Vol 6 Chapter 36: The beginning of a new era

On January 9, after 9:30 in the morning, many hotels near the San Francisco Moscone Exhibition Center, where the Macworld was held, were all agitated.

A large number of people swarmed out of these hotels and walked towards the entrance of the Moscone Exhibition Center.

Most of these are media reporters.

Jobs has been secretive about the new products that will be launched at this conference, but he has not stopped various renderings, which can not help but raise the interest of everyone, especially these reporters.

Judging from Apple's recent intensive publicity, and from various speculations on the Internet, many of these media people are keenly aware that Apple's new product launch conference today is afraid that it will create a history.

I thought it was a rare honor to join the rehearsal group of the press conference. I thought it was a perfect end to my high-intensity work for the past three years, but then Apple engineers, Joshua and others, regretted it. Also mixed with these people.

Like these reporters, they also stayed in a hotel near the Moscone Exhibition Center last night, so as not to miss the press conference due to traffic problems.

The reporters waiting to enter the venue are still discussing enthusiastically, guessing what kind of product Jobs will launch this time.

In fact, everyone can already be sure that what Jobs will launch this time is not an Apple TV, but a mobile phone.

However, they don't know what kind of phone this phone will be.

They took out their respective mobile phones, Motorola, Nokia, BlackBerry, and excitedly discussed and guessed.

A reporter took out his iPod, "I think it should be similar to the iPod, but the screen will be bigger."

Joshua and his colleagues looked at each other and smiled. It seems that there are really many smart people.

In fact, their initial R&D idea was to integrate mobile phones and Internet communication functions into the iPod.

The initial solution even used the dial of the first generation iPod to realize dialing on a mobile phone.

But obviously, such a plan will obviously not be their final plan for Apple.

Listening to the discussion of these reporters at this time, they couldn't help but feel a little proud.

It's not just because they feel that their work has been so widely anticipated. In the past three years, there hasn't been a day off for work. It seems to be worthwhile.

It is also because, compared to these reporters who are still speculating at this time, they are familiar with the product that will be released at this conference and what kind of product it is.

They are also familiar with every step of the upcoming conference.

Please, as of yesterday afternoon, they had a total of three days of closed rehearsal.

They have never seen Jobs pay so much attention to any press conference. In this process, naturally there have been many encounters that made them regret their original choice.

Because even during the last rehearsal, the upcoming phone still has various problems.

Jobs' emotions can be imagined.

What happened to them can also be imagined.

Therefore, unlike the expectations of other participants, they are praying at the same time, praying that the crystallization of their hard work in the past three years during the conference will be able to satisfy them.

On the other hand, I deeply feel that this is a kind of relief.

The upcoming press conference will be the end of many of them at Apple.

Thinking of this, Joshua wanted to take out the bottle of whiskey in his bag for a sip.

Regardless of whether today's press conference went smoothly or not, in any case, this day has finally come to an end.

They entered the venue with the flow of people. When the reporters made various records of the entire venue, they came to the fifth row and sat down in their seats.

At about ten o'clock, following the reminder of the staff, the lights in the hall dimmed and the huge screen on the stage lit up.

In the center of the screen, the huge Apple logo, set against the soft light behind it, is very dark, as if it has absorbed most of the light from the light source behind it-also very much like the face of Jobs seen these days, so that the whole big screen, It showed a somewhat depressed blue-gray color.

It looks a bit like the sky before the storm.

The media reporters shot wildly at the big screen, but Joshua and others subconsciously looked away.

The pressure they are under has reached a critical point, and they really don't want to look at this large screen that looks depressing.

At 10 o'clock, among everyone's applause, including "Finally Coming", a Jobs who was completely different from their impressions and completely different from the Jobs they saw before finishing their work yesterday, strode onto the stage.

Unlike yesterday's impatience, Jobs at this meeting looks very relaxed.

His face was no longer stern, but a smile that made them feel like a long time ago appeared.

Joshua rubbed his eyes to confirm that this was indeed the same Jobs.

Jobs took a sip of water and walked a few steps on the stage. The first sentence he said was, "I have been looking forward to this day for 2 years and 6 months."

The rough man Joshua and his colleagues around him almost broke into tears.

You are just looking forward to it, but do you know how we came here in the past 2 years and 6 months?

It was spent in all your reprimands and rants.

Zuckerberg, sitting in the first row, was even more excited than those media reporters at this time.

He looked at Steve Jobs on the stage, looked at the leisurely big men around him, thinking that he would stand on the stage for a while, just like Jobs, and the tech giants next to him, facing the stage. When this crowd of people spoke, I couldn't help but say something in my heart. I have been looking forward to this day for more than ten years.

Unlike the big guys sitting next to him relaxing and looking at the stage with a smile, he couldn't help but glance at the card in his hand.

Indeed, on occasions with more people than today, he also gave speeches and had to say more than today, but he was especially nervous today.

