Leaving EA headquarters, Simon rushed to Palo Alto Igret's headquarters for a project meeting on splitting the online software store.

In fact, it is still related to video games.

In order to further carry out refined operations, Ystore, an online software sales platform originally launched with the Ypay system, is planned to be split into two parts recently. The original Ystore store continues to provide sales and download services for various types of paid or free software, and the game software will be split separately to establish a special comprehensive website.

Based on his long-term personal habits, Simon has named this website: Steam.

In the early days, the Ystore store was created by Simon's female housekeeper Alice Ferguson. At present, the focus of the female housekeeper has shifted to Amazon's online mall. The Ystore business is still under her charge, and this split meeting was also attended.

Simon attended these meetings just to have a more intuitive understanding of the various businesses of Igrit Company. The one-hour meeting was mainly composed of the team in charge who spoke independently and discussed, and he did not express any opinions.

After the meeting, the others were sent away. Simon looked at the butler who subconsciously picked up the coffee and sipped the coffee on his hand, and asked, "There is no rest on the weekend?"

Alice Ferguson put down his coffee cup and said, "About planning for the new batch of distribution centers."

Simon nodded, he knew about it too.

Amazon Online Mall is preparing to build a number of brand new large logistics distribution centers. The total investment of all 7 distribution centers will reach US$350 million, with an average investment of US$50 million per distribution center. Even if it is put in many years, it will be a big deal. Once completed, it will also provide more than 10,000 new jobs across North America.

After these logistics and distribution centers are completed and started to operate at the end of this year and early next year, Amazon Online Mall will further increase the product types of websites in addition to books, videotapes and movies, so it is a very important layout for Igret's e-commerce business.

Looking at the obvious fatigue on the butler's delicate and beautiful face, Simon said: "You must know that the business of Igrit Company has a very clear product priority in my heart. Among the business you are responsible for, the online mall is the top priority that cannot be missed. Even if it fails completely, I will start a second investment again. In comparison, if necessary, I will abandon the software store business without hesitation."

Simon has actually emphasized these more than once.

Alice Ferguson disagreed, saying: "The software store has provided us with very considerable revenue and profits in the past year."

"But you also need to see the development trend of online software sales," Simon said. "At this stage, Igret's Ystore does have unparalleled advantages in technical support, payment tools, website traffic, marketing promotion, etc. Software and game manufacturers choose to sell products in software stores to sell 10 million sets, and they may only sell 1 million sets by building their own websites. In this way, a 30% commission is very cost-effective. However, the Internet is a very open platform, not only Microsoft and American Online, but also some other independent network companies are also trying to enter this industry. Moreover, with the continuous development of network technology, marketing channels, payment tools, and their own brand awareness, once manufacturers find that selling products alone is more objective than giving 30% of the benefits to software stores, they will definitely tend to do this. What are you going to do at this time?"

Alice frowned slightly.

In fact, this trend has appeared, or has always existed.

Oracle's database software and Microsoft's series of software products have never been logged into Ystore since these manufacturers already have their own very mature distribution channels and can make gross profits higher than the Ystore store's account share ratio.

The female housekeeper did not consider reducing the proportion of accounts to attract these manufacturers to join, but the current network transmission speed is not friendly to large software with hundreds of megabytes. Instead of spending a few hours to download a software, users might as well drive out and spend more than ten minutes to buy a physical CD. Coupled with the concerns about online piracy, they were unable to promote cooperation in the end.

After the United States Online completed the ADSL network upgrade, the Internet speed of most Internet users in North America has been greatly improved, and Internet transmission technology and online payment tools have become more mature. When Ystore wanted to promote these cooperations, Microsoft had launched its own software store, and recently decisively abandoned Ypay and cooperated with American Express to launch its own online payment tool Microsoft-Wallet.

