Chapter 85： [Race to imitate]

However, even the pricing of $ 0.59 was a dispute between Luo Sheng and the record company. The record company promised to authorize Bluestar Technology, but the agreement also included many restrictions on interference, such as the price of digital music. Because the terms of the agreement are split, if the sale is too cheap, the record company will earn less.

Apple's iTunes pricing of $ 0.99 also reached a deal with the record company. There is no way. Copyright is in the hands of the record company. At present, the digital music market occupies too little market share and naturally has little right to speak.

At this point, the record company is very stubborn, and the attitude is very clear. It is your business to decide how low the price you want to sell. Subsidies for each song you sell are performed at the current standard price of $ 0.99 by Apple.

Luo Luosheng didn't talk to the record company. Right now he hasn't stood firm, so he had to temporarily provide for these uncles and threaten to take back the copyright and interrupt the authorization. Luo Sheng took them no good way.

I had no choice but to make money. The share of song sales was 60% for the record company at $ 0.99 / track, and the actual sales was $ 0.59 / track. In other words, Luo Sheng's decision was equivalent to making every song sold on the MusicSpace platform. Song, he is now losing $ 0.004, the higher the sales, the more the company loses.

The purpose of doing this is to make iTunes uncomfortable. Luo Sheng can now accept that the MusicSpace platform does not make any money or even lose money. The purpose is only to compete for users.

But Apple Company tasted the sweetness of the two great benefits of the iTunes + iPod combination, and suddenly wanted to bring the price down, which is equal to iTunes making half of the profits. As a listed company, Apple's current stock price is in full swing.

With the hundreds of millions of users in iTunes, this is not a small amount. The iTunes + iPod combination has brought Apple's $ 10 billion in revenue in the past three years.

The price is not to say that it can be dropped immediately. It is not an easy task to let a person take out the benefits of eating and half of it.

If Luo Sheng's combined punches are all-in-one, all of them will respond in a timely and successful manner, and there will be no leaks. There is nothing to say. I can only say that you are great, and then think about new tricks and practice them. PK.

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The international version of MusicSpace launched more than a week, and successfully broke through the 1 million user scale on the eighth day. Luo Sheng's cost of nearly 200 million US dollars was questioned by investors, and the news just scared them.

With the launch of MusicSpace for a week, Luo Sheng once again let the investor shut his mouth obediently, and established his authority by "face" the investor again and again.

Investors are now very excited, because MusicSpace ’s so bright opening results let them see the possibility of competing with Apple's iTunes, and this possibility is higher than they originally expected.

I want to know that Apple Inc. relied on the combination of iTunes + iPod to enter the new century to complete a big turn over of salted fish, making a lot of money, many people are enthusiastic about it.

Without a doubt, several investors of Bluestar Technology hope Luo Sheng can scoop a piece of fat from Apple.

MusicSpace ’s growth momentum has indeed made Apple feel the pressure. Although the current size is completely out of proportion to iTunes, just look at the growth curve of other Internet products under Bluestar Technology. If you do n’t pay attention to it, it ’s definitely your brain being caught in the door. .

So far, the products launched by Bluestar Technology have not failed, even the bad reviews are getting more and more scolded.

Sometimes, my peers are really irritating.

Ten days after the launch of MusicSpace, Apple hurriedly announced the upcoming release of the new version of iTunes, that is, the Windows version. At that time, PC users will be able to use the iTunes product. Obviously, they will feel the pressure. MusicSpace is menacing. The market is the world of the opponent.

However, Joe ’s gang leader is still very proud, disdain to follow some of the new and innovative features of MusicSpace, at least not now, and is not in a hurry to engage in a money-burning battle with the other party. First, there is too much resistance. Second, it is so hard to fight now. The weight of both parties is not proportional, and MusicSpace came out. Although the bright start has also attracted Apple's attention, the threat has not yet reached the point where iTunes is pushed to life or death.

五 In May, Luo Sheng was widely reported by many media in North America. Among them, "Silicon Valley" magazine directly published a text report to further expand his popularity in Europe and the United States.

In the report, the cover of the characters attached is particularly eye-catching, namely Luo Sheng and Jobs. The cover emphasizes the age of both parties. The former was born in 1985, is now 19 years old, and the latter is 1955, now 49 years old.

According to media reports, whenever Luo Sheng was mentioned, he inevitably used more or less pen and ink to emphasize his age, and between the lines he expressed his astonishment at his young age and his current achievements.

Luo Sheng was dubbed the "Son of the Internet" by "Silicon Valley" magazine. His lightning rise in the Internet field changed a new model born in Silicon Valley and verified the success. Later, the copying and success situation in China .

Now a group of people in the global Internet community are racing to imitate him. The biggest contribution is the like function. Now almost every website has this function after the updated version.

With the launch of the product and the domestic Internet industry, a large wave of followers are coming. Tengxun immediately established the [QQ Music] project, as well as other startups ~ www.novelhall.com ~ For example [酷 我 音乐] Project, [Cool Dog Music] project are launched.

Although most people in the industry were laughing at Luo Shengren's silly money a while back, taunting and taunting did not prevent them from following suit, especially after seeing the reviews in Silicon Valley.

What I have to say is that most of the so-called senior practitioners in the domestic Internet community attach great importance to Silicon Valley's wind evaluation, as if it has become an unwritten standard.

It is precisely for this reason that putting Bluestar Technology and Luo Sheng in an incomparable and strange position has made the domestic Internet community mood very complicated, and they have some dissatisfaction but have to accept it. Even the mentality of a small number of people in the industry is distorted. Luo Sheng is a foreigner and they are more willing to accept it, but Luo Sheng is a downright Chinese, but they have difficulty accepting it.

Even the higher the achievements of Bluestar Technology and Luo Sheng, the more unhappy they are, but if they do n’t accept, they have to accept that the Silicon Valley technology circle is following suit.

The domestic Internet in this era can be regarded as a wild era. Bluestar Technology has become the object of many Internet entrepreneurial teams competing to imitate. There is an unwritten consensus in the industry now, regardless of what it is, as long as Luo Sheng is doing it, then Bold follow-up, yes.

Not to mention whether following the trend can make a famous name, but one thing can be guaranteed. Following the trend Luo Sheng is at least easier to invest than not follow. If you step back 10,000 steps, even if you can't compete with Bluestar Technology in the end, you can Sell ​​the product to each other.

There are still many smart people. Many followers actually don't want to do it for a long time, but they do it first, and then wait for Bluestar Technology to acquire in the future, or be acquired by other large companies, and eventually cash out.

Investors are very fond of the entrepreneurial team following Luo Sheng, which is also an important factor.

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