Chapter 503: Pandora's Box

"This..."

Li Dongling also didn't know how to answer. He couldn't say that one in every fifty Americans believes in this theory.

In America alone, the number of believers in the Flat Earth theory has exceeded 6 million. Looking at the world, this proportion, in front of billions of people, is almost impossible to estimate.

"What he said seems quite reasonable!"

Before Li Dongling could speak, a voice came from behind the crowd. Looking back, it was actually the technical genius of the Himalaya Silicon Valley company, Jia Siding Frank.

Seeing everyone's strange gazes cast on him, Jia Siding Frank shrugged his shoulders, "I don't agree with his theory, it's just that some things really need to be seen to be believed!

I have decided that in the second half of my life, I must personally go into space to take a look at what the world we are in is really like!"

Jia Siding Frank, who has always carried the aloof style unique to geniuses, seemed to have found a new goal in life.

Jia Siding Frank also knows that with his physique, wanting to go into space, he probably has to spend a very, very large sum of money to realize this goal. He at least needs to achieve financial freedom first.

"Madman!"

Zhou Hualiang saw Jia Siding Frank, who appeared excited, and couldn't help but have this thought pop up in his heart. It was the first time he had encountered someone who took going to space as a life goal. He felt that Jory Jin Si' brain circuit was abnormal, and he was afraid Jia Siding was not much better.

Whether it was Jory Jin Si or Jia Siding Frank, Zhou Hualiang couldn't understand how their brain circuits grew.

"How is the sound quality of the Himalaya website?!" Li Dongling asked the professional sound quality personnel of the technical department.

"Not too good!"

After saying this, the technician hurriedly added, "This is compared to CDs and vinyl records. The sound quality loss of the Himalaya website is probably unacceptable to music professionals!

But for ordinary users, the digital sound quality of the Himalaya website will not notice much change."

"So, the sound quality of the Himalaya website has passed?" Li Dongling asked directly.

"Yes!"

The professional sound quality technician thought for a moment and nodded.

The audio used by Himalaya is MP3 compression technology, which can compress a 40M 16-bit WAV format file into an MP3 with 3.5M memory. This is equivalent to a CD record with fifteen songs and 700M in size. Only fifteen 3.5M MP3 files are needed to be saved on a computer. Songs or pictures circulating among computer users actually already have a technical foundation.

To put it more bluntly, with this set of technology, once internet P2P technology becomes popular, songs without copyrights will start to flood the internet. At that time, relying on traditional records alone will not sell at all. The bitter days for the five major record companies in America and old Europe are about to come...

When the major record giants like Columbia Records, EMI, Sony Records, Universal, and BMG can't go on because of rampant pirated music.

At that time, Himalaya Radio can appear in front of them like a savior, just like iTunes and Spotify in the previous life, launching genuine music, paired with the high-end Shenzhou MP3 under Dongling Gao Ke. Are we afraid that Sony, EMI, and the others won't take the bait and won't open their music copyright libraries to Himalaya?!

Himalaya's future transformation into a genuine music platform is also crucial for the MP3, tablet, and other businesses under Dongling Gao Ke.

Compared to Himalaya's transformation into a music platform, with billions of dollars in genuine digital music revenue every year, playing pirated music means endless lawsuits with the major record giants, not to mention how much revenue there is?

Which pirated music platform dares to say that it can earn 2 billion dollars a year? And Apple in the previous life, in 2007 when it launched the iTunes platform, could earn 2 billion dollars a year.

In the later stage, the Himalaya website can also increase revenue from pictures, TV series, movies, etc. These are all earning genuine money. Is it earning it openly and honestly, or are the major record giants like Sony and Hollywood movie giants like Disney begging Himalaya to cooperate when record and movie copyrights collapse in the internet era!

Of course, compared to selling genuine songs, movies, podcasts, etc., Dongling Gao Ke launching high-end MP3s and pairing them with the Himalaya website can exert greater effect. The high-end MP3 market is much more profitable than the record industry!

Apple's MP3 device iPod, from the start of sales to discontinuation, at its peak, this model of product could bring Apple 8 or 9 billion in revenue every year, and the total revenue exceeded 70 billion dollars!

Apple can earn this money, why can't Dongling Gao Ke? Of course, if it were Dongling Gao Ke, the revenue might not be as high as Apple's, but Dongling Gao Ke definitely wants to earn this money.

Li Dongling nodded, "After the first batch of podcast programs are uploaded, arrange for Himalaya to go online!"

