Chapter 14: Joe Maniac and TPOD
On this Chinese New Year's Eve, "Legend" appeared in other topics for the first time, and this online game, which has been in trial operation for a month and a half, began to slowly show its due power.
Verdict, blessed oil, attack and defend sand, PK, city lord!
Some inexplicable words slowly appeared in the topics of many netizens, and "Legend" is really popular!
The fire came suddenly, without warning.
This New Year, not only Zhao Song's Tesla will not have a holiday, but Chen Qiao's grand will also not have a holiday.
In this life, with the investment of Zhao Song and the superb wrist of Chen Qiao's empty gloves and white wolf, the call center of 50 people was established before "Legend" was officially operated.
From morning to night, the consultation phone is busy 24 hours a day.
Fifty sets of servers in Shanghai are full, 30 sets of servers in Jiangzhong are full, and before February 1, the new fifty sets of servers in Shenzhen will also be set up.
Legends was charged a full month later than another plane, but in terms of server size, it was more than twice as large.
Zhao Song, who was on his way home, didn't know that because of his excessive involvement, around him, the development of many things was gradually accelerating.
It's as if he scolds a scientist of Chinese descent and may slow down the progress of certain technologies.
Across the Pacific, United States.
The Chinese New Year's Eve of the flower growers doesn't seem to have anything to do with here, as for the pictures of overseas Chinese and foreign friends spending the New Year together on TV, you may see it in Chinatown, and other places ...... The flower grower doesn't have such a big influence now!
Apple.
In the office, Joe Maniac looked at a pile of disassembled parts and a CD player-style player on the table, and then asked with a blank face, "What is this big guy?"
A bald foreigner replied, "A hard drive MP3 that the innovative company just exited, NOMAD Jukebox! Steve, it seems that we can't grab the first place!"
"Looks a lot bigger than a CD player!" said Joe the madman nonchalantly, "Have you reviewed it?"
The bald man nodded: "The super expensive price, exaggerated power consumption and portability in the opposite direction, contrary to all the characteristics of the IPOD we are developing, did not cause much repercussions in the market!"
"So." Crazy Joe looked at the pair of small parts, his eyes flashing with an inexplicable light, "Our future opponent is still this little thing!"
"It's very simple, it's very primitive, and it's a compliment to say it's shoddy!" Jobs looked at the round buttons of the TPOD on the table, and continued: "Except for the excellent appearance and sound quality, everything else is useless!"
"Steve, we checked at the National Patent Office, and on the appearance patent of the button, the application numbers of our two companies are early and late. The bald man shrugged his shoulders and continued: "I think, when the official patent comes down, some of our two lawsuits will be fought!"
"Steve. A tall and thin middle-aged man next to the bald man suddenly said: "Although the Imperial League won the MP3 copyright case, I believe that the Record Industry Association will not give up, and we paid real money to get the network copyright, do you want to ......?"
INSTEAD OF REPLYING, MADMAN JOE ASKED ANOTHER TALL, THIN MIDDLE-AGED MAN, "COOK, HOW'S THE RESPONSE TO OUR ITUNES?"
Cook is a tall, thin, middle-aged man who currently heads Apple's computer division.
Shaking his head, Cook said, "Itunes has not fluctuated much since it was introduced to our MAC OS system for a week, after all, people prefer to use free MP3s!"
JO MADMAN LOOKED AT THE BALD MAN, "HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE FOR OUR IPOD?"
"As planned, it will be October at the earliest!"
"THEN LET'S GET OUR LAWYERS READY, LAUNCH IN OCTOBER, AND DON'T GIVE THAT FLOWER GROWER ANY TIME TO REACT! I HOPE THAT BY THEN, THERE WILL BE ONLY ONE IPOD PLAYER ON THE AMERICAN MARKET!"
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On January 24, the first day of the Lunar New Year, Tesla Industrial Park in Pyeongchang District.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the door opened early, and two elderly men were carefully cleaning up the dust and firecracker crumbs floating from nowhere.
During the Chinese New Year, there are people patrolling around Tesla's factory at all times to prevent people from firing guns nearby.
"Uncle Zhang, Uncle Li, morning!"
"Morning Director Gui!"
With a few greetings, more and more people wearing Tesla uniforms walked into the factory, greetings, New Year's greetings, lively and orderly.
7:30 a.m.
In the material warehouse, a small PCB board that has been cut, together with countless other PCB boards, was transported to Plant 4 by logistics trolleys.
There, the former lean PC assembly line was dismantled to the warehouse of Kyoto Electronic's electronic park park many years ago, and now, it has been turned into a complete SMT workshop.
8:00 sharp.
When the bell rang, the small PCB board was held in the hand of a worker, checked it over and over again, and after repeatedly confirming that there was no problem, it was sent to the SMT machine and began to mount.
The SMT production line has a very high degree of automation, and there are a total of 4 assembly lines in the entire No. 4 plant, but the number of workers is less than 50, and their responsibility is to keep an eye on the machine at all times, and stop the machine for inspection immediately if something abnormal happens.
8:50 min.
The small PCB came to another worker, and by this time, it was already plastered with capacitors and chips, and the worker placed it under an industrial magnifying glass for one last inspection.
The small PCB board is lucky to have no flaws, it is carefully attached with a layer of shockproof film, and put it into a neatly stacked large packaging box, next to the packaging box, there is a blue plastic box, which is plastered with small PCBs all over the body has been half full, these small PCB boards in the eyes of ordinary people, can not find any flaws at all, but they are still abandoned here.
9:00.
The small PCB board was reloaded onto the logistics vehicle, and 5 minutes later, it came to the No. 5 plant.
There, sixteen conveyor lines were ready to go, each with people next to each other, the exact opposite of the empty No. 4 plant.
The electric switch had already been pulled down, the assembly line was running non-stop, and the workers in the materials department took the small PCB out of the packaging box and put it in a storage box, where many other accessories had been put in early, including a beautiful TPOD2 shell.
The boxes were placed on the conveyor belt, and after walking a short distance, a worker took them from the conveyor belt to the worktop and began to assemble them in earnest.
The movements were not skillful, but they were unusually serious, and behind the worker, from time to time someone was checking on the probe, and seeing that he was not surprised, he walked away again.
9:47.
An assembled semi-finished product is reloaded into a storage box and placed on a conveyor belt, and the tiny PCB board disappears into a beautiful-looking TPOD2.
10:30.
Zhao Song took a square box from Gui Luyang's hand.
The box is simple and compact, so simple that there is "no design"!
On the top surface, there is no text, only a black-gray plexiglass is used, and the fluorescent orange T on it is shining.
Four sides, two TPOD fonts and two TPOD photos, staggered rows.
This is the packaging of the second generation of TPOD shulle, and the meaning of "no design" can be expressed here: there is no artificial creation, everything seems to evolve with the times. The font has changed, the font size has changed, the product is bigger, the product is closer, and the black color is bold......
Zhao Song carefully unpacked the package, took out a black TPOD, took off the hearing aids, and put the same black headphones into his ears.
"Knock~~"
"Knock~~"
"Knock~~~"
"Let me shake you goodbye
Gently pull out my hand again
..........”
Cai Qin's "Ferry".
Zhao Song gently closed his eyes and carefully felt the three drum sounds, even if he was a wooden ear, he was very sure that three times, he could feel the vibration of the drum surface!
Well done, Sonic Visonic !