Chicago 1990

October 17, 2003.

Mariah Carey picked up the OK in her hand! Magazine, the color inside page is a suit photo taken by the little ex-husband for Gucci. The title is'APLUS: the world's hottest golden unmarried man.' History of love.

Mila, Fergie, herself, Shakira, and Amy are in a column with round headshots. On the right side of the name, ex-girlfriends, ex-girlfriends, ex-wife, ex-girlfriends, current girlfriends, etc. are also marked with "titles" and they are really helpful. Female readers analyze and interpret the little ex-husband’s mate choice taste...

"Humph!"

She rolled the magazine into a tube and knocked on the forehead of the little ex-husband lying next to her.

"Hmm..." Song Ya frowned in the dream and continued to fall asleep.

She used her long fingernails to scrape from the base of the man's ear again, gently scraping and scraping until it reached the carotid artery, and the little ex-husband finally woke up.

"Now there are only fifteen people in the world who have more money than you?" she asked.

"It's just an entertaining leaderboard, it doesn't make much sense."

When his mind recovered sober, Song Ya answered casually, got up immediately after checking the time, and hurriedly walked into the bathroom.

"Bah! Pretending to be!"

Mariah Carey sipped at his back and asked loudly, "I'm still running the press conference today? Wouldn't it be alright to let your hands go?"

"The richest man insists on showing up and carrying goods in person. There is nothing I can't go to."

Today is the big day when the second generation Beats Walkman and Beats Music Store are released, so Song Ya will come to New York.

This war with Apple cannot be won quickly, but it must be played beautifully!

Hearing the sound of water in the bathroom, Mariah Carey also went downstairs to direct the servant to arrange breakfast.

‘Madonna and Britney are on the same stage again after the kiss of the century...’

The former couple and their son Rega’s family of three watched TV while eating breakfast, "Bi Chi." Seeing Madonna dancing on stage with Britney, Mariah Carey became jealous.

"Don't talk dirty." Song Ya stared at her.

With my son present, my ex-wife has no reason to do it this time, so she continued to watch TV in silence.

They are all dying, but the ex-wife’s rate of dying is obviously faster than Madonna. The veteran DIVA, who has been up and down for many years, is too smart. The anti-war album "Life in the United States" launched earlier this year was disgusted by all American society. After the mainstream media was half blocked, she I don’t know how to hook up with the most popular D Britney. The two old and new DIVAs suddenly kissed the women on the stage during the live performance of the AMV awards ceremony held on the Taiwan a few months ago. They detonated public opinion and broke the game again. .

The key point is that Madonna and Britney belong to different companies, which is indeed a bit powerful.

"Hey! Britney has grown up and is about to transform."

Mariah Carey may have thought of herself as she watched Britney's more and more exposed costumes, and she couldn't help but sigh: "I hope she can successfully take over the **** queen from Madonna, it's more pleasing to the eye anyway."

Song Ya disagrees with his ex-wife’s thoughts. Britney does need transformation urgently, and Madonna desperately needs heat, but this seemingly win-win joint hype has the most fatal problem. Britney’s traditional rice-style silly white sweetness is not enough. IQ and Madonna play this game.

But regardless of her, it has nothing to do with her anyway, Song Ya didn't bother to watch the gossip news, picked up the remote control and switched to the channel.

‘Madam Prosecutor! Prosecutor Alicia! ’

Today is also the day when the R Kelly case is in court again. Alicia, who has a delicate maroon haircut, is very confident in front of the camera. The outfits with gray and white pure color elements on her body are also full of serious, capable, conservative and simple temperament. .

She was surrounded by Cook County prosecutors and walked up the steps of the court. Then she turned her head back with a smile and gave a thumbs up to the reporters who kept shouting and pressing the shutter.

But without accepting the interview, she could not win today's lawsuit.

Song Ya frowned. According to her promise, she communicated with Alicia after returning to Chicago. She didn't seem to know the existence of the videotapes in the mouths of Gordon and Jesse Jackson...

Although this is better, it stands to reason that with Jesse Jackson's resources, intelligence will not make an oolong of this level. Those videotapes of R Kelly should have fallen into the hands of the Cook County prosecutor.

"I'm done, Daddy and Mommy."

Instead, the child was the most attentive. Rega was the first to finish eating, and then obediently put his hands on his lap.

"Well, let's go play." The ex-wife is more reliable in educating children, touching her son's head gently and said.

