Silicon Valley

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The size of the Apple Newton is very large, almost the same as the iPad in the previous life, with a length and width of 8 inches and 5 inches. In the current trend of pursuing the smaller product, the better, the Apple Newton obviously does not meet the requirements of the market. The palm handheld computer is small, light, and cheap, and it is inevitable to crush Apple Newton!

The failure of AppleNewton made Apple worse, with a large amount of inventory in its warehouses unsold, resulting in severe losses. In recent years, Apple's market share has declined year after year, and now it has slipped below 5%. The failure of AppleNewton became the fuse, John Sculley was forced to resign as Apple's CEO, and Michael Spindler took over!

When Michael Spindler took over, he had no idea how to get Apple out of the woods.

The financial statements for the first quarter of 1993 came out and Apple lost $400 million. Michael Spinder Alexander, under his leadership, Apple finally began to fall ill and decided to make cameras and home game consoles!

Kodak cameras are very lucrative, as we all know for a week.

The Nintendo game console is even more of a gold digger. Nintendo's operating income in 1991 alone was equivalent to the TV turnover in the entire United States.

Michael Spinder seems to have seen the light in the dark...

Apple's decision to develop a camera and a home game console will soon be announced in the hopes that the two products will turn around the profit and loss. Henry couldn't help laughing when he saw the news. Apple didn't even know how the word "death" was written.

The competition in the camera field, Williams Electronics has expressed great pressure.

After Williams Electronics obtained the licensed technology from Carl Zeiss, combined with its own micro-hard drive, the Williams camera was finally launched. The core competitiveness of the Williams camera is mainly the large capacity of the micro hard drive. However, because of the use of micro-hard drives, the price is relatively expensive, priced at 1,500 US dollars.

After the product was released, although it sold well, it still couldn't compete with Kodak, Canon, Sony and other companies.

What is Apple's core competitiveness now?

The lens technology is awesome? then what?

Absolutely not.

After the launch of the Apple camera, the response was definitely flat.

As for the Apple game console... Hehe, it's just the rhythm of courting death!

Competition for home consoles is far more brutal than cameras. By then, Sony PlayStation, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Nintendo N64.

Why do Apple game consoles compete?

The shrimp soldiers and crabs will be involved in the war between giants, and they will be crushed to death casually! ! !

Henry couldn't help shaking his head.

Apple is taking it into the ditch by itself, and I really can't blame others!

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The advent of the Clinton era means that the development of the Internet will advance at an incredible speed.

Encouraged by the government, the network infrastructure in each state is being vigorously built, and ISP Internet access service providers are booming like mushrooms after a spring rain.

The number of Internet users is increasing, and the profits of Internet companies are also increasing.

Currently, the two most profitable Internet companies are Global Online and Isearch.

Both companies sell advertising. Although the annual revenue of Global Online is only more than 3.2 billion US dollars, the net profit is as high as 1 billion US dollars. Isearch's annual revenue is only $2.5 billion, but its net profit is $730 million.

When the two companies' 1992 annual financial statements were released, it caused a stir.

Countless companies have entered the Internet industry one after another. According to the statistics of the domain name management company under Henry's name, an average of 1,000 domain names are created every day in the world.

At this time, the business of Noah's Ark's server hosting business skyrocketed, and more than 1,000 server hosting sites around the world were operating at full capacity. At the same time, many companies buy servers every day. Today, Noah's Ark's factory has begun to work overtime to produce servers.

Henry had long anticipated this situation, so earlier, Noah's Ark Company expanded five factories, and the production capacity increased by more than five times.

Right now, Noah's Ark is the number one server manufacturer in terms of shipments, more than the combined server shipments of the next two companies. The market share once increased to 71.5%, almost monopolizing the global market!

The performance of Noah's Ark server is originally the best, and the brand awareness is also the highest. Now that the scale has expanded and the manufacturing cost has also decreased, Noah's Ark Server has an advantage over other companies in price!

IBM and Dell can only eat ashes behind.

What makes Henry even more happy is that Noah's Ark's blade server has been developed, and the conditions for establishing a large-scale data center are approaching maturity.

The shape of a blade server is not only as simple as a blade. Each "blade" is actually a system motherboard, running its own system, serving different designated user groups, and is not related to each other. However, these blades can be combined into a server cluster. In cluster mode, all motherboards can be connected to provide a high-speed network environment, and at the same time share resources to serve the same user group! Also, new "blades" can be plugged into the cluster at any time, which in turn can improve overall performance!

In short, blade servers can go it alone or become a team.

In addition, multiple blades can be plugged into one chassis, which saves a lot of space.

