蘋果流出零部件賣家的隱秘買賣
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????蘋果（Apple）預(yù)計將在一周內(nèi)舉行一場關(guān)于iPhone的特別活動，但眼下，新款iPhone零部件的圖片和視頻已經(jīng)傳遍整個互聯(lián)網(wǎng)。周二上午在YouTube上搜索iPhone 5C，這個網(wǎng)站返回的結(jié)果超過84,000條。 ????不過，如果打聽一下有關(guān)購銷未完成的蘋果零部件（蘋果公司在這方面仍然嚴(yán)格保密），今年夏天最頻繁出現(xiàn)的名字非桑尼?迪克森莫屬。 ????原來，迪克森是來自澳大利亞的一名小伙子，他居住在墨爾本郊區(qū)。我們通過Skype聯(lián)系到了他。 ????迪克森是一個小心謹(jǐn)慎的人。 ????他對自己的年齡很謹(jǐn)慎。他說：“大到能夠喝酒?！保珷柋镜姆ǘ嬀颇挲g是18歲）。 ????他對自己的消息來源也很謹(jǐn)慎?！八麄冊谥袊鵀樘O果工作?！彼豢贤嘎哆@么多。他通過在新浪微博上跟人聊天——利用谷歌翻譯——來獲取信息，其他信息則來自發(fā)送到他郵箱Sonny@SonnyDickson.com的消息。 ????迪克森一點兒也不喜歡談錢，他生怕得罪了蘋果零部件買賣圈子里的同行，這個圈子極其秘密又略顯偏執(zhí)。 ????“錢從來就不是什么好東西，”他說。“它給我招來了很多怨恨。” ????但他禁不住補充說：“我今天就可以去路易威登（Louis Vuitton）店里，用這個月賺的錢買一個包回來。” ????迪克森的收入有三項來源： ????? 在他新開辟的YouTube頻道中發(fā)布附帶廣告的視頻，其中一些獲得了病毒式的傳播。 ????? 在他的個人網(wǎng)站sonnydickson.com上面銷售廣告位，這個網(wǎng)站上個月的頁面訪問量達到了1,364,675次。 ????? 維修iPhone和iPod，這部分收入占到了他總收入的一半左右。 ????當(dāng)問及他成功售出的零部件的一般價格，迪克森提到一臺iPhone 5C的塑料蓋板賣到了250美元。美國一家網(wǎng)站的站長——他曾經(jīng)發(fā)布過iPhone 5C的視頻——表示，流出的零部件在本土范圍內(nèi)的售價在300-500美元之間。 ????跟很多同齡的年輕人一樣，迪克森在2007年第一代iPhone發(fā)布時就對蘋果產(chǎn)生了濃厚的興趣。身為一名iOS開發(fā)者，他剛開始通過提取隱藏在蘋果測試版軟件代碼中的信息，為自己贏得了小小的名聲。迪克森在零部件買賣圈子里的成名戰(zhàn)是在去年完成的，當(dāng)時他拿到了后來iPhone 5所使用的邏輯板。 |
????With an Apple (AAPL) iPhone special event expected in a week, photos and videos of new iPhone parts are popping up all over the Web. A YouTube search Tuesday morning for the term iPhone 5C returned more than 84,000 hits. ????But ask around about the business of buying and selling unfinished Apple parts -- upon which the company keeps a famously tight lid -- and the name that comes up more than any other this summer is Sonny Dickson. ????Dickson turns out to be an Australian teenager living in the environs of Melbourne. We reached him by Skype. ????He's a cagy guy. ????He's cagy about his age. "Old enough to drink," he says. (The legal drinking age in Melbourne is 18.) ????He's cagy about his sources. "They work for Apple in China," is all he'll say. Most he cultivated by chatting -- via Google Translate -- on Weibo.com. Others came from tips sent over the transom to Sonny@SonnyDickson.com. ????And he doesn't like to talk about money at all for fear of pissing off his peers in the ultra secret and slightly paranoid Apple parts trade. ????"Money is never good," he says, "It got me a lot of hate." ????But he can't resist adding: "I could go over to Louis Vuitton today and buy one of their bags with the money I made this month." ????Dickson has three sources of income. ????? Posting ad-supported YouTube videos on his new sonnydickson channel, some of which have gone viral. ????? Selling ads on his sonnydickson.com website. Last month he drew 1,364,675 page views. ????? Fixing iPhones and iPods, a repair business that generates about half his income. ????Pressed for a typical price of one of the parts he's managed to snag, Dickson quotes $250 for the plastic back of an iPhone 5C. According to the owner of a U.S.-based site who has posted iPhone 5C videos, leaked parts stateside go for anywhere from $300 to $500. ????Like many young men his age, Dickson got interested in Apple with the release of the original iPhone in 2007. Starting out as an iOS developer, he made a small name for himself extracting information hidden in the code of Apple's beta software. His first notable score in the parts trade came last year when he got his hands on what turned out to be the logic board of the unreleased iPhone 5.. |
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