"In addition, the technical upgrade of the Himalaya website cannot stop. In the future, at the latest every half month, we must upgrade the Himalaya website once technically, so that it occupies the minimum computer resources and provides users with the best sound quality!

In addition, we need to increase background running programs, that is, users can work, play games, etc., on the computer screen, but Himalaya is still running in the background, continuing to serve users.

Otherwise, develop some plugin functions. These picture or dynamic graphic plugins can be produced by the Himalaya website, and we also support users to produce them themselves, so that when users open the Himalaya website to listen to programs, they won't feel bored!"

Hearing Li Dongling's requirements, Lu Kui's eyes lit up. When listening to podcast programs or songs, if there are dynamic graphic pictures, even if they are just simple changes, in this era, they are enough to make users feel cool, and the sense of technology is full.

As a technical genius, Jia Siding, hearing these things proposed by Li Dongling, couldn't help but look at the big financier.

As a technical person, he knows that with these conditions proposed by Li Dongling, there are indeed requirements for technical development and computer hardware conditions.

Software technology doesn't need to be mentioned. Just that background running program made Jia Siding feel a bit amazed. This set of technology must be able to be developed, but no one had ever thought of it before. Sometimes, genius program developers don't necessarily have genius ideas!

In terms of hardware, larger memory, processors, graphics cards, sound cards, speakers, etc., are also needed. If Himalaya Radio can become popular, maybe it can even let users upgrade all the components like sound cards, speakers, graphics cards, etc., driving a wave of demand...

This is like graphics cards. Every time a 3A masterpiece game is born, it can drive a wave of top-tier graphics cards. Games are the catalyst for graphics card manufacturers to upgrade!

"These software program technologies need to be done by you, Jia Siding. Of course, in the future, you will also get enough funding from Himalaya to go into space!"

Li Dongling poured a bowl of poisonous chicken soup for Jia Siding. This is like the boss changing to a Land Rover next year as long as the ox and horse eat the bitterness of bitterness.

Of course, for a genius programmer like Jia Siding, he certainly won't treat him badly. As long as he stays at Himalaya, it won't be difficult to get option rewards in the future.

The entire Himalaya Silicon Valley office began to get busy thoroughly, constantly uploading new podcast program content to the server, and also started to place Himalaya advertisements on a host of websites like Yahoo, Netscape, ASK, Souxin, IE browser, etc.

Not only was the Silicon Valley office busy, but Himalaya Radio in the mainland was also preparing for the launch.

It's just that the Himalaya in the mainland and the Himalaya in America, although they use the same brand, the content of the two websites cannot be said to be similar; they are almost completely different...

The Himalaya website in the mainland is mainly based on songs, audio, opera, storytelling, etc. It will also launch self-made content in the future, but it is mainly based on those contents.

And on the Himalaya website in America, because we couldn't buy music copyrights in the early stages, we could only rely on self-made podcast content and open radio stations.

"Himalaya FM Radio, let the world listen to your voice!"

This is the slogan of the Himalaya website, and it is also the title seen on the homepage after entering the website.

The Himalaya website went online in America. On the day it went online, it was not widely promoted in traditional media. It was mainly through traffic diversion on websites like Netscape and Yahoo. As for the effect...

"Currently, the user visit volume is less than one thousand, and the click and playback volume is even lower!"

In the Himalaya Silicon Valley office, looking at the website visit volume in the background, Lu Kui said nervously.

America's current internet user scale is over 20 million. The entire Asian internet user scale added together is not as large as America's internet scale market. This is also the reason why Silicon Valley companies look down on other markets.

From the opening of the station in the morning until now, it has been more than a morning, and the result is that the visit volume is less than one thousand, not to mention the click-through rate.

Lu Kui and the management of the Himalaya Silicon Valley office couldn't help but be a bit anxious, and Zhou Hualiang's expression was also a bit solemn.

But Li Dongling looked normal, discussing with Yao Luoying in a low voice from time to time, until the office phone rang.

"Larsen!"

The call was from Larsen. After Li Dongling put down the phone, he clapped his hands, "Guys, keep working. The backup server must be sufficient. I don't want to see the Himalaya website crash because of too many user visits!"

Lu Kui and the others, hearing this, had question marks all over their heads. Just this morning, there wasn't even a visit volume of one thousand people. Still need a backup server?

Regardless of Lu Kui's expression, Li Dongling instructed Zhou Hualiang, "You tell Jory Jin Si, Rogan, and those Himalaya-signed podcast creators that when there are media interviews, they must follow what they were told to say, and they must mention the Himalaya website!" ===== CHAPTER 504 =====