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After Fan Wuxian and Ye Jiarong separated, they did not leave, but went to a small-scale symposium organized by Boss Zhu, and there were some recent development issues that needed everyone to sit down and talk about them.

In addition to a few economists who rely heavily on think tanks, there are also Boss Zhu and the leaders of several ministries and commissions under the State Council, plus more than a dozen leaders in the domestic home appliance industry, a total of twenty or thirty people.

In addition to the trend and development trend of the domestic household electrical appliance industry in recent years, the main topic of discussion is the impact of the currently rising information industry on the national economy, especially the household electrical appliance industry.

Li Dong of BDL Home Appliance Group Company was also present, in this industry, the scale of their company is very large, so this kind of home appliance industry summit is naturally indispensable to them.

As for Fan Wuxi, as long as it is a summit held by Boss Zhu, if he can be found, he will naturally not be absent.

At the meeting, everyone was talking about the information family. electricity, and Microsoft's Venus program, which is in the pipeline.

The so-called information appliances are still the most recent paragraph. A concept that was only introduced as a child. It is a kind of home appliance with low price, easy operation, strong practicability, and the main performance of PC.

Computer, telecommunications and electronic technology with . Traditional household appliances include refrigerators, washing machines, microwave ovens, etc., which are white goods, and innovative products that combine televisions, video recorders, stereos, VCDs, DVDs, etc., which are designed for digital and network technology to penetrate more widely into family life.

Information appliances include PCs, set-top boxes, HPC, DVDs, super VCDs, wireless data communication equipment, and video appliances. Gaming equipment, EBTV, INTERNE telephones, etc., all home appliances that can interact with information through the network system can be called information appliances.

Li Dong of BDL Household Appliances Group Co., Ltd. is obviously interested in this information household appliance non. I am often interested, and I have also made a few friends, so when I talked about this issue, I said excitedly, "At present, audio, video and communication equipment are the main components of information appliances. On the other hand, on the basis of the current traditional household appliances, the information technology will be integrated into the traditional household appliances, so that it can be more powerful, more simple, convenient and practical to use, and create a higher quality living environment for family life, such as analog TV into digital TV, VCD into DVD, refrigerators, washing machines, microwave ovens, etc. will also become digital, networked, intelligent information appliances. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, but some experts suggested that from . . In a broad sense, information household appliances actually include network household appliances, but if defined from a narrow definition, information household appliances refer more to small household information devices with embedded processors, its basic feature is that it is connected to the Internet and has some specific capabilities, which can be a complete set of products, or an auxiliary accessory, and network appliances refer to a household appliance with network operation capabilities, which can be understood as an upgrade of our original ordinary household appliances.

BDL Home Appliances Group Co., Ltd. Li Dong said to everyone, "Although Microsoft's Venus plan has not yet seen the official content release, but from all aspects of the situation, we can already be sure that Microsoft is going to promote set-top box technology in the world, and then enter the network TV industry, which is also our opportunity." Microsoft plans to buy a 10% stake in cable giant Comcast for $1 billion, officially putting a huge bet on the cable industry. The cable TV industry, which has been weak for two years, has been shaken up, and the industry stock index has soared by more than 20%. But for the cable industry, Microsoft is not a boon, it's a wake-up. Gates came up with a complete system at once, using indos NT on the server side and CE on the set-top box side, and also wanted to share the user subscription fee. In other words, Microsoft is not just charging a technology license fee, but everything related to a set-top box. If we all follow him and let him succeed, then we are all fools. ”

The CEO of another domestic home appliance giant also said, "The technology of the set-top box is not very profound, we have had enough of others to formulate standards, and then we follow the hardships, so now we can also make a set-top box standard ourselves, develop related products in China, and do not let Microsoft make all the money." ”

Everyone had different opinions here, Fan Wuxian just sat on the side and was silent, he didn't have much interest in this industry, so he pursued the principle of listening more and talking less and not discussing, and did not express his opinions in a high-profile manner.

After all, Fan's Investment Group is the largest cross-industry group company in China, and no one will ignore the existence of Fan Wuxi, and it is impossible to just let him stay here to watch the excitement, so a boss proposed, "Why doesn't Mr. Fan give his opinion?" We're all looking forward to your guidance. ”

Only then did everyone think that there was also the great god Fan Wuxian present, so they invited Fan Wuxian to speak, and several economists also welcomed this, because Fan Wuxian was always able to put forward some deafening suggestions, and pointed out the major problems that existed in it.

