Reborn Millennial Gamer

Chapter 251 The Counterattack Starts Now (Two in One)

April 4, Queens, New York.

A ray of morning sunlight fell on the roof of McDonald's, and the logo of the two open golden double arches was particularly conspicuous.

All kinds of guests in the lobby buried their heads in their meals, eating muffins, burgers, sandwiches, drinking coffee, and milkshakes.

There was a click, and the glass door opened, and two stylishly dressed Neighbors put their hands in their pockets, and took steps that they didn't recognize.

In an instant, countless pairs of eyes looked at them, especially white people. A woman shivered and hugged her child subconsciously.

Battelle frowned, and complained: "Damn, Marcus, I'm so fed up with the way they look at us when we show up. I saw that bitch."

"Hey, calm down, I don't mean that." Marcus patted the guy on the shoulder.

"No no no, buddy, look around, can you find a safer and better place than here?"

Battelle was full of thoughts, "But this woman saw us as if she saw some threat. Are we like thieves or gangsters?""

"Aren't we?"

Marcus lined up obediently, and his eyes fell on the new poster on the wall. The big and eye-catching words read——

The price of a hamburger, the time of a song.

When it was his turn to order, he couldn't help asking in surprise, "What kind of event is this?"

"Now, as long as you buy a hamburger of more than 99 cents, you can get a song exchange coupon equivalent to 99 cents, and log in to Spotify to redeem a song for free."

The waiter is the same brother, and he did not hesitate to introduce the a la carte or the set meal. The sum of the burger prices exceeds 5 US dollars, and you can also exchange for a limited exchange coupon.

Marcus became interested: "What can I exchange for?"

The waiter Nico showed his white teeth: "Like 50cent's new song, "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'."

"Ho ho!" Battelle's eyes lit up, "Wait a minute, today is April Fool's Day, you won't tease me, will you?"

Neko's waiter swore, "It's absolutely true, Neko will not lie to Neko!"

"50cent is just enough for this song." Battelle pouted, "There is only one king on the East Coast, and that is Biggie!"

The waiter Nico said with a smile: "There are also biggie, Jay-z, Dr. Dre, Eminem..."

"Stop! I don't listen to the West Coast!" Battelle was dubious, "Give me a package that can get a limited number of exchange coupons."

But Marcus asked for the cheapest double-layer beef burger, which only sold for 99 cents. He received an ordinary exchange coupon, then picked a corner, and just after putting down the burger, he ran to queue again.

"Hey buddy, what are you doing!"

Battelle was puzzled, seeing that he received another double-layered beef burger again.

"I'm experimenting, and sure enough, it's a hamburger transaction, and an ordinary coupon."

Marcus grinned, with a hint of shrewdness in his honesty.

At his suggestion, the two packed up and took them back to Battelle's house. They went straight to the computer to log in to Spotify, ignoring the hamburger, and jumped out of the black and white panda-colored interface.

Leaderboards, communities, ratings, players, stores, etc., appear in front of you one by one.

"Brother, what the hell are you doing?" Battelle looked confused, and was called to fetch his fantasy1 again.

"You'll know after a while, if this coupon can really be exchanged, we will issue it." Marcus showed a sly smile.

"If it's fake, I'll let that McDonald's try my best!"

When Battelle threw out harsh words, he saw Marcus successfully exchanged the song and downloaded the song into fantasy1 with one operation, and heard his sharp and wild laughter in his ears:

"We're rich, haha, we're rich!"

"Why make a fortune, why can't I understand what you are talking about?"

Seeing the question marks on Brother Nige’s face, Marcus revealed that since a 99-cent hamburger is exchanged for a song, it is completely possible to buy a bunch of hamburgers, get the same amount of exchange coupons, and exchange these coupons at a lower price. Price, resold to those who need it.

"Wow! Wow! You're such a genius, bro."

Battelle was very excited, and suddenly thought of a big question, "How to deal with those burgers bought?"

Marcus swallowed 2 hamburgers, half a glass of Coke into his stomach, and hiccupped involuntarily: "Eat!"

Ever since, Brother Nego went to McDonald's to buy hamburgers, and took 200 of the 1000 million coupons. When they were about to sell them, they found that there were more than one pair of crouching dragons and phoenixes like them.

A group of people got coupons from KFC and they are already on sale!
As a result, the price of the redemption coupons fell again and again, and fell below 5 cents. In order to compete for the coupon sales site, conflicts even broke out, resulting in gun battles and gang fights——

A shootout over a coupon, the newspapers called it!
Or, a bloody battle over a hamburger!In the far east, soon there was also a bloody battle caused by steamed buns.

Logic cooperated with KFC and McDonald's to promote the 300 million hamburger promotion plan, and it was completely launched. Within a day, the pool of 600 million coupons dropped sharply by one-sixth.

And Spotify, sold 143 million songs!

4 minutes online, 1 songs...

21 minutes online, 10 songs...

