Chapter 930: Who's Kidding Me

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Nokia has undoubtedly inherited the unique craftsmanship of Europeans, and the two musical mobile phone prototypes in Eric's hands, although they are only made of plastic, have a high-end metal texture with a silver shell. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Moreover, these two phones do not adopt Nokia's unchanged classic shape, but are similar to the Nokia Rittal long strip design, but due to the current technical limitations, the body appears to be wider than the Nokia Rittal, but the phone as a whole still looks stylish. In addition to the basic communication functions, the phone's music playback system is much more convenient than the Fireflyer thanks to the buttons, and even allows for simple lookups.

While the starting price of $600 is definitely a high-end model among existing phones, Eric still believes that the phone will appeal to young white-collar workers under the age of 30.

After putting on his headphones and listening to a piece of music, Eric put his two phones back up satisfied.

Now that he is in a restaurant, it is impossible for Eric to continue to test whether these two phones can easily buy and transfer music from the Yahoo Music Store, but after a brief trial, Eric has no doubts about the music transmission function of this phone, and there is no doubt that Nokia's technical research and development capabilities are not much inferior to Firefly Electronics.

After a few more conversations with Caroline and Melanie, Eric began to eat. However, he couldn't help but start thinking about what kind of time and form he should choose in the future to intervene in and even take over the management affairs of Nokia. Nokia has no shortage of technology, no lack of talent, no lack of channels, but in the peak of fifteen years after a sudden decline, this is definitely not an accident, but a long qualitative process of thousands of miles to collapse in the anthill, if you want to wait until the end of the day to make a move, it is definitely not possible.

Firefly Investments still holds a 51% controlling stake in Nokia, so Eric has the absolute power to make any adjustments he wants to make to Nokia if he wants.

However, in recent years, it has not been possible to do so, Nokia has just become the world's number one mobile phone manufacturer, and the current management has a very complete company development plan. If you wantonly meddle in the management of this company now, it will definitely cause conflicts between the management and Eric, the major shareholder, and affect the momentum of Nokia's further rise.

Even the current music phone, when Eric promoted this project, he could faintly feel some dissatisfaction with Nokia's management, many of Nokia's top executives are pursuing the ultimate in simple and easy-to-use feature phones, and feel that mobile phone entertainment functions are just 'not doing business' chicken ribs, until the decline of the past, they have actually been proudly sticking to their own ideas, and eventually caused the mobile phone industry giant to fall from the peak to the bottom at a jaw-dropping speed.

It wasn't until the two girls opposite him finished their lunch and felt that he was silent for a while, and then looked at each other curiously, that Eric retracted his scattered thoughts, smiled, and sped up his eating.

Since it's not clear for a while, let's think about it slowly, anyway, Nokia has just entered its peak, and there are many opportunities for both time and opportunity, at least, next year, Nokia CEO Yoma Ollila's contract will not expire until next year, and what you want to do, at least wait until then.

Eric just regretted that he didn't remember the name of the last Nokia CEO who quickly led Nokia into the abyss, otherwise he would have immediately pulled that guy out and kicked out of Nokia even if everyone objected. Able to bring an industry giant that occupies more than 40% of the world's mobile phone market to the point of liquidation, such a 'talent' Eric feels that it should be immediately sent to the scourge of other talents.

After lunch, Eric instructed the two daughters: "You send a memorandum to Nokia, since they plan to adopt two storage versions of 1G and 2G similar to the second-generation Fireflyer, then postpone the release time, from January to April, a week after the release of the second-generation Fireflyer." In addition, although Nokia's main business scope is in Europe and Asia, the main market for this mobile phone should be the United States, because for the time being, only the United States has a relatively complete online music store, Europe is not in a hurry, Asia, well, don't rush to promote it for the time being, although the music copyright supervision over there is not strict, but we don't need to do it, the gains outweigh the losses. ”

After confirming that the two girls had written down their words, Eric left the restaurant and returned to the studio to continue his work.

Two days later, after a simple set of rehearsals for "wannabe" was completed in the studio, Eric was about to gather the members of the Spice Girls group to start rehearsals, when another heavyweight news came from the United States.

After three long months of tug-of-war negotiations, Viacom finally reached a deal with CBS Group, and the final transaction price reached $36 billion.

At this point, the four major television networks in the United States, and FOX, all belong to the big group, although General Electric, which owns the NBC group, is not a media group, but this has still become a sign that the wave of great consolidation of the American media industry has been basically completed.

Canada's Seagram Group's ongoing acquisition of Europe's Polygram Records is only an extension of this wave of consolidation, because whether the merger is successfully completed or not, it will not have much impact on the US media landscape.

The completion of the integration of media groups also means that under the condition that this monopoly pattern has been formed, a media company will no longer have the possibility of developing into a media group from scratch unless it adopts the means of small and large-scale mergers, and the media industry in the United States has once again entered the era of oligarchs.

When Eric heard the news, he was reminded of the conversation he had a few years ago when he first met Robert Shea, CEO of New Line Pictures. Although his butterfly has caused too many storms in the following years, the general trend of what has happened in history has not changed. The fireflies also successfully completed their layout before this.

Today is the third day of rehearsals for "wannabe".

Eric spent two days watching and directing several girls from the Spice Girls group to perform the entire music video, although there has never been a shortage of female singing groups in the history of music, but it is the Spice Girls group that really brought this girl group form to the world.

