Rebirth 1999: Opening the Age of Black Technology

v1 Chapter 737: Waking up like a dream

The latest website: Chen Xiao said that Changtian Technology is coming soon, of course he means that Changtian Technology will soon produce a fast-moving consumer product mobile phone that is even better than Apple.

Wang Xiang is also looking forward to this day, but he is still very happy to say now: "Fortunately, our hardware, camera, and battery are widely used in iPhone4S, so Apple mobile phones are selling well, and the profit of our Changtian Technology is also increasing." very high."

What Wang Xiang said is not wrong at all, but if only in terms of profit, Changtian Technology's profit is less than 1/3 of Apple's total profit.

Because Apple designed the iPhone4S mobile phone, both the added value of Apple's mobile phone brand and the overall profit of the mobile phone itself have been taken away by Apple.

Starting from the Apple mobile phone, a profit chain has been formed to complete the mobile phone industry. The brand side takes the big money, and the others get the small money. This highlights the importance of the mobile phone brand.

This phenomenon started with Apple, and finally amplified infinitely in the Android camp.

After all, Apple has only one, and it uses a closed operating system, so it is not comparable.

But in the era before Chen Xiao’s rebirth, most Android phones used chips from Qualcomm, storage from Samsung, screens from Samsung, LG or BOE, cameras from Sony, and so on.

Xiaomi can buy these mobile phone hardware, and Huawei can buy it. Phones from Vivo and OPPO are also available.

However, for a mobile phone with the same hardware, Xiaomi may only sell it for 2,999 yuan, but Huawei and Samsung can sell it for 5,000 or even 6,000 yuan to make a profit.

This is the importance of mobile phone brand.

With the global sales of iPhone 4S, Apple's share price has once again reached a new high in the U.S. stock market, with a total market capitalization of nearly 400 billion dollars.

Nokia has suffered huge losses for several consecutive years, and its market value has shrunk to 30 billion meters.

Last year, the world's number one mobile phone brand was Apple, and there is no doubt that the brand with the lowest mobile phone sales this year is also Apple.

Samsung began to launch the Galaxy series to compete with Apple, and Nokia was no longer ranked.

Once a big veteran company in the era of feature phones and smartphones 1.0, Nokia has fallen.

Not to mention Nokia's share in the global market, even in Finland, Nokia's headquarters, its share has dropped from 76% a few years ago to less than 30%.

A week after the official sale of the iPhone 4S, the credit rating agency Fitch International (Fitgs) downgraded Nokia's debt rating from "BBB+" to "BBB-", that is, it is only one level away from the junk level.

On November 23, 2011, Nokia Siemens announced that it would lay off 17,000 employees worldwide before the end of 2013, basically laying off all the personnel in Nokia's mobile phone terminal department.

This is also Nokia's last self-help method, hoping to ensure the normal operation of the company through layoffs. If the debt of falling prices continues to deteriorate after the layoffs, then Nokia may file for bankruptcy or sell in the next step.

On November 26, 2011, Nokia applied for delisting on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

What Ollila thought was right, at the Nokia board meeting in November 2011.

Ollila officially steps down as CEO of Nokia.

The newly appointed CEO's approach is even more extreme than Ollila's.

Nokia officially gave up the Symbian system, which had been extremely optimistic and had a very large investment, and instead cooperated with Microsoft, and the two sides jointly researched the Windowsphone system.

Microsoft and Nokia expect to launch a very advanced mobile phone with wp8 system next year, that is, in 2012, and believe that this mobile phone can surpass the current number of users and its huge Android, and launch an impact on Apple.

In this world, except for Chen Xiao, no one can look at problems from the perspective of God.

Therefore, no matter whether it is Microsoft or Nokia, they have no idea in their hearts. They don’t know whether the wp8 system that has spent a lot of time, energy and money on research and development can gain a firm foothold in the mobile phone market and whether it can launch an impact on HTC and Apple. .

It's hard to say what will happen next year, but at least now the former hero Nokia has gradually withdrawn from the user's field of vision.

At this time, in the United States, users, Wall Street capital, and relevant departments in the United States have discovered some problems.

