Chapter 1463 Music Store

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The STB company that had exhausted all their efforts was ruined, but they did not go bankrupt. The trio could still afford a small private jet. They were in contact with Apple while on their way. They just arrived at the airport and boarded the plane. It was a coincidence that they met Tu 757 landed with a huge A+ lettering.

Today's plane belongs to Rose's private, and it is also the largest one in the trio, but compared with the 757, it looks like a low, dilapidated bungalow.

When the enemies met, the eyes of the three who hadn't slept well for a long time due to the STB bankruptcy crisis turned redder, with dark circles under their eyes, and watched the 757 slide into the tarmac all the way.

"I really want to go and beat him up," said Rose viciously.

"Forget it."

Unlike Ross, as the former CTO with the best technology, 3DFX sincerely persuaded Scott to stay. If he had compromised back then, his net worth must have exceeded 100 million now. It would be a lie to say that he has no regrets, and Scott did not say anything. Angrily yelled at the old brother: "Who is beating who? Go away..."

After Rose's small plane took off, the three of them continued to stare at the 757 on the ground through the portholes. They couldn't find the figure of the enemy, but they saw fat black men walking down the airstairs one after another.

Rose shrunk his neck subconsciously, and turned to close his eyes to rest in mourning.

"Hmph..."

Mariah Carey appeared at the cabin door after her bucket aunt chorus, first stood still and took a pose, and then glanced at the black Mercedes-Benz convoy to pick up the plane.

"Mimi!"

Xun Sheng found the little ex-husband who was sticking his head out from the back seat of one of the cars, shouting and waving, immediately pouted his lips in displeasure, and walked over reluctantly.

The back seat door was pushed open, and the little ex-husband smiled and leaned to the other side to give up his seat.

"You don't even bother to get out of the car, do you?" Get in and beat him up.

"Oh! There are so many people with mixed eyes, hehe..."

The little ex-husband hugged her face affectionately, "Why are you here in Silicon Valley too? Aww! Aww!"

"Can't you come!?"

After a few slaps to establish her status, she changed her face a little bit, but it was to the old Mike, the driver, "Hi, Mike."

Old Mike smiled and exchanged greetings with her, started the car, and the convoy drove towards Song Ya's new home in Palo Alto.

This white French-style mansion close to Stanford University and the center of Silicon Valley has no long history. The 1,000-square-meter land was bought by the founder and chairman of SUN McNealy. It is a brand-new self-built house. As the top richest man in Asia, the emperor of 3DFX doesn't need to go back and forth to Silicon Valley so low-key anymore.

After Microsoft released its strategy of direct competition and encountered a stock market crash, SUN's market value and situation went from bad to worse. When 3DFX released its financial report, its family also released last year's financial report, with a huge loss of 500 million, which caused another sharp drop in the stock price.

Money, Silicon Valley tycoon McNeely himself is not short of money. Although his name has quietly disappeared from the list of the world's richest people last year. In response to the high price, he generously cut off a third of this private land, and the two became neighbors from the south to the north.

"I fired both Sandy and Lee."

Mariah Carey, who owns a 40-acre Bedford estate, is not interested in this 'small' house in the center of Silicon Valley, where the land is very expensive. She has only one priority on her mind: renewing the contract and asking for a press release The renewal amount must not be less than Whitney Houston's 100 million.

Even if it's just the so-called 100 million, it's difficult to manage in the record industry that is currently shrouded in gloom. Her manager, Sandy Glenn, is getting old and her connections are getting old. Initiate DIVA to fire people with temper.

Now she will communicate with herself before such a big event, Song Ya simply asked her to fire lawyer Li Phillips, and just took this opportunity to completely drive David Geffen's friends away from his ex-wife and son-in-law.

The move sparked renewed consternation from David Geffen and Harvey Weinstein,

They contacted and asked again and again through various means. Song Ya wanted this kind of effect, so they responded perfunctorily and waited for the meeting at the Oscars.

"The new president of Sony Columbia Records is even worse than Rick Rubin," she complained.

