March 15, 1999.
Today may be Gang Leader Joe's peak day, and the response is stronger than when he developed the Apple personal computer in his garage.
Because today is the press conference of Love Crazy.
Many places in Blue Star are paying attention to this press conference.
In Japan, Sun Zhengyi watched the scene on the screen nervously. Although Kira's prototype demonstration video gave him a lot of confidence, he still felt like a formidable enemy when facing Gang Leader Qiao, a big man who once dominated the Silicon Valley. .
What are Apple's products like?
Will it be more advanced than the products of the Chip Alliance?
Is the Chip Alliance ready?
What if Apple relies on its first-mover advantage to permanently occupy the leading position?
Sun Zhengyi is now as nervous as an ordinary mainland student preparing to enter the college entrance examination room. It's not that he has no confidence, but that Apple's reputation is too great. After all, he is also a person who has been baptized by Apple personal computers in that era.
In fact, this time is directly related to whether SoftBank, a quasi-rich and handsome man, can be upgraded to a rich and handsome man in the future!
Compared to the uneasy Sun Zhengyi, Kira was much calmer. Although she didn't know what the quality of Apple's smartphones were, she was not interested in competing with Gang Leader Qiao.
She was just a practitioner in the Japanese semiconductor industry and wanted to vent her frustration.
I want to vent my frustrations that have been suppressed by the United States unfairly since I started my business.
She was full of malice towards Gang Leader Qiao and the Silicon Valley that Gang Leader Qiao represented from the beginning to the end, not to mention Nan Chao, the vanguard of the Omi beast, which is why she made such a radical "poaching" move.
"Gang Leader Qiao, we are not only different, but also life and death!"
Compared with the complicated emotions of the two Japanese members of the prehistoric camp, Chen Yi and a group of chip alliance bosses at the Dream Headquarters looked at the big screen with Buddhist expressions.
Regarding Gang Leader Qiao, Chen Yi just said very plainly: "He is indeed a trend-setter of an era, but unfortunately, different ways do not work together.
Because his time has come, let him run thirty-nine meters first to prevent others from saying that we bully the old, weak, sick and disabled.
After that, we will distinguish between superior and inferior, and decide between life and death. "
In the conference room, the corners of other people's mouths twitched after hearing Chen Yi's words.
But I feel strange in my heart, why does this child Chen Yi not look like a person who respects the elderly and loves the young?
But why did he decide to let Gang Leader Qiao run thirty-nine meters first, and then raise his forty-meter sword to chop him down?
In fact, Chen Yi just thinks that when it comes to copying homework, some things can be copied casually, but some things must be taken seriously. Although he has never used any Ai Kuang in his previous life, he very much recognizes Gang Leader Qiao's efforts. of.
In the previous life, Gang Leader Qiao had been silently persisting for seven or eight years despite the pressure of a group of capitalists. Because the emergence of Ai Kuang would directly threaten the market position of iPod, even Gang Leader Qiao, who had an unparalleled reputation within Apple, initially I can only do it secretly without telling the board of directors.
Gang Leader Qiao can be regarded as a mudslide in the capitalist paradise of the United States. Perhaps because of pancreatic cancer, this person has completely become a person who only lives for his ideals.
For this kind of opponent, even if Chen Yi was very indifferent to Gang Leader Qiao in his previous life, he would still show the greatest respect for Gang Leader Qiao's efforts. This is the basic principle of life.
So after that, he will do his best to make this idealist who has always discriminated against his motherland and even been unwilling to step into the land of China his whole life, fall into deep despair in the last period of his life. .
“Chinese people don’t know how to innovate and only sell fake goods?
hehe.
In fact, I have never set foot on the soil of the United States. Likewise, I never plan to go in the future. "
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After Qiao became the leader for the first time, he lost to Bill Gates who sold forms. This is a classic case of software forcing hardware to death.
Which is more important, software or hardware?
This question can only be said that the division of labor between the two is different, so it is not easy to compare.
The hardware is a bottle.
