Rebirth of the Tech Madman

In Tang Huan's view, his own technology and products have entered the restricted sales list, which is also a kind of strength recognition to some extent.

From then on, he was no longer a lucky nouveau riche who only provided toys such as personal computers and electronic game consoles, but a decent celebrity who could walk freely in Daya Hall.

Of course, the price is not without, some money can not continue to be made openly, which is really uncomfortable.

Compared with the Intel and his like, who have the same treatment in the original time and space, they may only have one point of strength. The former can only cling to the cpu, and those who have asymmetric information have more ways to come.

Fortunately, he was well prepared and left the back door, certain layouts would not completely cut off the activity space.

Tang Huan thinks about this well and understands it clearly, but it doesn't mean that he has no opinion, because the restricted sales list includes some types of characteristic personal computers, such as desktop publishing system models and industrial control system models.

If it is said that cad personal workstations may be used to design aircraft and tanks, then these personal computers are a bit overkill.

Since the release of the compatible computers of Fangyuan Personal Computers, the main difference between Fangyuan Computers and these third-party manufacturers is that these special-purpose personal computers are now covered by a halter, and there is virtually no market share missing. Play carefree.

Tang Huan frowned tightly +↖long +↖wind +↖wen +↖head, and the scornful faces of ibm competitors' schadenfreude appeared in front of him.

It is undeniable that with the introduction of Fangyuan personal workstation, Fangyuan network server, and Fangyuan supercomputer, he and ibm, hp, and. And other traditional computer manufacturers. There is a direct conflict of interests. The complexity of the relationship between each other can be imagined.

Tang Huan has no intention of becoming a target of public criticism. Therefore, he has been trying to deepen his relationship with HP, which is also in Silicon Valley, and get the other party to obtain the compatible computer authorization of Fangyuan personal computer, so that he can extend his business into the emerging field of personal computer, which is an attempt.

It's just that, so far, Tang Huan has not established an alliance with sufficient strength in Silicon Valley, and thus has not been able to form a supporting political lobby.

For a character like Apple, his loyalty is still commendable. But the weight is far from enough, and it is impossible to get involved in such a ruling of the US Department of Commerce to restrict sales.

Tang Huanzheng squinted his eyes to perform various calculations. He suddenly heard a bang. He quickly opened his eyes and saw that the water cup on the coffee table fell to one side, the water flowing out soaked the documents, and the instigator’s own twin sons, One left and one right, fled the scene staggeringly.

"A Jiao. Take a look at the good things your son has done." Tang Huan yelled out of temper.

"What's wrong, what's the trouble?" Lin Fengjiao rushed over after hearing the sound. After seeing this, Tang Huan gave Tang Huan a disapproving look, "As for being so stingy? Let's say, is it the boss or the second child, I will spank him."

"Yes..." Tang Huan was so angry that he was lost in thought. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the two brothers running separately, where to determine the specific responsible person.

"Say, my eldest master." Lin Fengjiao walked over to clean up the mess on the coffee table, and at the same time counted down, "The water cup is over, then you can help yourself up, and you have to call me over."

Tang Huan shook his head dejectedly, stood up, dragged two little mischiefs, and one of them spanked his butt, "Two little things, how dare you play with you Lao Tzu, where are the ghosts?"

Lin Fengjiao chuckled, "Then you have to find the reason from yourself, it's probably inherited from you."

The speaker was unintentional, and the listener was intentional. Tang Huan looked at the two little brothers who were spanked, but did not cry or make trouble, and were still running around in the study vigorously, thoughtfully.

The probability of twins for one's own offspring is really weird, and now it seems that these three pairs of babies are obviously premature, shouldn't it be related to the hundreds of memories in the mind.

Tang Huan shook his head and stopped thinking about such profound or even absurd questions. Instead, he said to Lin Fengjiao: "I can't continue to accompany you. Something happened in the United States. I have to go and take a look."

Lin Fengjiao nodded thoughtfully, "I'll pack your belongings."

…

Headquarters of Apple Computer, Cupertino, Silicon Valley, USA.

The hustle and bustle in the conference room has just disappeared, and the board chairman and CEO Markkula sighed in distress, becoming more and more disgusted with the position of CEO he held.

Needless to say, the lifestyle that Markkula yearns for is the leisurely life of a rich family, designing his own new house, flying his own private jet...

Moreover, Markkula now has the capital to lead such a luxurious life. As a major shareholder of Apple, he also owns shares in Philosopher, and he lives on a golden mountain.

But the fact is that Markkula has not lived such a quality of life. He wants to lead Apple, a large group of egoists who are difficult to serve, especially to judge various disputes.

The products Apple is currently selling are the same. The former is the latest model launched with the function expansion card technology exchanged from Tang Huan, which contributes most of the company's source of income; the latter is an out-and-out Failed products, due to the large number of initial shipments, can only be maintained at a loss. Although the corrections are almost done now, their reputation has long been stinking, and the market's response is cold and can only be maintained.

As for the follow-up products under research and development, they are Lisa and Lisa with graphical user interface functions. It is these two projects that make Markkula one head and two big ones.

Jobs, who was expelled from the Lisa project team, was compensated by the project team and expelled Scott, who once led the matter. He sighed, but he still had a grievance against the Lisa project team because The members of the Lisa project team stood on the opposite side of him.

This kind of psychological hostility is manifested in reality that the project team and the Lisa project team are enemies everywhere.

Jobs and John Kutcher of the Lisa project team bet that they will be listed before Lisa, with a bet of $5,000.

Jobs also often portrayed a bunch of his engineers as cool kids, in stark contrast with the boring group of Hewlett-Packard engineers on the Lisa team.

If these behaviors are only verbal. Then there are substantial actions.