Therefore, in the original history, although many people thought that the Spice Girls group was very cool when it was just rising, whether it was a filmed MV or a live performance, in the eyes of Eric, a person who has more than ten years of experience, the dance of the Spice Girls during the MV performance was simply miserable, so Eric naturally asked the choreographer to redesign some classic dance moves for several girls according to his memory.

In the studio of Pinewood Studios, due to the open nature of the set, dozens of pairs of eyes were curiously looking at Eric who was wearing a Steadicam camera system on the sidelines, including the five girls of the Spice Girls, and everyone showed surprised expressions.

Caroline and Melanie helped Eric check a few more joints on his body before Simon Fuller walked over and looked at Eric in a shock-absorbing vest and holding a balance bar adjusting a light camera, with a look of disbelief: "Eric, are you planning to shoot this music video yourself?"

Eric nodded, looked at Simon Fuller with a surprised face, and smiled, "Can't I come in person?"

"No, oh, okay, of course," Simon Fuller quickly shook his head, joking, Eric Williams himself acted as a photographer to shoot the MV, who would dare to say no.

Seeing that Simon Fuller couldn't react for a while, Eric said again: "Everyone here should have signed a confidentiality agreement, you tell me again, don't disclose this matter until this MV is completed." ”

During this time, Eric's arrival in the UK has long been in the media frequently. The news of the formation of the Spice Girls group was also hyped under the operation of Simon Fuller. However, the outside world only heard the news that Eric was about to coach the Spice Girls group to produce a song, and other information was blocked to death.

Simon Fuller found out from Eric that he was going to be a photographer himself, and his first thought was to call a newspaper immediately, which was big news.

It's just that, hearing Eric's special advice, Simon Fuller had to dispel this idea: "Okay, Eric, I'll arrange it." ”

"So, let's get started," Eric nodded, walking to the sideline, signaling to a certain music video director who had been invited by Simon Fuller but couldn't find any presence to get started.

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After confirming that the two girls had written down their words, Eric left the restaurant and returned to the studio to continue his work.

Two days later, after a simple set of rehearsals for "wannabe" was completed in the studio, Eric was about to gather the members of the Spice Girls group to start rehearsals, when another heavyweight news came from the United States.

After three long months of tug-of-war negotiations, Viacom finally reached a deal with CBS Group, and the final transaction price reached $36 billion.

At this point, the four major television networks in the United States, and FOX, all belong to the big group, although General Electric, which owns the NBC group, is not a media group, but this has still become a sign that the wave of great consolidation of the American media industry has been basically completed.

Canada's Seagram Group's ongoing acquisition of Europe's Polygram Records is only an extension of this wave of consolidation, because whether the merger is successfully completed or not, it will not have much impact on the US media landscape.

The completion of the integration of media groups also means that under the condition that this monopoly pattern has been formed, a media company will no longer have the possibility of developing into a media group from scratch unless it adopts the means of small and large-scale mergers, and the media industry in the United States has once again entered the era of oligarchs.

When Eric heard the news, he was reminded of the conversation he had a few years ago when he first met Robert Shea, CEO of New Line Pictures. Although his butterfly has caused too many storms in the following years, the general trend of what has happened in history has not changed. The fireflies also successfully completed their layout before this.

Today is the third day of rehearsals for "wannabe".

Eric spent two days watching and directing several girls from the Spice Girls group to perform the entire music video, although there has never been a shortage of female singing groups in the history of music, but it is the Spice Girls group that really brought this girl group form to the world.

Therefore, in the original history, although many people thought that the Spice Girls group was very cool when it was just rising, whether it was a filmed MV or a live performance, in the eyes of Eric, a person who has more than ten years of experience, the dance of the Spice Girls during the MV performance was simply miserable, so Eric naturally asked the choreographer to redesign some classic dance moves for several girls according to his memory.

In the studio of Pinewood Studios, due to the open nature of the set, dozens of pairs of eyes were curiously looking at Eric who was wearing a Steadicam camera system on the sidelines, including the five girls of the Spice Girls, and everyone showed surprised expressions.

Caroline and Melanie helped Eric check a few more joints on his body before Simon Fuller walked over and looked at Eric in a shock-absorbing vest and holding a balance bar adjusting a light camera, with a look of disbelief: "Eric, are you planning to shoot this music video yourself?"

Eric nodded, looked at Simon Fuller with a surprised face, and smiled, "Can't I come in person?"

"No, oh, okay, of course," Simon Fuller quickly shook his head, joking, Eric Williams himself acted as a photographer to shoot the MV, who would dare to say no.

Seeing that Simon Fuller couldn't react for a while, Eric said again: "Everyone here should have signed a confidentiality agreement, you tell me again, don't disclose this matter until this MV is completed." ”

During this time, Eric's arrival in the UK has long been in the media frequently. The news of the formation of the Spice Girls group was also hyped under the operation of Simon Fuller. However, the outside world only heard the news that Eric was about to coach the Spice Girls group to produce a song, and other information was blocked to death.

Simon Fuller found out from Eric that he was going to be a photographer himself, and his first thought was to call a newspaper immediately, which was big news.

It's just that, hearing Eric's special advice, Simon Fuller had to dispel this idea: "Okay, Eric, I'll arrange it." ”

"So, let's get started," Eric nodded, walking to the sideline, signaling to a certain music video director who had been invited by Simon Fuller but couldn't find any presence to get started. (To be continued.) )