After Christina reminded me, Eric remembered that he had indeed had this idea, but he now has no energy to pay attention to these things.

The two were chatting in a low voice, and a staff member came over to remind Eric that he could enter the venue early with only five minutes left before the press conference began.

Eric agreed and stood up and planned to enter the press conference hall. Christina also stood up and followed him step by step, asking, "Eric, will you go back to Los Angeles today?"

"No, I will fly directly to Lone Pine Town in the east of California tomorrow. I will stay in San Francisco for one night tonight," Eric shook his head and said to the girl: "Go back to your residence with me later."

Christina showed a hint of shyness. Although she originally planned to return to Los Angeles after the press conference, Eric said this, and the girl did not refute at all and nodded obediently.

When they walked into the press conference hall, the two of them walked towards their own positions separately.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Firefly Electronics' ceo Victor McNelly walked onto the stage with a smile. After a brief speech, he announced that the press conference had officially begun.

Then, Firefly Electronics President Bill Olsen came on stage and began to review a series of sales achievements made by the firelyer player since its release last year.

When the total shipment data of the first generation of firelyer appeared on the big screen, including the guests and media reporters, there was a buzzing discussion.

Firelyer's first-generation player was gradually discontinued in early March, and Firefly Electronics' major production lines began to stock firelye. As of the suspension, the total shipment of Firelyer's first-generation mp3 player reached 8 million units.

The reason why this data caused discussion among the audience was that according to the information released by Firefly Electronics at the beginning of the year, the shipments of the first generation of Firelyer were only 3.95 million last year.

This year is only the first quarter, and even less than a quarter, the shipment of 4.05 million firelyer players exceeded that of the whole year last year. Although the production capacity of firelyer players has been restricted in all aspects last year, this terrible sales data growth rate still amazed everyone.

According to this set of shipment data, Firefly Electronics' shipments will definitely easily exceed 20 million units this year.

Currently, the market for portable music players in North America is about 30 million, and the global portable music player market capacity is only 80 million. Obviously, in just two years of release, the share of firelyer players in the global portable music player market will reach 25%.

More importantly, if this trend continues to develop, the firelyer player is destined to cause a fundamental change in the portable music player market.

Listening to the stage, Bill Olsen continued to show the emergence of the firelyer player to promote the software and hardware industries such as USB interface, CD optical drive, and online payment. A series of questions have emerged in the minds of everyone in the audience, especially media reporters.

Will Firefly Electronics always control the full set of patents for mp3 players?

How will Firefly Electronics deal with the possible monopoly problems?

Does Firefly Electronics take into account the impact of firelyer players on the traditional record industry?

Wait and wait.

However, based on the news I received before, the press conference did not arrange a media questioning session.

Taking into account these, some reporters in the venue took advantage of the break when Bill Olson finished speaking and the performance guest, the backstreet boy group, went on stage to sing a new song, and began to contact their boss through their mobile phones, trying to get the opportunity to interview Firefly Electronics directly in private.

In the next few links, Victor McNelly, Yahoo and several Nokia executives took to the stage to showcase the second-generation firelyer player, the latest version of Yahoo Music Box Software, Nokia M-100 Music Mobile and other products, and during this period, several performing guests were still mixed with.

Two hours later, Victor McNelly and a Nokia vice president took the stage again to announce the pricing information of several of the most watched products, and the press conference ended.

After the press conference, after the entertainment, some heavyweight guests who needed to meet in person, Eric wanted to return to his residence in Palo Alto Atherton, but was pulled to Firefly Electronics Headquarters by Victor McNelly and others.

In a small conference room at Firefly Electronics headquarters, waiting for the secretary to serve coffee to several people. Victor McNelly said: "Eric, have you been following Microsoft's antitrust case recently?"

In recent years, there has been almost no information on Microsoft's antitrust investigation in the media. As long as it does not involve personal interests, no one will pay special attention to this matter again.

Eric shook his head truthfully. He must have not had the time to pay attention to these things.

Victor McNelly did not go around the corner and directly introduced the current situation: "The Federal Department of Justice last week filed accusations against Microsoft of bundling the Windows operating system with video players, Oie and other software. The investigation may also involve Yahoo browsers that cooperated with Microsoft, because the version and functions of Yahoo browser on the Windows system always take precedence over other operating systems. The Department of Justice said that this behavior has constituted unfair competition."

In fact, Microsoft's monopoly behavior is far more than just bundling and selling software. Others include signing exclusive agreements with PC manufacturers to exclude other operating systems; using kickbacks to forcibly promote Microsoft's operating systems and software; forming interest alliances with hardware manufacturers such as Intel, and jointly excluding competitors, etc.

These behaviors are actually more serious than bundled software, but Microsoft still avoids them again and again, and at most they only pay some fines. As an operating system that has formed a natural monopoly, no one can completely solve these problems.

Therefore, Eric was not worried about what Victor McNelly said about the investigations that Yahoo browser might encounter. Chris and Yahoo management did not even inform him about this. Obviously, they were not worried at all.

When the cooperation agreement was reached, both parties had already thought of this excuse in advance: this is a matter of product research and development progress, and Yahoo has no obligation to provide the latest products for all operating system platforms at the same time, and can only tend to those with higher market share.

With a smile, Eric looked at Victor McNelly and the others and said, "Everyone must know that this matter will not have any impact on us. So, let's just talk about your thoughts?"

