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Nokia has undoubtedly inherited the unique craftsmanship of Europeans. Although the two music mobile phone prototypes in Eric's hands are only made of plastic, the silver shell has a high-end metal texture.
Moreover, these two mobile phones did not adopt Nokia's unchanging classic shape, but similar to the long strip design of Nokia Vertu, but due to the current technical limitations, the body seems to be wider than Nokia Vertu, but the mobile phone as a whole is still Looks stylish. In addition to the basic communication functions, the music playback system of this phone is much more convenient than that of the Fireflyer due to the buttons, and it can even perform simple search operations.
Although the starting price of $600 is definitely an expensive high-end model among existing mobile phones, Eric still believes that this mobile phone will be very attractive to young white-collar workers under the age of 30.
Putting on the earphones and listening to a piece of music, Eric put the two phones back in satisfaction.
Now that he is in the restaurant, it is impossible for Eric to continue to test whether these two phones can easily purchase and transfer music from the Yahoo Music Store. There is no doubt about the function. There is no doubt that Nokia's technology research and development capabilities are not inferior to Firefly Electronics.
After chatting with Caroline and Melanie for a few more words, Eric started to eat. However, he couldn't help thinking about what time and form he should choose to intervene or even take over Nokia's management affairs in the future. Nokia has no shortage of technology, talents, and channels, but it has suddenly declined after 15 years at its peak. This is definitely not a coincidence, but a long process of qualitative change. If you want It will definitely not work to wait until the situation is imminent.
Firefly Investment still firmly holds a 51% absolute controlling stake in Nokia. Therefore, as long as Eric is willing, he has absolute power to make adjustments to Nokia as he wants.
However, in recent years, it is also impossible to do this. Nokia has just ascended to the position of the world's number one mobile phone manufacturer, and the current management has a very complete company development plan. If you wantonly intervene in the management of this company now, it will definitely cause conflicts between the management and Eric, the major shareholder, and affect the momentum of Nokia's further rise.
Even for this music phone right now, when Eric promotes this project, he can faintly feel some dissatisfaction from Nokia's management. The mobile phone entertainment function is just a weak point of "not doing business properly". Until the decline, they have been proudly sticking to their own ideas, and finally caused this mobile phone industry giant to fall from the peak to the bottom at a jaw-dropping speed.
It wasn't until the two women on the opposite side finished their lunch that they felt he had been silent for a while and looked over curiously together. Eric retracted his scattered thoughts, smiled, and speeded up his eating.
Since you can’t figure it out for a while, let’s think about it slowly. Anyway, Nokia has just entered its peak period, and there are many opportunities and opportunities. At least, the contract of Nokia CEO Jorma Ollila will expire next year. Whatever you want to do, at least wait until then.
Eric is just a little regretful. He doesn't remember the name of the last Nokia CEO who quickly brought Nokia into the abyss. Otherwise, even if everyone objects, he will immediately find out that guy and kick him out of Nokia. Eric feels that such a 'talent' who can bring an industry giant that occupies more than 40% of the world's mobile phone market to the point of liquidation should be sent to harm other talents immediately.
After lunch, Eric told the two women: "You send a memo to Nokia. Since they plan to adopt 1G and 2G storage versions similar to the second-generation Fireflyer, then postpone the release time. January was changed to April, one week after the release of the second-generation Fireflyer. In addition, although Nokia's main business scope is in Europe and Asia, the main market for this mobile phone should be the United States, because only the United States has a relatively complete market for the time being. For online music stores, Europe is not in a hurry, and Asia, um, don’t rush to promote it for the time being, although the music copyright supervision there is not strict, but we don’t need to do it, the loss outweighs the gain.”
After confirming that the two women had written down their words, Eric left the restaurant and returned to the studio to continue his work.
In the next two days, the simple set-up for the rehearsal of "Wannabe" in the studio was completed. Eric was planning to gather the members of the Spice Girls to start rehearsing. Another heavy news came from the United States.
After three long months of see-saw negotiations, Viacom finally reached an acquisition agreement with CBS Group, and the final transaction price reached 36 billion US dollars.
So far, the four major television networks in the United States, ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX, have all belonged to large groups. Although General Electric, which owns NBC Group, cannot be regarded as a media group, this is still a major wave of consolidation in the U.S. media industry. of a sign.
Canada's Seagram Group is launching an acquisition of Europe's Polygram Records, which can only be regarded as an extension of this wave of integration, because no matter whether the merger is successfully completed, it will not cause too much impact on the structure of the US media industry. Impact.
The completion of the integration of the media group also means that under the circumstances that this kind of monopoly has been formed, a media company will no longer have the possibility to develop into a media group from scratch unless it adopts the means of merger with small and large. The US media industry has once again entered the era of oligarchy.
When Eric heard the news, he suddenly remembered the conversation he had with New Line CEO Robert Shea for the first time a few years ago. Although his butterfly fanned too many storms in the following years, this kind of thing that has happened in history has not changed in the general trend. The fireflies also successfully completed their own layout before this.
Today is already the third day of rehearsal for "Wannabe".
Eric spent two days watching and directing the performance of the entire MV by several girls from the Spice Girls. Although there has never been a shortage of female singing groups in the history of music, the one who really brought this girl group to the world, It's the Spice Girls.
Therefore, in the original history, although many people thought that when the Spice Girls just rose, both the MVs and live performances were cool, but in the eyes of Eric, who has more than ten years of experience, The dance of the Spice Girls during the MV performance was horrible, so Eric naturally asked the choreographer to redesign some classic dance moves for several girls based on his memory.
