Chapter 1470

April 28, 2003.

The noisy footsteps gradually disappeared, and there was only a small tail left in the queue at the door. The cleaners were about to enter and pick up the empty mineral water bottles, paper documents and souvenir bags left by some careless people by the leg of the chair. The staff who maintained the order of the venue stopped them, made a place to mutter, and then looked at the rostrum together.

"Thanks, aplus."

"You're welcome."

"See you next year..."

There was only one person sitting in the middle of the front podium of the logo of 3dfx company. He was dealing with the last group of representatives who took the opportunity to ask for signatures, brushed a few signatures, then raised his head and smiled at each other and held out his hand, "of course, see you next year."

"Can you take a picture?" the other party took the signed paper.

"I've taken a photo just now..."

"We'll..."

"Sorry, sir, it's getting late." the bodyguard next to him opened his arms and asked you to leave.

"OK, OK, we support you aplus! Hey..."

The white representative in his thirties did not bother any more. He trotted away happily, and his figure soon disappeared from the meeting.

"Hoo..."

Song Ya was really tired. After the five hour shareholders' meeting, he took a group photo and signed his name. He tossed about for a long time.

He took a long breath, relaxed, looked at the empty venue, and then closed his eyes for the time being.

"Mr. chairman, Mr. Carmack of idsoftware is waiting for you to call back."

CEO ASA noticed that he wasn't napping, so he came over and whispered, "he's very angry."

"Oh, good."

It's strange not to be angry. At the shareholders' meeting just now, he successfully removed a director of his family in 3dfx, "let's go too. Everyone is here in the evening."

Songya doesn't plan to call back immediately. Today, he prepared a salon dinner at his mansion in palaotu. Senior executives of 3dfx department and companies participating in beats project will come.

"Your demeanor at the meeting is heartbreaking, Mr. chairman."

On the way back to palaotu from San Jose, where 3dfx is located, ASA, who is on the same bus, complimented him with 99% sincerity. Such a young and charismatic chairman of the chip industry, he can also cross examine the shareholders' meeting without leakage and freely. Even in Silicon Valley, where smart brains are gathered, he can sling the vast majority of his peers.

Those who know technology are not as good-looking as him, those who look good are not as attractive as him, those who are attractive are not as high as his wrist, and those with high wrist are not as strong as his expression ability. All of the above jobs are not as rich as him

"Really?"

Song Ya has been busy with beats music store during this period. He is preparing for today's shareholders' meeting and has done a lot of homework in advance. ASA has affirmed his labor achievements, which is very useful.

"Of course, just now..."

ASA continued to compliment, but Songya turned to the muffler, "do you know where the apple store is here?"

After years of cooperation, the muffler nodded and deviated from the route and went around the nearest Apple store.

Today is also the day when Apple released the third-generation iPod. The rush buying team outside the store has long been lined up. When the customers came out, some had already held the small and beautiful third-generation iPod in their hands and began to enjoy music with headphones, while others held the product box in their face and used the store as the background to ask friends to take photos.

Songya stared at the scene, and his voice made a drag to express his negative emotions.

Although there are few users in Apple's iTunes music store because it does not support windows, Apple has its own exclusive store. Users can ask the clerk for help and download the genuine songs on iTunes to their iPod

This may not be the most correct way. Even if beats music store supports windows first in the future, it is easier to get started than iTunes. However, for ordinary American users who use electronic products more foolishly, the better, there is no operating system supported by the music store. Downloading songs on the computer itself is a trouble! It's better to go to a physical store and ask the clerk for help to save trouble and effort!

Beats, which does not have an independent store, has an absolute disadvantage in this regard. Although Wal Mart, best buy and other chain stores have softened and set up a separate display space for best, they want to make those super store clerks achieve the same level of service quality as Apple stores

Songya is observing his competitors. He closes his mouth and doesn't bother him anymore. ASA is also observing him.

Assa remembered the wonderful exercise of power by his board of directors today. He had been deliberately released to the outside world to take this opportunity to get rid of the illusion of the board seat of the second largest individual shareholder. Then, taking advantage of the panic of the second largest individual shareholder, he showed his cards to the other party who was desperately trying to protect himself before the shareholders' meeting, Let the second largest individual shareholder cooperate with him to become the director of idsoftware.

Before the loose alliance of Microsoft, EA and idsoftware, they were not aware of the danger. They were all watching the jokes of the second largest individual shareholder and ignored the other party's request for help. When the second largest individual shareholder was desperate and found a life-saving straw to soften his seat, the director representative of idsoftware finally realized that the real goal was himself. At this time, do you want to go back and win enough support?

Unfortunately, it's too late.

ASA wanted to laugh when he recalled the angry expression of the director representative of idsoftware today and the roar of idsoftware founder Carmack on the phone.

"Let's go."

Song Ya Na knows ASA's inner activities. The more lively the apple store is, the more unhappy he is.

