Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Chapter 1040 Yahoo listing

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Without comparison, one would not realize the difference between superior and inferior.

For consumers, the traditional recording industry has a lot of criticism.

For example, in a record bought, there are often only one or two really good works, and the rest of the works are all rounded up.

Consumers have been accustomed to endure it, but when the Internet tide hits their faces, they are unwilling to accept this overlord rule.

With Tangit’s methodical advancement, digital multimedia technologies including digital music have matured; the p2p network, which has revolutionized Internet data transmission and information sharing, is out of control; the open source community is becoming more and more active…

With such conditions, sharing digital music via the Internet has become a common practice.

Music works are no longer fixed on tapes, CDs, etc., traditional physical carriers that must be purchased all by the record company as before. Instead, they are used by people with professional system conditions, or just out of pure Share the heart of music, or with the purpose of attracting website traffic, convert it into a digital music format and put it on the Internet for everyone to download.

In this way, music lovers no longer need to contribute a whole record sales to the record company just for a piece of their favorite work.

The actual situation is more than that. Music lovers can go one step further and collect their favorite works together to become a truly personalized “golden ensemble”.

Of course, most of this kind of music sharing via the Internet is unauthorized.

The record company has been weak in this regard. The idea that everything can be done for granted with a single complaint is as naive as believing that the police can solve the case 100%.

This contradiction is somewhat similar to the industry shock caused by video tapes a decade ago.

Not to mention that Hollywood companies now regard the distribution of film and video tapes as an important source of income, but at the time they were worried that people would not go into the movie theaters and would want to get rid of the video tapes.

This situation seems a bit ridiculous, but in the face of interests, foresight is not necessarily indispensable.

Compared with the record companies at this stage, who are confused about the “monster” of “Internet + digital music”, Tang Huan is like a mirror in his heart. It is time for the upgraded version of the Walkman and the digital music player to take the lead. On the stage of history.

Perhaps, in the original time and space, the more familiar name for this product was “mp3”, which was directly referred to by a digital music format.

Obviously, the current “mp3” digital music format, just like “vcd”, has undergone very different changes with the layout of Tangit.

For example, among the audio compression and decompression standards controlled by Zheru, although the “mp3” digital music format still uses a lossy compression algorithm, it also natively supports digital copyright protection and is open to the open source community.

It is no exaggeration to say that with Tang Huan’s current reserves of technical resources, digital music players are nothing at all!

Software aspect: digital music format, mature long ago; operating system, ready-made…

In terms of hardware: risc microprocessor, 1.8-inch micro hard drive, flash memory, battery…all are also ready!

In terms of content: With the completion of Yanle Entertainment Group’s acquisition of PolyGram and the emergence of the world’s largest music group, this most important condition has also begun to be brought under control.

On the market side: Jobs has been taken care of for so many years, it’s time to work for the promotion of digital music players!

The greater the degree of control over technical resources, the more the richest man has the experience: technology is not everything, and aspects other than technology are equally vital to success.

Take the digital music player as a product itself, Tang’s it Kingdom has long been able to come out. But if it doesn’t have enough music content support, it’s a useless pocket “brick”; if you don’t have the absolute right to speak in the music industry, you feel that the small miscellaneous fish on the Internet that infringes on their copyrights is a traditional record company that does not keep their hands. It just happened to find an easy-to-capture “bird in the early stage” to start.

When these problems have been resolved, how to kick Sony from the altar position in the walkman field is now before us. And Steve Jobs, who has already begun to make Apple computers rejuvenate, just preliminarily proved that he has the skills to make digital music players reshape consumer fashion.

At the briefing on the acquisition and reorganization of PolyGram by Yanle Entertainment Group, Steve Jobs, an enthusiast of Bob Dylan’s music, was invited to attend, and unsurprisingly, he showed strong plans for the secret plan of digital music players. interest of.

After Polygram CEO Alan Levy initially introduced the plan to digitize music and store it online, Steve Jobs, who nodded frequently, said: “In this way, the link now is in the hands of a music lover. The end product of the world, the digital music player.”

The richest man teased the other party, “It seems that you are very interested in this direction?”

Jobs shrugged, and asked, “Isn’t it just for this purpose that you pulled me over?”

Tang Huan laughed and affirmed Jobs’ performance after returning to Apple Computer without any trouble. “During this period, Apple Computer’s product line has been greatly streamlined and regained its vitality; especially according to your’manufacturing look.’ Unlike the concept of a computer, imac’s new products are very popular in the market, which in turn enables Apple Computer to show the unique quality of being innovative more than a decade ago.”

Jobs, who is no longer in the second grade like more than a decade ago, remained quite calm in front of the richest man and replied indifferently: “Behind all of this lies the excellent technical architecture provided by Tang and Zheru as the foundation. Apple Computer just repackaged it in the way it was best at, and launched it again.”

Tang Huan smiled, and pointed meaningfully: “You have been an old shareholder in Zheru for more than ten years, so why bother you, you and me!”

After Steve Jobs hey, he was silent.

As the chariot tied to the Tang’s it kingdom became tighter and tighter, Steve Jobs also tasted more and more of the incomprehensibility of Tang Huan, an old acquaintance who had been acquainted for nearly two decades.

To give an example that is the most direct to the core, don’t look at how the United States of America v. Zheru Software Company’s monopoly case is so violent and lively, but if the Ministry of Justice really wants to engage in anti-monopoly, then it should engage in standing philosophers. The philosopher behind the Confucian software company.

