dominance of the digital music market.
"Steve, since you agree that iPod is compatible with Windows, you should also agree that iTunes is compatible. Let more non-Mac users use it. Spotify is not compatible with MacOS. This will be our advantage."
Jobs carefully considered it and even compromised on lowering the price. There was nothing else he couldn't compromise on.
After a while, he nodded, "You have to come up with these plans before the press conference." He looked at Jonathan Ive and said, "Next time on iPod 4, I don't want to see compromises. You understand me.
mean?"
"certainly!"
Jonathan Ive solemnly replied that he did not believe that a small piece of logic could challenge the elephant Apple, it just happened to take a nap. New
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"China is a sleeping dragon. When it wakes up, the world will tremble!"
Lu Fei was overjoyed when he received the good news from Sun Hongjun.
Performance, bonuses, year-end bonuses, sales commissions, a bunch of benefits, no one in the vanguard should be missing. The more you work, the more you get, the more capable you get. If you want a horse to run, you must feed it.
"When the United States opened up the situation, the European and American markets came into full play. Europe also won France, Italy, and Spain..."
Sun Hongjun's tone was filled with excitement, and the opportunity to exceed one million sales was right in front of him.
"Can the supply chain guarantee supply? Can Toshiba and Samsung's NADA flash memory production lines be negotiated?"
Lu Fei got into the Audi and pinched the Qingming point on the bridge of his nose with his fingers to relieve fatigue.
"Little Neon is not very happy and is worried that the technology will flow into China. Samsung instead invited us to go to Bangzi Country for face-to-face talks."
Sun Hongjun asked about the specific time of the visit.
"This matter will be left until the end of the year. We won't be able to discuss it for a while. I have more important things to do now."
Lu Fei, driven by Wang Ben, arrived at a warehouse.
During this period, he acted as a storekeeper and devoted his energy to supplies. He lent money to the Second Hospital of Beijing Medical University to prepare 15 million yuan in supplies, including 20 ventilators.
It's all out of my own pocket, and I don't have much money on hand. Most of it is the royalties from the book and Qilixiang's dividends. If I invest this money, it will be at least 15 courtyard houses, or more than 5% of Maotai shares.
But is this a matter of money?
I want to order another batch, but I’m afraid I can’t explain it if I stock up too much.
Halfway through his inspection, he felt his body couldn't hold on any longer and ended up going home early.
In the yard, Lu Yun, wearing a crisp suit, was about to go out. When he saw his younger brother looking tired, he said with concern:
"Second brother, why are you so tired? What have you been busy with lately!"
"Hey, I'm busy." Lu Fei waved his hand and spoke vaguely.
"You can't make enough money, and you only have one life, why are you working so hard?" Lu Yun helped him into the bedroom, feeling heartbroken.
"The fate of many people is tied to me, and I can't let them down."
Lu Fei grinned weakly, took off his clothes and lay on the bed. In fact, he was hiding something, and he might even have a share in the fate of the country.
"Soak some glucose and drink it while it's hot."
Xiao Hongmei held a bowl of light yellow water, "How about I don't accompany you to the Spring Festival Gala to bid, and I stay and take care of A Fei?"
"I'll be fine after just a nap. Besides, there's Brother Wang here."
After Lu Fei finished drinking, he yawned and urged them on their way to grab another Spring Festival Gala winner. Then he fell asleep and made the sign "Tai".
Xiao Hongmei retreated out of the room, worried, "We still have to leave someone alone. We women can handle some things more carefully."
"Why don't we take the sea route?" Lu Yun thought that the hot pot restaurant was not doing well, so she should have this time.
Xiao Hongmei pondered for a moment, "I'll make this call."
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