Chapter 721: Partners' Conference

Finally seeing the two-story bee sculpture, Chen Ruichang, who had just gotten off the electric shuttle bus, breathed a sigh of relief, "Heh!

It is a Q version of the bee with only big eyes and beautiful wings, which is made of tens of thousands of blue and white porcelain blocks, implying the information and local colors of bees.

For Mr. Chen, this sculpture also has a meaning, this famous sculpture is located near the new office building of Bee, and seeing it means that his destination is about to arrive.

Although the number of employees working in the bee farm has not increased significantly, the area of the entire park has increased several times over the years, and the extra places are filled with flowers and trees. While the trees decorate the landscape and purify the environment, they also turn the place into a large labyrinth, as their increasingly dense canopy easily blocks other buildings that are not too tall.

Fortunately, with mobile phone navigation and smart shuttle buses as helpers, visitors only need to stand and watch the scenery, even if they are lost in the woods, they are attracted by the scenery and forget to return.

It's just that being in it and seeing the trees and trees everywhere you can see is still easy to create a sense of chaos in time and space. If you are more anxious like Chen Ruichang, you will naturally have more negative emotions than others.

Speaking of which, it was actually himself who made him unhappy. In order to show their identity, they came out of the airport and stayed in the best five-star hotel in the city, and today they came to take the limousine provided by the hotel.

However, it was useless, but found a lot of trouble for himself.

What about the Rolls-Royce Phantom? As long as you don't have the ability to transform and fly into the sky, you can only lie down and move slowly when you encounter a traffic jam. Passing soy sauce car fans were pleasantly surprised by the non-wallpaper and non-model luxury cars in front of them, and they raised their mobile phones to take pictures at the same time, Mr. Chen, who was sitting on the leather seat, was dripping blood in his heart.

What's even more depressing is that after finally passing through the congested road sections, the car can't get in after arriving at the bee garden, and everyone can only use the electric shuttle bus provided by the owner. In the end, the rented car that cost a lot of money only added a little topic traffic to the local official account and the car forum, which made him, who was extremely sensitive to cost, sigh in his heart that the money was really unjust. Mr. Chen, who is known as a net worth of hundreds of millions, knows his own family affairs, and most of his so-called personal net worth is the value of factory equipment and land, and most of his cash assets are pressed in the upstream and downstream supply chain. If it is used in practice, it is nothing, like today, it is just a cheap fart 1 share and other people's eyes, which naturally makes him regret it again and again.

However, in order to strengthen his momentum, he also brought several subordinates with him this time, and as a big boss, he had to take care of his image and not really show a painful expression, which further exacerbated his aggrieved mentality.

Fortunately, this depressed journey finally came to an end, and after taking a light breath of clear air, Mr. Chen said casually: "Well, it's a little off, but the air is not bad." ”

Then he tidied up the suit on his body, held up his middle-aged beer belly, stepped on the two-wheeled balance bike provided by the organizer, and drove towards the gem house in the distance with the rolling flow of people.

Nicknamed the convention complex, which was only opened in early March, the steel structure is covered with geometric curtain wall glass, resembling a pear-shaped multifaceted gem. This nickname also ended the history of factories, sheds, and box buildings in the bee garden, at least on the surface, and improved a lot of grades.

The first task of the conference center was to serve as the main venue for the Bee Partner Conference BPA2016, and according to the official spokesperson of Bee, thousands of partners from all over the world came to Heron Island for a week to exchange technology, plan the future and close deals.

That in itself speaks to the fact that the conference was nondescript, not as focused on technology as the IDF Intel Developer Forum held in Deep Town the other day, and the I/O Developer Conference at Google headquarters next month, nor as focused on promoting its own hardware products as Apple's spring/fall conference.

But this is also something that can't be helped, although it is also a peer with these three giants, but the international influence of bees is still not as good as others, and even the domestic influence is not as good as others. Even the current crowd of people pouring into the convention center is actually the result of their careful creation, and they can usually adjust the route to make the traffic in the park smoother, and naturally they can also do the opposite.

