Chapter 889 (1/2)

Chen Qing and her daughter left for China the next morning, and Simon stayed in New York.

During the new year, I'm not in North America. I've accumulated a lot of business here, and I'm not expected to finish it until next week.

The first is the IPO roadshow of tincobail.

With the final details finalized, the roadshow was officially launched the next day, that is, on Wednesday, January 24. The first roadshow was held at the Rockefeller Center in midtown New York.

Just here, Simon took time to attend that afternoon.

Founded in 1991 and launched the first icam-10 digital camera in that year, tincobail has grown up like other miraculous enterprises in the westero system. In just five years, it has become an undisputed giant in the electronics industry.

Even if many people in the industry find that the success of tincobail is closely related to the layout of westrow system in the new technology field, and even the supplement of its core Internet business, the dazzling achievements of this consumer electronics company in recent years are not at all watery.

Take 1995 as an example.

Icam-50, the latest digital camera product released this year, is still popular, but iplayer-10, the digital music player product, is the most dazzling.

In 1995, the annual shipment of ticobair's ICAM series was 21.37 million units. Due to the great success of the mechanical hard disk version of digital cameras, the market share of ticobair's digital camera products did not decline because of the competition of other established electronic manufacturers, but rebounded from 53% in 1994 to 61% in 1995.

The success of ICAM is still expected, and the iPlayer digital music player is completely out of the blue.

Iplayer-10 was released during Easter last year. From mid April to the end of 1995, this digital music player still sold 3.03 million units in eight and a half months with limited production capacity.

It took five years for the ICAM series to break through 20 million sales, but only one year for the iplayer-10.

I was shocked.

The successful cases of iPlayer digital music player are studied, and the results are very simple.

It came into being.

First of all, the hardware, software and network environment around this product has been quite perfect in North America.

An important reason for the popularity of iPlayer is actually piracy.

Before the release of iPlayer, pirated music websites began to appear because of the rapid popularity of the Internet in North America.

When iPlayer came into the market, we found that this portable music player not only can easily hold hundreds of music, but also can download almost any music that everyone can think of from the Internet for free with a little crack, whether it's popular single or underground music.

This is an artifact!

So in 1995, iplayer-10 was the most dazzling star electronic product of the year.

Of course, it's also full of controversy.

In just one year, tens of thousands of pirated music sharing websites appeared on the Internet. According to preliminary statistics, because of the rapid proliferation of piracy, the global record sales plummeted by 23% in 1995. Even if they didn't buy iPlayer players, many people began to download more free music on the Internet instead of paying for records.

This demand, at the same time, also promoted the rapid development of Google search engine of igritte, and the effect is no less than that of the adult website which has quietly become popular.

Feeling the crisis, the major record giants began to find ways to crack down on piracy, and tried to kill iPlayer, but in vain.

One of the biggest victims of music piracy, Sony, which owns Columbia Records, has created a ”case law” in North America where similar products are unlikely to win a lawsuit.

When Sony's video recorder was released, it was sued by Disney and other Hollywood giants for fear that illegal recording would lead to rampant piracy. The lawsuit has been tangled for many years. Finally, the Supreme Court of the United States declared that Disney and other Hollywood giants lost the lawsuit on the ground that they could not stifle technological progress on the ground of copyright protection, and the video recorder was well-known and popular.

IPlayer player is the same as video recorder.

At present, the video industry in the United States has brought the output value of blockbusters no less than that of cinemas. Therefore, in the past year, in the face of public opinion pressure from a number of record giants, tincobail also repeatedly refuted the case of video recorders, and criticized that the major record giants were unwilling to follow the technological progress in order to stick to their own interests in the field of traditional records, and constantly called on the major record companies to open their copyright resources to the broadcast platform, so as to achieve a win-win situation.

In addition to these disputes, iPlayer has once again promoted the development of the U.S. Internet cafe industry that Simon personally promoted.

Although the Internet penetration rate of the United States at this stage has far exceeded that of other countries in the world, there are still many people who can't connect to the Internet after all. These people choose to buy iPlayer players. In addition to using the computers of their relatives and friends, another choice is to go to the Internet cafes to choose and download their favorite music.And.

Iplayer-10 was also a favorite target for robbers in 1995.

Because this music player can not only be used for its own use, but also, due to the lack of production capacity at the initial stage of the product release, the supply exceeds the demand. The robbers can grab the iPlayer and even sell it at a higher price than the new product in the second-hand market.

As a result, not only the passers-by wearing the iPlayer player became the most vulnerable target, but even the electronic stores selling the product were not spared. In the past year, there were many cases of iPlayer shelves being robbed by a large group of thugs. In the second half of last year, San Francisco police cracked an attempt to rob the iPlayer player warehouse in Palo Alto Cases.

IPlayer players are mainly produced in China.

However, after the player is assembled, it has to be shipped back to San Francisco for further distribution. At this stage, the market is mainly in the United States.

At that time, when the robbers were about to launch an operation, there were more than 1.2 million iPlayer players in the warehouse in Palo Alto, San Francisco, with a value of nearly 600 million US dollars. The robbers even prepared a 10000 ton freighter in the San Francisco Bay to take charge of the operation, and planned to transport them to Mexico first after they got it.

Of course, it didn't work.

After the disclosure, it caused a sensation. It felt like an unfinished Hollywood blockbuster. After that, some people really began to plan movies with related themes.

People are like this. The more difficult it is to get, the more curious and yearning it will be.

In fact, tincobaier is deliberately in short supply for one year. In fact, two months after the release of this player, the production capacity will be enough to meet the market demand.

However, due to the popularity caused by various events, like the case of selling kidneys for Apple mobile phones in the original space-time, many Americans, especially teenagers, are trying to get an iplayer-10 player that is very cool, showy and practical in everyone's eyes.