Chapter 6: Windos and Seattle Sleepless Nights

This large, new bookstore chain is really good, spacious, well-decorated, and full of beautiful paintings and all kinds of maple leaf icons. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žfo

"The owner's taste is quite good! It is not easy to run such a large industry well. ”

"What's so hard about this?! Chain stores are all reproductions, just like those paintings, there is a template, and it can be produced as it is, completely unremarkable. Xia Yingying said with some dissatisfaction.

Su Le realized that he was on the wrong side, and hurriedly said: "There are some problems, they are all industrial works of art produced by capitalism, which are too commercialized, and it doesn't feel suitable for a place like a bookstore." ”

"Coffee is also, the industry standard of rules. No features, no surprises, no errors, it's exactly the same every day. ”

Su Le tasted the coffee in the paper cup, and the taste was still good, not as bad as Xia Xianying said.

After drinking coffee, the two walked around the bookstore for a while, and then looked for a place to read, when an older, short-haired woman came to say hello.

"Ying, it's been okay lately." The short-haired woman has a sweet voice and looks like it too.

"Miss Resa, why did you come to such a place?"

"Recently, I have a lot of free time, and I want to write something and come over to find some material." Ressa smiled and replied, "Is your bookstore still holding up?" ”

"It's okay, it won't go out of business anytime soon."

"Is this ......" Ressa looked at Su Le and asked, "Is this Ying's boyfriend?" ”

Su Le was about to introduce himself, but Xia Yingying preemptively said, "Yes, I came to see me from the other side of the Pacific Ocean." ”

"It's not a Chinese in the United States, I'm Ressa, a friend of Ying, welcome to Seattle."

"Uh......" Su Le was a little surprised, and after relieving himself, he hurriedly introduced himself: "My name is Su Le, and I work in Beidu...... Work on computer software. ”

"Software?! What software? ”

Suddenly interjecting was an older Caucasian male with a broad forehead, slightly curly hair, and large eyes.

"This is the manager of our store, Mr. Gates." Ressa said.

"Just call me Tom...... Actually, I also wanted to develop software, system software for graphical user interfaces, but unfortunately it failed halfway, what software do you do? ”

"It's the system software, Windos." Su Le replied.

β€œWindos?! That thing has a good evaluation in the industry, but it can't be promoted by a small company like Dai Er, and I have a channel here that can become a pre-installed system for LBM computers. ”

"There is such a good thing?!"

"Of course, my mother is a director of LBM." Tom Gates said proudly, "But the price must be better, and you know that LBM's platform is not comparable to Dai Er." ”

"How much is the discount? Windos and Deer computers are invested by the same parent company, but they are still accounted for separately from each other, and Dell computers use Windos for 200 yuan each. Su Le said truthfully.

"200 yuan is too much, you should know that many software companies want to cooperate with LBM, although I can help, but the price of each machine more than 100 yuan will be more difficult to reach cooperation."

This Mr. Gates is still very ruthless in lowering the price, but the store is a big bully, and the customer is a big bully to the store. For the sake of the popularity of Windos, it is also necessary to make it cheaper, even if the other party asks for it to be provided for free, it is negotiable.

"If the quantity is purchased enough...... Less than 100 yuan is not impossible...... After all, LBM's adoption of our system is also a recognition of quality and can improve the reputation of Windos. ”

Su Le didn't say anything to death, Gates saw that it was profitable, so he handed over the business card and said: "This is my contact information, it's inconvenient to talk about it today, let's talk about the specific things later, I think Windos has a great chance." ”

"Really!" Su Le pretended to be excited, took the business card with both hands and said, "This matter will trouble Mr. Gates, I will contact the Beidu as soon as possible, and then call you." ”

"We look forward to a happy cooperation!" Gates smiled and said, "I still have some things, so I won't bother the three of them." ”

Looking at Su Le's respectful appearance, Gates felt that he was in the limelight in front of the two ladies, and left very satisfied, and at the same time laughed at Su Le in his heart: "This stupid donkey from the East actually showed all the hole cards directly, and the graphical user interface that is so easy to use is only 200 yuan, I really don't understand the market!" ”

In fact, Su Le is also very satisfied, he knows that users have a strong inertia, and if they are used to Windos, they will have path dependence and cannot easily migrate to other systems.

As long as Windos is promoted, even LBM, an industry giant, cannot be compared with Dai Er, who owns Windos, in the field of personal computers.

After a while, seeing that the annoying person had already walked away, Xia Xianying hurriedly asked, "Miss Ressa, why did that one named Tom appear here?" ”

"Recently, when I was reading here, he came to say hello when he saw it, and when he heard that my bookstore was closed, he invited me to work here." Ressa replied.

"You didn't say yes, did you?"

"Of course not, as I said earlier - I wanted to write something."

The three chatted again, Ressa's idea of changing jobs to writing gave Su Le a new idea, but the time is not ripe at present, first of all, we must promote e-paper books, with a reader base, the author can make money and form a good ecology.

The trip to Seattle was coming to an end, and that night, Xia Xianying just took Su Le to see a movie "Sleepless in Seattle......

Due to the late end time, Su Le sent Xia Xianying home, and on the way, the two chatted about the booming computer industry.

"You're starting a business in computers, why didn't you tell me?!" Xia Yingying seemed to have some blame.

Su Le didn't deliberately hide it, he just felt that there was no need to say it, he thought about it and said to his female companion: "I haven't had a chance to mention it, and even if you say it, you will only feel bored." ”

"It's boring." Xia Yanying was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Do you know the company Dinter?" ”

"Of course I know this, it's a company that produces desktop computer processors, and personal computers are currently being popularized, and this company has accumulated a lot of technology in the early stage, and it's going to make a lot of money."

"Really?! The stock price used to be very low, but now I don't know how. ”

"It's bound to be skyrocketing, and the stock price will rise a lot in the long run, and if I hold Dintle's shares, I'm going to hold it firmly in my hands."

The two chatted and chatted, and arrived at the door of Xia Yingying's house, before opening the door, Xia Yingying asked Su Le in a low voice, "Are you leaving tomorrow?" ”

"I need to discuss the pre-installation system with LBM as soon as possible, this matter is important and urgent, and I don't want other companies to take the lead."

"What about my bookstore? Is there any certainty of reversing the decline? Stay tonight! ”