LINE: 看衰，還是看旺 ?
Line Scraps IPO Plans 2015.8.28
Smartphone messaging app, hugely popular in Japan, has struggled to expand elsew
TOKYO—Line, a smartphone-messaging application that is hugely popular in Japan but is struggling to grow elsewhere, has scrapped plans for an initial public offering for a second straight year, according to people familiar with the situation.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/line-scraps-ipo-plans-1440670068
曾經成功過的人，很多。成功後能更上層樓的，極少。中間的關鍵，從我自己執業二十多年來的粗淺觀察，端在〔驕氣〕是否存在。hTC 在登天之後，從周永明到最基層的員工個個不可一世、對外人無不頤支氣使，現在呢？
Line 在日本台灣和泰國很強，原本要在東京和紐約上市，但接連著二年都突然喊卡。原因我列項說明：(1) 它有二億月活躍訪客，但遠遠落後於WhatsApp 的的八億和 WeChat 的六億。
(2) 揮兵中國、美國的大市場，毫無突破。(3) 大手筆自營音樂服務，使用者付費比率低到嚇人。
Line 現有的成功沒有人可以否定，但接下來呢? 我不看好，原因和 hTC 一模一樣。那票老韓和小日本，已經為自己的成功劃下了驚嘆號與句點，再往下，就沒有了。
關於在擁有地位之後應如何謙抑自守，聖經裡有一段勸諭我們的動人描述，在腓立比書第二章
– 中文和合譯本 -你們當以基督耶穌的心為心：他本有神的形像，不以自己與神同等為強奪的；反倒虛己，取了奴僕的形像，成為人的樣式；既有人的樣子，就自己卑微，存心順服，以至於死，且死在十字架上。所以，神將他升為至高，又賜給他那超乎萬名之上的名，叫一切在天上的、地上的，和地底下的，因耶穌的名無不屈膝，無不口稱耶穌基督為主…
– New International Version -In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death – even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord…
這整段，一句話講完：「耶穌是以神的兒子之身分從天而降，然而毫不自恃、更奉行登高必自卑行遠必自邇的原則，所以至終其地位能高到頂天」。
想深入瞭解中國史，你當然可以不屑老莊孔孟大學中庸，但能不讀嗎。舊約新約是西方文明之經典，亦同。我自幼爛熟中英文聖經，讓我在與洋人打仗時，每每能從底層快速切入其思惟，只好推了。