With the end of Tinco Bayer's 1997 spring new product launch conference, starting that afternoon, various platforms such as the Internet, TV, and print media began to discuss a series of Tinco Bayer's new products at this conference.
Especially online platforms.
Relying on the strong advantages of the Westeros system in the field of new technology, within just a few hours after the press conference, a large number of information about the project appeared on the Igrit portal, Facebook social network, Instagram photo sharing, YouTube video website and other platforms. Contents of Tinco Bayer’s new product launch conference.
Among them, professional and non-professional evaluation videos on the YouTube platform about the new generation of iCam, iPlayer, iRec and iWorld sharing terminals and the most watched iMac personal computer, in just five hours after the conference, the total number of views was roughly estimated. That’s more than 600 million.
On the Facebook platform, topics related to Tinco Bayer’s spring new product launch, such as the huge price cuts of iCam and iPlayer, standard environmentally friendly lithium batteries for all Tinco Bayer series, and the trial of iMac computers, have all appeared on the hot list.
Not to mention the special news pushed to the top of the official Yigrit portal.
As of February 1997, overseas Internet users followed North America and entered an explosive period, causing the number of global Internet users to reach 530 million in the latest statistics. It can be said that more than 500 million Internet users around the world, as long as they have recently accessed the Internet, have There was no way to escape the information storm bombarded by Tinker Bayer’s 1997 spring new product launch.
So much so that the official Facebook account of the New York Times couldn't help but joke about the incident that night, saying that this media trend had saved Tinker Bayer at least $1 billion in advertising costs.
Most ordinary people find it difficult to resist the influence of a high-intensity advertising campaign. Therefore, at 8 o'clock in the evening, East Coast time in the United States, the official website of Tinker Bayer and the official flagship store of Igret's Amazon online mall were opened at the same time. Although new product pre-sales are currently limited to North America, within just one minute, the number of paid pre-sales for the new generation of iPlayer and iCam exceeded 1 million at the same time.
What surprised everyone the most was the controversial iMac.
The industry generally prefers that users will be very cautious about this expensive new operating system personal computer. After the launch, the YouTube platform simultaneously opened a large number of user review videos to conduct trial evaluations of all aspects of the iMac-10, which made many Consumers who were originally hesitant no longer need to go to a physical store to try it out in person or wait for feedback from people around them as before. Instead, they can make a decision directly after integrating some evaluation videos.
As a result, even Tinker Bayer officials did not expect that less than half an hour after the iMac-10 opened for pre-sale, statistics from the two major platforms showed that the number of pre-orders for this personal computer had exceeded 100,000.
Subsequently, as of 12 a.m. West Coast time, which is equivalent to 7 hours since pre-sales began, the total number of iMac-10 pre-sales has reached 390,000 units.
Since most pre-order users chose the price configuration of about US$1,500 instead of the standard basic model of US$1,299, equivalent to 7 hours, the iMac personal computer generated sales of nearly US$600 million.
In 7 hours, 390,000 units were pre-sold, and sales reached US$600 million. What level is this
According to industry statistics, it is expected that global PC shipments will be around 170 million units in 1997. North America still accounts for about 35% of the market share, reaching 60 million units.
This is equivalent to the average weekly sales volume of 1.15 million units in North America.
In the week before Tinker Bayer's conference, PC sales of 1.17 million units in North America were basically in line with industry forecasts.
Now, even taking into account the early adopter mentality of users caused by the launch of new products, the iMac-10 pre-sold 390,000 units in just 7 hours, which is equivalent to directly stealing more than 30% of the North American PC market share in a single week. This calculation is certainly not scientific, but it shows one thing very intuitively: Tinker Bayer's iMac is definitely not without threat to the Windows operating system that has almost monopolized the PC market.
Regarding the iMac-10 sales news that quickly hit the major media the next day on Sunday? Microsoft can no longer remain calm.
Faced with the pressure of public opinion, Daemon chose to be interviewed by reporters at his family's mansion on the shores of Lake Mercer in Seattle. I chose to be interviewed in a private mansion. On the one hand, it was because I had Sunday off. On the other hand, it was obvious that Daemon wanted to show a stable attitude.
What a pity? Faced with all kinds of sharp questions from reporters, Daemon's classmates are definitely not good in character. After all, they couldn't hold it back. They launched a massive attack on iMac? He said that the development of operating systems is not a child's building blocks, and it definitely cannot be done in a short time. It can be done, while emphasizing that Microsoft has 19,000 employees and the iMac R&D team has less than 1,000 people.
