"Boss, there is nothing wrong with further optimizing the player software. We have added warranty terms and will provide free replacement of the latest DVD hardware for iBox users within three years. Subsequent new products will also be updated in real time and use the latest accessories. This is too exaggerated. We are game consoles, not DVD player?"
"C, think about it this way. When faced with user needs, one of the two manufacturers insisted that we are a game console and DVDs are just accessories and do not guarantee related experience. The other said, Dear customer, if you want to be a game console, just be A game console can be a DVD if you want to. So, which product will be more popular?"
"Of course... not necessarily."
Manhattan.
In his office on 66th Street in the Upper West Side, Simon was on a video call with Girl C. The topic was about further enhancing the performance of the iBox series of DVDs.
Listening to the coquettish tone of Claire on the opposite side who obviously agreed but still deliberately played the devil's advocate, Simon smiled and said: "I know this will definitely bring a lot of extra costs, but just consider the overall situation. You also understand that the DVD With rapid promotion, the home entertainment experience will be better and the cost will be lower than that of video tapes, which can greatly stimulate the further development of film and television peripherals."
"Of course I understand, boss, the problem is..." Claire looked pitiful on the other side of the screen: "We paid the cost, but we won't get any benefits. Boss, you will definitely not allow iBox to increase the price, right? Bar?"
Simon really has no choice about this. The profit of DVD hardware mainly comes from the patent fees collected by major manufacturers that monopolize DVD patents. Tinker Bayer obviously does not have this accumulation, so he can only say: "The sales share of game software is not enough. Whatever you earn, treat it as giving back to society.”
"I don't want to give back to the society. I'm not an angel." Girl C pretended to persist for a while. It was just a little fun between men and women, and she didn't get too angry. She quickly said: "Boss, I'm thinking, can I start from The publisher charges a fee, or else, set up a special DVD version that only plays content about Daenerys and our stakeholders?”
Technically, just like DVDs currently have different region codes in different regions around the world, the idea described by Girl C is feasible. But, just like the area code, Simon always felt too petty.
"No," Simon objected decisively. He remembered a sentence and said with a smile: "This will only narrow your own path. Don't be so stingy."
Girl C was helpless: "Okay, okay, just think of it as giving back to society."
After talking about the main business, Girl C on the West Coast who had just woken up and was still at her residence did not rush to hang up the line. She said a few trivial words, mainly about Girl D’s little baby, Elliot Wei, who was born in December last year. Stro, she said that the little guy peed on her last night, and she is still disgusted with it now.
Of course, Simon could feel the implication of Girl C's words. He probably finally started to envy her, and became even more enthusiastic about children.
However, this kind of thing really cannot be rushed.
Simon is not a production team donkey.
Just let it happen!
After chatting for a while, Simon finally hung up and started the follow-up work until noon. He made an appointment in advance to have dinner at Raybould's house and temporarily left the company.
When they arrived at the Raybould house, in addition to the Rayboulds, there were also Philip and his girlfriend Nora Register, whom he had met several times.
The main thing is that Philip and Nora are getting married, and the wedding is scheduled for July.
The reason for being so anxious is because Nora is pregnant.
This lunch is obviously also to send an invitation to Simon in person. The wedding is planned to be held in Washington, which is Nora's hometown. Jennifer, who lives on the West Coast, has communicated with Simon privately. Simon must not miss the wedding of the woman's brother. , otherwise outsiders would think there was some conflict between the two families.
Therefore, when Philip brought it up at the dinner table, Simon readily agreed.
But, Simon could see that James and Carol were not as happy as they seemed, and it was actually easy to guess.
The threshold for the Raybould family is very high now, and although Register is from a so-called political family, he is still just a small bureaucrat in Washington. The entire family has not produced any big shots in the past hundred years. Then, when the couple learned the news that the girl had been pregnant for more than a month and was in a hurry to get married, they inevitably muttered, had their son been cheated
Simon was not interested in this, and, after all, they were both lawyers. It was expected that the Rayboulds would be very concerned about their son's prenuptial agreement, and there was no need for him to remind them.
Everyone discussed the details of the wedding enthusiastically, and the topic soon turned to the recent layout of the Westeros system. Of course, after all, there was still a temporary outsider here, so it was impossible to talk about secrets.
Nora Register was very enthusiastic about participating in the discussion. Moreover, as a smart girl, she quickly noticed some problems in Simon's various arrangements and proactively said: "Simon, I feel that you seem to be interested in the Federation." There is no confidence in the system, why is this?”
Let’s take a look at this issue.
Simon glanced at the girl opposite and said, "So, tell me, where does your confidence in the Federation come from?"
Probably because of her pregnancy, Nora Register lost some of the awkward frizzyness she had in the past few impressions. She obviously thought about it seriously for a moment and said tentatively: "Simon, the Federation is the most powerful person on this planet." The largest economy and the only superpower, isn’t this enough?”
"Speaking of the largest economy," Simon asked with a smile, "Do you know when the Federation became the world's largest economy?"
Nora obviously knew exactly this question and said with a smile: "1890."
However, when these words came out, Phillip dismantled her first: "No, I remember, it seems to be 1895."
Noila Mo suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and she glared at her fiancé next to her in a coquettish way.
"Actually, they are almost the same." Simon glanced at the couple who were watching with smiles. He would not think that the two opposite parties would break up at this juncture just because of one sentence. He could only take the initiative to smooth things over: "In that period, it was not as good as it is now. Accurate statistics, however, probably date from the last decade of the 19th century."
When Nora saw Simon helping him to smooth things over, she gave him a grateful look and asked cooperatively: "Then what?"
Simon held the tableware in both hands and made a slight gesture: "Then, in 1929, it was only more than thirty years ago. At that time, the federal economy was still larger, but it failed to prevent the Great Depression. We have not experienced it. But if you ask the old people who have experienced it, they will definitely have the same feeling at that time, the end of the world. Do you know that until now, there are still many old people who have not got rid of the PTSD caused by the Great Depression. They habitually store a lot of food at home. So, you see, the world’s largest economy does not represent anything at all.”