Rebirth 1999: Opening the Age of Black Technology

Chapter 739

Chen Xiao said that Changtian Technology is also fast, of course, that Changtian Technology will soon make a FMCG mobile phone that is better than Apple.

Wang Xiang is also looking forward to this day, but he is still very happy to say: "Fortunately, our hardware, camera, and battery are widely used in the iPhone4S, so Apple's mobile phones sell well, and our Changtian Technology's profits are also Very high."

What Wang Xiang said is not wrong at all, but in terms of profit alone, 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 were taken away by Apple.

From the beginning of the Apple mobile phone, a profit chain for the completion of the mobile phone industry has been formed.

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

After all, Apple only has 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 Qualcomm’s chips, Samsung’s storage, Samsung and LG or BOE’s screens, Sony’s cameras, and so on.

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

However, for mobile phones with the same hardware, Xiaomi may only sell for 2,999 yuan, but Huawei and Samsung can sell them for 5,000 or even 6,000 yuan.

This is the importance of mobile phone brands.

With the worldwide popularity of the iPhone 4S, Apple's stock price has once again hit a new high in the U.S. stock market, with a total market value of nearly 400 billion meters.

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

The number one mobile phone brand in the world last year 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 a series of unparalleled competition with Apple, Nokia is no longer ranked.

Nokia, once a big-shot company in the era of feature phones and smartphones 1.0, has fallen.

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

A week after the official sale of the iPhone 4S, the credit rating agency Fitch Ratings downgraded Nokia's debt rating from "BBB+" to "BBB-", which is one level worse than junk.

On November 23, 2011, Nokia Siemens announced that it will lay off 17,000 people worldwide by the end of 2013, which basically means that the staff of Nokia's mobile terminal department has been laid off.

This is also Nokia's last self-rescue method. It hopes to ensure the normal operation of the company through layoffs. If the debts after the layoffs continue to deteriorate, 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.

Ollila was not wrong at all, at the Nokia board in November 2011.

Ollila officially steps down as CEO of Nokia.

The new CEO's approach is more extreme than Ollila's.

Nokia officially gave up the Symbian system, which was once very optimistic and invested a lot, and instead cooperated with Microsoft to jointly study the Windows phone system.

Microsoft and Nokia are expected in 2012 next year, the two sides will launch a very advanced wp8 system mobile phone, and believe that this mobile phone can surpass the current use of the huge number of Android, and launch an impact on Apple.

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

So whether it is Microsoft or Nokia, they have no bottom 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 attack HTC and Apple. .

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

At this time, in the United States, both users, Wall Street capital, and related departments in the United States have found some problems.

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

Where there is a buying and selling transaction, there must be business happening. More and more American users are looking for scalpers to buy overseas versions of ip4s.

And those Chinese students in the United States have good resources in their hands. They hurriedly contacted their domestic students and asked them to buy iPhone 4S mobile phones from the Apple Experience Store in Xiaguo at a lower price. .

Xia Guo’s classmates will earn a handling fee ranging from 500 to 1000 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 Xiaguo version iPhone4S mobile phone is only about 6,000 yuan when converted into RMB. This is far lower than the domestic price in the United States (equivalent to RMB7000).

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

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

These mobile phone resources are not taken away by scalpers.

This has led to the fact that the iPhone 4S in the Apple experience store in the United States is expensive and out of stock, and can only buy local mobile phones with prices as high as 8,000 or even 9,000 RMB from the domestic scalper market in the United States.

So after this, the iPhone S4 mobile phones that flowed into the US market from the Xiaguo market through informal channels are about 350 meters cheaper than the mobile phones in the US domestic market, equivalent to about RMB 2000~3000 yuan.

In this way, the scalpers in the Xia country make money, and the scalpers in the United States also make money selling the iPhones made in Xia.

There are some scalpers in Xia who made more than 100,000 yuan a month in this way and made a fortune.

This phenomenon has 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 squatting at the door.

Reporter: "Brother, depending on your age, you stay here every day."

