Reborn Millennial Gamer

Chapter 591 Price cut!avalanche! (4k)

September 9, San Francisco International Airport.

"Goodbye, brother-in-law."

Zeng Yu waved his hand and entered the boarding gate.

For Lu Fei's sake, Wuhan University granted her a long vacation at the beginning of the semester, and now more than half a month has passed, and she is finally on her way home.

Zeng Yu’s flight took off, and Lu Fei flew to New York on the back. Spotify will be listed on NASDAQ four days later, which is the National Day.

The current US stock market is turbulent and turbulent.

The first wave of subprime mortgages triggered by the collapse of the New Century Company subsided. Real estate stocks led by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plummeted. More than thirty or forty percent.

The Federal Reserve also realized that there was a problem with raising interest rates and cut interest rates urgently, which allowed the bloody US stocks to return to the upward channel.

The entire market in September is green and oily.

Taking advantage of the tide of interest rate cuts, Spotify, as "the first music website in the world", is also the first to go public in the name of a genuine version after Napster, a pirated music website.

The number of users, total revenue, and various indicators and data of net profit are extremely eye-catching. Not only the fame bonus of Lugu and Logic, but also the fuel of Goldman Sachs. to $13.9 per share.

No more, no less, $2.44 million raised.

With the listing of Spotify, the Forbes Global Rich List at the beginning of the year had to be re-adjusted. Before that, Lu Fei's net worth was 2.4 million US dollars behind Li Cucumber's family, ranking No.10.

Now he directly overtakes and rises to the ninth richest man in the world.

Moreover, from being the richest man in mainland China to being promoted to the veritable richest man in China, it is actually very early.

It’s just that companies such as Feigou, Logic, and Sogou only have valuations, but no market capitalization, and they are not reflected in the total wealth at all.

Of course, the assets of the Li Cucumber family will not stay at 230 billion US dollars. According to gossip, it is conservatively estimated that it will skyrocket to more than 300 billion US dollars. Who is the richest man in China——

We have to wait until next year's Forbes list of the world's richest people is announced.

But at this moment, Lu Fei is the richest man!

"boom!"

"Boom!"

When Lu Fei pressed the mechanical button to ring the bell, the moment the bell rang, colorful paper fireworks flew out from left and right of the stage.

After taking a group photo in Times Square, Lu Fei waved his hand and booked a banquet hall in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to hold a grand celebration banquet. In addition to the executives of Logic and Spotify, the two major shareholders of Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, etc. brokerage.

"Lu, hahaha, my friend, cheers!"

Ballmer's face was full of red, and when Spotify went public, it suddenly boosted Microsoft's sluggish stock price, and he was very happy.

"cheers."

Lu Fei clinked glasses with him and took a sip.

Ballmer completely put aside the bad idea of ​​cooperation between logic and Google, put his arms around his shoulders affectionately, and called him brothers:
"Lu, what's your plan for the next step?"

"I'm going to slowly transition Spotify into streaming."

"stream media?"

"Transitioning to the Spotify of streaming media is about building a bridge between the music industry's paid downloads and cloud computing services."

"Will the record industry say yes?"

Ballmer wondered: "Won't turning to the streaming music model cut off the record industry's digital music retail revenue?"

"We are the most important alliance in the recording industry. If they don't rely on us, who else can they rely on?" Lu Fei shook his glass, "Besides, as long as they negotiate a good revenue share, they will not disagree. For example, from the original 7%, Increase to 8%."

"Why are we only 2%?"

Ballmer was taken aback.

"Don't look at the small share, but the cake is big."

Lu Fei made an analogy, if the monthly subscription of streaming music service is 5 dollars, as long as there are one-fifth of the current number of paying users of Spotify, that is, based on 2500 million subscriptions, it can bring in 15 billion dollars in revenue every year. , divided into a full 3 million.

Although some revenue will be lost during the transition period, it is within the acceptable range. As long as the streaming service can operate smoothly, the revenue from paid subscriptions is enough to make up for the loss of music downloads.

"Sounds good."

Ballmer licked his lips.

"There are better ones, Steve, you know?"

Lu Fei shrugged: "The most attractive thing about having a streaming music service is to drive hardware sales, not just music players, but also the beats headphones that Logic has cooperated with Spotify, we will open up a 'Beats' for early streaming users Music” exclusive service, driving the sales of earphones. "

"Lu, when are you going to transform?"

"Look at you, and anxious, that's the second step. The first step is to develop streaming media smart technology. Before that, keep the status quo and continue to provide paid downloads through Spotify, so as not to cause dissatisfaction in the record industry. All of this, Steve, we need your full support and Microsoft must act with us."

"Lu, of course I support you!"