When the party returned to palaotu, ASA was first seen by the long legged supermodel who was wiping his hair with a bath towel from the side of the swimming pool. Dong Zuo's female friends changed people. He also knew Adriana Lima, the print spokesman of beats Walkman, and posters can be seen all over the United States.

“Hey。”

Lima immediately trotted over when she saw the man coming back, wearing only a three-point bikini. Her perfect and hot body was still wet.

"Well."

Song ya, who was surrounded by her neck, hugged her with one hand and generously enjoyed the warm French kiss.

ASA turned a blind eye and walked straight into the mansion.

"It just needs to be like this..."

Familiar faces related to beats, such as Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, were already in the hall. Everyone stared at Steve Jobs in the TV. When Steve Jobs gently touched the button on the concise, beautiful and exquisite white third-generation iPod with his finger belly, and the screen backlight lit up, the audience immediately cheered excitedly.

"So..." jobs would rotate his finger belly in the lower annular area, and the function menu of the third generation iPod would also switch.

"Touching?" Songya had left Lima outside and walked behind the crowd.

"Yes, Apple has eliminated mechanical buttons on this generation of iPod. It's not a big technology."

Jeff Hawkins brushed his lips in disdain. He didn't know how many years ago he began to play these technologies. The treo270 mobile phone in Songya's pocket even used the touch screen.

But Jobs was able to create a magical display effect at the conference site, like an electronic magazine editor Tucao: "when Jobs said that IMAC needed only one thousand and eight hundred knives, I was so excited that I make complaints about applause and whistle with everyone. But when I got home and cooled down, I found that the desktop desktop with the similar performance was only nine hundred knives. Then why do I have to buy another IMAC? "

In his pocket, because Jeff Hawkins thought that the touch screen was prone to dust and wear based on the engineer's thinking, he added a transparent flip to the user, resulting in a serious drag on his appearance. Songya looked at the beautiful third-generation iPod on the TV, and his mood fluctuated again.

How can we do well in this way? Consumer electronics! He thought so.

"It can support up to 20g hard disk..." jobs began to preach that the iPod occupies an absolutely leading advantage in terms of capacity.

"Oh no!"

Jeff Hawkins and others lamented in unison that it is still an old problem. American users simply don't like the troublesome "complex" operations such as deleting and changing songs. Beats' first generation MP3 Walkman has been sold for so long. Everyone is aware of this, but the second generation beats to be released at the end of the year only supports 10g hard disk, which can't be changed.

Jobs then showed off the angleless body of the third generation iPod. The smooth curve at the four corners told a lot of stories, and the audience began to marvel at the artistic body design again.

The camera just cut into the audience. Song Ya saw the 3dfx trio sitting in the crowd clapping happily. He immediately frowned and rubbed the center of his eyebrows with his hands.

"Sitting over there are our auditors... Mr. and... Mr. and our Secretary... Who will take on-site records,... Ms. was elected as the voting supervisor of this shareholders' meeting..."

He didn't know that in Cupertino at the same time, jobs also watched the video of today's shareholders' meeting of 3dfx he made in Apple headquarters, starting from scratch.

The black law master on the TV is explaining all necessary matters according to the book and introducing the functional personnel participating in the shareholders' meeting to the delegates. Naturally, in jobs's eyes, he is not sophisticated and some are too serious, but he has a clear mouth and calm behavior. When introducing everyone, he will smile and signal to each other friendly. His demeanor is really good.

'3dfx currently owns... Class A shares... Class B shares, and each class A or class B share represents... Votes and... Votes respectively in this vote.'

"I will personally preside over the agenda of the meeting. I will answer your questions when I come back from the adjournment... OK, let's start."

There was no nonsense. After reading it, he motioned to the relevant personnel to start the first agenda.

"With regard to the board seats due for rotation, we propose that Mr.. The chief financial officer of 3dfx company replace Mr..."

'allow me to interrupt.' The black Pharaoh added here, "due to the Sarbanes Oxley Act passed last year, we believe that our CFO... Needs to enter the board of directors to obtain greater power and freedom to better serve the company and promote us to perfectly meet all the compliance requirements of the Sarbanes Oxley Act on financial discipline. OK, please continue... "

The lengthy voting phase was boring. Jobs pressed the fast forward button on the remote control.

"The motion was passed."

After the ticket singing, the black Pharaoh made the final announcement.

It seems that he got what he wanted. Jobs pushed his glasses and continued to fast forward. Most of the later motions are boring. The financial reports released by 3dfx before are very beautiful. It seems that shareholders are not dissatisfied with him.

"The following is the question session. There is a vertical microphone. Delegates with questions will go there to ask me questions after they are allowed. Please pay attention to maintaining order at the meeting."

After a short recess, the shareholders' meeting entered the question and answer session, and the questions of shareholders' representatives were also sharp and varied.

