giants of the era

Chapter 122 Break the game!

Li Zetian thought for most of the night, and finally thought of a way, so he lowered his eyelids and fell asleep contentedly.

The next day, the sun was shining and the weather was very good.

Li Zetian was driving the Les Laisi dangerous road at high speed, the wind whistling in his ears.

When he came to Apple, Li Zetian asked everyone to have a meeting in the office.

When everyone arrived, he said, "I think everyone knows the current situation of Apple, so I won't say much. If you have any ideas, you can share your ideas and work together to solve this problem!"

After Li Zetian finished speaking, the office fell into a brief silence.

After a while, Tian Shuai said: "Mr. Li, why don't we spend a lot of money to attract a large record company, such as giving it an extra subsidy for every music tape sold? As long as it is profitable, maybe it will favor us... As long as one of the major labels is on my side, the 'anti-Walkman League' will be thrown into disarray!"

Zhang Han said angrily: "I don't agree, isn't this asking us to pay the record company? It's really embarrassing!"

Li Zetian smiled and asked, "Zhang Han, what's your opinion?"

"I can't talk about high opinions. I think we don't need music authorization at all. We directly produce the music tapes of these record companies. When users buy music tapes, they will naturally not cause trouble. The record companies are unhappy. At worst, they sue us, and we try our best Put it back. By then, Walkman will have occupied the market, become popular all over the world, and made a lot of money for Apple! Even if we lose the lawsuit and lose money, we can afford it!"

Damn, so overbearing! ! !
Li Zetian couldn't help but look at Zhang Han with admiration.

In fact, many large companies do this. They know that the patent belongs to someone else, but they use it themselves, and then file a lawsuit with the other party. It's no big deal to lose some money after a lawsuit.

This world is a world where the weak eat the strong, and the shopping mall is like a battlefield, which is very cruel.

When Jobs heard this, he frowned, "This is not a good way, it will seriously damage Apple's image!"

When Zhang Han heard that Jobs opposed him, he immediately became upset. He was already a little dissatisfied with the arrogant and arrogant Jobs, and now he is even more dissatisfied.

"My method is not good... okay, I would like to hear what you have a good method?" He said in a very pointed tone.

Jobs said: "First of all, we have fallen into a misunderstanding, why should we produce music tapes ourselves?" He paused, looked at Li Zetian and said, "We can secretly support other factories to produce pirated music tapes, so it will solve the problem. Does it solve the problem of lack of songs on our current Walkman? And the record company has no way to settle accounts with us Apple!"

Hearing this, Zhang Hao couldn't think of an excuse to refute. Jobs's idea was better than his. "This Jobs is really good. No wonder he was entrusted with important tasks by Mr. Li..." Zhang Hao said in his heart.

Li Zetian smiled at this time, and said: "Everyone's ideas are good, and they can help Apple out of trouble! However, Jobs' method is more satisfying to me. But," Li Zetian glanced at everyone, said, "If someone doesn't know , unless it does nothing! If the record company finds out that Apple is secretly supporting other factories to produce pirated music tapes, it will also discredit Apple! So," Li Zetian paused again.

Zhang Han was impatient, and couldn't help but said: "Mr. Li, don't be a fool! Looking at your expression, I know that you have already figured out a way, and you have a plan, right?!"

"Hehe," Li Zetian smiled lightly, nodded and said, "I have indeed thought of a way, and it is closer to Jobs' idea!"

"Hurry up, we're all ears!"

Li Zetian nodded and said: "Marx once said, 'If there is a 100% profit, the capitalists will take risks; if there is a 200% profit, the capitalists will flout the law; if there is a 300% profit, then The capitalists will trample on everything in the world!', millions of Walkman users need new songs, this is a huge demand and market! In fact, there is no need for us to secretly support those pirate factories to produce music tapes, they also They will produce by themselves, and what we need to do now is actually very simple, which is to let them see and discover this huge demand, so as to speed up the production of pirated tapes! I think there should be a lot of 'smart' businessmen in this world... ..."

When Li Zetian said the word "smart", he deliberately raised a few decibels.

Everyone nodded frequently, feeling that what Li Zetian said made sense.

"Mr. Li, what should we do?" Zhang Han asked.

