Chapter 588

After leaving EA headquarters in Redwood City, Simon went to Palo Alto igritte headquarters to attend a project meeting on splitting the online software store ystore.

It's still about video games.

In order to further refine the operation, ystore, the igrit online software sales platform, plans to split into two parts in the near future. The original ystore online software store will continue to provide sales and download services for various types of paid or free application software, while the game software business will be separated to set up a special game sales platform.

According to his long-standing personal habits, Simon has given the website a good name: steam.

Ystore is Simon's housekeeper Alice Ferguson's first igritte project. The housekeeper's current focus has shifted to Amazon online mall, but she is still in charge of the software store business. She also attended the split meeting.

Simon's purpose of attending these meetings is to have a more intuitive understanding of the business development of igrit. The one hour meeting was mainly for the team in charge to discuss independently, and he did not express his views too much.

At the end of the meeting, when he dismissed the others, Simon looked at the housekeeper, who subconsciously took another sip of coffee, and asked, "don't you have a weekend off?"

Alice Ferguson put down her coffee cup and said, "I went to Chicago this weekend about the planning of a new batch of distribution centers."

Simon nodded, and he knew it.

Amazon online mall is preparing to build a batch of new large-scale logistics distribution centers. The total investment of all seven distribution centers will reach 350 million US dollars, with an average investment of 50 million US dollars per distribution center. Even after many years, it will be a big investment. Once completed, it will provide more than 10000 new jobs for North America.

After the completion and operation of these logistics distribution centers at the end of this year and the beginning of next year, Amazon will further increase the types of goods in the online mall besides books, videos and movies. Therefore, it is a very important layout of igrit's e-commerce business.

Looking at the housekeeper's delicate and beautiful face, Simon said: "you know, the business of igritte company has a very clear product priority in my heart. In the business you are responsible for, the online mall is the most important thing that can never be lost. Even if it fails completely, I will start my second investment again. In contrast, I would not hesitate to abandon the app store if necessary. "

Simon has emphasized this more than once.

Alice Ferguson, however, disagreed and retorted: "in the past year, the software store has provided us with very considerable revenue and profits."

"But you also need to see the development trend of online software sales," Simon said immediately. "At this stage, igritte's ystore does have unparalleled advantages in technical support, payment tools, website traffic, marketing promotion and so on. Software and game manufacturers choose to sell their products in software stores, and can sell 10 million sets of products. Building their own websites may be the only way out If you can sell 1 million units, 30% of the Commission is very cost-effective. However, the Internet is a very open platform. Not only Microsoft and AOL, but also some other independent network companies are trying to enter this industry. Moreover, with the continuous development of network technology, marketing channels, payment tools, and their own brand awareness, once manufacturers find that the revenue from building a separate platform to sell products is more considerable than the 30% commission of the payment software store, they will certainly be inclined to do so. What are you going to do then? "

Alice frowned slightly.

In fact, this trend has appeared, or has always existed.

Oracle's database software and a series of Microsoft's main software products have never landed in ystore from the beginning to the end, because these manufacturers already have their own very mature distribution channels, which can make the gross profit even higher than the share ratio of ystore store.

It's not that the housekeeper didn't consider to reduce the proportion of account sharing to attract these top software manufacturers to join. It's just that the current network transmission speed is not friendly to large-scale software with hundreds of megabytes. Instead of spending a few hours to download a software, users might as well drive out and spend more than ten minutes to buy a set of physical CDs.

After AOL completed the ADSL network upgrade, the network speed of most Internet users in North America has been greatly improved, and the Internet data transmission technology and online payment tools have become more mature. When ystore wanted to promote these cooperation again, Microsoft has launched its own software store. Recently, it resolutely abandoned ypay and launched its own online payment service in cooperation with American Express Payment tool Microsoft wallet.

