There were two more people in the restaurant, making it more lively. Chen Qing didn't say much after that, watching the two little goblins, one bold and the other pretending to be shy, clumsily interacting with the man.
Over the years, Chen Qing has long understood that her boss seems to be very talkative to the Yingying Yanyan around him, but he really wants to get into the man's heart... Even Chen Qing herself is not sure until now. What's more, my "clothing is not as good as new" strategy is not a vegetarian, so I don't worry at all that some goblin will suddenly appear and compete for favors.
Sure enough, after breakfast, the two girls, who thought they had pleased the man very much, could only watch the man leave in a helicopter. Chen Qing also followed them and rushed to Manhattan to start their own schedule for the day.
Today is April 29th.
Saturday.
Weekends are mainly for working-class people. For Simon and Chen Qing, it is difficult to distinguish between different dates, because the schedule at this level is actually quite free. If you suddenly don't want to work, you can just give yourself a few days off. The key is whether you can withstand the various problems that arise.
When Simon arrived at Daenerys' East Coast headquarters on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the first thing he paid attention to was the information related to iBox-10 in the past week.
Exactly one week after its official launch, iBox-10 continues to be out of stock not only in physical retail channels, but the official price of US$299 is generally sold to more than US$1,000 in the scalper market. The more than three million orders accumulated in the original pre-sale are only being sold out one after another. Less than half has been sent out, and it will take more than a week to ship the rest.
On the other hand, as a new electronic product that integrates brand-new software and hardware systems, the bug issues that were initially worried about have also appeared one after another.
In just one week, users across North America have proactively reported more than 20 bugs. Fortunately, for the time being, most of them are software bugs that do not affect the operation of the host. Through online patches, they can be repaired quickly, even if some users do not. Conditions or unwillingness to connect to the Internet will not bring much obstacles to use.
While Tinkerber generously rewarded all users who reported bugs, they also encountered another, more serious problem.
Crack!
For major console manufacturers, one of the most hated things, whether in the past, present or future, is the hacking of game consoles by hackers. Because after being cracked, users can use pirated game software smoothly, which is equivalent to cutting off the main source of profits for console manufacturers.
When the R&D team debated whether to equip iBox with networking capabilities, the biggest concern was cracking.
However, despite all precautions, in just three days, cracking software and special tutorials for iBox-10 appeared on the Internet.
Tinkerbaer reacted quickly to this, and joined forces with Yigret to directly block the website that released the iBox-10 cracking plan. At the same time, he used the Weijia intelligence network to hunt down the hackers who developed the relevant software.
However, everyone knows that there is never an invincible system. This kind of prevention and blocking will not be able to stop countless users who want to play pirated games for free from pursuing 'freedom'.
Of course there are no countermeasures here.
Still online.
The Internet is a double-edged sword. It not only allows users to find and use cracking software directly from the Internet more conveniently, but also makes it easier for Tinker Bayer officials to restrict users' cracking behavior through the Internet.
As long as information feedback that the user's host is suspected of being cracked is detected, of course, the host cannot be directly crashed. Although it can be done, unless the user performs a genuine restoration of the system, no matter whether it is online consumption, online battles, or other activities involving Don’t even think about using functions that require an Internet connection.
Real standalone.
Tinkerber has considerable confidence in this, and it can be considered a part of psychology.
Just like a person who is born mute and cannot speak, he will stop speaking. However, if he was able to communicate with others and suddenly cannot speak again, it may not matter in the short term, but over time, he may go crazy.
The Tinker Bayer team has paid great attention to the development of various interactive functions from the beginning, and this is the key.
In any case, iBox-10 can be regarded as a phenomenon-level explosive new electronic product in 2000.
In addition to the huge benefits that the console itself is expected to bring to Tinco Bayer and various partners, due to the hot sales of iBox-10, in the past trading week, Tinco Bayer, Ygritte and Daenerys The stock prices of related companies have also risen sharply again, and many related companies have benefited from this.
For example, besides the Big Three, Scoob is worth talking about.
Scobo has successfully completed the acquisition of Qualcomm. Before Tinkerber's spring conference, both the new Scobo team after the merger and Simon, who is leading all this behind the scenes, tended that Scobo will gradually Turn to the field of communications technology.
Unexpectedly, the release of iBox-10 brought a big change to Scoop.
That's right, DVD.
Because of the early layout of DVD technology by traditional electronic giants such as Toshiba and Hitachi, everyone originally thought that even if Daenerys used content advantages as a condition to gain a certain market share for Scoop, it would ultimately be impossible to be like VCD. A single family.
As a result, the iBox-10 allowed Scoop to achieve an indirect breakthrough in the DVD market.
The reason is simple, because every iBox-10 can actually be used as a DVD. Even if it does not have the complete functions of a professional DVD player, it is more than enough for ordinary people to watch videos on a daily basis. The DVD solution of iBox-10, including the decoding chip, naturally does not go to outsiders, and Scoop is responsible for it.
Not much else to say, just a simple comparison. In the previous year of 1999, Scoop shipped only more than 2 million DVD video decoding chips throughout the year. But this time, it monopolized the iBox-10 order, which means that only In the first year, we can ensure the shipment of 20 million sets of complete DVD accessories.
Furthermore, the industry estimates that global DVD shipments in 2000 will be about 30 million units. This is still the result of the pressure from the Westeros system to promote VCD in Asia, leading to the joint promotion of major manufacturers.
Among them, neither Sony PS2 equipped with DVD function nor Tinker Bayer's iBox-10 are included. Now, the fact is that, including the PS2, which is also a hot seller, the original number of 30 million units has been directly doubled.
Compared with Sony, which just ensures the basic configuration of the disk reading and installation program and considers related functions in advance, iBox-10, in addition to not having as rich functions as professional DVDs, this host plays DVDs with the same picture quality and sound. etc., not bad at all.
All in all, the current result is that the iBox-10, which is currently limited to the North American market, is expected to have about 40% of the global share of North America in 2000, which is 12 million units of professional DVD shipments. The iBox-10 with built-in Scoop solution- The 10-brand 'DVD' will directly capture the number one position in the market share.
Because iBox-10 will greatly accelerate the iteration of DVD to traditional video recorders in North America, Blockbuster, which is also part of the Westeros system, has also begun to adjust its DVD rental business.
Even if Tinkerbaer lowers the purchase price of relevant accessories from Scobo to the lowest level, Scobo did not expect to make too much money due to its transformation thinking. However, such a huge expected shipment volume will directly drive the The company's related business is expected to see a surge in profits.
The most direct feedback is the stock price.
At the close of trading on the Friday before Tinkerber's spring conference, Scobo's market value was only 55.3 billion U.S. dollars. By the close of trading on Friday just past, the stock price had risen by 37% in two weeks, and the market value had reached 76.1 billion. US dollars, in less than half a month, this company has brought shareholders more than 20 billion US dollars in market value gains.
Scoop was just one of the iBox-10 concept stocks that benefited from the same period. The collective rise of many popular stocks in the technology stock market pushed the Nasdaq index further from 6,500 points in the middle of the month to its peak in March 1997. 7000 points high.
As of yesterday's Friday closing, the Nasdaq index was fixed at a high of 7,109 points, surpassing the record of 7,045 points set on March 34, 1997.
In the increasingly crazy trend of technology stocks, what everyone is concerned about right now is how high can the Nasdaq index go
8,000 points
Or 9,000 points