Chapter 351: Super Vanity Fair

The closed meeting at the IBC was a very rare experience.

In addition to his previous speeches, Lin Feng rarely spoke in the formal discussion session.

He sat down and listened with great interest to the group of bigwigs who are influencing the global economic landscape behind the scenes, talking about the subprime mortgage crisis that is now spreading, and his sense of imminent financial crisis is overflowing.

They are discussing how to push the government to continue to invest money to bail out the market, and they also hope to get more policy support.

Although the Fed abruptly cut interest rates by 75 basis points on Monday (January 21), this did not seem to be cheering them up.

In the past two days, from New York to London, from Paris to Tokyo, from Toronto to Mumbai, from Singapore to Hong Kong, the open international capital market has fallen violently, and the Indian stock market has simply announced a "market closure" after two consecutive days of falling limits.

Lin Feng can obviously feel from their speeches that these bigwigs in the global business community have seriously suffered a serious setback in their confidence in the economic situation in the new year, and the fear of economic recession has made them begin to realize that the times have changed!

They realize that the United States alone is no longer the problem, and they want to see more global cooperation, and that the world's economic powers must follow the Fed's emergency economic aid and act together on monetary and fiscal policy.

China and India, in particular, believe that economic growth in emerging economies will offset the slowdown in the United States. If the U.S. does fall into recession, "it will be the first time in the world that China and India, the engines of economic growth, are looking at China and India, in a recession."

The world's top CEOs have agreed that in the next few days at Davos, they will call for more global cooperation and hope that emerging economies will contribute more to the global economy.

The hardest-hit financial giants, such as the chairmen of Bank of America, Citigroup and UBS, had to return to China early to deal with affairs after attending the closed-door meeting of the IBC after attending the closed-door meeting of the IBC because of the company's internal lawsuits.

This kind of perched and detached appearance made Lin Feng a little funny in his heart.

To put it bluntly, isn't the financial crisis caused by a few of you?

Now it's beautiful to let the whole world wipe your ass......

Lin Feng has little interest in these financial and traditional manufacturing giants.

He is interested in communicating with the telecom giants.

When it comes to the cooperation on Xphone, everyone has expressed a lot of interest.

As Lin Feng learned in his previous life, the emergence of the iPhone has created a big problem for all telecom operators.

On the one hand, IPhone is negotiating exclusive agency rights with operators in various countries, deliberately causing competition between operators to increase bargaining chips, and on the other hand, Apple not only requires a share (subsidy) on the sales terminal, but also requires a share of communication fees and traffic revenue (20%-30%).

For example, according to Apple's requirements, carriers provide a subsidy of about $400 for iPhones, which means that carriers will not start making profits until 9 months after iPhone users buy the device. What's more, in addition to subsidies, Apple has a series of other demanding requirements.

You know, before the release of Iphone, the world's operators were in control of mobile phone customization and channel power, mobile phone manufacturers can only develop customized mobile phones according to the requirements of operators, and the iPhone is now very strong in reverse, to operators to accept its set of models.

For example, when Apple negotiated with Verizon, one of the largest carriers in the United States, it put forward a series of conditions, including a certain percentage of the monthly telecommunications fee, and the right to have a say in how and where the iPhone is sold, and control over the distribution channels of the iPhone. He even insisted on intervening in after-sales service to control the relationship with iPhone users. These conditions were simply unacceptable to Verizon, believing that the conditions were too harsh, so the negotiations between the two sides broke down.

Cingular, a subsidiary of the company, has established an exclusive agency partnership.

In this way, in addition to the other three major telecom operators in the United States: Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile, all of them have no access to the Iphone.

However, because of the market heat after Apple's release of the Iphone, if the operator does not sell the Iphone, judging from the feedback received from users, it is likely to lose a large number of high-quality users!

The biggest headache for everyone now is that if you don't sell the Iphone, you must launch other excellent smartphones that can compete with the iPhone to meet the needs of users.

And now the major mobile phone manufacturers, still in the main feature machine stage, even if there is already a so-called "smart phone", but also the older generation of the kind with a keyboard, now with the emergence of Iphone, they are neither "beautiful", nor "fashionable", not "cool"!

Now Lin Feng came over and told them that I have an "Xphone" here!

It was developed earlier than the Iphone, looks cooler, has more features, has a number of patents, and the operating system can even be open source, and it doesn't require too many harsh conditions...... Let's cooperate!

Nima, how could these telecom operators not be interested?

Okay, how to cooperate?

We're interested, let's talk about it!

Not to mention telecom operators, even mobile phone chip manufacturer, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs (Paul Jacobs) is also interested, this year this year, he just took over from his father as CEO, ambitious to carry forward Qualcomm.

This time, the release of the iPhone shook the world, and Qualcomm was also more depressed, because the IPhone used Infineon's chip on the baseband chipset, and did not choose Qualcomm, which made Paul Jacob very unhappy, so he was also very optimistic about the Xphone of the cool wind.

The previous prototype of the Xphone used Qualcomm's Scorpion chip, and Jacob very much hopes that when the Xphone is officially mass-produced, it can use Qualcomm's latest MSM7225/7625 (Snapdragon S1), or the QSD8250/8650 that will be mass-produced this year.

If the Xphone can be sold globally, it will still be very valuable for the promotion of Qualcomm Snapdragon chips.

Lin Feng has also coveted Qualcomm for a long time, so of course he nodded!

Okay, let's work together!

Both of them were smiling happily......

This time to participate in the closed-door meeting of IBC, Lin Feng can be said to have gained a lot.

In the process of discussion and tea break, he basically communicated with the world's major telecom giants, and reached a lot of intentions verbally.

