Chapter 1457 Air Machine Locked

"New Year..."

In the early morning, Amy raised her head, looked at Shakira with big eyes, held her hand and pushed down hard, "It's not like I haven't done it before..."

"I can't stand you guys!"

Shakira complained arrogantly, but quickly compromised under Amy's clear eyes, knelt down with her, knees side by side, "Aw!" but accidentally touched her forehead, and her two blond hair collided. When they got together, they looked at each other and then both giggled and laughed.

It did happen before, and it was quite often for a certain period of time, but at the beginning, one of them was a country girl who was born as a waitress, the other was a Latin girl who just came to the United States from South America to break into the music scene, and now, the other is about to be nominated for an Oscar. The Hollywood first-line actress, another one, has finally been promoted to a globally recognized DIVA...

Song Ya closed her eyes, enjoying the present, recalling the past.

On January 1, 2003, he also came to New York, which is strictly speaking New Jersey. Today is the day when the acquisition of the First Bank of New Jersey was officially completed and he became the chairman.

It's also the last day he'll abide by his agreement with U.S. Senator... former Senator Bill Bradley, and the management of the First Bank of New Jersey will be shaken up.

After today, his conflict with a tycoon will also surface.

It wasn't Paulson. He could feel Paulson's small actions. After venting his dissatisfaction with The Wolf of Wall Street, both he and Paulson's follow-up reactions were restrained, and there was no danger of the struggle between the two sides intensifying for the time being.

Nor is it Redstone who is coveting Taiwan, or Murdoch who is still fighting the Titanic account sharing lawsuit, or Carl Icahn, the true wolf king of Wall Street who has fought several times.

Not even as the investigation got deeper and deeper, it was likely that he was hiding behind the scenes and participated in the planning of Howard Stringer who shot him that year.

Not to mention the members of the 'Assault Alliance' who are madly attacking MJ.

A double electronics and Hollywood mogul, legendary tech hero:

Steve Jobs...

Things have to start with the Beats portable player he launched last year.

Beats is a joint venture established by several of his shareholding companies. Jeffrey Hawkins' HandSpring is the holding company and is responsible for integrated solution design, operating system and final sales; Terry Beard's DTS is responsible for the audio solution and the provision of MP3 patents Music file format; New America Music website: responsible for providing official website, community operation and maintenance, and genuine song download services; William Zhang’s new Goto company created by the merger of AltaVista and Goto is responsible for providing network search services; Monster is responsible for earphone production and audio Performance tuning; 3DFX is responsible for helping to coordinate the supply chain of chips and other components; Linda’s A+ records and Metropolis records authorize their own music copyright library,

Wan Yan, who used to make VCD players in Huaguo, was in charge of assembly and foundry.

Plus part of the start-up funds injected by Deep Sea Private Equity and A+ copyright and asset management companies...

To make a small electronic consumer product, he brought together a large number of companies in his hands to participate collectively, and many of them can be regarded as the leading technologies in the world.

Beats, which was aggressive as soon as it came out, immediately triggered a strong reaction from Apple, which owns the competing iPod Walkman. They chose the ultra-thin mechanical hard drive supplier that overlaps with Beats' supply chain and is also their most controlled ultra-thin mechanical hard drive supplier to exert pressure.

This makes Beats, which has just achieved good sales results in the Black Friday shopping season, immediately face production capacity problems. According to Jeffrey Hawkins, it will be out of stock during the Valentine's Day peak season next month.

If it was only this level of business war offense and defense, Song Ya would not have rashly publicized his conflicts with the already well-known Jobs, but there were two other things that aroused his deep vigilance, resulting in the fact that the two sides had no room for maneuver.

One thing is Apple's upcoming online music store iTunes. When the news reached Song Ya's ears, Apple had already negotiated with the duo alliance of Universal Music and Sony Columbia Records, authorizing the transfer of all rights to the copyright libraries of the two giants. The song is handed over to Apple for distribution.

Subsequently, the other three, and even Disney, which is responsible for the distribution of A+ Records and Metropolitan Records and the management of the copyright library, also began intensive negotiations with Apple.

This is not an exclusive agreement. The Big Five spent huge sums of money on their respective online music sales, but the traditional giants were all laymen of the Internet back then, and they all made a lot of ridiculous operations, such as Sony’s high pricing and persistence. Using a unique music format that is not well accepted by the public, such as Disney's one-pass 'shopping' spree with multiple companies, messy, wanting to do everything but doing nothing GO website, such as in New Millennium Records BMG has a bright future in the industry, but following the business inertia of its parent company Bertelsmann, BMG is still clinging to physical sales on the Internet. ground chicken feathers.

With the outbreak of the stock market crash and rampant piracy, major record companies and their parent companies have been tossed weakly, and Apple's iTunes plan came at the right time...

