Chapter 776: Slap in the face!
In just one month, Microsoft launched several wPhone mobile phones, market feedback has also come out, wPhone7 is expected to sell less than 120,000 units in one month on sale, it can be said that the market has given Microsoft and Nokia, Sony these companies a hard slap!
If the product sells well, the manufacturer will show off to further increase sales, and Microsoft is now adamantly not revealing the sales of the wPhone7 device.
When the person in charge of the Microsoft wPhone project was interviewed by media reporters, he was repeatedly asked about the sales question, and the person in charge avoided this question three times in a row.
The reporter asked about wPhone7's product development and sales volume, as well as the expectation of catching up with the market share of the Kirin system, the person in charge only replied that the development of wP7 was very smooth, but refused to disclose the specific figures, and when asked whether it would take a few months or years for the share growth to catch up with other platforms, he also vaguely pretended not to know.
Because Huaxing Communication Equipment Company is not a listed company, the sales volume and financial statements of the products do not need to be announced to the outside world, but some Huaxing Communication Equipment Companies usually announce the sales of mobile phones at some specific times.
wPhone7 with a strong sales lineup of 10 models, 30 countries, and 60 operators, the overall sales volume only exceeded 100,000 units in a month, which can be said to be a very bad sales situation, so that Microsoft did not find something to show off.
The performance of wPhone mobile phones is decent, Microsoft has built very little software in the mobile phone software store, and Microsoft, which has always been domineering, is eager to port all its software over, and the interest in third-party software development for Microsoft is not particularly large.
In recent years, the income of the software store platform built by Microsoft on the computer platform mainly comes from Microsoft's own software, mainly office software, and Microsoft will never let other software companies interfere in this self-reserved land, and third-party software companies are quite dissatisfied with this.
Quantum Networks started with music online, and then expanded from the computer software store platform to the mobile software platform, and the entire music online and software store platform alone reached a staggering $14.89 billion in revenue.
Of course, more than $8 billion of these revenues will be given to third-party software companies, but more and more third-party software companies have joined this platform, and it has now become the world's largest software store platform.
Amazingly, the revenue ratio of Quantum Network's music online and software store platforms is almost the same as that of Microsoft's wind or tool software divisions!
Quantum's gaming platform, on the other hand, is significantly higher than Microsoft's entertainment and devices revenue division.
Although Microsoft is still the software overlord in recent years, but the market share of computer software is continuing to decline, although it has also launched a digital music player and music download platform before, but in the hardware and audio format of the digital music player and the third-party payment platform can not do Huaxing company, when Huaxing Group then integrated the digital music player on the mobile phone, it is to let the music online to leave other music download platforms far behind, even Microsoft can not catch up.
Just a few years ago, there were so-called "experts" who predicted that the market size of digital music player hardware would reach tens of billions of dollars, but in more than two years, the market size of digital music players has been eaten away by mobile phones.
Leading this trend is still Huaxing Group Company, which is the first to integrate digital music players into mobile phones, and is also the first to transplant third-party payment software to mobile phone platforms.
Huaxing Group has built a strong ecosystem of accessories and services around its own hardware products.
Huaxing Group's new products have received most of the attention from the outside world, and the software and services business has also expanded significantly in the past few years.
Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Sony, Samsung, and others have launched similar services to try to counter them, but none of these actions have stopped the rapid growth of Huaxing's software and services business, and none of them has yet to build a vibrant and competitive alternative ecosystem.
This is also the main reason why Microsoft, Nokia, Sony and other companies are in a hurry to join forces to deal with Huaxing Group.
However, it is clear that the smartphone launched by Microsoft is not very popular with the market.
wP7 is almost transplanted its own software on the computer platform on the mobile phone,The system software is very bloated,The performance of the processor on the mobile phone is enough,Besides, who buys a mobile phone for office,Microsoft's high-level executives want to realize their business on the computer platform on the mobile phone platform,Consumers are naturally not welcomeγ
And because of the problem of the baseband chip, the mobile phone is prone to overheating and frequent disconnection, and can not play some games, compared with the glory mobile phone and Siemens mobile phone of Huaxing Group Company, it is naturally much worse.
Especially this month, in order to fight Microsoft, Huaxing Group also launched a price reduction promotion and a limited time free activity for several 3D mobile game software.
The mobile phone launched by Huaxing Group in July has a stronger ability to support 3D game software than the a2 chip two years ago, and adds sensors such as electronic gyroscopes and accelerometers, so that the mobile phone is qualitatively improved in playing games and taking pictures.
Moreover, several game manufacturers have also transplanted several of their 3D games to the mobile phones of Huaxing Group Company, which caused a huge sensation when they were listed, and now they are engaged in promotions, which naturally makes Microsoft even more unable to sit still.
Bill personally called Yang Jie: "Yang, it's not authentic for you to do this." β
Yang Jie laughed, he was able to force Bill to call him in person to talk about it, and it was still very cool to think about it.
"Mr. Bill, don't get so excited, we've been working with Microsoft for so many years, and there's anything you can talk about. β
"Yang, someone asked me to convey an intention to you. Bill Gates said.
"Well, you say. β
"If Rising Technology is willing to sell immersion lithography machines to our country, we can get Congress to cancel the legislation that prohibits the sale of your Huaxia mobile phone brands and communication equipment here, and I don't think you want to lose this market. β
Yang Jie was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Mr. Bill, we have to obey the state's arrangement for this matter, not what our company wants to export." β
Bill on the other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds: "I know, our officials should visit China in the near future, and I hope this visit will go smoothly." β