Hollywood Hunter

Neil Brantley introduced the basic technical details of iPlayer. Simon played with a prototype the size of a Sony Walkman in his hand, and asked Girl C: "What is the approximate cost?"

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

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

Once the digital music player is released, the direct competitor is your Walkman. The price of the Walkman in North America is about US$300. Since there is competition, the starting price of iPlayer should also be set at US$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 margins for Tinkobayer and all levels of distribution retailers.

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

Claire understood why Simon would say this, saying: "In recent years, hard disk technology and thin-film liquid crystal technology have developed rapidly, and the cost has continued to fall. If we launch an official product next year, the cost should be lowered by that time. Simon, I think the biggest obstacle facing this machine is the music copyright issue."

Simon nodded. He was still very impressed by the wit and courage between Apple and the major record giants in his memory.

The record 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 not enough. The world's major record companies must join the digital music player camp.

When Sony launched the video recorder, it was directly sued by the major 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 fields, the record giant will not have much less rebound than the Hollywood studios after the video recorder appeared.

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

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

AOL is upgrading its own 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 Internet speed of ordinary users reaches the lowest level of 256K, and the longest time to download an MP3 music is only two or three minutes. At that time, Internet pirated music will quickly become popular.

To avoid Internet pirated music from impacting the recording industry, the best way 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 not have been a huge output value of the video tape industry that is twice the box office of movies.

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

In the final analysis, it is profit.

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

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

It is nothing more than soldiers coming to cover the water and earth.

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

Regardless of others.

What's more, he is not without chips.

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

The current flagship product of Tinco Bayer is still digital cameras.

The development of digital music players is only to complete the patent layout ahead of time. If you want to launch a formal product, it will not be until next year at the earliest.

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

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

Everyone left the office building and agreed on the location of the restaurant. Just now Simon got in his car parked on the side of the road, and the petite figure of Jennifer Bray approached him to stop the bodyguard who wanted to close the car door. Looking at the man in the car: "Simon, can I take your car?"

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

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

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

The bodyguard closed the car door outside.

Inside the carriage, little Jenny fumbled awkwardly, and finally lifted the baffle between the rear carriage and the front driver's seat.

Simon watched the goblin move next to him, and smiled: "In fact, I can still hear it."

Jennifer blinked, and said with a little sly in her 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 intercom connected to the driver's seat, shaking his head and said, "No, I have to go home on time at night."

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

"It's different this time." Simon had no objection to the girl's almost jerky familiarity. He looked at the girl who was wrapped around him, and smiled again: "It's awkward, it's flat, it doesn't feel at all."

Little Jenny is not inferior at all. She knocked her chin on Simon's shoulder, whispering the girl’s unique fragrance, and whispered with a little seduce: "Actually, being small also has small benefits. Touch it. I am only 12 years old this year. Exciting."

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

The car reached a nearby restaurant in less than five minutes.

After getting out of the car, everyone noticed Jennifer Bray, whose blushing face seemed to have just experienced something.

However, even though everyone was aware of what had just happened, the little girl sensibly did not stick to Simon as she did when she was in the car. Instead, she walked up to Girl C and took Claire's arm with a low eyebrow, as if following A shy and shy young girl beside her big sister.

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

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

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

Girl C rented a house in the wealthy Atherton area north of Palo Alto. Although it can’t be compared with the mountain mansion in Woodside, it is also very grand and spacious. The courtyard covers an area of ​​more than 600 square meters, with two floors. The European-style villa has four bedrooms and six bathrooms inside. There is no shortage of gymnasiums, screening rooms and private wine cellars.

Staying with Simon for a few years, although he can't buy it for the time being, renting such an apartment is more than enough.

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

It's just that the man has never been here.

Unexpectedly, a certain little fairy could succeed.

I started the car and drove towards the Atherton area in the twilight, and looked at the little Jenny who was nothing unusual next to her. Girl C paused, still couldn't help but asked with some jokes: "It only took 5 minutes?"

5 minutes?

Jennifer Bray gave Girl C a white look, and said dissatisfied: "How could Simon be so useless?"

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

Little Jenny was a little bit disappointed at once, and said, "I just touched it myself."

After speaking, he stretched out his hand and scratched his jeans twice. I regretted that I shouldn't wear tight jeans today. The man wanted to get in in the car because his clothes were too tight and he failed. I wonder if he will be disappointed.

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

In fact, I am a little envious.

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

Now that he completely left Simon, there will definitely be no chance in the future.

For her boss, Girl C knows very well that whether it is on the side of ABCD or the housekeeper Alice, they are actually very greedy.

Such a dazzling man is too powerful to be more powerful, as long as it is a woman, it is inevitable that he will be excited.

I still clearly remember a scene in New York where I accidentally smashed into Girl A while watching the video of ten consecutive knockouts of her boss in the Australian boxing ring while satisfying herself. Later I copied a copy of that video, occasionally fantasizing about being severely ravaged by my boss.

Driving through the streets of San Francisco, Miss C thought of this, feeling a little warm in her body.

Leaving the Westeros home and starting her own business, with billions of dollars in wealth, Girl C now has a large group of suitors around her. It's just that Claire can't help but compare those men who pursue her with her own boss, and then she feels a little uninterested.

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

So until now, I'm still single.

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.

Pour a cup of coffee for Simon and put it next to the man. Girl A paused and was about to turn around to leave, but Simon stopped.

The man gave an order. Without raising his head for a while, continuing to concentrate on his work, Alison quietly sat down on the sofa next to the porthole, waiting for Simon's enrichment.

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

Alison agreed, got up and took the page and glanced at it.

The above is a series of technical terms.

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

Today, I have been with Simon all day. Girl A knows that many of these are technologies involved in digital music players. For the other item, 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 quietly turned and left the office.

Behind his desk, looking at a script in his hand, Simon was still sorting out his work today.

Once the $1.5 billion financing plan of Eaglet is completed, how to plan the money has not been finalized at the small meeting in the afternoon.

However, first an exclusive office park for Eaglet must be built.

Simon doesn't have much preference for building luxurious corporate headquarters. The reason for this is mainly because of the need for confidentiality.

Eaglet has expanded too rapidly, and the company has never stopped recruiting. It currently has more than 5,300 employees. Because of the lack of a unified office space, more than 5,000 employees can only be scattered in different office spaces.

Office locations are scattered, causing poor communication between teams. The most important thing is to greatly increase the difficulty of corporate confidentiality.

Eaglet launched cloud computing last year. In the actual application process, only Eaglet’s own business and the closely related Blockbuster Online can enjoy instant flexible space leasing treatment, because its own technology is still being improved while avoiding traditional Of server and data center vendors quickly followed up, and considering obtaining more revenue, ordinary customers generally can only enjoy services similar to traditional server leasing vendors.

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

Even so low-key, many details of Yigrete cloud computing technology are still being discovered by other manufacturers, and they have begun to follow up accordingly.

To a large extent, this matter lies in the fact that Yigrete’s confidentiality system is not perfect, and the scattered office space is also a major obstacle restricting Yigrete’s strict confidentiality measures.