New week.
After breakfast, Simon and Janet said goodbye and hurried to the airport.
Today is the day when Ypay and Ystore, two important products of Yigret, are released. Simon promised last week to attend today’s launch conference.
Arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, the private plane was already parked on the runway.
Simon entered the cabin with his entourage. There were already people waiting inside, namely Sandra Bullock and the female assistant Jennifer. The female assistant wanted to accompany Simon to San Francisco. As the spokesperson of Ygritte, Sandra also wanted to To attend this press conference, I specially asked to fly on the weekend.
Simon and Sandra have become friends since they got married last year. However, the relationship is also closer than ordinary boyfriend and girlfriend.
After hugging and exchanging pleasantries, everyone went to a living room in the middle cabin, and the plane took off soon.
After the Boeing 767 flight stabilized, Sandra unbuckled her seat belt and stood up from her fixed seat and approached Simon: "Simon, can the matter of "Silence of the Lambs" really not be a factor in this year's Oscars?"
Simon sat down on the sofa casually, took the newspaper handed by the female assistant, opened it, and said with a smile: "Jonathan asked you to ask?"
Sandra nodded and said: "Yes, but based on the reputation of "Silence of the Lambs", I also think it can compete for the Oscar."
The main creators of "Silence of the Lambs" have been nominated for a series of Robert Duvall and awards. They have become famous. Sandra's background is still lacking. This time, the goal is to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. In the end, only That leaves Jonathan Demme, a middle-aged director who made his debut in the early 1970s and has been in Hollywood for twenty years. This summer, he finally made it to the top with "The Silence of the Lambs."
There are probably few filmmakers in Hollywood who don't want to win Oscars.
"The Silence of the Lambs" is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity for Jonathan Demme to win the prize. Simon also knew that this was also Jonathan Demme's only chance to be nominated and win.
However, Daenerys Entertainment cannot easily change the company's established strategy for someone.
What's more, even if you want to change, because Daenerys Entertainment has won a series of important Oscar awards in the past two years, horror movies are not favored by the Oscars after all.
Therefore, even if the strategy is changed, it is unlikely to win the best picture, best director and other awards this time like in the original time and space. At most, it will be a string of nominations.
Simon did not hide these details from Sandra, and explained carefully, saying: "So, I can only say regret this time."
Sandra was not completely ignorant of these potential internal rules of Hollywood, and she was even more familiar with them at this time.
For the Oscars, whether a film can win or not is only based on its quality, and there are too many external factors involved.
Since there was no hope of winning the prize, Sandra stopped mentioning it and changed the topic: "Jenny will be full-term next month, why haven't you heard that she is holding a baby shower, or did she say she doesn't plan to invite me? "
Before the baby is born, Westerners will hold a party to welcome the little one.
A few months ago, Janet would have been doing this with great interest, but now, the woman is not in such a mood.
"I probably didn't remember it. I'll remind her when I go back."
Sandra leaned on the sofa and looked at Simon sideways for a few times. She also stretched out her hand to scroll down the newspapers in front of him and asked tentatively: "Are you depressed?"
Simon shook his head and said: "Of course not. But, probably, there is indeed some anxiety."
"Think about it, if a little guy is about to be born suddenly in my belly, I will feel overwhelmed." Sandra nodded in understanding, then looked at Simon and said, "What about you?"
"What's wrong with me?"
"Your son is about to be born, but you are only, um, 23 years old?"
"Many people become parents at 16."
"That's someone else. You are different."
Simon said helplessly: "Do you want me to be depressed?"
Sandra had a gloating expression on her face, still staring at Simon, and said with a smile: "It seems that you are not as relaxed as you appear on the surface."
Simon changed the subject: "What about you, have you found a girlfriend?"
Jennifer, who was sitting quietly next to him, was stunned for a moment and looked over curiously.
Sandra's attention was diverted as expected, and she raised her hand and slapped Simon: "Why don't you find a boyfriend? My sexual orientation is normal."
"Okay, so..."
Sandra rolled her eyes at Simon and said, "I found it. When can you meet me, please give me a chance."