Maybe it's because the money is too much, so scalpers are also very excited to answer the reporter's question: "Don't look at my age, but I've been in this business for seven or eight years."

"I used to be in Huaqiangbei, trying to get foreign mobile phones such as Nokia and Samsung to Xiaguo. They sold them to our domestic consumers at high prices."

"How has the times changed now?"

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

The reporter asked again: "Do you just sell mobile phones to overseas consumers? Not to domestic consumers at high prices?"

The scalper said helplessly: "Many of Apple's foundries are in our Xiaguo, and the key components used by Apple are also produced in our Xiaguo, so the iPhone4S mobile phone is sufficient in our Xiaguo."

"Ordinary consumers can buy cheap mobile phones directly from Apple's experience center. Why don't you buy them from our scalpers?"

The scalper finally emphasized: "We only earn the money of the Americans, not the money of our Chinese."

It seems that saying this also expresses his noble sentiments.

Some reporters can't help but laugh, but they also have some emotions. 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, and even some mobile phone hardware in China occupies a great advantage.

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

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

Any product of Changtian Technology, including products and components, is prohibited from being sold in the U.S. market in any form.

After the introduction of the relevant regulations, whether it is Apple or other US technology companies, it is indeed abiding by the regulations.

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

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

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

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

A further investigation found that the Tasca company did not even build the factory, and directly imported the hardware of Changtian Technology from Xiaguo to France and sold it with a brand, in order to avoid the hearing results in the United States.

After getting such information, the relevant departments of the United States, as well as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other capital, were so angry that they vomited blood.

I think that at the beginning of the year, in order to make the hearing beneficial to me, I spent a lot of money, 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 is not. Pass doesn't make any difference.

The most angry about the relevant departments in the United States are Apple and HTC and other companies.

Apple, in particular, raised both hands on the surface in favor of the results of the hearing, and clapped its chest to ensure that it would not have any relationship with Changtian Technology.

The result turned out to be a large number of purchases of Changtian Technology's hardware.

The hardware of Changtian Technology is directly used in Asia and other regions, and the hardware of Pascal Company is used in Europe and Michigan and other regions.

After tossing for a long time, things are still those things, and there is no change, and in the hands of American consumers, the price has risen a lot.

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

How can there be an impermeable wall in the world, this day will come sooner or later.

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

Apple's reply is that Apple strictly complied with the results of the hearing. The iPhone 4S mobile phone that appeared in the US market uses the products of Flange Technology Company, not Changtian Technology.

Such a reply makes the relevant departments extremely angry, but it is irrelevant, because the other party is legal and compliant;

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

However, according to the relevant legal procedures of the United States, loopholes are found, measures are formulated to pass the meeting, and the loopholes are plugged.

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

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

But it involves capital issues, especially the issue of hurting the capital interests behind the United States. The capital behind it will do whatever it takes to achieve its own goals.

All regulations and laws in the United States serve capital.

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

The relevant situation was exposed by the US media.

"Washington Post": Most of the hardware used in the iPhone 4S comes from Pascal in France, and Pascal's hardware comes from Changtian Technology, so after the hearing, Apple's hardware has not changed. , but in the hands of consumers, the price is 40% more expensive than abroad.

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

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

"This policy is a brain-dead. I will say why we buy mobile phones in the country where Apple's headquarters is located hundreds of meters more expensive than overseas. It turns out that this is the policy."

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

"Not only is the price expensive, but because Pascal's hardware production is insufficient, it has led to a serious shortage of iPhone 4S mobile phones in the US market, so many consumers can only buy overseas products at high prices."

Consumers in the United States are very impulsive. After getting such news, they can’t fry. Many people came to Apple’s headquarters and major experience stores wearing T-shirts with Steve Jobs’s portrait and Changtian Technology logo. Demonstration.

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

Such news came to Xia Guo across the ocean and made netizens laugh.

"Like the related salacious operations in the United States."

"I'm convinced, this is the first time I know that the iPhone 4S in the United States is actually more expensive than the domestic one."

"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.

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