Flint Center, Backstage Lounge.
“The medium is an extension of the person!”
Lu Fei crossed his legs, holding a cup of coffee in his right hand, and calmly accepted the interview from the media in the IT circle.
"Kindle will become the pioneer of tablet computers replacing physical book reading. It will not be disturbed by the dazzling screen light. It can carry hundreds of books anytime and anywhere, read them whenever you want, and it can also be used as a dictionary..."
Balabala talked a lot, and towards the end of the interview, she glanced at Zhang Tianmei.
She quietly handed over the envelopes she had prepared to the reporters in a tacit understanding.
They opened it and took a few glances, and found a thick stack full of small bills, no more, no less, 200 US dollars in cash, and the key was no need to file a tax return.
"Lu, I think Kindle will be as revolutionary a product as lMusic, and it will surely amaze the world!"
"Haha, let me lend you some good words."
Lu Fei put down the cup and sent the person out the door with a smile on his face. He happened to bump into the potbellied Ballmer head-on.
"Hey, Lu."
He greeted politely, and then said that the first half of the press conference was good, but the second half was bad. The bad thing was naturally the Kindle.
"To tell you the truth, when I saw your thing, it didn't have the same feeling as when lmusic was released. When MP3 was released, I was thinking, 'Oh, thank you, thank goodness, Microsoft didn't compete with you, otherwise I would have been beaten by you. Kick ass'."
Lu Fei was not annoyed, "Do you think Kindle is not good?"
"Netbooks and stylus tablets are the mainstream, and Gates thinks so too."
Ballmer raised his chin, "Microsoft's stylus input method solution will become a new standard. There will definitely be tablets equipped with a stylus in the future. Either Gates and I are right, or Microsoft's tablets will die." deal."
Good prediction, don’t predict it next time.
Lu Fei said with a vague smile: "Steve, how about we make a bet on whether Kindle is a bestseller?"
"How to bet? What's the bet?"
Ballmer suddenly became interested. Tablets like Kindle could sell 100,000 units by the end of the year, and he devoured the entire table on the spot.
Anyway, the advantage is mine!
…………
As soon as the launch of Logic's new phone ended, Riccio rushed back to Apple's headquarters without stopping and shook off all the spied information.
Jobs took over the sketch they had drawn, which showed a kindle-like tablet computer shape, with rounded rectangular corners and rounded edges. A man held it casually with his left hand, and his right index finger sometimes touched the screen and sometimes pressed the keyboard.
"Wow, Huaxia Lu just uses it to read e-books?"
"Damn it, damn it, Wairui Wairui Wairui is stupid! Very, very, very wasteful!"
Riccio looked like he hated iron.
"Ahaha, it's not just stupid, it's simply stupid. God gave him a pair of hands to play the piano, but he went to pick up garbage."
Jobs smiled so weakly that his face turned red, and his eyes glowed green: "So we must not be like him, we must make good use of it."
"Uh, Steve, you mean..."
Jonathan Ive couldn't help but think of Apple copying Xerox's graphical interface.
"Don't be ashamed, okay?"
Jobs adjusted his glasses and said politely: "Ive, like you, I have the mysophobia and aloofness of an artist, but we can't be ashamed to steal all creative inspiration. Picasso once said that good artists imitate , great artists steal.”
"I totally agree!"
Riccio smiled and said: "Steve, do you want me to have someone start drawing the design on the kindle right away?"
"It's not urgent, it's not urgent yet."
Jobs looked at the sketch, paced back and forth for a while, and muttered to himself:
"We can't be like Huaxia LU, which is only satisfied with e-books and music. We must also be able to browse web pages, emails, photos, and videos. If this is the case, this screen is too small. How about we remove the keyboard?"
"Remove the keyboard?" Riccio's eyes lit up, "Like lmusic3, also prepare an on-screen soft keyboard?"
"On-screen soft keyboard?"
Jobs was confused when he saw Jonathan Ive decisively hand over the sketch of lmusic3, and he suddenly became enlightened.
"Fuxk!"
He couldn't help but blurt out, already foreseeing the ending of ipod4 being overturned by lmusic3 in his mind:
"Where did he get so much inspiration! He definitely didn't come up with these ideas alone. Find out who's from Logic and recruit them with high salaries!"
"I'll let Cook do it later."
Riccio turned the conversation back to tablet computers and asked what the next step would be to remove expensive and bulky keyboards.
"Not only the functions of the keyboard, but all functions and designs are concentrated on the screen."
Jobs used the sketch as a full-screen tablet, touching and tapping to demonstrate what he was thinking, "Can it be done?"
Riccio said: "I have sent people to check, and Huaxia Continent uses a technology called 'multi-touch'..."
Jobs said with a straight face: "Find out which company you are working with and buy it, no matter the cost!"
"That, that, Steve, has been overtaken by logic. Almost all companies focusing on touch technology have been acquired. Even New York University, which proposed this technology, has also cooperated in exclusive patent projects."
Riccio said with an embarrassed look on his face: "Huaxia Continent now exclusively owns this technology, either with authorization or with us taking the lead..."
"Fuxk! I dislike Huaxia Land now more than Bill Gates."
Jobs cursed and told him to start a secret project and search for feasible multi-touch solutions, covering the whole world!
Riccio asked: "Steve, the tablet project doesn't have a code name yet. What is it called?"
"Tablet, tablet, of course it's called iPad."
Jobs narrowed his eyes and said, "The old and new grudges will be sorted out piece by piece and logically in the future."