Victor McNelly was pointed out by Eric and they had ulterior motives. After all, Bill Olsen had to continue: "That's right, Eric, have you ever thought about it? If the yos mobile operating system is released by Yahoo in the future and they will release various mobile application software, then, at that time, Yahoo will definitely face a more serious problem of software bundling and monopoly than Microsoft now."

Eric immediately understood: "It seems that you still want to get the development rights of this operating system back?"

Bill Olsen nodded: "Eric, we all think this is more conducive to the development of tablet computer products."

"This project has always been personally responsible for Steve, and the core of the system is written by him. So, have you ever considered transferring this project to Firefly Electronics and who can replace him in the next system research and development work?"

Bill Olson realized that Eric didn't seem to be too opposed to this matter, so he looked at Victor McNelly and said, "Eric, this is what we think. This project has been transferred to Firefly Electronics, and Steve can still serve as a technical consultant for this operating system. As for the actual operation of the project, you have to know that Silicon Valley has the most lacking in software technical talents. We have already found several suitable persons in charge through the headhunting company."

Eric tapped his finger on the table and thought for a while, and said, "Well, it's not impossible if you can convince Yahoo to turn this project around."

Seeing Eric nodding, Victor McNelly and Bill Olsen smiled, Bill Olsen said: "Eric, in fact, Yahoo doesn't want this project too much."

Eric wondered, "Why?"

"The development budget of this project last year exceeded US$30 million, which will only be higher in the next few years, but if you want to generate profits, you don't know when to wait. Once Yahoo goes public, such a project that only consumes funds but does not generate profits will definitely seriously drag down Yahoo's stock price."

Yahoo's current scale is far from the same as Google's more than a decade later. Even Google's various forward-looking innovation projects have been criticized by investors for a time, and Google's senior executives have had to cut their budgets in this regard. Yahoo's additional spending of tens of millions of dollars per year is indeed more likely to be criticized in this regard.

The main reason why Steve Jobs was squeezed out of Apple's board of directors was that Jobs was stubborn in researching and developing products that were very unprotected by the board of directors. Many corporate giants declined because their products could not keep up with the times. In many cases, it was not because of the lack of visionary talents within the company, but these talents usually could not compete with capital that paid more attention to immediate interests.

Even if Yahoo goes public, its absolute control will actually be in Eric's hands. However, since it enters the capital market, Eric cannot be too determined to act so that it will cause grudges from heaven and earth. In many cases, it still has to adapt to the rules of the game.

After thinking through these things, Eric no longer insisted.

It also seems better to put the mobile operating system in a completely private Firefly Electronics company.

In Palo Alto, San Francisco, Eric is located in the rich area of ​​Atherton.

It was already evening.

He forced Caroline into the bedroom and dressed up. Looking at the girl wrapped in a light pink sports suit in front of him, Melanie nodded with satisfaction and said, "Now, I don't believe that a certain loli can't control it."

Caroline's face turned red and she said weakly: "Eric is not Lolic."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say is what you say, let's go, let's prepare dinner, he said he would come back tonight for something."

Caroline followed Melanie nervously with a small step, thought for a while, and said, "Mei, can you go out tonight, can you live?"

"Of course, I have called an old classmate in San Francisco," Melanie nodded happily, watching Caroline's expression begin to relax, and immediately turned to it: "But if you think about it carefully, I still gave up this idea." He reached out and pinched Caroline's delicate face. Melanie smiled and said, "I think if I hide, you may be 200% likely to retreat and give up the chance tonight."

Caroline retorted without any confidence: "I, I don't know."

"Anyway, I will watch you tonight. If you escape at the last minute, I will strip you all and throw you into his room."

Caroline blinked, and her face turned red again when she thought of the scene Melanie depicted.

The two girls had just been busy in the kitchen for a while, when the sound of cars sounded in the yard.

Seeing Caroline almost throwing out a carrot in her hand, Melanie had no choice but to put down the kitchen knife and said, "Let's go, let's go and welcome Boss home together."

As soon as they walked out of the kitchen, the two girls saw Eric and Christina enter the door together and laughed. Christina held Eric's arm very dependently. When the girl saw Melanie and Caroline, she greeted him politely: "May, Carly, hello you guys."

Melanie looked helpless, and she must have no chance tonight again.

A hint of disappointment flashed in Caroline's eyes, and soon felt relieved and responded politely: "Hello, Christie."

Eric nodded to the two girls, watched them come out of the kitchen, and said, "You guys keep busy, I'll go take a shower first."

As he said this, seeing that Christina was about to let go of herself, Eric leaned into the girl's ear and said something. Christina shyly shyly shyly, looked at Melanie and the others, and walked upstairs with Eric.

As soon as he walked up the stairs, Eric remembered something again, turned his head and said to Melanie, "May, can you help me prepare a set of clothes? After taking a shower, I want to change clothes and be more casual."

"Okay, boss," Melanie nodded with a smile. When Eric's figure disappeared, Melanie complained again: "Okay, okay, I'm the life of a maid."

Caroline immediately said, "May, why don't I go."

"Forget it, I don't want my boss to wear shoes," Melanie sighed, looked at Caroline beside her and said, "Now, there's no chance tonight again, but hasn't he ever thought about Christina's age?"

Caroline glanced at the stairs, paused, and said, "Eric, well, she was voluntary anyway."

Melanie curled her lips and said, "I think even if the boss kills someone, you will definitely find a reason for him."

Caroline retorted seriously: "Eric won't kill anyone."

“I mean, what if, what if?”

Caroline wrinkled her little nose and said quietly: "Then, there must be a reason."
Chapter completed!