However, even the $0.59 US dollar price was a lot of arguments between Luo Sheng and the record company, and the record company promised to license it to Bluestar Technology, but there were also many restrictions on interference in the agreement, such as the price of digital music, because the terms of the agreement were based on shares, and if it was sold too cheaply, the record company would make less money.

Apple's iTunes price of $0.99 is also a deal with the record company after a lot of lip service, no way, the copyright is in the hands of the record company, and the current digital music market occupies too little market share, and naturally has little right to speak.

At this point, the record company is very stubborn and clear, how low you want to sell it is your business, you subsidize it yourself, and the score of each song sold is executed at Apple's current standard price of $0.99 USD.

Luo Sheng didn't talk to the record company, and he didn't have a firm foothold at the moment, so he had to temporarily provide for these masters, and threatened to withdraw the copyright and interrupt the authorization at every turn, and Luo Sheng didn't have a good way to take them.

I had to stop making money, and 60% of the song sales were given to the record company at $0.99 per song, while the actual sales were $0.59 per song, in other words, Luo Sheng's decision was equivalent to making him lose $0.004 for every song sold on the MusicSpace platform, and the higher the sales, the more the company would lose.

The purpose of this is to make iTunes uncomfortable, and Luo Sheng can now accept that the MusicSpace platform does not earn any money, or even loses money, just to compete for users.

But Apple has tasted the sweetness of the iTunes + iPod combination at both ends, and suddenly wants to lower the price, which is equivalent to iTunes making half of the profit, as a listed company, Apple's current stock price is in full sprint stage.

With iTunes having hundreds of millions of users, this is not a small amount, and the iTunes + iPod combination has brought Apple $10 billion in revenue in the past three years.

The price does not mean that it can be lowered immediately, and it is not easy to get a person to take out the benefits of eating and take half of it.

Luo Sheng's combination boxing, if the competitor can do everything, all of them can be dealt with in a timely manner and successfully stabilized, without any mistakes, then there is nothing to say, you can only say that you are amazing, and then look back and think of new tricks, practice it and then come out PK.

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The international version of MusicSpace was launched more than a week ago, and on the eighth day, it managed to break through the 1 million user scale, and Luo Sheng's cost of nearly $200 million was questioned by investors, who were really shocked to learn the news.

With the launch of MusicSpace for a week, Luo Sheng once again obediently shut his mouth to investors, and established his authority by "slapping investors in the face" again and again.

Investors are now very excited because MusicSpace's impressive start has given them a chance to compete with Apple's iTunes, and that possibility is higher than they originally thought.

You must know that Apple has relied on the iTunes+iPod combination to complete the salted fish turnaround after entering the new century, making a lot of money, and many people are hot for it.

There is no doubt that several major investors in Bluestar Technology hope that Luo Sheng can nibble a piece of fat from Apple.

MusicSpace's growth momentum has indeed made Apple feel the pressure, although the current volume scale is completely disproportional to iTunes, but as long as you look at the growth curve of other Internet products under Bluestar Technology, not paying attention to it is definitely a brain caught in the door.

So far, the products launched by Bluestar Technology have not failed, even if the websites with bad reviews are getting more and more scolded.

Sometimes, it's really annoying to be in the same position.

On the tenth day after the launch of MusicSpace, Apple hurriedly announced that it was about to launch a new version of iTunes, that is, the Windows version, and PC users would also be able to use iTunes at that time.

However, Joe's gang leader is still very arrogant, disdainful of following some of MusicSpace's new innovative features, at least not now, and is not in a hurry to burn money with the other party, first, the resistance is too great, and secondly, it is too hard to fight now, too much loss, both sides are not proportional in size, and MusicSpace has only come out, although it has a bright start, and it has also attracted the attention of Apple, but the threat has not yet reached the point where iTunes is pushed to the point of life and death.

In May, Luo Sheng was widely reported by many media in North America, among which "Silicon Valley" magazine directly published an article report to further expand his popularity in Europe and the United States.

In the report, the attached cover of the characters is particularly eye-catching, respectively Luo Sheng and Steve Jobs, the cover emphasizes the ages of both parties, the former was born in 1985 and is now 19 years old, and the latter is 49 years old in 1955.

Whenever the media reported on Luo Sheng, they inevitably emphasized his age with more or less pen and ink, and expressed their amazement at his young age and his current achievements.

Luo Sheng was named the "son of the Internet" by Silicon Valley magazine, and his lightning rise in the Internet field changed the previous Silicon Valley birth of a new model and proved to be successful, and then Huaguo copied the situation that was also successful.

Now there are a number of people in the global Internet community competing to imitate him, and the biggest contribution is the like function, which is now available on almost every website after the updated version.

With the launch of the product, a large wave of follow-up in the domestic Internet industry is coming, and Tengxun immediately set up the [QQ Music] project internally, and other start-ups, such as the [Kuwo Music] project and the [Kugou Music] project.

Although most of the people in the industry were laughing at Luo Shengren for being stupid and having a lot of money some time ago, ridicule is ridicule, which does not prevent him from following the trend, especially after seeing the comments in Silicon Valley, he is more determined.

It has to be said that most of the so-called senior practitioners in the domestic Internet industry attach great importance to the wind comments in Silicon Valley, as if it has become an unwritten standard.

It is precisely because of this that putting Bluestar Technology and Luo Sheng in an extremely peculiar position makes the domestic Internet people feel very complicated, and they are a little dissatisfied but have to accept it, and even a small number of people in the industry have a distorted mentality, if Luo Sheng is a foreigner, they are more willing to accept it, and Luo Sheng is a complete Chinese, they are difficult to accept.

Even the higher the achievements of Bluestar Technology and Luo Sheng, the more unhappy they are, but if they don't accept it, they have to accept that the Silicon Valley technology circle is following suit.

The domestic Internet is a wild era in this era, Bluestar Technology has become the object of imitation by many Internet entrepreneurial teams, and now there is an unwritten consensus in the industry, no matter what it is, as long as Luo Sheng is doing, then boldly follow up, yes.

Let's not talk about whether you can make a name for yourself by following the trend, but one thing can be guaranteed, it is much easier to follow Luo Sheng to at least attract investment than not to follow, take 10,000 steps back, even if you can't compete with Bluestar Technology in the end, then you can sell the product to the other party.

There are still a lot of smart people, and many followers actually don't think about doing it for a long time, but do it first, and then wait for Bluestar Technology to merge and acquire in the future, or be acquired by other large companies, and finally cash out.

Investors are very fond of following Luo Sheng's entrepreneurial team, which is also a very important factor.

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