More than 2 hours and 10 minutes online, 50 songs...

10 and a half hours online, 100 million songs...

The horrific sales data is like a thunderbolt in the record industry, the ground explodes, and the rain comes after a long drought. The people in the circle are as excited as farmers who have been suffering a long drought, rushing to tell each other, shouting loudly:

The record industry is saved!

When master Lu is here, there will be blue sky!

The IT circle was also shaken. Sony, Microsoft, and especially Apple, which has similar competing products, the board of directors and senior management were shocked and furious.

Damn, you smelly foreigner, dare to steal my money!

At the site preparing for the Apple conference, the staff were terrified and afraid to speak loudly, even daring to walk, for fear of angering Jobs who was furious on the stage.

"fuxk! fuxk!"

Riccio, Cook, Jonathan Ivey and the others stood up straight and were scolded silently. They saw Jobs pacing back and forth, his weak hand bursting out with strength, crushing the hamburger severely, and muttering in his mouth:

"99 cents, 99 cents, 99 cents..."

Cook frowned, admiring the marketing of "Burger=Music" very much. I thought my marketing was the best in America, but I didn't expect this person to be even more ingenious. Whose idea is this!

Seeing Riccio stepped forward to dissuade him, "Steve, the price of Spotify is the same as ours. It has Microsoft as a shareholder, and Ballmer will support it against Apple. Why don't we lower the price to 89 cents? "

"Stupid! It's not just stupid, it's stupid!"

Jobs refrained from throwing the hamburger in the face of the proposer, 20 years younger, and did so, suppressing his anger:

"A song is equal to a hamburger, it's Good Eddy, a song sells for less than a hamburger, it's cheap, it's an insult to the singer, it's an insult to the music!"

"Not only that."

Cook secretly poked at Apple's second-in-command, "Dare to lower it? Can it be lowered? Is the price reduction something we can do as we say, and will the record company agree to it?"

Riccio suddenly realized how stupid the price cut was!

Originally priced at 99 cents, it is already cutting the meat of the record industry. 10 cents does not seem like much, but if a song sells 100 million copies, 1000 million copies, or even 1 million copies, it is not 10 cents. It is the death sentence for the record company.

Dare to make money from big and small capitalists?
From the singer to the record industry, believe it or not, they directly cancel the cooperation and all fall to Spotify.

The same price increase is not enough, it has won over the record industry, but consumers are not happy, which is tantamount to pushing preconceived users to Spotify.

Yangmou, naked Yangmou!This conspiracy is so poisonous!
"This must be that Huaxia Lu's idea!"

Jobs' face was tense, and he was so gloomy that water dripped out, "It's all you, all of you. Obviously, I came up with the idea of ​​the music store first. Because you are slow in R&D and debugging, Apple will be half a step behind!"

Literally, it is completely "it's all your fault, it's all your fault!"

Everyone looked like a doormat, and their answers were quite unanimous, ah, yes, yes, it's all my fault, it's all my fault, you are amazing, you cowhide!
This situation is like a fruit party.

The principal's micromanagement is fine, but his subordinates are too incompetent.

"Steve, we want to contact Samsung, Sony, and Philips. Logic is dumping at a low price. It wants all of the American digital music software and hardware markets!"

Cook proposed: "This cannot be tolerated. If we want to counter it, we must file an anti-dumping lawsuit against Logic."

"Just do it."

Jobs put on a cold face and touched his chin.

…………

Time flies, a week passed.

Apple is busy connecting, and the record industry is busy celebrating with fireworks.

Spotify has reached a new high, selling more than 7 million songs in 1000 days. Although it is suspected of flooding, there are 600 million coupons!
But the media doesn't care so much, it's a big deal.

"New York Times": "Universal Music President Doug Morris said that Huaxialu has done a great thing. He has led the way for the digitization of the record industry - Spotify store, music management software and lmusic. The whole process is very smooth. He packaged those services up."

The New York Post: "The Spotify store will kill piracy! Of course, it will kill physical records too! Poison, medicine, only works."

"Wall Street Journal": "Recently, Bill Gates' internal letter in Microsoft was accidentally leaked. In the letter, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the status quo of Microsoft and hoped to launch an excellent Windows download service like Spotify as soon as possible.

He attributes the success of Spotify and the fact that Logic can obtain a more favorable music licensing agreement than other companies to Huaxia Lu's outstanding talent and personal charm..."

In fact, there is no leak at all, and it is blatantly revealed.

Bill Gates is using Microsoft to praise Spotify, and his own people praise their own people!

"boom!"

The champagne popped, the corks popped, and the wine gushed out.

At Spotify's internal celebratory dinner, Ballmer led Microsoft's top executives to show up, bringing a treasured salon champagne.

Lu Fei and him held one together, with the mouth of the bottle facing down, and poured it into the pyramid-shaped cup. The pale yellow liquid glistened in the sunlight and rolled down.