Ballmer promised to go back and persuade the board of directors to sign a concerted action agreement with Logic in the name of Microsoft, which is equivalent to the listing of Spotify, and Logic still firmly holds the control.

And this, Master Lu just drew a cake.

After talking about Spotify's streaming media transformation plan, Ballmer was flushed with red wine mixed with chicken soup:

"Lu, now that the mobile phone brands on the market are cutting prices crazily because of the launch of logicX2, I'm curious, will your own lphone3G reduce the price?"

"Of course it will go down, but we won't go down too much."

Lu Fei smiled and said, "It's only $100."

"Hi~"

Ballmer took a deep breath, the price combination of lphone and logicX2, the whole market is not in chaos, is it?
"Actually, they didn't lose much."

Lu Fei disagrees, "The wave of price cuts for memory chips can make up for part of the loss from price increases."

Ballmer nodded in agreement, "You're right, and this wave of collective price cuts will further drop the prices of memory and flash memory, which are already depressed, what do you think?"

Lu Fei corrected the statement with a smile: "Steve, it's wrong, it's not a fall, it's an avalanche!"

When the Yangtze River was born and announced 3D flash memory technology, the global storage industry market, which was in a cold winter, encountered a blizzard.

And because of the increasingly fierce price war between Samsung, Elpida, and Micron, it can be said that this winter is darker and colder than when the Internet bubble burst.

Not long ago, 1G memory could still maintain 16 US dollars.

However, the wave of price cuts in the global mobile phone market, as well as the wave of discontinuation of some models, is tantamount to adding insult to injury and ice water.

Give the entire storage industry a heart-warming blow!
The 512Mb memory has fallen to the point where manufacturers will lose $1 for a piece of memory, and the 1G memory has also dropped to $15. As for the memory above 1G, and 2D flash memory...

The dam has collapsed, and sooner or later it will leak for thousands of miles.

What makes storage manufacturers most desperate is that there is no sign of spring in the long winter, and the winter will continue.

If this continues, it is not impossible for the drop to exceed 50%!

There is no doubt that this is an unprecedented avalanche in the global storage industry. From Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, to the Gulf of China and the mainland, no matter whether it is the wealthy Intel, or the debt-laden Qimonda and Elpida, no one has survived. Disaster.

However, when the storage industry was going downhill, someone always stepped on the accelerator, but Samsung stepped on it again.

The second round of the price war has started!
Thanks to the establishment of YMTC, it has 3D flash memory technology, and most of the production capacity can be digested internally. The rest has official appearances, such as Shenzhou, Lianxiang, Tongfang, Founder, and Great Wall. How much or less to buy [-] million points.

Not buying?

Do you still want to enter the purchasing catalog?

Feigo.com also directs traffic to memory sticks and solid-state drives from YMTC, and its sales are gradually catching up with Samsung.

Perhaps in the cold winter, YMTC is not the best place to live, but at least it can survive. After all, there will be a financial tsunami that both subprime mortgages and P2P will thunder.

For mobile phone manufacturers, it is a great boon.

Logic's 4G memory cost has dropped by 18 dollars directly, and 8G has reduced by [-] to [-] dollars, and this is just the beginning.

Therefore, Apple blatantly announced iMaga price cuts!

The price of the 8G version has dropped from US$499 to US$299, a reduction of US$200.

The 4G version can't compete with logicX2, so the production is simply discontinued.

The price drop of electronic products is very common, but it is absolutely unique among the price cuts of many brands such as Nokia and Motorola, such as Apple's drastic price reduction!
The crux of the problem is that the mobile phone, which was released at the end of May in the first half of the year, depreciated in just four months?
Many users who spent nearly 500 dollars, especially those who just bought iMaga, feel that they are being taken advantage of!

For 90 days, the average daily drop was 2.22 US dollars.

The point is, without contrast, there is no harm.

In the morning, Apple issued a price reduction announcement, followed by logic in the afternoon, announcing that the 4G and 8G versions of lphones will all be reduced by $100. As compensation, old users will be provided with a coupon of $25, which can be used online and offline. When you purchase any product of Logic, you can enjoy the discount.

Break the defense, really break the defense!
Like pouring oil on fire, public opinion seems to be like a prairie fire.

Apple, look at people!

lphone was released earlier than your iMaga, but the discount is less than yours, and you even gave a $25 coupon, how about you?
What do you want? How dare you drop $200?

You are worthy of us!
rnm, refund the money!
Just an hour after the news was released, Apple's mailbox received thousands of emails expressing dissatisfaction, and the customer service calls were bombarded indiscriminately.

Even organized a price reduction rights protection group to sue Apple.