"ipad? After our ipad1 is born, let Lu see how much he wastes the creativity given by God!"
Riccio said sadly: "I wonder if there will be a next generation of Kindle at that time? Jie Jie Jie~"
…………
“One of the difficulties with writing about Logic’s products is that they often come with a lot of hype, and another is that sometimes the hype is real.”
"After the era of color screens has begun, lmusic has once again opened up a new horizon, and the era of touch screens is about to come."
"It looks very worthless from a distance, but when you look up close, you immediately fall in love with it: I want a kindle too!"
"Only those who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world can truly change the world, and we are talking about Huaxia Continent!"
“Can Kindle end the era of physical books?”
"..."
The media that received public relations fees were quite powerful and went all out to promote everything from people to products, frequently appearing in newspapers and television networks.
Lu Fei closed Time magazine, threw the magazine on the table, and asked:
“How is the pre-sale going?”
Guo Xing said it was a mixed blessing. What he was happy about was that MP3 pre-sale sales were as high as ever.
There are 160,000 units on Amazon and Newegg. Offline large supermarkets such as Wal-Mart and Costco are also actively requesting goods. The situation is very good.
The worry is still about Kindle. Amazon, as the launch platform, had only 15,700 pre-sales of 80,000 units in one day.
"Don't be impatient, let the bullets fly for a while."
Lu Fei raised his lips and squinted at the page of Singularity International Station displayed on the computer.
At that time, the number of visits was rising steadily, and the click-through rate of "I Am the Archmage" was also high. Because it was deliberately opened on Kindle at the new phone launch conference, and due to the spread of the publicity machine, the online articles and website quickly became popular.
It seems unintentional, it seems intentional, it seems true, it seems false. There are frequent reports in tabloids that an addict is watching "I Am the Archmage" to quit the Internet addiction, or there are reports that a hacker attacks Singularity just to find the follow-up to "I Am the Archmage" chapter……
The rumors are getting more and more mysterious. "I Am the Archmage" has successfully made its way out of the entertainment industry and entered the attention of American netizens.
UC Berkeley.
Lai Jingping and Mike hooked up, and on the way to the cafeteria, they heard a group of boys in groups muttering "I am the Archmage" from time to time.
"I can totally understand the guy who quits his job."
A young white man wearing a hat said: "I caught up with the latest chapter, Mother Fuxk. In addition to wanting to buy tacos, I just wanted to find my former teacher, point at his nose and say, 'You used to look down on me for being able to go to college, but now I’m from Berkeley!”
"Yeah, this book is so exciting. When can I get a physical book so I don't have to sit in front of the computer to read it?"
Another young man curled his lips and said, "It's not enough to stay up all night every day. I'll be in trouble if my grades decline."
"This book is bound to be a hit when it is released, but it's a pity that it is still being serialized, fuxk, it's really painful to keep up with the updates!"
The white man wearing the hat said angrily: "I really want to find that translator, that 'renwoxing' guy, put him in a small dark room, and force him to read it every day."
Lai Haipingyi touched his nose awkwardly, "It's none of my business, I've translated it a long time ago!"
He sat aside with a dinner plate, and heard the young man suddenly say: "Actually, I have already turned over the pages. I heard that Logic's new kindle has a complete set."
The white man wearing the hat was startled, "Rierli?"
"Haha, "I Am the Archmage" is so stupidly written, and everyone who loves it is Luther."
At this moment, the man wearing glasses across from Lai Haiping sneered coldly, and his words were demeaning.
"The author who wrote this book is a Luther, and the translator of this book is also a cultural person who has lost his conscience. You can be invincible by eating corn. It is simply an insult to Western fantasy."
"Fart! This is art, this is literature. You are not allowed to slander him, let alone the people who worked hard to translate."
Before Lai Haiping could get angry, Mike immediately stepped forward to fight for his roommate.
The white man wearing a hat echoed: "That's right, in my fucking opinion, "I Am the Archwizard" completely destroyed "Harry Potter", and the kid waving a stick is simply lowering our IQ!"
"My dear, you actually know how to watch "I Am the Archmage"?"
Suddenly, another person joined the war, hanging a cross around his neck, and babbled: "This book should be banned. Go to hell, go to heaven, and have angels. It is completely blasphemous to God. The person who wrote it, the person who read it, and the person who read it should be banned." , all deserve to be judged!”
All of a sudden, the noise continued to spread, and "I am the Archmage" was discussed from time to time.
The situation was just like the time in my previous life when I and my classmates discussed which movie was a classic.
Lai Jingping was on pins and needles, arguing over nothing. If he continued to argue, his waistcoat would fall off.
Once the "Let me do it" vest is revealed, it will be a big loss, and it will not protect the society.
After all, shouting "Don't bully young people into poverty" and roaring "I have no control over my fate" are so embarrassing that they can dig out three rooms and one living room.
"Lai, why are you pulling me? I can fight him for another three hundred rounds."
Mike was reluctantly taken back to the dormitory from the cafeteria by Lai Jingping.
"Ahaha, I want to see if the kindle has been shipped?"
Lai Jingping laughed and quickly logged into Amazon. He saw the pre-sale column on the Kindle page. Three days ago, there were 50,000 units that could not be sold, but now there are less than 20,000 units left.
In the end what happened?
Is it because of "I am the Archmage"?
Thanks to City University, which has nowhere to put it, for the 1,500 starting coins.
(End of chapter)
