At present, the number of Ye Dongqing's fans on Facebook is as high as hundreds of millions, the number of global users of Facebook has exceeded 500 million, and it has not yet been listed, with an estimated market value of more than 31 billion US dollars.

Through Apple, it has been advertising on Facebook since last month, and after several rounds of advertising, people already know the specific launch time.

Coupled with the hype of the media, it should not be difficult to sell 200,000 units this year, but including Ye Dongqing, no one can get it accurately, after all, it is a new product that has just been launched, and the popularity of wireless network transmission technology is not wide enough, this thing does not have the support of wireless network, it is not brilliant at all, it is similar to ordinary MP4 products on the market.

Ye Dongqing has been waiting for this day for a long time.

Since its release in January this year, Jobs and Mr. Tim Cook, who has returned to the position of Apple's operating officer, have called almost every other week to report the situation, and have encountered many problems in the mass production process.

After more than five months, those were solved, and the first batch of goods were hoarded and ready to be sold, worried that the market was not hot enough, and even did not dare to take out too much, hoping to slowly cultivate the market.

The foundry is Foxconn on the treasure island, and the collaborative production is also responsible for the transportation link, I have to say that there is indeed a set, Freshwater Investment Group has paid attention to Foxconn's parent company Hon Hai Precision, which previously invested in MediaTek, and is also very concerned about Samsung Electronics and several other Japanese semiconductor suppliers.

The emergence of iTouch allowed Ye Dongqing to see the light of day, and at his behest, a batch of assets that did not perform well were cut off, a large amount of money was withdrawn, and he tried to borrow about 30 to 5 billion US dollars from the bank to expand investment.

Considering the ratio of total assets to liabilities of Freshwater Investment, the bank approved the application on the same day, and will transfer the funds to the account of Freshwater Investment Group in the near future, and the hedge fund company is also ready to go.

This is the beginning of another major "battle", the investment cycle may be as long as more than ten years, and when the layout is completed, Ye Dongqing feels that he will almost be able to enter a semi-retired state, because of the Internet market and a piece of meat bitten off by him, coupled with the field of mobile intelligent terminals, the next twenty years will definitely not find a market comparable to it.

Speaking of MediaTek, we have to mention Boss Zhang of Huaxia.

At the beginning, he partnered with Ye Dongqing to engage in mobile phones, and in recent years, he has been very popular, because of the production capacity of MediaTek, and when other companies entered the market, their joint venture Longteng mobile phone has gained a firm foothold, with a lower price and durable and sturdy quality, successfully tore a hole in the low-end mobile phone market, breaking the monopoly of the mobile phone market by overseas companies.

Of course, many core technologies are still in the hands of foreign companies in Europe and the United States, and the price of each mobile phone contains patent fees, but after all, it is a Sino-US joint venture created in Huaxia, and it is still a yellow face that shows up, and Boss Zhang has been saying that it is a "national enterprise" in various interviews, considering Ye Dongqing's Chinese-American identity, it is not wrong to say so.

In addition to the founder of Sohu, Boss Zhang now has another layer of identity, selling a total of more than 10 million mobile phones in Huaxia last year, with sales of more than 10 billion yuan, enjoying tax exemptions and exemptions, and net profits of about 15 points.

Bought the advertisement of the Spring Festival Gala, this year's sales are even more amazing, after changing the new shell and integrated motherboard, there is an additional high-end series, the total sales in the first quarter of this year are as many as 5.4 million units, Boss Zhang sent an email to Ye Dongqing every once in a while to report the good news, I don't know if these are difficult.

Originally, Ye Dongqing's idea was to wait for this company to grow up, and then sell the shares in his hand to cash out, this idea seems to be in line with the status quo, the Longteng mobile phone brand has become a hen that lays golden eggs, and more importantly, he can achieve many layouts through this company, such as entering the upstream and downstream fields, and getting a cup from the growth of a big country......

Look back to New York.

Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, as long as there are Apple stores, there are long queues in front of the door at the moment, and the line continues to the corner of the street, and the kind that turns the corner.

Because it is the first iTouch, users have not liked the mobile small terminal products equipped with intelligent operating systems, so since the press conference, there has not been much secrecy work, but through various channels, including the Internet, TV stations, magazines, newspapers, etc., crazy brainwashing of potential consumers.

Trying to make them realize that Apple's iTouch is a new product that is different from the rest, downloading game programs and chat programs through wireless networks, which is directly reflected in advertisements, including watching TV, listening to music, logging on to the Internet, reading e-books, taking notes, setting alarm clocks, and so on.

Ye Dongqing feels that the function is still relatively monotonous, the screen is too small, and the clarity is not enough, but in the eyes of other people in this era, this product is simply cool and explosive!

They can already imagine themselves lying in bed and using iTouch to chat with friends through Whatsapp, watch the news and listen to songs, etc., which was unimaginable before, before they could only sit in front of the computer and log in to the Internet, those mobile phones that are said to be able to access the Internet, the Internet speed is so slow that it makes people doubt life, and the cost is quite high.

The market is amazingly hot, including Ye Dongqing, Jobs, Cook and others there, worrying is superfluous, in fact, at seven o'clock this morning, when the Amazon online mall opened for pre-sale, the first batch of 20,000 supplies have been sold out, and it only took three minutes, which is still at four o'clock in the morning on the West Coast, otherwise most of them will be sold faster!

At this moment, at this moment.

Wearing a heavy down jacket like an ordinary person, Ye Dongqing stood across the road wearing a hat and a mask and watched.

The morning was a little cold, and the air quality in New York was also terrible, so no one thought it was strange, some guys who were queuing pointed at him, and saw Ye Dongqing standing there all the time, thinking that he was another poor worm who got up late.

The familiar black and white Apple direct store signs, now the number of products in these stores is pitiful, but almost every store is making money, because whether it is a macbook or an iMac, or an iPod that is about to retire from the stage of history, it has achieved very good sales in recent years, and it has brought considerable returns to Ye Dongqing from the original investment in Apple to the present.

Drinking coffee, look at the team of almost two hundred people.

Ye Dongqing understands that most of the sales are not worrying about it at present, he has tried it for more than two months, and this iTouch after mass production is very sincere......

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