Chapter 177: Mudslide in China's Mobile Phone Industry [Subscription Request]

Wang Chengguang's conversation with DJI's CEO Wang and Mr. Lu went smoothly and was very pleasant. He knew what kind of talent Mr. Wang was and that he had thought of the correct route in advance. All he could do as a major shareholder was to support him.

As for the rest... let's wait until DJI starts releasing various technical patents and production lines before we talk about building a factory in Henan Province.

After seeing off Mr. Wang and Lao Lu, Gu Jingjing quickly came over and said, "Brother Guang, Yang Tao and Xu Hongdou...well, they said they wanted to thank you for your guidance. Now they have started to make money, and they are a little confused. They don't know how to thank you."

"No thanks, I feel unworthy of this, and feel sorry for the education I received since childhood. I would like to ask you to give me some instructions, and they will definitely do what they can."

As she was talking, Gu Jingjing couldn't help laughing and said, "Why does it feel like I was tricking Nini into repaying her kindness? You've brought them so many benefits, and if you don't do anything, it feels like you're evolving into an ungrateful person."

Wang Chengguang was stunned for a few seconds and looked at Gu Jingjing suspiciously.

Gu Jingjing shrugged. "House prices have gone up. Take the house that Xu Hongdou and Chen Nanxing bought outside the Third Ring Road but not far from the Fourth Ring Road as an example. When they bought it, it was around 10,000 yuan per square meter. Now it's April and the house prices there have risen to 13,000 yuan per square meter, a full 3,000 yuan increase."

"Xu Hongdou's apartment is 160 square meters with four bedrooms and two living rooms, which is an increase of 48 yuan."

Wang Chengguang was speechless. "Isn't this normal? No, I mean Xu Hongdou has 1500 million fans. She often takes on commercial performances and endorsements, starting at a million. She just pays 35% or 40% tax. It's not difficult for her to save a million a month."

This is just the beginning. After the cold winter of real estate, this is just the beginning. The housing prices are recovering to the level during the Olympics. Wang Chengguang bought his house in Hopson International for more than 15,000 yuan per square meter when he bought it earlier. But the price dropped to 12,000 yuan last winter.

Gu Jingjing nodded, "Yang Tao's down payment was more than 500 million yuan, and the principal and interest of the 20-year mortgage loan was more than 3000 million yuan. She has accumulated more than 2000 square meters of housing. The price per square meter has increased by 3000 or even 4000 yuan. This means she has made a profit of to million yuan in the past six months."

The price of the house Yang Tao bought is increasing in value faster than the average. The houses in the second ring road are much higher than the average. The large flats of 200 to 300 square meters in the third ring road are also much better than those in the fourth and fifth ring roads.

The current price of a house in Beijing is 13,000 yuan per square meter, and that is the average value from the largest courtyard house to those outside the Fifth Ring Road!
Wang Chengguang laughed, "Then let them show off their achievements. No matter Yang Tao or Xu Hongdou, they should only show off one house and say how much they have earned since they bought it, given the current increase..."

"Rising house prices will drain a lot of people's wallets in the next few years, but this is the general trend. We should try our best to remind those who can afford to buy a house to buy it in advance."

"This topic can be connected to the matter a while ago, when we helped one or two hundred injured people who were brave enough to help others get cheap houses and houses for broken bones. We will continue to interact with Xiao Ma Ge and try to prevent Taobao and Zhifubao from causing too much noise online."

Gu Jingjing asked curiously, "What if Jack announced that users of Zhifubao could participate in a random lottery to win a house? Wouldn't that be a way to win back a group of users?"

Wang Chengguang laughed dumbly, "Why do you think that Xiao Ma Ge didn't randomly draw the lottery among Penguin users or Paipai users, but went into the real world to find people who are often enthusiastic about doing good deeds... After finding those people, he looked for those with Penguin accounts?"

Before Gu Jingjing could ask further, he explained, "The server won't be able to sustain that. It will crash and become paralyzed. It's the same all over the world. It's easy to get something for nothing. It's just surfing the Internet. The electricity bill and everything else will crash."

The price-cutting model can attract countless users and gather them into a new platform. If you don’t set the prerequisites, it will really collapse.

In contrast, there was no news about the first batch of welfare houses for netizens in Xinghuo beforehand. It was not until a brave person was injured and hospitalized that this incident happened.

Brother Ma has bypassed the network!
"Besides that, everyone will be envious of the lucky ones, even to the point of hatred. Our two platforms are looking for people who are either injured while doing something righteous, which is a good indicator of their character, or they are looking for super nice people in real life."

"Netizens envy them, but they can't say they hate them. If Jack wants to take advantage of this topic, he must set a premise. Otherwise, if anyone can get this kind of welfare housing, it may cause a big hole."

"It's not easy for him to copy our promotion of bravery and public welfare. We gave away houses as welfare for the first time. Even if Alibaba didn't publicly say it had houses... netizens would still have expectations for it. Once people get too excited over houses and risk their lives, Alibaba will suffer another major hemorrhage if someone dies."

