reborn in america

Chapter 184

"Microsoft, is this crazy?" Adam leaned on the sofa in the office, holding a cup of coffee in his hand and said with a chuckle.

The TV in front of me is broadcasting the content of the press conference held by Microsoft just now. I have to say that Microsoft is completely tearing up their skin to fight Adam and the others, especially directly announcing that they will develop mosaic2.0, and that they will release The news of the free browser was simply a shot in the heart of Eden.

If it wasn't for the wrong timing, in the previous life, after Microsoft launched Windows 95, Netscape slayed the audience and occupied the absolute share of the operating system. Facing the aggressiveness of Netscape, it used such a trick, binding plus free , directly confronting Netscape with the tip of the needle, directly causing the stock price of Netscape to avalanche.

But this time, because of Adam's early attack, Microsoft Windows95 has not yet been released, and it is not unique in the operating system market. His counterattack is more to leave room for breathing for his own development, hoping to let the market continue to Windows95 smoothly. When it was released, relying on the powerful functions and innovative design of 95, it was a Jedi counterattack, and it was much easier to clean up Eden, a rising Internet company.

However, although the so-called mosaic2.0 has not been released and still exists in Microsoft's software room, Microsoft is a super large company with a level of [-] billion after all. of.

In particular, Microsoft shamelessly predicted the possibility of bundling, and at the same time shouted that it will be free. First of all, with the huge size of Microsoft, if a free browser is bundled in its operating system, let alone whether this browser can Comparable to the Garden of Eden, as long as it reaches a few percent level, the impact on the Garden of Eden will be huge.

You must know that although Eden has just announced the establishment of an advertising alliance, it is uncertain how much benefit the advertising alliance will bring. Now Eden's biggest source of profit is the sales of floppy disks and the development of the company's business. The business gap is widening, but personal business still occupies a large share so far. As a listed company, it is unlikely to give up. He has to consider not only the company's development, but also the interests of the company's shareholders.

The most important thing is that if you give up your personal business and announce that it is free, of course it will greatly save users, and it will not cause a large number of Internet users to flee, but the quarterly profits will be ugly, which will also have a great impact Judging by the market, the stock market will inevitably experience huge fluctuations.

Of course, if that time really comes, Eden will definitely follow the pace of free for the first time. Adam knows that Netscape in his previous life did not keep up with Microsoft for a long time because of various concerns, resulting in The market share avalanche, and finally relied on the company's business for a year or two, but lost its foundation, and finally fell into the tragic fate of bankruptcy and acquisition.

For Internet companies, the most important thing besides profits is the number of users. This is almost a slam dunk in the 21st century. I don’t know how many Internet companies have been losing money year after year, but relying on this to brag everywhere, their stock prices are still rising.

For example, the most obvious one is Flix, which burns a lot of money, the profit rate is lower every year, and even loses money for two years. However, relying on the rising number of subscribers, it still fools the shareholders to invest money continuously, so that the stock price will rise. Rise again to form a large foam.

Such companies can be found everywhere. There was a crash at the beginning of the 21st century. That Internet crash almost wiped out all Internet companies. I don’t know how many companies have been cleared from the stock market. Even Microsoft, the giant, suffered heavy losses. It took more than ten years to return to the stock price before the stock market crash, but it is clear that Internet companies have once again ushered in the opportunity to reshuffle after 20 years of bubbles.

However, these have little to do with the current Garden of Eden, so let’s not talk about it for now.

In fact, when an Internet company has a large number of users, the most important thing to worry about is cashing out, and almost most of the American Internet companies do not do well in this regard.

In the 21st century, after Internet giants such as Facebook and Twitter exploded, their main profit point is still the way of Amazon 20 years ago-advertising, yes, [-]% of the profits still rely on it Earn money by posting various advertisements.

As for the so-called third-party profit stratification and games, they still don’t account for much, and it has to be said that they are too weak in terms of making money.

Compared with American Internet companies, several Internet companies with large traffic in mainland China have developed more intentions in making money (it is not discussed here whether it is appropriate for them to cheat money). First of all, Penguin, after a long period of After being almost bankrupt due to the inability to realize traffic and users, in terms of games, the establishment of game platforms and the development of games, as for the various value-added, it is even more embarrassing.