Simon didn't wait for the housekeeper's answer or follow-up questions, and continued: "you must be thinking that maybe you can force them to sell their products on the ystore platform by limiting the exposure of these websites on the igritte portal or refusing to provide them with the ypay payment interface, but doing so will only cheapen our competitors. In igritte's product priorities, ypay is also the first echelon. If it is conducive to the development of ypay, but it will harm ystore, then this decision should still be passed. You think that these manufacturers will completely escape igritte company. In fact, they are not. Although they have lost the bonus of the software store, they still have to use our ypay tool and pay for it. Without the official promotion of ystore, they still need to put in a large number of online advertisements to promote their website. Igritte portal happens to be the advertising platform that they can never get around This is the first time. Similarly, online advertising business also takes precedence over ystore. Online payment and online advertising business are easy to form the Matthew effect that the stronger the stronger. This is a trait that ystore does not have, and it is also the key to why their priority is higher than other products. "Simon said here. He tapped his fingers on the table and said, "it seems that we need to hold a serious meeting for this. Let's do it tomorrow." he looked at the girl a beside him and said, "make arrangements. At nine o'clock tomorrow morning, anyone who is in the bay area must attend on time."

Alison nodded and agreed to write it down on the memo.

Simon finished, and looked at the opposite housekeeper, once again to a girl said: "wait, you don't have to go to the mountain view city with me, take Ellie to do a beauty spa or something, anyway, it's all kinds of maintenance of your women, and then send her to my villa in Woodside."

The housekeeper was about to refuse. Hearing Simon's last words, she even blushed and protested: "I still have a job."

"Not now."

Simon said and stood up. He had to go to the construction site of igrit Park in mountain view city.

Alice sat still, staring stubbornly at Simon, repeating, "I still have a job."

Simon also stares in the past: "be obedient, or I'll let you take a compulsory vacation."

Alice and the opposite man looked at each other for half a second, dodged a little, looked over and bargained, "I won't go to you at night."

"Well, I'll go to your place."

“……”

When Simon went out and disappeared, Alice's stiff body softened.

Alison, who was left behind by Simon, said with a smile, "let's go, Ellie. You really need to relax."

The housekeeper is still cold and pretty, but the client has left, and she doesn't have a stalemate with Alison. In fact, the relationship between the two sides is not good. The housekeeper still clearly remembers the past when she first met in Greenwich when she was cheated by the four ABCD girls.

When the two women walked out of the meeting room, Simon left a driver for them.

The housekeeper now has her own full-time driver, but she doesn't refuse a guy's kindness. Girl a is not familiar with San Francisco, but she calls girl C and arranges everything in less than five minutes.

The time is approaching twelve o'clock at noon.

The two women first found a restaurant for lunch, and then went to a beauty salon near Atherton in the north of Palo Alto. It took them a whole afternoon to complete the whole set of maintenance.

She left the club in the evening, and girl c came by car.

Two women stand at the door of the club, see Claire get off, a girl subconsciously looked into the car, asked with a smile: "where's the goblin?"

"School is very busy recently," Claire and Alison hugged and said with a smile, "or I'll call her to come over."

Alison just rolled her eyes.

Clare hugged Alice affectionately again and praised her, "you seem to be beautiful again, Ellie. Even I'm excited."

Knowing that Claire was joking about her sexual orientation, the housekeeper turned her eyes.

After greeting, Claire left his car, three women took a car to a nearby French restaurant, C girl set a position in advance.

"Sony refused directly. Panasonic asked for 30% of the shares. It's blackmail. Kodak is the most irritating. They would rather their technology rot than cooperate with us. If we want to get into the digital camera project, we have to rely on ourselves. "

On the dining table.

The topic that three women with strong enterprising spirit discuss is still inseparable from work.

Tincobail will release its third generation ICAM digital camera during Easter this year.

With the further popularization of the Internet and the rise of social networks, more and more users tend to show themselves on the Internet platform, and the demand for digital cameras has increased significantly.

With Sony, Panasonic and other established electronics manufacturers launching their own digital camera products one after another, ICAM, which is not high-end, has firmly occupied 60% of the digital camera market in the past year by virtue of its advantages in brand, price and network adaptation. In 1993, the annual shipment reached 2.76 million units, an increase of 10% compared with that of 610000 units in 1992 To 350%.