Boss Zhu also said, "Let's talk about it if you are not sick, don't always sit and eat, you can pack it back later!" ”

Fan Wuxi was eating a piece of muffin cake, almost choked when he heard the words, and he hurriedly drank two sips of water to get it done, and said with a wry smile, "It's cross-industry, my point of view is not so accurate, it's better not to say it, so as not to mislead others." ”

"Let's talk about it." Boss Zhu said.

Seeing that he couldn't get rid of it, Fan Wuxian thought about it and said, "Speaking of which, the technology of the Venus Project is not advanced. The planned product is similar to ebTV, but it is not as good as ebTV, and the technical content is even less than that of a PC, and it is not even a set-top box in the true sense. Because it does not use cable television lines, it still relies on telephone dial-up to access the Internet. Secondly, the resolution of 350 lines of traditional TV cannot be used to display ordinary web pages very well. Therefore, in a sense, the Venus Project is likely to be an underestimation of the intelligence of the common people in China. ”

When everyone heard Fan Wuxi's words, they all became interested, and when they heard Fan Wuxian say this, it was obvious that they were not looking down on this Microsoft company's latest plan at all.

Fan Wuxian then said, "Obviously, there is still a gap in the development of core technologies such as CPUs in China. But the technology is in the hands of others, but the head is on your own shoulders. In a fully competitive IT industry, the most scarce thing is not technology, but the market. We should introduce technology, but the key is to introduce competitive technology! The highest level of market competition is to check and balance each other. Using other people's technology to develop the industry, using other people's technology to balance other people's technology, this is the real reality of the domestic IT industry! When there are two or three competing products, the market is alive and the monopoly is dead. Especially in the embryonic stage of the market, the introduction of two or three similar technologies at the same time can achieve the effect of four or two thousand pounds. Microsoft's market value has reached $400 billion, and the total market value of the top ten companies in our domestic home appliance industry probably doesn't exceed $10 billion, right? Not even a quarter of Gates' personal wealth. In front of Microsoft, our domestic home appliance companies are like a small fish in front of the great white shark. So to deal with this strategy, checks and balances are the best option. ”

"So how do you check and balance?" Someone asked rhetorically, although everyone knew that what Fan Wuxian said was the truth, but they didn't believe that he had any better way to solve the matter.

"SA is also developing the operating system PoerTV, and General Instruments has also begun to negotiate with Microsoft and Sony at the same time, and Sony is ready to form a basic network architecture, involving cable TV, TV broadcasting, satellite transmission, Internet and DVD and other home appliances. It doesn't matter whose operating system and CPU it uses. They're just a component in the box, just to make it work. Service and content are the most important thing! ”

The real value of set-top boxes is service, and in foreign countries, set-top boxes are usually provided directly by service providers, i.e., cable TV companies. However, this time for the Venus plan, Microsoft only brought in PC, VCD, and home appliance manufacturers. What does the absence of the service provider mean?

It means that Microsoft has other intentions for services, if Microsoft controls hardware and software, once the domestic information service industry is opened, the entire set-top box service market is Microsoft's bag. Because much of the service content is solidified in hardware, Microsoft's involvement will be a no-brainer.

The oppressive survival of the domestic hardware and software industry is an established fact and simply cannot be improved in the short term. The budding service industry is the greatest hope for the future of China's IT industry. If this new position is lost in advance, the future of China's IT industry will be unthinkable.

In a few years, if the domestic set-top box market really reaches a certain scale. Microsoft can send set-top boxes like browsers for free, and make money from services. At that time, all set-top boxes will become a Trojan horse for Microsoft to enter. This is exactly the wishful thinking that Microsoft suffered a defeat in the United States. At that time, all domestic equipment manufacturers will have nothing to gain, and all will become paving stones.

Fan Wuxian finally said, "Whoever sees Microsoft as just a software company is a fool." Whoever underestimates Microsoft's ambition and ingenuity will be self-defeating. Therefore, if you blindly carry the sedan chair or blindly obey it now, it is likely to cause dangers that even you can't imagine, and even put shackles on the entire industry! Fundamentally speaking, I am fundamentally opposed to the set-top box project, which is a project with no future! ”

Everyone didn't expect that Fan Wuxi was so optimistic about the set-top box project, and even said that he was against it.

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