Song Ya also nodded to his son's hopeful eyes.

After getting permission from his parents, little Leijia got up and ran away without a trace.

"I have to go too."

Yesterday Steve Jobs just released a new Windows version of iTunes. Because iTunes uses the software mode, interface and operation methods are basically the same as the MacOS version, users can seamlessly switch.

But the shortcomings of iTunes is not much improved, and the Windows version seems to be more BUG...

Apple continues to give opportunities, so today’s Beats conference cannot be missed. It has been half a year since the third-generation iPod has been on the market.

Because of the need to demonstrate the use of the beats music store throughout, the time-consuming and copywriting of this conference was very long. Song Ya hurried to the conference site in Times Square in the morning, and continued rehearsal and other preparations with the meticulous help of Beats staff. Work.

"You are very good, BOSS, have you considered participating in website programming?"

As the press conference approached in the afternoon, Sean Fanning, head of the beats music store project, increasingly felt that the big boss had an innate ability to understand the use of new features on the website, and that any complicated function could be quickly used after his own guidance, and The random suggestions for amendments are also very imaginative.

The most rare thing is that after thinking about these suggestions, it seems that it is not difficult to implement with existing technology. This makes him suspect that the big boss actually understands some programming languages, especially JavaScript related technologies on the web front end.

"vomit……"

Unexpectedly, the flattering slapped the horse's leg, the big boss immediately covered his chest when he heard these words, and made a nauseous sound in discomfort.

"Ha! APLUS!"

Fortunately, at this time, Jeffrey Hawkins, Donna Dubinski and other company executives arrived, and the beautiful supermodel spokesperson Adriana Lima.

"Today's press conference is over an hour long, can you stand it?" Jeffrey Hawkins affectionately pressed Song Ya's shoulder and joked.

"It's just a half-time concert. You don't need to sing and dance." Song Ya, who was sitting in front of the computer, shook hands and laughed with everyone.

"I'm going to change clothes first." Lima also kissed him on the cheek.

"Well, go ahead."

Song Ya pinched her youthful face full of collagen, "How about the patent litigation?" He asked Jeffrey Hawkins and others.

"Can't trouble us! Blackberry parent company RIM is also being sued, and Apple's patent pool does not interfere with us much..." Jeffrey Hawkins replied confidently.

"Apple will release new products in January next year, which may have a greater impact on us." Donna Dubinski said: "Jobs's refutation of physical conditions also restored everyone's confidence in Apple."

"That is not something we can grasp." Song Ya replied.

The time left for the leading performance of the second largest Beats Walkman may only be more than two months. Consumer electronics will ultimately rely on product strength. Of course, publicity is also very important.

Times Square’s electronic screen advertisements are already in the countdown to the launch of new Beats products. In less than twenty-four hours, ten direct-operated chain stores in Beimi will also open at the same time tomorrow morning.

Everything was ready, Song Ya took a deep breath and stepped onto the stage of the press conference that was already full of audiences.

The technology house is good for this point. No matter whether it is a billionaire or the world's richest man who came to the stage to bring goods, they will not be like the various types of snobs that Song Ya encountered in Hollywood and Wall Street during this period of time. , Opened his eyes wholeheartedly, excited and eagerly awaiting the appearance of another new technology product.

Of course Jobs was also watching TV.

"Adriana will show us again!"

Jobs didn't care about the various boasts and performance indicators in front of APLUS, until last year, supermodel Lima brought the second-generation Beats walkman to the stage, and he focused his attention.

Lima is still in cool hot pants and sneakers. This time he didn't wear a T-shirt with small pockets, but a tight elastic vest, as if there was no place to put things.

But she wore the headphones, and as Jiao Qiao turned around, the headphone cord stretched into the back pocket of the hot pants that were particularly warped.

APLUS grinned and pinched the headphone cable, and finally pulled out the black second-generation Beats amidst the whistles and cheers of the audience.

Jobs saw the big screen on the front without buttons and tightened his facial muscles.

There are still buttons. They are still in their old positions. Song Ya presses it on the side, and the large blue backlit screen lights up.

"Most of the functions of selecting and cutting songs, we can do this...this way..."

APLUS changed to a more magnetic voice, slowly speaking while demonstrating. As his finger pressed the soft button on the large screen, the second-generation Beats interface cut to the next song in response.

The live audio also switches accordingly.

This is true touch screen!

The Tero series of mobile phones has delegated its touch screen features to the Walkman products of the same company!