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Wang Chengguang has only explained this much for now. If there is more, for example, housing prices have already started to rise, and the increase is huge, and they will occasionally fall in the future, but those are just small fluctuations.

Real estate developers will not be too anxious to sell houses.

If Alibaba wants to build a house, it needs to spend real money.

It is very difficult for him to copy others' homework and take advantage of the popularity. If he fails to copy well, his popularity will be further suppressed, and he will become the third or fourth person that no one remembers, and slowly disappear from the memory of netizens.

After giving these instructions, Wang Chengguang didn't pay any more attention to them. He knew how attractive the topic of houses was to the entire Internet...

You don’t need to pay attention to know that Xu Hongdou’s house increased by 48 yuan in just a few months. The prices of other internet celebrities such as Yang Tao are similar, or even higher.

This started with Wang Chengguang turning Zhong Miaomiao into a bird of good news during the Olympics, calling on everyone to buy a house as soon as possible, and then Gu Jingjing posted a message calling for people to buy a house when she went to Pengcheng with him to settle down after being accused of being a mistress...

If many people jump into the water now and listen to his advice, many people will thank him in the future!
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Time passed quickly. It was past one in the afternoon. Wang Chengguang had finished his lunch at the company and was about to go out to the Xinghuo Weibo branch when he saw Gu Jingjing approaching with a strange look on his face. "Brother Guang, the Jack Huang you invited is here."

Wang Chengguang was stunned and said, "Meizu Jack? Didn't he say he was busy?"

Today is April 2009, 4. Apart from the battles between him, the leader of the Spark Group, and Pony Ma from Penguin, Adong from Renmin University, and Jack from the Alibaba Group.

Who is the most popular now? Meizu Jack Huang!
In February 09, the launch of the Meizu M2 mobile phone was like an earthquake, shocking the entire mobile phone industry... The future Lei Jun is still an admirer and good friend of Jack Huang.

Ever since Lei Jun quit Kingsoft and turned into a venture capitalist, he has been fascinated by smartphones. When Jack Huang launched M8, Lei Jun felt that he was the leader in the Chinese smartphone market.

Now the first Chinese smartphone is the Meizu M8, which is almost the same as an Apple phone... So in 2010, when Meizu attacked foreign markets, it was sued by Jobs.

Jack Huang lost the case in a North American court. Not only did he have to stop production of all Meizu M8s, he was not even allowed to sell Meizu M8s on the market anymore. That was the court's ruling.

That was when Apple's 3G mobile phones were selling like hot cakes around the world, the first-generation iPhone 4 was already on the market, and Steve Jobs was going to beat the Meizu M8 to death.

Of course, the main reason why they were able to defeat Apple was in its appearance, including the HOME button of the smartphone control panel. The Meizu M8 is very similar to the first generation of Apple phones, which involves appearance patents. But to put it bluntly, the Meizu M8 has already affected Apple's market.

In addition to not affecting the market and not causing production suspension, all the phones that have been shipped to stores must be taken back. Apple and Samsung also have many patent cases, and the lawsuit has lasted for several years since 2010. But initially, Apple told Samsung that if you pay me $30 in patent fees for each phone you sell, you don’t need to sue.

Samsung was not willing to pay the lawsuit for several years.

The first generation of iPhone has not entered the Chinese market, and the Apple 3GS has not been released yet. The appearance of Meizu M8 is really a landslide in the Chinese mobile phone market!

Whether it is the 8G version or the 16G version, the retail price is more than 2000 yuan per unit. It has a large Apple screen, supports 3G network, WIFI, audio and video, etc., and can take photos with 320 million pixels. This is a real smartphone for the mainland version.

In the future, no matter how smartphones are upgraded, they will have higher camera pixels, larger memory and storage, and better batteries...

In 2009, when Nokia and Motorola were dominating the market with their functional phones, numerous copycat phones were very popular and swept the market. However, once the M8 appeared, it sold 5 units in two months, to units in five months, and total sales exceeded million RMB.

Countless users lined up to buy it, and the emergence of smartphone scalpers also began at this time. In 2011, when the Meizu M9 was released, long queues formed outside the specialty stores in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.

However, when Meizu M8 was originally slaughtering the market in one go, it ran into problems after selling well for a few months due to poor production technology, touch screen failure, automatic freezing, poor signal, and other problems. This situation was very common...this rising giant was suddenly tripped up.

After Jack Huang announced that all users with malfunctioning touch screens could pay extra to replace their machines, he readjusted the production line and re-ordered goods. However, he was then sued by Apple and banned from the market.

With the launch of M9, Xiaomi phones from various brands including Apple, Samsung, and even his good friend Lei Jun have pushed Xiaomi phones to sweep the market.

Wang Chengguang knew all this, so when Meizu M8 was just launched in the market in February, he asked someone to make an appointment with Jack Huang. He waited for news after failing to get in touch with him the first time, and the second time he said he was busy.

