If there's any place in the world that has a very sensitive response to consumer electronics, it's Silicon Valley;

If anyone is most unhappy about the sudden popularity of SPODs in Silicon Valley circles, it must be Steve Jobs;

And if anyone is happy because of Steve's displeasure, it must be another big guy named Bill Gates.

Yes, Apple's strong resurgence has made him feel like a stone in his meal, and macOS has always caricatured indos as dirty garbage with its beautiful design.

It's as if the former represents fashion and professionalism, while the latter represents dullness and ugliness.

The most annoying thing is that from the perspective of industrial design and product appearance, Apple's computers are indeed unsurpassed, they seem to have such genes, especially Jobs, who can always capture the vacant part of people's hearts.

It wasn't until SPOD started to appear on the streets of San Francisco that Steve seemed to have met a competitor with a similar style!

Fadell only owns 80,000 units, which is too few, but it's not easy to sell, because the value of $399 is caricatured by Computerworld magazine as 'brainless pricing'.

Best Sell refused to lend a helping hand, and Fadell had no choice but to run one by one to the music hardware store.

It's a bit like Steve Jobs fooling the owner of the first computer store to order his Apple 1 computer,

Fadell also held the SPOD in the streets of Menlo Park, pulling the people who opened the store, and persuaded them to put the SPOD on the shelf.

Compared with similar products, SPOD is no less excellent than the Apple 1 computer at the time, so although it took a little bit of a mouth, Fadell did not encounter a situation where it was difficult to move an inch.

This one chooses to order 20 units for trial sale, and the other one chooses to order 50 units for trial sale, slowly, there will always be people who see SPOD, there will always be people who fall in love with it, and there will always be people who pay $399 to choose to have him,

Time changes everything.

Chen Zier said to him that it is normal for no one to help us, so let bestbuy these companies regret it.

That's exactly what Fadell did.

So he got the second wave of Chen Zier's support, you must know that Fadel has no income, so he has no money, the salary of more than 200 engineers is not a small amount of money, all their funds come from Chen Zier, and the poor sales of SPOD can't do anything

But everything will change from December, at Zhonghai International Airport, the three designers of the Shengshi experience store have flown to San Francisco, USA.

Prosperity decided to fund the construction of its first SPOD retail store in San Francisco.

They don't have weapons here yet, so they have to forge them.

The immediate result of this decision was that Fadell's hard work paid off, selling 38,000 units in almost a month, which is already quite good thanks to that poor channel.

Not only that, but most importantly, it made a name for itself in Silicon Valley, and many audiophiles went crazy for this white magic music box.

Just like the iPod in the original plane, it was warmly welcomed upon its release, of course, the sales of the first generation of the product were not enough, only a few hundred thousand units, because the stubborn Steve Jobs made the iPod only compatible with Mac computers, excluding the majority of Indos users.

This is a suffocating operation, considering that Apple's share of the entire PC market does not exceed 5%.

Fortunately, in March 2002, after he finally let go of his obsession and corrected this, the iPod completed the feat of 200,000 units sold during the Christmas period alone, and with the launch of iTunes software, the ecological closed loop was formed, with total sales reaching 1.6 million units in 02, compared with 100,000 the previous year.

Since then, the climate has been set, and even with so many challengers, no one has been able to shake their position.

SPOD doesn't have this strange problem, and the user group that Fadell is facing has been a large number of Indos users from the beginning, and even to some extent, they have not considered compatibility with Mac computers.

The reason is simple: there are too few of you users (smiling faces).

SPODs are hot in Silicon Valley, hot in San Francisco, hot in California,

As an entrepreneurial hero, Faddell was compared to Jobs, he was interviewed by the TV media, appeared on a highly rated talk show, and showed off his baby all the time like a child with a baby.

With the exception of acid farts and those record labels, there's no one who isn't attracted to SPOD......

Chen Zier, who is far away in Xiangjiang, has an insight into all this happening,

It's all taken for granted, those who are crazy about iPods, now naturally go crazy for SPODs,

It is also bold to build retail stores like China Overseas and Yanjing in San Francisco, you must know that this is to be placed in the center of the city, and the price of land can be imagined.

But Chen Zier still did it, and he was in Xiangjiang, so he made this important decision.

Luo Zhiyi knew that Chen Zier had a lot of things to put in his mind, but he didn't know that this person was now thinking not only about Zhonghai, but also about Paris and San Francisco.

The whole world is in his conception.

Sometimes he gets tired, so he wants to experience walking the streets of a city, which is an unattainable wish in a big city in the mainland, and for half a year, he rarely goes to such public places.

Today I went out to the Landmark Plaza, which is close to the MTR Central Station, which can be called one of the most high-end and expensive shopping malls, gathering more than 200 first-class brands.

In fact...... It's the same in this life......

Although he looked left and right, Luo Zhiyi didn't see what he wanted to buy.

So he asked, "Where do you want to go?"

Looking at the brilliant lights and crowds here, Chen Zier said: "SPOD should have a brand store built here. ”

It's really strange possessiveness to buy everything,

Obviously you can rent,

As long as it is rented, it will take less than a month to change the brand logo of Shengshi, move the glass doors and tables designed by Shengshi itself, and the next batch of SPODs can show its graceful posture to the world here.

Luo Zhiyi didn't expect him to talk about work.

I didn't know what to say, so I said, "Shall we find a place to have some dessert?"

Chen Zier didn't have much of an opinion, there happened to be a row of tall stools next to him, and three or two young girls wearing masks brought delicious cheese or other snacks to the guests.

Luo Zhiyi looked quite happy, which made him feel relaxed for a while. The white SPOD in her hand was still in her hand, and she wanted to use it as a topic, as if she felt that she could say something more to him.

"You're coming to Xiangjiang for the first time, right?" asked Chen Zier.

"No, I was here last time to promote the album with Yulen, but this is the first time I've been on the street. It's been almost three months, but I feel like I've done nothing."

2000 is coming to an end, and it seems that many people will have such feelings,

"Yes, you see for two or three years, and it's almost spring again. ”

"Wait a minute," Luo Zhiyi left suddenly, she found something interesting,

It's bubble blowing, there's a little girl playing with it, and she buys one too,

Looking at her innocent smile, I remembered that if it weren't for her, this girl would still be in school waiting to graduate from college.

"You're much more cheerful than before," Mr. Chen said with a smile.

"That's a change, okay?" she asked, her eyes twinkling.

"This is important?"

"It's more important," Luo Zhiyi sat down and only gave him a side face, looked ahead and said, "I have some bad points, so I think if I slowly get better, it will be worth it for you one day, right?"