Chapter 1476 Battle of October

October 17, 2003.

Mariah Carey picks up the OK! Magazine, the color inside page is a suit photo taken by the ex-husband for Gucci, the title is 'APLUS: The World's Hottest Golden Unmarried Man', the text below first brags about the ex-husband's tens of billions of net worth, mansion, private jet Barabara, and then begins Count the love history.

Mira, Fergie, myself, Shakira, and Amy have round headshots lined up in a row, and the titles of ex-girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, ex-wife, ex-girlfriend, and current girlfriend are also thoughtfully marked on the right side of the names. Female readers analyze and interpret the mate selection taste of the little ex-husband...

"snort!"

She rolled the magazine into a roll, and knocked on the forehead of her little ex-husband lying beside her.

"Hmm..." Song Ya frowned in her dream and continued to sleep soundly.

She used her long nails to scrape from the base of the man's ear again, gently scraping and scraping until the carotid artery was reached, and the little ex-husband finally woke up.

"Are there really only fifteen people left in the world who are richer than you?" she asked.

"It's just an entertainment ranking list, it's meaningless."

After regaining consciousness, Song Ya answered casually, got up immediately after looking at the time, and hurried into the bathroom.

"Bah! Pretentious!"

Mariah Carey spat at his back, and asked loudly: "Are you still going to the press conference today? Wouldn't it be better to let my hands go down and open it?"

"The richest man insists on showing up in person to bring goods, so there is nothing I can't do."

Today is the big day for the release of the second-generation Beats Walkman and Beats Music Store, so Song Ya will come to New York.

This war with Apple cannot be won quickly, but it must be fought beautifully!

Hearing the sound of water in the bathroom, Mariah Carey also went downstairs to instruct the servants to arrange breakfast.

'Madonna and Britney on stage again after kiss of the century...'

The former couple and their son Rega's family watched TV while eating breakfast, "Bitch." Seeing Madonna dancing with Britney Spears on the screen, Mariah Carey burst into jealousy.

"Don't swear." Song Ya glared at her.

The son is here,

This time the ex-wife had no reason to do it, so she continued to watch TV silently.

They are all passing away, but the speed of ex-wife passing away is obviously faster than Madonna. The veteran DIVA who has been ups and downs for many years is too smart. She released the anti-war album "American Life" at the beginning of the year and was disgusted by the entire American society. After the mainstream media semi-blocked her, she I don’t know how to hook up with the most popular D Spears at present. The two old and new DIVA suddenly kissed on the stage during the live performance of the AMV awards ceremony held by the station a few months ago, which ignited public opinion in one fell swoop and broke the situation again. .

The key point is that Madonna and Britney belong to different companies, which is indeed a bit powerful.

"Hey! Britney has also grown up and is about to transform."

Mariah Carey may have thought of herself when Britney, whose costumes were becoming more and more revealing, couldn't help but sigh: "I hope she can successfully take over the sexy queen from Madonna, at least it will be more pleasing to the eye."

Song Ya didn't take the ex-wife's idea seriously. Britney really needs transformation, and Madonna really needs popularity, but this seemingly win-win joint hype has the most deadly problem. Britney's traditional rice style is not enough. IQ and Madonna play this game.

But who cares about her, it has nothing to do with her anyway, Song Ya didn't bother to watch the gossip news, so she picked up the remote control and switched to the station.

'Madam Prosecutor! Prosecutor Alicia! '

Today is also the day when the R Kelly case will be held again. Alicia, who has a delicate maroon hairstyle, is very confident in front of the camera, and her clothing with gray and white solid color elements also shows a serious, capable, conservative, and simple temperament. .

Surrounded by Cook County prosecutors, she walked up the courtroom steps, then turned around with a smile, and gave a thumbs up to the reporters who kept shouting and pressing the shutters.

But without an interview, it is impossible for her to win today's lawsuit.

Song Ya frowned. According to her promise, she had communicated with Alicia after returning to Chicago. She didn't seem to know the existence of the video tapes that Gordon and Jesse Jackson were talking about...

Although this is better, it stands to reason that with Jesse Jackson's resources, the intelligence will not make such an oolong. Those videotapes of R Kelly should have fallen into the hands of the Cook County prosecutor.

"I'm done eating, Daddy and Mommy."

On the contrary, the children were the most attentive. Lei Jia was the first to finish eating, and then obediently put his hands on his lap.

"Well, let's go play." The ex-wife is more reliable in educating children, and said gently, stroking her son's head.