Finally, Daimon took several media reporters to a living room of his mansion and showed everyone a Windows computer with a red case that was obviously prepared in advance. He said sarcastically that he could run the computer by himself. Beautifully done? But it’s not innovative.
Related interviews were posted on major platforms that afternoon.
Then? It quickly went sideways.
The cause was a video on YouTube, which was obviously edited in a parody style. Although it was only a little over two minutes long, through some repeated shots, some scenes of Daimon’s classmates criticizing the iMac were spliced and replayed, magically achieving the goal. A rather wacky comedic effect.
Although the simple people of this era do not know what "ghost animals" are, certain emotions are always the same.
As a result, the video on YouTube quickly became popular and attracted overwhelming ridicule.
The most popular comment under the relevant video undoubtedly reflects what most people think: He really looks like an anxious monkey!
Although Daimon called Simon angrily that night and the video was deleted by YouTube after the big boss spoke personally, the cumulative views exceeded 20 million in just a few hours, causing the impact to spread quickly. There are also many people who re-uploaded the original video after YouTube deleted it, and various related animations were quickly circulated. The anxious monkey is destined to become a dark history that Damen classmates cannot shake off.
Amid all this excitement, the weekend in late March finally passed.
The time came to March 24th.
New week.
The day when the 69th Academy Awards ceremony is held.
New York.
In bustling Manhattan, many people started their day as usual.
However, this was destined to be an extraordinary day.
The start of the new week for the stock market is still exciting at first. It is completely conceivable that the enthusiastic response caused by Tinker Bayer's press conference on Saturday will inevitably be transmitted to the stock market.
When the stock market opened in the morning, as Tinco Bayer's stock price soared, the Nasdaq index also successfully exceeded the high of 7,000 points. Half an hour after the opening, the Nasdaq index had reached 7,045 points.
At the same time, Westeros concept stocks have reached new highs.
Open half an hour.
Tinker Bayer led the gains, with its share price rising 4.7% and its market value reaching US$417.9 billion.
As the leader, Yigrit also rose by 1.6%, with a market value of US$923.3 billion, and a market value of trillions is increasingly expected.
And then.
Cisco, up 0.9%, has a market value of $653.5 billion.
America Online, up 2.1%, has a market value of $386.7 billion.
Daenerys Entertainment, which is on the New York Stock Exchange next door, rose 0.6%, with a market value of US$569.1 billion.
Nokia, up 1.7%, has a market value of $218.6 billion.
Verizon, up 1.3%, has a market value of $171.9 billion.
In addition, Microsoft, which is inevitably affected, is a major shareholder of the Westeros system. Half an hour after the opening, the stock price fell 3.9%, and the market value is still as high as 282.1 billion U.S. dollars.
Intel, up 0.3%, has a market value of $236.3 billion.
SUN, up 0.8%, has a market value of US$116.3 billion.
Oracle, up 1.5%, has a market value of $79.3 billion.
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Then, everything freezes!
At the Cersei Capital headquarters in Rockefeller Center, on the floor where Black Rock Asset Management is located, Lawrence Fink, who had just walked out of the office with several senior executives after holding a weekly executive meeting, was greeted by one of his assistants in a hurry. One thing was revealed.
Just now, just after 10 o'clock in the morning, the securities trading department suddenly discovered that a large number of sell orders for Microsoft stocks appeared on the market, amounting to more than 300 million US dollars.
Before these words were finished, another leader of the securities trading department rushed forward again, and the words from his mouth came all the way: "It collapsed, it collapsed..."
When Lawrence Fink brought several senior executives to a computer displaying stock quotes, it was less than 10:05. Microsoft's stock price had already fallen by 12%, and the accumulated stock selling orders were rapidly accumulating. More than $2 billion.
Affected by the plummeting share price of Microsoft, the share prices of Windows system PC manufacturers such as HP, Compaq, and Dell plummeted across the board, which in turn affected the overall change of the entire Nasdaq market.
If future generations of this time and space were to sort out the history of the Internet industry, they would probably not bypass this day.
March 24, 1997.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, due to the huge response from Tinker Bayer's spring new product launch conference on Saturday, the technology stock sector had a good start to the new week. With the sudden appearance of a large number of Microsoft stock selling orders in the market, the Nasdaq was soaring. After the index broke through the high of 7,000 points, the bubble finally burst and collapsed.
All this seems accidental, but it is almost inevitable.
