"The mood is different. The shareholders don’t want to frustrate anymore. They are willing to give Linton some time. Linton successfully retained the APLUS record department and obtained the distribution rights of Katzenberg’s DreamWorks Animation. Roy Disney was satisfied. , And also tend to maintain stability."
Iger replied: "The unpublished annual report should be able to make do, the current low stock price is caused by the large-scale divestment of Goldman Sachs. Linton is also preparing to increase the annual dividend by another 12.5%, and shareholders will like it. of."
"Dividends? Haha... His methods are all learned from Eisner, and he can't play tricks, so the nickname of Eisner II can be spread more and more, right?"
Jobs sneered and stretched out his second finger. "Goldman Sachs is doing a good job. They are giving us the final assist. Paulson is not a completely untrustworthy person. Goldman Sachs led the investment and funded the Weinstein brothers to create Wei. Enstein Pictures has taken responsibility. Paulson will continue to cooperate with us in March, and everyone will remain allies..."
"After the fiasco in September, Goldman Sachs began to withdraw from Disney, and the alliance between Paulson and George Mitchell became susceptible."
Iger replied: "This year is the mid-term election year. The Donkey Party has a good chance of getting a majority in both houses of the Senate. The Donkey Party politicians don’t want George Mitchell and Paulson to get closer. George Mitchell himself With his plan to return to politics in 2008, he will no longer follow Paulson's orders. ABC and I have also received unprecedented pressure."
"..."
Iger was sensible and calm but seemed to have no fighting spirit, which made Jobs disappointed in his heart. For a while, he adjusted his emotions before extending his third finger, "Don't be discouraged, Robert, you didn't succeed in attacking Disney's wholly-owned company on the board of directors." Is there a plan to acquire A+ Entertainment? The true colors of Linton and APLUS's embarrassment have been revealed. APLUS fully supports Linton but wants to sell the A+ Entertainment company, which he hasn't succeeded in a long time, for a sky-high price, so that all Disney shareholders can take over for him. "
"A+ Entertainment owns the copyrights or partial copyrights of the Dancing My Life series, Fifty Shades of Grey series, Blade Warrior series and related superheroes, the long-term income of Titanic, and other cat and mouse games, Cold Mountain, etc. …The big sellers are far more than the big ones, and many of them are sought after by the disc rental market. In recent years, they have made the number of copyrights in the copyright library much better by acquiring the copyrights of old films and independent films."
Iger replied: “They also have the right to adapt the best-selling Twilight Saga series, which is very popular among young women. I heard that the shooting will start soon. Now it’s nothing more than the specific acquisition amount that we can’t agree on. George Mitchell and I They won’t be able to stop them on the board for long.”
"I know."
Jobs still did not give up, "But in this way, their alliance with Katzenberg has problems. David Geffen and Spielberg just sold the DreamWorks studio to Paramount for $1.6 billion. , And Disney only undertook the distribution rights of Katzenberg’s DreamWorks Animation. Linton obviously intends to return APLUS first. Before the acquisition of A+ Entertainment, Disney had no money or motivation to acquire DreamWorks Animation. Katzenberg was only resolved. After the issue of the issue, he turned around and found that he was infinitely far away from his dream of returning to Disney after being acquired by a high-value acquisition and even holding power. He couldn't help but be angry..."
"They will at least wait until Cars is down after the summer gear to see if you will keep your promise and lead Pixar Animation to leave... Only after taking the reassurance that Pixar Animation and Disney officially broke up, will Katzenberg consider turning back and Lin Dayton-APLUS’s alliance goes to war..."
Iger replied: "But how much meaning will the war between them mean to you and me then?"
"Robert..." Steve Jobs was a little angry when the other party saw it.
"Don't talk about Steve, is the shareholders meeting in March?"
Unexpectedly, Iger had a big turn of 180 degrees at this time, "I will do my best to fight with you until that moment, don't worry."
"That's great."
Jobs smiled comfortedly, and was a little touched. He changed his attention and proactively revealed, "There is a certain probability that the battle will end before March, when the time comes..."
"At that time, I will also consider my own future."
Iger said: "Being the bad guy that undermines Disney's hard-to-recover stability, if I lose again... I'm destined to be unable to stay."
"Don't worry, I won't even lose Paulson's credibility."
Jobs made a guarantee.
Sending Iger away, he went back to work again.
‘I suddenly thought, listen to songs anytime, anywhere, why can’t we watch movies anytime, anywhere? You know that I am also making a movie, right? ’
When I walked into the office of John Rubinstein, the head of the iPod department, I happened to ran into the video of Rubinstein’s Beats new product launch at the end of last year. In the picture, APLUS was smiling and taking out a black rectangular product display from his pocket:'So we Made this...'
APLUS presses the side control button, a whole screen lights up, and the screen quality has a super leap compared to the previous MP3 walkman, and it is not even lost to some high-end mobile phones. It is playing Andrea Lima for this. Commercials shot for this product.
All the audience stood up excitedly and cheered.
‘I call it BeatsVideo! It uses a revolutionary MP4 format...’
APLUS raises the volume, the sound is very infectious, ‘so it’s not MP3, but MP4! truly! The era of multimedia walkman has arrived! ’
The audience applauded frantically and endlessly.
Only then did Rubinstein notice the arrival of the Apple Emperor, "very exciting product and launch event." He said contemptuously: "But it just can't be sold..."
Rubinstein is playing with the commercially available version of BeatsVideo, "It's too big, too heavy, too expensive, and it's not easy to control and overheat, just like his company's graphics card is in XBOX360."
At the end of last year, Microsoft’s new game console XBOX360 was launched, using a customized version of the 3DFX display chip. Due to the failure to solve the heating problem, users often encounter crashes with three fault lights on at the same time after buying home, and the repair rate is as high as two-thirds. , And it has not been completely resolved until now. Many users have to send it in for repairs many times. It is jokingly called TheRedRingofDeath: The Red Ring of Death.
Buying a good XBOX360 is equal to winning the lottery, and the reputation of users established by the first generation of XBOX is completely ruined.
The rival Sony’s PS3 hasn’t been released yet, and Microsoft itself took itself into the ditch.
At present, Microsoft's game console department is trying to force each other to shirk responsibility with 3DFX.
"Do you think I'm too optimistic? Steve."
Rubinstein felt that the expression of His Majesty the Emperor staring at the TV was too serious, so he asked.
The proportion of BeatsVideo's body, the full screen is too similar to the secret product that Apple is developing, and although the market share of a company is much lower than that of Apple, it can not be beaten and can maintain some technological leadership for a long time, and it is not a competitor that does not lose style. What good thing is that consumer electronics products are updated too quickly, and maybe the other generation will let the other party overtake and take the market away when they breathe a sigh of relief.