Hollywood Hunter

The basic technical details introduced by Neil Brantley, Simon playing with a prototype of the size of a Sony Walkman Walkman in his hand, asked Girl C: "How much does it cost?"

Claire Gein said: "The micro hard disk used in the prototype has not yet been mass-produced, and other parts need to be customized according to the final model confirmed in the future. The approximate cost should be able to be controlled at about $200."

Simon shook his head slightly: "It's a little tall."

Once the digital music player is released, the direct competitor is your Walkman Walkman. The Walkman in North America will cost about $300. Since you want to compete, the starting price should also be set at $299.To achieve this goal, the hardware cost of the player should be controlled within 150 US dollars, so as to leave enough marketing and profit space for Tinkerbair and distribution retailers at all levels.

Now, the hardware cost is $200. To ensure the promotion and profit of the machine, the retail price needs to be set at $400.

Claire understands why Simon said so: "In recent years, the development of hard disk technology and thin-film liquid crystal technology have been rapid, and the cost has continued to decline. If we launch an official product next year, the cost should still be reduced. . Simon, I think the biggest obstacle facing this machine is the music copyright issue."

Simon nodded, and he was still very impressed by the memory of Apple's fighting wits with major recording giants.

The record giant is as conservative as Hollywood.

Daenerys Entertainment already owns Universal Records.

However, if only this record company provides content support, it is obviously not enough. It is necessary to join the major music giants of the world in the digital music player camp.

When Sony launched the video recorder, it was directly brought to court by the big Hollywood studios. In the end, although it won the lawsuit, it lost the market.

Once the digital music player is launched, in order to protect the interests of physical records and related hardware, the record giants will definitely not rebound much less than the Hollywood studios after the emergence of video recorders.

The original timeline, the rise of the Internet industry in the late 1990s, due to the wanton spread of Internet pirated music, the record industry was severely impacted.The major record giants are reluctant to promote genuine music on the Internet platform out of instinctive hostility to the Internet, which further caused the proliferation of piracy.

In Simon's view, if the major record giants can unite to promote genuine music through the Internet channels, even if piracy is still inevitable, the record industry will not be as severely affected by the Internet.On the contrary, even a Western society with strong consumer awareness and copyright awareness, once accustomed to pirated music on the Internet platform, and then want to charge, will definitely be more difficult.

AOL is upgrading its network services with ADSL technology, and other Internet service providers will only follow up in the next few years.

When the technology upgrade is completed, the average user's Internet speed reaches the minimum level of 256K, and the longest time to download an MP3 music takes only two or three minutes. By then, Internet pirated music will quickly spread.

The best way to avoid the impact of Internet pirated music on the record industry is to provide a genuine music sales platform.

Just like the video tape industry.

If Hollywood had resolutely resisted the popularity of video recorders, there would be no huge output value of the video tape industry equivalent to twice the box office.

However, it is easy to understand the truth. It is not so easy to make the conservative record giant follow the trend.

In the final analysis, it is still interests.

Once Sony was the strongest opponent of digital music on the Internet. The key is that Sony not only owns Columbia Records, but also has a huge hardware interest in the fields of tape players and CD players.

Thinking of the obstacles that may be faced in the future to promote digital music players

Nothing but soldiers came to cover the water.

Now that digital music is the inevitable development trend of the entire record industry, then go firmly.

Regardless of others.

What's more, he is not without chips in his hands.

Thinking of this, Simon made up his mind to focus more on the recording business of Daenerys Entertainment. In the past two years, most of his attention has been on the business fields of movies and other businesses. Although he took over Universal Records, this Subsidiaries have not developed much.

Tinkerbair’s current flagship product is still a digital camera.

The development of digital music players is just to complete the patent layout in advance, and want to launch a formal product, as early as next year.

Everyone continued to discuss some issues, and it was time to get off work unconsciously.

Girl C proposed to have dinner together, and Simon agreed to come down.

Everyone left the office building together and agreed on the location of the restaurant. Simon had just got on his car parked on the roadside, and the petite figure of Jennifer Bray gathered around to stop the bodyguard who wanted to close the door and looked forward to the small body. Looking at the man in the car: "Simon, can I take your car?"

Simon also wanted to explain some things to girl A. When she saw the little girl coming together, she didn't refuse and smiled and said, "Okay."

The man's voice fell, and the little girl immediately got on the car, as if worried about being robbed.

In fact, girl A was behind her, and was supposed to be in a car with Simon. Seeing this, Alison gestured to Simon in the car with a smile, and pointed to girl C. Turn around and walk away.

The bodyguard closed the door outside.

In the compartment, Jenny clumsily fumbled for a while, and finally hit the tailgate of the rear compartment and the front driver's seat.

Simon looked at the little goblin's movements beside him and smiled, "Actually I can still hear it."

Jennifer blinked, with a little cunning in his eyes: "As long as you can't see it."

With that said, the small body approached the man and asked, "Simon, will you stay in San Francisco tonight?"

Simon turned off the talker connected to the driver's seat and shook his head: "No, I have to go home on time at night."

Little Jenny put a post on Simon's body again, holding the man's arm and shaking slightly: "But, you used to stay in San Francisco before?"

"It's different this time," Simon didn't dislike the girl's almost unobtrusive acquaintance, looked at the girl who was wrapped around him, and laughed again: "It's awkward, flat, it doesn't feel anything at all."

Little Jenny didn’t feel inferior at all, her chin knocked on Simon’s shoulder, she sighed the girl’s unique fragrance, and whispered with a little whisper: "Actually, there are also small benefits of being small, you feel it, I am only 12 years old this year Exciting."

