Chapter 105: There Is No Free Lunch
Lu Yuan's tailor-made battery for Yidiantong is really 2500 mAh, the quality is very good, so good that it is impeccable, and the four of Jin Xiaobao are like treasures. As far as nickel-metal hydride batteries are concerned, Kuroko also knows that this is close to the current highest level. It's just that the cost is still a little inflated compared with the top technology at home and abroad, but this is also a great achievement.
So, Kuroko agreed to raise the wages of the workers in the battery factory by 10 percent, as well as raise the subsidy a little. This is the promise made when Lu Yuan was asked to study the battery before, and Kuroko did not break his promise.
It seems that Lu Yuan made money, but in fact, the truth is that Lu Yuan was fooled.
Because from the day Kuroko took over the battery factory, he has been thinking about how to improve the labor enthusiasm of skilled workers and engineers, and the best way is undoubtedly to raise wages. It's just that this salary increase process can't be a handout from Kuroko, but it should be something they strive for with sweat and achievements, and when the NiMH battery production line was built last month, Kuroko should have raised his salary. dragged on for a month, just fooling Lu Yuan to improve the technology, this goods belonged to the donkey, and he was in a hurry to go backwards, so he had to hang a carrot in front of him.
At the same time as the salary increase, there is also a strange but novel reward and punishment system, violating the production regulations or stealing and cheating to deduct wages and bonuses, this is nothing to say, after all, capitalists are all Zhou Peel, everyone can accept it. However, both workers and engineers can be rewarded for finding ways to improve production efficiency, or for inventions that make the battery factory profitable, which greatly stimulates the enthusiasm of workers and engineers.
Of course, there are also people who are skeptical, after all, Kuroko has been too stingy before.
But as Lu Yuan increased the capacity of nickel-metal hydride batteries, he was directly rewarded with 100,000 yuan by Heizi and gave him 1% of the profits of this kind of battery. Everyone no longer doubted it, but they didn't think that Lu Yuan actually lost a lot, because the right to use the technology was taken away by the sunspot.
Driven by money, the battery factory has officially entered a virtuous circle of production and innovation, and a sample of Jinhong Group has also been made.
It turned out that Jin Xiaobao and others ran around, and finally found some factories with good relationships to make the required components, and finally, assembled the prototype closest to the finished product. In this way, the machine not only runs normally, but also has a plastic shell, which is completely produced according to the actual production.
For this prototype, Jin Xiaobao and the three engineers are very satisfied.
Although the gold ingots didn't understand, he was also satisfied, after all, he felt that this thing was very advanced, in his opinion, more advanced than Apple's mobile phone, because this one was bigger!
Kuroko is also quite satisfied with this sample, and even thinks that everyone has done too well. So, everyone worked hard to make the machine weaker, except for the battery capacity and display effect, all other aspects of performance should be weakened.
For the nonsensical suggestions of the sunspots, of course the four of Jin Xiaobao resisted to death, they could make excellent products, why should they weaken it?
Kuroko didn't bother to explain to him what upgrades, what technical reserves, and what differentiated competition. Kuroko only said one sentence, and let the four people slip away to modify it, what Kuroko said was: "Put the best technology out, what if it is copied by others?" β
This sentence is simply a big killer, because Jin Xiaobao and others are experts in doing cottages, so they naturally know how powerful they are. If you throw it all out, half a year later, the world will be full of this technology, what money do you make? And if you follow Kuroko's idea, throw a weakened version out first, even if the copycat comes out in a few months, they can immediately update and launch a stronger version, always having an advantage.
Not long after, the weakened version came out, and the general configuration is like this: 256M cores, 768x576 pixel 4:3 display. The screen size is not small, 8.5 inches. Dimensions 15 cm x 22 cm, thickness 1.4 cm. Built-in 2G capacity, weight 900kg. The battery capacity is 2500 mAh, and it can be used for 4 hours when fully charged, and it can be used for half a month.
No matter from which point of view,This machine is very weak,256M The core is really pitiful,The screen with half the resolution of the netbook is even more blind to see too much,2G The capacity can't even fit two Aoi sensei's action movies,And the weight of nearly two catties,and1.4mm thick,But it makes this guy look extraordinarily solidγ The only thing that's okay with the eye is the 4 hours of use.
Although the shortcomings of this machine are faults and the advantages are lackluster, it has a fatal advantage, which is enough to ensure that it is an excellent product.
Because, this is the first touchscreen learning machine, or tablet.
On the day of New Year's Day, after repeated debugging and technical finalization, the hardware was completely finalized.
At the beginning of 09, Jinhong Group began to secretly organize the production line under the command of Jin Yuanbao and others. In fact, in addition to the independent production of screens and a few technical electronic components, many parts of Yitong are outsourced to other factories, so this production line is mainly assembled.
At the same time, Jinhong Group also began to place orders for outsourcing factories, which naturally included tailor-made batteries from the Black Dragon Battery Factory.
In addition, gold ingots are also busy registering new trademarks, busy advertising, etc.
At Kuroko's suggestion, this thing is better to be weak in the first place, and it is best to quickly release it to make a round of money, and launch a second version before the copycat opponent makes a move. Therefore, the gold ingots decided to launch it in the beginning of the next semester, in fact, there are still two months left.
