While Jiang Hui and Zhu Zhengfeng were discussing Gphone2, Apple on the other side of the Pacific was also discussing iPhone and Gphone.

"McCann, what should I do, the data summarized from the directly operated store is not ideal, how can I tell the president," Jack, VP of Sales, said with a frown.

"Gphones can sell two million units a month, why can't we even sell half a million iPhones, we're cheaper," McCann said.

"The people in the design department have their brains in water, and when the Gphone is launched next year, it has already proved how popular Gstore is, and they stubbornly don't add this feature to the iPhone."

"Yes, I'm also speechless, this should be the most complained about about our iPhone. In order for smartphones to reflect the difference between themselves and traditional feature phones, in addition to the large screen, the most important thing is that there are various apps that can be downloaded."

"Last week, the people in the design department were scolded by Steve Jobs for more than an hour, saying that they didn't do a good job in software development."

"I'm using the iPhone myself, and I do have a lot of problems, and it gets stuck from time to time, especially when I use several functions at the same time."

"Fortunately, the company has been urgently promoting the design of the iPhone2, and there should be our own app store by then."

"There are malls that may not have sold Gphone, our iOS system is too closed, and we are not willing to open too many interfaces to the outside world, plus our iPhone sales are not as good as Gphone, developers will give priority to launching apps that continue Gphone."

"One step behind, one step behind."

"It's backward in technology, but it can't be compared in appearance, how can it be so easy to beat your opponent with a discount of just a hundred dollars."

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California Polytechnic Berkeley Electronics Enthusiasts Association.

"Averry, what kind of mobile phone are you dropping," Birmingham, the president, said to Averry, the vice president of the association, in the association's activity room.

"Don't mention it, it crashes when you use it, and the I-Fi connection is also very unstable, I worked part-time at McDonald's for more than two weeks to earn enough money to buy an iPhone, but I didn't expect to buy it back for two months, and I was depressed for two months."

"You see, I said at the beginning that Gphone will blow up the iPhone in all aspects, and let you spend an extra hundred dollars to buy Gphone, but you should insist on selling Apple products."

"I'm not an admirer of Jobs, and you don't know that my idol is not Madonna, nor Tom Cruise, but Steve Jobs, and at the iPhone conference, this phone performed very well."

"Hehe, the things at the press conference, just like the food in the advertisement, look beautiful and appetizing, but in fact it is not like that at all."

"Alas, don't mention it, I'm going to regret it."

"Don't regret it, in a few days it will be the 2007 annual developer conference of Guanghui mobile phone, and then see what new products they have launched, whether there will be an update on Gphone, and then you quickly replace this broken phone."

"Where is the developer conference held?"

"It's still held at the Korn Mobile store in Manhattan."

"Why do I go to the east every time, and I can't go to the scene to see it."

"Even if you put it in Los Angeles, you can't get in without an invitation."

……

In a factory in Futukang, Shenzhen Free Trade Zone, a bunch of employees are bored and stay in the factory.

The so-called bonded zone is a unique model set up for manufacturing enterprises based on foreign trade processing, and the bonded zone adopts the concept of "inside and outside the customs", that is, although the bonded area itself is located in the territory of the Celestial Empire, it is isolated from the outside world through customs supervision, and the parts and finished products here are equivalent to not entering the customs abroad, so there are no tariffs involved.

Apple's iPhones are produced here.

As Apple's partner for many years, the iPhone was naturally handed over to Futukang without exception.

However, in Tomtokang's eyes, the Gphone is truly the first smartphone, and it is also the smartphone that they value the most.

So in September, when Futukang gave the foundry of Guanghui mobile phone to roll off the Gphone, Boss Guo was there in person.

Futukang also gave Guanghui mobile phone a very attractive price, which is 30% cheaper than Guanghui mobile phone itself.

Futukang has always been known as "deficit orders, black sales", that is, to accept orders at a price lower than that of competitors, through the efforts of manufacturing and marketing, to compress and save costs, and still deliver goods to customers at competitive prices.

When the statement comes out, others think that there is no profit, and it is not a small amount to make a profit in Futukang.

In order to ensure the scale and quantity of orders, Foxconn has no shortage of "deficit orders", maintains the efficient operation of the Industrial Bank, enhances its competitiveness with scale and volume, plunders the living space of other enterprises, and maximizes the gathering of production resources to feed back the growth of enterprises.

However, the iPhone factory, which has a planned capacity of 1 million, is almost on the verge of being shut down, except for 2 million units that were produced at full capacity in the previous two months.

Production plans plummeted from one million to 100,000 units a month, and how to play with this?

Apple still has more than one million stocks on hand, and at the current sales rate, it is enough to sell for three or four months, or even longer, so it is naturally unwilling to continue to produce more inventory.

"If I can only work one day a week next month, I'm ready to quit," one worker said to his fellow countrymen.

For the workers of Futukang, the biggest income is overtime pay, if there is no overtime pay, what can you do for 15000 a month?

Although the 2007 1,005 is worth more than the 2017 one, it's only 1,000 and a half.

"I think so too, I used to say that Fu Tukang's income is high, so I just came here to work, but you look at the way it is now, we can only get a basic salary, and we can't save any money at all in a month."

"Yes, the first two months were fine, the salary plus full attendance and overtime pay, I took 3,000 yuan, and it was miserable from the beginning of this month."

"Why do you think Apple's iPhone is so hard to sell? I heard that the Gphone, which is similar to the iPhone, is now in complete short supply, and is working overtime to produce it."

"Damn iPhone, it's going to kill us, and our boss doesn't even think about sending us to the factory that produces Gphone."

"Apple is an important customer of Futukang, and before they take the initiative to announce the adjustment of production capacity, Futukang does not dare to easily reduce workers, what if people suddenly ask for an increase in production?"

"That's right, but I really don't want to stay in the free trade zone, where birds don't. In the past, for the sake of the RMB, I put up with it. Now ......".

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(End of chapter)