Rebirth in 1984: Starting with the Development of the Chinese Character Card, Chapter 220: Famous Horses and Warhorses Series. Due to technological improvements and perfection, the production cost of the iPod is actually not high. The selling price is $499, while the cost is only a few tens of dollars.
Zhao Ye remembers that he only spent two or three hundred yuan to buy his first MP3 player.
Wujiang Group has been developing for more than ten years and has now accumulated tens of millions of fans.
Even compared to Apple in its previous life, Zewujiang Group was far inferior.
With the launch of Wujiang's new product, fans naturally rushed to buy it. Moreover, the iPod Walkman itself is extremely amazing; anyone who sees it will love it.
However, the iPod is a bit pricey, and many people have to save up enough money before they can buy one.
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"If only our company could get the MP3 license from Wujiang Group, we could develop our own brand of portable MP3 players..."
"Quickly contact Wujiang Group and tell them that we are willing to offer even greater incentives to obtain the MP3 license!"
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At this point, companies that had not obtained MP3 licenses were unwilling to give up and raised their prices.
However, Zhao Ye neither agreed nor refused.
While Zhao Ye was waiting for the first batch of companies to obtain MP3 licenses to make a fortune, other companies would naturally be envious and would do anything to obtain MP3 licenses.
Although the iPod has not yet entered the US market, major US media outlets have been reporting on it extensively recently.
The American public also has an extraordinary desire for the iPod. In almost every major American city, large numbers of people took to the streets to protest and demand that the United States lift the restrictions on the Wujiang Group.
"We want iPods, we want IVP6 internet, we want Wujiang portal websites, we want Hasee computers, we want HarmonyOS..."
"We Americans also need the Boundless Group!!!"
Where there is demand, there is business opportunity.
In fact, despite the U.S. authorities’ policies to strictly prohibit Wujiang Group’s products from entering the U.S. market, smugglers have become increasingly rampant and rampant.
Countless people in Mexico and Canada have profited immensely from smuggling products from the Boundless Group into the United States.
For example, iPod Walkman smuggling gangs even set up their own servers, where they downloaded all sorts of pirated music. iPod users could then use FTP to download music from these servers!
That's awesome!
The iPod Walkman became incredibly popular in the United States without any apparent reason!
In just one month, more than 500,000 iPods entered the US market.
Smuggled goods are naturally more expensive. iPods are in high demand in the US, and prices of $799, $899, or even $999 are quite normal.
American record companies are currently facing a major headache, having to deal with Wujiang Group, pirated music websites, and smugglers, but none of them are easy to deal with.
The record companies' losses are growing.
Some singers have even stopped releasing albums, fearing that pirated music will appear online and cause their albums to stagnate.
The entire record industry suffered a heavy blow.
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"Mr. Sam Cromwell, hello. As the president of Universal Music Group, what are your thoughts on the new iPod?" a reporter from Hollywood Entertainment asked.
Sam Cromwell angrily declared, "The iPod is the worst product I've ever seen. It severely infringes on the music licenses of major record labels and blatantly tramples on U.S. intellectual property laws! Products like the iPod should not exist at all! I call on all Americans and the world to boycott the iPod!"
Upon hearing this, the reporter's face lit up with excitement; the more sensational the other party's answer, the better.
"It is said that the inventor of the iPod is Zhao Ye, and everyone says he is a brilliant genius. Mr. Sam Cromwell, what do you think?" the reporter asked again.
"What kind of bullshit genius... He's the executioner of the record industry, the mastermind behind music piracy, he single-handedly destroyed the entire record industry, he's simply a demon!!!"
The following morning, the Hollywood Entertainment newspaper's front page headline read: "Universal Records claims that Zhao Ye from China almost single-handedly destroyed the entire American record industry; he is simply a monster!"
Indeed, the US record industry has been severely impacted, with direct and indirect economic losses estimated to exceed tens of billions of dollars.
Zhao Ye suppressed the development of the American record industry with a simple iPod product.
All the major record companies in the United States now hate Zhao Ye to the core, but they can't do anything about him.
Zhao Ye likes this feeling of "you can't stand me but you can't do anything about it".
At this moment, at the headquarters of Wujiang Group, Zhao Ye, with the idea of pressing the enemy to their death, said to Zhuang Hongxin, the person in charge of MP3, "iPods are too expensive, and not many people buy them. It would be best to launch a new MP3 brand, with low configuration, focusing on the mid-to-low-end market, and name it Meizu..."
As Zhao Ye thought about it, he said, "The Meizu MP3 player is about the size of a lighter, with only a small screen that can display the song title and a line of lyrics. It only has a capacity of 100MB and can store thirty or forty songs!"
With Wujiang Group licensing MP3 patents to 32 companies, these companies naturally became Wujiang Group's competitors. Rather than giving them the entire low-to-mid-end market, Wujiang Group decided to take a share of the pie, mainly because the low-to-mid-end MP3 player market is huge, and everyone can make a living from it.
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