Global monopoly of technology

However, even the price of $0.59 was caused by Luo Sheng and the record company. The record company agreed to license Bluestar Technology, but there were also many restrictions on interference in the agreement, such as the price of digital music. , Because the terms of the agreement are based on share, if the sale is too cheap, the record company will make less.

Apple’s iTunes is priced at $0.99. It is also an agreement reached with the record company after a lot of talk. There is no way. The copyright is in the hands of the record company. At present, the digital music market occupies too little market share, and naturally has less right to speak.

In this regard, the record company is very stubborn and has a clear attitude. The price you want to sell is your business. You subsidize it yourself. The achievement of each song sold is implemented at the current Apple standard price of $0.99.

Luo Sheng didn't talk to the record company. He hadn't got a firm foothold at the moment, so he had to temporarily confess to these uncles, threatening to withdraw the copyright and interrupt the authorization at every turn. Luo Sheng also had no good way to use them.

I had no choice but to make no more money. The share of song sales was divided into 60% for the record company at $0.99, but the actual sales were $0.59. In other words, Luo Sheng’s decision was equivalent to every song sold on the MusicSpace platform. He is now losing $0.004, and the higher the sales, the more the company will lose.

The purpose of this is to make iTunes uncomfortable. Luo Sheng can now completely accept that the MusicSpace platform does not earn a point, or even lose money, for the purpose of competing for users.

But Apple has tasted the sweetness of the iTunes+iPod combination, and suddenly wants to lower the price, which means that iTunes has made half of its profits. As a listed company, Apple's current stock price is in the full sprint stage.

With iTunes's hundreds of millions of users, this is not a small sum. The iTunes+iPod combination has brought Apple's $10 billion in revenue in the past three years.

The price does not mean that the price can be lowered immediately. It is not an easy task to let a person take out the benefits of the food and get half of it.

Luo Sheng’s combo boxing, if the competitor is able to cover all aspects, they will deal with them in a timely manner and successfully stabilize them. There is no omission. There is nothing to say. You can only say that you are great. Then look back and think about new tricks. PK.

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The international version of MusicSpace was launched for more than a week, and on the eighth day, it successfully exceeded 1 million users. Luo Sheng's cost of nearly 200 million US dollars was questioned by investors, and they were shocked by the news just now.

With the launch of MusicSpace for a week, Luo Sheng once again asked investors to shut their mouths obediently and established his authority by "slapping" investors over and over again.

Investors are very excited now, because MusicSpace's brilliant start results allow them to see the possibility of competing with Apple's iTunes, and this possibility is higher than they originally expected.

We must know that Apple relied on the iTunes+iPod combination to complete its turnaround after entering the new century, and it made a lot of money. Many people are enthusiastic about it.

There is no doubt that several major investors in Bluestar Technology hope that Luo Sheng can eat a piece of fat from Apple.

The growth momentum of MusicSpace really makes Apple feel the pressure. Although the current size is not proportional to iTunes, just look at the growth curve of other Internet products under Bluestar Technology. Not paying attention to it is definitely a brain trap. .

So far, the products launched by Bluestar Technology have not failed, even if the Reddit.com website has become more and more popular.

Sometimes, it's really annoying to be in the same position.

On the tenth day after MusicSpace went live, Apple hurriedly announced that it would launch a new version of iTunes, the Windows version. PC users will also be able to use the iTunes product. Obviously, they feel the pressure. MusicSpace is coming on a fierce situation. If you are indifferent to it, PC The market is the world of opponents.

However, the gang leader Qiao is still very arrogant and disdains some new innovative features of MusicSpace. At least not now, nor is he eager to fight against the other party to burn money. First, there is too much resistance, and second, now it’s too bad. The size of the two parties is not proportional. Besides, MusicSpace came out. Although it has a bright start and attracted the attention of Apple, the threat has not yet reached the point where iTunes is pushed to life or death.

In May, Luo Sheng was widely reported by many media in North America. Among them, "Silicon Valley" magazine directly published an article to further expand his popularity in Europe and America.

In the report, the cover of the attached characters is particularly eye-catching. They are Luo Sheng and Jobs. The cover emphasizes the age of both parties. The former was born in 1985 and is now 19 years old, and the latter is in 1955 and is now 49 years old.

Whenever media reports mention Luo Sheng, it is inevitable to use more or less pen and ink to emphasize his age. In the lines, he is amazed at his young age and current achievements.

Luo Sheng was dubbed the "Son of the Internet" by the "Silicon Valley" magazine. His rapid rise in the Internet field changed the situation where a new model was born in Silicon Valley and proved to be successful in the past, and the copying of the country was also successful. .

Now a group of people in the global Internet community are racing to imitate him. The biggest contribution is the like function. Now almost every website has this function after the updated version.

And with the launch of the product, a large wave of follow-up in the domestic Internet industry is coming, Tengxun immediately established the [QQ Music] project, and there are other start-up companies, such as [] project, [Music] projects have been launched.

Although most people in the industry have mocked Luo Sheng for being so stupid and money, but the ridicule is ridiculed, and it does not hinder following the trend, especially after seeing the wind reviews in Silicon Valley.

It has to be said that most of the so-called senior practitioners in the domestic Internet industry take the Silicon Valley's wind reviews very seriously, as if it has become an unwritten standard.

Precisely because of this, placing Bluestar Technology and Luo Sheng in an incomparably peculiar position has made domestic Internet professionals feel very complicated. They are a little dissatisfied but have to accept it. Even a small number of industry professionals have a distorted mentality. Luo Sheng is a foreigner and they are more willing to accept it, but Luo Sheng is a completely Chinese, they find it difficult to accept it.

Even the higher the achievements of Bluestar Technology and Luo Sheng, the more unhappy they are. But if you don't accept it, you have to accept that the Silicon Valley technology circle is following suit.

The domestic Internet can be regarded as a barren era in this era. Bluestar Technology has become the target of many Internet entrepreneurial teams to imitate. There is an unwritten consensus in the industry now, no matter what it is, as long as Luo Sheng is doing it, then Follow up boldly, yes.

Let’s not talk about whether following the wind can be famous, but one thing can be guaranteed. At least it is much easier to follow the wind and Luo Sheng to attract investment than not. Sell ​​the product to the other party.

There are still a lot of smart people. Many followers actually didn't think about doing it for a long time. Instead, they did it first, and then waited for Bluestar Technology to merge in the future, or be acquired by other large companies, and finally cash out.

Investors like Luo Sheng's entrepreneurial team very much, which is also a very important factor.

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