Apple Computer at the current stage is nothing more than an artistic supplement of Fangyuan Company and its compatible manufacturers of Fangyuan personal computer standards.

Otherwise, Apple Computer, which has long been thrown away technically, has turned from a severe illness to a vitality in just two years after Jobs’ return.

The so-called myths are all packaged after success!

However, Jobs was not very disgusted with this situation of being faintly manipulated by an invisible big hand.

Just as Steve Jobs said when he re-entered the office of Apple Computer’s board of directors two years ago, “I have a family. I am the father of several children and need a stable job.”

Its edges and corners have been polished almost, not to mention that he has also been a beneficiary of the philosophical system for many years, even more affordable than the original time and space Disney’s largest individual shareholder, where can a heart of resistance arise.

More importantly, Jobs’ ideals, or more precisely, the obsession to build a computer with his own name, can still be realized in this situation.

After all, those users with a wider range only recognize the product and do not delve into what technology is inside.

Now that this secret plan for a digital music player is ready to come out, Steve Jobs has seen it again, and he can use this name to go down in history.

To ring the gong without a heavy hammer, Jobs immediately flaunted proudly with a relaxed expression: “You admit it, you can only be convinced of the artistic taste that I have embodied in product design.”

The noncommittal richest man said leisurely: “Sony Walkman has been a fashion that has been popular all over the world for more than a decade, and whether digital music players can really succeed depends on whether they can be replaced.”

Steve Jobs, who pretended to be deep in front of Tang Huan, could no longer hold back his long-lasting eagerness to win. He slapped the table and said frankly: “Then you just wait and see!”

The finger of the richest man tapped gently on the huge mahogany table, “Don’t say I didn’t remind you in advance, you only have technical solutions for the Apple computer platform.”

“How to integrate products and fashion together, I have learned for many years.” Jobs showed a proud face, “If you want to hint me, in the process of digital music player product promotion, if there is a spare tire, then It can only be a spare tire forever.”

Tang Huan, who is immune to bewitching, joked playfully: “But if Mac used to sharpen his sword for several years, he would also miss the market opportunity.”

Jobs, whose scars were unceremoniously exposed, sarcastically said: “You are so anxious, don’t you feel any pressure?”

The richest man brought up the pen, wrote a word in the shorthand notebook, and then pushed it to Jobs along the smooth desktop that almost showed the human figure, “I have already given a name to this digital music player, which is The’ipod’ you see now. If you can’t come up with the so-called art product that can challenge the fashion of Sony Walkman within half a year, then this name will come to his home.”

“Ipod…imac…” After Jobs muttered a few words, Huo Di stood up and said viciously: “This name can only belong to me, it belongs to Apple!”

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While the media was still talking about the acquisition of Polygram by Yanle Entertainment Group, the emergence of the world’s largest music group, what is the significance, and what impact it will have on the industry, Yahoo went public without delay.

Compared with other direct competitors eagerly gathering IPOs to raise funds for development, it has gone through three corporate financial years. Yahoo, which sits firmly on the throne of the most popular portal website, appears to be a bit overdue for IPOs. To describe it with thick accumulation and thin hair.

On Friday, July 24, 1998, Yahoo went public at a price of US$19.5 per share. As soon as the quotation opened, the stock price doubled; at the peak, it rushed to US$66; the closing price of the day was US$49; it was successful. Achieved financing of 1.7 billion US dollars.

As the founders of the company, Zhiyuan Yang and David Ferro became billionaires at once, with net worth of US$195 million.

Of course, the SoftBank standing behind, and the richest man behind, are the real big winners.

The reason why Yahoo’s stock is so popular, except because. In addition to the com bubble becoming more and more gorgeous, it is also that it is different from those start-ups that are eager to raise funds for IPOs. With three complete financial years, it has proved that it not only has great prospects, but is also mature and stable in operation. , So that in the impetuous Internet boom, there is a little refreshing that makes people’s eyes bright.

To put it bluntly, investors are not willing to venture into and Yahoo has already demonstrated its kingly temperament in the field of portals.

Watching the rhetoric of observers on the TV, Sun Zhengyi was very energetic, and he did not forget to ask Tang Huan in peace, “According to the current development trend, will Yahoo and AOL Time Warner Turner’s Internet department soon? , Hit the shoulder?”

The richest man, who squinted his eyes and sniffed the scent of tea, put down the tea set in his hand and said slowly: “Although Yahoo and the original AOL are not running on two parallel lines, the world of the Internet is so broad, they are not yet Squeeze in one place.”

Tang Huan has something to say, but that is: No matter. How gorgeous the com bubble is, there will always be a day when it will burst. This is an immutable objective law, it is nothing but time.

Before that, the running speed of Yahoo and the original AOL was not so fast that they could squeeze on the same road.

As for. After the com bubble burst, the industry will definitely calm down and think rationally about how to develop steadily.

“Yahoo’s next focus is to use the technology obtained from Philosophy and Philosophy software to develop the world’s largest search engine covering the world.” The richest man said in a final tone.

Sun Zhengyi said convincingly: “Although the development of the Internet is very good at this stage, the road ahead is like being shrouded in the fog of war in the real-time strategy game “Fengshen”. Only Tang can do it without fail.”

Tang Huan waved his hand and reiterated sincerely: “It’s impossible to get things done without a reliable partner like you, if I use my brain.”

“By the way, how is SoftBank’s observation of the Internet development in mainland China?”