Hollywood Hunter

Leaving EA headquarters, Simon rushed to Palo Alto Eagle headquarters to participate in a project meeting on splitting the online software store.

In fact, it is still related to video games.

In order to further refine the operation, Ystore, the online software sales platform initially launched with the Ypay system, plans to split into two parts in the near future. The original Ystore store will continue to provide various types of paid or free software sales and download services, and the game software will be separated separately. Separate out and set up a dedicated comprehensive *** website.

According to his long-term personal habits, Simon has already named this website: Steam.

In the early days of the Ystore store, Simon’s housekeeper Alice Ferguson was personally responsible for the creation. At present, the focus of the housekeeper’s work has shifted to the Amazon online store. She is still in charge of the Ystore business. She also attended the split meeting.

Simon's purpose in participating in these meetings is just to have a more intuitive understanding of the various businesses of Eaglet. The one-hour meeting is mainly for the team in charge to speak and discuss independently. He did not express any opinions.

After the meeting ended and the others were sent away, Simon looked at the housekeeper who was opposite and subconsciously took a sip of coffee and asked, "No rest on weekends?"

Alice Ferguson put down the coffee cup and said, "About the planning of a new batch of distribution centers."

Simon nodded, he knew it too.

Amazon Online Mall is preparing to build a batch of brand new large-scale logistics distribution centers. The total investment of all seven distribution centers will reach 350 million U.S. dollars. The average investment of 50 million U.S. dollars per distribution center will be a big deal even after many years. Once completed, It will also provide more than 10,000 new jobs across North America.

After these logistics distribution centers were completed and started operations at the end of this year and early next year, Amazon's online store will also further increase the types of products on the site in addition to books, video tapes and movies. Therefore, it is a very important e-commerce business for Yigrete. Layout.

Looking at the obvious tiredness on the delicate and beautiful face of the housekeeper, Simon said: "You must know that the business of Eaglet has a clear product priority in my mind. In the business you are responsible for, the online mall is The top priority is absolutely not to be lost. Even if it fails completely, I will start the second investment again. In contrast, if necessary, I will not hesitate to abandon the software store business."

Simon has actually emphasized this more than once.

Alice Ferguson somewhat disagrees, saying: "In the past year, the software store has provided us with very considerable revenue and profits."

"But you also need to see the development trend of online software sales," Simon said: "At this stage, Ystore of Yigrete does have unparalleled advantages in technical support, payment tools, website traffic, marketing and promotion, etc., software and Game manufacturers choose to sell their products in software stores and can sell 10 million sets. If you build your own website, you may only sell 1 million sets. In this way, a 30% rake is very cost-effective. However, the Internet is very open. Not only Microsoft and AOL, but also other independent Internet companies are also trying to enter this industry. Moreover, with the continuous development of Internet technology, marketing channels, payment tools, and their own brand awareness, once manufacturers They find that selling products alone is more objective than giving 30% of the benefits to software stores. They will definitely be inclined to do so. What do you plan to do at this time?"

Alice frowned slightly.

In fact, this trend has emerged, or has always existed.

Oracle's database software and Microsoft's series of software products have never logged into Ystore from start to finish, because these vendors already have their own very mature distribution channels and can achieve a higher gross profit than the Ystore store's share of accounts.

The housekeeper did not consider reducing the proportion of accounts to attract these manufacturers to join, but the current network transmission speed is not friendly to large-scale software with a scale of hundreds of megabytes. Instead of spending a few hours downloading a software, users might as well drive. Go out and spend ten minutes to buy a set of physical discs. Coupled with the scruples of online piracy, it failed to promote cooperation.

After AOL completed the ADSL network upgrade, the speed of most Internet users in North America has been greatly improved, and the Internet transmission technology and online payment tools have become more mature. When Ystore wanted to promote these cooperations, Microsoft had already launched its own The software store in China recently abandoned Ypay decisively and launched its own online payment tool Microsoft-Wallet in cooperation with American Express.

