Chapter 846： Suddenly refused

Eric remembered Elizabeth’s whisper to her yesterday, and she didn’t plan to explain it too much. She said: “Seagate will probably be able to launch a 2g-capacity micro-driver next year. By then, we can increase the sale of different styles of irelyer according to the capacity. The price, now, and in the future, the bottom line of $299 cannot be changed."

Victor McNealy and others saw Eric's slight frown, and his expression was a little more than ever. It was unquestionable and it was no longer arguing.

After breakfast, everyone went to visit the latest multi-touch capacitive screen laboratory of Firefly Electronics, which was set up after Firefly Electronics acquired a small capacitive screen development company in recent months. Compared with the current mainstream resistive screens, capacitive screens undoubtedly have more advantages. This kind of screen has also proved to be the mainstream technology for handheld mobile devices in the future.

Similar to the 3d and ima of the film industry, both capacitive and multi-touch technologies have been around for many years, but there has been no mainstream electronic products that match them, so they are slow to develop. Eric believes that as long as the planned tablet tablet is launched, the capacitive screen supporting multi-touch will soon become the mainstream of the touch screen. At this time, the firefly electronics can gain more advantages in technical patents.

Near noon, there were only three hours left in the afternoon, and more and more guests planning to attend the conference began to gather at Marriott.

Amazon's eo Jeff Bezos arrived in San Francisco in the morning. After three rounds of capital injection, Firefly Investment already owns 30% of Amazon's shares. Under the operation of Jeff Bezos, Amazon has developed extremely rapidly in recent years. Although it has not completely occupied the position of online book sales hegemony, Jeff Bezos can't wait to start Amazon's comprehensive The direction of online retailers, irelyer's online sales is Amazon's first business expansion attempt.

In order to show the importance of Amazon, Eric deliberately took time to have lunch with Jeff Bezos and discuss the next step of Amazon's development.

After selling to the firefly 30% stake, in order to avoid the fall of control, Jeff Bezos does not intend to continue financing the firefly investment company, and began preparations for ipo. Eric is also not eager to get more of Amazon's shares. After all, Amazon's development process is not so smooth, there are still many opportunities for future firefly investment.

The two were sitting and chatting in the Marriott hotel restaurant. Fireol Electronics President Bill Olsen suddenly walked into the restaurant and walked directly towards Eric.

Bill Olsen nodded to Jeff Bezos, didn't evade, and said something eagerly to Eric: "Eric, Celine Dion's agent, Renee Angeli, just hit The phone came over and he said that Celine Dion couldn’t just come over to the conference at night."

Eric’s thoughts turned and basically understood what had happened.

The release of irelyer, among the top five traditional record companies, is undoubtedly the Sony that simultaneously produces a variety of mainstream portable music player devices. Celine Dion is a singer of Sony Records.

Although the voice of Celine Dion is called Scorpio, in fact, her personal music style is very simple. If there is no "Eternal Heart of My Heart", it is almost impossible for Celine Dion to go to the ranks of superstars in the music world. . Therefore, before the Titanic, Celine Dion can only be regarded as the second-line singer of Sony Records. Although the status of Celine Dion has risen after the release of "My Heart is Eternal", it is bound by bounds. It is impossible to obtain the freedom of the superstars such as Michael Jackson and Madonna.

Obviously, this time it was Sony’s press release to Celine Dion, forcing her to attend irelyer’s product launch.

Eric just didn't expect that Sony would be so bad that it would take only two hours to choose from the press conference and put pressure on Celine Dion.

Before he had time to say anything, Bill Olson’s cell phone rang again.

Bill Olson did not answer, but handed it directly to Eric, saying: "Ms. Dion just said that she wants to apologize in person."

The behind-the-scenes pusher of this incident is Sony. Although Eric is angry, he will not be angry with the anger of Celine Dion, call the phone and chat with the other party.

Celine Dion is very clear about the importance of "My Heart is Eternal" to promote her career development. Therefore, she is also very respectful to Eric's tone on the phone. She even apologies and conceals her own difficulties.

After a few chats, Eric hang up the phone. At this time, Chris, Victor McNealy and others who heard the news also appeared in the restaurant.

Since the conference will also announce that the original version of the Titanic is on the Yahoo Music Store, Celine Dion can be said to be the most important guest performer tonight, and Bill Olson also deliberately placed her at the conference. At the end of the game, and on behalf of the Yahoo Music Store announced the official release of the "Titanic" soundtrack album.

Everyone hurriedly talked a few words and left the restaurant together to discuss countermeasures in a conference room specially prepared for Firefly Electronics.

Bill Olson looked at the crowd and said: "It is definitely too late to negotiate with Madonna. However, it is not too difficult for the backstreet boys to praise a song. Just let them go on stage, and the next step will be I have to be disrupted."

There were three original guests in the afternoon. Madonna Sikoni, Backstreet Boys and Celine Dion.

Madonna will naturally not be bound by Celine Dion, and she has publicly expressed her intention to cooperate with the Yahoo Music Store. Therefore, after receiving the invitation, she was very happy to agree. The Backstreet Boys are the pillars of the Firefly Records, and the launch of Firefly Electronics will naturally not leave them. Celine Dion was also determined early, but everyone did not expect that she would be under the pressure of Sony at the last minute to give up the show.

Everyone has seen the rehearsal of the press conference last night. It is natural to know that if the temporary replacement of others, the details of the "Titanic" soundtrack album landing in the Yahoo Music Store will have to be changed a lot.

