Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 371 iTouch

   The price of provoking the Hilton sisters is not small.

At this time, Ye Dongqing was in the corridor of Apple's R&D laboratory, and suddenly received a call from a publicist in the secretary's office, saying that Paris Hilton had released a public message, which was a photo of drinking with Ye Dongqing , and it seems that they are very intimate, and they are all attached to him.

   It is estimated that it will attract a lot of attention. People always like this kind of love history gossip between rich girls and rich people.

   After hearing the news, he rolled his eyes. He didn't know if he was mocking the woman who wanted to be famous like crazy, or he was laughing at himself because he couldn't control his lower body.

It's like "using" each other to get what each other wants. Anyway, Ye Dongqing was not prepared to have too much contact with the troublesome pair of sisters from the beginning, and told them not to respond too much, just that they happened to meet and drink together Had a drink.

  As for Paris Hilton, she is a scheming woman with high EQ. If she hadn't planned to have a bad relationship with Ye Dongqing, she probably wouldn't use this matter to over-hype it. A little bit of it is the result that both of them can accept.

  There are already so many gossip news, and she has long become a **** in the eyes of others. Ye Dongqing was not affected by anything, and directly walked into the testing department code-named Three Zeros.

  Accidentally found that an old acquaintance was there, he greeted with a smile and said, "Mr. Jobs, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you in good health?"

  “I have almost recovered, and the doctor told me that I am getting better. When did you come to Silicon Valley?”

Steve Jobs went through another life-and-death juncture. The operation went very smoothly, and the postoperative recovery was not bad. He spent more than two million dollars and donated one million dollars to a certain medical institution. However, As long as he recovers, it's worth it, and it's just a small amount of money for him.

   "I just arrived today. Last time I heard Tim say that an epoch-making new product has developed the first engineering prototype. I don't want to see it with my own eyes."

"Here it is, take a look, the screen and the Wi-Fi reception parts are not up to par, we can't be satisfied, but it's already a product that can be brought to the market, at least it's better than the small screen of the current iPod, you can use it to watch an entire movie, or hold thousands of e-books."

  Jobs picked up a small black box and handed it to Ye Dongqing, with a little joy in his tone.

  For such a long time, thousands of people participated and spent more than one billion US dollars in funds. While tinkering with the new generation of MacBook notebooks and iMac all-in-one computers, it also made the iPod more advanced.

   Now this iTouch is different, it can be said that it is a cross-age product.

It is equipped with a specially developed operating system like a computer, and can be loaded with programs to use software such as Facebook through a wireless network. Through such a small thing, it can be directly connected to the Internet. As long as there is a wireless network nearby, it can be used. At the end of 2004, It is the latest high technology!

  The appearance is a bit ugly, but it is an engineering prototype, which is acceptable.

  When Ye Dongqing tried to use it proficiently, she almost cried. She swipe left and right on the screen, unlock and click to enter the playback program. This experience has not been tried for more than two years.

  Owning it is not unusual, but this mobile smart product suddenly disappeared from life, and it took him several months to accept the reality.

Apple's promotional advertisement was playing on the screen, and many R&D personnel gathered around. Jobs asked him, "I want to know how you feel about using it. There is a new operation method, using your fingers to operate on the screen. This is your original proposal. Do you feel uncomfortable?

  I have tried it for several days, and I feel used to it now. I see that you use it very smoothly. We are trying to conduct user testing. If there is any inconvenience, we can improve it. "

"Very good. If it has been like this all the time, and there is no freeze or crash, then you can continue to improve for a period of time, and then start selling it. I think you should think about mass production, and you should also think about giving it to the company next month. These R&D personnel will pay more bonuses, and this product will be the beginning of a new era... a legend!"

Ye Dongqing finished speaking and added: "Of course, there are still many deficiencies. For example, it cannot make calls anytime and anywhere like a mobile phone, nor can it take pictures like a Nokia mobile phone, but it is enough to satisfy me. After it is launched, customers They'll go crazy for it!"

The R&D personnel around clapped their hands and laughed. Under the leadership of someone, they shouted "Bonus! Bonus!" Jobs' haggard face was also full of joy. He had launched the iPod, and he had experienced the iPod from its trough to the present day. Since the initial success of Macbook notebooks and iMac all-in-one machines, his confidence has slowly recovered, even more confident than in the early 1980s.

It's rare to be so happy. He waved his hand to signal the employees to stop, then wiped his glasses and said, "Since the major shareholders don't mind, maybe we can give those who have contributed to the project an extra salary of one to three months as a reward, and Arrange for a salary increase next year."

   During this period of time, it has been squeezed too hard. Jobs doesn't mind following Ye Dongqing's wishes, making the employees happy, and then...continuing to squeeze them harder until a perfect product is developed.

Although the product named itouch is not bad, it is still far from perfect. It is more like an advanced MP4 player, which has some functions of a computer and is more practical. A transitional semi-finished product.

   The real MP4 player was born in 2002.

   That year, the French manufacturer Archos released the world's first hard drive MP4 player.

This is a milestone. It is not only equipped with internal video decoding equipment, but also a color high-resolution screen that seemed to be a large screen at the time, and also uses the hard disk as the storage medium of the machine, which greatly expands the potential of MP4. iTouch combines These, and better.

  Ye Dongqing did not see the app-store software mall on the program, and only after asking did she know that all the development work has not been completed, and it may take a month or two to load it.

A development team of Facebook cooperated with me before, and the Facebook mobile program is available, and the machine is connected to the mobile network. After opening this program, I registered a new account, and successfully found my own account. After adding attention, I can still see my previous account. The news released, also successfully saw the one posted by Paris Hilton recently.

  In any case, it is indeed much more advanced than the previous product, and there are many areas for improvement, but in this era, it is already pretty good...

  (end of this chapter)