However, it is precisely because of these almost shameless actions that Penguin not only went from holding tens of millions of users but nearly going bankrupt in a very short period of time, to making a triple jump in profits within a few years, and leaping to the first class of Internet companies. Not to mention that its planning is simply jaw-dropping, relying on this road to the sky, Penguin has become more and more smooth, and eventually became the most profitable game company in the world, and the company's market value has exceeded 4000 billion, becoming a legend.

As for the pig farms NetEase, Sohu, 360, Jinshan, and even Xunlei, which started as a download software, relied on its own hands to hold a large number of Internet users, and finally relied on the game road to embark on a broad road.

Of course, I personally do not evaluate the quality of these companies themselves, but only in terms of finding profits. Although Facebook and Twitter are globally oriented and have a large number of Internet users, they have not maximized the resources in this area. I have to say that they are A very regrettable and regrettable thing.

Adam watched Microsoft's press conference on TV, and what flashed in his mind was about how Eden would monetize traffic and users if he had to go the free route. I never care whether a company has conscience or not. As long as you can make a profit, as long as you don’t break the law, then he will spend all his wealth to buy your stocks. Abandoned by Wall Street.

"In the past few days, Microsoft's stock price has dropped by [-]%. If Bill doesn't speak up, those shareholders will tear up Microsoft even if Bill doesn't care." Carroll finished processing the documents in his hand and looked up. The eloquent Microsoft vice president said with a smile.

"It's also expected, but the stock price will probably be adjusted today." Adam nodded. Microsoft's response has been discussed in a meeting and they have made several responses. Although the news about mosaic2.0 surprised them a little, I didn't expect it to be announced in advance, but after all, Microsoft still has to put all its staff on Windows95 in a short period of time, and can't spare time for research and development. Relying on a few researchers who have been thrown away for a year or two, they want to catch up with their research and development progress. Could it be that hundreds of employees in their company are vegetarians?

Therefore, no matter how fast the so-called mosaic 2.0 will be available in the second half of next year, this year is an era in the Internet, especially in today's turbulent time.

"It went up too much all of a sudden, and it would be nice to tidy it up a little bit." Carol sighed. Although he is the general manager of Eden Garden, he is naturally optimistic about Eden Garden, but he was still intimidated by the madness of the stock market before. I feel that trend is really a little irrational.

"Apple has already made an agreement, but I still won't come forward. Then you will contact me on my behalf and discuss the follow-up cooperation plan in detail." Adam is noncommittal, because his golden finger, although the number of shareholders is not as large as that of Netscape in his previous life One year ago, the market capitalization was much higher, even almost double that of Netscape in the same period. Although it does not represent the real strength of the company, if the gap in size narrows, the two sides will naturally have more scruples when they fight .

Speaking of Apple, Apple has not yet entered a full-scale recession, but it has also begun to decline, especially without Master Qiao at the helm, Apple's market share has plummeted, and by 1995 it had fallen below 5.00%, leaving only [-]% about.

On the contrary, Dell rose rapidly at this time. Relying on its low-price strategy, it quickly occupied the market lost by Apple and became one of the newly rising computer giants in the United States.

But despite this, Apple’s lean camel is bigger than a horse. After Adam contacted Apple’s senior management not long ago, he quickly reached an agreement. The two parties (Apple and Eden) exchanged some stocks and formed a strategic alliance at the same time. Apple Computer will Pre-install all the software of Eden and Nirvana during the cooperation period, and Eden will contribute to Apple in publicity and other aspects.

It seems that Eden has made a lot of money, but in fact it is just a grouping of two parties after being pressured by Microsoft. Apple's weakness is certainly the reason for the new president to increase the price of Apple computers, but another important reason is Apple's own operating system. Under the strong sniping of Microsoft, it retreated steadily in the market.

Of course, the opportunity is Adam's LGBT identity, a large number of LGBT members in Apple, and LGBT culture, so that the two parties have common ground in emotion, so naturally the cooperation will be smoother.

On the third day after Microsoft declared war, Eden and Apple officially held a product launch conference and announced their strategic alliance. Both Eden and Apple’s share prices rebounded sharply due to this reason, while Microsoft fell again, but this time the magnitude was not The control is good, there is no long-term release, it seems that the market is also waiting for the release of Microsoft's new operating system, and by that time, the war between the two parties may start again.

The author has something to say: I fell asleep today, and I slept from afternoon until □□ o’clock, and I feel like I’m going to sleep tonight.

It seems that the weekend really can't be a nap. It's useless to set up three or four alarms, and all of them are turned off without knowing it.