The knowledgeable audience members stood up and went into madness.

it turns out……

Relying on the mastery of the supply chain, Jobs has been mentally prepared for the performance parameters of this competing product, such as hard disk size, sound quality and other parameters, but this screen...should be an order from the mobile phone department of Palm, the parent company of Beats.

Although the screen quality is not high, it is definitely a luxury to use on the Walkman.

I thought it would still be used on mobile phones...

Careless.

He began to have targeted discussions with his men while watching the press conference.

"Thank you, thank you Andrea."

At the press conference, Song Ya has watched Lima step off the stage on a light catwalk. He put the rectangular, exquisite and compact Walkman on the display stand next to Lanof’s computer, then connected it with a USB cable, opened the chair and sat down. , Began to cooperate with the music store to display a brand-new operation interface and functions.

"Let's log in first..."

The music store is based on the IE browser, but because it needs to meet the copyright compliance requirements such as encryption level, it is still necessary to download a background package first.

"Then click on the software download, here is a Beats music store kit..."

The big screen at the scene is synchronizing his operations on the computer.

"Then we can click to open the music store and log in. If you don't have a Beats account, please register first..."

Song Ya continued to demonstrate, very skilled.

"OK, let's open the music store interface now."

The browser interface on the big screen seems to dream of Napster, but it is specious. This can very much please the geek group in the tech house, and some people stand up and applaud.

The lively atmosphere put great pressure on everyone at Apple, especially the executives in charge of the iTunes project. Napster was originally the easiest to use in the early download software, although it took a crooked path.

"BMG Records bought the Napster website, they won't like this, contact them." Jobs ordered.

"We can search by keywords, such as rhythm and blues..."

Song Ya began to display the search box again, supported by the powerful Goto engine. The search results came out quickly, and the songs were arranged alphabetically.

"Rhythm and Blues, Space, APLUS." Song Ya added his stage name at the end.

A list of one's own songs is presented on the big screen, as long as it contains rhythm and blues style, the previous American music website has already prepared a classification database.

The audience laughed.

"Or just enter APLUS."

A list of all your songs is displayed on the big screen, arranged in alphabetical order.

"Or use APLUS to add 26."

He continued to input, and the CD cover of the 26 albums appeared with detailed album playlist, album introduction, artist introduction and other content.

"Anyway, you can use the tags you know to combine at will."

Song Ya casually clicked on the song SaveYourTears, with a row of concise buttons for buying, downloading, viewing ratings, and sharing in the middle of the song name and lyrics.

After demonstrating step by step how to use online payment tools such as PayPal to pay for purchases and download them to the Walkman, Song Ya got up and picked up the Walkman. The songs have been successfully downloaded to the hard drive and can be easily found and played smoothly.

‘Crowded, I saw you dancing...’

SaveYourTears of APLUS sounded at the scene.

This is much easier to use than its own iTunes music store, and it is more in line with the user's intuition. Jobs held up his hand solemnly and touched his chin.

"We can even go to the music community on the Beats website to check more before buying, such as ratings and comments from other fans..."

Song Ya sat down again and focused on showing some social functions. The new browser page that popped up went to the rating community of the original Amerika music website. The rating system was pioneered by XXL magazine. As usual, S stands for the worst and XXL stands for the best... …

A large number of users of the American music website have created a wealth of songs, albums, and artist reviews over the years, and they are now all available.

"Who owns the full music website now? Universal? Sony Columbia?" Jobs asked.

"It seems that the two are jointly owned, let me ask." The subordinate quickly picked up his mobile phone and went to make a call.

"You can even share your song reviews and playlists with..."

‘Dang! ’

At this time, there was an accident. Perhaps the IE browser window was opened too much, and the operating system suddenly popped up an error message box.

Song Ya turned it off and clicked again.

‘Dang! ’

‘Dang! ’‘Dang! ’‘Dang Dang Dang Dang! Dangdang! ’

The more and more error boxes were reported, Song Ya looked at the red cross on the screen, hurriedly sweating on his forehead, and cursed Microsoft and the richest man in his heart.

For the sake of insurance, be careful and careful, the new Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition from Microsoft was specially selected today.

‘Dang! ’

Okay! Blue screen!

The technical support staff can't care about the effect of the program, and rushed to help the big boss repair it. In fact, all they can do is hard restart...

Song Ya lip-shaped the words starting with F, and got up with a wry smile and got out of the way.

