Chapter 598 The first generation iPhone
On September 1th.
Fan Wumian hadn't adjusted to the jet lag yet, so he got up early and had nothing to do. He sat at his desk and surfed the Internet and watched Youtube to kill time.
I can only say that American girls are much more unrestrained than Asian girls, and they are always willing to show off their benefits.
For example, they were running and playing on the beach in a bikini, and the shaking made Fan Wumian dizzy. Yes, I mean the camera lens was shaking.
There are also some strange video contents, such as teaching people how to use food coupons for relief to buy some daily necessities, or how to kill termites when the home is invaded, etc. These are difficult to access in the mainland.
Fan Wumian watched with great interest.
The media in other countries generally only like to report on the glamorous side of the United States, but after on-site observation, they will find that the lives of the local middle class and lower-class residents are not as comfortable as people imagine.
Since the collapse of the big brother in the north of the mainland, the US economy and its global influence have been booming, but wealth has been concentrated in the hands of a few people, and the lower and middle classes of society have not enjoyed the dividends of economic globalization.
Instead, they are treated as fat sheep in the sheepfold, and are continuously fleeced in terms of medical care, education, real estate, and pension.
The Americans have been living comfortably for too long, and Fan Wumian has no intention of speaking up for them. He just wants to take advantage of his free time to learn more about them and broaden his horizons.
A lot of seemingly useless knowledge can also be used in other scripts in the future to make the works released by Mythology Film Studio more realistic.
Until 8 a.m. local time.
While changing his clothes and preparing to go downstairs for breakfast, Fan Wumian sent a text message to Zhuang Muxi, inviting her to go to the Gobi Desert in the northwest to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Penguin Group's charity forest project on his behalf.
Inspired by the Ant Forest, last month Fan Wumian, through his family trust foundation, cooperated with Penguin Group's QQ Farm to enclose 1 acres of wasteland in the Maowusu Desert, intending to spend money to reverse the local ecology.
The official was of course very cooperative and the process was progressing at a very fast pace, with all sorts of procedures given the green light all the way, as if they were afraid that he and the Penguin Group would change their minds, so they suddenly sent an invitation letter yesterday, informing them that everything else was ready and they just needed to send someone to attend the event.
In addition to operating more forest farms to leave to future generations, Fan Wumian is indeed preparing to do some charity. He also plans to find ways to promote the ban on foreign garbage and the fishing moratorium on the Yangtze River ahead of schedule. More long-term plans include investing in the research and development of new drugs and promoting the development of electric vehicles.
Out of profit considerations, the profits brought to pharmaceutical companies by certain chronic diseases may be hundreds of times that of a one-time complete cure. Fan Wumian is very skeptical whether the large pharmaceutical companies in Europe and the United States have properly developed some new drugs that can save lives.
When he has more money on hand, he doesn't mind spending several hundred million yuan every year to try to incubate some medical research projects in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macao.
After breakfast, we drove straight to the Moscone Convention Center.
Because Fan Wumian holds a large stake in Apple and is also a celebrity, many people at the scene knew him, and soon after he got off the car, someone greeted him enthusiastically.
We arrived too early, and no one had entered yet.
While talking to a stranger who was said to be one of the component suppliers, Fan Wumian heard that as early as 2004, Steve Jobs secretly assembled thousands of employees to form a research and development team, named the plan "Purple Project", and classified it as top secret within Apple.
And today is the crucial moment to showcase the results. Many component suppliers and Apple’s shareholder representatives on the scene are very excited. They all hope to see a successful press conference and profit from it.
The news from the outside world was true and false, and most people still couldn't figure out the specific situation. Fan Wumian listened to their random guesses and couldn't help but sigh that Steve Jobs' confidentiality work was so thorough.
It is probably because of this that Apple’s stock price has remained stable in recent days. The outside world knew that it was about to launch a new product, but still failed to react in time.
This was a good thing for Fan Wumian. He had already notified the people around him who needed to be notified, and even advised Paulson Hedge Fund to slightly adjust its positions and add Apple shares to a number of regular private equity fund products.
Since Apple's stock price did not fluctuate much, even though John Paulson, the boss of Paulson Hedge Fund, was a little slow to react, he still bought more than 2000 million worth of Apple shares in the past two days. There was still some cash on hand, but Fan Wumian did not choose to go all in, because although he predicted that Apple's stock should rise sharply in the next period of time, he was not sure about the specific stock price trend, so he needed to keep some cash on hand for emergencies.
Until 9: in the morning.
The staff at the press conference finally opened the door and let the guests who held invitations in.
There was a number written on the invitation letter, and Fan Wumian was assigned to a seat in the middle of the first row.
This may be due to his celebrity status. Maybe someone in Apple's marketing department wants to use his fame to promote the new products that will be released today.
I chatted with a stranger sitting next to me and unexpectedly found out that the other person was from BlackRock Group. He even mentioned that he had paid attention to Penguin Group and the two hedge fund companies.
Fan Wumian didn't know much about the situation in the United States, but he had certainly heard of the three major asset management giants: BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Global Advisors.
Together, these companies manage trillions of dollars in assets. If they sneeze, the global economy will shake. Many of the dividends that the middle and low-income Americans failed to obtain have been snatched away by these big companies.
After learning the other party's identity, Fan Wumian immediately began to recommend himself, hoping to facilitate cooperation between BlackRock and Paulson Hedge Fund or WM-Rogers Hedge Fund. Unfortunately, his wink was like throwing a blind eye, and others were not interested at all.
Come to think of it, the difference in size is too great. If BlackRock really saw the signs of the subprime mortgage crisis, it could have taken action on its own and there was no need to play along with Fan Wumian at all.
After realizing this, Fan Wumian didn't say anything more, and soon saw Steve Jobs walking onto the stage wearing very casual clothes.
"In 1984 we introduced the Macintosh, which not only changed Apple, but the entire computer industry."
"In 2001, we introduced the first iPod, which not only changed the way we listened to music, but also changed the entire music industry."
"And today, we launched three new products of this kind"
"The iPod, the phone and the Internet communicator, these are not separate devices, this is one device, and we call it the iPhone."
“Today, Apple is reinventing the phone…We want to make a leap forward that’s smarter than any mobile device ever made, easier to use and more powerful than any other mobile device ever made.”
“We developed a new technology called multi-touch. It works like magic, you don’t need a stylus to operate it, and the accuracy is higher than anything we have seen so far.”
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Fan Wumian's English level is just adequate.
Watching Steve Jobs speaking on the stage up close, he couldn't understand some of the words at all.
Even so, one could still feel the powerful charm of Steve Jobs. Perhaps it was because he was too optimistic about this product, one could hear that when Steve Jobs talked about some key points, his tone became quite excited.
When he saw Steve Jobs take out the first generation iPhone from his pocket, Fan Wumian immediately realized that his $15 billion long Apple stock options were almost % certain. The only uncertainty was how much he could earn.
As he was about to hold the sack full of money, he could not help but feel extremely excited. From time to time, he applauded along with the other guests. Someone nearby patted Fan Wumian on the shoulder and congratulated him in a low voice.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the mobile phone industry will soon be completely changed. The features that Jobs demonstrated in detail on the stage are enough to make some competitors feel cold from the soles of their feet to their heads. Whether it is the ultra-clear large screen or the gesture operation function, it makes people feel that this is what a mobile phone should look like. (End of this chapter)