Simon did not wait for the butler's answer and continued: "You must be thinking that maybe you can limit the exposure of these websites in the Igrit portal or refuse to provide them with Ypay tools as bargaining chips to force them to submit, but doing so will only cheapen our competitors. In the Igrit product priority, Ypay is also the first-tier one. A decision that will harm Ystore if it is beneficial to Ypay's development, then the decision should still be passed. You think that those manufacturers will be completely done.

Escape from Igrit, in fact, is not. Although they have lost 30% of the commission from the software store, they still have to use our Ypay tool and pay for it. Without the official promotion of Ystore, they still need to place a large number of online advertising to promote their own website. The Igrit portal is an advertising platform that they absolutely cannot avoid. It just so happens that the priority of the online advertising business also exceeds Ystore. Because of the rules of the Matthew effect, we also have the advantages that other manufacturers are difficult to subvert easily in this regard."

Simon said here, and his fingers hit the conference table a few times, saying, "It seems we need to hold a meeting seriously for this, just tomorrow," he said, looking at Girl A: "Appoint it, at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, as long as people in the Bay Area must attend on time."

Alison promised to lower his head and write down the matter in the memo.

After Simon gave the order, he looked at the butler opposite him again and said to the A-skin sitting next to him: "You don't have to go to Mountain View with me later. Take Ali to do a beauty spa or something. Anyway, it's all kinds of maintenance for your women, and then send her to my villa in Woodside."

The butler was about to refuse, but when he heard Simon's last words, he even blushed and protested: "I still have a job."

“None now.”

After Simon said that, he stood up, and he was going to rush to the construction site of the Egret Park in Mountain View.

Alice sat still, her beautiful eyes glared over and repeated, "I still have a job."

Simon also glared over and said, "Be obedient, otherwise I will let you take a forced vacation."

Alice looked at the man opposite for half a second, dodged a little, looked over again, bargaining: "I won't go to your place tonight."

"Okay, I'll go to your place."

“…”

When Simon went out and disappeared, Alice's stiff body softened.

The A girl who was left by Simon smiled and said, "Let's go, Ari, you really need to relax."

The butler still had a cold face, but the person involved still left, and she didn't have any stalemate with Alison. The relationship between the two parties was not very good. The butler was not very good at dealing with people, and she would not forget the past when she was cheated by four ABCD girls when she first met in Greenwich, the East Coast.

The two walked out of the conference room, and Simon had already left in a hurry, leaving a driver for the two girls.

The female housekeeper now has her own full-time driver, but she has no intention of rejecting a guy. Girl A is not familiar with San Francisco, but she called Girl C and arranged everything in less than five minutes.

It was almost twelve o'clock noon.

The two girls first found a restaurant for lunch, then rushed to a beauty club near Atherton and spent a whole afternoon doing a complete maintenance.

After leaving the club in the evening, Girl C drove over.

The two women stood at the door of the club. Seeing Claire get out of the car, A subconsciously looked into the carriage a few times and asked with a smile: "Where is that little fairy?"

"What about the school? It's very busy recently," Claire and Alison hugged each other and smiled, "Why do I call her to come."

Alison just rolled his eyes.

Claire hugged Alice intimately again and said, "Ari, you are beautiful again, even I am moved."

Knowing that Claire was teasing herself, the housekeeper simply rolled his eyes.

After greeting him, Claire left her car, and the three girls squeezed into a car to a nearby French restaurant. Girl C decided on the spot in advance.

"Sony directly refused. Panasonic asked for 30% of the equity. How could I agree? The most annoying thing is Kodak. They would rather have their own technology than cooperate with us. If we want to take the digital camera project, we can only rely on ourselves."

At the dining table, the topics discussed by three women with strong career aspirations still cannot be separated from work.

Tinkobaier will release the third-generation iCam digital camera during Easter this year.

With the further popularization of the Internet and the rise of social networks, more and more users tend to show themselves on Internet platforms, and the demand for digital cameras has also increased significantly.

