Chapter 849 Scene 849 Leader of the Times
In Redmond, Seattle, Washington, in the Microsoft headquarters building, Bill Gates, the president of the company, who had just finished attending a charity event from the Middle East, was sitting behind his desk frowning deeply, looking at the financial statements of this quarter, and then "snapped" the document shut, looking at the entire conference room with an extremely solemn expression.
"Can anyone explain to me why exactly what happened to us this quarter and why we lost 13/4 percent of our market share? I really don't understand, is there something major wrong in my decision? ”
Bill Gates, who has always been mild-mannered, also looked a little dazed at the moment, and some couldn't stand the blow, several project managers of different skin colors looked at each other, and one of the younger and lighter white managers couldn't help but comfort him and said:
"Bill, you can't be blamed for this, our products are still doing very well, but the competition we face is too great, and you know that the introduction of the iPhone has greatly reduced the amount of time that the average user has to rely on the desktop computer...... A drop in our Windows sales is inevitable...... In addition, we are already working on the Windows version of the mobile phone, and I believe that we should be able to join the competition of smartphone software next year. ”
"We can put the iphone aside, but why has our XBOX sales dropped by a full 46.7 percent in the past 10 days, and what the hell is going on?" Bill Gates had just returned from the Middle East, but he still grasped the crux of the matter, holding back a newspaper: "You don't know why, let me tell you, that's why." ”
“IBOX…… But this is just a TV, although you can play games, but there are only 3 games on it, so it's not competitive at all? Several product managers looked at each other, and the bald manager who was furthest away from Bill Gates shook his head and said, "It's just a TV, and he thinks it's not a competitor in the same field as XBOX, he should be worried about Philips and LG."
"Not competitive?" Bill Gates looked at these old colleagues with a smile and a smile, asked the secretary to set up an ibox, then put the camera catcher in front of him, waved his hand, controlled the figure inside to make corresponding movements, and then asked the secretary to click on the training game of "Fruit Man" and gave a demonstration to everyone.
"Bill...... Such a boring game, what is there to worry about, we have at least dozens of such games on Xbox, and once the freshness passes, users will soon get bored. "It's really boring, it's too tiring to play." "It's a shame that Apple came up with it, and it used this kind of cross-border product, and the positioning was too vague."
"Do you know how Nokia and Motorola went downhill?" Bill Gates glared and said:
"It's not because their software is not good, there are problems with the hardware, but they are the product of the last era, they put all their energy on how to reshape the brilliance, and ignore the new trend that is now developing, the emergence of the iPhone, is completely from another realm to defeat them, and the emergence of ibox is the same, Apple is from a higher product thinking in all directions, a TV integrated computer, DVD, game console functions, he will become the mainstream product of all users living room."
Seeing the dazed faces of the technical maniacs under his command, Bill Gates couldn't help but shout in an aggravated tone: "Gentlemen~! Come to your senses, this ibox is not Apple's temporary idea, but a real long-term layout, they are eating us away at us in all aspects, and when we wake up, we will be devoured by them~
You can see clearly, this three-dimensional camera capture technology, this real fighting game, sports, music games, and that damn fruit-cutting game, are all well-designed, each game is perfectly combined with the somatosensory technology brought by camera capture, I can't even find a better idea, why do you think this is a simple crossover product!?
Everyone, according to my experience, I tell me that they have been preparing for the development of the Ibox product since 5 years, or even 10 years ago, they not only greatly increased their investment in hardware, but also invited at least 3 top teams to participate in the production of game software, otherwise it would never have been possible to think of the advantages of such a water camera capture technology! ”
Bill Gates said this, and couldn't help but shake his head: "Jobs, no...... It should be said that Li Xiaole is changing the world, I heard that there are many contradictions within Apple, Li Xiaole did not sit firmly in the position of design director, my opinion is that we should do everything to recruit him to Microsoft, even if he does nothing, as long as he is not in Apple, it is very beneficial to us. ”
Everyone frowned when they heard this, is Bill too exaggerated this time, but he is just a product manager, as for how to make him so high?
