Stangel returned to the Hyatt Regency, took a shower, and turned on the TV.

"Watching the late-night show at 8 p.m. feels pretty good. Stangel muttered to himself.

The Late Show is a news talk show broadcast by Comedy Central Channel at 11 p.m. ET every day, which just started last year, and host Jon Stewart's exaggerated and spicy style and satirical current affairs news hit the nail on the head, quickly gaining the support of a large number of young viewers.

Jon Stewart is still a middle-aged man with black hair, and his style is not as stable as it was a decade later, but again, it is not as contrived as it was a decade later.

"Welcome to The Daily Show, this is not N, it's not Fox, it's Comedy Central, I'm Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart appeared on the TV screen amid laughter and whistles.

Stangel shook his head: "Sensationalist guy. ”

Stengel didn't really like Jon Stewart's self-righteous humor, believing that attitude was no substitute for opinion, and Jon Stewart was too fond of exporting attitude to younger audiences.

Jon Stewart spun around the plastic folder on the table as if he had ADHD: "Last Wednesday, I was at Tommy's house, oh, Tommy is my nephew, I was at Tommy's house, and I saw him buy an i, yes, i, you all know this brand of computer, right? This is not an advertisement, because our guest today is an i. ”

As soon as the camera turned, it was given to the sofa on Stewart's right, where the guests invited by the daily show were often made, and now, there was an i with the machine turned on on on the sofa.

Stangel admired Zhang Chen's marketing ability again, he believed that this was not an advertisement, but he believed that i could become a guest of the daily show, and there must be a deeper exchange of interests behind it.

The core audience group of the daily show is young people, which is also the main customer group of i, I have to say that Zhang Chen's vision is very accurate.

Jon Stewart put on an attitude of chatting with ordinary guests: "Hi, I, I heard that Matrix just adopted you, and your biological parents are at Apple, what's going on?"

A synthesized electronic voice came from i's speaker: "Jon, I heard that the obstetrician who delivered you is your biological father, is that the case?"

Jon Stewart made an exaggerated expression: "Why didn't anyone tell me earlier that that Protestant was my father? God, I shouldn't have been circumcised!" (Stewart was Jewish, and he was to be circumcised after birth, that is, to be circumcised.) ）

There was a whistling on the TV screen, and the jokes of Jews blackening themselves were really hard to hear.

Stewart put on a serious face: "So, do you have any response to this rumor?"

i's synthesized voice: "Yes, that's my response. The screen flashed, and a picture of a middle finger was raised.

There was another burst of laughter.

Stewart pursed his lips and nodded exaggeratedly, "Looks like you know we're a late-night show." ”

"My birth certificate was filed with the Patent and Trademark Office a year ago, and everyone can look it up, and the person who said this message is either stupid or both. ”

Stewart opened his mouth and exaggerated, "You're saying Apple is framing you? Oh my God, why are they doing that? You know, they were the pioneers of the PC age, so why would they frame you for such a great company?"

i's synthesized voice sounded emotionless, adding a bit of humor: "Their obstetrician, IBM, also said that Macintosh was born to him, so I have a story, do you want to hear it?"

Stuart nodded: "Of course, of course." ”

i's screen changes and an animation begins. And on the TV screen, it was also switched to the animation screen.

The animation is completely the image of the Q version of the villain, with simple lines but cute.

The voiceover of the anime said slowly: "Once upon a time, there was a beautiful small village, there was an evil dragon on the mountain outside the village, and every year the village asked the village to sacrifice a virgin, and every year there would be a young hero in this village to fight the evil dragon, but no one survived. This year, another boy set out, and his companion was very worried, so he quietly followed him all the way to the dragon's den. The dragon's lair was covered with gold and silver treasures, and after a fierce fight, the boy stabbed the dragon to death with his sword, and then sat on the dragon's corpse, looking at the glittering jewels, slowly growing scales, tails, and tentacles. ”

The animation is not long, only one minute long, but the plot is extremely compact, especially when the boy killed the evil dragon and became a legend, but sat on the dragon corpse and slowly grew scales and tails, the scene was silent.

This allusion to the evil dragon and the boy has become a notorious poisonous chicken soup in later generations, but now, it is a little-known fable, and even Stengel fell into deep thought after the animation ended.

Stewart naturally read it in advance, and his eyebrows became a figure-eight, which looked more like, "Very wonderful story, but there is a question, if Apple is the boy who killed the dragon, and now he is devoured by Yuang and becomes that dragon, then you won't become an evil dragon in the future?"

I's electronic voice is flat and straightforward: "Hi, brother, I'm just a computer, don't ask me such a philosophical question, okay?"

In the midst of laughter, i's voice continued to sound: "Matrix will not become an evil dragon, because we are not dragon-killing heroes at all, but the blacksmith who makes weapons for heroes, and it is not a young hero who really kills the evil dragon, but every customer, who uses their own wallets to kill those shameless companies that have no innovation and only know consumer feelings." ”

"Smack!" Jobs smashed another TV remote.

In this war, both Jobs and Zhang Chen keenly grasped that the focus of the whole thing is not whether it is infringement, just as Jobs accused Bill Gates of stealing Apple's graphical interface, just to label competitors as immoral, until decades later, there are still many people who eat melons while using indos while scolding Bill Gates for not knowing how to innovate and only knowing how to steal other people's ideas.

And the graphical interface itself was stolen by Jobs from Xerox.

It can be seen how important the word-of-mouth image of the enterprise is in the hearts of users, in other words, if Apple was not supported by a group of die-hard fans, it would have been finished long ago.

What really scares Jobs is the creativity shown by Matrix, and now that the new Mac project has been established, Jobs really doesn't know if the new Mac will be up to the design level of today's i when it is launched a year later, and if not, it may be the last straw that breaks Apple's skinny camel.

Therefore, Jobs tried to strangle Matrix in the cradle to ensure that his die-hard fans would not defect, but now, Matrix's public opinion offensive is no worse than his own, and even Apple's side has just made a move, Matrix took the initiative to help Apple publicize this matter to the world, but the effect is the opposite of what Jobs wants to see.

Jobs frowned and picked up the phone: "Fred, how much cash do we have now?"

Fred Anderson had just finished dinner with his wife and was driving, "Steve, Toamelio's blessing, now we have about twenty-eight billion dollars in cash. But there's a lot of short-term debt, and less than $2 billion in cash available, so what do you want to do?"

Jobs thought for a moment: "Okay, I see, let's get back to it." ”

Jobs dialed another number: "Bill, there's something I need your help with." Can you help me ask that damn boy, how much can I buy his matrix?"