When two thin lips dangle on his ears, Simon is really stimulated by the fake loli who claims to be 12 years old and actually 20 years old.

The car arrived at a nearby restaurant in less than five minutes.

Everyone noticed Jennifer Bray, who blushed as if she had just experienced something, after getting off the bus.

However, even though everyone realized 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 down to the girl C and held Claire's arm, as if to follow A shy little girl beside her big sister.

This kind of disguise is very effective. Except for the two girls A and C and Neil Brantley, the rest of the restaurant did not show any special look to the strange blush on the girl's face.

After dinner, Simon still did not stay in San Francisco.

Looking at Simon's car to leave, and Neil Brantley, C girl and Jenny together got into a white BMW sedan.

Girl C rented a house in the affluent area of ​​Atherton in the north of Palo Alto. Although it could not be compared with the woodside mansion in Woodside, it was also very grand and spacious. The courtyard covered more than 600 square meters. The European-style villa has four bedrooms and six bathrooms, and the gym, screening room and private wine cellar are no shortage.

After several years with Simon, although it was temporarily unavailable, it was more than enough to rent such an apartment.

In fact, when I chose to rent this apartment, C girl had the idea that Simon might come to stay overnight.

It's just that men have never been here.

I didn't expect a little goblin to succeed.

The car was driven towards the Atherton area in the twilight, and looked at the little Jenny who was no stranger next to her lower body. Girl C paused, but she couldn't help but ask with some ridicule: "It's only used, 5 minutes?"

5 minutes?

Jennifer Breton immediately gave the girl C a white look and was dissatisfied: "How could Simon be so useless?"

Girl C felt the instinctive protection of a man in Jenny's tone, shrugged, and asked, "So what have you done?"

Little Jenny suddenly lost, and said: "Just touch it."

He also stretched out his hand and made two strokes on his jeans. I regretted that I shouldn't wear tight jeans today.The man wanted to reach in the car because the clothes were too tight to succeed, and I wonder if he would be disappointed.

Girl C glanced at Jenny's expression and stopped talking, continuing to look ahead.

Actually, I was envious.

At first, I spent a lot of time with Simon, and occasionally took the initiative, but I did not succeed at all.

Now, if you completely leave Simon's side, there will definitely be no chance in the future.

For her boss, Girl C is very clear, whether they are ABCD or the housekeeper Alice, they are actually very greedy.

Such a dazzling man is so powerful that as long as she is a woman, she will inevitably be emotional.

I still clearly remember once in New York, inadvertently smashing A girl while watching my boss’s boxing video of ten consecutive KOs in the Australian boxing ring while satisfying his own scene.Later, I copied a copy of the video, and occasionally imagined the scene of being ruined by his boss under him.

Driving through the streets of San Francisco, Girl C thought of this and felt a little fever in her body.

After leaving the Westeros family and starting his own business, with hundreds of millions of net worth, girl C is now surrounded by a large group of suitors.It's just that Claire couldn't help but compare the men who pursued himself with his boss, and then he was a little interested.

If you want to get along with those mediocre men, you might as well go alone.

So he is still single until now.

Both 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 half an hour from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

When Girl A walked into the office in the front cabin of the Boeing 767 with coffee, Simon was holding a pencil and writing something in the notebook.

Poured a cup of coffee for Simon and put it by the man's hand. Girl A paused. She was about to turn away and was stopped by Simon.

The man instructed, without looking up for a while, and continued to concentrate on his work, Alison sat quietly on the sofa next to the porthole, waiting for Simon's enrichment.

Simon continued to enumerate in his notebook for a moment, and finally tore off a page of paper, saying: "Help me collect these technology-related information, including the main manufacturers, patent distribution, industrial scale, etc., as much as possible."

Alison agreed, got up and took a look at the paper.

The above is a list of technical terms.

Mechanical hard disk, flash memory, thin film LCD, battery, ARM, touch screen...

Today, I was with Simon, and girl A knew that many of them were related to digital music players.In addition, although I didn’t quite understand it, Alison didn’t ask much. Seeing that Simon had picked up a script and turned it over, girl A turned quietly and left the office.UU reading www.uukanshu.com

Behind the desk, he turned over and looked at a script, and Simon still sorted out the work today.

Igreat’s $1.5 billion financing plan, once completed, how to plan the money, has not been finalized at the afternoon small meeting.

However, it is necessary to construct an exclusive office park of Igret.

Simon does not have much preference for building a luxurious corporate headquarters building. The reason for this is mainly due to the need for confidentiality.

The expansion of Igret is too rapid, and the company's recruitment has never stopped, and it currently has more than 5,300 employees.Due to the lack of a unified office space, more than 5,000 employees can only be scattered in different office spaces.

The decentralization of office locations leads to poor communication between the teams. The most important thing is to greatly increase the difficulty of confidentiality.

Igrid launched cloud computing last year. In the actual application process, only Igrid’s own business and closely linked Blockbuster Online can enjoy instant flexible space lease treatment because its own technology is still constantly improving, while avoiding traditional Of server and data center vendors follow up quickly, and considering gaining more revenue, ordinary customers generally can only enjoy services similar to traditional server rental vendors.

The difference is that compared with traditional server leasing, Igreat provides a lower leasing service price and is more convenient in terms of capacity expansion.

Even with such a low profile, many details of Igrid's cloud computing technology are still being explored by other manufacturers, and they have begun to follow up accordingly.

This matter is largely due to the fact that the company's confidentiality system is not yet perfect, and the decentralized office space is also a major obstacle restricting the company's implementation of strict confidentiality measures.