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The United States is a big country in science and technology, and an important symbol is its emphasis on science and technology.

One sign of the emphasis on technology is that technology is extremely expensive.

Many technology companies in Silicon Valley do not want to make progress and rely on licensing some B-side technologies to survive. There are even many technology companies that do not even have R\u0026D teams. They just developed some technologies and obtained some patents in the early years, and then relied on these. Eat something for a lifetime.

These companies simply cannot survive in China.

But the United States is different. These things can often be sold at sky-high prices, allowing them to live a comfortable life. The boss makes a lot of money, the employees have a relaxing and comfortable day's work, and the benefits are excellent. The level of employee remuneration is not essentially provided by the boss. It is a systematic project and a game between employees and the entire social system.

Many domestic companies use American technology, which is really unaffordable.

Too expensive.

Then we can only use some pirated copies, or create high imitations in the name of "self-research" to bypass American companies.

There's nothing we can do about it.

This is an inevitable choice in the market, not a simple black and white, right or wrong evaluation standard.

China is just a developing country and cannot afford the sky-high technical service fees offered by the American social system.

Zhou Buqi now sees many things as ordinary, and he no longer has the misunderstanding he had in the past about the sky-high technical service fees in the United States.

High prices have the benefits of high prices, and the real benefits can benefit the entire social system.

The low cost in China is indeed conducive to the rapid promotion of technology and the rapid development of the industry, so much so that there are easily hundreds of domestic online TVs, and a small company with more than a dozen people can operate a pirated network. TV, the shortcomings behind it are becoming more and more obvious.

However, now that he heard Robert Egger's words, Zhou Buqi was still deeply stimulated.

This is too shocking!

Just to launch a genuine online TV service for HBO TV station, it will take not only 5 years, but also cost 900 million US dollars? This is too exaggerated!

This is worse than robbing a bank.

Robert Egger said: "That was the technical service provider that HBO was looking for in New York. They felt that the cost was too high, so the network TV plan was delayed for many years."

"What happened next?"

Zhou Buqi finally realized the reason for the "slow" development of the United States. Things like online TV were everywhere in China as early as ten years ago. Many people went to Internet cafes to watch South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong on online TV. TV station.

It's ironic here in the United States that big companies like HBO have a hard time launching an online TV station.

Robert Egger said: "After searching from all parties, suddenly one day, I found an opportunity in the sports industry, which is BAM, a subsidiary of Major League Baseball. Their technical system was built by themselves, and it is mature and stable. The TV station The synchronization with online TV is high and the signal is stable. It can even broadcast live sports and movies. ”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "So HBO went to Major League Baseball to cooperate."

Robert Iger smiled and said: "Yes, the cooperation is very good. BAM built their online TV station for HBO in only three and a half months, with a total cost of only 50 million US dollars. With this precedent, streaming media in the media industry Even if the transformation has found an affordable and efficient direction, other TV stations like CBS and MTV who want to launch online TV stations always turn to BAM to cooperate and use their technology.”

“Affordable and efficient?”

Zhou Buqi laughed.

I feel like these laymen in the media are really easy to fool.

HBO wanted to make online TV, but after spending US$50 million, it felt that it was too cheap and affordable... If this was done in China, a ten-person technical team could develop it in a week. If you want to be more cautious and launch a stable version, it can be completed in less than a month, and the total cost is US$1 million.

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "Although I haven't done any inspections, based on my understanding of the technology industry, if this kind of project is done by a team from Silicon Valley, such as service providers such as IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Microsoft, it will always be The cost will not exceed $10 million."

Robert Iger pondered for a moment and said frankly: "No one in the entire media industry believes in Silicon Valley."

"hehe."

“When the Internet industry in Silicon Valley first came out in the early days, the media industry gave them huge support. For example, in the early days of Yahoo and AOL, many of the news sources on them were supported by the traditional media industry. But what happened later? Once they got started, they started to be ungrateful and swallowed up their past partners.”

"Well, ingratitude is a characteristic of Silicon Valley. I don't think this is a shortcoming. It is the spiritual attribute behind the technological era in which Silicon Valley leads the world."

Zhou Buqi has long seen through the nature of Silicon Valley.

In some ways it's a lot like Wall Street.

The better the person, the more elite the person, the lower the loyalty. Because of their low loyalty, they continue to change jobs, causing experience, projects, and projects to spread all over the industry, intensifying competition, and driving the rapid development of the industry.

Just like the rapid development in China, there must be support for piracy and indifference to intellectual property protection.

The traditional media industry is much more loyal than Silicon Valley. Once employees are too loyal, it will easily become a stagnant internal situation, and it will be impossible to compete with the emerging media giants in Silicon Valley. The largest media giants in the United States are not Comcast, Viacom, MSI, Disney, News Corporation, etc., but Google.

Robert Egger said: "In short, the media industry is very afraid of Silicon Valley. Big technology companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook are too scary. Once they learn from it, what will happen in their place will definitely happen again."

Zhou Buqi sighed, "Bob, you still don't understand technology enough."

"Um?"

"Do you think you can escape Silicon Valley by using BAM's technical services?"

"BAM is a streaming media company owned by the Baseball League. It was born earlier than YouTube. It is a completely self-developed technology..."

"What you said is correct, but it is not comprehensive." Zhou Buqi interrupted him, "Live broadcast of sports events, including online TV stations like HBO_Now, requires the transmission of a large amount of audio and video to users during the streaming process. Data. If it is a high-definition picture, the amount of data will be larger.”

Robert Egger said: "This is the same as the upgrade from standard TV to high-definition TV. It requires upgrading to optical fiber that can transmit a wider amount of data. BAM's platform has been built for more than ten years. They have built a data center and achieved high-speed Fiber optic connections.”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "You are right, but have you ever thought about it. BAM also provides network television technical services to CBS, HBO, WWE, MTV, as well as rugby, NBA and other institutions. How big a service is this?" How many users will it serve? Can the small data center built by BAM support such a large service system?”

"ah?"

Robert Egger was slightly stunned.

Zhou Buqi said calmly: "Even if we don't consider this, we assume that BAM's data center technology is very powerful and has a huge number of server clusters, which can support so many services at the same time... However, this data center is in the United States. It’s impossible to serve Europe, Asia, and South America, right? HBO’s online TV station can now be watched online. Who is the server behind it?”

Robert Egger's expression changed drastically.

He is an Apple director and has not resigned.

Apple immediately came to mind.

The hacking incident in Hollywood was mainly due to the leakage of Apple Cloud... and the reason why Apple built Apple Cloud was because the data flow of photos was too large and ordinary data centers could not supply it, so it had to build powerful ones around the world. Cloud data center will do.

Because of the cloud data center and cloud services, hackers have an opportunity to invade and steal many private photos of female stars.

Photo data streaming is still like this...

What’s more, film and television content?

The data scale of film and television is hundreds to thousands of times that of photos!

Many of BAM's customers now provide global services, and there must be a global cloud computing platform behind this!

And once it comes to the cloud computing platform, it must be a product of Silicon Valley!

I was carefully avoiding the big companies in Silicon Valley, but I didn't expect to go around and back!