Those present did not know that Bill Gates always had an inner instinct to discover the coming of the new wave and capture its time to obtain huge profits, such as the era of rapid development of desktops, that is, he captured the personal computer will change people's lifestyles, and this wave has been led by one person from the beginning to the present, that is, the Chinese Li Xiaole.
Bill Gates's recent premonition in his heart has become stronger and stronger, another wave of new era in the future has come, Microsoft, the market once reached its peak in 1999 more than 600 billion US dollars, has fallen behind, they will be accidentally caught up by latecomers, left behind by the times, and the key to all this is Li Xiaole.
During this period of time, Apple, all of them have entered an extremely busy stage, no one expected, in just two weeks, the sales of ibox reached 600,000 units, and now not only Apple stores in all states of the United States send people to Apple every day to urge to increase supply, but also many such as Disney parks, rock fitness clubs, these group corporate customers have begun to place bulk orders for ibox to Apple.
"Increase production capacity, increase production capacity, and mobilize all our factories that can be contacted~!" Jonathan roared excitedly in the conference room, as a new product, iBox has surpassed the sales of iPhones in the past two weeks, selling as many as 2 million units, and many places have been out of stock, all this is crazy!!
You can't blame the sales department for having the wrong plan, who the fuck would have thought of it! A TV product can burst out with such a huge amount of energy!!
What makes people laugh and cry is that the most enthusiastic people who buy this product are not game fans, but various fitness clubs and clubs, because now as long as there are a few iboxes in the fitness hall, the number of members of any fitness club will increase rapidly......
"Condor Fighting" is a huge benefit for many ordinary people who want to work out but feel that fitness is too boring, people can lose weight while playing games, which is really too human
The eliminated designers of the pirate game studio, who were originally eliminated from major game companies, were originally very weak about their participation in the production of the three games of "Condor Fighting", for fear of letting colleagues in the industry know that they were working for a pirate game company, but now the situation has changed 180 degrees, and those designers are eager to mention this popular game dozens of times in conversations with former friends, and those former colleagues of Microsoft and Nintendo can't help but ask: "Hey, buddy, Your pirate company is still short of people......"
The famous game impurity "Spiritual Home", and even directly selected "Condor Fighting" into the top 50 games in history, and the names of all the designers involved in this project were engraved on it, and the name of Salman, the main designer, even entered the "Game Hall of Fame", and he was only 27 years old with "Plants vs. Zombies" and "Condor Fighting" two games, and "Super Mario" maker Shigeru Miyamoto is as famous and in the industry.
On the day he saw the ranking of this magazine, Salman called Li Xiaole directly and said with a crying voice: "Li ...... You know, I've been making games since I was 14 years old, and I fantasized that I would be inducted into the 'Gaming Hall of Fame', and I really didn't expect that I, Salman, would actually have this day, thank you, this honor should be yours. ”
For the first time, Li Xiaole heard the kind of love for games that Salman had hidden in his heart, and nodded with relief, which is why he has always chosen to use this somewhat perverted Indian's willingness.
Seeing that everyone was not very optimistic about ibox to set off a trend, although Apple's board of directors was very excited, they all began to fidget, and at the same time began to fidget, this result also means that Li Xiaole will not sign a long-term contract with the company, but now Li Xiaole's importance has vaguely surpassed Jobs, and he is healthy and young, and everyone has begun to fully recognize his value......
Several directors, including Kelly Ya'an, personally called Li Xiaole and praised his great contribution to Apple in the way of singing praises, and even Kelly Ya'an promised that the company would build a group of bronze statues of important figures in the company next year, and he and Jobs were the only two living figures......
Li Xiaole couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it, Jobs was quite reasonable, after all, he had dedicated himself to Apple for so many years, and he was still so young, so he was repaired by the company...... Is this a curse on him...... Well, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is also alive to be repaired, and these foreigners' ideas are really unique.