Simon immediately shook his head: "No, don't let me see him. I'm afraid I will suppress him and make him feel ashamed and leave you."
"So, man," Sandra sighed and looked at Jennifer for sympathy: "Are you right, Jenny?"
The female assistant nodded: "Yes."
Simon pretended to be dissatisfied and looked over: "What are you talking about? If you don't understand, don't pretend to understand."
The female assistant glared over slightly and retorted: "I understand, men are all greedy bastards."
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"Ha ha… "
Chatting and joking all the way, the Boeing 767 landed at San Francisco San Jose Airport in less than 40 minutes after a journey of more than 500 kilometers.
Arriving at the San Francisco Municipal Auditorium, where the new product launch was held, there were still more than twenty minutes before the launch.
With the successive listings of America Online and Cisco, Ygrit, as the most important part of Westeros' Internet industry layout, has received more and more attention from the industry.
Therefore, not only local media in North America, but also reporters from overseas countries flocked to this press conference. Counting other guests, the number of people attending this press conference exceeded 2,000.
Simon greeted several senior executives of Igret, and only had time to briefly say hello to important industry guests such as Bill Gates and John Sculley who came specially to support this time. The press conference was already about to begin.
Although this press conference mainly focused on Ypay and Ystore, since it has attracted a lot of media attention, Yigrit's management took advantage of the situation and made this press conference a comprehensive product promotion meeting for Yigrit. .
At ten o'clock, the press conference officially started.
Tim Berners-Lee, as the CEO of Igret, although his power has been basically eclipsed by his two powerful subordinates, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, he still takes the lead as the main person in charge. He delivered a speech and briefly introduced the development history of Yigrit Company in recent years and the current situation and prospects of the entire Internet industry.
Subsequently, Carol Butts took the stage for the second time and focused on introducing YWS products of Ygret Company.
YWS is the abbreviation of Ygritte Web Service. Simon named it after AWS (Amazon Web Services) in his memory.
Of course, the biggest difference between the two at this stage is that YWS still provides traditional network space hosting and leasing services, and cloud computing technology is still under development.
However, compared with other competitors in the same industry, YWS's advantages are also very obvious.
Ygrit's YWS also includes one-stop website solutions and other services that most website creators need at this stage.
Different from the period when the Internet industry has become very mature many years later, at this stage, the Internet industry still has a huge talent gap problem. The fool-proof network solution provided by YWS can save many companies or individuals who want to test the Internet. The most critical technical obstacle.
Of course, there are limitations to this fool-proof web service.
If you are not proficient in certain technologies and just rely on 'assembly', just like the copycat products in Simon's memory, it is destined to be difficult to grow big.
To develop further, Internet companies must have their own talent and technical teams.
However, these are all things for later.
The most critical thing about the Internet at this stage is to enrich the content resources of the Internet or, to be precise, the World Wide Web platform as quickly as possible.
This is equivalent to feeding a person first before he can pursue a more refined life.
In order to achieve this goal, in the first half of the year, Yigrit successively built four new large-scale data centers across the United States.
Moreover, once cloud computing technology comes into use next year, the computing power of these existing data centers will be released to the greatest extent. By then, having taken advantage of opportunities, technology, cost and other aspects, Igret will have no rivals in related businesses.
Although it involves relatively low-level technical topics, the guests participating in this conference today are all newbies and have done a lot of preparation work in advance.
Igret's cloud computing project 'Housewife Plan' is still kept secret. However, many guests at the scene have already felt the strong ambition of Igret based on Carol Bartz's recommendation.
As the Internet industry enters the fast lane, everyone can experience the explosive growth of Internet sites, and many companies have begun to invest in server hosting and leasing and other related businesses.
Igret, who holds a series of core patents on World Wide Web technology, has too many advantages that even giants like IBM cannot match.
At that time, in order to prevent affiliated companies such as Intel and Microsoft from becoming dominant, IBM could also force these companies to license patents to external parties. Now, as the Internet is an emerging industry, Yigrit is a unique giant, so no one can force Yigrit to make concessions that he does not want.