Song Ya also nodded to his son's hopeful eyes.

After getting permission from his parents, Little Rega got up and ran away without a trace.

"I have to go too."

Jobs just released the new Windows version of iTunes yesterday. Since iTunes uses a software model, the interface and operation methods are basically the same as the Mac OS version, and users can seamlessly switch.

But the disadvantage of iTunes being difficult to use has not been greatly improved, and the Windows version seems to have more bugs...

Apple continues to give opportunities, so today's Beats conference must not be missed. The third-generation iPod has been on the market for half a year, and the first-generation Beats Walkman can't be sold anymore.

Because it was necessary to demonstrate the use of the beats music store, the press conference was time-consuming and the copywriting was very long. Song Ya hurried to the conference site in Times Square in the morning, and continued rehearsal and other preparations with the meticulous help of the Beats staff. Work.

"You are very good, Boss, have you considered participating in website programming?"

As the press conference approached in the afternoon, Sean Fanning, the head of the beats music store project, felt more and more that the big boss had an innate ability to understand the use of new functions of the website. The casual suggestions for modification are also very imaginative.

The most rare thing is that after thinking about these suggestions for himself, it seems that it is not difficult to implement with existing technology, which makes him have to suspect that the big boss actually knows some programming languages, especially JavaScript-related technologies on the front-end of the web.

"vomit……"

Unexpectedly, the horse's ass was slapped on the horse's leg. The big boss immediately covered his chest when he heard this, and made a disgusted sound.

"Ha! APLUS!"

Fortunately, Jeffrey Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky and other company executives arrived at this time, as well as the beautiful supermodel spokesperson Adriana Lima.

"Today's press conference lasts more than an hour, can you stand it?" Jeffrey Hawkins jokingly pressed Song Ya's shoulder affectionately.

"It's just a half-time concert, and there's no need to sing and dance." Song Ya, who was sitting in front of the computer, shook hands and chatted with everyone.

"I'm going to change clothes first." Lima also kissed him on the cheek.

"Well, let's go."

Song Ya pinched her youthful face full of collagen, "How about the patent lawsuit?" He asked Jeffrey Hawkins and others.

"It won't bother us! RIM, the parent company of BlackBerry, is also being sued, and Apple's patent pool doesn't interfere much with us..." Jeffrey Hawkins replied confidently.

"Apple will release new products in January next year, which may have a relatively large impact on us." Donna Dubinsky said: "Jobs' rumors about his physical condition have also restored everyone's confidence in Apple."

"That's not something we can grasp." Song Ya replied.

There may only be more than two months left for the second-largest Beats Walkman to lead in performance. Consumer electronics will ultimately rely on product strength to speak. Of course, publicity is also very important.

The electronic screen advertisement in Times Square is already counting down to the launch of new Beats products. In less than 24 hours, ten directly-operated chain stores of Beimi will also open at the same time tomorrow morning.

Everything was ready, Song Ya took a deep breath, and walked onto the stage of the press conference which was already full of audience.

This is good for tech nerds. No matter whether they are tens of billionaires or the richest man in the world, they will not be sought after and deliberately ostentatious like the various snobs Song Ya encountered in Hollywood and Wall Street during this period. , eyes wide open wholeheartedly, excitedly and eagerly waiting for the appearance of another new technological product.

Of course Jobs was watching TV too.

"Once again, ask Adriana to demonstrate for us!"

Jobs didn't care about all the bragging and performance indicators in front of APLUS until, like last year, supermodel Lima took the stage with the second-generation Beats Walkman, and he focused on it.

Lima still wore cool shorts and sneakers. This time, he didn't wear a T-shirt with small pockets, but a tight elastic vest, as if there was no place to put things.

However, she was wearing earphones, and as she turned around delicately, the earphone wires extended to the back pocket of her particularly curled hot pants.

APLUS squeezed the headphone cable with a smile, and finally pulled out the black second-generation Beats amidst the whistles and cheers of the audience.

Seeing the large screen on the front without buttons, Jobs tightened his facial muscles.

There is still a button, still in the old position, on the side, Song Ya pressed it, and the big screen with blue backlight lights up.

"For most of the song selection and song cutting functions, we can do this... this..."

APLUS changed to a more magnetic voice, and he spoke slowly while demonstrating. As he pressed the soft button on the large screen with his fingers, the operation interface of the second-generation Beats cut to the next song.

Live sound also switches accordingly.