Seeing the situation intensified, Apple, which had pretended to be an ostrich for a long time, finally couldn't hold it anymore, and published an open letter written by Jobs himself.

Apologies for the drastic price reduction at iMaga this time.

It also promises to compensate old users who have already bought iMaga and provide them with a voucher worth $100.

In this way, the anger of some fruit fans was calmed down.

But there are also those who have been heartbroken, and more and more fans have turned to believe in the Three-Body God Sect——

Now, I have to buy logicX2.

Because on Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook, KOLs from all walks of life made "rational evaluations" at the same time, like Robert Downey Jr., who endorsed logicX2, and directly matched Iron Man selfies——

"Apple gave you big price cuts and vouchers, not because of their conscience, but because of logic..."

God damn Lu Fei! !

Cook finally couldn't take it anymore, and said on Facebook and Twitter that all of this was Lu Fei's conspiracy. Now many unfavorable comments and rhythms against Apple are all logic and Google.

This is discrediting!

Naked slander!

discredit?

Does Apple still need to be discredited?No more faces!

Without waiting for Lu Fei to end, Larry Page directly tweeted in a strange mood, "Fortunately, the logic is different from Apple's logo, otherwise I bought the wrong mobile phone for my child. After all, they look too similar. 2G and 3G just look at it." can not tell.

Oh, I almost forgot, now you can look at the price, if you don’t understand, just ask, iMaga 299G version at US$8, and logicX399 version 8G at US$2, which one do you think you should buy? "

There is no shortage of happy people in the United States, who are fighting in the comment area.

Google and Apple have completely torn their faces apart.

"Mr. Lu, will this go too far?"

Guo Xing accompanied Lu Fei, wandering around the AuthenTec semiconductor (AuthenTec) laboratory, surrounded by fingerprint recognition sensors being tested everywhere.

"Do you think this looks like Google's vote for us?"

Lu Fei walked out of the gate and walked out along the corridor.

"They are not afraid of what Apple will do if it is stimulated?"

Guo Xing followed closely, frowning.

"Hehe, they can't wait for Apple to do something, because we are the first to bear the brunt, so we have to rely more on Google." Lu Fei narrowed his eyes, "But since they dare to target Apple, they are not afraid of retaliation from Jobs and the others. Hmph, don't think that I I don’t know how many tricks Apple has done to us.”

"Yeah, for all these years of slandering us, and the endless poaching, you have to give Apple a shot!"

Guo Xing pouted.

"These are all tricks, and the key depends on technical ability." Lu Fei stood beside the car, "How many years is it expected to take for fingerprint recognition and unlocking?"

"About two to three years."

Guo Xing said earnestly that Orsontek Semiconductor is a world-class manufacturer of fingerprint sensors. It cooperates with the acquired Swedish company, Precise Biometrics, one for sensor solutions, and the other for software and algorithms. It is definitely one of the best fingerprint recognition and unlocking R&D teams. .

"Have you signed both the confidentiality and non-compete agreements?" Lu Fei asked.

"Signed."

Guo Xing opened the car door, "Mr. Lu, recently I will release some news about our facial recognition unlocking according to the plan during the media interview. It depends on whether the friends and merchants will accept the offer?"

"Whether they accept it or not, when we make it, they will have to accept it. It's just a matter of time."

Lu Fei thumped his chest and got into the car.

Afterwards, Wang Ben drove the bulletproof modified Lincoln Navigator L, and the road went unimpeded without any embarrassment by the police.

Because Buffett gave him a small card of the police union, which is a pass only after donating a certain amount to the police station.

Sir, you don't want to lose your job, do you?

Back at the villa, I went straight to the gym, and saw Zeng Li wearing yoga clothes as usual, doing aerobics, sweating profusely.

The effect is remarkable, and the figure after recovery is uneven.

Especially peaches, plump.

"I'm home?"

Zeng Li let out a breath and stopped moving.

Lu Fei hummed and handed over the towel.

While wiping her sweat, Zeng Li wanted to discuss with him. She was about to return to China to attend the premiere of "Iron Man". Lu Xia was too young to follow. Although Zeng-father and confinement wife were there, the mother was still worried.

"I've thought about it."

"what do you think?"

"I invite my elder brother and sister-in-law to come here."

"what?!"

Zeng Li's pupils widened in surprise.

"As the saying goes, an ugly daughter-in-law still needs to see her parents-in-law, not to mention my elder brother and sister-in-law, who just take advantage of this National Day to let them travel."

Lu Fei took the towel from Zeng Li's hand and wiped the sweat from her forehead: "Don't worry, I've explained everything to them on the phone, and they all know..."

　Thanks to Mingkit Mingda for the 500 starting coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)