Disney Records is an ally of Song Ya and Linton. They revealed that Apple is likely to get an ultra-low release price far lower than the physical product.

Fortunately, the remaining three companies plus Disney did not allow Apple to monopolize online music sales, and they were also wary of each other. Song Ya was slow to react but still had opportunities. He decided decisively to follow Apple's path again. On the one hand, he ordered his company to start the online music store project immediately, to negotiate with major record companies;

The cooperation between Apple and the record industry is long-term. Its music production software and compression format have been used in the process of record production and even mastering for a long time. Although DTS mainly focuses on cinema line audio and home theater, nearly a decade ago Through the use and promotion of Songya, it has also been introduced into the industry system. Both parties have their own advantages and patent barriers. Of course, Apple still has the upper hand in general.

Apple also has a large PC user base.

The commercial competition between the two sides intensified rapidly.

Another thing that prompted Song Ya to reveal the conflict today. After persuading Disney Records to make a stumbling block quietly, Roy Disney did not expect that Roy Disney would end up in person soon, using his identity as the vice chairman of the Disney Group to help Apple wipe out this problem. A solo incident in a branch office.

This is a signal that is very vigilant to Song Ya and Linton, who is in charge of Disney.

Linton tried his best to investigate and found something even more serious.

Remember when Jobs returned to Apple, he threw away all his Apple shares in order to regain power and win the trust of the board of directors?

Yes, he did, but the money was passed on and quietly spent on acquiring Disney shares.

His Pixar movies are distributed by Disney Animation.

The chairman of Disney Animation is Roy Dinis, and the profits brought by Pixar are very important to him. At the same time, Buzz Lightyear and other Pixar animation characters are as popular in Disneyland as Mickey Mouse and other Disney's old stars. 'Men, peripheral sales are generally the same.

Because of his dissatisfaction with distribution and peripheral distribution, he and Disney Emperor Eisner had a deadlock early on. During Ovitz's period, he challenged Eisner's position with Buffett and other tycoons.

After Orvis lost, Buffett quickly conceded the bet, cleared all Disney shares in his hands and left. Jobs was still relatively weak at the time, but he did not leave. Although Linton could not find out the specific shareholding data, he was definitely Today is different.

He is a venomous snake lurking inside Disney. When Eisner deliberately created a big battle between Roy Disney, Robert Iger, and George Mitchell, he was undoubtedly the target of the three "crown princes".

That's why Roy Disney was so active in helping.

It is also naturally the 'Royalists' on the surface, the enemies of Linton and Song Ya's faction.

strong enemy.

No matter from which point of view, it is impossible to maintain peaceful coexistence with Jobs in the future. Whether it is MP3 players, online music stores, Disney control, or Apple's future mobile phones and computer notebooks in the apocalypse, there are irreconcilable contradictions in all fields.

This is simply a battle of the avenues!

At this time, Song Ya remembered the history of the Bronfman family that he had studied when he was dealing with the three generations of crazy rich, and the classic ConocoPhillips battle between the old Bronfman and DuPont...

Ignoring the process of ambiguous details, it was discovered after DuPont tried its best to win ConocoPhillips that the old Bronfman was just a bluff before. The giant's largest individual shareholder...

The 24% of the shares were finally sold back to DuPont by Bronfman Jr. for nine billion dollars in cash.

Coincidentally, I have absorbed a lot of Apple stocks in my hands, and I also have the opportunity to emulate the old Bronfman's story!

But those are not enough to pose a threat to Jobs, far from enough, at least not so many can be bought in the secondary market.

Therefore, he must immediately launch an offensive against individual shareholders and institutions that hold a large number of Apple stocks!

Just like the record industry is full of disasters and Apple's iTunes store is just at the right time, Apple shareholders are also very dissatisfied with the company's operating conditions that have improved greatly, but the stock price has remained low for a long time, and it is also a good opportunity to intervene!

But no matter Song Ya or Linton, or other subordinates, there is no network that can establish contact with Apple's extremely dispersed mid-sized shareholders in a short period of time.

so……

Under the bombardment of flashing lights from the reporters, Song Ya adjusted her suit and walked into the press conference of the First Bank of New Jersey with a smile.

"Hello……"

He stretched out his hand early and strode towards a white man in his sixties with a strong aura, "Mr. Amelio."

"Haha, APLUS, just call me Jill."

The other party laughed and shook hands with him.

Jill Amelio, the former CEO of Apple who was kicked out by Jobs, is also the CEO of the First Bank of New Jersey who took office today.

Then the picture of the two people holding hands and accepting the photo appeared on a TV screen on the west coast. Jobs, who had become thinner, watched the scene without saying a word, and stroked the stubble on his chin.

Across the distance across the United States, he and Song Ya on the screen looked at each other confidently.

As if there was an invisible air that locked the future of the two of them firmly, Jobs' eyes under the lens narrowed, and a cold light flickered.

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