The sky was densely covered with lead-colored clouds, and the cold wind howled, beating heavily on the window glass of Samsung Electronics.
"What does this mean? President Cui, what does logic mean?"
Lee Jae-yong was shocked when he received Spotify's upgrade notice. How could he refuse to log in to MP3 players? How could he restrict the downloading of songs to Samsung's MP3 players? Is there such an operation?
What's that? It's a mess!
Cui Zhicheng's mouth twitched, "Master, Spotify and iTunes occupy 97% of the European and American digital music market share, while iTunes only has 26.6% because it can only be used by iPods. Samsung has always relied on Spotify for its MP3s."
"President Li, can it really be done technically?"
Lee Jae-yong felt nervous. Spotify not only occupied 70.4% of the share, but also had 1.2 million paid downloads every day. If Samsung could not log in to Spotify...
"I asked the technology department. The logic may be similar to Apple's technology, either with the latest FairPlay protocol and key, or with brute force cracking."
Cui Zhicheng shook his head and sighed, smash it, smash it all!
How can the Internet be so powerful?
Lee Jae-yong knew very little about software and the Internet, otherwise he would not have failed 10 times in starting a business. At this moment, he was caught off guard by Mr. Lu’s trump card, and his mind went blank.
xiaoshuting.org
"President Cui, what do you think we should do?"
"We must report the situation to the president and ask him to make a decision."
Cui Zhicheng weighed his words and said: "I personally think that Samsung cannot afford to lose Spotify. It is no exaggeration to say that our MP3, whether it is Bangzi or MP3, is likely to become a brick that cannot be downloaded when it goes abroad."
"I just limited the supply, and he cut off the supply when he came up."
Li Zaiyong's eyes widened. He had just played a big game, but Mr. Lu just used a watermelon knife to slash the aorta!
"Ah, Xiba, you bastard! Traitor! Evil thief! Bandit! Robber..."
Cui Zhicheng felt aggrieved when he heard the Samsung Prince breaking the bomb, but he could only swallow it in his stomach, comfort and dissuade him.
"Master, we'd better inform the president as soon as possible."
"Wait, wait!"
Lee Jae-yong was shocked. The last lawsuit against Logic failed. Plus this time, it will give Lee Kun-hee the impression of "a tough guy who can't be helped." We will definitely not allow it!
"Master?"
"What I mean is that the president will definitely ask us how to solve it, and we must first think about how to answer it."
"Goodbye, young master! What are your ideas?"
"The digital music market is not limited to Spotify and iTunes. There must be alternatives, and we can support them to break through the monopoly of logic and Apple."
"It's useless, Master."
Cui Zhicheng rolled his eyes disdainfully. Except for Sony, Microsoft and the four major music labels, any music mall or music download service website that opens only supports Logic and Apple music players.
"Wait, where's Amazon?"
Lee Jae-yong’s eyes lit up and he felt that there was a bright future, “Amazon can also download music media files.”
"Master, cooperation negotiations take time."
Cui Zhicheng said: "Spotify will be upgraded in a week, so why not put your time and energy into peace talks with Logic."
"Peace talks? No peace talks, only surrender!"
Lee Jae-yong decided to go to the end with Lu Feigang and continue to reduce production capacity, reducing the supply from 75,000 pieces to 50,000 pieces.
"Still surrendering?"
Cui Zhicheng smiled bitterly and made his interests clear.
Even if all 145,000 production capacity is cut, the logic is only to reduce sales. Samsung has lost almost all markets in Europe and the United States, and its share will definitely be divided up by Philips, Sony, and Apple.
Not to mention completely irritating Lu Fei, does Samsung still want to enter the Chinese market? For the sake of quickness, it is simply crazy!
"Really can not?"
Lee Jae-yong had a sullen face, and his eyes contained murderous intent.
Cui Zhicheng said: "I still have to ask the president for instructions, talk to the president..."
Lee Jae-yong's expression was solemn, "The president is currently in the hospital for rest. Do you want to disturb him?"