When Jobs snatched the project team from Jeff Raskin. He then abandoned the design goal of cheap and low-performance portable computers. Will be redefined as a desktop computer with a graphical user interface.

In this way, in fact, it has become a low-end version of Lisa, which is likely to weaken Lisa's market influence.

When Jobs urged Burrell Smith to design around Motorola's microprocessors and allow them to run faster than Lisa, the vicious competition has become certain.

In addition to turning into a low-cost competitor of Lisa, Jobs also ensured incompatibility with Lisa at the software level.

There is a worse situation, and that is the two machines and Lisa. It is not compatible with the ones that are currently on sale.

To put it bluntly, no one fully manages Apple, and no one can manage Jobs.

Zheru, who has provided office software for Apple computers for a long time, hopes that Apple's product line can maintain continuity, that is, the software being developed is compatible with Lisa and the software on the market.

To this end, Charles Simeone, the vice president of Philosopher who is in charge of software development, specially visited Markkula to formally discuss this issue.

And Larry Tesler, who is responsible for managing Lisa's computer application software, also realized the necessity of this matter. So he took the initiative to release a friendly signal and invited the core figures of the project team Smith and Hertzfield to the Lisa project team's work area. Displayed research and development results.

However, this kind of action that was considered for the overall situation was blocked by Jobs in every possible way on the grounds of keeping the project confidential.

Markkula tried to mediate, but including the previous meeting, several times to no avail.

Don't worry about how tired and crooked Markula is now, saying why he is suffering, especially remembering the recent complaints of his wife who is also keen to enjoy the luxurious life.

"No, I have to find a new CEO for Apple. I am determined not to be so exhausted." Markkula, who had had enough, finally made a decision.

As a result, Markkula once again called for Jobs to show off in person, "Steve, I think it's time to find a new candidate for the CEO."

Hearing this, Jobs was taken aback for a moment, then his face showed an eager look.

Seeing this, Markkula said bluntly: "Steve, you are still a little bit frizzy, you are not mature enough to hold this position."

Although Steve Jobs was arrogant, he was self-aware, especially when he said this from Markkula, who had always been his life mentor, and he had to be convinced.

"There is no suitable person within the company." Even though Markkula's judgment is recognized, Jobs still subconsciously ensures that he is in an unchallengable position in Apple.

"It should be." Markkula frowned. "Ea's CEO Hawkins is from Apple. He is doing a great job now. Maybe we are not good at finding talent."

"It's just a game console, what's so good?" Jobs snorted sourly, "I don't believe it, this kind of product can continue to be popular."

Markkula smiled noncommitantly. After five or six years of cooperation, he understood Jobs' psychology too well.

"Perhaps, Tang Huan is the most suitable position as the CEO." Markkula said leisurely.

"That's not necessarily." Jobs's voice suddenly increased by an octave, "In fact, Tang Huan assigned specific tasks to his subordinates, and his specific ability to do things may not be very strong."

"But one thing is for sure. Tang's picking eyes are very precise, what do you think?" Markkula asked back, and after Jobs finally nodded and admitted, he continued: "Actually, in Tang's current identity, It's impossible to come to Apple as a general manager, but you can invite him to consult and see if there are any good suggestions."

"It's not necessary." Jobs looked unhappy, "Tang Huan has sold the Apple stock in his hand. He has nothing to do with us. Why bother to maintain his influence in Apple."

"It doesn't matter." Markkula waved his hand disapprovingly. "We just need to understand that Tang is our most trustworthy friend."

Jobs moved his lips, and finally nodded and said, "Well then, I'll just wait to see if he has any clever suggestions."

…

As soon as Tang Huan arrived in San Francisco, he received a sensational news about ea. The Cassidy game console, which has been closed to the outside world and has become an ecosystem, has been declared to be completely cracked.

In other words, third-party game developers like Activision can develop games on the Cassidy console platform as they did for the Atari 2600.

In this regard, the inside and outside of the circle can be called universal celebration. According to reliable statistics, in the North American market, at least 12 million Cassidy game consoles have been sold. Such an astonishing number of game platforms naturally means that money is rolling in.

Take ea’s first best-selling game "Tetris", including a series of variant games including drop type and reverse drop type, only the Xiaobawang console platform has sold a total of more than 15 million copies.

If calculated according to the wholesale price of each cassette distributor of US$20, that would mean US$300 million.

And ea's "Pac-Man" is very popular among female players, and the result is also amazing, with more than 10 million copies.

As for "Donkey Kong", "Mario", "007" and other games, they are all top sellers on the order of millions.

This information, ea can be hidden in the past, but it is not a listed company now, naturally it must be disclosed to the public one by one.

Others have long looked at their eyes very hot, now they have the opportunity to share the pie, can they not be excited;

In response to this, Hawkins, the CEO of UU Reading www.uukanshu.comea, flew into a rage and issued the most severe warning to investigate the liability for infringement, and at the same time bombarded the industry for increasingly unscrupulous digging.

Tang Huan's first reaction was astonishment. He was just going back to the mainland for a Chinese New Year. How come there are so many moths here in the United States.

It seems that 1982 was really an extraordinary year for home video game consoles and personal computers.

But he changed his mind to think that this kind of cracking is inevitable.

First of all, the hardware and software architecture of the Xiaobawang game console is not yet complex enough, and in such a crazy digging situation, some technical information inevitably leaks out.

Secondly, the benefits involved are too great, which naturally attracts other people to crack it one after the other, just like the original time and space where a dedicated team researched how to jailbreak Apple.

Seeing that his subordinate Hawkins was furious and tending to become frenzied, Tang Huan decided to let him calm down before speaking. (To be continued...)

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