Simon did not wait for the female housekeeper’s answer, and continued: “You must be thinking that maybe you can force them to submit by restricting the exposure of these websites on the Eaglet portal or refusing to provide them with the Ypay tool as a bargaining chip. It will be cheaper for our competitors. Ypay is also the first echelon of Yigrete’s product priority. A decision that is beneficial to the development of Ypay but will hurt Ystore. Then this decision should still be passed Do you think that these manufacturers will completely escape the Eaglet company. In fact, they are not. Although they lose 30% of the software store, they still have to use our Ypay tool and pay for it. There is no official promotion of Ystore. , They also need to put a lot of online advertisements to promote their websites. The Eaglet Portal happens to be an advertising platform that they absolutely cannot bypass. It just so happens that the priority of online advertising business also exceeds Ystore, because of the Matthew effect. In this respect, we also have the advantage that other manufacturers are difficult to subvert easily."

Simon said this, tapping his fingers on the conference table a few times, and said: "It seems we need to convene a meeting seriously for this, just tomorrow," and said to Girl A: "Make arrangements, tomorrow morning at nine o'clock. Anyone in the Bay Area must attend on time."

Alison promised to lower his head and write down the matter on the memo.

Simon finished the order and looked at the female housekeeper on the opposite side, and once again said to the girl A sitting next to him: "Wait, you don’t have to go to Mountain View with me. Take Ellie to a beauty spa. Anyway, it’s you. All kinds of maintenance of the woman, and then sent her to my villa in Woodside."

The housekeeper was about to refuse, but when he heard Simon's last words, she protested with a blushing face: "I still have a job."

"it's gone now."

After Simon stood up, he had to rush to see the construction site of Eaglet Park in Mountain View.

Alice sat still, staring at her beautiful eyes, and repeated: "I still have a job."

Simon stared at him: "Be obedient, or I'll let you take a forced vacation."

Alice looked at each other for half a second with the man on the opposite side, then she ducked, looked over, and bargained: "I won't go to you at night."

"Well, I'll go to you."

"..."

When Simon went out and disappeared, Alice's stiff body softened.

Girl A, who was left by Simon, smiled and said, "Let's go, Ellie, you really need to relax."

The housekeeper still had a cold face, but the client still left, and she did not have a stalemate with Alison. The relationship between the two parties is not good. The housekeeper is not very good at dealing with people, and she will not forget that she was in Greenwich on the East Coast. Once I met, I was scammed by the ABCD four girls.

The two walked out of the conference room, Simon had hurriedly left, leaving a driver for the two women.

The housekeeper's current level has her own full-time driver, but she has not rejected the kindness of a guy. Girl A is not familiar with San Francisco. However, I called Girl C and arranged everything in less than five minutes.

Time is approaching twelve o'clock noon.

The two women first found a restaurant for lunch, and then rushed to a beauty club near Atherton to spend a whole afternoon doing a complete set of maintenance.

In the evening, the meeting room was separated, and Girl C drove over.

The two women stood at the entrance of the clubhouse and saw Claire getting out of the car. Girl A subconsciously glanced in the car and asked with a smile, "Where is that little fairy?"

"The school is very busy these days," Claire and Alison hugged and smiled: "Or I'll call her to come over."

Alison just rolled his eyes.

Claire hugged Alice affectionately again, and said, "Alice, you are beautiful again, even I am moved."

Knowing that Claire was teasing herself, the housekeeper simply rolled her eyes.

After the greeting, Claire left her car and the three women squeezed into a car to a nearby French restaurant. Girl C had set a position in advance.

"Sony refused directly. Panasonic asked for a 30% stake. How could I agree? Kodak was the most annoying. They would rather not cooperate with us if their technology rotted. If you want to enter the digital camera project, we only I can rely on myself."

At the dinner table, three very ambitious women are still discussing topics that cannot be separated from work.

Tinkobair will release the third generation iCam digital camera during Easter this year.

With the further popularization of the Internet and the rise of social networks, more and more users tend to show themselves on Internet platforms, and the demand for digital cameras has also increased significantly.

