Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 228 The iPod Deals a Fatal Blow to the Record Company

May is rainy and sunny, the plums are fat, and the apricot blossoms are blowing away Yan Feifei.

It has been half a year since Wujiang Group promoted the Internet. According to incomplete statistics, there are already 5000 million Internet users worldwide.

There are around 2200 million in Europe alone.

The rapid increase in the number of Internet users is mainly due to the development of major Internet cafes around the world.

Under this environment, the Napster website is developing rapidly, and most Internet users will choose Napster website for listening to music.

The sales of physical records have plummeted, and major record companies have suffered huge losses.

At this point, the world's major record companies have Napster website as a thorn in the flesh.

At the same time, he also hated Wujiang Group.

Firstly, the Wujiang Group developed the Internet, and secondly, the hao123 website navigation website has always been linked to the Napster music sharing website.

Many Internet novice Xiaobai entered the Napster music website through the hao123 website navigation website, and started their first journey of pirated music.

The record company also asked Wujiang Group to block and block the Napster music sharing website, but it was directly rejected by Wujiang Group.

Your record company doesn't give Wujiang Group face, why should Wujiang Group give you face?

If you want to remove the Napster website from the hao123 website, you must first win the lawsuit.

Wujiang Group deliberately indulged the development of the Napster website. In the past few months, the electronics factory of Wujiang Group has been working overtime to produce ipod music players.

The more popular the Napster website, the more popular the iPod.

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"Wujiang Group is really hateful. If it hadn't been behind Napster, how could this pirated music website develop so fast!!" the president of Universal Music said angrily.

"Yes, according to the survey, more than 3000 million people have logged into the Napster website and downloaded about 5 million songs, which means that our record company has lost at least 5 million US dollars." The president of Warner Music shook his head. With a sigh, he said.

The president of Sony Records frowned and said: "It's nothing, what I'm most worried about is that with the growing popularity of the Napster website, users will no longer be willing to buy physical records in the future, but will all listen to them on pirated music websites." Song, this is undoubtedly a disaster for our record company!"

Hearing this, everyone's faces were full of worries, wishing to dismantle the Napster website.

"Oh, by the way, Wujiang Group held another product launch conference today. I don't know what products will be released..."

5 o'clock in the morning on June 20.

The product launch of Wujiang Group came as scheduled, and once again attracted the attention of the whole world.

The Wujiang winter product launch conference last year is still fresh in people's memory.

At this time, thousands of guests were present at the press conference, and more than 100 TV stations around the world were broadcasting the live broadcast, and tens of millions of people around the world were watching the live TV broadcast.

Many people are amazed by this situation.

"There is no company in the world that holds a press conference that can have such a big influence. Wujiang Group is really unique!"

"I don't know what kind of products Wujiang Group will release this time?"

Amidst the discussions among the crowd, the host of the press conference stepped onto the stage.

Seeing that the host was not Zhao Ye, everyone was slightly disappointed.They have now figured out the routines of Wujiang Group, but Zhao Ye will personally appear on the stage for any very important products.

"Hi everyone, welcome to the product launch conference of Wujiang Group. I am Lou Hongfei, CEO of Wujiang VCD Company."

"Today, I will introduce to you a new product developed by our company—Super VCD!!!"

Lou Hongfei immediately introduced the Super VCD to everyone, and with the PPT slides on the big screen, everyone could understand the advantages of Super VCD more clearly.

Super VCD has made great breakthroughs in picture and sound. It can be said that it has completely surpassed VHS video tapes.

Although the guests present and those who watched the live broadcast were a little surprised, they were not surprised.

That's it? ?
Many people were puzzled and even a little disappointed.

Of course, they will still buy super VCD. After all, the performance of super VCD is far superior to ordinary VCD and VHS, but the price is not expensive.

The heads of several major US record companies laughed.

"Wujiang Group released a super VCD at the press conference, which is really disappointing!" The president of Sony Records couldn't help laughing.

The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

If it's an ordinary company holding a press conference, it's of course no problem, but you are the awesome Wujiang Group~
However, the people at the record company were not happy for a few minutes.

After Lou Hongfei introduced the Super VCD, he retreated to the side. Immediately afterwards, a new face who made everyone feel strange came to the stage.

"Hello everyone, I am Zhuang Hongxin, the development director of Wujiang Group's MP3 music player!"

"With the unremitting efforts of our development team, we have finally developed an era-defining product - ipod."

"Its appearance will definitely change the way people listen to music and lead the fashion wave!!!"

As soon as the voice fell, there was a sensation in the audience and thunderous applause.

clap clap clap!
"Fuck, it's worthy of being Wujiang Group! Let me just say, it's impossible for Wujiang Group's product launch to release only super VCD products. Look, it's another epoch-making product, which is really exciting!!!"

"Yeah, Wujiang Group is really awesome, you have to always trust Wujiang Group, it never disappoints!!!"

"..."

At this time, the executives of Universal, Warner, Sony and other record companies were all stunned.

Just now they laughed at the Wujiang Group, but they were slapped in the face in the blink of an eye.

And this time, the products launched by Wujiang Group are related to music.

It made them feel vaguely bad.

It was the first time for Zhuang Hongxin to stand on such a big stage, and he was actually quite nervous, but when he really stood on the stage, seeing everyone's warm applause, the nervousness disappeared inexplicably.

"As we all know, the more traditional way of listening to music is to use music tapes and CDs as media."

"However, with the development of technology and the rise of the Internet, music in mp3 format has appeared on the Internet, and we can already listen to songs on websites and computers!"