Next, Andy Rubin, who is in charge of the overseas market, will take the negotiation team to various countries to negotiate the details, and I believe that there will be a great impetus for the future sales of Xphone in the world.

At the same time, Lin Feng also discussed with Google's Schmidt that he was going to hold a private dinner during the annual meeting in Davos, inviting telecom operators, mobile phone chip manufacturers and mobile phone manufacturers in Davos to participate in the formation of the Open Mobile Phone Alliance in advance.

In addition to secret circles such as the IBC closed-door meetings, the Davos Forum also has a number of closed-door meetings of business leaders in different sectors, which are generally divided into five groups, including basic industries, telecommunications and IT, consumer goods, financial services and energy.

Lin Feng also participates in breakout sessions in the telecom and IT industries, but this kind of meeting is not as secret as that of the IBC, although it is a closed-door meeting, the format is also more diverse, including conferences, breakout sessions, luncheons, dinners, etc., and sometimes meetings with other industries.

In addition, once a year, the telecommunications industry will have the opportunity to meet with members of the media industry conference.

At these meetings, Lin Feng is still vigorously advocating the integration of telecommunications, IT, and the Internet, as well as Xphone and mobile Internet.

Because Apple's old Joe never participated in Davos, this time Lin Feng obviously became the brightest figure in the telecom group meeting!

Who made him talk about the hottest topic at the moment?

And because Lin Feng has the experience of his previous life after all, when talking about the possibility of many mobile Internet changes the world, he clearly proposed that the mobile Internet era marked by a new generation of smart phones is coming!

He also listed many future mobile Internet applications such as O2O, transportation, mobile payment, etc., and his "prediction" was bold and direct, full of confidence, as if he had experienced it himself, which left a very deep impression on everyone.

It can be said that Lin Feng made a hard swipe at the Davos Forum this time, especially in front of the telecommunications industry and the media.

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The charm of the annual meeting in Davos lies not only in these high-level closed-door meetings, but also in the formal meetings and forums, which are complemented by various dinners and cocktail parties every night.

Although Davos is small, it can be said that it brings together global celebrities at this time, because the threshold of the forum is extremely high, and the characters who appear are all celebrities from all walks of life who are popular, and even politicians will not be able to attend the meeting once they are in the field......

In addition to the dignitaries and top entrepreneurs from various countries, more than 600 media outlets around the world are active.

In addition, there is also the Literary and Artistic Elite Group, which has more than 100 well-known personalities in the literary and artistic circles from all over the world, including Oscar-winning movie stars, Grammy singers, world-famous pianists, artists, writers, etc.

During the Annual Meeting, the Crystal Medal is also presented to artists who have made outstanding contributions to improving the state of the world.

As the saying goes, stars are like clouds, fame and fortune come and go, and the mountains are overwhelming.

The Davos Forum is not so much a place to hold meetings as a super group meeting, a super PR and publicity meeting, and a super trade fair.

Everyone who comes here has a special attraction to others.

You show me, I am proud of you, and together constitute the most shocking vanity fair in this world.

For example, Lin Feng attended the reception of Professor Schwab and his wife to entertain the VIPs on the evening of January 24, the reception was held in the most famous restaurant in Davos Town, Post Hotel, the restaurant is very small, before the banquet, the guests gathered in the lounge of the restaurant to toast and talk to each other, the guests include the prime ministers and prime ministers of some countries, and the lounge is more than 100 square meters large, more than 200 guests have to squeeze around, and it is not too much to describe it as "shoulder to shoulder".

Davos is such a small space, but it gathers more than 2,400 dignitaries from various countries, leaders of world-class companies and other heavyweights from all over the world, everyone is happy, why come?

First, share world-class intelligence. During the five-day meeting, more than 200 meetings took place one after another, and there were many informal gatherings in private, including conspiracy and conspiracy. If you pay attention to it, you may have unexpected gains.

Arguably, the forum is the most dense, purest and most energetic cornucopia of golden information.

Second, grasp the global economic trend in the coming year. Each year, the keynote speeches of the forum have an outlook and assessment of the future economic trend, which are generally put forward by a number of politicians, entrepreneurs and economists with global influence, and then select ten major issues to be announced and discussed. From this, the general trend of the world is clear at a glance.

Again, to set the rules of the game for the global process. The whole meeting was a planning meeting of conspiracy and conspiracy. Various interest groups and industry giants are jumping up and down from their own interests, combining vertical and horizontal, left and right.

Because the people who come are the promoters of the world economy and the makers of the rules of the game, the decision-making process is extremely concise and there is no need to "put on a show".

Finally, make full use of the stage of Davos for PR promotion. With more than 600 people gathered in the mainstream media around the world, anyone who wants to express their views and influence the world will not miss this opportunity in the spotlight of the world.

Here, you can see reporters holding microphones with the Associated Press, BBC, CNN, and even CCTV signs standing in the corridor or on the road, holding a certain person for an interview, who may be a politician from a certain country or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company......

In short, many oligarchs are mixed together, and they are all in harmony. The resulting information is not only authoritative, but also grand and hybrid.

To put it bluntly, all year round, everyone finds a closed small ravine to communicate with each other, blend, make friends, look forward, and plan a new world political and economic order.

This is the Davos Annual Meeting, a super vanity fair!

Of course, in this year's Davos, Lin Feng is also one of the most eye-catching guests.

His tens of billions of wealth, his background from China, at a time when the major giants in Europe and the United States are worried about the financial crisis, he is full of confidence to advocate the arrival of the new economic era represented by smart phones, and his young and handsome appearance......

Everything made him one of the brightest stars in this super vanity fair!

The scenery is in no way inferior to those of politicians and old tycoons.