Rick Rubin was replaced by Howard Stringer's old subordinates, an outsider in the record industry, and it is impossible to manage the company with an artist's style. "If you don't ask for such a high contract renewal fee, the Sixth Conference will break the lead." Song Ya persuaded her, "Mimi, we don't need to argue with Whitney Houston. What do you think of her image in the past two years? She can't even get half of the 100 million Alistar records."

Whitney Houston showed a skinny image at MJ's 30th anniversary concert before 9/11. The media tabloids began to pay attention to the suspicion of DIVA's drug addiction. Last year, she almost admitted in disguise in an exclusive interview with ABC. Last year The sales volume of the new franchise at the end of the year was also not good, and the momentum plummeted. Fans are already madly attacking her husband Bobby Brown, who had a real criminal record in the early years, saying that Whitney was led badly by him.

"Hmph, she plans to release a Christmas album this year!"

The ex-wife is very concerned about AllIWantForChristmasIsYou’s long-term Christmas song meal ticket. The news that Whitney Houston will also post a Christmas special makes her feel very crisis. Besides, DIVA’s career ups and downs are normal. Who knows that the other party will not be like Madonna , Xue Er repeatedly became popular like that?

Who can say clearly about the future, in fact, her anxiety has some inherent thinking, who will fight for the DIVAs in the 1990s among the young people now, Britney and Christina Aguilera are the two. The popular spotlight last year also featured super rookie Avril Lavigne and Norah Jones, who won the Grammy Four and Best Female Pop Singer last month.

Norah Jones is the daughter of Indian music giant Ravi Shankar. Ravi Shankar's music had a profound influence on the Beatles and even the hippie generation in the West.

This year's Grammys also nominated several awards for his 26 albums, including the best album of the year. Song Ya still didn't go, and the Grammys still didn't give awards, and Song Ya's media still scolded them for three meals.

Ex-wife... let alone, the entertainment industry always replaces old ones with new ones.

Song Ya turned to ask: "Sony Columbia Records will not renew the contract...Which other company is more sincere?"

"snort!"

When it comes to this ex-wife, she becomes furious, "It's all your fault! There are not many people in the record industry who don't hate you! You've got me involved!"

"It's not... ouch! ouch! Don't make trouble! There will be a lot of guests later."

The two walked into the bedroom, and once they were alone, Mariah Carey suddenly made a 180-degree turn, put down her bag, turned around, wrapped her arms around her little ex-husband's neck, and pouted.

"Well……"

Song Ya felt strange while lingering, what happened today? "What's wrong?"

"that……"

She shyly acted like a little girl, "Why don't you just let Metropolis Records sign me? I'll let you be my boss." She winked and winked.

"Well……"

"Okay, okay?" The ex-wife kissed and sniffed from his neck to his chest like a small animal, and then swung her arms and acted like a baby.

"Metropolis is also difficult now..."

Song Ya dare not tell the truth. Metropolitan Records, which owns Jazzy, Lincoln, Daft Punk, Destiny's Child, Alicia Keys, Foxy Brown and other artists, is the most profitable record label in recent years. It's difficult, but it's completely different from signing an ex-wife directly by someone else to open a contract that claims to be 100 million, and the bet may not even be able to execute half of the money.

The 100 million was paid by himself, if he dared to skimp and deduct, and wait for a violent beating every now and then!

That's 100 million...

The two parties know each other too well, "Hmph!" The ex-wife instantly tore off the disguise and returned to her original face, "I knew it! I knew it! You don't think I'm not popular anymore and I can't sell records, right?! Scumbag! High-spirited... "

"Aw! Aw! I can't stand you!"

Song Ya bounced all the way to avoid the ferocious iron hoof that she kicked while crying, and fled in despair.

"Hello……"

But when the guests came to the door one after another, the ex-wife changed her face again, wearing a red evening dress and holding the old-fashioned dress scarf, standing gracefully beside the little ex-husband to welcome the guests.

"Hi... Ms. Kelly."

"It's an honor to meet you, Ms. Kelly."

The tech heroes in Silicon Valley might not be able to meet DIVA here, and they all act a little restrained, which is normal, after all, ex-husband and ex-wife, but what about the new actress Laura Ramsey I saw when I came here yesterday? Uh, it's better not to ask.

