Hollywood Hunter

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Neil Brantley introduced the basic technical details of the iplayer. While playing with the Sony Walkman-sized prototype, Simon asked Lady C, "What is the approximate cost?"

Claire Gein said: "The micro-hard drive used in the prototype has not yet been mass-produced, and other components also need to be customized according to the finished model confirmed in the future. The approximate cost should be controlled at around $200."

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

Once the digital music player is released, the direct competitor means that your an selling price is about $300. Since you want to compete, the starting price of iplayer should also be set at $299. To achieve this goal, the hardware cost of the player should be kept under $150, so as to leave enough marketing and profit margins for Tincobler and all levels of distribution retailers.

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

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

Simon nodded. He was still very impressed by the battle of wits between Apple and the major record giants in his memory.

Recording giants are no less conservative than Hollywood.

Daenerys Entertainment already owns Universal Music.

However, if only this record company provides content support, it is obviously far from enough, and the world's major record giants must join the digital music player camp.

When Sony launched a video recorder, it was directly sued by the major Hollywood studios in court. 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 fields, the rebound of the record giants will definitely not be much lower than that of the Hollywood studios after the advent of the video recorder.

The original timeline saw the rise of the Internet industry in the late 1990s. Due to the wanton dissemination of pirated music on the Internet, the record industry was once severely impacted. Due to their instinctive hostility to the Internet, major record giants are reluctant to promote genuine music on Internet platforms, which further leads to the proliferation of piracy.

In Simon's view, if the major record giants can join forces to promote genuine music through Internet channels, even if piracy is still inevitable, the record industry will not be hit so badly by the Internet. On the contrary, even in Western societies with strong consumer awareness and copyright awareness, once they are accustomed to pirated music on Internet platforms, it will definitely be more difficult to charge for it.

America Online is upgrading its own network services with adsl technology, and other Internet service providers will only follow suit in the next few years.

When the technology upgrade is completed, the Internet speed of ordinary users reaches the minimum level of 256k, and the maximum time to download an mp3 music is only two or three minutes. At that time, Internet pirated music will quickly become popular.

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

Like the videotape industry.

If Hollywood had firmly resisted the popularity of the VCR, there would not have been a huge output value of the videotape industry equivalent to twice the box office of the movie.

However, the reason is easy to understand, and it is not so easy to make conservative record giants follow the trend.

In the end, it's still profit.

Sony used to be the most staunch opponent of Internet digital music. The key is that Sony not only owns Columbia Records, but also has considerable hardware interests in the fields of tape players and CD players.

Thinking of the possible obstacles to the promotion of digital music players in the future, Simon frowned slightly, then quickly relaxed.

Nothing more than soldiers come to block the water and cover the soil.

Since it is determined that digital music is the inevitable development trend of the entire record industry, then go ahead firmly.

No matter how others are.

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

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

Tinkobeier's current flagship product is still digital cameras.

The development of digital music players is only to complete the patent layout in advance, and to launch a formal product, it will not be until next year at the earliest.

Everyone continued to discuss some issues, and before they knew it, it was time to get off work.

Lady C proposed to have dinner together, and Simon agreed.

Everyone left the office building together and agreed on the location of the restaurant. Simon had just gotten into his car parked on the side of the road when Jennifer Bray's petite figure came over to stop the bodyguard who wanted to close the car door, leaning out and looking forward Looking at the man in the car: "Simon, can I take your car?"

Simon originally wanted to explain something to Girl A, but when she saw the little girl came over, she did not refuse, and said with a smile, "Okay."

The man's voice fell, and the little girl got into the car immediately, as if she was worried that someone would take her seat.

In fact, Girl A was behind her, and she was going to take a car with Simon. Seeing this situation, Alison smiled and gestured to Simon in the car, pointed to Girl C, and immediately Turn away.

The bodyguard closed the door outside.

Inside the car, little Jenny groped clumsily, and finally opened the baffles of the rear compartment and the front driver's seat.

Simon looked at the little goblin next to him and smiled, "Actually, I can hear it."

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

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

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

Little Jenny posted a post on Simon again, holding the man's arm and shaking it slightly: "But, you always stayed in San Francisco before?"

"It's different this time," Simon didn't have any distaste for the girl's barely jerky familiarity. Looking at the girl wrapped around him, he smiled again: "It's awkward, it's flat, I don't feel it at all."

Little Jenny didn't feel inferior at all, her chin was on Simon's shoulder, and she said softly with a little seduction of the girl's unique fragrance: "Actually, there are small advantages to being small, feel it, I'm only 12 years old this year. Exciting."

When two thin lips were on his ears, Simon was really stimulated by this pseudo-loli who claimed to be 12 years old but was actually 20 years old.

The car took less than five minutes to reach a nearby restaurant.

When everyone got out of the car, they clearly noticed Jennifer Bray, who was blushing as if she had just experienced something.

However, even though everyone realized what had just happened, the little girl was very sensible and did not stick to Simon as she did when she was in the car. Instead, she lowered her eyebrows and walked over to Lady C to hold Claire's arm, as if she was following her. A shy and shy little girl next to her older sister.

