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Time passed by little by little.

In the blink of an eye, it was already evening.

The joint publication by the four major newspaper media made the Hong Kong Times like a rat crossing the street and became a media that everyone in Hong Kong wanted to beat.

In the past, it was normal for the media to create fake news. Citizens had long been accustomed to it. No one would publicize it, and even if it was discovered, it would soon be forgotten.

But this time the Hong Kong Times was different. It was jointly reported by several major news media, which was equivalent to a direct critical hit to the Hong Kong Times. The impact was too great, and everyone's negative views of it skyrocketed.

However, just when the citizens of Hong Kong thought that the matter had been settled, events took another turn.

At seven o'clock in the evening, most families and convenience stores turned on the TV.

After ATV went bankrupt two years ago, Hong Kong's television market share was once again monopolized by ATV and TVB.

Today, although ATV has gained an advantage in ratings in certain time periods and dramas, TVB also has many classic dramas and a broad audience base. The two TV stations each occupied a certain share in the Hong Kong television market at that time.

The TV series "The Good Earth" has not been broadcast yet. ATV has a slight advantage in ratings, but not by much.

Therefore, more than 50% of the audience in Hong Kong are watching ATV at the moment.

This TV station is an authentic British-owned enterprise, 100% owned by the British Rediffusion Company.

However, a year later, in March 1981, the British Rediffusion Television Company would transfer its 3% stake to an Australian consortium. A year later, Mr. Qiu, chairman of the Far East Group, would officially take over Rediffusion Television and eventually change its name to Asia Television.

Now, in June 1980, ATV was not yet Asia Television, but a purely British-owned enterprise.

Originally, ATV was supposed to broadcast the TV series "In the Rivers and Lakes" at this time.

"A Chinese Odyssey" is a drama TV series directed by Mak Dang-hung and Liu Ka-ho, starring Chen Kuan-tai, Jiang Han, Ma Min-er and others. It has a total of 80 episodes and was first broadcast on ATV on May 1980, 5.

This is a TV series set in a township after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, telling the story of the grievances and love-hate relationship between the brothers Shi Jiabao and Shi Jiawei in the underworld.

Moreover, the drama brought together a group of powerful actors in the Hong Kong television circle at that time, including Chen Kuan-tai, Jiang Han, etc. Their superb acting skills added a lot of color to the drama.

At the same time, Hong Kong in the 1980s was in a period of rapid economic development and social change, and the audience had a high demand for TV dramas that reflected social reality and exploration of human nature.

"The Rivers and Lakes" just meets this need and therefore has received widespread attention and love.

Therefore, this TV series attracted widespread attention and discussion after it was broadcast. Its compact plot and vivid characters are deeply loved by the audience.

However, just as the audience was looking forward to the TV series, what appeared on the TV screen was not the opening clip of "A Chinese Odyssey".

At this time, the person who appeared on the screen was Wei Qiuhua, the actress who moved from Jiayi TV Station to ATV after Jiayi TV Station went bankrupt.

Seeing this, all the viewers were confused and didn't understand what ATV was doing.

After all, under normal circumstances, this time is exactly when "A Chinese Odyssey" is broadcast.

However, this also aroused everyone's curiosity, so basically no one changed the channel.

"An urgent news interruption. The TV series 'A Rivers and Lakes' will be delayed by ten minutes. Our station has received the latest news that Mr. Tang Jie, Technical Superintendent of the Criminal Department of the Royal Hong Kong Police, fled Hong Kong with his family today. Before fleeing, Mr. Tang Jie also recorded a video and sent it to our TV station by mail. The following is the content of the video!" After Wei Qiuhua finished speaking, the TV screen changed again.

"Don't watch TVB, turn to Rediffusion TV, there's big news!"

Across Hong Kong, many people were calling out to their neighbors to change channels to watch.

All of a sudden, the ratings of ATV soared, while the ratings of TVB plummeted at the same time.

At this moment, many families in Hong Kong were staring at the TV, wanting to see what was happening.

After all, today's joint report by the four major newspapers and the press conference of the Hong Kong Electric Group later caused a sensation, and the whole of Hong Kong was discussing the rumors about Fortress Electrical City.

Originally, everyone thought that the matter had been concluded.

But how long has it been since then, and another result has appeared?
In the video, the Hong Kong police officer recounted how "he was bribed by the general manager of Fortress Electrical Appliance Company and eventually fabricated a false report," as if it were true.

Moreover, he apologized to the citizens of Hong Kong with a very sincere expression, saying that he did not expect the impact of this incident to be so great, so he felt guilty and decided to stand up and tell the "truth of the matter."

