Chapter 90: PR Oscars
Chen Bo repeatedly emphasized the principle of confidentiality, even if all the people present are executives, no matter who dares to leak it, what awaits him is monstrous anger and will not be tolerated.
After the meeting, the two leaders of the "Pandora" team, Liu Qi and Douglas and Youliu Zhen, were called to the office and explained other details in person.
"The rectification of the system is urgent, I don't want to see a defective product circulating on the market, and the name of version 1.0 is called Allspark, Tinder Source." This term comes from the energy cube in Transformers, and according to the production process, it will be released next year, so it's not impossible to take the opportunity to brush up on the heat. Then he said, "You can translate the naming rules from mythology and history, and what God gave to man, then we will give it a name." ”
"So casual?"
"Isn't the Internet just casual?" Chen Bo replied, "I didn't tell you something just now, the improvement of system software is one thing, and you need to come up with more creativity in industrial design, this engineering machine is really ugly." ”
"But that's not our forte." Douglas and Liu Qi were bitter-faced, and it was obviously too embarrassing for them to pursue the beauty of art as a man in science and engineering.
"Okay, I'll figure this out." Chen Bo was not easy to be strong, so he had to move on to the next topic, "Have you contacted mobile phone brand manufacturers, which ones are willing to cooperate?" ”
"Well, there is only one backgammon, but you also know their situation, and the technical conditions cannot be met at present." Liu Qi replied.
"What about HTC Electronics, the parent company of Dopod?"
"Forget it, their executives have a good personal relationship with Google's Andy Rubin, and they directly rejected our temptation." Douglas pouted, "Samsung and Sony are both customers of Symbian, and they are currently cooperating well, so they will not consider other camps for the time being." ”
Andy Rubin is the father of Android, and he asked Samsung to sell a semi-finished system that had not yet been developed, but he was driven away by the arrogant Lee Jae-yong. Then he also emailed Hoffman, and while waiting for a response, Larry Page offered $50 million to buy out the team of only a dozen people.
Android is characterized by being easy to use, highly playable, and easy to promote. But no matter how you jump, you can't jump out of the Java circle, and Chen Bo doesn't like the design of Android, it's too bad, a fragment of redundancy can't be solved for so many years, and it's no wonder that Jobs despises it.
"That's weird, that thing in Saipan is also called an intelligent system?" Chen Bo smiled dumbly, the other party did not respond positively, so it is difficult for them to come up with a specific design, otherwise there will be many people and it will be easy to be exposed too quickly. "Then who made this Walkman's engineering machine?"
"It's still backgammon."
Chen Bo's fingers clicked on the solid wood tabletop, silently thinking about how to solve the technical problems of hardware. Ye Tianhao's company is still too far behind the world's first-class factories, and it is no problem to produce an ordinary MP3 player, that thing has become popular, and the technology content is decreasing year by year.
But if you do smart walkmans and mobile phones, 3G patent licensing alone, as well as a variety of complex mobile communication technologies are not what they have. What is missing is a whole set of processes, knowing that a Walkman equipped with an intelligent system uses as many as 8 sensor elements, not to mention a more specialized baseband chip, which contains processors, encoders, signal processors and regulators that are only capable of first-class semiconductor companies.
Samsung and Sony have a complete set of electronic industry processes, while Apple does not have a factory and also uses the ARM framework, but it has its own chip design team, which can ensure the smoothness of the system and hardware matching to the greatest extent.
In addition to ARM, the orange is now completely weak, and the domestic semiconductor is definitely more than 30 years behind the world-class enterprises, which is beyond doubt.
"Go and contact TSMC and Foxconn to see what they think." Chen Bo thought for a long time and could only choose this plan temporarily, and then turned his head to Liu Zhen and asked, "Regarding Pandora's patent issue, what are the statistical results?" ”
"At present, we have applied for and acquired 147 patents, of which about 233 overlap with Apple, 54 overlap with Google, and the rest overlap with small companies, and the lawyer team is stepping up negotiations to try to hold as many patents as possible before the press conference."
Although Chen Bo has approved Liu Zhen to take over the job of online payment, she has not yet officially taken up her position, and she is still a legal assistant in the company, responsible for coordinating the work between the legal team and management.
"Well, that's a good job, keep it up." Chen Bo said that the system already has preliminary strength, and if there is no partner to jointly develop a smartphone, they can only choose to use the walkman they are good at to release this flood beast.
Chen Bo stayed here for a few days, and in addition to the intelligent system, he also appointed Wang Xiaochuan as the new CEO of Orange Search, taking over the original work in Greater China. Although he is one year younger than him, he is experienced, calm and sophisticated, and he has followed him step by step, which is still worth reassuring.