This kind of cover-up was very effective. Except for the two girls a and c, and Neil Brantley, no one else in the restaurant showed any special look to the strange blush on the little girl's face.

After dinner, Simon still didn't stay overnight in San Francisco.

Watching Simon's car leave and parting with Neil Brantley again, Lady C got into a white BMW sedan with little Jenny.

Lady C rented a house in the affluent area of ​​Atherton, north of Palo Alto. Although it cannot be compared with the mountain mansion in Woodside, it is also very stylish and spacious. The courtyard covers an area of ​​more than 600 square meters. A European-style villa with four bedrooms and six bathrooms, as well as a gym, screening room and private wine cellar.

After being with Simon for a few years, although it is not yet possible to buy it, it is more than enough to rent such an apartment.

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

It's just that the man never came.

Unexpectedly, a certain little goblin could succeed.

Started the car and drove towards the Atherton district in the twilight, and looked at the little Jenny beside her, who was no different. Lady C paused, but still couldn't help but asked with some ridicule: "It only took 5 minutes?"

5 minutes?

Jennifer Bray immediately rolled her eyes at Lady C and said dissatisfiedly, "How could Simon be so useless?"

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

Little Jenny suddenly felt a little lost, and said, "Just touch it."

As he said that, he stretched out his hand and stroked his jeans twice, regretting that he shouldn't be wearing tight jeans today. The man tried to reach in in the car, but because the clothes were too tight, he couldn't succeed. I don't know if he would be disappointed.

Lady C glanced at Jenny's expression, stopped saying anything, and continued to look ahead.

Actually a little envious.

I spent a lot of time with Simon at the beginning, and occasionally took the initiative, but never succeeded.

Now, he has completely left Simon's side, and he will definitely have no chance in the future.

As for her own boss, C girl is very clear, whether it is their side of abcd or the housekeeper Alice, they are actually very envious.

Such a dazzling man is too strong to be stronger, as long as it is a woman, it is probably inevitable that he will be moved.

I still clearly remember a scene in New York where I inadvertently crashed into a girl while watching the video of my boss's continuous KO boxing video of ten people in the Australian boxing stadium while satisfying himself. Later, I copied a copy of that video, and occasionally fantasized about the scene of being pressed and ravaged by my own boss.

Driving through the streets of San Francisco, girl C thought of this, and felt a little feverish involuntarily.

After leaving the Westeros family, starting her own business, and owning a fortune of billions, C girl now has a large group of suitors around her. It's just that Claire couldn't help comparing the men who pursued her with her own boss, and then she lost interest.

If you want to get along with those mediocre men, it is better to be single alone.

So still single.

The two women in the carriage fell into their own thoughts and stopped talking for a while.

On the other hand, Simon got on the plane and didn't waste the half hour from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

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

Pour a cup of coffee for Simon

Putting the coffee by the man's hand, Lady A paused and was about to turn to leave, but was stopped by Simon.

The man gave an order, did not look up for a while, and continued to focus on his work, Alison quietly sat down on the sofa next to the porthole, waiting for Simon's enrichment.

Simon continued to enumerate on the notebook for a while, and finally tore off a page and said, "Help me collect information about these technologies, including major manufacturers, patent distribution, industry scale, etc., and be as detailed as possible."

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

Above is a series of technical terms.

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

Following Simon all day today, girl a knows that many of these are technologies involved in digital music players. The other item, although he didn't quite understand it, Alison didn't ask any more. Seeing that Simon had picked up a script and looked it up, Lady A quietly turned and left the office.

Behind the desk, flipping through a script in his hand, Simon is still sorting out today's work in his mind.

Once completed, Igret’s $1.5 billion financing plan, how to plan this money, has not been finalized at the small meeting in the afternoon.

First, though, a dedicated Igreit corporate office park needs to be built.

Simon doesn't have much preference for building luxurious corporate headquarters buildings. The reason for doing so is mainly due to the need for secrecy.

Igret has expanded so rapidly that the company has never stopped hiring, and now has more than 5,300 employees. Due to the lack of a unified office space, more than 5,000 employees can only be dispersed in different office spaces.

Distributed office locations, resulting in poor communication between teams are second, and the most important thing is that it greatly increases the difficulty of corporate confidentiality.

Igreat launched cloud computing last year. In the actual application process, only Igreat's own business and the closely related Blockbuster Online can enjoy instant flexible space leasing treatment, because its own technology is still improving, while avoiding traditional With the rapid follow-up of server and data center manufacturers, and the consideration of obtaining more income, ordinary customers can generally only enjoy services similar to those of traditional server leasing manufacturers.

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

Even if it is so low-key, many details of Igreat's cloud computing technology are still detected by other manufacturers, and they have begun to follow up accordingly.

To a large extent, this matter lies in the fact that the secrecy system of Igret Company is not perfect, and the scattered office space is also a major obstacle that restricts Igret Company from implementing strict confidentiality measures.

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