Chapter 100: Sharing Phones
The pot was thrown to Zhou Ming like this.
But he is also embarrassed, it is impossible to reduce the price of the 1st generation mobile phone to the price of cabbage, he is not a philanthropist, he still has to make money.
But the nearly 400,000 people marched and protested, and he had to find a way to solve it, and he had to pay real benefits to pass it.
At the same time, Zhou Ming understood why in the Magic City, even though the status of the president, elders, and councilors was very high, there were not many people willing to participate in politics.
Troublesome.
It's too much trouble.
There are unreasonable people everywhere, and there is no way to take care of it.
Punish it severely, so many people make trouble together, the law does not blame the public, it is impossible to deal with them all, right?
Why not kill them all?
After all, it is the poor and vulnerable groups at the bottom who make trouble, and although they have their role, the impact of killing them is not too great...... Obedient puppets can completely replace this class.
In fact, in the long history of the Magic City, there have indeed been people who have done this, killing a large number of people with iron and blood, causing the population of the Magic City to be greatly reduced, and if the people dare to make trouble, they will be directly executed.
After the severe punishment, for a while, the magic city was indeed much quieter and more peaceful.
But the city, which has only a hundred thousand people left, seems to have lost its vitality and become extremely depressed and deserted.
And a leader who has a low tolerance for the bottom and kills at every turn, will he be soft on the middle-level population and his partners?
After all, as long as it is a human society, there will be contradictions and conflicts.
When the leader became more and more brutal, more and more arbitrary, and even developed his own selfish ambitions, the entire magic city naturally became a cold hell.
Naturally, there were more and more rebels.
In the end, the leader died under the joint attack of everyone, and also left a negative lesson in the history of the Magic City.
For the people at the bottom, you can't be too harsh.
This became an unwritten rule that every leader had to follow.
And the operation of the magic city in many aspects does depend on a large number of low-level people...... For example, tens of thousands of people need to clean up the garbage generated by the Magic City every day.
In the mouth of a shark, there will always be some parasitic fish.
It's just that the "democratic tradition" handed down from ancient times in the magic city often makes the parasitic fish have the idea that they are also the "masters".
The orcs, in particular, are professional households protesting and marching, often begging for some "alms" in front of the "old man".
Orcs also know how to cry out for misery, they will talk about the exploits of their ancestors, they will cry about the misery of their people in the outside world, and they will talk about the contributions of their orcs to the Magic City...... Thus demanding more benefits.
Coupled with the characteristics of the orcs, their requirements will be more or less satisfied.
Now the orcs are actually asking for free to get the extremely expensive "love crazy" mobile phone.
Even the Terrans and Dwarves were pulled over together to form a rare "protest alliance".
Hundreds of thousands of people came together to demand a low-cost or free get-a-mad phone.
"How can this kind of demand be satisfied for them? It is impossible to meet it!"
Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows that once the demands of hundreds of thousands of protesters are met, the demands they will make will become higher and more excessive.
This is the so-called "democracy trap".
It is also the saying that "raising rice to raise grace, fighting rice to raise hatred".
What to do?
Faced with such a thorny problem, what should Zhou Ming do?
If you don't agree, the protesters will continue to make noise, and the city will be semi-paralyzed.
Promise, it's impossible, Zhou Ming can't pay the cost of nodding and agreeing.
What should we do in the face of such an almost unsolvable problem?
In the face of this thorny problem, even the most intelligent person will feel a headache.
Zhou Ming also had a headache for more than two hours, and then thought of a more perfect solution.
What's the solution?
Share your phone.
Using the Internet thinking and sharing economy thinking of modern society, we have developed a "sharing love crazy mobile phone".
The manufacturing method of this mobile phone is not difficult, Zhou Ming only needs to make two additional APPs.
The usage patterns of the shared crazy phone are as follows:
1. Under normal circumstances, the shared crazy phone is in the standby lock screen state, and it must be scanned and deducted with the contribution point badge (similar to the function of a bank card) before it can be opened.
2. Each time you scan it, you will deduct 1 contribution point or 10 purple gold coins in the badge account.
3. After the phone is unlocked, it can continue to be used normally for 12 hours, and if it is not renewed within 30 seconds, it will re-enter the standby lock state.
Fourth, each shared love crazy mobile phone, there is a positioning chip, combined with map software, you can determine the location of the mobile phone, and display the status of the nearby shared mobile phone, if the screen has been locked, but has been hidden in a family's home for a long time, it will be highlighted in yellow, if anyone can take out this shared love crazy, who can reward 24 hours of use time.
5. If someone deliberately damages the shared mobile phone, the system will automatically record the location of the damage, and through a series of technical means, lock the specific damage of the mobile phone, arrest him, and severely punish him.
Of course, there are other problems in various aspects, and Zhou Ming has a response plan and technical solutions.
And Zhou Ming also believes that with the income of the vast majority of families in the Magic City, each family will take out 1 contribution point or 10 purple gold coins every day and consume it on the shared mobile phone, the pressure should not be too great, and 90% of families can afford it.
However, on the whole, after the launch of the shared love crazy mobile phone, Zhou Ming will definitely suffer a little loss.
After all, a 1st generation of love crazy worth 9600 contribution points, assuming that the frequency of use is 2 times a day, he can earn 2 contribution points a day, and it will take 4800 days to earn back the money it should have sold...... Now it's more than a decade of slow profitability.
Of course, in terms of the actual cost of the mobile phone, he only needs more than 100 days to achieve a return on investment...... But the earnings cycle is really too long.
And more than ten years later, the price of the 1st generation of love crazy, I don't know how far it will fall, in short, after ten years, people will definitely be willing to pay one or two thousand contribution points to buy a new love crazy 1 generation, and they will not use the "shared love crazy" that does not belong to them.
Therefore, Zhou Ming will build some game applications that need to spend money to chop hands in the shared crazy mobile phone, so that users can chop their hands unconsciously.
Even launch some good games that can only be found on shared crazy mobile phones, so that those who can afford to buy crazy mobile phones can use those shared crazy mobile phones, expand the potential user base, and use a variety of means to increase the profitability of shared crazy mobile phones.
As for the number of shared crazy mobile phones, Zhou Ming doesn't plan to produce much, about 50,000 units, and he will suffer if there are more.
And the families at the bottom of the magic city are about 50,000 (an average of eight people per household).
As a result, the problem was perfectly solved by Zhou Ming, the wish of the protesters to play crazy mobile phones was satisfied, and Zhou Ming's bottom line that he had to make money was not broken, and both parties were more satisfied and reached a consensus to solve the problem.
On the side of the Magic Association, while breathing a sigh of relief, I also felt that my eyes were opened!
"Share your phone...... This method is really wonderful, those Diao people want to play crazy wishes, but a day to collect them 2 contribution points, after the screen is locked, anyone can ask to use, this will not cause other Diao people to think that it is unfair, do not have to send a mobile phone to each family, they want to use the mobile phone all the time, they have to pay honestly every day!"
"That is, to ensure fairness, the mobile phone store also makes money, and then let the Magic Association supervise it...... All the interests of all parties have been taken care of!"
"Awesome, it's amazing!"
"That kid...... That kid ......"
The old wolf shook his head, sighed again, and said, "I'm really convinced of him!"