Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 591 here, here

At ten o'clock sharp, Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference officially begins.

Gang Leader Qiao walked onto the stage under the watchful eyes of all the guests. Like previous press conferences, he did not make too many pleasantries, but went straight to the topic.

At this time, reporters from all over the world opened their laptops and voice recorders and recorded in real time.

These days, live video broadcasts can only be enjoyed by TV stations, and ordinary media reporters can only do simultaneous graphic and text live broadcasts, but this does not hinder everyone's enthusiasm for reporting.

After all, there are countless people around the world watching this press conference in front of their computers at the moment. It is very satisfying to see the live broadcast of pictures and texts.

As Gang Leader Qiao explained, real-time messages were released one after another.

At the beginning, Qiao Gangzhu on the stage repeated the old tune, talking about Apple's three main business units, Mac, music and iTunes.

Then he introduced the updates of various software in the past year and the cooperation with other large companies.

Immediately afterwards, Gang Leader Qiao began to introduce the issues that developers are most concerned about, especially after Apple opened the SDK program in the past three months, there were more than 95 downloads in 25 days.

More than 25000 people around the world paid for this program, but only 4000 were reviewed and allowed to use the SDK program for application development.

With the SDK program, programmers can easily develop exclusive websites or apps for iPhone.

Next, Apple will relax the scope of review and allow more software companies and independent programmers to join the development team.

I have to say that this move is really powerful. It can be said to have created a new business model for program development cooperation.

To sum it up in one sentence: We at Apple don’t have enough programmers. IT practitioners from all over the world should come and work for me for free.

In order to attract IT elites from all over the world to join, Gang Leader Qiao immediately invited several heavyweight guests to help introduce several applications developed for the iPhone.

The first person to take the stage was Ken Sun, eBay's technical director, who introduced the exclusive website developed by eBay for the iPhone.

Later, Travis Boatman of EA and Ethan Einhorn of SEGA, as representatives of well-known game manufacturers, took the stage to demonstrate their works: "Spore" and "Super Monkey Ball" respectively.

These two products have their similarities: they are also games ported from other platforms, and they also make full use of the iPhone's gravity sensing, touch screen control and other features.

Although dogs will no longer play with them more than ten years later, it has a unique meaning at this moment.

Because it proves one thing: Even if you don’t know complicated programming, even if you don’t have much time, you can easily make a decent work.

And if developers carefully carve it out, they are likely to create miracles.

This is undoubtedly the best advertisement for Apple at this time, because the advertisement is not only for users, but also more attractive for developers.

Countless programmers became excited after reading it, wishing they could develop a super powerful application or a best-selling game.

If you can really achieve your wish, you might be able to become financially free in an instant.

It has to be said that Gang Leader Qiao’s move really created a big pie. The key is that this pie is delicious for both IT companies and independent programmers.

At this conference, a total of 10 games were displayed, and developers of 4 products were invited to give their own opinions.

In addition to EA, SEGA and Ubisoft, Rovio is also one of them.

Peter Westbacka, the founder of Rovio, slowly walked onto the stage. What he demonstrated was the iPhone 3G ported version of the "Flappy Bird" game.

Ma Liang didn't expect this to be true. He turned and looked at Jennifer on his right.

"Dear BOSS, are you surprised? This is all my fault!" Jennifer showed off proudly.

Previously, she had a relationship with Apple because of Twitter's financing, and she successfully persuaded Boss Qiao to let Rovio become one of the protagonists of the live display.

He didn't tell Ma Liang in advance just to give him a surprise.

You must know that in the early days of Twitter's life-changing plan, the game "Flappy Bird" played the most important role.

Even without the user base established by the "Flappy Bird" game, there would not have been a full-scale explosion of "Farm Farm" on Twitter.

After all, the simpler the game, the more popular it is. “Flappy Bird” really made a great contribution to attracting traffic to Twitter in the early days.

No one can erase Rovio's contribution to Twitter, not even the Big Four.

It's just that the vitality of the game "Flappy Bird" is not that strong, and it quickly became outdated.

This made Ma Liang unable to use Rovio as a stock-for-share M&A article, but could only focus on Zynga.

When he was asked to invest in Rovio, the game company was only average in size and strength.

Even if a lot of game planning is given in advance, Peter Westbacka may not be able to develop it as scheduled.

In order not to delay Twitter's life-changing plan, Ma Liang could only leave "Farm" and "Plants vs. Zombies" to Zynga, the most reliable company at the time, for execution.

There is nothing we can do about this, time waits for no one.

Fortunately, everything went well. Twitter finally rose to prominence under his various arrangements, while Rovio was temporarily forgotten by Ma Liang.

Because "Angry Birds" is still under development, it will be difficult to launch it even if it is developed.