"The president is hospitalized?!"
Cui Zhicheng shuddered, almost forgetting that he was the Samsung Crown Prince and would ascend the throne sooner or later to inherit the Samsung Kingdom.
After all, how can there be a 30-year-old prince in the world!
………………
"Mr. Lu, Samsung has cut production again."
When Hu Yuhua came to the office, Lu Fei was looking through personnel resumes, all of which were semiconductor talents that Guo Xing was looking for in the United States.
He raised his eyes and said, "Mr. Hu, how much is this time?"
"25,000."
"Only 25,000? Let him go. Since we are fighting this battle, we must be mentally prepared to cut off the supply and fight him to the end."
Lu Fei was calm and apparently didn't care.
"Mr. Lu, that's what I think. Fighting against each other doesn't mean we'll all die together. If Samsung doesn't do anything, we still have it."
Hu Yuhua suggested: "Toshiba will still hesitate for an order of 70,000 pieces, but it is difficult for Toshiba not to be tempted by an order of 100,000 pieces. Can we release false news, saying that the two companies are conspiring to 'tie the quantity but not the price' in the long-term contract? Samsung
Removed from the logical supply chain?”
"Do the whole thing, plus one more."
Lu Fei rolled his eyes, "Logic is about to reach a strategic partnership with Toshiba and slowly let the wind out."
"I understand, Mr. Lu!"
Hu Yuhua understood this and left resolutely.
"What is virtual is what is real, what is real is what is virtual."
Lu Fei said to himself with a wicked smile. Just as he was about to lower his head, he saw the Foxmail mailbox interface displayed on the computer and suddenly received a letter from Li Fuzhen.
It’s the same tip, and it’s the same notification of production cuts, but there’s one more key piece of information: Samsung is discussing music download cooperation with Amazon.
"Nuna, how do you know?" Lu Fei said in surprise.
"Although I can't interfere with Samsung Electronics, it doesn't mean that I don't have access to information. Besides, it's no longer a secret that you cut off the supply of Samsung MP3 players."
"╮(￣▽￣)╭, Lee Jae-yong insists on messing with me, but Chairman Lee doesn't stop him. I can only educate him on behalf of Chairman Lee. Don't worry, he won't be able to negotiate with Amazon."
"Are you so sure? How to do it?"
"This is a trade secret, (→_→)."
"I'll give you a secret in exchange for a secret. Do you want to know why my dad didn't stop my eldest brother?"
"make a deal!"
Lu Fei made no bones about it and said that Bezos owed him a big favor for brokering the acquisitions of Amazon and Joyo.com.
"You hid it too deeply!"
Li Fuzhen pursed his lips, "Do you know my sister-in-law Lin Shiling?"
Lu Fei raised his eyebrows, "I only know that she is the rich daughter of the Elephant Group and is married to your eldest brother."
"It's not actually a marriage."
Li Fuzhen struggled for a moment and typed: "Elephant started with food additives and was the first in this field. But at that time, Samsung announced its entry into the food field, which caused a great crisis to Elephant. If it continues, Elephant will definitely
We’re doomed to lose.”
"So Chairman Elephant offers his daughter to seek peace?"
Lu Fei rubbed his mouth, it looked like a TV show.
"Yes and no, it was my parents who took a fancy to my eldest sister-in-law and started this business war. The day my eldest brother and sister-in-law got married was also the time when Samsung and Elephant reached a strategic cooperation."
Li Fuzhen bit his lip, feeling sour in his heart.
"Co-author, I am the male version of Lin Shiling? Married to the consort?"
Lu Fei's face was full of astonishment. He had been working on it for a long time. He wanted to show me the power first and see the strength of Samsung. Then he recruited me as his son-in-law and asked me to hug Samsung's lap?
Old guy, five consecutive lightning whips, one after another!
Li Fuzhen hurriedly explained: "But my father really appreciates you, and Yin Xin also really likes you..."