This is a real touch screen!

The Tero series handed over its touchscreen features to the same company's Walkman products!

The knowledgeable audience stood up collectively and fell into madness.

it turns out……

Relying on his mastery of the supply chain, Jobs was mentally prepared for the performance parameters of this competing product, such as hard disk size, sound quality and other parameters, but this screen... should have been ordered from the mobile phone department of Palm, the parent company of Beats.

Although the quality of the screen is not high, it is definitely a luxury to use it on a Walkman.

I thought it would still be used on mobile phones...

Careless.

He began to have targeted discussions with his subordinates while watching the press conference.

"Thank you, thank you Andriana."

At the press conference, Song Ya has watched Lima step off the stage on a light catwalk. He put the rectangular, exquisite and compact Walkman on the display stand next to Lanov's computer, connected it with a USB cable, pulled out the chair and sat down , began to cooperate with the music store to display the brand-new operation interface and functions.

"Let's log in first..."

The music store is based on the IE browser, but due to the need to meet copyright compliance requirements such as encryption level, it is still necessary to download a background package first.

"Then click on the software download, here is a Beats music store suite..."

The big screen at the scene was synchronizing his operations on the computer.

"Then we can open the music store and log in. If you don't have a Beats account, you can register first..."

Song Ya continued to demonstrate, very proficient.

"OK, now let's open the music store interface."

The browser interface on the big screen seems like a dream of Napster, but it is specious, which is very popular among the geek community in the tech house, and some people stand applause.

The enthusiastic atmosphere put great pressure on everyone at Apple, especially the senior executives in charge of the iTunes project. Napster was the easiest software to download songs in the early days, although it took a wrong path.

"BMG Records bought Napster, they won't like this, contact them," Jobs ordered.

"We can search with keywords, like R&B..."

Song Ya began to display the search box again, supported by the powerful Goto engine, the search results came out quickly, and the songs were arranged alphabetically.

"R&B, Space, APLUS." Song Ya added her stage name after that.

A list of their own songs is presented on the big screen, as long as it contains rhythm and blues style, the previous American music website has already prepared a classified database.

The audience roared with laughter.

"Or just type APLUS."

A list of all his songs is displayed on the big screen, arranged alphabetically.

"Or add 26 with APLUS."

He continued typing, and the CD cover of the 26th album appeared with detailed album playlist, album introduction, artist introduction and other content.

"In short, you can use the Tags you know to combine at will."

Song Ya casually clicked on the song Save Your Tears, and a row of simple and clear buttons for purchase, download, view rating, share, etc. were in the middle of the song title and lyrics.

After demonstrating step by step how to use PayPal and other online payment tools to pay for purchases and download them to the Walkman, Song Ya got up and picked up the Walkman. The songs have been successfully downloaded to the hard disk, and can be easily found and played smoothly.

'The crowd was crowded, I saw you dancing...'

APLUS's Save Your Tears sounded on the scene.

This is much easier to use than his own iTunes music store, and it is more in line with user intuition. Jobs raised his hand and stroked his chin with a solemn expression.

"We can even go to the music community of the Beats website to check more before buying, such as ratings and comments from other fans..."

Song Ya sat down again and focused on showing some social functions. The new browser page that popped up went to the rating community of the original American music website. The rating system was pioneered by XXL magazine. As usual, S means the worst, XXL means the best... …

The massive user base of AmericaMusic.com has created a wealth of song, album, artist review content over the years, and now it's all available.

"Who owns the All Music site now? Universal? Sony Columbia?" Jobs asked.

"It seems that the two companies are jointly owned, let me ask." The subordinate quickly picked up the mobile phone and made a call.

"You can even share your song reviews and playlists with..."

'Dang! '

At this time, an accident occurred. Maybe the IE browser window was opened too much, and the operating system suddenly popped up an error box.

Song Ya turned it off casually, and clicked again.

'Dang! '

'Dang! ’ ‘Dang! ’ ‘Dang Dang Dang Dang! Dang Dang! '

The more and more error boxes popped up, Song Ya looked at the screen full of red crosses, sweating on his forehead in a hurry, cursing Microsoft and the richest man in his heart.

To be on the safe side, be careful and be careful, today I chose Microsoft's new Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.

'Dang! '

Well! Blue screen!

The technical support staff also ignored the effect of the program, and rushed to help the big boss repair it. In fact, all they could do was hard restart...

Song Ya mouthed words starting with F, smiled wryly and stood up to make way.