In the studio of Pinewood Studios, since the set is open, at this time, dozens of pairs of eyes are curiously looking at Eric who is putting on a Steadicam photography system on the sidelines, including the Spice Girls. Including the five girls, everyone showed surprised expressions.
Caroline and Melanie helped Eric check several connections on his body again, and then Simon Fuller came over and looked at the guy who was wearing a shock-absorbing vest and was adjusting a light camera with a balance pole in his hand. Eric, with an unbelievable expression on his face: "Eric, are you planning to shoot this MV yourself?"
Eric nodded, looked at the astonished Simon Fuller, and said with a smile, "Can't I come in person?"
"No, oh, yes, of course you can," Simon Fuller shook his head quickly, joking, Eric Williams himself acted as the photographer to shoot the MV, who dares to say no.
Seeing that Simon Fuller couldn't react for a while, Eric said again: "Everyone here should have signed a non-disclosure agreement. Please tell me again, don't disclose this matter until the MV is completed."
During this period of time, Eric's coming to the UK has frequently appeared in the media. The news of the establishment of the Spice Girls was also under the operation of Simon Fuller, and it was heated up. However, the outside world only heard the news that Eric was about to direct the Spice Girls to make a song, and other information was blocked.
Simon Fuller confirmed from Eric that he was about to act as a photographer himself, and the first thought in his mind was to immediately call a certain newspaper. This is heavyweight news.
However, after hearing Eric's special instructions, Simon Fuller had no choice but to give up the idea: "Okay, Eric, I will arrange it."
"Then, let's start," Eric nodded, walked to the sidelines, and signaled a certain MV director who was invited by Simon Fuller but couldn't find any sense of presence to start.
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After confirming that the two women had written down their words, Eric left the restaurant and returned to the studio to continue his work.
In the next two days, the simple set-up for the rehearsal of "Wannabe" in the studio was completed. Eric was planning to gather the members of the Spice Girls to start rehearsing. Another heavy news came from the United States.
After three long months of see-saw negotiations, Viacom finally reached an acquisition agreement with CBS Group, and the final transaction price reached 36 billion US dollars.
So far, the four major television networks in the United States, ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX, have all belonged to large groups. Although General Electric, which owns NBC Group, cannot be regarded as a media group, this is still a major wave of consolidation in the U.S. media industry. of a sign.
Canada's Seagram Group is launching an acquisition of Europe's Polygram Records, which can only be regarded as an extension of this wave of integration, because no matter whether the merger is successfully completed, it will not cause too much impact on the structure of the US media industry. Impact.
The completion of the integration of the media group also means that under the circumstances that this kind of monopoly has been formed, a media company will no longer have the possibility to develop into a media group from scratch unless it adopts the means of merger with small and large. The US media industry has once again entered the era of oligarchy.
When Eric heard the news, he suddenly remembered the conversation he had with New Line CEO Robert Shea for the first time a few years ago. Although his butterfly fanned too many storms in the following years, this kind of thing that has happened in history has not changed in the general trend. The fireflies also successfully completed their own layout before this.
Today is already the third day of rehearsal for "Wannabe".
Eric spent two days watching and directing the performance of the entire MV by several girls from the Spice Girls. Although there has never been a shortage of female singing groups in the history of music, the one who really brought this girl group to the world, It's the Spice Girls.
Therefore, in the original history, although many people thought that when the Spice Girls just rose, both the MVs and live performances were cool, but in the eyes of Eric, who has more than ten years of experience, The dance of the Spice Girls during the MV performance was horrible, so Eric naturally asked the choreographer to redesign some classic dance moves for several girls based on his memory.
In the studio of Pinewood Studios, since the set is open, at this time, dozens of pairs of eyes are curiously looking at Eric who is putting on a Steadicam photography system on the sidelines, including the Spice Girls. Including the five girls, everyone showed surprised expressions.
Caroline and Melanie helped Eric check several connections on his body again, and then Simon Fuller came over and looked at the guy who was wearing a shock-absorbing vest and was adjusting a light camera with a balance pole in his hand. Eric, with an unbelievable expression on his face: "Eric, are you planning to shoot this MV yourself?"
Eric nodded, looked at the astonished Simon Fuller, and said with a smile, "Can't I come in person?"
"No, oh, yes, of course you can," Simon Fuller shook his head quickly, joking, Eric Williams himself acted as the photographer to shoot the MV, who dares to say no.
Seeing that Simon Fuller couldn't react for a while, Eric said again: "Everyone here should have signed a non-disclosure agreement. Please tell me again, don't disclose this matter until the MV is completed."
During this period of time, Eric's coming to the UK has frequently appeared in the media. The news of the establishment of the Spice Girls was also under the operation of Simon Fuller, and it was heated up. However, the outside world only heard the news that Eric was about to direct the Spice Girls to make a song, and other information was blocked.
Simon Fuller confirmed from Eric that he was about to act as a photographer himself, and the first thought in his mind was to immediately call a certain newspaper. This is heavyweight news.
However, after hearing Eric's special instructions, Simon Fuller had no choice but to give up the idea: "Okay, Eric, I will arrange it."
"Then, let's start," Eric nodded, walked to the sidelines, and signaled a certain MV director who was invited by Simon Fuller but couldn't find any sense of presence to start. (To be continued.)