giants of the era

Chapter 72 Flagship Store Opening

When the press conference came to the questioning session, the reporters in the audience rushed to ask questions.

All of them seemed to be insane.

"Mr Tian, ​​when will Apple-ll be officially released?"

"Mr Tian, ​​what is the price of Apple-ll?"

"Mr. Tian, ​​what is Apple's sales expectation for Apple-ll?"

"Mr. Tian, ​​do other companies need conditions to develop expansion cards for Apple-ll?"

"Mr. Gates, how much is a copy of the Excel spreadsheet office software?"

"Is Sunbird's "China Cube" a game developed by the Chinese?!"

"..."

For a moment, the entire venue was filled with the shouts of the reporters at the top of their lungs. Because the voices were too low, they were immediately drowned out by the voices of other reporters, so they had to shout loudly!
Roberts, the boss of MITS, couldn't bear to look directly at him, with an extremely serious expression.

Intel's Gordon Moore looked very ugly. Apple-ll used Mos6502 and abandoned Intel 8080. This undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to Intel, especially when Apple-ll was so popular that even media reporters were concerned about it. crazy……

Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and known as the "father of video games", was silent at the moment, thinking repeatedly in his mind of "China Tetris", "Donkey Kong", "Pac-Man" and " Each of the four games of Super Breakout is not only fun to make, but also very simple and easy to play. It is likely to become popular in the entire game world! ! !
"Sunbird Company is not well-known, and I never thought that four such fun games would come out in a row!!!" Nolan Bushnell murmured, Sunbird Company had attracted his great attention.He seemed to feel a feeling of "black clouds overwhelm the city and want to destroy it"!

Tian Shuai said loudly into the microphone: "Everyone, don't worry, we have plenty of time, and we will answer the reporters' questions one by one!"

After finishing speaking, Tian Shuai wiped off his sweat. Nima, these reporters are too enthusiastic. I have never seen them so excited at the press conference of the President of the United States! ! !
Subsequently, Tian Shuai, Bill Gates and others spent more than half an hour answering questions from reporters.

"First of all, Apple-ll will be released globally on June 6st. It is particularly worth mentioning that Apple has established a flagship store in downtown Los Angeles, where you can personally experience all the functions of Apple-ll, including Using Excel spreadsheets and games…”

“其次，Apple-ll拥有内存4kb的低配电脑和48kb的高配电脑，价格分别为1400美元、2600美元。微软公司开发的Excel软件的价格为200美元，太阳鸟公司开发的四款游戏软件的价格皆是100美元！”

"..."

After answering the reporter's questions, Tian Shuai announced the end of the "Global Developers Conference".However, many people did not leave, and they all came to visit Tian Shuai, hoping to cooperate with Apple.

Li Zetian watched Tian Shuai busy in the crowd, and thought to himself, fortunately, he keeps a low profile, so he doesn't have to suffer...

Just when Li Zetian was complacent, someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder.

"Congratulations, Chronos, Apple-ll's a hit!"

Li Zetian turned his head and saw that it was Thomas Rockefeller.

"Oh, it's you, Mr. Thomas Rockefeller! Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you here!!" Li Zetian greeted politely.

Thomas Rockefeller said with a touch of emotion: "I didn't expect the Apple-ll computer to be so powerful, and it will definitely become popular in the United States in a short time! It seems that I underestimated Apple before. I should raise my bargaining chip and buy shares in Apple!"

Li Zetian smiled, but did not speak.

Thomas Rockefeller continued at this time, with a very solemn tone: "Chronos, can Apple still accept investment from the Rockefeller family?"

Li Zetian heard the words, pondered for a while, and replied: "At the end of this year, Apple will conduct a round of financing. The Rockefeller family is very welcome to join!!!"

Thomas Rockefeller was very satisfied when he heard the words, he nodded and smiled at Li Zetian and said, "That's the deal! I have something to do later, so I'm leaving first!"

"Okay, Mr. Rockefeller, go ahead!" Li Zetian watched the other party leave.

Whenever a company wants to develop into a world-class large company, huge contacts and resources are essential.

The Rockefeller family is one of the top families in the United States, and it is beneficial to the development of Apple to win it over as an ally.In addition, Li Zetian is preparing to plan for Apple's listing plan, so he will conduct a round of financing at the end of the year to attract powerful and influential new shareholders to join. When Apple conducts its IPO (initial public offering), it will surely create an unprecedented myth! ! !
Wow, I feel super excited just thinking about it!
At around 11 o'clock in the evening, Li Zetian returned home, Apple-ll will be officially released tomorrow, Li Zetian must not be able to sleep now.Although I am full of confidence in Apple-ll, I am still a little nervous.He took a cold shower, then went to the study and continued writing "Zhu Xian".Almost a year has passed. Li Zetian only wrote a total of 25 characters for the book "Zhu Xian". It's very slow.

"Zhu Xian", who has been sharpening his sword for 10 years, who will compete with it?

Before I knew it, I wrote until one o'clock in the morning. Li Zetian yawned and finally felt a little drowsy.

……

The next day, before dawn, many people gathered in downtown Los Angeles. They heard that Apple had established a flagship store here, and it was about to open today.

However, when everyone came to the outside of Apple's flagship store, they found that a layer of black cloth was hanging to cover Apple's flagship store, so that people could not see the appearance of the flagship store.

People couldn't help standing outside and discussing.

"I'll go, and it's still so mysterious!"

"Hehe, it's interesting. I'm really looking forward to what the black cloth will look like after it's uncovered!"

"I heard Apple spent $100 million to build this flagship store!!!"

"What?? $100 million??!"

Everyone was shocked, 100 million US dollars is a huge amount of money, and it costs so much just to build a facade, Apple is really bold!

In fact, the $100 million is purely a gossip released by Apple. How can there be so much, including the rent.But publicity, sometimes it can be exaggerated, no, people can't help but look forward to Apple's flagship store even more!

There were more and more people on the street, and at 8 o'clock, Apple's staff came, and under the gaze of everyone, they finally lifted the black cloth.

As soon as the black cloth fell, everyone couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Wow! So cool!!!"

"My God, Apple's flagship store is full of technology. The 15-meter-high building looks like a glass box. The facade is probably... composed of 11 large double-glazed panels. Damn, the first It’s the first time I’ve seen this design! Awesome!!!”

"The most eye-catching thing in the entire retail space is the design of the suspended second floor in the center, giving people the impression that a floating stage is created in the center of the space, as if providing a brand new living space for the city."

"Not only these, please pay attention, there are also luminous ceilings, transparent glass stairs on both sides, and Apple's silver luminous LOGO, which is so cool!!!"

"..."

At this time, the staff of the flagship store opened the door and said to everyone: "Welcome to Apple's first flagship store and experience Apple-ll personal computer, the most innovative product in the technology industry!!!" , made a please gesture.

People were already in a hurry and rushed in immediately!

Within 1 minute, the flagship store was full of people, and passers-by couldn't help but look sideways! ! !
"Oh, God, what does this store sell, and the business is so good?!"

So I went in to watch the fun, and was immediately fascinated by Apple-ll...

Inside the flagship store, there were sounds of surprise one after another, and it was very lively. In less than 10 minutes, hundreds of Apple-lls and dozens of Excel and game software were sold.These users filed out of the gate one by one with big boxes in their arms. The guy at that scene could make the IBM on the opposite side pissed off!

PS: ask for tickets

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　PS: ask for tickets

　　
　
(End of this chapter)