Global Monopoly of Technology

North America, a single flagship store in Seattle.

As early as a week and a half ago, a large number of American consumers began to wait in line at the offline single flagship store of the Cote d'Azur in Seattle. This may be the first time that North American mobile phone consumers have purchased a mobile phone from China. Electronics are so crazy.

It was not easy for Côte d'Azur to enter the North American market. There were many twists and turns in the middle, and it was delayed for a whole year, but after unremitting efforts, it finally came in.

Before that, Zhongxing mobile phone has entered the North American market, and now it has gained more than 30 million users in this market, but it is still insignificant compared to the current Cote d'Azur.

There are two sides to everything. Consumers in North America have been hooked for almost a whole year, and the new products are simply unbearable.

The haze of the subprime mortgage crisis cannot stop the enthusiasm of consumers, especially for advanced technology products. As long as they can impress the hearts of European and American consumers, they will not be stingy with the US dollar bills in their hands. The price of six or seven hundred dollars is not cheap. , but it is not to the point where consumption cannot be afforded. Even if the economic crisis comes, the worst situation is about 10% of the unemployed.

Isn't it true that 90% of the people are still unemployed, and the target group is the middle-income group. Luo Sheng's goal is only to hope that winning 1% of the global market share is success.

"I'm going to buy a 16GB model, thanks."

"16GB model, thank you."

"$799, is it cash or credit card?"

"Swipe your card."

At this moment, the popularity of this single-store directly opened in Seattle for the first time is spectacular. There is an endless stream of consumers who come to order, and there is a long queue, which is extremely popular.

As an ordinary consumer, the beautiful industrial design of the Azure series of smart phones of the Côte d'Azur, the revolutionary desktop-level user interface, the rich application store, the bluestar technology family bucket, the Google family bucket, the Yahoo family bucket and other large and small first The third-party developer application has everything.

After buying the product, many users can't wait to enter the AOS application store and download the major APPs of Bluestar Technology Group, whether it is the social networking site BlueSpace, MicroBlog or Reddit, or Google applications, these are all A must-have app for smartphones.

But the biggest beneficiary is undoubtedly the music store MusicSpace,

Now that Apple finally knows the hardware that its opponent relies on, the combination of [MusicSpace+Azure] has launched a dimensionality reduction attack on Apple's [iTunes+iPod] combination.

As Motorola's CEO said, people only take three things with them when they travel: wallets, keys and mobile phones.

This advantage is unmatched by the iPod, and users who own an Azure smartphone have no reason to spend hundreds of dollars extra to buy an iPod, because the music experience of the iPod can be obtained by downloading the music store MusicSpace through the Azure mobile phone, and even has a better music experience than the iPod. a better user experience.

This blow to Apple is self-evident. Cote d'Azur released a new product, the Azure-3G version, after a year, and this year also included the North American market.

In order to salvage the slump, the gang leader Qiao bet on a product that was shelved this time, the tablet computer iPad.

The long-awaited iPhone plan was temporarily shelved by him. The arrogant Joe did not want Apple to become a follower of the Côte d'Azur. He still wanted to be a changer, so he had high hopes for the tablet.

As early as 2000, the iPad was already an extremely important project within Apple. It started as a secret project based on multi-touch screen research and development, and has been carefully protected by Qiao Gangzhu. The coast took the lead.

Two years later, Apple's hardware development department had its first iPad prototype, but plans for the tablet were delayed indefinitely due to the machine's bulk and poor battery performance.

Later, the CEO of Motorola approached Qiao Gang to build a mobile phone together. The result was a fiasco. The iPhone plan began to brew. As a result, the iPhone plan was not negotiated with Luo Sheng because of the licensing problem of multiple technologies such as multi-touch screen. Seriously delayed, while the Côte d'Azur launched its Azure Phone in 2006, the iPhone is now facing the embarrassment of a difficult birth.

The current situation for Apple is very bad, even frustrating. In order to regain its glory, the iPad plan that has been put into the cold palace for five years has been "flopped" again by Qiao Gangzhu.

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The time is getting closer and closer to the end of the year, and the subprime mortgage crisis is still deeply mired in the quagmire. The three major banks, Bank of America, Citibank and Morgan Stanley, agreed to spend at least $75 billion to help the market out of the crisis, and then Bank of America led Citigroup. , Morgan Stanley and Chase raised $80 billion for the super fund.

But even this cannot prevent the overall deterioration of the North American housing market indicators. It is already a bottomless pit. Existing home sales have declined for eight consecutive months in October. The largest single-quarter drop in history.

In mid-November, technology stocks finally couldn't stand it anymore, and began to show a downward trend across the board. The stock of Bluestar Technology Group fell by 3.63% to $137.65 per share. The company's total market value fell below the $200 billion mark. Temporarily locked at $199.58 billion.

However, in the context of the overall decline in the technology sector, the market value of Bluestar Technology is already second only to the first Microsoft, while the third Google's market value has dropped to $171.4 billion.

The winter of capital is coming.

And this is just a cold wind that has just blown over, and a more violent storm is still behind.

Luo Sheng occasionally pays attention to the trend of the general environment, but under the panic in the market, he is not panic at all. Bluestar Technology Group received the third financing fund of 4 billion US dollars from Goldman Sachs earlier. The company's current book value The capital has exceeded 16 billion US dollars. In the next cold winter period when cash is king, Bluestar Technology has sufficient cash flow.

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On the afternoon of November 17, the "Virtual Idol" development department.

"This is a set of intelligent voice software system that I have initially written, but it still needs to be further optimized and upgraded, and the follow-up development will be left to you." At this moment, Luo Sheng called Xu Yong and other members of the technical department for a meeting.

"For Hatsune Miku?" Xu Yong took a look at the file Luo Sheng brought over to the computer.

"Not all, this voice software system is owned by Cote d'Azur, but it is open to Bluestar Technology." Luo Sheng said, although the palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are full of meat, but the brothers still have to settle accounts clearly, and the process must be done well, so as not to avoid There is gossip on Wall Street.

After a while, Luo Sheng added: "The product has a high degree of linkage and complementarity. This software system is actually an intelligent voice housekeeper assistant I developed for the Azure series of mobile phones, and the avatar will be Hatsune Miku."

He Chao said excitedly: "From film and television, music, endorsements, e-sports, etc... Boss, this game of chess is huge."

Even among the superstars among human beings, no one can obtain such huge resources to support, but Hatsune Miku enjoys the promotion resources that make countless stars envy and envy.

With the popularity of "Hatsune Miku" and its linkage with the voice assistant of the Azure series of mobile phones, the dead people have a new reason to change their mobile phones.

A little outbreak, more flowering, this is the advantage of the whole family barrel linkage, this advantage makes other colleagues envy and hate.

The interaction between major products can form a strong ecological closed loop, so that more flowers can be bloomed. It is not expected that a user will immediately like all products of Bluestar Technology or Cote d'Azur, but only one of the products and services can impress users. , then it will naturally expand consumption.

The value mining for potential customers is unparalleled.

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