Rebirth of the Cyber ​​Hegemony

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Liang Bo thought to himself.

He also felt that many of his ideas were whimsical and unrealistic.

Unexpectedly, Chen Yu was even more open-minded, completely ignoring reality.

Could it be that he, the boss, likes such nonsense.

As for whether it can be realized, anyway, he is not required to do it, and it is enough to leave it to those who are engaged in technology?

Chapter 446: Super Invincible Mobile Phone (for Subscription)

"What are you thinking?"

"Uh, nothing."

"Where did you just say that?"

"Speaking of mp3s."

"Oh, yes, speaking of mp3s."

Chen Yu nodded: "Are you very interested in our Lizi mp3?"

"Yes."

Liang Bo nodded: "I want to apply for the position of Lizi mp3 designer in your company."

"Sorry, Pear MP3 has no plans to recruit designers for the time being."

"???"

Liang Bo is a little bit confused, why don't you call me if you don't recruit?

"Don't be surprised, I didn't call you for the mp3 before. Tell me what you think about the phone."

"Mobile phone, is Pear Technology planning to make a mobile phone?"

"It seems that Pear Technology has never defined itself as an mp3 company."

"Sorry, sorry, I misunderstood."

Liang Bo slapped his head, yes.

Pear Technology is so good at making mp3, why can't it make mobile phones?

Mp3 and mobile phones are common, without any difficulties.

"I'm not from a major, and I don't know how to say it."

"It doesn't matter, I am not a formal electronics major, as long as you can fool me. Let's talk about a topic. From 2000 to 2002, Bird ranked first in the domestic mobile phone market. Why is it overtaken by Nokia this year? ?”

Chen Yu raised a topic.

"I do have a few thoughts."

Although he did not graduate from a formal electronics major, Liang Bo was very sensitive to changes in mobile phones in Huaqiang North.

"From the data point of view, Nokia has slightly surpassed Bird, and it cannot be said that it has completely surpassed Bird for the time being. However, judging from the trend, if Bird does not make corresponding countermeasures, it will be surpassed by Nokia sooner or later. I think Bird's sales are slowing down. The reason for this is on the one hand the competition of various mobile phone manufacturers, and on the other hand the backwardness of technology research and development.”

"Not to mention Nokia, domestic mobile phones such as Gionee, Jinzheng and Lenovo also pose a huge challenge to Bird...In addition, hundreds of mobile phone brands are born in China every year, and the pressure on Bird will continue to be huge in the future..."

Chatted with Liang Bo for more than an hour.

Chen Yu was quite satisfied with Liang Bo.

Although Liang Bo is not from a major, he is the most sensitive to the market.

Of course, many of his views may not be correct, but this is normal.

Not to mention him, even experts, a series of bigwigs in the mobile phone industry may not be able to really see the market clearly.

In the end, Chen Yu recruited Liang Bo into Lizi Technology as a product designer.

Of course, Liang Bo is not the only product designer in Lizi Technology.

Although Chen Yu is optimistic about Liang Bo, Liang Bo still has a lot of room for growth.

However, for the time being, the positioning of Tianyu series mobile phones is low-end, no, ultra-low-end.

Therefore, it is not particularly important in the design of the entire product. It is more about a creativity and idea.

For example, Liang Bo has a lot of experience in the design of mobile phone product functions.

In his philosophy, he can't wait to develop a series of mobile phone functions as much as possible.

For this, Chen Yu also recognized it.

Therefore, the first mobile phone in the Tianyu series is a super invincible mobile phone that integrates all functions.

Support mp3, support mp4, support recording, support radio, support photography, support Internet access, support games, ... of course, there is a super standby function.

In particular, the super standby function is small in appearance, but the market acceptance is very high.

Such a long standby function has already been reflected in the mp3.

Putting it on the mobile phone caters to the pain points of users.

"I'll go, Chen Yu, this phone has too many functions."

Holding the blueprint of the Tianyu mobile phone, Wu Kai felt a little excited: "To be honest, I want to buy such a mobile phone. The Motorola I use doesn't have so many functions."

"Don't talk about you, I want to too."

Zhou Yifei also nodded: "With so many functions, it costs at least 1500 yuan in the market. If it is a mobile phone like Nokia, it costs at least 2000 yuan."