"Nuna, do you like me?"
Lu Fei typed this line coquettishly, but then he thought, it doesn't match his majestic image, how could I be Cao Cao!
Delete this line and force the topic to Line.
"It has been online for 5 days and has 272,000 registered users."
Li Fuzhen couldn't help but be happy: "You can't imagine how crazy your little game is in Bangzi. Even a self-disciplined person like me can't help but log in no matter what."
Lu Fei touched his chin and saw that his initial scores were good or bad.
Bangzi has 29 million Internet users, accounting for 65.5% of the country's 44 million people over the age of 6. With the support of "Happy Farm", it must have at least 5 million users to be considered qualified.
"Nuna, Line payment will be launched in January. During this period, we will continue to increase advertising and promote Yin Xin, focusing on 'a social networking site that even Samsung princesses play', 'Internet entrepreneurial pretty girl', and finally
So that idols and celebrities can register..."
Just after sending the email, Sun Hongjun knocked on the door and entered.
"Samsung again?" Lu Fei raised an eyebrow. "Production reduction again?"
"This time, we have changed our tactics. The accusation is that logically restricting Spotify to purchase and download music through lmusic is unfair commercial competition and is suspected of being illegal."
Sun Hongjun handed over a lawyer's letter, "I want us to send a software upgrade package."
"Want to ask? That's enough!"
Lu Fei glanced at it briefly and threw it into the trash can with disdain, "Tell Samsung, stop wasting paper and issue a court summons directly. Follow logic to the end!"
After saying that, he typed and sent out:
"Nuna, you have to be prepared. This peace negotiation is also a marriage, but the one who sends the princess may be your three stars."
"?????"
Li Fuzhen sent a series of question marks, feeling doubtful.
But soon, the answer was revealed, and Logic and Samsung were in trouble again. Last time, Logic filed a lawsuit against Samsung. The situation has changed. This time, in a New York court, Samsung sued Logic.
Logic is not timid at all. If you want to fight, I will fight!
Before the legal battle, the two sides first fought a public opinion war to gain a moral upper hand. The media of the Donkey Party and the Elephant Party each sided with Samsung and Logic.
Samsung was severely criticized in the elephant party media:
"The logic is overbearing and barbaric. Relying on the monopoly position in the digital music market, it arbitrarily suppresses other music players, especially Samsung players, and prevents Samsung users from logging in to use Spotify, seriously damaging the interests of consumers..."
The New York Times immediately hit back and published the exact words of Saul Goodman, the chief lawyer on the logic side:
"Inserting other companies' products into the ecological chain will cause problems, which will endanger user experience and product quality...
The logic does not endanger any consumer interests. On the contrary, the reason why music players are greatly reduced in price is entirely due to this ‘made in a’ lmusic. While the price is reduced, the product quality is still improving.”
Immediately afterwards, the Donkey Party media, which is also friendly to Silicon Valley, went full fire under the logic of money offensive and reported one after another bad news.
Logic announced that we may have to reduce production and supply in the next few months, or even longer, just because——
Samsung is causing trouble! Samsung is limiting supply!
The war of words between Samsung and Logic did not attract much attention in the United States, and only insiders watched the excitement. However, in each other's home countries, public opinion was fierce and there was a lot of discussion.
In Bangzi, whether online or offline, as expected, netizens overwhelmingly support Samsung regardless of the ins and outs, right or wrong.
[Although I hate Samsung, I hate logic even more]
[Logic, don’t use it for free, rubbish!]
[This software was created by the little princess of Samsung. She specially registered to support a wave of Samsung. Come on Samsung! Defeat logic! 】
[Li Yinxin, our pride]
[Anyone who uses logic is treason...]
Bangzi netizens continued to be enthusiastic and flocked to Line one after another. Taking advantage of the trend of the battle between Samsung and Logic, the traffic and registration volume skyrocketed, and the total number of users easily exceeded 500,000.
It has only been 7 days since launch.