As far as production and distribution are concerned, the time is completely sufficient, but there is another problem, the hardware is set, but the software has not yet been settled.
So far, there is only one built-in software in OneTalk, called "Diandian", which is actually an audio electronic reading software, where you point your finger, the system can make a sound. Too little software? Don't be funny, this is just a learning machine, or the first version, the others, wait for the second version! The software is available, but the electronic version of the textbook and teaching materials has not yet been stored in the software, and there is no time to make the voice.
Kuroko personally went out to find several publishing houses that published textbooks and supplementary materials, and got the electronic version. This is very simple, because this is a new technology, and every time the publishing house has published electronic materials before, as soon as they heard that the sunspots sell them one by one, give them a few yuan, and get royalties from the publisher, they agreed. For them, it's the equivalent of pie in the sky, sitting and making money, and fools don't do it.
Heizi signed an exclusive licensing agreement with them for ten years, that is to say, within ten years, the electronic versions of these textbooks and teaching materials can only be used by the Dragon Claw Studio, and no one else can use them, otherwise it will be a breach of contract, and the breach of contract will cost money.
See! See you here!
Heizi first cooperated with Jin Xiaobao to set up the Dragon Claw Studio, and also gave a little pass to Jinhong Group for production, which seemed to have suffered a big loss. But Kuroko was treacherous, he firmly grasped the copyright of the "Diandian" reader, and locked the electronic versions of various textbooks and supplementary books on the Dragon Claw Studio.
Previously, the sunspots let Jinhong Group produce a little pass for free, but it didn't say that they would install the "Diandian" reader for free.
At this time, Jin Xiaobao was still in the dark. This guy is taking people in Shudu, looking for a large group of teachers and college students on winter vacation, and is making audio versions of textbooks and supplementary books.
This action was started before Kuroko won these copyrights, Kuroko said that this was a rainy day, in fact, his plan was that if he couldn't get the exclusive authorization, then he would just copy it.
It is not difficult to make audiobooks, and it is even easier to do textbooks and teaching aids for preschool education and before the third grade of primary school. In a month's time, Jin Xiaobao and others made all the information and returned to Heilong County before the Chinese New Year.
On January 24, two days before the Chinese New Year, Heizi also returned to Heilong County with a large stack of exclusive licensing agreements from various publishing houses.
On this trip, he threw out a lot of money, and the advance payment for the exclusive license alone cost a small three million. It's ten times more than the money spent by Jin Xiaobao and others to make audiobooks. But Kuroko knows it's worth it, there is no such thing as a free lunch. After getting the exclusive authorization, there will be one more weapon to deal with copycat opponents in the future, of course, if you make a small fuss, Kuroko will not care, and for those opponents who can threaten him, he will not be polite.
In the past month, Jinhong Group has assembled nearly 10,000 units.
Then, when Jin Yuan Baole came to find the sunspot to build a "dot" reader into the machine, the sunspot showed a hideous face: "Hey, hey, hey...... Brother Yuanbao! There is no such thing as a free lunch! I threw it all to you for a one-point hardware design, and I didn't take a penny, and it wasn't a moral spirit? Are you still looking for me to have a reader? Big brother, this Dragon Claw Studio and Jinhong Group are two companies, although you have shares in it, but you also have to settle accounts with your brothers! β
"Hah! What? A reader you still ask me for money? "At that time, Jin Yuan only thought that he had a problem with his ears.
"Of course, you have to collect money! We need money to make audiobooks, we need money to buy copyrights, and we will continue to pay copyright fees to publishers in the future. β
"Hah! How much? β
"Each installed machine is a one-point pass, and the fee is 1,000 yuan."
"A thousand?"
"Nine hundred and ninety-nine won't work."
"Huh? You're crazy! Robbery? β
"Love gives or doesn't give! If you don't give it, you can sell it with the machine that doesn't have anything! Anyway, the machine can't make a phone call without a communication module, can't be a computer without a window system, doesn't even have a camera and picture browsing software, and can't even make an electronic photo album! β
"Ha, ha! You, you ......"
"Excited, Dragon Claw Studio has made money, aren't you also sharing thirty percent?"
"Hah! A thousand is too much! The price of this machine is only 2500, and after removing the 1,000 you want, 1500 is left, which is the cost price! β
"Only sold for 2500? Are you stupid? β
"Hah! How much is that going to sell? β
β3500οΌβ
"Haha, you go sell it, you only buy melon peels!"
"That's it, you transfer the one-point trademark to me, and Dragon Claw Studio wants it! Also, didn't you say that the cost price is 1500? I'll give you one thousand eighteen! What do you think? You're supposed to be an OEM for Dragon Claw! β
"Ha, are you taking advantage of the fire to rob?"
"It's just a win-win cooperation. Actually, I didn't plan to do this, mainly because it depends on your layout this month, it's too petty! Actually only limited your vision to Xishu, moreover, or the southeast part, are you leaving a market for the copycat factories behind? "Kuroko is really forced to do it, he has no time to do business now, he only plans to do technology, but the gold ingots are not angry, Kuroko can only do it himself.
Jin Yuan spread his hands: "At present, there are 10,000 units, you give me 18 million, and I will sell it to you." β
Heizi was suddenly blind, where did he get 20 million? By the end of the year, DreamWorks made him another five million profits, which cost more than three million, and the profits of the battery factory were not as good as DreamWorks.