Mobile phone users in the United States suddenly discovered that overseas mobile phones are so much cheaper than those in the United States, so why not find overseas friends or intermediary businessmen to help buy them, and then send the mobile phones to the United States by mail?

Where there is trading, there will be business. More and more American users are looking for scalpers to buy overseas versions of ip4s.

However, those Chinese students in the United States have good resources in their hands. They quickly contacted the domestic students and asked the domestic students to buy iPhone4S mobile phones from the Apple experience store in Xiaguo at a lower price.

Xia Guo’s students will earn a handling fee ranging from 500 to 1,000 RMB for each mobile phone. These mobile phones are sent across the ocean to the United States by mail.

After coming to the United States, the price of a Xia Guo version iPhone 4S is only about 6,000 yuan when converted into RMB. This is far lower than the selling price in the United States (equivalent to RMB7000).

The most critical reason is that the number of iPhone 4S versions in the United States is already limited—

Because Pascal's hardware output is insufficient (Changtian Technology Hardware Company will first meet the needs of the Asian market, and then send some quota and excess hardware to France to be packaged as Pascal's hardware, and Pascal's hardware will first meet the needs of the Asian market. The assembly and sales of iPhone 4S mobile phones in Europe, and the rest will be sent to the United States), so the number of iPhone 4S mobile phones in the US market is very small.

These mobile phone resources are not taken away by scalpers.

As a result, the iPhone 4S in the Apple experience store in the United States is expensive and out of stock, so you can only buy local mobile phones with prices as high as 8,000 or even 9,000 RMB from the scalpers in the United States.

Therefore, the iPhone S4 mobile phones that flowed from the Xia country market to the US market through irregular channels are about 350 meters cheaper than the mobile phones in the US local market, which is equivalent to about 2000~3000 RMB.

"Sword Comes"

In this way, the scalpers in the Xia Kingdom can make money, and the scalpers in the United States can also make money selling Xia’s domestic iPhones.

Some scalpers in the Xia Kingdom made a fortune of more than 100,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan a month through this method.

This phenomenon also aroused the curiosity of the media. Some media went to the largest Apple experience store in the country to interview some scalpers who were staying at the door.

Reporter: "Brother, seeing how young you are, you stay here every day."

Maybe it's because I've made too much money, so the scalper is also very excited to answer the reporter's question: "Although I am not old, but I have been in this business for seven or eight years."

"I used to be in Huaqiangbei, trying every means to get foreign mobile phones such as Nokia and Samsung to Xia Guolai. Sell them at high prices to our domestic consumers."

"How has the times changed now?"

"I didn't expect that we would buy these mobile phones in China and sell them to consumers abroad."

The reporter asked again: "That is to say, do you only sell mobile phones to overseas consumers? Don't you sell them at a high price to domestic consumers?"

The scalper said helplessly: "Many of Apple's foundries are in our Xia country, and the key components used by Apple are also produced in our Xia country, so the iPhone 4S mobile phone is enough in our Xia country."

"Ordinary consumers can go directly to Apple's experience center to buy cheap mobile phones. Why don't they buy them from us scalpers?"

The scalper finally said emphatically: "We only make money from Americans, not from our country."

It seems that saying this also expresses his noble sentiments.

The reporter couldn't help laughing, but the reporter also expressed some emotion. With the development of national science and technology, especially the rapid development of Changtian Technology, the gap between domestic and foreign countries in high-end fields such as mobile phones has become smaller and smaller. occupy a great advantage.

Wall Street capital and relevant departments in the United States have seen another problem.

At the beginning of this year, after the hearing, many Wall Street capitals lobbied the relevant departments of the United States to issue relevant regulations.

Any products of Changtian Technology, including products and components, are prohibited from being sold in the US market in any form.

After the promulgation of relevant regulations, whether it is Apple or other American technology companies, they have indeed complied with the regulations.

But more than half a year has passed, and the semiconductor products of Samsung, LG, Sony, Toshiba, and Kingston Weiguang in the United States that were driven out of the market by Changtian Technology are still dying and have not quickly occupied the market.

The hardware products of Changtian Technology still occupy an important share of global computers and mobile phones.

After analysis by the relevant departments of the United States and Wall Street, it was discovered that Changtian Technology used the method of indirect holding to establish French Pascal Company jointly with Bouygues Communications Company of France.