While other established manufacturers have launched their own products one after another, iCam, which is not considered high-end, has firmly occupied 60% of the digital camera market shipments in the past year, with its advantages in brand, price and network adaptation. In 1993, the annual shipment volume reached 2.76 million units, an increase of 350% compared with 610,000 units in 1992, with annual sales reaching US$1.39 billion. Preliminary statistics also reached about US$120 million.

As a supporting hardware around the Internet, Tinkobaier's rise is undoubtedly the most intuitive proof of the outbreak of the Internet industry.

Digital cameras provide Internet platforms with richer picture content, and the outbreak of the Internet industry has also greatly increased the public's demand for digital camera products, and the two sides complement each other.

While further strengthening its investment in digital camera projects, Tinkobaier has not stopped developing new projects.

In addition to the MP3 player iPlayer, which has been fully improved in private and the USB drive and other products that are planned to be launched with USB technology, Tinkobaier also plans to launch the digital camera (DV) project in the near future.

Compared with digital cameras, the threshold for digital cameras is much higher, and it also involves patent barriers.

Old electronic manufacturers around the world have long been investing in the research and development of digital cameras. Although most manufacturers target professional-grade commercial products, not mass consumer products that Tinkobaier focuses on, Tinkobaier is beyond the reach of patent layout and technical accumulation.

Cooperating with these old manufacturers can not only launch their own products faster, but also obtain relevant patent authorizations, so as to avoid being entangled in patent litigation in the future.

However, major old electronic manufacturers have given Tinkobaier the lead in digital cameras, and now they all regret it. Naturally, they will no longer support Tinkobaier to develop the digital camera project. Therefore, they either directly rejected it or put forward unacceptable cooperation conditions, and Tinkobaier could only rely on himself.

Alison heard Claire say this and said, "Actually, I think that the popularity of household film cameras is so high now. You may consider developing a special machine for film to digital, so that everyone can convert the film video they store into digital videos. This should have a big market."

Claire shook his head and said, "You have seen a special glue-to-magnetic equipment for Hollywood. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars for professional ones, and it is very large and bulky. How can you achieve the household level?"

Girl A said: "You can't use it for home use, but you can do it at the level of printing and printing. Moreover, Hollywood equipment is at the level of movies and the conversion quality requirements are very high. But you only need to get the home-use over eight millimeter film, and the conversion quality does not need to be perfect."

Girl C continued to shake her head: "If you are interested, you can try this project."

On the other hand, the female housekeeper, who has always spoken very little, also said: "Since digitalization is an inevitable trend, the product cycle of this kind of machine will not be too long after it is developed. Perhaps DV has been popularized before it has been promoted."

Girl A paused, trying to refute that film and numbers might coexist for a long time, just like the current digital cameras and film cameras.

But thinking about it, she still didn't speak.

With the current popularity of digital cameras, perhaps after the launch of DVs, considering the many advantages of this product, perhaps the elimination of household film cameras will be faster and faster.

Girl C did not continue this topic, but instead asked about AlphaBeta, where the two girls AB worked together, and regretted that she should have been.

The three girls seemed to have had dinner in a very harmonious manner. After leaving the restaurant, they unknowingly became two factions.

The driver drove over, and Alison held Claire's arm and said to the butler: "C and I have to go shopping for a while. You can go back first. Remember to rest early. There will be a meeting tomorrow morning, so I won't inform you specifically."

The butler stood by the door and didn't get in the car immediately. He hesitated for a moment and said tit-for-tat: "I'm going to Woodside, you want to open the door for me."

Girl A was a little disappointed: "Didn't you say you want to go home? The boss may go directly to your place."

“I’ll go to Woodside.”

The female housekeeper repeated and got into the car on his own.

The driver did not close the car door and looked at Girl A waiting.

Alison pulled Laclair helplessly: "Go to Woodside tonight, let's sleep together?"
Chapter completed!