Li Zetian said with a smile: "Have someone post a message at the door of Apple's flagship store, which reads:

'Recently, Apple received a letter report from an anonymous user, claiming that there were pirated tapes of well-known singers such as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Aretha-Franklin, etc. in some video stores, and the price was 20 dollars, which was more expensive than the original tapes. 10 USD.Here, Apple issued a statement, severely condemning this illegal act, and appealed to everyone not to waste money on buying pirated music tapes. Apple is in talks with the record company, and may reach an agreement with the record company in half a year...'”

Hearing this, Zhang Han almost laughed, "Hehe, Mr. Li, the word 'half a year' is used well. How can Walkman users wait for such a long time? When they see this news, they will definitely go to the video store and ask the boss if there is any There will be no pirated music tapes. At that time, the owner of the video store will be very surprised. With so many people asking, he will immediately realize that this is an opportunity to make a fortune! No one will let money slip away from him, absolutely Won't!"

Li Zetian nodded and said with a smile, "Yes, I think, it won't be long before there will be pirated tapes in these video stores!"

Tian Shuai couldn't help but praised: "Mr. Li's method is really clever. We don't produce pirated tapes, and we don't support pirated factories. The record company has nothing to do with us! When a large number of pirated tapes appear on the market, we should The record company has a headache!"

Zhang Hao laughed loudly, "I really want to see their expressions when they have a headache, it must be very exciting!"

Li Zetian said: "Okay, everyone, this is the end of the meeting, and immediately follow what I just said!"

"Yes!!!"

That morning, a notice was pasted on the glass doors and windows of Apple's flagship store, which immediately attracted countless people to watch.

Afterwards, the news spread little by little, and more and more Walkman users knew that there were pirated music tapes in audio-visual stores.So they ran to the nearby video store to buy.

"Boss, do you have a tape?"

"What?" asked the video store owner.

"It's the music tapes that play in the Walkman - I want to pirate it!!!"

The owner of the video store was dumbfounded.

At this time, several people walked in the door, and they opened their mouths and said, "Boss, I want to pirate music tapes, do you have Elvis here?"

Before the owner of the audio-visual store could speak, another four or five people entered the door.

"Boss, is there any bootleg tape, I want the Beatles song!"

"..."

The owner of the audio-visual store felt extremely distressed. Seeing so many people coming to buy pirated tapes, it was a pity that he didn't have any in his store.However, the owner of the audio-visual store is also a "smart" businessman. He smiled and said, "Oh, I'm really sorry. Before you came, the pirated tapes were all sold out. To buy goods?"

"Holy shit, it's sold out? Boss, can you order in advance?"

The owner of the video store hesitated for a moment, but immediately said, "No problem, you can book in advance!"

As a result, customers in the store ordered in advance in the video store.

Seeing so many orders, the owner of the video store couldn't stop laughing from ear to ear!

In one day, there were actually more than 2000 orders for pirated tapes.

"Hey, Jack? I heard you say that your factory used to make tapes? The kind you put songs on!"

"Well, yes, there is such a thing," Jack nodded, and then asked, "What's the matter, Abigail?"

"Oh, Jack, you're going to be rich!!!"

"Abigail, please stop joking, I'm almost broke right now!"

"Jack, I'm not kidding! You know what, I got over 2000 orders for bootleg music tapes at my store today, at $20 each, for a total of $2! Oh God, it's only been one day! Since others can produce pirated music tapes, Jack, you can too!" The owner of the video store bewitched, and if he didn't confuse the other party, he wouldn't be able to get the goods.

Jack was very surprised when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "Abigail, what's going on?"

So Abigail spoke out about the statement posted outside Apple's flagship store.

"Jack, the Walkman has more than a million subscribers, and I believe that as more music tapes are pirated, so will the Walkman subscribers, who will buy more tapes. Oh, Jack, you really are You are going to make a fortune, if you can seize this opportunity..."

At this moment, Jack was so excited that he didn't need Abigail to continue persuading him. He decided to make a big fight.

"Abigail, thank you so much for giving me such valuable information. I have decided to start producing bootleg music tapes immediately!!!"

"Jack, then complete my order first!"

"No problem, Abigail, you will be my most loyal partner from now on, and I will complete your order first."

"Then I'll fax you the order information now?"

"Ok!"

(End of this chapter)