After discussing for a while, Chris suddenly looked at Eric and said: "Eric, since Celine Dion can't come on stage, then you come in person. You are the songwriter of "My Heart is Eternal" and I have seen it. There was no problem with the preview of the press conference last night."

Chris’s voice fell, Eric had not had time to shake his head, and everyone excitedly shouted: “Yes, Eric, you come in person. Your coffee position is much higher than Celine Dion.”

In fact, at the concept stage of the product launch, Bill Olsen hoped that Eric would be able to make a speech on the stage, but was rejected by Eric. At this point, Chris suddenly raised that they were naturally very excited. As the soul of the firefly system, Erik's series of halo around him is destined to make the influence in the media far more than that of Celine Dion.

Eric reached out and pressed everyone, but he smiled and said: "You won't let me go up and sing "My Heart is Eternal", is this like?"

Bill Olson said: "Of course not, Eric, what do you want to say, what to do, and then help announce the sale of the "My Heart Eternal" digital album."

Victor McNealy, who has always been less than good at words, is also very excited to agree at this time: "Right right, that's it."

Ian Gurney also smiles and plays the emotional card: "Eric, I think you certainly won't want this conference to be messed up, and it's your responsibility, the whole firefly is yours. ""

In the face of everyone's earnest eyes, Eric hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly, said: "Well, then, let's discuss now, what should I say when I get there."

Bill Olson shook his head and smiled: "Oh, Eric, this is your business, we will not participate, I should go to the guests."

Victor McNealy simply stood up: "That, Best Buy's vice president is still waiting for me downstairs."

"Haha, Jeff just said that he wants me and discusses Amazon's advertising on Yahoo. I will go down first."

Watching Bill Olsen, Victor McNealy, and Ian Garnier leave the conference room, Eric turned to Chris.

Chris smiled and spread his hand: "I haven't thought of an excuse yet."

"Forget it, I am free to play when I get there. Even if I mess up, no one dares to say anything to my boss." Eric shrugged and asked other things: "You and Emily How is the wedding preparation?"

Listening to Eric’s mention of this topic, Chris is a bitter face: “It’s still like that, my father and her parents are much more enthusiastic than us.”

Eric looked at Chris's appearance and could almost imagine the three elders chasing the busy work of Chris and Emily to discuss the details of the wedding. They laughed and joked: "I will go to New York for a while." For two weeks, maybe you can help out with your ideas."

"You don't want to mess up," Chris shook his head and curiously asked: "Two weeks, in addition to Kevin and Xia Xia's birthday, do you have other things?"

Eric nodded and said: "About the establishment of Marvel Pictures, Avi Arad has already made a preliminary plan, and I need to confirm it myself."

Chris occasionally listened to Eric’s huge plan of the Marvel movie universe. He needed to pay too much attention and didn’t show much interest in it. The two chatted a few words and left the meeting room together.

After twelve o'clock, in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel, more than half of the guests have gathered at this time, and the remaining guests are coming.

Eric has studied the specific plan of the conference and has invested in the activities of the guests.

Media reporters from all walks of life naturally do not need Eric to personally entertain, but those IT industry tech, but still need him to personally say hello.

As time goes by, Microsoft's Bill Gates, Cisco's John Chambers, Oracle's Larry Ellison, Apple's newly appointed eo Gil Amelio and other industry executives And the high-level partners of Seagate, Best Buy Electric Chain and other partners have appeared, even Warren Buffett has come out from Omaha. In addition to these technology or investment industry giants, the entertainment industry stars who were invited to join the game are naturally not lacking. Kasenberger also personally rushed to the Marriott Hotel one hour before the launch.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, all the guests had gathered in the banquet hall, and the lights in other parts of the room were darkened, leaving only a few beams of light on the stage.

As a firefly electronic eo, Victor McNealy first stepped onto the stage, announced the start of the conference, and gave a simple speech to all the guests present.

Eric’s original proposal did not hope that the conference was too lengthy. Therefore, with several performance interactions, the whole conference was expected to be only one and a half hours, mainly including the configuration and function display of irelyer. The Yahoo Music Store is an introduction to sales and channel introduction.

Bill Olsen prepared for the product launch conference for two months, so everything went smoothly, and as Bill Olson and others announced the details of the irelyer, Yahoo music store, etc. The guests frequently applauded and cheered. The flash of the camera in the hands of the media reporters did not stop at all. During this time, countless media have exposed a large amount of information from irelyer, but the official final news undoubtedly has the greatest news value.

When Amazon President Jeff Bezos came to the stage to introduce the news of the establishment of Amazon irelyer, in the applause, Bill Olsen, who was the host himself, stepped on the stage again, holding a chair in his hand.

The atmosphere at the press conference has been quite active, and this strange move by Bill Olsen easily caused a burst of laughter from the guests.

Bill Olson put the chair on the chair and patted it on the back of the chair. He didn't sit down as expected in the place. He just raised the microphone in his hand and smiled. "This chair is not for I prepared it myself, guess who is sitting here."

It is possible for the president of Firefly Electronics to personally move onto the chair. There are not many people in the banquet hall.

Someone shouted out at the scene.

"Eric Williams!"

"Eric Williams!"

"Eric Williams!"

As the sound of the waves grew higher, Bill Olsen no longer sold off, raised his microphone: "So, please welcome Mr. Eric Williams."

In the warm applause and cheers, Eric walked from the side steps to the stage. (To be continued.)