Guests of different colors and costumes appeared from all directions and walked towards the conference center shining in the sun, which looked quite imposing, and made the level of BPA rise a lot. At least Mr. Chen Ruichang and Mr. Chen were suppressed, and his heart was not so calculating.

It's just that his good mood didn't last long, as soon as he merged in the flow of people and walked through the corridor of the conference center, he saw a familiar back.

In normal times, he would have chosen whether to come up and pat him on the shoulder to say hello or take a detour to avoid it. However, now it is not possible, everyone is stepping on the balance car to travel inside, the walking route is automatically planned by the navigation system, he has to get out of the car and walk if he wants to say hello or avoid. Everyone else is standing in the car and Shi Shiran is moving forward, and you will definitely be very eye-catching if you suddenly jump out of the car.

After thinking about it, he still took out his phone and sent a message to someone who claimed to be going to the Maldives for a vacation.

In fact, he is not a good bird, and according to the tone he confided in his peers, Chen should now be in Frankfurt to negotiate an export order.

There is no way, peers are enemies, and they are even more enemies between white-label manufacturers.

The so-called white label means that there is no brand, and the producer does not leave his own mark on the product, and allows the buyer to buy it back and stick other trademarks on it. Therefore, it can be regarded as a kind of OEM, but it is the lowest end and the lowest technical content.

Most of the white label products are male mold products, using general parts and general mold manufacturing, and the products of different manufacturers are the same from the inside to the appearance, and the difference is very small. This is a good thing for the purchaser, the seller can change the supplier at will, and the consumer does not have to worry about not finding repair parts.

But for the producer, this is no worse, people have me and I have goods, and if you want to gain a competitive advantage, you can only compress profits and compete for prices.

Although the price war is simple and direct, it is unpleasant to try and test, but it hurts others, hurts oneself and hurts peers. Without the basis of common interests, there will naturally not be much incense to help each other.

But that's all a private attitude, and on the surface, everyone is still happy and very united. Huo Ran turned his head and glanced at him, and soon saw Chen Ruichang waving warmly to him, and he also smiled kindly, full of a happy picture of "meeting old acquaintances in a foreign country".

However, if someone can decode the radio waves in the air, they will find that things are not what they seem.

Huo Ran put the mobile phone to his mouth and asked, "Mr. Chen, didn't you go to Germany to discuss business?"

Although the voice is small, but the meaning of yin and yang is obvious, there is no us meeting in the food stalls, I know that you went to Lyon, France, you understand that I am buying Tian Huang's tacit understanding.

You are unkind and unjust, Chen Ruichang snorted and replied: "Europe is in a mess now, the bearded people are making trouble, the British are still making trouble and dividing the family, and the business is really not good." It's Xiao Huo, didn't you take your wife to the Maldives?"

"Oh, don't mention it! When she got on the plane, she suddenly changed her hexagram, saying that the language was not good over there, and it was not interesting to play, so it was better to have fun in China. ”

"That's the same, if you can't understand and can't understand it, it's really troublesome, but don't well-known foreign attractions have Chinese signs and Chinese services?"

The young Huo Ran couldn't stand Lao Chen's rounding up and down attitude, and went straight to the point: "Let's talk straight, Mr. Chen, you appear here, are you participating in SDF or SA?"

Although the bees are a spoonful of stew, in fact, the whole BPA is divided into sub-sessions with different topics, such as SDF for software developers and SA for accessories suppliers. However, these are not what Mr. Chen is going to, the purpose of his visit is to provide PAA for third-party accessories manufacturers.

Since he took a picture, there was no point in lying and covering it up, so he said his plan directly, and he didn't want Huo Ran on the other side to do the same, and the two of them, who were still a little-for-tat just now, also had some sympathy and sympathy for each other.