"How much do we charge?"

"It's not decided yet, what do you say?"

"800."

"Too much."

"700 is also fine."

"It's also a bit expensive."

"600, it can't be any cheaper."

"600 is also expensive."

Chen Yu shook his head: "I did a survey on the Internet, and more than 70% of people hope that the price of mobile phones will be 500 yuan."

"Of course users want the cheaper the better. According to this function, our cost has exceeded 300 yuan."

"Isn't there still a lot of profit?"

Chen Yu said: "Since so many people want 500, then we will set 500 according to what they said."

"No, not 500, only 499."

Chen Yu confirmed the number.

"Chen Yu, 499 yuan is too low. Although we can still make money, after deducting the cost and the price we give to dealers, we can only earn 100 yuan at most."

"Isn't 100 yuan very profitable? If we sell 1 million units a year, we will earn 100 billion."

"Don't, I was fooled by you last time, how could it be possible to sell 1 million units?"

Wu Kai shook his head.

Wu Kai was excited for a long time when he heard Chen Yu's 1 million units last time.

But after thinking about it, Nima, it's impossible.

Only about 2 million mobile phones were sold in China last year.

Although it has increased a lot this year, if you take 1 million, you can't take half of the domestic market.

If this is really done, other mobile phone manufacturers will not go crazy.

"It's okay, if you don't believe me, let's try it."

According to the normal situation, it is basically impossible to sell 1 million units.

However, Chen Yu knew that the domestic market was far from being developed.

As for the reason, the most important reason is that the mobile phone is too expensive.

The price is 1000-2000 at every turn, how many people can afford it, and how many people are willing to buy it.

But if the mobile phone is directly killed to 499 yuan, the potential contained in it will erupt like a volcano.

"Wu Kai, have you negotiated with the parts suppliers?"

"We have negotiated, but the price has only dropped a little for the time being, not too much. In addition, they want us to pay one-third of the deposit."

"It doesn't matter, we just made mobile phones, and these suppliers naturally can't drop too much. When our mobile phone production increases, they will naturally lower the price for us. Even, we only need to pay a small deposit at that time."

Everything is difficult at the beginning, but Chen Yu is full of confidence.

And, if production increases in the future, this could further drive down costs.

The current cost is about 300 yuan, and in the future it can be reduced to 200 yuan, or even 150 yuan.

Don't think it's impossible.

In the future, with the development of technology level and the increase of industrial scale, the cost will be lower and lower.

If it really achieves a sales volume of 1 million units a year, just a price war with other mobile phone manufacturers can kill them.

This is why there were hundreds of mobile phone brands in the previous life, but there are only a few oligarchs in the later life.

It's not that their technical level is so good, they are completely fighting a price war.

Of course, other mobile phone manufacturers can also fight price wars.

But the problem is that if there is no terrible sales, his cost cannot be reduced.

If the cost cannot be reduced, this price war will only take a year or two, and the entire company's capital flow will have to be cut off.

Doing mobile phones is not doing the Internet.

Although the Internet is a bottomless pit, it is relatively good, and it will be cut off if there is no hope.

Really want to say, the manufacturing industry is the bottomless pit.

Moreover, this bottomless pit is not accessible to small-scale players.

Once the market is controlled by some oligarchs, all players in the entire market can be cleared in minutes.

This is how the domestic smartphone market was played in the previous life.

Very realistic and cruel.

Chapter 447: Will anyone buy such an ugly phone?

"By the way, Wu Kai, how long will it take us to mass produce it?"

"A month and a half."

"One and a half months is too long, 20 days, I will give you 20 days."

"Chen Yu, 20 days is too short. In fact, the time we set for one and a half months is already very fast."

Hardware is not software.

From research and development to mass production of a product, many products need 1-2 years, and some even longer.

Like the car, it took longer.

At present, the fastest mass production in China takes half a year.

However, because Tianyu mobile phone is taking the low-end route, the speed is much faster.

From half a year for other mobile phone manufacturers, it was instantly compressed to one and a half months.

It's just that Chen Yu still thinks it's a bit long.

Think about the speed of the counterfeit machine in the previous life, it can be assembled for you in half a month.

As for those well-known mobile phone brands, the speed is also very fast.

Like Xiaomi and Huawei, products can be updated within three months.