The hardware sold by Pascal Company is exactly the same as the carbon crystal hardware of Changtian Technology in terms of its model and performance.

A further investigation found that the Tasca company didn't even build a factory, and directly imported Changtian Technology's hardware from Xiaguo to France and sold it with a label, so as to avoid the hearing results in the United States.

After receiving such information, the relevant departments of the United States and capitals such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were so angry that they wanted to vomit blood.

I think that at the beginning of the year, in order to make the hearing beneficial to me, I spent a lot of effort and even sacrificed some of my own interests in exchange for the result of the hearing. Now it seems that the hearing has passed and failed. Pass doesn't make any difference.

Companies such as Apple and HTC are the ones that make the relevant departments in the United States most angry.

In particular, Apple, on the surface, raised its hands in favor of the results of the hearing, and patted its chest, promising that it would never have any relationship with Changtian Technology.

In the end, they still purchased a large number of Changtian Technology hardware.

In Asia and other regions, Changtian Technology's hardware is directly used, while in Europe and Michigan, Pascal's hardware is used.

After tossing for a long time, the things are still those things, without any change, and in the hands of American consumers, the price has increased a lot.

Relevant departments in the United States urgently talked to Apple and asked Apple to explain this.

There is no impenetrable wall in the world, and this day will come sooner or later.

So under the instruction of Jobs, Apple has already prepared a set of rhetoric.

Apple's reply was that Apple strictly complied with the results of the hearing. The hardware of the iPhone 4S mobile phone that appeared in the US market is the product of the French technology company, not Changtian Technology.

Such a reply made the relevant department very angry, but it was irrelevant because the other party was legal and compliant;

There is no way, if there are loopholes in policies and regulations, then there is only such a loophole.

However, according to the relevant legal procedures of the United States, if loopholes are discovered, measures are formulated and passed through the meeting, and then the loopholes are plugged, it is not known that it is the year of the monkey.

The most critical issue is that this also involves the interests of France.

If Pastor's products are banned, will it offend France and affect the trade between the two sides?

But it involves capital issues, especially those that hurt the interests of capital behind the United States. The capital behind it will find ways to achieve its own goals.

All regulations and laws in the United States serve capital.

Therefore, the United States is going to use special methods such as anti-monopoly, hoping to make up for the loopholes in the results of the hearing in a short time.

The relevant situation was still exposed by the American media.

"Washington Post": Most of the hardware used by iPhone 4S comes from Pascal Company in France, and Pascal Company's hardware comes from Changtian Technology, so after the hearing, Apple's hardware has not undergone any changes. It's just that after reaching the hands of consumers, the price is 40% more expensive than foreign countries.

"Washington Post": Relevant departments are working on formulating relevant policies to fill this loophole.

After this news was announced, Apple fans in the United States were very angry.

"This policy is stupid. I said why we buy mobile phones in the country where Apple's headquarters is located, which is hundreds of meters more expensive than overseas. It turns out to be this policy."

"What is the use of this policy? Prohibition of Changtian Technology's hardware? Wall Street is indeed happy, but our consumers are the ones who are hurt."

"Not only is the price expensive, but because Pascal's hardware production is insufficient, there is a serious shortage of iPhone 4S mobile phones in the US market~lightnovelpub.net~ Many consumers can only buy overseas products at high prices."

Consumers in the United States are very impulsive. After getting such news, they will not be fried. Many people came to Apple's headquarters and major experience stores wearing T-shirts with Jobs' profile picture and Changtian Technology logo printed on them. demonstration.

Their appeal is to hope that the relevant departments of the United States will abolish the relevant results of the hearing, so that Changtian Technology's hardware can enter the US market at a lower price, so that the production of Apple mobile phones will increase, and the price will be cheaper.

This kind of news traveled across the ocean and came to Xia Guo, making the netizens happy.

"Like the relevant show operations in the United States."

"Convinced, it's also the first time I know that the iPhone 4S in the United States is actually more expensive than the one in China."

"Laughing to death, Changtian Technology is really awesome, since it has disturbed the relevant laws of the United States in this way."

But Chen Xiao in Changzezhou was not happy.