Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 290 Honor G3 released

Every time I go to the United States, I have to make a pilgrimage to Google, including Android.

"Are you interested in acquiring shares of Google?" Schmidt greeted Qu Li and Lei Jun

"Of course, but Glory is not suitable. Jumei doesn't have the strength for the time being." Qu Li declined politely.

"It doesn't have to be cash acquisition. Google can provide part of the cash."

"..." Qu Li couldn't understand the sincerity behind Schmidt's words: "I can't let Google control Jumei like Yahoo bought a stake in Ahri."

"What about Shopee?" Schmidt said immediately

"I haven't thought about this question. Is Google really going to withdraw from the Chinese market?"

"Of course not, it's just that there's something wrong with the Google search."

"What's the problem? You have to cooperate with relevant US departments..." Qu Li was very curious.

"Ahem..." Schmidt couldn't answer. This young man was too keen.

"Google has always been the company I respect most, but I can't figure out why you want to get involved in the e-commerce industry. Amazon and Jumei are making hard-earned money..." Qu Li first persuaded them.

"Google wants to do e-commerce because it has its own strategic considerations. You don't need to doubt it." Schmidt certainly knows that search and e-commerce are different, but once consumers develop shopping habits, their first choice must be to go directly to e-commerce. E-commerce platforms conduct searches instead of jumping through search websites.

In the final analysis, it is still about selling advertising. In 2021, Amazon’s advertising revenue exceeded 323 billion U.S. dollars, and Ali exceeded 1000 billion soft sister coins, which is more than Baidu.

As the two continued chatting, Qu Li finally guessed something. Even if they were to sell Google Zhongguo to Jumei, they had not reached an internal agreement. If he refused, Gu Gu Ge would not bother.

Vice President Li left Google at the end of September. Honor and Jumei have already launched targeted poaching operations. This is nothing. In the domestic search market, Baidu accounts for about 60%, and Google accounts for about 30%, followed by Yahoo, Sogou, etc.

As for Google China's annual revenue, some say 10 billion U.S. dollars, while others say 3 to 6 million U.S. dollars. Referring to Baidu's 2009 revenue of approximately 45 billion, it is more credible that Google China's 2009 revenue is around 22 billion.Baidu’s market value exceeds US$100 billion. How much is Google worth?

Jumei’s stock price has been soaring and is now close to US$30. With Xiangyun listed on the A-share market, the company’s market value will most likely exceed US$60 billion.What about Shopee?Because of the adjustment to the membership model of self-operation and independent brands, the development speed is obviously not as fast as that of Jumei Juhuasuan’s platform model.How much valuation can there be?

"Are we going to acquire Google? The winner in the search market takes all..." Qu Li sent an email to Lu Qi and then found Brady.

"Does Google want to acquire Shopee or take a stake?" Brady

"I didn't ask. The key is whether Google should join. What they want to do must be a big platform. Do we need to make adjustments again? And Google's internal opinions don't seem to be unified." Qu Li

"It may not be impossible. If Google is willing to provide a large amount of funds..." Brady obviously has an idea.

Before they could come to a conclusion, the Honor press conference arrived on October 10. A large number of reporters from financial and technology media were invited. Qu Li attended the press conference and chatted with one of the journalists who was very famous and had no discrimination against Chinese people. A few words.

People like Qu Li are considered legends in both China and the United States. Many people compare him with Zuckerberg and consider him to be the two most representative entrepreneurs in the two countries.

"I'm just an ordinary person with good luck. I met Bridges and Schmidt at a critical moment in the development of smartphones. I had the opportunity to go to Silicon Valley and get to know many entrepreneurs of all kinds here, which suddenly opened up my entire horizons. ..." Qu Li said carefully

"But Qiaobusi regrets meeting you?" The reporter gave a heart-pounding blow.

"He really said that?" Qu Li pretended to be surprised: "I thought the media was talking nonsense!"

"He said that if you give him another chance, he will definitely reconsider whether to invite you..."

"What a pity. In fact, I think Honor and Apple iPhone should become friends. Let's attack Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony together..."

"But you've eroded the iPhone market."

"It cannot be said that consumers should have more choices. Honor is only half a step ahead of Samsung and Motorola. The iPhone wants to create a closed world, and what Honor wants to do is to become the most special one in an open world. We They are all promoting the arrival of the mobile Internet era..." Qu Li answered seriously

After chatting for a long time, the press conference officially began. A group of executives took turns to appear. Honor G3 appeared first, and then Honor Gpad.Magic with better-looking parameters is sold at a lower price. Such a move is a bit risky, but Qu Li was deeply impressed by the behavior of coarse-grain mobile phones to pile up parameters. High-end mobile phones cannot only have parameters, and Honor cannot work for Qualcomm.

In other words, the path that Honor wants to take is similar to that of Apple. There is no innovation, no configuration, poor mobile phone signal, and various problems are not problems for the iPhone. There will always be people who are willing to choose the iPhone unconditionally. Qu Li hopes that there will be many consumers You can choose Honor G series mobile phones unconditionally.

"Have you made the tablet first?" the reporter exclaimed. Bridges seems to have hinted many times that they will launch an epoch-making new computer product, the iPad, but now it has not been released, leaving Honor ahead again.

The press conference is over. Both series of mobile phones will soon be sold through operator channels. Gpad is mainly sold through offline retail channels such as Walmart and Best Buy.

However, store locations have been identified in big cities such as New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles this year. Next year, a large number of Honor brand flagship stores and authorized stores will appear, including in China.

The release of Honor Magic 1 was finally postponed until after the Spring Festival next year, and will be released together with Magicbook. This is also to leave enough sales time for Honor G3 to avoid beating itself, and also to wait for the supply chain, such as Samsung's Retina screen.

HonorG3 is certainly an improvement compared to G2. At least the aluminum alloy body and frame are more beautiful, the CPU performance has been improved, the operating system has been upgraded, there are cloud services and OTA upgrade services, the camera can take pictures...

Although the G3 is good, it is the Gpad that attracts the attention of the American media.If you take the money, you will naturally praise it. If you don’t take the money, you will say that this is a large mobile phone and there is no need to exist.Andy Rubin didn’t want to develop such a version, but Qu Li insisted and finally developed such a simple version for Honor. Most of the adaptation work was completed by the Honor team.

Fortunately, YouTube has optimized and adapted it for Gpad, Kingsoft has developed WPS and Fruit Swordsman for Gpad, and Kaixin.com has developed casual puzzle games for Gpad...

The outside world's doubts about the Honor Gpad cannot make Apple Bridge Booth happy. He once again investigated Apple's internal staff and found that no one leaked secrets. Honor's innovation capabilities have made terrible progress. So should the iPad be released in advance?Should we target...