Compared with the mere 300 points in 1990 and the highest point of 7045 in 1997, the Nasdaq Index has grown 23 times in seven years.
Even though the vigorous development of the new technology industry has ushered in a completely new era, a 23-fold increase in the stock index in seven years cannot be a normal thing after all.
However, the new technology bubble that many people had repeatedly warned the public about in 1995 or even earlier miraculously rushed to 1997, reaching a point of 7045 that was unbelievable to many bystanders who did not understand financial stocks. High position, this is not just a miracle, it can even be said to be a fantasy.
Fantasy bubbles are just bubbles after all.
No bubble can escape the fate of bursting.
Therefore, the collapse of Microsoft's stock price is just an accidental opportunity. When it happens by chance, it is inevitable in the minds of many people, so everyone has an idea in mind.
IT'S THE TIME NOW!
Los Angeles.
Simon received the news temporarily at the breakfast table at Dume Point Manor. While he was a little emotional, he also felt a little strange.
Still Microsoft.
The collapse of Nasdaq once involved Microsoft, but this time, it happened again.
It's a pity that things change and people change after all.
Janet was quite regretful: "923.3 billion U.S. dollars. It's only less than 80 billion U.S. dollars to break the 1 trillion U.S. dollar mark. What a pity."
This is naturally talking about Ygritte.
Prior to this, even Simon himself thought that Igret's market value might exceed 1 trillion U.S. dollars, and judged that this might be another potential opportunity for the Nasdaq to turn around. Unfortunately, it was finally settled at 923.3 billion U.S. dollars, which is far from the trillion threshold. 76.7 billion US dollars, a stock price increase of about 8 points.
Nothing is permanent.
But that doesn't matter.
"It doesn't matter if there is no breakthrough this time, it's just a matter of time," Simon thought to himself, while saying to Janet beside him: "Even if the bubble bursts this time, the development trend of the information industry will not be reversed. In the next few years, it is just my plan to If Igrit is broken up, it is possible to create several giants with a market value of trillions. There is also Tinco Bayer, which also has the potential of trillions. Speaking of which, maybe Tinco Bayer will realize its control over Iraq in the next few years. It’s not impossible for Gretel’s market value to exceed that.”
Jennifer, who was opposite, raised her head when she heard this and said, "Tinko Beyer, it shouldn't be easy, right?"
Even though the response to the spring new product launch conference last Saturday was very enthusiastic, many people still subconsciously feel that as an electronic product company, Tinker Bayer is better than pure Internet companies such as Igret in terms of style and development prospects. Companies are very different.
Of course, Simon can't provide evidence that Tinkerbeier will go all the way up.
However, the market feedback of iMac has made him understand that Tinker Bayer has secured the market position that Apple once had at its peak. Next, as long as everything goes according to the plan finalized by Simon, it will only be a matter of time before Tinkerber's market value exceeds one trillion, or even two trillion.
After breakfast, Simon rushed to Daenerys Studios. Almost everyone he met today was discussing the turn of the Nasdaq.
Simon is still following the steps.
The first thing after arriving at the company was still about Tinker Bayer. Hearing the news about the popularity of iMac-10 pre-sales over the weekend, Simon accidentally thought of something.
The time has come for Tinkerbeyer to open his own brand store.
This is naturally inspired by the old Apple store.
Simon had already had this idea when Tinker Bayer's first iCam was successful. Unfortunately, Tinker Bayer's product line was not rich enough in the following years, and it was far from time to open a large physical brand store.
Now, with iCam, iPlayer, iRec and other products as the main products, and with iMac as the core, plus iVid, iDisk and other peripherals, Tinco Bayer's product line is already quite rich.
Now that he thought about it, Simon jotted down the plan for the Tinkerber store while spending Sunday with his family yesterday. As soon as I arrived at the company in the morning, I asked Girl A to transfer the plan to San Francisco.
On the other hand, due to the three-hour time difference between the east and west coasts, at one o'clock in the afternoon in Los Angeles, the North American stock market on the east coast closed. Stimulated by the plunge in Windows concept stocks led by Microsoft, the Nasdaq index fell 7.9% in a single day and finally closed at 6,403 points. Compared with the high of 7,045 points at around 10 o'clock in the morning, the Nasdaq index fell by more than 600 points.
The Nasdaq market, which is at a high of 7,045 points, has a total market value of US$9.3 trillion.
A single-day drop of more than 600 points caused the entire Nasdaq market value to evaporate by US$730 billion in one day.
Tragedy fills the land!