George is an electronics enthusiast and a big Apple fan. With a little money at home, he collected almost all the products since Apple's establishment.

Of course, George also collected a lot of other brands of electronics. Radio, computer, mobile phone...... There are all kinds of them.

It must also contain the popular fried chicken in the field of mobile phones this year - Gphone.

However, although George is very satisfied with the Gphone experience, as a white supremacist American, he has always been resentful of the fact that Gphone came from the Celestial Empire.

"George, tomorrow is the day the Apple iPhone goes on sale, should we go to the queue now?" Lagrange said.

LaGrand is also an electronics enthusiast, a good friend of George, as the saying goes, like gathers like, people divide into groups.

"Yes, the last time the Gphone was launched, I didn't go to the queue in advance, which led to me spending an extra $500 to buy one from someone else."

"Well, although we make up the difference, we can buy our favorite items as soon as possible, which is the most important thing."

"I'll pack up, prepare food and water, take my tent and go."

The term "audiophile" was first invented by "audio equipment enthusiasts" in Hong Kong.

Around the fifties and sixties, the amplifiers at that time were mainly based on guts. Due to the relatively hot weather in Hong Kong and Hong Kong, air conditioning was not yet widespread in that era, so every time they played with equipment and enjoyed music, they always sweated profusely, their faces were flushed, and they were still happy.

After a long time, they called themselves "audiophiles", and this title was also accepted by everyone, and became a common name for "audio equipment enthusiasts".

Slowly, other people who love all kinds of collecting are called so-and-so enthusiasts.

Especially in economically developed countries such as Europe and the United States, there are all kinds of enthusiasts everywhere.

George is just one of them!

……

A slum on the outskirts of New York.

"Remember, dress fashionably and pretty, don't be sloppy," said a small leader-like man to a dozen young people.

"Head, are we really just going to queue for two days and get two hundred dollars?".

"Wrong, you can only get one hundred and fifty, I'm going to draw fifty".

"We don't buy mobile phones, so what's the benefit of Apple hiring us to queue up like this?"

"This is not something you and I need to worry about, we just need to pretend to be normal consumers and go to the queue."

"No problem, will you be able to eat it uniformly?".

"Are you a pig? I tell you, if the media visits you, don't say anything, or you won't even want to get a penny."

When Gphone went on the market, there were long queues at the entrance of each directly operated store, which caused widespread coverage, and it was very free to advertise Gphone.

In the past six months, Apple has made sufficient preparations for the launch of the iPhone, and hiring a water army to help queue up is one of the warm-up plans provided by Apple's cooperative advertisers.

This scene in the slums of New York is also happening in other parts of the United States.

……

Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, USA, Korn Tei mobile phone flagship store.

"Ellie, Apple's direct store is directly opposite us, so it won't have any impact on our sales, right?" said Lisa, a new employee, to her boss, Ellie.

"Lisa, during the induction training, I have given you a full introduction to the functions of Gphone, and also explained to you the current situation of smartphones in the world, you must have confidence in our products."

"I just feel that our company is a Celestial Empire company after all, and Apple is an authentic American company, and I am worried that consumers will choose iphone over our Gphone."

"Why do you drive a Corolla from an island Toyota? Why don't you buy a 300C from Chrysler, a native of the United States?".

"Because Corolla is very good in all aspects, and it is fuel-efficient, which is very suitable for people like me who don't have much money."

"That's right, our Gphone is also very good in all aspects, why should consumers buy iphones?".

"But I think a lot of people are now lining up with tents, and the sale will start after tomorrow."

"That's when you haven't seen our Gphone go on the market, it's a lot crazier than Apple."

"Okay, then I'd better sell my Gphone."

……

PC Magazine is a well-known IT magazine in the United States and the flagship publication of ZD Group, the world's largest IT media, known for its product and technology reviews.

As a magazine based on laboratory product evaluation, it aims to provide IT product purchase guidance information for the majority of small and medium-sized enterprise users and strong individual users, and is a good reference for consumers and enterprises to purchase.

Although its name takes away the word "PC", it is not just a computer review.

A wide range of IT products, including laptops, desktops, monitors, scanners, printers, switches, servers, and mobile phones and digital cameras, are their targets.

As a giant in the American IT industry, Apple has always been the focus of PC Magazine, and there are various collaborations between them and Apple.

Basically every generation of Apple's computer products will run ads in their magazines, and the iPhone is no exception.

"Editor-in-chief, this is a sample issue from Apple, and they want us to use this sample issue in the new issue of the magazine to report on the content of the iPhone."

"We asked them to send us a few prototypes for testing, but they haven't sent them yet, and there are no tests, how can we report it?".

"I also urged them, but they insisted on waiting until the iPhone was launched."

"Then let's wait until we receive the prototype and finish the test before arranging a report."

"If that's the case, it's going to be the next issue."

"The next issue will be the next issue".

"But the marketing department has already promised Apple to let them be on the cover of this issue."

"I'm the editor-in-chief, and I have the final say on the content of the magazine, so why should I listen to the marketing department?"

"I've heard that the marketing department recently signed a big advertising contract with Apple, which involves more than $1 million."

"Hit, money, money, these guys only have money in their eyes, and if this continues, sooner or later the signboard of our magazine will be screwed up."

"Apple is an old company, and their product performance should be fine."

"Are you talking nonsense with your eyes open? Who wrote the last Gphone report? Didn't you count what you wrote yourself? The parameters announced at the iphone press conference are obviously not as good as those of the Gphone, and when the time comes, we will brag there, don't you want to think about whether there will be any sequelae?"

(End of chapter)