Time Travel: 2014

A free service can already do this.

It can be said that just the things provided by the free service are inferior to Lin Hui’s current PRO version.

This time, Lin Hui’s technical staff’s view on the core upgrade point of Nanfeng APP, namely the generative summary algorithm of the third generation of Lin Hui’s rebirth node, is indeed not worth mentioning.

But Lin Hui doesn’t feel guilty at all about the pricing issue on the South Wind Pro version.

Today, humans may have more than a thousand ways to make fire.

However, the most significant thing recorded in the history of human evolution is the drilling of wood to make fire in ancient times.

This example is a bit extreme, but it also illustrates a problem:

To talk about the value of technology regardless of the times is to be a hooligan.

Even if we look at it from the perspective of the next few years, Lin Hui's current skills are not considered to be awesome.

But it doesn't matter, it doesn't stop Lin Hui from relying on technology to cut leeks without restraint.

Moreover, Lin Hui decided that it would not be enough to just release the PRO version. In the future, he would go one step further and release an ULTRA version to generate a wave of money.

Cutting leeks is a beautiful thing.

Although Lin Hui was very satisfied with the pricing he arranged.

But it wasn’t long after this South Wind Pro version was uploaded to the app store.

Lin Hui discovered that the version uploaded this time was actually rejected. The reason for rejection was: it is recommended to modify the service price.

Lin Hui didn't quite understand that the higher the price, although his share would be indispensable, wouldn't the platform's share be equally indispensable?

Especially when it comes to software that does not belong to the game category, the split between Lin Hui and the platform is still 80%:20%.

Rather than 90%:10% like "Hill Climb Racing".

The platform has no reason to refute Lin Hui for making this PRO version?

Just when Lin Hui was wondering, Lin Hui received a call from Huang Jing.

Huang Jing and Lin Hui are now relatively familiar with each other, and Huang Jing did not make any detours after answering the phone.

Huang Jing asked directly: "Can the South Wind Pro software you created this time really improve the efficiency by 87% compared to South Wind as you said?"

Lin Hui said: "Of course, I am very confident in my algorithm, and the corresponding data has been accurately tested."

Lin Hui didn't quite understand why Huang Jing called to ask this. Huang Jing was obviously involved in the conversation between him and Eve Carly yesterday.

From yesterday's conversation with Eve Carly, Huang Jing should be able to know that foreign technical teams are very backward in this regard when it comes to news summarization or text summarization.

Others may not know, but Huang Jing should at least know the level of Lin Hui's skills.

Huang Jing said: "I'm not questioning your ability, I'm just verifying this matter.

What I mean is that the software you launched earlier was rejected. I think if you make South Wind Pro, the efficiency of the software is really as high as you claimed in the introduction. Then your pricing on the PRO version will appear very unreasonable.

I think you can definitely increase it by 50% to 100% based on the previous pricing. I personally prefer that you go straight to the point and increase the current price by 100%. "

If the price goes up by 100%, is it okay to just double it?

Huang Jing's attitude was a bit unexpected. Lin Hui originally thought that she would think the price was too high.

Price increases are indeed possible, but doubling them directly does not seem very appropriate.

After all, when it comes to the buyout price of South Wind Pro, if the previous buyout price of US$4,999 is doubled, it will be directly close to US$10,000.

Although Ugly people are wealthy, it would be difficult to expect most potential users to spend $10,000 on a product at a time.

However, Lin Hui felt that since Huang Jing suggested this, she would definitely have her thoughts, so Lin Hui decided to listen to Huang Jing's suggestion.

Lin Hui said: "Tell me your reasons."

Huang Jing explained: “According to some of my previous investigations, Nanfeng APP’s biggest overseas competitor was actually the Ya/Hu News (Processing) Professional Edition.

A monthly membership of Ya/hoo News (Processing) Professional Edition costs US$99.99, which means the annual fee is close to US$1,200.

The annual fee you set previously was US$1,999. Even if it were doubled, it would only be less than US$4,000.

I remember that the efficiency of Nanfeng APP in processing news was already 241% faster than that of competing software.

And now you can get the PRO version to be 87% more efficient than the offline environment application of Nanfeng APP.

If you say this, doesn’t it mean that the PRO version of Nanfeng APP is almost six times more efficient than competing software.

What's more, the accuracy of the PRO version you have now must be greatly improved compared to the previous version.

According to this line of thinking, it doesn't matter even if the price doubles.

Users of your PRO version only need to pay more than three times the price, but they can enjoy six times the processing speed of competing software and several times the accuracy of competing software.

Even if the price is higher, it is still very attractive to potential users who are willing to pay for professional mode.

It doesn’t matter if the user doesn’t adapt. The product is not meant to accommodate the user, but the user has to adapt to the product. "

Well, as expected of an Apple employee, this idea is indeed very Apple-like. They would rather sacrifice some potential users to build a brand and make profits.

As a user, not everyone likes Apple, but as a business or thinking from a business perspective, everyone seems to aspire to be Apple.

Who wouldn’t yearn for the model of making money while lying down?

Huang Jing continued: “Doubling the price will directly dissuade some potential users.

But I think you should do this just because it will drive away users and lose some market share. "

Lin Hui thought: What kind of operation is this to actively force users away and give up the market?

Could it be that he is hiding his clumsiness? It seems that this is the only way it can be.

Sure enough, I heard Huang Jing say: "If the PRO version of Nanfeng APP enters the overseas market now at a price of US$1,999.

In this way, the price is not much higher than competing software and is supplemented by the efficiency and accuracy several times that of similar software.

It is easy to sweep the U.S. market in news summary software with overwhelming momentum.

This may be a good thing at first, but it may not be so in the long run. If you do this, you will easily encounter a series of investigations such as antitrust investigations.

Judging from your previous layout, it can be seen that you are a person with great lofty ideals. I feel that there is no need for you to create branches in these places now. "

Lin Hui initially felt that Huang Jing's suggestion of "directly doubling the price" was inappropriate.

After hearing this, I decisively followed Huang Jing's suggestion and set the annual fee of South Wind Pro to US$3,999, and the buyout price to US$9,999.

In order to encourage the consumption enthusiasm of overseas users, Lin Hui also filled in a few sentences in the introduction of South Wind Pro:

"Offline software can be used completely in an offline environment."