Half an hour later, to warm applause, Carol Butts finished her pitch.
Then Tim Berners-Lee came on stage again.
This technical executive is responsible for introducing some new products and functions of Yigret Portal. In fact, many of them have been officially launched. However, in today’s big scene where countless media gathered, of course, we must take advantage of it as much as possible and expand it. Influence.
Carefully prepared in advance and a product directly oriented to users, Tim Berners-Lee's presentation also ended with applause.
After Tim Berners-Lee, there are still two major new products that are not heavyweights.
This time, an executive from PC giant Compaq took the stage to introduce his own personal computer specially customized for the Internet platform.
I actually considered letting Girl C go on stage to promote iCam beforehand.
However, this card camera product has been in the limelight for several months. The most difficult problem faced by Tinkerbell now is to solve a series of supply chain, technology research and development and product production capacity caused by the surge in market demand. and other issues.
Traditional electronics giants have shown too many advantages in this regard.
Whether it is Japan's Sony, Panasonic and other manufacturers or domestic electronics companies in the United States, they have all launched projects or released their own Internet camera products in recent months. Traditional giants have their own complete parts supply chains and product processing plants, which can easily to satisfy the market's needs.
Japan's Panasonic, which has reached a cooperative relationship with the Westeros system, has also tried out, hoping to invest in Tinker Bayer.
It is conceivable that if Panasonic's investment is accepted, many of the problems faced by Tinker Bayer at this time will be easily solved.
However, neither Simon nor Miss C thought about making Tinker Bayer a subsidiary of Panasonic, and Panasonic would not be willing to only obtain a small amount of stocks without decision-making power, so the two parties did not reach an agreement.
Of course, because it is a new product, although traditional giants have begun to invest in it, due to the limited market size, they cannot be as focused as Tinker Bayer, who is currently focusing on this product.
For example, the traditional American camera giant Kodak launched a digital camera earlier than Japanese manufacturers. However, perhaps because it felt the threat of card cameras to traditional film cameras, in order to protect its own interests in the film industry, Kodak simply There is no following.
In Simon's memory, Kodak really refused to embrace the digital camera trend because of its own interests in the film industry, and eventually went bankrupt.
Therefore, Tinker Bayer actually has enough advantages.
After Compaq executives introduced their own 'Internet Computer', the press conference has been going on for more than an hour.
As the brand spokesperson, Sandra and Jay Leno, the famous talk show host specially invited by the Yigrit team today, took the stage together and enlivened the atmosphere in the auditorium through a series of jokes. The final heavyweight segment finally arrived.
The first thing that appeared on the big screen in the auditorium was the motto of Ygritte Company that has been interpreted by countless people but is destined to be unknown to no one except Simon.
You Know Nothing!
Jeff Bezos came on stage and joked a few words around this motto. The screen flashed and the interface of the Ystore app store appeared on the big screen.
In the next half hour, Jeff Bezos introduced the two products Ystore and Ypay in detail.
Since you want to 'open a store', you definitely need products that can attract users.
This time, Ystore is bringing all the PC games developed and accumulated by EA since its establishment in 1982 onto the platform at once. Because the exclusive agreement signed with Nintendo has not yet expired, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series unfortunately did not appear this time. game list.
In addition, Ystore has also introduced a large number of PC game works from other manufacturers. The online battle version of the real-time strategy game "Dune" series developed by EA will also be launched in the near future.
In fact, in order to move all EA's computer game content to Ystore, there have been many twists and turns during the process.
EA is a game publisher, and Ystore obviously also has publisher attributes, which will undoubtedly threaten EA's traditional business.
EA executives and other shareholders initially expressed strong opposition to this. Even though many old games have lost the value of being sold in the physical market, logging into Ystore is completely 'waste utilization', and conservative EA management still does not want to do this.
In the end, Daenerys Entertainment exerted pressure as the largest shareholder holding 35% of EA's shares, and this decision was passed.
In order to solve this problem once and for all, Simon also recently instructed Nancy Brill to start something that the little woman has always wanted to do, and start negotiations to acquire EA in full.