Seeing that this was almost the end, Jobs walked back to his office solemnly.

"Hahaha!"

Microsoft's repertoire was released, and the audience laughed kindly.

"Hahaha!"

At the same time in Chicago, Will Gardner and other members of the Dream Lawyers, Jesse Jackson and other celebrities who accompanied the court have laughed happily and surrounded R Kelly, who was acquitted by the jury, out of the court, "Sorry, sorry...please Let's let."

Countless reporters rushed up to ask questions, but they didn't answer at all.

"thanks, thanks……"

R Kelly himself choked to thank all the way, and shook hands with the reporters over the shoulders of the bodyguard and attache.

The reporters had to go to Alicia again.

"Today is a sad day for all women, and the Cook County prosecutors are very disappointed with the results of the trial..."

Alicia's expression was frustrated, angry, and strong, and she began to make long talks in front of countless shots and flashing lights.

"This bitch!"

R Kelly, who had been in the car, stared at her and cursed.

"Politicians need to perform like this. Let's go and drive." Jesse Jackson had seen him a lot and didn't care at all. "When you go home, call APLUS and thank you."

"I know……"

In fact, Alicia’s speech really didn’t have much performance in nature. She really wanted to say that R Kelly was sent to jail. There was a criminal with that kind of habit. Today, he got away easily, and she will definitely not be able to help it in the future, and she will be punished. It is likely to get worse.

It also means that there will be more female victims. She would rather suffer some losses in her personal career and bring R Kelly to justice.

"what is this?"

Leaving the public eye, she returned to her Cook County State Attorney's Office lonely, and found that somebody had placed a large cardboard box on the table with some black video tapes inside.

Suspiciously, she went out to observe the busy colleagues, then came back and picked up a cassette and stuffed it into the video recorder.

"Damn it!"

It turned out to be R Kelly's new crime video! If you get these earlier...

She was furious.

"Peter wants to see you." Public relations consultant Eli walked in quietly.

"Peter did it?" she demanded.

"Ask him yourself..."

"Alicia, I'm sorry, but I made people hold those."

She rushed to the prison immediately, and Peter began to answer questions.

"You...you are now a prisoner in a prison uniform, why? Do you still want to play the underground emperor of the Cook County prosecutor? Peter, don't interfere with my work!"

Alicia warned her ex-husband angrily, "You did this..." lowered her voice, "You are still committing a crime! I can give you an additional penalty package! Damn it, if there are these videotapes, I won't necessarily lose this battle today! "

"But with those, the probability of winning is not high, the risk is too high Alicia."

Peter stretched out his hand.

Alicia retracted her hand to prevent him from holding it, "Submitting new evidence will at least postpone the trial and give my prosecutor more time..."

"You can't delay any longer and continue to fight. You will never be re-elected without a black vote." Peter said calmly.

"At least it's better than now. We lost miserably today. Instead, R Kelly will reap widespread sympathy." Alicia couldn't accept it and shook her head.

"So I have people buckle the tape until now before giving it to you."

Peter said: "Yes, the faster and easier R Kelly won, the more people would sympathize with him, and the black community would be more inclined to believe that he was persecuted."

"That……"

"But have you ever thought about continuing to fight R Kelly and his dream lawyer team for a long time, as long as you can't win, your role in this case is infinitely similar to the female prosecutor Clark in the Simpson case? Since the TV station is no longer allowed to broadcast the trial, you will not even be as good as Clark. After she loses the lawsuit, she can make money by publishing books based on the popularity she earned in the Simpson case. Now, is there a publishing house looking for you? No? The social influence of R Kelly is far behind the Simpson case, but what about your re-election? It will die together?"

Peter has a long-term focus~www.NovelMTL.com~ Since there is no way to win, the better solution is to simply make R Kelly the perfect victim. "

"Haha, perfect victim, R Kelly? Is he worthy of the word?" Alicia sneered with her chest. "It's disgusting."

"The public psychology is like this. When there is a perfect victim, people will give unlimited sympathy, but... But once things are suddenly reversed, people will become even more angry because of being deceived, and then turn to sympathize with what they thought. The opponent of the perfect victim."

Peter's old-school movie star's face then winked at his ex-wife playfully, "That's you."

"So... those videotapes?" Alicia felt a little bit enlightened.

"Yes, Eli will help you release them regularly, and the media will like it."

Peter leaned back in the chair and pointed to his ex-wife, "And this! This is your real political opportunity!"

(End of this chapter)