"The essence of ipod products is MP3 music players. Users can download mp3 music from the Internet and then copy it to the ipod music player."

"The ipod player has a capacity of 2GB, which can store thousands of songs. When the storage capacity is insufficient, you can delete the songs you don't want at any time!"

Before Zhuang Hongxin could finish speaking, the audience had already let out exclamations and applause.

"The ipod player is too good. It can store thousands of songs. Sony's Walkman player can't do it at all! And you can add and delete songs at will, unlike the Walkman player. If you want to listen to New songs, I still have to buy tapes and CDs!"

"Haha, music on the Internet is free, which means that you only need to buy an ipod player, which means that you don't need to spend money to buy records, you can download free music online at any time, and then copy it to An ipod will do!"

"Nimma, the ipod player is really an epoch-making product, and you won't have to spend money to listen to music in the future!!!"

The guests in the audience and the audience in front of the TV were very excited.

However, the record companies were in a cold sweat and felt a deep crisis.

Previously, people had to use computers to listen to music on the Internet. This did not pose a great threat to record companies, because computers were not portable.Most users who buy records own Walkman products.

But now it is different. Wujiang Group launched the ipod player, which is to tap the foundation of the record company.

If the ipod is popular all over the world, is it still necessary for users to buy tapes and CDs?Wouldn't it be nice to go directly to the Internet to download pirated music?

The faces of the heads of Universal, Warner, Sony and other record companies couldn't help but change drastically.

"Damn it! Wujiang Group launched the ipod player, and our record company is completely finished!"

"Must find a way to prevent the release of the ipod!!"

"Stop it? What do we use to stop it? What reason do we use to stop it?"

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, frowning, helpless.

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A few minutes later, the noise at the Wujiang press conference subsided.

Zhuang Hongxin smiled and said: "It seems that everyone likes iPods very much, now let me reveal the true face of iPods to everyone!"

As soon as his words fell, a picture of an ipod player appeared on the big screen behind him.

As soon as this picture came out, it immediately caused screams.

Probably because this picture is so beautiful. It is a delicate rectangular box with a bright white body. There is a screen on the top of the front, and a scrolling dial button below the screen.

Zhuang Hongxin then introduced the functions of these buttons one by one. After the introduction, he played a short promotional video of the iPod.

Through the promotional video, let everyone understand the functions of ipod more clearly.

The short video lasts about 2 minutes and demonstrates almost all the functions of the ipod.

Basically understand at a glance.

At this moment, everyone's desire to buy has almost reached its peak!

"Perfect, it's perfect, I can't wait to buy an iPod!! 1"

"iPod is an incomparable product, which cannot be compared with any Walkman in the past. Wujiang Group has indeed developed an epoch-making product, which has changed the way people entertain themselves!"

"..."

"Mr. Zhuang, how much is the price of the iPod? When will it be released?"

Someone from the audience asked loudly.

At this time, the press conference was coming to an end, Zhuang Hongxin saw this, and answered the guest's inquiry: "The price of the ipod walkman is very cheap, only 499 US dollars. At 12:[-] noon, the Wujiang flagship store will put ipods on sale."

$499 is actually quite expensive, but when I think that there is no need to buy physical records, listening to music will be free in the future, and the ipod can store a thousand songs, and I suddenly feel that $499 is really cheap!
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At noon that day, super VCDs and ipod players were put on the shelves of the Wujiang flagship store.

These two products are very popular, especially the ipod player, which is unimaginably popular. It is even more popular than any previous product of Wujiang Group, causing a huge rush to buy.

In order to promote the ipod, Wujiang Group spent a huge sum of US$1 million on publicity.

In markets other than the United States, ipods are on sale.

82 units were sold on the day of its launch.

A week later, ipod sales exceeded 500 million units!

Along with the fire of the ipod Walkman, the number of users of the Napster website surged.

iPod users download pirated music all to Napster website.

The existence of the Napster website has promoted the sales of ipods, and the two complement each other.

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"Boss, Universal, Warner and other record companies have filed lawsuits against our company, claiming that we have infringed their music copyrights by releasing iPod players, demanding that the sale be suspended immediately, the iPod be recalled, and their losses be compensated!" Liu Yinyin came at this time In front of Zhao Ye, he reported to work.

Zhao Ye smiled disdainfully, and said, "Let the company's legal department deal with them. Our Wujiang Group is only developing a Walkman, and it doesn't infringe on the record company's music copyright. What does the user's independent behavior have to do with our Wujiang Group? Do I Selling kitchen knives, someone killed someone with a kitchen knife, should I be sentenced too?"

The record company can't win this lawsuit.

Besides, Wujiang Group has broken the pot and smashed the pot. Anyway, it has not entered the US market, so there is no need to worry about the feelings of the US.

Wujiang Group will not only continue to produce ipod products, but also authorize other companies to develop MP3 products to expand the MP3 player market!
If many companies have developed MP3 music players, how can the United States solve so many companies?

When the time comes, Wujiang Group will be able to make a lot of money just by selling MP3 decoder chips.

In fact, at this time, many companies have contacted Wujiang Group, hoping to obtain the patent license for mp3 players.

Wujiang Group has already prepared several sets of plans in advance for cooperation with these enterprises.

6月10号上午10点钟，无疆集团统一授权36家企业MP3专利，拉拢更多的企业上无疆集团这条大船。

United States.

The senior executives of the major record companies watched the news on TV, and all of them changed their faces drastically.

In the past, it was to deal with one company of Wujiang Group, but now it has become to deal with 37 companies. MP3 players are so popular, how could we stop it...

(End of this chapter)