Chapter 22 Sunrise in the East and Rain in the West
After Du Qiu walked out of the embassy, he saw Aiko Komatsu following him step by step, so he stopped on the side of the road and said, "It's working hours now. Is it okay for you to leave like this?"
"It's causing trouble for Mr. Du." Aiko Komatsu apologized first, and then explained: "It's okay, I'm relatively free at work, I can leave for a while."
When facing a boss or other powerful figures, the Japanese like to show a respectful and trepid attitude. Some people think they are polite, but Du Qiu feels that this kind of retardation is artificial and hypocritical, so he asked bluntly: "Miss Aizi, are you a spy sent by the embassy to investigate me?"
"Ai?"
"Mr. Watanabe must think that I have done illegal things in Japan, such as stealing your country's high-tech technology, but this is China. He cannot arrest me and force me to confess, so I sent you to collect evidence and spy on intelligence, right?"
"Ah, Mr. Du Qiu, please don't get me wrong, there's nothing like that."
Du Qiu raised his hand and called a taxi. He opened the door very gentlemanly and asked Aiko Komatsu to go in first. After he got in, he reported the destination and continued to ask: "Miss Aiko, you have a wiretap device hidden on you? Are you planning to install it secretly in my room?"
Aiko Komatsu's appearance is a bit like the famous Japanese drama queen Takako Tobashi, who was popular in the late 1990s. Her face is thin and her cheekbones are slightly convex, and she feels a sense of beauty and weakness. Under Du Qiu's questioning, she is like a kitten forced into a corner, with her hands shaking around her chest, and she denied it: "No, no, Mr. Du Qiu, I have nothing hidden on me."
The taxi driver is also a good person. He looked up at the rearview mirror and made a fun assist, suggesting: "If you hide it, just search for it."
Du Qiu was so kind and said with a stern face: "Miss Beloved, either get off the car and go back to the embassy now, or ask me to search after I arrive at the hotel and choose one."
"Hey?...Ano...I'm really not a spy. I just want to know if Ryoji and Yukiho will be together." Aiko Komatsu frowned together with her slender brows. After a while of entanglement, she said timidly: "Mr. Du Qiu, can you ask you to take out the manuscript? I'm reading outside the hotel, okay?"
Her age should be around 30 years old. This kind of crying posture is suspected of pretending to be young, but her temperament is more consistent, which is not annoying. Du Qiu laughed at him and stopped showing off and said, "Miss Beloved, I'm just joking with you, please don't mind."
"Mr. Du is so humorous."
Humor? Who knows if you are a fan of novels or have ulterior motives...
It seems that we have to work harder to improve fame and wealth to a point where the world looks up to you, so you won’t have to be wary of it at that time…
Before the release of ivie browser, there was no problem with Du Qiu going to Japan, because he was unknown at that time, and the Japanese would not notice him, but it was more embarrassing after the release of ivie browser. Because China did not have an environment to develop a browser before 1995, the Japanese would probably think that Du Qiu had stolen their technology, even if there was no project related to ivie browser in Japan.
If you go to Kobe when you are a little famous but not very famous, you might be detained by the Japanese in false name. Therefore, Du Qiu used his visa twice before, just pretending to behave, deliberately concealing his property, making the information incomplete, not asking for approval, but just asking for a visa. Now the concept of open source software is becoming more and more popular. I have also appeared in "Wire" and domestic authoritative media, and have hooked up with Microsoft again. After all, I am a not-so-small international celebrity. If I go there, I don't have to worry about this kind of problem.
Du Qiu carried an ibm laptop sold in the United States with him, which contained electronic documents. After returning to the hotel, he found a printer, printed out the full text, and handed it to Aiko Komatsu, who looked expectant, and said, "Miss Aiko, can you do me a favor?"
"Mr. Du, please give me instructions."
"My main purpose of going to Japan this time was to find a publishing house to submit the article. Now that the visa has not been completed, it is impossible to get a trip, so I would like to ask you to help me copy this manuscript and mail it to some publishing houses in Japan to see if they are interested in publishing because I don't know their address."
"Hey? Am I?" Aiko Komatsu held the manuscript in both hands and nodded vigorously, and promised in a tone that she had to complete her trust even if she sacrificed her life: "Mr. Du, please rest assured, I will definitely handle it seriously!"
No matter who you are, use it first...
Around 1995, when Japanese pop culture was popular in Asia, as long as "White Night Tour" became famous in Japan, you can use this popularity to develop your own plans to prepare before the Spring Festival and build an online literature website...
When Du Qiu was leisurely teasing Japanese beauty translator in Beijing, Netscape Company, far away in Silicon Valley, was nervous. CEO Jim Buxdale and CTO Mark Anderson jointly held a senior company meeting to discuss how to deal with the threat brought by Microsoft's cooperation with Snapdragon. Although the news made headlines in China yesterday, no one in the United States knew about it. It was not until Silverberg returned to Seattle that it spread to Silicon Valley.
Mark Anderson is a technical genius. At the age of 22, he wrote the world's first mature and available browser ma private. However, after creating Netscape, although he served as CTO, he never wrote a line of source code again. He has been doing management and marketing work. He was worried about this cooperation and proposed again: "Jim, I think the upgrade fee of sape-navigator should be cancelled and the market share should be expanded as soon as possible. Only by occupying more than 70% of the browser market can he ensure a leading position and not be caught up by Microsoft."
"Mark, do you know how much upgrade fee we have received in the past two months? More than $15 million!" Jim Buxdale is a veteran in the workplace. His business world has been rising for decades, and his thinking has long been solidified. He has completely failed to understand the free business model. He firmly opposed: "If you can't make a profit, then what's the use of market share? We should add more functions to the browser to attract users to upgrade, rather than fighting with the rough and simple ivie."
Mike Houmo, the senior vice president of sales, also opposed the free and said: "Now every month, a large number of new users enter the Internet world. We need to increase advertising efforts, increase the company's exposure, and attract them to use our products. In fact, in May we rewritten the ISP T engine. After launching version 1.3, the effect was very ideal, with market share rising from 54% to 56.8%, and 110,000 more users who paid to upgrade."
"But ivie browser is growing faster, from less than 10% to about 14%, eating up a lot of ma private market share. When American Online starts pre-installation, they will grow faster."
"The Chinese have limited strength and their products are open source, so the threat is not great. The trouble is Microsoft. If Microsoft integrates the browser it bought into Windows 95 and issues it for free, how should we deal with it?"
"This is impossible. If Microsoft wants to be free, why spend $4 million to find Snapdragon cooperation? Just use ivie directly."
Mark Anderson looked up and glanced around the conference room and asked, "$4 million is nothing to Microsoft, what if they did?"
"This is to use monopoly to engage in unfair competition. We can sue Microsoft, and the Justice Department will make them bad luck."
"The lawsuit will last for a long time, or even for several years, and will not solve the problem." Mark Anderson shook his head, seeing that Michael Toy, the head of the browser research and development department, had never spoken, so he asked, "Michael, what do you think?"
"In fact, we have a plan to cooperate with Snapdragon," Michael Toy looked up at him, then looked at Jim Buxdale again. Seeing that both of them were confused, he reminded: "Two months ago, when Du Qiu came to the company to give a technical speech, he reached an agreement with us to study how to formulate HTML language standards."
Chapter completed!