Chapter 233： [IPhone in fetal death]

, The latest chapter in the latest global monopoly of technology!

North America, Seattle single flagship store.

As early as a week and a half ago, a large number of U.S. consumers have begun to wait in line for the offline flagship store of the Cote d'Azur company located in Seattle. This may be the first time that North American mobile phone consumers have made a purchase from China. Electronics are so crazy.

It is not easy for the Cote d'Azur company to enter the North American market. There are many twists and turns in the middle, which has been postponed for a whole year, but after unremitting efforts, it finally came in.

Before that, Zhongxing mobile phones had already entered the North American market, and now it has captured more than 30 million users in this market, but compared to the Cote d'Azur, it is still a small witch.

Everything has two sides. North American consumers have been suffocated for almost a year, and the new listing is almost hunger and thirsty.

The haze of the subprime crisis cannot stop consumer enthusiasm, especially for advanced technology products, as long as they can move the hearts of consumers in Europe and the United States, they will not hold the dollar bills in hand, and the price of six hundred or seventy dollars is not cheap. However, it is not to the point where consumers cannot afford it. Even when the economic crisis comes, the worst situation is that about 10% of the unemployed are unemployed.

This is not because 90% of the people are not unemployed, and the positioning group is the middle-income group. Luo Sheng's goal is only to hope to win 1% of the global market share is success.

"I want to buy a 16GB model, thank you."

"16GB model, thank you."

"$ 799, is it cash or credit card?"

"Swipe."

At this moment, the first direct-opening store in Seattle has a huge popularity for the first time. Customers coming to order are endless, standing in a long line, and the popularity is extremely hot.

As ordinary consumers, Azure series smartphones on the Azure coast have a beautiful industrial design, a revolutionary desktop-level user interface, a rich application store, Bluestar Technology ’s family bucket, Google ’s family bucket, Yahoo ’s family bucket, and other large and small There are everything for third-party developer applications.

Many users can't wait to enter the AOS application store immediately after purchasing the product, and download the major APP applications of Bluestar Technology Group, whether they are social networking sites BlueSpace, MicroBlog or Reddit, or Google applications. These are It is a must-have app for smartphones.

But the biggest beneficiary is undoubtedly the music store MusicSpace. Now that Apple Corps finally knows the hardware that its opponents rely on, the [MusicSpace + Azure] combination has begun to reduce the dimension of Apple's [iTunes + iPod] combination.

As Motorola's CEO said, people travel with only three things: a wallet, a key, and a mobile phone.

This advantage is incomparable to the iPod. Users who own an Azure smartphone have no reason to spend a few hundred dollars to buy an iPod, because downloading the music store MusicSpace through the Azure mobile phone can get the iPod's music experience. For a better user experience.

This blow to Apple is self-evident. Azure Coast released a new product, Azure-3G, once a year later. This year, it also included the North American market, and its hot sales have severely dampened Apple's stock price.

In order to restore the slump, Qiao helped the hope of reversing this time on a product that was put on hold—the tablet iPad.

The long-awaited iPhone plan has been put on hold by him. The proud Joe ’s gang leader does n’t want Apple to be a follower on the French Riviera. He still wants to be a changer, so he has high hopes for the tablet.

As early as 2000, the iPad was already a very important project within Apple. It started as a secret project based on multi-touch screen development and has been carefully protected by Joe ’s helper. However, the multi-touch screen technology was eventually blue. The coast took the lead.

Two years later, Apple's hardware development department had the first iPad prototype, but due to the heavy machine and the poor battery performance, the tablet plan was postponed indefinitely.

Later, Motorola's CEO turned to Joe to make a phone together with the owner. The result was a fiasco, and the iPhone plan began to brew. As a result, the licensing of multiple technologies such as multi-touch screen and Luo Sheng failed to negotiate with Luo Sheng, which led to the iPhone plan. Being severely delayed, and the launch of the Azure phone by the Cote d'Azur company in 2006, the iPhone is now facing the embarrassing situation of difficult delivery.

Right now, the situation for Apple is very bad, even frustrating. In order to regain glory, the iPad plan that has been in the cold for five years is once again re-flopped by Joe.

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The time is getting closer to the end of the year, and the subprime mortgage crisis is still in deep trouble. The three major banks of Bank of America, Citibank and Morgan Stanley reached an agreement and agreed to give at least $ 75 billion to help the market get out of the crisis. Then Bank of America led Citigroup. Morris and Chase raised $ 80 billion for the Super Fund.

But even this cannot prevent the overall deterioration of the North American property market indicators. This is already a bottomless pit. In October, existing home sales have fallen for eight consecutive months. In the third quarter, the S & P / Hiller National House Price Index fell by 1.7% quarter-on-year, creating 21 years. The largest single-quarter decline in history.

In mid-November, technology stocks were finally unable to withstand and began to show a downward trend across the board. Bluestar Technology Group's shares fell 3.63% to $ 137.65 per share, and the company's total market value fell below the $ 200 billion mark. Temporarily locked in at $ 199.58 billion.

However, in the context of the overall decline in the technology sector, the market value of Bluestar Technology has been second only to Microsoft Corporation, and the market value of Google, which ranked third, has fallen to 171.4 billion US dollars.

The winter of capital is coming.

And this is just a cold wind just blowing, more violent storm is still behind.

Luo Sheng occasionally pays attention to the general environment's movements, but in the market panic, he is not panic at all. Bluestar Technology Group earlier received a third financing fund of $ 4 billion from Goldman Sachs. The company's current book With more than US $ 16 billion in capital, Blue Star has sufficient cash flow in the winter season when cash is king.

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In the afternoon of November 17, the "virtual idol" development department.

"This is a set of intelligent speech software system that I initially wrote, but further optimization and upgrade are needed, and the subsequent development will be left to you." At this moment, Luo Sheng called members of the technical department such as Xu Yong to a meeting.

"For Hatsune Miku?" Xu Yong immediately intervened in the file brought by Luo Sheng and looked at the computer.

"It's not all. This set of voice software system is owned by the Blue Coast, but it's openly licensed to Bluestar Technology." Luo Sheng said that although the palms of his hands and hands are all meat, his brothers have to settle accounts, and the process must be done well, so as not to There was gossip over Wall Street.

After a while, Luo Sheng added: "The product has a high degree of linkage properties and complementarity. This software system is actually a smart voice butler assistant I developed for Azure series mobile phones ~ www.novelhall.com ~, and the avatar chooses Hatsune Come on. "

He Chao said excitedly: "From film, television, music, endorsements, e-sports, etc ... Boss, this game is very big."

Even if it is a superstar among human beings, no one can obtain such huge resources to support it, but Hatsune Miku enjoys the promotion resources that countless stars are envious of. It is simply the rhythm of Blue Star ’s “pro-daughter”.

The "Hatsune Miku" has become popular, and in conjunction with the voice assistant of Azure series mobile phones, Dead House has another new reason to change mobile phones.

A little outbreak, more flowers, this is the advantage of the family barrel linkage, this advantage makes other peers envy.

The interaction between major products can form a strong ecological closed loop, which can blossom more points. No one user will immediately like all the products of Bluestar Technology or the Blue Coast, but as long as one of the products and services can move users After that, consumption will naturally increase.

The value mining for potential customers is unparalleled.

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