Rebirth: I Want to Surf

It was nearly 9 o'clock before the press conference ended.

The lights of the Water Cube are still on, and the faint blue color blends with the unique steel structure to form a strange and novel visual effect, just like the long aftertaste of this press conference.

Many people were unwilling to leave, and the guests congratulated each other with their own thoughts. The media seized the time to see the stitches, and then went back to catch up on the manuscript. Ordinary netizens ran to the experience area to play with the prototype first.

"oops!"

Lei Jun ran over first, with a signature grin, and grabbed Yao Yuan's hand, not wanting to let go: "A thousand words can't be said, but I really want to have an in-depth chat with you."

"Okay, find a time another day."

"Okay, then I'll take a step first."

Lei Jun flashed away, and representatives from China Mobile and China Unicom came again, followed by representatives from Huawei, and Bai Yongxiang also wanted to come and talk, but the reporter forcibly pulled him away from the interview after he had just said a few words.

"President Bai, what is your expected sales volume?"

"Can you predict the future development of the mobile phone industry?"

"Do you think domestic smartphones can catch up to the world's first-class level?"

"When will Meizu 2 be released?"

"..."

Yao Yuan folded his arms and stood beside him waiting. Zhang Chaoyang walked over as if he hadn't woken up. He shook hands and said, "It's a wonderful press conference!"

"Thanks for the compliment!"

"The price really surprised me. I guessed that you wanted to go up, but I didn't expect you to go down. I don't know much about mobile phones. This thing should be different from the Internet. Will it affect the brand if you sell it cheaply? ?”

It's rare for this lazy man to ask a sincere question, and Yao Yuan also smiled: "In the barbaric era, who is high-end for?"

Zhang Chaoyang was slightly taken aback, then nodded, waved his hands and left.

After a long time, Bai Yongxiang came out and wiped his sweat: "How is my performance?"

"Nearly perfect!"

"That's good, I'm afraid I'll screw it up."

"You stay in the capital for a few more days and do some publicity on paper. I'll go see China Unicom with me tomorrow, and see China Mobile the day after tomorrow."

"good!"

The welcoming and sending people were busy for a while, and they finally dispersed at 10 o'clock.

On the way home, Yinyin sat in the car and asked, "Do you really want to fully switch to mobile terminals?"

"Not comprehensively, but mostly."

"Then you are not afraid of affecting the valuation?"

"Times have changed. This year they may think that I am exaggerating, but next year, they will think that I am far-sighted. The future will be the mobile era. There is no doubt about this."

"That's it..."

Yinyin pondered for a while and asked, "Hey, then should I develop an app for my grapefruit street?"

"It's ok, but don't worry. Computer-based social networking sites like this still have a few years to live, and we'll talk about it when we raise money and go public..."

"Beep beep!"

While talking, the phone rang, and Wu Jun from the community department called.

"Something went wrong! There are a lot of keywords given above, the highest evasion level, let us pay special attention to this part!"

"what's up?"

As soon as Wu Jun Balabala said, Yao Yuan also sat up straight, and hurriedly said: "Be careful, I would rather kill by mistake than let it go!"

After hanging up the phone, Yao Yuan closed his eyes and thought, many messy threads were connected together. In fact, whenever an incident occurs, the higher-ups will remind the media and Internet platforms of what content to block.

If you keep an eye on it, nothing will happen.

If you don't keep an eye on it, it's over.

For example, the Fanfou website of the unlucky boy Wang Xing.

…………

"Meizu 1 will be exclusively pre-ordered at Maiwo Mall from July 8!"

"8G version 1999, 16G version 2388!"

"Bai Yongxiang: We will enter the era of mobile phones in which heroes fight."

"A blue fantasy at the Water Cube last night, just came out after a long-awaited call!"

"The most cost-effective mobile phone is coming, and the price for civilians has shocked the entire network. Netizens can't wait!"

The next day, there was a lot of news about Meizu mobile phones, and the full video of the press conference was also posted on Mai Li.

Most people don't know the parameters, they just care about whether the appearance is good-looking, whether it is foreign, and whether it is expensive. Some of them know a little bit, such as memory, pixels, etc., but they have nothing to say.

Only a small number of so-called enthusiasts are mocking and spraying dung in enclosures.

…………

It is said that 2009-2013 is a very special period in the history of China's mobile phone development.

China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom each receive one 3G license, but the network standards are different: China Mobile is TD-SCDMA, China Unicom is WCDMA, and China Telecom is CDMA2000.

What does that mean?

That is, manufacturers can only produce mobile phones that conform to the 3G standard of China Mobile or China Unicom. This kind of mobile phone can only use the 3G network of China Mobile or China Unicom.

In order to promote 3G, the operators naturally had to fight to the death. In order to win over mobile phone manufacturers, they introduced a model from the United States: contract phones!

Contract phones are too common, and there are generally two routines: recharge the phone bill and get a mobile phone, and buy a mobile phone and get a phone bill.

Like this year's iphone3GS, it signed a contract with China Unicom. There are two versions:

One is that China Unicom purchased 5 million units for 10 billion yuan, each at 2,000 yuan; the other is that Apple sold them to China Unicom at a price of 3,000 yuan each, and China Unicom underwrote 1 million to 2 million units each year.

In any case, the model at the initial stage is relatively simple. Operators buy mobile phones at wholesale prices, and sell more in volume.

This is tantamount to guaranteeing harvest in drought and flood.

So during the period of contract phones, four major brands, ZTE, Huawei, Coolpad, and Lenovo, emerged in China, known as "China Cool Union".

Relying on the iron rice bowl of operators, they crazily seized the market, accounting for more than 40% of the market share at the peak! These four companies, together with Apple and Samsung, are the six kings of the pioneering era of 3G smartphones.

With an iron rice bowl, it is natural to lose motivation.

As long as they meet the requirements of operators, they don't need to consider the needs of consumers. So when operators canceled subsidies in 2014, except for Huawei, which took precautions and broke out of the predicament, the remaining three companies all rushed to the street.

Next, the rise of Xiaomi, OPPO, and VIVO has formed four new brands with Huawei. This is already the second stage.

look back.

In the era of China Cool Alliance, although the domestic machines are short-sighted and insufficient, without them, even this 40% market share would not be there, and it would be completely dominated by foreign products.

Is it a bit like the text message alliance back then?

In order to open up the market, operators heavily subsidize and loosen policies, and when the market is opened up, they are ruthless. Those who don't want to make progress can only be eliminated.

Yao Yuan plunged from one barbaric era to another, and it was like this reincarnation.

And by the way, the early contract phones were not cheap at all, and operators only implemented the "thousand yuan contract phone strategy" around 2011.

Because everyone found that domestically-made machines are so expensive that no one buys them.

For example, Lenovo released an Ophone in 2009 with a price of 5,000 yuan, which is comparable to that of Apple.

Coolpad, at the beginning, only wanted to make a high-end machine above 4,000 yuan, so it rushed to its death.

OPPO released its first Android phone X903 in 2011, priced at 2,998, which is deadly.

Including Meizu M8, the hype is blowing, how is the sales? Only more than 200,000 units were sold in 5 months, and this is still the case of price reduction.

Almost every mobile phone manufacturer has a dream of making high-end phones at the beginning, but the market will teach them to be human.

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At this stall, Yao Yuan took Bai Yongxiang to meet a person in charge of China Unicom.

(no more!)