Now that it has come to this, he is too lazy to make another appointment.

He knew that Jack Huang had major character flaws. For example, Lei Jun originally wanted to invest in Meizu, but after two years he went on to make his own Xiaomi phone.

Wang Chengguang wants to promote mobile communications and develop WeChat, and he will also have a big battle with Big Penguin itself. At this stage, the Spark WeChat Project Department has been established a long time ago and has been engaged in research and development, and it is basically taking shape.

The biggest difference between WeChat and mobile phone penguin is that the former can directly connect to the mobile phone address book... He made an appointment with Jack Huang to discuss whether the new Meizu M8 can be installed with Spark WeChat and become an installed software.

After being rejected twice, he thought the other party was too arrogant and there was no point in talking.

After thinking for more than ten seconds, Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "Suddenly came to attack us, a sneak attack? This guy is indeed one of the weirdest founders."

Various media in later generations commented on the personality of the head of Meizu, saying that he is low-key, strange, paranoid, and a perfectionist. His favorite thing is to tear things down. He once bought a villa and found that it did not match the music equipment he bought and was not perfect, so he tore it down and rebuilt it.

Jack Huang has basically never been interviewed by the media. He has been staying in the Meizu base in Zhuhai and rarely sets foot in Beijing, Shanghai, and Yangshen...

During the era when Steve Jobs was regarded as a god, there were not many people who could be chased and killed by him.

This person is a senior internet addict who likes to behave like a keyboard warrior.

He was expelled from school in his first year of high school, and his father kicked him out of the house and made him a wanderer because he couldn't stand his hobby of dismantling various electrical appliances. He is truly a genius.

A moment later, when Wang Chengguang saw Jack Huang in the waiting room, he simply greeted him and made contact with him. He was sure that he was a senior technical geek who pursued perfection. Then...

Wang Chengguang was speechless. After returning to the president's office, he talked about music with Jack Huang for more than an hour.

When Gu Jingjing came over with two new cups of tea, Wang Chengguang coughed to interrupt her music appeal and said with a smile, "Mr. Huang, the Meizu M8 has been a landslide in the Chinese mobile phone industry in the past two months, sweeping away everything."

"The era of smart phones is epoch-makingly different from previous feature phones. I wonder how much capital there is to approach Mr. Huang himself?"

Jack Huang then asked curiously, "Mr. Wang, are you looking for me to invest in Meizu? I don't need investment for the time being. The sales of M8 are already creating a gold mine. I think you must have felt the same as I did when Xinghuo Weibo was established for a month or two and many venture capitals were chasing after Mr. Wang."

From February to April, which is nearly two months, M2 has sold nearly 4 units. The main reason for the low sales is that the production capacity cannot keep up. The average price of 8 yuan per unit also means sales of nearly 2600 million yuan.

Since Jack Huang founded the Meizu MP3 empire, he has rejected venture capital time and time again until now.

The next moment, Jack Huang thanked Gu Jingjing and said again, "Mr. Wang likes music. He created the best lyrics and music such as Dislocated Time and Space, Wish as You Want and Starry Sea. He also likes cooking. I started my career by selling music and MP3s. I also worked as a chef when I was a migrant worker in Shenzhen..."

"Honestly, I didn't expect our resumes to be so similar. The biggest difference is that I'm not as handsome as you, and I don't have a college degree."

"If we talk about capital injection, I will definitely disappoint Mr. Wang, but if we want to make friends and get to know each other, this will definitely be no problem."

Wang Chengguang laughed in silence and waved to Gu Jingjing. Jingjing took out two Meizu M8s. Wang Chengguang showed them to her, "When the Meizu M8 was first launched, I asked my friends to buy a few. They are really good to use, much more fun than traditional feature phones. But before I had used them for two months, the touch screen stopped working..."

He knew that the touch screen had problems at the factory and that a serious problem had occurred, which almost caused the Meizu M8 to fail midway. So he bought a batch of smartphones in February and let his employees take turns using them. Problems arose during some of the use.

Huang Zhang was shocked. He took the phone and tried it out in disbelief. After using it for a while, he said with embarrassment, "This shouldn't be the case. Don't worry, Mr. Wang, I will..."

Before he could finish his words he fell into a strange state again, as if in a trance.

Gu Jingjing looked at Wang Chengguang. Wang Chengguang stood up and went to the window to smoke. He whispered, "He is not a qualified businessman or capitalist, but as a technology geek, he is very good. He does not pursue maximum profit when running a business, but pays attention to user experience, which is rare."

Original track: Whether it was the MP3 era or the early days of Meizu mobile phones, problems with the machines were generally taken very seriously and subsidies were provided to give back to consumers.

But this Mr. Huang is also very strange. Lei Jun worked with him for two or three years, and then turned around and created the Xiaomi mobile phone empire.

Jack Huang, who had never raised funds, had no choice but to accept financing to continue to develop Meizu in order to go against Xiaomi, and then lost control...

(End of this chapter)