Seeing that it was almost the same, Jobs walked back to his office with a solemn expression.

"Hahaha!"

Microsoft's repertoire was over, and the audience laughed in good faith.

"Hahaha!"

At the same time in Chicago, Will Gardner and other members of the fantasy lawyer team, Jesse Jackson and other celebrities who accompanied the court were already laughing heartily, surrounded R Kelly, who was acquitted by the jury, and walked out of the court, "Sorry, sorry...please Let go."

Countless reporters rushed forward to ask questions, but they didn't answer.

"thanks, thanks……"

R Kelly himself thanked all the way with sobs, and shook hands with reporters over the shoulders of bodyguards and entourages.

The reporters had to go to Alicia again.

"Today is a sad day for all women and the Cook County Attorney is very disappointed with the outcome of the trial..."

Alicia's expression was lost, angry and strong, and she began to make a tirade in front of countless cameras and flashing lights.

"This bitch!"

R Kelly, who was already in the car, stared at her and cursed.

"Politicians need to put on a show like this. Let's go and drive." Jesse Jackson has seen it a lot, and he doesn't care at all. "You can call APLUS yourself when you get home and thank you."

"I know……"

In fact, Alicia's speech was not much of a performance. She really wanted to say that R Kelly was sent to prison. A criminal with that kind of habit got away easily today, and he would never be able to bear it in the future, and because he was punished It is likely to get worse.

It also means that there will be more female victims. She would rather bear the price of some losses in her personal career and bring R Kelly to justice.

"What's this?"

Out of the public eye, she returned to her Cook County State Attorney's Office lonely and found a large cardboard box on the table, which contained some black video tapes.

She went out suspiciously to observe the busy colleagues, then came back and randomly picked up a cassette and stuffed it into the video recorder.

"Damn it!"

It turned out to be R Kelly's new crime video! If only I had gotten these sooner...

She was furious.

"Peter wants to see you." PR consultant Eli walked in quietly.

"What did Peter do?" she demanded.

"Ask him yourself..."

"Alicia, I'm sorry, I had those detained."

She rushed to the prison immediately, and Peter began to answer questions.

"You...you are a prisoner wearing a prison uniform now, what? Do you still want to play the role of the underground emperor of the Cook County prosecutor? Peter, don't interfere with my work!"

Alicia warned her ex-husband angrily, "You did this..." she lowered her voice, "You are still committing a crime! I can give you a package of additional sentences! Damn it, if I have these videotapes, I may not necessarily lose today's battle! "

"But with those chances of winning are not great, the risk is too high for Alicia."

Peter held out his hand.

Alicia withdrew her hand and refused to let him hold it, "Submitting new evidence will at least delay the trial and give my prosecution more time..."

"You can't delay any longer. If you continue to fight, you will never be re-elected without black votes." Peter said calmly.

"At least it's better than it is now. We lost badly today, and R Kelly will gain widespread sympathy." Alicia couldn't accept it and shook her head.

"That's why I asked someone to hold the videotape until now."

Peter said: "That's right, the faster and easier R Kelly wins, the more the public will sympathize with him, and the black community will be more inclined to believe that he is being persecuted."

"That……"

"But have you ever thought that as long as you can't win against R Kelly and his fantasy lawyer team for a long time, your role in this case will be infinitely similar to the female prosecutor Clark in the Simpson case .Because TV stations are not allowed to broadcast the trial now, your fate may even be worse than that of Clark. After she loses the lawsuit, she can rely on the fame she earned in the Simpson case to make money by publishing books. Now, is there any publishing house looking for you? No, right? The social influence of R Kelly’s matter is far behind that of the Simpson case, but what about your re-election? It’s over with you?”

Peter said earnestly, "Since it is impossible to win steadily, a better solution is to simply make R Kelly a perfect victim."

"Hehe, the perfect victim, R Kelly? Does he deserve the word?" Alicia sneered, crossing her chest, "It's disgusting."

"Popular psychology is such that when there's a perfect victim, people feel infinitely sympathetic, but...but when things suddenly turn around, people get angrier at being cheated, and then turn to sympathy for what they thought was a victim. The perfect victim's counterpart."

Peter's old-fashioned movie star face winked playfully at his ex-wife at this moment, "That's you."

"So... those videotapes?" Alicia was a little enlightened.

"Yes, Eli will help you release them on time, the media will love it."

Peter leaned back in the chair and pointed to his ex-wife, "And this! This is your real opportunity in politics!"