Although doing a white label has the advantages of a low threshold and easy to enter the industry, the technology and industrial chain are ready-made, and you can make money with orders, which can be called the most convenient entrepreneurial path for insiders, but it also has the disadvantages of fierce competition and meager profits. With the increasing housing prices, his factory land is certainly more valuable, but the wages of workers are also rising, and if the wages do not rise, he must be prepared to drive his own machinery. On the other hand, importers in Europe and the United States are offering lower and lower prices, and they are still putting on the posture that if you don't agree, I will go to the Vietnamese, and the already small profits have been further compressed.

Profits are getting thinner and thinner, and Chen Ruichang naturally thinks about transformation all the time.

But if the transformation is not just talking, it is convenient and fast to sell machines and land, but what to do next is to scratch people's heads.

To do something else across industries, such as real estate or the popular P2P, he can't play with that little money at all, so he can only continue to stay in the electronics industry that has been doing half his life, and this time he will not be a white label, but will become his own brand.

Independent brands sound high-end and high-grade, but it is difficult to do, to determine new products, R & D investment, custom components and molds, registered trademarks, the establishment of sales channels and after-sales service, these things that did not need him to worry about this time can no longer be bypassed, but everything has to spend huge energy and financial resources, the key is not necessarily results.

Two years ago, when Intel pushed the ATOM tablet, Ruichang also ran with a group of peers to make x86 tablets, and the technology, components, and publicity were contracted by Intel, and they only needed to do a good job in assembly, sales and after-sales, and it was easy for a while. It's a pity that Intel has spent billions of dollars for the tablet market, and found that this pit can't afford to play and wants to leave.

Then Chen Ruichang thought of bees, to be precise, he thought of PBB mobile phone accessories, which are becoming more and more popular.

PBB is a copycat version of bees learning Apple's advanced experience and imitating MFi certification, there are also official tests, there are also certified chips, and there is no need to cross the ocean and the space advantage, and the price of PBB chips is much cheaper than the MFi chip that costs $3 and 17% VAT.

In addition to the repeated testing of the official laboratory worth $600, the consumer's iPhone and iPad will also detect the accessories connected to it, and if there is a certified chip, it will be used normally, otherwise a warning will pop up or even be disconnected, and the damage caused by non-certified accessories will not be guaranteed. Such a "package o" policy puts MFi accessories in a situation where they are not worried about selling, plus the related manufacturing and testing costs are indeed higher, and then it is not difficult to understand why Android data cables are sold for more than ten or even lower, but MFi certified data cables are sold for dozens or hundreds.

However, this bowl of Ansheng rice is not something that everyone can eat, at least not Ruichang Electronics, they tried to make several Apple accessories before failed to pass the certification, and Chen Ruichang, who couldn't stand the repeated tossing, enabled the bee comparison program.

But when Huo Ran asked him what accessories he planned to make, he shook his head categorically and kept silent, the other party was going to say something, but he was sent into the venue by the balance bike under his feet, and naturally there was no follow-up.

With so many partners from all over the world gathered here, Atletico certainly won't leave people in the breakout rooms for their own chats, and have prepared a presentation for you in Hall 1, which can accommodate 3,000 people.

The Bee Phone 7 has been unveiled, the BeeOS7 experience version has been released, and Dreamwalker and PT Game Console have nothing to say, but he still has a lot to talk about, such as mixed reality, such as artificial intelligence, and such as unmanned driving.

Many people have long heard of the bee glasses 3, but they didn't have the opportunity to see it, this time it was very bold to send one, so that everyone can deeply experience the magic of MR technology, and at the same time, with the help of it, PPT and projectors are completely outdated.

The only thing that made Chen Ruichang feel unhappy was that this pair of glasses was not given away for free, and everyone only had the right to use them during the meeting, and they could not be taken away from the bee garden.

If you want to keep it for free, you'll have to complete some challenges. He has seen all those projects, whether it is the top ten in the game points, or the top three in the programming competition, it is not something he can do, the only thing that can be done is to donate 5210 yuan like the Honey Love Foundation, "Forget it, just use it as ticket money!"