sinovels Chapter 241 Steve Jobs Bows Under Pressure
Chapter 241 Steve Jobs Bows Under Pressure
"Claire is right!"
"Napoleon had a good saying, the Dragon Kingdom is a sleeping lion. When this sleeping lion wakes up, the world will tremble."
"Now, the sleeping lion of Dragon Kingdom has awakened. Hardware technology has flower factories, and the Internet has future technology. Isn't this worthy of our attention?"
"Underestimating your competitors is the stupidest thing you can do!"
"Never underestimate our opponent, even if he does not pose a threat to us now, we must always be vigilant!"
"What the people of the Dragon Kingdom are best at is keeping a low profile and biding their time. Once they show their fangs, that's when they are at their most terrifying!"
"Look at the agreement reached by Lu Yi and Doug Max! The annual guarantee of 15 million yuan and 45% of the music store's profit is only 5% higher than ours
But we don’t have to spend the extra 15 million meters!”
"And in terms of content, Sida Records has granted more than two million digital song copyrights for download, which almost completely wipes out the song library of Sida Records!"
“Not only that, Sida Records also agreed to exclusively license the digital music of popular singing stars such as Britney to him, and also signed exclusive copyrights for a group of less famous singers such as Taylor Swift. .”
“In other words, users cannot hear these people’s 22 songs on our iTunes!”
"Lu Yi has shown us his ambition, and his goal is us!"
Jobs' words once again hit their hearts like a heavy hammer.
"Oh my God, are those record companies crazy? They actually gave him the exclusive copyright of Britney and other popular superstars!"
"Why? We didn't get their exclusive copyright, how could MusicSpace get it!"
Many executives were extremely shocked.
To know.
When they negotiated the copyright with the Fourth Record Company, they wanted exclusive copyright, but the Fourth Record Company refused to let go.
obviously.
The heads of the four major record companies are not fools.
If we really want to give them the exclusive copyright, we will lose countless money!
Just like now.
When MusicSpace appeared, Lu Yi flew directly to North America to discuss copyright matters with the four major record companies. The first sale was hundreds of millions of dollars, which was a huge deal!
If Sida Record Company had promised to give them the exclusive copyright of Fruit Company, then Sida Record Company would have made hundreds of millions less money now.
But they really couldn't figure it out.
Why can Lu Yi obtain the exclusive copyrights of several popular superstars?
As for the exclusive copyrights of people like Taylor Swift, they don't care much.
Because at this stage, Taylor Swift and other superstars who will become popular all over the world in the future have either just debuted or are not well-known.
They are not reborn like Lu Yi, who know the future direction and make plans in advance.
Jobs sneered and said: "Obviously, because our iPod + iTunes combination has monopolized more than 90% of the digital music market share, our voice is getting bigger and bigger, which makes the four major record companies feel uneasy and arouses their vigilance. .”
"Steve, are you saying that the record company is deliberately supporting a competitor to our iTunes?"
"What do you think?"
"Fake!"
"Shet!"
"These superficial people take away half of the profits from us every year, but they still don't trust us and want to support a competitor that disgusts us. It's too bitter!
"These unfed bastards!"
"They are just sons of bitches, white-eyed wolves! If it weren't for the launch of our iTunes, these damn record companies would be tortured to death by those pirated music right now!"
"We should let Napster kill them and teach them a lesson!"
A group of executives said angrily.
Jobs' words directly revealed the secret and made them feel betrayed.
"This is business competition. There are only eternal interests and no friends at all!"
Jobs said calmly.
If it were his position at Sida Records, he would have made the same choice.
"With Lu Yi's ambition, and the support of Sida Records, it is clear that we are about to face a strong competitor."
"Look at the MusicSpace product itself. You all just admitted that it is indeed very good and even better than our iTunes. This is an indisputable fact."
"Their comment and like functions allow music lovers who are strangers to each other to use music as a medium to communicate and interact, which greatly enhances user stickiness and allows users to resonate with each other's common music hobbies."
"Obviously, MusicSpace is not just a simple music playing platform, but has been endowed with strong Internet attributes.
"On the other hand, iTunes is just an online music store, but MusicSpace has an interactive community for music lovers."
"Although imitation will make our fruit company look a bit pricey, we have no other better choice."
This meeting.
Most of the top executives were disdainful at first, but in the end, like Steve Jobs, they took MusicSpace very seriously.
The fruit company has finally entered the music market and turned around by relying on iTunes, but it cannot be defeated by MusicSpade at this time.
In just one week after the launch of MusicSpace, the number of users exceeded 20 million.
As soon as this news came out, people in the industry were shocked.
And the same thing made those investors shut up again.
Investors are excited.
Because MusicSpace's performance is very impressive, although it is free in China, the overseas version is chargeable.
On MusicSpace, the price of a song is US$0.5. Even though 45% of the profit will be taken by the four major record companies, future technology can still make money.
And the more you sell, the more you earn.
Originally, they were a little worried that Lu Yi's hundreds of millions of dollars spent would be wasted, but now they see that is not the case at all.
MusicSpace grabbed a piece of meat directly from the innermost part of the fruit.
Although this piece of meat was very small, it gave them hope.
Who can guarantee that this small piece of meat will not become bigger later!
The rapid growth of MusicSpace has put pressure on everyone in the fruit company.
Although they occupy an absolute monopoly, MusicSpace is coming in force and is not as vulnerable as Synapse launched by Microsoft.
MusicSpace relied on powerful functions and cheap prices to begin to shake their dominance.
soon.
The Fruit Company has announced that a new version of iTunes will be launched soon.
That is the windows version.
By then, PC users will also be able to enjoy iTunes services.
originally.
The fruit company has its own Mac and its own operating system.
But in the face of pressure from MusicSpace, Jobs had to let go of his arrogance and choose to cooperate with Windows, which he had previously disdained.
no way.
Who gave the Windows system an absolute monopoly on the PC side?
People can use face, but it is absolutely impossible not to use windows system!
Fruit now only represents a niche, while the Windows system represents the mainstream public, unless the fruit company wants to remain a niche and non-mainstream.
If there was no threat from MusicSpace, Jobs would be willing to be a high-end non-mainstream.
But now that MusicSpace has emerged, he has to choose to transplant iTunes to Windows. .