Zhang Chen smiled dryly and said to Su Zhuorui: "Sister Su, this is my friend, come and talk about something." ”

Su Zhuorui had a cold face and closed his bedroom door with a "bang", startling Jonathan Ivey.

Zhang Chen laughed embarrassedly twice, "My sister, I've been feeling unwell and in a bad mood these days. ”

Jonathan understood, "My wife is the same, and Dr. Catherine at Palo Alto Hospital is nice enough to let her make an appointment." ”

Zhang Chen touched his nose, looked at the door of the guest room with a weak heart, didn't dare to talk, took out a stack of materials from the safe and handed it to Jonathan.

Jonathan Ivey flipped to the third page and was shocked by the lack of curves.

"This 。。。。。。 Jonathan Ivey's fingers rubbed against the paper unconsciously, "This is so beautiful。。。。。。 It was just perfect. ”

What Zhang Chen gave to Jonathan Ivey was the design of the iMac G3 that he had drawn from memory when he was just reborn.

When Zhang Chen first came to the United States at the end of June, after a conflict with Steve Jobs, he applied for a patent for this thing, along with a full set of trademark names for the I series and a first-generation iPod design patent.

Even if Zhang Chen plagiarized, he didn't want to borrow the name of iMac and preemptively registered iMac, mainly to disgust Jobs.

The word Mac has been closely associated with Apple, although Apple has not registered the trademark of iMac, but Mac, as an abbreviation of Macintosh, has long been abbreviated by users as Mac.

If you name your product iMac, you will undoubtedly be questioned as rubbing the heat of Mac, which is not a good thing for this new product.

"Jonathan, let's make this product together. Zhang Chen said to Jonathan.

Jonathan Ivey woke up from his addiction and exclaimed, "This is simply a work of art, you designed it?"

Zhang Chen's face was not red, and he nodded: "Yes, one day I was eating jelly, and I suddenly thought of what would happen if I designed an all-in-one machine with the transparent color of jelly on the shell, so I had this design." ”

Jonathan Ivey's eyes widened: "This is a genius idea! Zack, this design is too perfect to be believed! The only question is whether the current industrial capacity can produce it?"

Zhang Chen smiled: "So, we need to deepen this design, not only need a top industrial designer like you, but also need a top product engineer, if the existing technology cannot be produced, we will study this technology!"

Jonathan Ivey looked at Zhang Chen incredulously: "This will cost a lot of money! And even if we overcome all kinds of technical difficulties, the production cost will not be low." Nowadays, a PC case can cost up to $20, and if you want to use this one-piece design, just the transparent shell part, it will cost at least $50. ”

Zhang Chen looked at Jonathan Ivey strangely: "Jonathan, isn't it a designer's vocation to design the best products? As for the cost, it's a problem with the manufacturing department." ”

Jonathan Ivey was obviously moved by Zhang Chen's words, and his lips moved: "The cost is too high, and if you can't sell it, you will lose money." ”

Zhang Chen smiled and said: "I can accept that our cost is 15% higher than the products with the same configuration on the market, and our selling price can be 150% of theirs." ”

Jonathan Ivey stroked his forehead with one hand, "Zack, you're too optimistic. ”

The corners of Zhang Chen's mouth curled slightly: "Jonathan, if this PC really appears on the market, the price is 50% more expensive than the DELL next to it, which one will you choose?"

Jonathan was dumbfounded: "I'm a designer, and designers naturally have a preference for the appearance of products, but ordinary consumers pay more attention to the performance experience, and it is difficult for them to spend 50% more money on flashy things." ”

Zhang Chen tilted his head: "Really, what about Louis Vuitton?"

Jonathan didn't hear clearly, "What?"

Zhang Chen said leisurely: "Louis Vuitton's products are hundreds of times more expensive than HM, and the gap between the material costs of the two is not so much, why can HM imitation Louis Vuitton clothes only be sold for 30 US dollars, while Louis Vuitton can be sold for 3,000 US dollars?"

Jonathan was puzzled: "It's different, Louis Vuitton is a luxury product, and clothes and accessories belong to the fashion industry. ”

Zhang Chen applauded: "That's a good point, but who stipulates that computers can't enter the fashion industry? Who stipulates that computers can't be luxury goods?"

This sentence was like a bolt of lightning that slashed Jonathan to a standstill.

Zhang Chen said softly: "Personal computers are no longer something that only a few geeks will use, they are a mass consumer product, but our aesthetics of personal computers are still in the Macintosh stage, no, it should be said that they are even more backward than then." ”

"We have faster and faster processors, larger and larger memory and hard drives, and even now have specialized display chips, but the design of the PC is stagnant. ”

"We need products that are more stylish, more elegant, more trend-setting, and we want to show the world that electronics can be fashionable too, and we don't want the PC to be the ugliest thing of all the accessories in the house. ”

"We're going to redefine the PC!"

Zhang Chen stared at Jonathan Ivey's eyes: "Jonathan, are you willing to create a new era with me?"

Those two deafening words just now have already conquered Jonathan, and he has long been shouting in his heart I am willing!

It's just a wedding march.

Jonathan Ivey suppressed his excitement, "What's the name of this artwork that redefines the PC?"

Zhang Chen's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but feel ecstatic in his heart, Jonathan Ivey agreed!

The joining of Jonathan Ivey made it possible for Zhang Chen to steal Apple's rise to the top.

From this moment on, Zhang Chen completely broke off the idea of investing in Apple.

Zhang Chen laughed and wrote the letters "iCom" on the paper.

"iCom?" Jonathan Ivey chewed on the name a few times, "Good name, homonym is very similar to icon, has the meaning of logo, and has the meaning of "my computer", but why use a lowercase i?"

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "In addition to expressing 'I', 'i' has two meanings here, the first layer represents the combination of Internet and iCom, which shows that our computer is closely integrated with the Internet and is a real Internet computer." ”

"The second meaning stands for individual, instruct, inform, and inspire."

Jonathan Ivey suddenly realized and stretched out his thumb: "I see, this is also the inner spirit of this product." ”

Zhang Chen nodded heavily: "Yes, so our deepening design ideas must conform to the inner spirit of this product." ”

Jonathan Ivey smiled: "It seems that you are almost ready, what about the company?

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "I cooperated with a friend in Huaxia last year to a computer company, and now the annual sales are about 20,000 units, the name is Alien, I hope to hire you as the design director of Alien Technology, with an annual salary of 300,000 US dollars, plus 200,000 US dollars of alien stock options per year." ”

Jonathan was shocked: "You want to go to work in Huaxia?"

(End of chapter)