The software is the liquid in the bottle. It may be Erguotou, Moutai, or Feizhai Happy Water, but the upper limit of its capacity is determined by the hardware.
The investment cycle of hardware is long and the risk is high, while the threshold for software is much lower. As long as there is a good ecology, it will become popular. Software can even determine the rules of the game for hardware, but hardware is the foundation of everything.
The relationship between the two is so complicated, and Gang Leader Qiao still made the same choice this time as he did when he started a business in the garage - hardware.
This involves his philosophy: users are idiots, and users should never be allowed to decide what they want. Instead, they should design and define their own usage methods, and guide users to accept their own defined methods.
At first glance, this passage may seem like Gang Leader Qiao hates open source, but this is not the case. In fact, Gang Leader Qiao is one of the biggest beneficiaries and contributors of open source, but Gang Leader Qiao’s philosophy is a typical technological idol created by consumerism.
Gangzhu Qiao believes that his works should not just be used as tools by consumers, but should be endowed with elements such as comfort and superiority to be played with, so that customers are willing to pay for them. Consumers love the brand and symbolic meaning of the goods. It should be more than the practical value of the product.
At this time, the practical value of the product will no longer be of concern to everyone, but will become a calibration of a person's character and social status. What determines whether a person is "old-fashioned" or "fashionable", whether he is a "diaosi" or a "diaosi" "Tall, rich and handsome", is it "success" or "failure".
Love madness is the best carrier of Gangzhu Qiao’s concept.
At the macworld conference in San Francisco, California, the lights on the stage dimmed. The audience subconsciously held their breath and looked at the bitten apple on the big screen. This apple attracted people's attention. The eyes of everyone present.
When Gang Leader Qiao slowly walked onto the stage accompanied by flashing lights, cheers and strange screams rang out from the audience.
The staff behind the scenes was also infected by the atmosphere of the scene, but he did not forget his responsibilities, and it took a lot of effort to get his disobedient right hand to turn off the flash.
Gang Leader Qiao was wearing a black sweater and jeans today, which is also his usual combination. He was in a very excited mood at the moment.
As a patient with pancreatic cancer, knowing that his time was running out, Gang Leader Qiao pinned everything on his love. He vowed to turn his love into a symbol that the world would admire.
"Now, it's finally the moment I've been waiting for the most!"
The first sentence made the audience burst into applause.
“Similarly, today, a great product will appear that can completely change the world!
Yes, it’s this apple!
You are all very lucky to be here, because you will witness the birth of this great moment! "
Bang bang bang bang——
The applause gradually became warmer.
At this time, a series of pictures suddenly flashed on the big screen, starting with Apple's first personal computer.
This computer made all the audience present, regardless of their identity, occupation, or social status, unanimously feel the feelings of their youth. With the speech of Gang Leader Qiao, the audience could not help but begin to recall the past experiences that Apple accompanied them through. Those green years.
The screen did not continue to mention other products, but jumped directly to the iPod developed after Qiao Gangzhu took charge of Apple for the second time.
Chen Yi couldn't help but laugh when he saw this scene. Maybe Gang Leader Qiao thought that only these two works were good, and the others were regarded as failures.
Of course, it is also possible that Gang Leader Qiao believes that only the Apple that exists within him can be regarded as Apple, and products from other time periods should be thrown into the trash.
"...today the iPod is no longer just a music player, because in addition to changing the way we listen to music, it has also had a profound impact on the entire music industry..."
Chen Yi and the others looked at the iPod in the picture and their thoughts were ups and downs. This is the advantage of controlling the voice of the industry.
The advantage of the United States, which controls the relevant discourse power, is too great. In the hands of Apple, the iPod, an ordinary product with low technical content, is a big killer that can change the rules of the music industry, but in the hands of the Chip Alliance, it is just a Nothing but a cash cow - mp3.
Therefore, as an exploited person under the relevant rules, Chen Yi has always been very unhappy that his products have to be evaluated and valued by others in a realistic way.
So now, he has the confidence to ignore other people's preferences and evaluations.
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