After all, no matter how powerful the iPhone 3G is, it can't play this game. It has to wait until the iPhone 3GS released next year to run it smoothly.

The spring of mobile gaming will not truly begin until the iPhone 2010 is released in 4. So Ma Liang never imagined that Jennifer would secretly play such a trick behind his back, which really made him dumbfounded.

"It's getting more and more ridiculous. It's not a good thing for Rovio to be exposed now."

Ma Liang is also worried that the Big Four of Twitter will be alert. After all, his stock exchange and merger plan still needs to be carried out step by step, secretly and secretly.

"BOSS, don't worry, we have plenty of ways to deal with Big Ivan and the others."

As an insider, Jennifer certainly knew what her boss was worried about, so she quickly reassured him.

As a Wall Street elite, she is now involved in the layout of many life-changing plans. With the support of various resources and connections, she is very confident in following the Big Four of Twitter.

Ma Liang could only shake his head and give up. He was getting more and more headaches about this CEO.

"Don't mess around anymore!"

There is no way, the boss is not that easy, the more capable the subordinates are, the more they have to be coaxed to work.

What's more, the corresponding authority was given to Jennifer by him before, just to enable her to carry out her work better. He couldn't go back on his word and take it back.

If you really do this, you will have to make Jennifer angry, and the loss will be huge. Ma Liang still expects her to help him make a lot of money.

"Hehe, boss, don't worry, I know what I can do and what I can't do!"

Jennifer hurriedly leaned over and gave him a flattering look to show weakness, but in fact she didn't take Ma Liang's words to heart at all.

But such an intimate move immediately made Jiang Yinqiu, who was sitting on the left, furious.

Seeing that the two of them were flirting in front of her, even a woman couldn't bear it. She was so angry that she reached out and pinched her sweetheart's waist hard on the spot.

This pinch was so painful that Ma Liang almost yelled out.

But when he turned around and saw Sister Jiang's expression filled with hatred, he suppressed his shouts.

If it weren't for the inconvenience of speaking now, Ma Liang would have given up and begged for mercy on the spot: He was really unjust, and it was all because Jennifer, a prodigal girl, wanted to do whatever she wanted...

While the two were having fun, Gang Leader Qiao returned to the stage.

In the next half hour, the PPT finally showed off Apple's most powerful move today - the App Store.

It has to be said that as soon as this big move was released, countless IT companies who were paying attention to this conference were like hungry wolves smelling blood, and they were so excited that they could hardly sit still.

The launch of the App Store means that the piracy problem that has caused headaches for countless software companies will be completely solved.

This is not only a service that can benefit many parties, but also a platform that allows software companies to directly make profits.

As the saying goes, building a nest will attract the phoenix, and the App Store is equivalent to having already built the phoenix's nest.

Just wait for IT companies around the world to rise up one after another and work together to make the cake of smartphone applications bigger and stronger.

Before everyone had recovered from the shock of the App Store, the press conference finally came to the highlight.

Because Gang Leader Qiao was slowly introducing the product that attracted the most attention at this conference, the iPhone 3G.

Thinner body, newly upgraded configuration, metal buttons, 3.5-inch touch screen...

Every product detail and function introduction attracted the attention of everyone present.

Journalists, in particular, kept taking photos and records, and published first-hand news as quickly as possible.

After all the product information of iPhone 3G was introduced using PPT, the audience burst into thunderous applause.

The applause is given to Gang Leader Qiao sincerely, as a way to pay tribute to this great product master.

At this time, the Apple Developer Conference is coming to an end. There is no need to guess at the last step. An iPhone 3G will definitely be brought out for a real-life demonstration.

Sure enough, as everyone expected, Jobs took the prototype from his assistant.

He slowly walked back to the center of the stage, briefly showed the iPhone 3G to the audience, and then quickly walked to the demonstration stage on the left side of the stage.

Because there is a high-definition camera facing the demonstration stage for real-time shooting, the picture of Gang Leader Qiao controlling the iPhone 3G touch screen can be displayed simultaneously on the big screen of the stage.

As a result, under the demonstration of Gang Leader Qiao, all the guests witnessed the trial process of iPhone 3G.

Surfing the Internet, listening to music, watching videos, playing games, etc., everything is so smooth.

Just when everyone was looking forward to what else would be demonstrated, Jack Dorsey, who was sitting on Sister Jiang’s left hand side, suddenly couldn’t help but shout in a low voice.

"I'm coming"

His shout instantly confused Ma Liang and others.

"What's coming?"

Even Jiang Yinqiu was curious now and asked subconsciously.

Jack Dorsey didn't even look back, he just stared straight at Gang Leader Qiao on the stage and murmured back:

"Here we go, our ultimate move is finally here!"

(End of this chapter)