Then, holding the wine glass high: "cheers (cheers)!"

"cheers!"

The whole hall was almost in unison, and the voice shook the sky.

The presidents of the four major record companies were not present, but they sent representatives one after another, full of enthusiasm, eager to package and upload the songs in the library to Spotify immediately.

Guo Xing smiled from ear to ear, "Now more and more record labels are looking for us to cooperate with, and we have received more than 50 applications."

"Let a bowl of water be level."

Lu Fei wrote lightly, "Spotify is an ally of the entire recording industry, and we want to help them win the piracy war!"

"aweason!"

The representatives of the recording industry around him all applauded and complimented him.

Ballmer smiled and said, "Lu, your 'one hamburger, one song' strategy is really great. With an investment of 600 million US dollars, it has an advertising effect of 1800 million US dollars!"

"Next, Spotify will continue to cooperate with McDonald's and KFC, and will also cooperate with Pepsi and Coca-Cola to draw prizes for bottle caps."

Lu Fei smiled, "Believe it or not, the digital music market can reach 1 million this year?"

"I believe it! Of course I believe it!"

Ballmer laughed like a thunder, and said generously: "Lu, if you need any technical help, just come to Microsoft, we will send the best professional team, we are family!"

While speaking, quietly reminded the priority of the A round of financing.

"Hey, isn't it the priority to lead the voting right?"

Lu Fei pretended to be surprised, and added the word "leader" correctively.

"Yes, yes, look at my memory, the priority to lead the voting right!"

Ballmer understood and showed an even brighter smile.

Lu Fei clinked glasses and took a sip of wine, "Steve, how is the team of lawyers I asked you to find?"

"Robert!"

Ballmer immediately beckoned and introduced Robert Hansram, the top intellectual property litigation lawyer in the United States, who worked in the firm founded by Bill Gates' father, Gao Gates Law Firm.

Lu Fei cut to the chase and said, "If Apple initiates anti-dumping, can we win?"

"I've studied Apple's threatening letters, and my answer is to win because my team and I have found its Achilles' heel."

With a well-thought-out plan, Robert clicked on "private agreement".

Also in the IT field in the United States, if a company enters a market segment first and establishes standards first, such an agreement will be formed.

"Before the emergence of logic, Apple monopolized more than 60% of the MP3 market in America. Before the dumping, Apple was suspected of monopolizing."

"Oh, Monopoly!"

Ballmer raised his eyebrows, feeling that he was too familiar.

In the United States, monopoly can be more serious than dumping. If it is recognized as a monopoly, the company will be split up. Microsoft is found to be a monopoly, and it has to take half of its life to survive.

Lu Fei said happily: "So, can I give Jobs an anti-monopoly lawyer's letter?"

Robert said with a smile: "Of course, if you pull Samsung and Sony, at least it is enough to deter Jobs and Apple."

"Look, this is professional!"

Lu Fei laughed and raised his glass again.

Anti-dumping is to anti-monopoly, what Luo Ji is to the Three-Body Problem, come on!Hurt each other!
"That is, Robert is number one in the United States in this field."

Ballmer frowned, and suddenly heard him asking about the technical patents for purchasing American land, and couldn't help being curious:

"Lu, what do you want to buy?"

"I want to buy battery technology. Because lmusic2 is designed with a color screen, it consumes a lot of power and has a short battery life. We are looking for a battery company and cooperate to launch an optimized solution."

Lu Fei half-concealed, in the name of improving the performance of MP3, he revealed a bunch of related technologies.

When logic makes money, it has to be spent, and the big head must be invested in research and development!
Technology cannot be bought, and the United States will not allow Huaxia companies, even offshore companies, but during the honeymoon period, they can steal chickens and steal important but still inconspicuous mature technologies.

For example, multi-touch.

"Touch technology?"

Ballmer has little interest, but he is not interested in anything that has nothing to do with Microsoft systems.

"If Microsoft endorses Logic, whether it is a cooperation or an acquisition, it will get twice the result with half the effort." Robert suggested calmly.

Lu Fei squinted, "What do you think?"

"No problem at all."

Ballmer has both hands and feet, and absolutely supports it.

The stronger lmusic is, the worse ipod will be, and the more deflated Apple will be, which is a huge fatal blow to Apple's stock price.

"These are not enough, isn't Apple's press conference coming soon?"

Lu Fei had a smirk on his face, "We're looking for some media to participate in the scene, as long as Apple's third-generation iPod is not as good as expected, maybe not as good as Logic's first-generation lmusic, as long as iTunes' performance is not as good as Spotify..."

"Lu, I understand, I understand!"

Ballmer showed a sinister smile, "You are so bad!"

"He offended me first, and I'm justified in counterattacking."

Master Lu shrugged innocently, the gangsters fought and Apple died suddenly, how pleasant it sounds!

ps: and...

　Thanks to a layman who is used to being alone, Yake Yaxi Da’s 100 starting coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)