Orange Search, which has reopened in China, will exist as an independent operating company, and it will be two equal teams with Silicon Valley companies, sharing technology with each other, but there will be no affiliation, and a high degree of freedom will be maintained.
Video sharing websites are also a piece that he pays more attention to, with the emergence of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Wuji", the two operating models of video websites have been changed. The former is a linkage with the cinema chain, and the latter has given birth to an innovative wave of spoofs by netizens, and "A Bloody Case Caused by a Steamed Bun" has been continuously fermented in the online world.
Although Lu Xiaoyun was so angry that she almost burst the phone on Hulu.com, she still withstood the pressure and continued to top the homepage.
As for Director Kai Geda, if he doesn't have this kind of bearing on the surface, then he will be fine. Chen Bo even ordered a special page to be opened to support this kind of dreamy and creative netizens, whose success will drive more people to devote themselves to the development of self-media.
Micro-film events are already being planned around the world, and the prize money will definitely be a big hit at that time.
After half a year, he was involved in the management of the company again, and Chen Bo just came to take a walk around to give a suggestion, and left quietly again after arranging the work. Comes like the wind and goes away with it!
On the way to Los Angeles, he received the news that Assange had revealed his identity to the world and established WikiLeaks, but the hacker, who had been lurking in the night, had not suppressed his throbbing heart, exposed himself to the world, and wanted to publish classified documents leaked by governments on the Internet.
Although he only announced his name, no office address, no website management and no phone, it instantly attracted many Internet users to come and watch, and it was overcrowded for a while.
At this moment, the U.S. government has begun to pay attention to and is ready to arrest this troublemaker who disrupts social order at any time.
No state power will allow such a person to exist, and who is clean under the ass.
Chen Bo still has a piece of information in hand, although it is not shocking, at least it can trigger a global financial tsunami, he is not ready to lift the lid or not, the domino effect is extremely terrifying.
At an altitude of 30,000 feet, Chen Bo silently withdrew from the secret mailbox that only he could log into, and after some thought, he decided to put the information aside first, Los Angeles was already close at hand.
Hollywood is still that Hollywood, still drunk on money, and there are still countless people around the world who come to look for opportunities with various dreams.
February is the hottest time of the awards season, with all kinds of shows appearing in an endless stream, such as Emmys, Grammys, Golden Globes and even the Oscars.
The streets and alleys are also full of advertising posters and slogans, constantly implanting this idea into the minds of the audience.
Now that "Brokeback Mountain" has been nominated for 8 Academy Awards, why bother with other small awards? As early as half a month ago, Chen Bo approved another $10 million for public relations.
This was Harvey's usual method back then, nakedly snatching the little golden man that belonged to "Saving Private Ryan" from Spielberg's hands.
Of course, Chen Bo is not stingy, newspapers, the Internet, radio, television, wherever he can see it, preach the humanistic feelings of "Brokeback Mountain" over and over again, and hold various private parties to invite the judges.
What the? You say this violates the principle of fairness?!
In fact, any nominated company will do this, but only because of how much PR money is spent. Generally, the budget of the Big Six before the Oscars is about 3 million US dollars, and Chen Bo, a newcomer, is directly thrown out more than three times. The box office is so high that it has already been earned, and it is not bad at all, and it has to be smashed out of a little golden man.
The scientific name of the Oscar is called the "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards" for short, as for why it is called "Oscar", there are many versions of it among the people, shouting and shouting to become an Oscar, but it is the same people who forced the official to die, and no one knows the original name of this award.
And more than 6,000 Oscar judges have the right to vote, no matter how strong you are, you can't invite all of them. Therefore, various film companies imperceptibly implement this unspoken rule, and please treat the meaning.
To be able to win the award, it is the best to make some word of mouth, if you don't pour, it doesn't matter, the six are all commercial companies, and whether they can make a profit is the key.
Usually most of the Oscar awards are for small-production, low-cost and more literary films, one is to show official encouragement, and the other is to emphasize that the film itself is an art, and it is not good to be too utilitarian, anyway, you have earned the money, and it is not appropriate to win the award again, right?
So a big production like that kind of high-tech effort to give the best technical effect, the best soundtrack and other indifferent small awards. Marvel's future works are just this way, pure popcorn theatrical movies.
"Titanic" is an example, and the adaptation based on real history is also better to win awards. Cameron can burn money so much, so he can make blockbusters, whether it is Terminator or Avatar, only this movie has a good reputation and box office.
The voting process for the Oscars is also strictly confidential, with PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm conducting statistical secret ballots, and at the end of the event, all bills will be destroyed, and the final results will be sealed and handed over to the armed guards for safekeeping, and the award presenters will open it on the day of the event.
(End of chapter)