While other established manufacturers have launched their own products, iCam, which is not considered high-end, has firmly occupied 60% of the digital camera market shipments in the past year with its advantages in brand, price and network adaptation. %, 1993’s annual shipments reached 2.76 million units, an increase of 350% compared to 1992’s 610,000 units shipments, annual sales reached 1.39 billion U.S. dollars, and preliminary statistics for the entire year’s net profit reached 120 million U.S. dollars about.

As a piece of supporting hardware around the Internet, the rise of Tinkobair is undoubtedly the most intuitive proof of the outbreak of the Internet industry.

Digital cameras provide richer picture content for Internet platforms, and the outbreak of the Internet industry has also greatly increased the public's demand for digital camera products. The two sides complement each other.

While further strengthening its investment in digital camera projects, Tinkobair did not stop developing new projects.

In addition to the iPlayer, an MP3 player that has been improving in private, and U disk products that are planned to be launched along with USB technology, Tinkobair plans to launch a digital video camera (DV) project in the near future.

Compared with digital cameras, the threshold of digital video cameras is much higher, and it also involves patent barriers.

Old-brand electronics manufacturers around the world have long been investing in the research and development of digital cameras. Although most of the manufacturers’ goals are professional-grade commercial products, rather than the mass consumer products that Tinkobayr focuses on, they are all Let Tinkobyr miss the dust.

Cooperating with these established manufacturers can not only launch their own products faster, but also obtain related patent authorizations to avoid future patent litigation entanglements.

However, the major veteran electronics manufacturers have given Tinkobair the opportunity to take advantage of digital cameras, and now they regret it. Naturally, they will no longer support the development of the digital camera project by Tinkobair, so they either simply rejected it or proposed it. With unacceptable terms of cooperation, Tinkobair can only support himself.

Alison heard Claire say this, and said: "Actually, I think that the popularity of home film cameras is so high now, you might consider developing a special film-to-digital machine that allows everyone to convert their stored film video into digital. Video, this should have a big market."

Claire shook his head and said: "You haven't seen the telecine equipment dedicated to Hollywood. The professional one costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it is very large and heavy. How can it be possible to achieve the household level?"

Girl A said: "If you can't do it for home use, you can do it for commercial use at the lab level, and the Hollywood equipment is film-level, and the conversion image quality requirements are very high, but you only need to get home ultra-eight millimeter film to convert The picture quality does not need to be perfect."

Girl C continued to shake her head: "If you are interested, you can try this project."

On the other hand, the female housekeeper who has always spoken little said: "Since digitalization is an inevitable trend, the product cycle of this kind of machine will not be too long. Perhaps it has not been promoted, and DV has become popular."

Girl A paused, wanting to argue that film and digital may coexist for a long time, just like digital cameras and film cameras nowadays.

But thinking about it, she still didn't speak.

With the current popularity of digital cameras, perhaps after the launch of DV, considering the many advantages of this product, perhaps home film cameras will be eliminated faster and faster.

Girl C did not continue this topic, and instead asked about AlphaBeta, the company that the two girls AB cooperated together, and regretted that she should

The three women seemed to have dinner very harmoniously. When they left the restaurant, they split into two groups without knowing it.

The driver drove the car over, Alison took Claire’s arm and said to the housekeeper: "C and I will go shopping for a while. You can go back first. Remember to rest early. There will be a meeting tomorrow morning, so I won’t notify you in particular. Up."

The housekeeper stood by the door and didn't get in the car immediately. She hesitated for a while, and said **** for tat: "I'm going to Woodside, you have to open the door for me."

Girl A was a little disappointed: "Didn't you say you want to go home, the boss may also go directly to you."

"I'm going to Woodside."

The housekeeper repeated and got into the car.

The driver did not close the door and looked at Girl A while waiting.

Alison reluctantly pulled Laclair: "Go to Woodside tonight, shall we sleep together?"

Claire didn't refuse, and smiled and nodded: "Okay."