But in China, there is not so much unity. There are a group of people who are reasonable, a group of people who support Samsung, and a group of people who stand for logic. The three groups are arguing from post bars to blogs to BBS. Debates have broken out everywhere on the Internet.
One of them, named "Fang Zhouzi", jumped up and down, posting "Crack down on counterfeiting logic! The OLED screen was promised, but it was an LCD screen!" and so on. A series of anti-counterfeiting posts questioning the logic of MP3, most of which came to nothing.
However, there were a few articles that caused quite a stir, and netizens reposted, commented, liked, and disliked them one after another. The popularity and popularity of the blog increased instantly.
Mr. Lu is busy with big things and doesn't care about small people.
The lawsuit between Logic and Samsung officially opened in New York. It happened to be the same day as the first trial of Baidu and 3721. Two major events at home and abroad collided by accident.
Time passed, and by the end of November, compared to Baidu and 3721, the lawsuit between Logic and Samsung was the first to come to an end——
Logic wins! Samsung loses!
New York court rules that logical behavior is legal!
When the news spread back to Bangzi, the whole country exploded.
The sky above the Samsung Electronics Building was shrouded in clouds, the sun was out, and it was gray and eerie.
All the employees working in the building, facing the haze of failure, were demoralized and unwilling to do anything, and they cursed loudly.
"brat!"
Lee Jae-yong grabbed a pile of folders and threw them out hard, hitting the lawyers standing in a row.
"Trash! The company raised you trash for nothing!"
"Guinsong hey yo (sorry)!"
The lawyers in the legal department lowered their heads and bent their waists to 90 degrees.
Lee Jae-yong said angrily: "Why did you lose!"
Lawyer A replied: "Because what we are suing is that logic monopolizes digital music copyright and suppresses competitors, but logic does not restrict Philips, Apple..."
“Is it legal to restrict Samsung?”
Li Zaiyong grabbed Lawyer A by the collar, his eyes filled with anger.
"Yeah, the logic is very cunning, very cunning."
Lawyer B hurriedly explained that the logical excuse to the outside world was——
Software upgrade packages are all exclusive equipment. The FairPlay certificates and identification keys of Apple and Philips are different. The software R&D department produces other MP3 upgrade packages and you need to wait in line.
It’s just that it’s not Samsung’s turn yet!
Samsung is completely dissatisfied with waiting in line and wants to jump in line!
"Slander! Logic is slandering Samsung!"
Li Zaiyong was startled, with a huge fire in his heart, "You must come up with a way, you must come up with a way to defeat logic!"
The lawyers looked at each other and suggested that the indictment be revised.
The accusation is that Logic released a series of Spotify upgrade packages to prevent music downloaded from Spotify from being loaded into other competitors' music player devices, which is suspected of unfair competition.
"Now that you know how to do it, why not do it quickly!"
Lee Jae-yong shouted at the top of his lungs, his calmness was gone. After losing the public opinion battle, he lost the legal battle, and then lost the supply restriction battle, and then he had no choice but to lose.
Mr. Yinglu, you don’t have this ability!
He paced back and forth angrily and anxiously, not noticing at all the white flakes of snow outside the building, flying down from the sky in scattered pieces.
Suddenly, the landline phone rang.
Bezos made the call himself to show his respect for Samsung.
"Jeff, what do you think? As long as Amazon cooperates with Samsung, we don't want a share of digital music. On the contrary, the benefits will be huge."
Lee Jae-yong seemed to be grasping at a straw and was looking forward to it.
"Sauri, Li, Amazon has signed a contract with Logic to cooperate. Oh, don't call me for the time being. I'm afraid Lu will misunderstand."
After Bezos hung up the phone, the receiver rang "Dududu".
"No! Bezos!"
Lee Jae-yong’s face was twitching and his expression was ferocious and twisted.
It’s logic again, it’s Lu Fei again, why the hell is it always you!
Outside the glass window, snowflakes are flying, the north wind is blowing, and the world is vast~