"We just lost Apple's chip order. I heard some rumors. This is related to aplus... Er, Mr. chairman, I have conflicts with apple in other businesses. What's your explanation?"

After hearing a shareholder's question, the black law old man smiled, "then you should ask apple." The venue outside the camera also roared with laughter.

"Of course we want to keep these orders. I can tell you that our sales department is still working hard to get them back, but sometimes business is like this. I think Apple will explain its motivation to their shareholders."

The black Pharaoh didn't let the laughter last too long. He quickly switched to surong and replied: "our chip performance is still the best choice for performance-oriented consumers. Our latest SLI model was last year's performance champion. Major customers such as Microsoft, HP and Dell firmly support our products. I'm here to thank them."

In response to his abandonment of 3dfx chips, jobs knew that 3dfx was supporting other PC manufacturers to compete for the market of IMAC's abandoned models, such as offering discounts on the supply prices of chips of those benchmarking models indirectly.

Those methods have indeed caused some complaints and changes of Apple's high-end users, but the overall impact is not large.

"Although 3dfx suffered a small loss because of Apple's market share, we don't want to lose any customers, especially the excellent customers of apple. Personally, I and our company are trying our best to turn the situation around. Please give us some time."

The black Pharaoh ended the problem safely.

"I noticed that last year, 3dfx spent millions of meters on supporting minority equality, political campaigns and charity activities. Is this necessary for a technology company? Mr. chairman, are you spending your company's profits on supporting your personal friends and interest groups? I think we should cancel these expenses. I don't have any opinions about those jobs, but I call for spending money on pure company operation and R & D... "

Asked another person.

"Before I could get the money to move out of Chicago's south city slum by writing songs, I lived there for 15 years. I want to say that if it weren't for the support of generous charitable organizations, kind-hearted people and social workers, my relatives and I might die of poverty, hunger and disease. I feel that among my second-hand clothes to keep out the cold, there is a donation from a Vietnam War veteran..."

Second hand clothes... Jobs fast forward.

"You insist that 3dfx be a pure chip design company, but this will make us subject to OEM and display card manufacturers, which will lead to our strategic security controlled by others, won't you? Over the years, I have noticed that due to the small moves of various display card brands, there will be very big pricing differences in the sales channels of products using the same chip. "

When faced with technical questions, the black Pharaoh would first look down for the documents prepared in advance, and then answer: "we have also noticed these phenomena. What I want to say is that the spirit of 3dfx is to trust our partners..."

"But the three founders don't think so about the so-called 3dfx spirit. What they want is a company with its own display card production line and brand..." the questioner interrupted impolitely.

"So their STB went bankrupt." The bitter retort of the old Mafia.

Laughter broke out again at the meeting.

"They say you drove them away by disgraceful means."

"I respect them. They and I are very good friends, but I also admit that we have irreconcilable differences in the company's business philosophy... In the early days of 3D chip development, they may be right, but the market changes rapidly, so 3dfx invited Jim Keller to redesign the chip architecture. Later, facts proved that our choice was right."

The more confident and rigid the black law in the camera, the worse jobs was. He left the TV.

At this time, jobs was aware that he had been kicked out of apple. Amelio, who found a new job in the black law, was leading the first bank of New Jersey to search for shares in apple. Because his personal assets accounted for a large proportion in Pixar Animation, he had long been concerned about the power struggle within Disney, and had long been planning, layout and even tentatively involved, The alliance between Linton and the black Pharaoh

In addition, beats music store invited fan Ning, founder of Napster, and the trend of recruiting programmers in Silicon Valley. Jobs also mastered it. If nothing unexpected happens, according to Napster's previous accumulation and playing method, beats music store will launch earlier than originally expected, and was born to support windows.

He felt that the black Pharaoh was like a squid. His tentacles were extending into his territory from all directions. He was fucking entangled!

It's time to make a choice!

After meditating alone, he called Oracle boss Larry Ellison, a good friend not far from headquarters, and then called Buffett.

He forced me to summon foreign aid

"Are we going to adjust the second generation beats?"

Song Ya and the others walked into the study, "or did they start their own store?"

"It's less than half a year. I'll try my best, but we should be careful to avoid Apple's patent barriers, and we can't follow suit..."

Jeffrey Hawkins questioned: "if the exclusive store is... Just for the MP3 player? Even with handspring's mobile phone products and magic sound headphones, our products are not enough to support a special store. Apple has a full range of computer products, and their users are very loyal."

"Chain stores need a lot of money," echoed Donna Dubinsky. "We can't afford it."

"Isn't 3Com trying to merge palm and handspring?" Song Ya asked, "how's it going?"

"We're talking. It's slow," Jeffrey Hawkins replied.

"I'll take over. I'll contact there in person. What's the number of the president of 3Com?"

Song Ya asked for a phone number. After thinking about it, he asked William Zhang, "we can also make some concessions in the acquisition negotiation between goto and Yahoo. Let's see how much sincerity there is..."

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