The video is not long, only two minutes.

But when the video was played, it instantly caused an uproar throughout Hong Kong.

"Fuck, there's a twist!"

"I didn't expect the Hong Kong Times report to be true. We blamed it wrongly."

"In order to settle this matter, Fengze Electric Company actually bribed the police officers. How abominable!"

"Who says it isn't?"

"Fengze Electric Company, black for life!" "It's normal for an electrical appliance to electrocute someone, they should admit it, but Fengze Electric Company not only refused to admit its mistake, but also tried to bribe the police to fabricate the facts. It's disgusting!"

"Who says it's not?"

At this moment, Fengze Electric Appliance Company, which had just emerged from its predicament, immediately fell into even greater trouble.

Ordinary citizens are like this, easily manipulated by public opinion.

The biggest basis for Fengze Electric City is nothing more than the technical appraisal report presented to them by the police station.

Now, the words of this police officer have directly invalidated this technical appraisal report!

In less than half an hour, the news spread throughout Hong Kong and almost everyone knew about it.

……

At the Lin family villa on Shi Xun Road, Lin Haoran, who had just finished dinner, was about to go upstairs to study the latest Apple III.

This computer was shipped to him by Jobs and just arrived today. After he came back, he asked Li Weidong to help him move it to the study upstairs.

According to Jobs, this is Apple's latest product and a great one.

After all, Lin Haoran is one of the major shareholders of Apple. It would be a bit outrageous if he doesn’t even know what the company’s products look like.

The Apple III was designed to compete with IBM for a share of the commercial and enterprise computing market.

This product was finally launched last month.

However, this product was destined to fail, which Lin Haoran had seen when he read "The Biography of Steve Jobs" in his previous life.

The main reasons for the failure of Apple III included heat dissipation problems, software and hardware compatibility issues, and high price.

First, heat dissipation was one of the main reasons for the failure of the Apple III.

Because Jobs asked the designers not to add a cooling fan to the Apple III, the computer had poor heat dissipation.

User feedback showed that Apple III often suffered from overheating, causing chips to fall off the motherboard and screen display to become distorted. Some users even reported that floppy disks almost melted after being ejected due to high temperatures.

Secondly, Apple III's hardware and software compatibility and adaptation software issues also affected its market performance.

Because Apple III used analog mode to be compatible with Apple II, many advanced features could not be fully used on Apple III, resulting in a poor user experience.

In addition, there are fewer compatible software and the system is prone to crashes, which further affects its market acceptance.

Finally, the high price of the Apple III also contributed to its failure.

Its price ranged from US$4340 to US$10000, which was much higher than many other commercial computers based on the CP/M operating system, making it prohibitive for many potential users.

Although Lin Haoran already knew about the failure of this product from Apple, he did not try to stop it.

Because at the beginning of his investment, he had decided not to interfere in any matters related to Apple, including product research and development.

Failure is failure, it's just experiencing it again in this world.

But if he interferes too much and eventually causes Apple to change completely, then Lin Haoran has no idea what kind of technology company Apple will become in the future. This is equivalent to making Lin Haoran completely lose his foresight about Apple.

Although Lin Haoran's investment means that Apple has one more shareholder, the impact is not significant. His identity is just an investor and he does not interfere in any matters of Apple.

Therefore, his investment will not change the development of Apple.

But if he interferes with the product and ultimately causes the product to be completely different from that in another world, the indirect change will be huge and will completely change Apple's development trajectory.

So, all these made Lin Haoran decide that he would not make any changes to Apple.

I pressed the power button skillfully and soon the Apple logo appeared.

However, this gadget, which seemed very advanced to people of that era, was too backward in Lin Haoran's opinion. It was so backward that he lost interest in it after trying it out for a while.

In his eyes, this is just like electronic garbage and is not playable at all.

Lin Haoran turned off the computer in boredom. Just as he was about to walk out of the study and go outside to watch TV to kill time, the phone in the study rang.

"Hello, my name is Lin Haoran." Lin Haoran walked over, picked up the phone and introduced himself directly.

"Boss, I'm Chen Shoulin. Something big has happened. Our Fengze Electric Appliance Company has been set up again. Just now, Rediffusion Television released a video. The video shows the police officer who previously helped Fengze Electric Appliance Company to produce a technical appraisal report. But now he has turned around and said that the reason he produced this report was because we paid him..."

During the phone call, Chen Shoulin told Lin Haoran everything that had just happened. (End of this chapter)