Blade servers will basically become the mainstream of high-performance computing clusters, but they are expensive and are generally used in large data centers or fields that require large-scale computing!

Don't be afraid, Henry has money!

Besides, even Noah's Ark is Henry's, isn't the left hand turned right?

However, Henry doesn't have much cash left now, and the cost of the data center is not a small amount.

Henry decided to list the Internet company under his name for financing.

Right now, countless people have entered the Internet, leading to the popularity of Internet concept stocks!

Amazon, eBay, Alibaba can be split and listed.

There are also Global Online, Isearch, ICQ, IReader Station, Tiantian Music Company, and the soon-to-be-established Hospital website.

Henry got busy for a while, and organized the staff to start planning for the listing.

It didn't take long for the outside world to receive rumors that the Internet companies under Henry's name would be listed collectively.

"Time": "It is rumored that the Internet company under the name of Henry Williams is about to go public. If this is true, then this will be the most sensational thing in the history of Nasdaq!"

"Wall Street Journal": "Henry Williams' Internet Companies Go Public, Their Value Will Soar!"

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Senior Wall Street analyst: "Nicholas International E-Commerce Group has a market value of more than 150 billion US dollars. It owns three major e-commerce platforms, B2C platform Amazon, C2C platform eBay and B2B platform Alibaba. The three companies are split and listed. It is expected that the total market capitalization may be higher than that of the parent company!”

"According to the data we collected, Global Online's net income in 1992 was as high as 1 billion US dollars, and it has established more than 50 branches or offices around the world, and launched more than 20 different languages ​​in English, German, French, and Chinese. The language version has a market share of more than 75%, far surpassing AOL, which ranks second with a market share of less than 15%!”

"In addition, Global Online is also the first profitable Internet company in the United States. In recent years, with the increase of Internet users, advertising expenses have also increased sharply!"

"Bill Gates once inadvertently showed an expression of envy and regret to others at a reception and said: 'The Internet age is coming, the global online is growing day by day, and the money is making more and more! Microsoft is difficult to catch up with. superior……'"

"And AOL CEO and Chairman Steve Case also said in an interview: 'The existence of Global Online makes us very embarrassed. First of all, from the name, one is Global Online, and the other is just AOL, it seems AOL is inherently weaker...'"

"I predict that after the listing of Global Online, the market value will be beyond imagination!!!"

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The preparations for the listing of major companies are in full swing.

Henry received news that NASA sent people to SpaceX to inspect SpaceX. At this time, SpaceX's launch vehicle was successfully manufactured and the launch test could be carried out. Henry is very confident in SpaceX. After all, it is a top talent snatched from the Soviet Union, and its technical level is no worse than that of the United States. In the field of launch vehicles, SpaceX may be stronger!

Henry asked SpaceX to buy a communication satellite from Lockheed. It was a contact before the acquisition. It was familiar to everyone, and everyone was familiar with it. It would not be unfamiliar to meet again...

Satellites are expensive, and SpaceX paid $150 million for this Lockheed communications satellite.

The cost of the launch vehicle manufactured by SpaceX is only about 50 million US dollars. As for the launch fee, since it is its own company to launch the rocket, it is exempted. If it was someone else, I would have to charge 20 to 30 million dollars less.

Usually, there are insurance premiums, 20 to 30 million dollars. This money, of course, comes from the other party.

So, to launch a satellite, two or three billion dollars is normal.

This communication satellite purchased by SpaceX is classified as a live broadcast satellite according to its professional use, which directly broadcasts TV and radio programs to the public.

Henry's direct broadcast satellite company can be deployed from now on.

What Henry admires is that Motorola has launched the Iridium project, which has attracted global attention.

The so-called iridium project is to launch 77 satellites in space to create a global 360-degree satellite communication system without dead ends! No matter which ravine you are in, you can communicate with your phone by pointing to the sky.

SpaceX said that since you want to launch so many satellites, everyone can cooperate.

I will launch your satellite.

However, Motorola did not trust SpaceX and politely refused. Thinking about it, you are a novice, and you have to say that you will help you launch the satellite. If the launch fails, it will be a loss.

So, now is the time for SpaceX to prove its capabilities.

On May 1, SpaceX prepares to launch a rocket.

Most of the media in the United States expressed strong concern, and thousands of media from around the world came to the rocket launch site. At the same time, there are also many heavyweight representatives, such as the US Department of Defense, NASA, the US military, etc...

The rocket made by SpaceX this time is called "Flying Eagle 1". When it's 12 noon, the countdown starts.

At this time, the audience could hear the muffled voices coming from the radio.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0..."

"start up!!!"

(To be continued ~^~.)