'Hello, Moto...'

At this time, the classic Motorola mobile phone slogan was heard in the hall behind. Mariah Carey turned on the radar, and immediately turned to turn off the TV.

After going through the detour of the Iridium project, Motorola returned to the GSM camp. The unique screw-cap design V70 mobile phone released last year sold well all over the world, bringing its mobile phone division back to the top camp in the industry in one fell swoop.

But that's not the point, Motorola's mobile phone spokesperson is Madonna, who is at odds with her ex-wife.

"Don't close it, we'll see later."

Song Ya quickly took back the remote control and turned it on again.

"snort!"

The flesh on his arm was twisted again, "Please sit down." Song Ya smiled painfully and continued to greet the guests.

Today is the day when Apple released the iTunes music store. Song Ya and the guests sat down one after another, preparing to watch and judge in real time.

Before the scene started, he set his sights on the youngest white man in the room, only in his early twenties, Sean Fanning, the founder of Napster.

After a period of trial and contact, he and Jeffrey Hawkins chose Fanning from the two namesake founders of Napster, and abandoned the other Sean, Sean Parker.

The reason is that Fan Ning still chose to stay in the industry that combines records and the Internet after the failure of Napster. His start-up company SNOCAP has just started the research on P2P songs through digital registration and digital certificate distribution for genuine sales. This is exactly the same as Beats intends to follow suit. The idea of ​​the iTunes music store coincides.

The other founder, Parker, did not "repent from the evil and return to the right", and still maintained the Napster style of doing things. He got green shirts and other angels to invest in online contact software, and the main way to promote it was through spam and viruses. Various trap links spread to the Internet to trick users into downloading, and then use the good-looking number of users to fool investors.

After investigation, Parker's own living habits are relatively ostentatious and depraved, so he is naturally rejected by Song Ya, who advocates honest management.

Therefore, Song Ya asked Jeffrey Hawkins to acquire Fan Ning's start-up company SNOCAP through Beats parent company HandSpring at a high premium.

And because SNOCAP's earlier angel investor was the well-known Silicon Valley timely rain, Ron Conway, who has invested in Internet companies such as Napster, Google, and PayPal, and Ron Conway, who chose to keep his shares in SNOCAP, also came today.

Ron Conway was accompanied by his friend, Netscape founder Mark Anderson, and the others were Jeffrey Hawkins and his old partner Donna Dubinsky who started the business together since the Palm era. Donna is now the CEO of Beats. She also worked at Apple in her early years. for a while.

And William Zhang, the CEO of the new Goto search engine company, and Terry Beard, the founder of DTS, are really a room full of technology industry leaders.

"Is Warner Music in?" Terry Beard asked.

"Yes, I compromised at the last moment." Song Ya replied.

The management of Warner Music still didn’t hold back. It’s no wonder they did. Disney Records, which has the closest cooperation with them, joined Apple’s iTunes music store plan early. “Where’s your SNOCAP? Have you talked to the major record companies? ' he asked Fanning.

"Talked, but they were all rejected. My reputation with them...is not very good."

Napster nearly destroyed the record industry at its peak, Fanning replied coyly.

Song Ya and Jeffrey Hawkins looked at each other, and it was their responsibility to talk to the six major record companies in the future. SNOCAP and Fan Ning just hid behind the scenes and concentrated on technology.

Before the stock market crash, Napster was very popular. Although it failed to IPO from the beginning to the end, Fan Ning had seen the world, and with the help of angel investor and Silicon Valley tycoon Ron Conway, the acquisition of SNOCAP Song Ya had to be replaced by them. A small bundle of shares in HandSpring and Beats.

"here we go."

Apple's press conference was held on time, and it was still Jobs' usual style, with a minimalist unfolded design, a large screen, and a three-piece suit, namely Issey Miyake's black T-shirt, Levi's jeans, and New Balance shoes.

Jobs attaches great importance to the iTunes music store around the iPod ecology: iTunesStore. Instead of his usual slow-paced introduction, he kept throwing out concepts, comparisons, and introductions from the beginning. Soon, he showed the record companies that support music stores, including Universal, Sony Columbia, Warner, Disney, BMG, and EMI. LOGO appeared in the same freeze frame.

