giants of the era

Chapter 412 Pretend to be intimidating in front of Jobs

"Mr. Li, this is the iPod, please take a look." Jobs handed the iPod to Li Zetian.

Wow, it feels very comfortable to touch, just like touching a woman's slippery skin.

Li Zetian took the iPod in his hand and looked it over carefully. It was more beautiful than the photo!

Dongfang Yuqin, Selena, and Vanessa were all attracted by this small and exquisite iPod, and looked at it curiously.

"In terms of appearance, it is impeccable!" Li Zetian praised.

Dongfang Yuqin said: "The volume is also very small, much smaller than other hard drives MP3, easy to carry!"

Jobs proudly introduced: "iPod uses a micro hard drive specially developed by Seagate Technology Company. The micro hard drive is small, and the storage capacity is large enough, about 100M, and can store dozens of songs! The traditional flash memory MP3 stores at most a dozen songs."

"Compared with other hard disk MP3, iPod is exquisite and small; compared with traditional flash memory MP3, iPod has large storage capacity."

Jobs paused, and said with a smile, "This is the advantage of the iPod!!!"

Li Zetian and everyone couldn't help but nodded. At present, it seems that the iPod is indeed the case.

Jobs continued to introduce, with a hint of excitement and pride in his tone: "However, this is not the biggest selling point of the iPod!"

Li Zetian laughed immediately when he heard the words, he knew what Jobs was referring to.

Selena and Vanessa were a little confused, thinking, isn't this the biggest selling point of the iPod?It's already so good, can it be better?If it were me, I would definitely buy an iPod.

Jobs proudly introduced again: "The biggest selling point of the iPod is that it is the first product that bundles Internet music with MP3 players!"

After finishing speaking, Jobs looked at Li Zetian and the others, and deliberately played tricks, waiting for the other party to see the key, or the magic point.

Li Zetian still looked very calm, as if everything was in his hands.In fact, it is true, isn’t it the iTunes music store, hehe…

Dongfang Yuqin, Selena, and Vanessa couldn't help thinking.

"A product that bundles Internet music with an MP3 player? What does that mean, and why did Jobs think it was the biggest selling point of the iPod?"

Li Zetian looked at Dongfang Yuqin and others and thought for a while, but he still hadn't thought of the key point, so only Li Zetian answered, and Jobs couldn't be underestimated.

"Ahem, I think what Jobs meant is that many people should be willing to pay a small amount of money to download a single song from Apple's official website, or use the monthly subscription system for unlimited downloads. Therefore, the iPod can really make the record company profit, thus getting It has won the dual support of consumers and record companies. From this, it can be speculated that it will be difficult if the iPod is not popular!!"

A look of surprise flashed across Jobs' face. He thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with this idea, and he was ecstatic immediately.I never thought that Li Zetian would be able to understand his meaning in a moment, which is really amazing!

Seeing Jobs' surprised gaze, Li Zetian couldn't help but smile a little, pretending to be aggressive.

After listening to Li Zetian's words, Dongfang Yuqin and others also understood the truth, and couldn't help but look at Jobs differently.

Li Zetian pressed the power button, and immediately the iPod screen lit up, and a system screen with simple operation appeared after a while, which was easy to understand at a glance, without any difficulty, even if you can read words, you should also recognize those pictures.Li Zetian glanced at the interface of the iTunes music store. The picture and structure were a bit rough, giving Li Zetian a very old feeling.

Then, Li Zetian checked how many songs there were.

Oops, awesome, 45 songs!

However, the MP3 music at this time is not very big, and there are many songs on the Internet that are less than 1M in size.

Li Zetian was used to listening to high-definition lossless music in his previous life, and the music was more than ten or twenty megabytes at every turn. How could an iPod fit it?

Therefore, in terms of sound quality, Li Zetian put on headphones and listened for a while, and thought it was okay.It's 2000, and the iPod can do this, which is pretty good!
"Listen and feel it." Li Zetian took off the earphones and put them on for Dongfang Yuqin himself.

"How?" After a while, Li Zetian asked.

Dongfang Yuqin took off the earphones, nodded and said, "It sounds great!"

"You can click on the iTunes music store, where you can download songs, but," Li Zetian said, stopped, looked at Jobs, and asked, "Jobs, how much does it cost a user to download a song?"

"Very cheap, $0.99!"

Same as previous life!
Li Zetian nodded involuntarily.

Dongfang Yuqin was very surprised when she heard the words: "It's so cheap!!!"

A legitimate music CD, at least ten dollars.

Buying from the iTunes music store is much cheaper than buying music CDs, and you can buy whichever song you like, unlike music CD albums, which contain many songs that users don't actually like to listen to.

Spend the least money and buy the songs you like the most! ! !
At this time, Dongfang Yuqin, relying on her keen business sense, has already discovered the unusualness of the iTunes music store.

"The iTunes music store may be a revolutionary software?!" Dongfang Yuqin couldn't help murmuring.

Of course, iTunes sells music now, but it can also sell movies in the future, and finally can sell various software. It is one of the very important software for Apple in the future, running through ipod, ipad, iPhone, iMac, And products like the MacBook...

Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin are very satisfied with the iPod.

Before leaving, I asked Jobs for several iPods and gave them to relatives and friends. Selena and Vanessa also got one each.

Jobs said: "Mr. Li, the iPod is going to hold a product launch event on the night of March 3, and it will be released globally on April 31. I hope you can find time to attend."

"No problem!" Li Zetian smiled and nodded.

Li Zetian just raised his foot and was about to leave, but suddenly stopped and asked, "Does Apple have any plans to develop a mobile phone with a camera?"

Jobs shook his head and said, "Mr. Li, someone had proposed this idea before, but I denied it. I consulted with the technicians of Carl Zeiss, and they all said that if the current technology is used to develop a camera phone, the pixels are very low. It only has 10,000+ pixels. In my opinion, this thing is simply sensationalizing and not useful. Of course, I don’t deny that there is a problem with the idea of ​​a camera phone, but the technology is limited!”

Li Zetian thought about it, the 10,000+ pixel garbage is deadly, the blur is not light, and mobile phone users will never use it to shoot, so it is not very useful.If you develop a camera mobile phone now, it seems like superfluous, which greatly increases the manufacturing cost of mobile phones.

I am afraid that he did not become a pioneer, but instead became a martyr.

"Well, you are right! However, we must always pay attention to the industry situation. I believe that with the development of technology, the pixels of mobile phone cameras will be significantly improved, and they will not even be worse than ordinary cameras. It is a camera, and it will definitely be loved by users. And the camera will definitely become one of the standard configurations of mobile phones!!! So, even if we don’t launch a camera phone, we still need to form a team and carry out research and development!” Li Zetian spoke highly of Jobs After a glance, it was Jobs after all, with a bit of level and vision.However, Li Zetian still wanted to remind him, and said these words on purpose, so as to show that he was far-sighted!
(End of this chapter)