He also knows what it means to be on stage on an occasion like today.

He feels a little hot.

In fact, he wears very little.

The gray T-shirt and jeans he has today are actually Feng Yiping's opinion.

Although he doesn't know why the young boss wants to wear it this way, he thinks that this kind of match is really good.

I can wear this often in the future.

Jobs took a few steps on the stage, somewhat hesitant to say, "Every once in a while, there will be a revolutionary product released, and then change everything..."

"...A person is lucky enough to participate in a revolutionary product in his lifetime,"

"...In a few days, Apple will release three such products,"

"The first item is a touch-controlled widescreen iPod,"

In the audience, the flashes flickered intensively.

Some people began to applaud.

Because they think they guessed it right.

Jobs looked at this scene with some relief.

His next words made the audience restless, "The second thing is a revolutionary mobile phone,"

Zuckerberg, sitting in the first row, could clearly hear the sigh of the audience, "Oh!"

Everyone’s voice is very soft, but they are concentrated, like a chant in a church.

Many people were laughing, some even stood up excitedly and applauded.

Zuckerberg suddenly felt that holding a conference like this would be really good.

When the website was online, why didn't Feng organize such a press conference?

…………

Feng Yiping is not present today.

It's not that he didn't support Jobs, but because he knew that once he was there, no one would pay attention to Zuckerberg.

He is now on Android.

Accompanying him was Rubin who wanted to go to the press conference.

Feng Yiping is firmly opposed to this.

Next, he might have a guess about what will happen between Android and Apple. It will definitely not be a peace, but he is not sure how much it will tear.

In short, if Rubin also went to the press conference today, it may become a reason for Jobs to accuse them of plagiarism in the future.

"As long as you know that the software we developed, spring is coming soon," he said to Rubin.

"But, what the **** are you?" He pointed to an item in the project schedule, "Do you think that our system will be mainly applicable to mobile phones with physical keyboards in the future?"

"Isn't it?" Rubin asked, "Is it, Apple's phone has cancelled the physical keyboard?"

"If there is a keyboard, do you think it is different from BlackBerry,"

One of the characteristics of BlackBerry is that it has a very complete physical keyboard, which allows some people to use **** to quickly write what they want to write like on a computer.

"The general trend in the future is that the front of the mobile phone is a large screen, let alone a physical keyboard, there are not many physical buttons,"

"So, this must be changed," he looked at Rubin.

This is the first time he has interfered with his research and development so resolutely.

Rubin also looked at Feng Yiping.

Feng Yiping could feel that the eyes behind his glasses were shining brightly at this time.

After staring at each other for a while, Rubin spoke, "Okay."

"In fact, there have been arguments in our team as to whether to support physical keyboards."

"Well," Feng Yiping doesn't care about this. He only cares about the result. "Can it be completed as scheduled?"

"No problem, we will definitely release it by the third quarter of this year at the latest,"

"Very good," Feng Yiping's thoughts drifted away again.

Do you want to make a mobile phone?

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At this time, the atmosphere in the Moscone Exhibition Center was already quite warm.

Everyone who attended this conference finally saw the phone that Apple has kept strictly secret.

They had seen Jobs, like a child who got a novel toy and couldn't help showing off to everyone, one by one, they showed off the features of this phone that amazed them.

At this time, everyone in the audience, even the most loyal BlackBerry fans, Motorola fans, and Nokia fans, felt that they thought they had a good mobile phone in their pocket before attending the conference, so they should not stay in their pocket. Here, the trash can is their best destination.

Of course, most of them, even though they are still staring at the stage ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, they are actually thinking about other things like Zuckerberg.

How should I report on this press conference next?

Just use the words of Jobs, "Today, we are going to reinvent the mobile phone." Maybe it's good?

As for Joshua sitting in the fifth row, they are almost drunk.

Not intoxicated, because they are very familiar with everything that Jobs demonstrated.

These functions demonstrated by Jobs contained their hard work in the past three years.

They were really drunk, because the bottle of Scotch whiskey that Joshua brought in was almost bottomed by them.

When Jobs finishes demonstrating a function, the person in charge of that function will take a sip.

What surprised them was that everyone had the opportunity to take a sip, which meant that the iPhone that was still in the chain during the last rehearsal yesterday did not cause any problems today.

This must be our prayers answered.

Zuckerberg was already a little nervous at this time.

The CEO of Google has already delivered his speech. In his speech, in addition to admiration of this product, there are various interactions with Apple.

Now it’s Yahoo’s Jerry who is working on the Apple platform, and at the same time advertising his company’s email address and search, "...So Jobs, you know my address, please send me one," Chief Yang burst into laughter , Ended his speech.

Zuckerberg knew that it was his turn next.

Jobs has already introduced, "Social network, whether it is a company or an individual, is now an indispensable product...,"

At this moment before taking the stage, Zuckerberg felt that he was not nervous at all, only excited.