Song Ya gritted her teeth silently, and moved her buttocks on the sofa.

Ron Conway's attention is quietly focused on the black pharaoh who has never dealt with before. Speaking of which, this young mixed-race has been investing in the Internet industry since Mark Anderson and Jim Clark founded Netscape, and he is older than his "seniority" in Silicon Valley Woolen cloth!

Noticing the gesture, he asked, "Will the Big Six support Beats' music store, too?"

"It's not a big problem." It's impossible for the Big Six to let Apple monopolize, "but we have to make the software first. It's up to Sean..." He smiled at Fanning.

Fanning stared at the TV screen with great pressure. So far, the real content of the iTunes music store has not appeared.

"Universal Music is okay?" Ron Conway had naturally heard of the grievances between Black Pharaoh and Universal.

"Business is business." Song Ya replied.

Doug Morris, president of Universal Music, has long been betting on the long side. It must be no problem. Ron Meyer, the president of the parent company Universal Entertainment, is very cunning and does not want to offend people for no reason, but it is difficult to guarantee that Vivendi Universal and Bronfman will The family does not interfere.

However, with two consecutive years of huge losses, CEO Messier was ousted, and Bronfman Jr. lost his influence, the attitude of the new leadership should change.

At this time, the main page of the iTunes music store appeared on the big screen. Everyone leaned forward and tried their best to observe every detail.

"The interface doesn't seem fundamentally different from the early iTunes!" Fanning said excitedly.

"Yes, there are more album and single covers, as well as some songs, artist profiles, and Tags."

Apple seems to have brought out an old soup. The software interface has not changed much from the previous version of iTunes, and the newly added music store is more colorful.

iTunes has always been difficult to use, and everyone feels that there may be opportunities for overtaking on corners.

Jobs probably realized this too, and the subsequent explanation was uncharacteristically no longer religiously lyrical, but became very detailed, and he talked about almost all the functions, and the total time seemed to be close to an hour.

"Huh..." Song Ya breathed a sigh of relief. He was most afraid that Apple would bring out a brand new and revolutionary thing like the iPod. Now it seems that he is too worried.

But the problem now is that others have it but I don't! Even according to Fanning's previous plan, it will take at least half a year for the new Beats music store, which integrates SNOCAP digital certificate technology and Napster user interface, to achieve the rich functions similar to iTunes.

Thinking of this, he subconsciously clicked his lips again.

"Maybe we can do that directly with the website."

William Zhang knew what the boss was worried about, "It's like the later one, so that users don't need to download and install a new software, and can directly use IE browser to log in to operate their own music library. Just like Beats website users manage their own song music reviews, We can even provide a link for users to directly check album ratings, instead of simple introductions and Tags."

"It can also be connected with HandSpring's PDA and smart phone." Jeffrey Hawkins said.

"It's like buying books on Amazon," says Ron Conway.

"IE has security issues, it is easy to be cracked and downloaded illegally." Mark Anderson is still full of resentment towards Microsoft.

"Yes, then the record companies will be very angry with us. There is a reason why Apple chose to do this and would rather go to the trouble." Terry Beard nodded.

"My digital certificate technology is fine." Fan Ning said: "Now pirated music can be downloaded anywhere, so why should users take a detour, it's so troublesome to crack the genuine version...Most people can't even delete songs to free up hard disk space."

While listening to Jobs babbling on TV, the bosses were brainstorming with each other.

The ex-wife has fallen asleep on the sofa.

"etc!"

Donna Dubinsky, who had been silent for a while, frowned, "Wait a minute! Did Jobs just say that this software supports Windows?"

"Maybe not."

"No……"

"I didn't hear that."

Everyone looked at each other in dismay, "Isn't it? Now Apple's market share may be less than 5%...and it is widely used in record, film, and publishing industries. Who would install this on company computers?"

"Really?" Song Ya sat up straight in an instant, her eyes lit up.

When Jobs introduces the software update, everyone can finally be sure! This shit only supports Apple's own OS!

"Hahaha!"

The room erupted in joyful laughter.

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