Based on such excellent sales performance, the preliminary statistics show that the annual sales volume of tingkobayer is 1.39 billion US dollars, and the annual net profit is about 120 million US dollars.

As a supporting electronic product around the Internet, the rise of tincobail is undoubtedly the most intuitive proof of the outbreak of the Internet industry.

Digital cameras provide richer picture content for the Internet platform. The outbreak of the Internet industry has also greatly increased the public demand for digital camera products. The two sides can be said to complement each other.

Continue to strengthen their own investment in digital cameras, at the same time, tincobail did not stop developing other products.

In addition to the MP3 player iPlayer project that has been improving in private and the U disk and other products that are going to be launched with the promotion of USB technology, tincobal also plans to launch the digital video camera (DV) project in the near future.

Compared with digital cameras, the threshold of digital cameras is much higher, and it also involves patent barriers.Many old brand electronic manufacturers all over the world have started to invest in the research and development of digital cameras for a long time. Although most of the manufacturers are aiming at professional commercial products, rather than the mass consumer goods that tincobaier focuses on, these old brand manufacturers are beyond tincobaier's reach in terms of patent layout and technology accumulation.

By cooperating with these established manufacturers, we can not only launch our own products faster, but also obtain relevant patent authorization, so as to avoid the entanglement of patent litigation in the future.

However, Sony, Panasonic and other manufacturers have given dinkbaier the best opportunity in digital cameras. Now they are all too late to regret. Naturally, they will no longer support dinkbaier in developing digital camera business. Therefore, when they receive the invitation for cooperation, they either directly refuse or offer unacceptable conditions. Dinkbaier can only rely on itself.

After listening to Claire's talk about it, Alison thought about it and said, "in fact, I think that the popularity rate of domestic film cameras is also very high. Maybe Tinkerbell can consider developing a special machine for converting film to digital, so that people can turn their own videos from film into digital images. This should have a big market."

Claire shook his head and said, "it's not like you haven't seen the glue to magnetic equipment in Hollywood. The price of a full set of professional equipment is hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it's very bulky. How can you achieve the household level?"

Girl a said: "if you can't do it for home use, it's OK to do it for commercial use at the level of a developing and printing shop. The equipment in Hollywood is very professional and of course expensive, but you only need to do the household super 8mm film, and the conversion image quality doesn't need to be perfect."

C girl continued to shake her head: "if you are interested, you can try this project."

On the other hand, the housekeeper, who has been talking very little, interjected: "since digitization has become a very obvious industry trend, the product cycle of developing this kind of machine will not be too long. Maybe digital cameras will be popularized before they are promoted in the future."

A girl pause, want to refute the film and digital may coexist for a long time, just like the digital camera and film camera now.

I still didn't open my mouth.

At present, there is still a big gap between the popularity of digital cameras and film cameras. However, after the introduction of digital cameras, considering the many advantages of this product, perhaps the elimination speed of domestic film cameras will be faster than film cameras.

Girl C didn't continue this topic. Instead, she asked about alphabeta, a company that AB and ab cooperated with. She regretted that she should have brought girl a into her own company as a shareholder, so that she could get more attention from Simon through Alison.

The three girls seem to have a very harmonious dinner. After leaving the restaurant, they immediately split into two groups.

When the driver drove over, Alison took Claire's arm and said to the housekeeper, "C and I are going shopping, so we won't take you. Go back to have an early rest and remember the meeting tomorrow morning."

The housekeeper stood by the door and didn't get on the bus immediately. She hesitated for a moment and suddenly said, "I'm going to Woodside. You have to open the door for me."

Girl a was a little bit surprised and disappointed: "didn't you say you wanted to go home? The boss might go directly to you."

"I'll go to Woodside."

The housekeeper repeated and got into the car on her own.

The driver did not rush to close the door, waiting to see a girl.

Seeing this, Alison asked Claire, "why don't we go to Woodside tonight and sleep together?"

Claire glanced at the housekeeper in the carriage. Her eyes flashed and she nodded, "good."