Giant of the times

"Mr. Li, this is the iPod, please take a look." Jobs handed the iPod to Li Zetian.

Wow, it feels very comfortable to touch, just like touching a woman's slippery skin.

Li Zetian took the iPod in his hand and looked at it carefully. He felt it was more beautiful than in the photo!

Dongfang Yuqin, Selena, and Vanessa were all attracted by this small and exquisite iPod, looking at it curiously.

"In terms of appearance, it's impeccable!" Li Zetian praised.

Dongfang Yuqin said: "The size is also very small, much smaller than other hard drive MP3 players, and it is easy to carry!"

Jobs proudly introduced: "The iPod uses a microhard drive specially developed by Seagate Technology. The microhard drive is very small, and the storage capacity is large enough, about 100M, and can store dozens of songs! And traditional flash memory MP3 can store at most a dozen songs."

"Compared with other hard drive MP3 players, iPod is exquisite and compact; compared with traditional flash memory MP3 players, iPod has large storage capacity."

Jobs paused and said with a smile: "This is the advantage of iPod!!!"

Li Zetian and everyone couldn't help but nod. At the moment, it seems that the iPod is indeed like this.

Jobs continued to introduce, with a hint of excitement and pride in his tone: "However, this is not the biggest selling point of the iPod!"

When Li Zetian heard this, he immediately smiled. He knew what Jobs was referring to.

Selena and Vanessa were a little confused, thinking, isn’t this the biggest selling point of the iPod? It’s already so good, can it be better? If it were me, I would definitely buy an iPod.

Jobs proudly introduced again: "The biggest selling point of the iPod is that it is the first product to bundle Internet music with an MP3 player!"

After saying that, Jobs looked at Li Zetian and others, deliberately keeping things secret, waiting for the other party to see the key, or the beauty.

Li Zetian still looked very calm, as if he had everything under control. In fact, it is indeed the case, isn’t it the iTunes music store, haha...

Dongfang Yuqin, Selena and Vanessa couldn't help but think deeply.

"A product that bundles Internet music with an MP3 player? What does this mean? Why does Steve Jobs think this is the biggest selling point of the iPod?"

Li Zetian looked at Dongfang Yuqin and others and thought for a while, but they still hadn't thought of the key point, so Li Zetian was the only one to answer. He couldn't let Jobs look down on him.

"Ahem, I think what Steve Jobs means is that many people should be willing to pay a small amount of money to download individual songs from Apple's official website, or use the unlimited monthly download. Therefore, iPod can truly allow record companies to gain profits, thereby gaining It has received dual support from consumers and record companies. It can be inferred that it will be difficult for the iPod not to become popular!!"

A trace of surprise flashed across Jobs's face. He had been thinking about it for a long time and finally came up with this idea, and he was immediately overjoyed. I never thought that Li Zetian would be able to understand what he meant in just a moment. It was really amazing!

When Li Zetian saw the surprised look from Jobs, he couldn't help but smile lightly and pretend to be cool.

After listening to Li Zetian's words, Dongfang Yuqin and others understood the truth and couldn't help but look at Jobs in a different light.

Li Zetian pressed the power button, and the iPod screen lit up. Soon a system screen with simple operation appeared. It was easy to understand at a glance, and there was no difficulty. Even if you knew the words, you should know the pictures. Li Zetian took a look at the iTunes music store interface. The picture and structure were slightly rough, giving Li Zetian a very old feeling.

Then, Li Zetian looked through how many songs there were.

Oops, awesome, 45 songs!

However, come to think of it, MP3 music was not that big at this time. There were many songs on the Internet that were less than 1M in size.

In his previous life, Li Zetian was used to listening to high-definition and lossless music, which could easily fit into an iPod.

Therefore, in terms of sound quality, Li Zetian put on headphones and listened for a while and thought it was pretty good. It's 2000, and it's pretty good that the iPod can do this!

"Come and listen and feel it." Li Zetian took off his headphones and put them on for Dongfang Yuqin himself.

"How is it?" After a while, Li Zetian asked.

Dongfang Yuqin took off the headphones and nodded: "It sounds great!"

"You can click on the iTunes music store and you can download songs. However," Li Zetian stopped, looked at Jobs, and asked, "Jobs, how much does it cost for users to download a song?"

"Very cheap, $0.99!"

Just like the previous life!

Li Zetian couldn't help but nodded.

Dongfang Yuqin was surprised when he heard this: "It's so cheap!!!"

A genuine music CD costs at least a dozen dollars.

Buying from the iTunes music store is much cheaper than buying music CDs. Moreover, you can buy the songs you like, unlike music CD albums, which contain many songs that users actually don’t like to listen to.

Spend the least amount of money and buy the songs you like the most! ! !

At this time, Dongfang Yuqin relied on his keen business sense to discover the unusualness of the iTunes music store.

"Maybe the iTunes music store is a revolutionary software?!" Dongfang Yuqin couldn't help but murmured.

Of course, even though iTunes sells music now, it can also sell movies later, and eventually it can also sell various software. It is one of the most important software for Apple in the future, running through iPod, iPad, iPhone, and iMac. And products such as MacBook...

Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin are very satisfied with iPod.

Before leaving, I asked Steve Jobs for several iPods to give to relatives and friends. Selena and Vanessa each also received one.

Jobs said: "Mr. Li, iPod is going to hold a product launch event on the evening of March 31st and will be launched globally on April 1st. I hope you can take time to attend."

"No problem!" Li Zetian smiled and nodded.

Li Zetian was about to leave when he suddenly stopped and said, "Does Apple have any plans to develop a mobile phone with a camera?"

Jobs shook his head and said: "Mr. Li, someone has proposed this idea before, but I denied it. I consulted the technicians at Carl Zeiss, and they all said that if we develop a camera phone with the current technology, the pixels will be very low, I'm afraid. It only has hundreds of thousands of pixels. I think this thing is simply sensational and not practical. Of course, I don’t deny that there are problems with the idea of ​​a camera phone, but it’s just that the technology is limited!”

Li Zetian thought about it for a while. The hundreds of thousands of pixels were really rubbish and blurry. Mobile phone users would never use it to take pictures, so it was of little use. If we develop a camera phone now, it would seem to be superfluous, which will greatly increase the cost of mobile phone manufacturing.

I am afraid that instead of becoming a pioneer, I have become a martyr.

"Well, you are right! However, you must always pay attention to the industry situation. I believe that with the development of technology, the pixels of mobile phone cameras will be significantly improved, even no worse than ordinary cameras. By then, future mobile phones will be It’s a camera that will definitely be loved by users. And the camera will definitely become one of the standard features of mobile phones!!! So, even if we don’t launch a camera phone, we still have to form a team and conduct research and development!” Li Zetian spoke highly of Steve Jobs After a quick glance, it turned out that it was still Steve Jobs who had some level of skill and vision. However, Li Zetian still had to remind him and said this deliberately to show that he was far-sighted!