Ji Qing looked and saw that the ICQ administrator had actually replied, so this thing really worked.
Seeing a "+" symbol next to the administrator's avatar, Ji Qing tried clicking it and surprisingly, he actually added the other person.
"Hello user, this is Chris."
This was the first time Ji Qing had been so close to people from Longteng Electronics, and he was a little nervous as he typed.
"I am the owner of Huaxia Electronics Room, my name is Ji Qing."
"What is an electronics room?" a message came from the other end.
Ji Qing thought that since this person's name wasn't in Chinese, he must be a foreign engineer. He immediately explained, "It's a kind of short-term electronic rental shop in China, a place that specializes in renting out electronic products."
With this explanation, Chris understood. "What products do you mainly rent out?"
"Panasonic, Sony, MP3 players, and so on." The shop owner got excited when talking about MP3 players. "Recently, the most popular item in the store is the iPod from Longteng Electronics..."
"Chris, I've always had a question. ICQ said this product will be free forever, so how will you make money?" The boss joked with a smile, "You have too much money, so you deliberately start projects to burn through cash?"
Chris's Chinese isn't good, so when he sees messages in Chinese, it always takes him a while to process them before he can fully understand them.
Upon seeing the words "burning money," Chris even looked them up in the dictionary. After learning their meaning, he explained to the boss, "No, this is a tool to facilitate online dating. ICQ aims to connect more people and provide a platform for scattered netizens to gather and communicate."
"However, ICQ has only just been launched, and more features will be added in the future, so please look forward to it."
"By the way, Chris, you're an ICQ administrator. I've always been curious about the relationship between Longteng Electronics and ICQ?"
Huaxia Network is new to trendy keywords like Longteng Electronics, ICQ, and iPod, so they're bound to be confused.
Chris patiently wrote:
"Longteng Electronics is the OEM manufacturer for iPod. iPod is an independent brand, and the brand company is located in the Cayman Islands, but Longteng also holds a controlling stake in that company."
"ICQ is a product developed by engineers at Longteng Electronics. However, before the product was launched, ICQ had already established an independent company, namely ICQ Communications Company."
Ji Qing quickly grasped the key point: "So, these things are all the work of Longteng Electronics?"
“That’s right.” Chris was a technician and didn’t know what strategies the company used in its operations, but ICQ and iPod were indeed developed by their engineering department, and even the product managers were the same.
“Longteng Electronics is, after all, a brand of our Chinese people. I am very pleased to see that a Chinese brand can achieve such great success overseas,” Ji Qing replied.
Chris remained silent for a few minutes. The boss thought Chris disliked this kind of argument and was about to apologize when he saw the following text appear on the computer screen:
"In the future internet world, all netizens in the world will be connected, and then we will no longer have the distinction between Chinese, Southeast Asians, and Europeans."
The boss sighed, "This young man is cultured and has class. Chris, that's exactly what I was thinking too."
"However, China's development is too slow. We don't know how long it will take to catch up with Europe and America."
Chris sent his last message: "After China opens up its economy, it will soon embrace globalization and catch up with Europe and America; it's only a matter of time."
Thank you for your kind words.
While ICQ was flourishing, traditional record companies and media companies enjoyed a brief period of success.
North American Music Media, as a media company, has taken the lead among record labels in calling on people to pay attention to copyright issues and respect the dignity of copyright.
They are true media pioneers.
“Now that MP3 companies have abandoned the race in the music industry,” North American music media company Darramx told its artists, “this proves that our previous decision was correct.”
"We must continue to leverage the role of fans on the internet. As long as we occupy the moral high ground online, they will have no way to overturn copyrighted speech."
Nowadays, record companies and media companies all operate music with full copyright. Their attack on MP3 companies is simply to protect their own territory.
"My artists, this battle is for our media company, and it's also for yourselves," Darram said, raising his glass to his artists. "Come on! Let's celebrate that we've finally regained our voice!"
"cheers!"
"cheers!"
Darram waved his hand and said, "Please have a seat, everyone."
"At this stage, we have succeeded, but to drive MP3 companies out of the market and prevent them from taking advantage of our music, we need to work even harder!"
Nancy, the artist's agent, understood the underlying meaning in the big boss's words. Their previous online statements supporting the protection of copyright had greatly mobilized the fans' enthusiasm.
However, Longteng Company quickly established ICQ Communications Company, which extinguished the fire. Fans who went to protect the company's rights were instead attracted to Longteng Company's communication software.
“Sony is a big company, and it’s hard for us to shake it with our strength alone. Longteng has just launched a new product and is riding high.” Nancy looked at her boss and said with difficulty, “It’s not that our artists are not working hard, it’s just that the rival company is too difficult to deal with.”
Darram put down his glass; his appetite for drinking had completely vanished.
"So, how should we prepare to fight them in the second phase?"
Nancy looked at the large group of blonde, blue-eyed, angelic-faced celebrities present and said, "If we can't win, we might as well not fight."
"What do you mean?" The boss's face darkened even further.
Nancy quickly said, "What I mean is, even if the MP3 company withdraws from the market, those netizens who are greedy for cheap deals will still be around. There's no guarantee that another tech company will come along and use our audio to test their skills."
"Having learned from this experience, I feel that we can no longer confront the market head-on."
The media company executives all looked at her, eager to hear her insights.
"These young people share their resources online for two reasons: First, traditional records are too expensive because of the added cost of record production."
Nancy hadn't been confident enough to say these things; her position in the media company wasn't high to begin with. In many people's eyes, artist managers were more like nannies. Seeing that no one was stopping her, Nancy continued:
"...The second reason is that they use electronic devices to download and play music, and when they get tired of listening to it, they can delete the music from the device at any time, while traditional records cannot achieve this function."
This is also a major weakness for media companies and record companies.
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