Chapter 195: The Road
Sony Ericsson is a thing of the past, and the new Apple has not yet arrived (in fact, in this year, the Apple phone did not debut in China, and even if it is released, it will not enter the Chinese market anytime soon).
The current Chinese mobile phone market has been completely shrouded by the light of Dragon Claw Technology, whether it is the dominant position in technology, or the sense of morality and national justice shown in the public opinion war just past, so that Dragon Claw Technology is now in the era of being frantically sought after by the Chinese people.
Even though a number of impatient domestic mobile phone manufacturers have announced that they will launch cheap but not degrading performance smart phones within a month, most of the people are skeptical about this and still favor dragon claw mobile phones.
After the beginning of August, the sales of dragon claw mobile phones exploded again, rising day by day. Even the former overlord, Nokia, which had just launched the Symbian 3 system mobile phone, was completely shocked by Dragon Claw Technology. Even if a lot of money has been spent on promotion, these new products have not been able to make any splashes when they are put into the market, and their sales are naturally predictable.
Winter is coming!
For those traditional mobile phone manufacturers, for those low-tech domestic copycat mobile phone manufacturers, the really cold winter is coming! The value of a high-end machine that used to cost two or three thousand yuan will drop tenfold in another year or two, so to speak, the newborn smart machine is digging a grave for them efficiently, and they stand on the edge of the grave without noticing.
Now, they are clamoring that the so-called smart machine is nothing more than grandstanding technology, and no one wants to poke and poke on a screen, and no one wants to hold a screen that is not bigger than a palm and give up a huge computer screen. Nokia even openly ridiculed, saying that the computerized telephone dragon claw technology and Apple and Google were made by a freak. He is not as powerful as a computer. It's not as simple as a feature phone. The X10 fiasco is a lesson for them.
In this regard, Google chose to fiercely refute and argue, Apple chose to ridicule and ridicule, and Dragon Claw Technology chose to ignore.
The frenzy is on!
Domestic manufacturers have just reduced some of the heat of the copycat of feature phones, the smoke of gunpowder has not really dissipated, a new frenzy is about to start, and some people are ready to invest in Google or Dragon Claw, in order to seek the greatest technical support. Some people are ignorant and confused.
In the next three or four years, smart phones will gradually replace feature phones, and in this era when brand smart phones are still very expensive, imitations from small manufacturers are a natural catalyst for this change. However, what they don't know is that this is already the last carnival of these copycat enterprises, and the demons are dancing, but few people know that after this reshuffle. How many people will be buried in it.
It's the best of times!
This is the worst of times!
For now, Zhao Qi and his dragon claw products. He has become a well-deserved star in the field of electronic technology, and he has laid a solid foundation for the empire in the ambiguous area between mobile phones and computers.
With sales of two million per month and billions of profits, Dragon Claw Technology has become the top technology company in China.
However, Dragon Claw Technology has good sales, but compared to the total sales and usage rate of traditional mobile phones and computers, Dragon Claw products are just a toddler baby. Therefore, whether it is the elite in the electronic technology industry, or the general public, most of them now only regard smartphones and tablets as something independent of traditional mobile phones and computers, a niche product like a BlackBerry or iPod.
That's the status quo.
Except for a few companies with super foresight capabilities, Zhao Qi and his products have not been able to attract the greatest attention, at most they have only achieved small successes.
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August 3rd, evening.
Dragon Claw Technology held a tea party, which is the kind of free meeting that Zhao Qi is most enthusiastic about, and the theme of this meeting is to discuss the future direction of Dragon Claw Technology.
Present at the meeting were the senior management of Dragon Claw Technology and several hardcore collaborators, such as Luo Lei, Wang Xiaohua, Sun Zheng, Lu Yuan, Zhang Wanru, Jin Xiaobao, Zhang Fei, Jin Yuanbao, etc.
The background of the meeting is the strong competition in China and even the world, if it stops, even if Dragon Claw Technology is now in the limelight, it will soon be surpassed or even buried.
At the outset of the meeting, differences of opinion and strategy emerged, which became more and more irreconcilable as they progressed, and eventually developed into diametrically opposed opinions. To put it simply, there are three lines, one is radical, one is conservative, and one is neutral.
The radicals are naturally represented by young technical backbones such as Wang Xiaohua and Jin Xiaobao, who advocate following the previous route and developing more advanced smartphones and tablets and putting them on the market. At the same time, the product layout has changed from linear to surface-shaped, that is to say, the two product routes of smart phones and tablets have derived multiple routes to go hand in hand, set foot in the traditional feature phone market, create cheap products to attract user groups, and set foot in the traditional computer industry to become the next Lenovo. Even, they proposed that Dragon Claw Technology independently develop CPU chips to achieve absolute technical barriers.
In other words, they are going to make Dragon Claw Technology into the Apple of China as quickly as possible, no! Broader than Apple's involvement, this is a jack-of-all-trade! A monopolist!
Conservatives are naturally dominated by old guys such as Sun Zheng, Lu Yuan, and Jin Yuanbao, who do not advocate blind expansion and are resolutely opposed to intervening in other new areas. They suggested that Dragonclaw Technology immediately start developing the next generation of Dragonclaw mobile phones and Dragonclaw tablets, and continue these two products without complicating the product line.
In the words of Professor Sun Zheng, this is called not too many soldiers! Lu Yuan's opinion is that it is enough for a battery to have a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and any more will cause waste of energy and low efficiency.
Between the neutral faction, it can be said that it is a wall-riding faction, only Zhang Wanru and Luo Lei, both of whom are not conservative in their thinking, but they are by no means greedy for merit. They are in favor of the conservative cautious conservative research style, which can minimize risks and ensure efficiency, but they are not satisfied with the status quo, and hope to devote a small amount of energy to research the development of traditional computers and the manufacture of traditional mobile phones, and only launch products after the technology is mature and the dragon claw has completed the initial capital accumulation.
In the end, no one could convince anyone. On the contrary, I was hungry and tired. All slowly calm down.
Then. Zhao Qi asked Su Bei to buy supper, so that everyone could continue to quarrel while eating.
However, everyone only cared about eating and no longer arguing, but looked at Situ Longfei, the designer of Dragon Claw Technology, who had not expressed his opinion.
The old man had been sitting in the corner pretending to be a dead body, holding a notebook and looking at everyone with his trademark winceing smile on his face. Occasionally write and draw.
"Situ, what is your opinion?"
Lu Yuan and Situ are now hardcore drinking friends, and they are the most polite when they speak. Every time he was bullied by Zhang Wanru, who used to be as gentle as water but now as hot as fire, he went to Situ to borrow wine to drown his sorrows, and gradually established a deep revolutionary friendship.
"I don't have an opinion, whatever the profiteers say, I'll do it."
Szeto's pencil scribbled across his sketchbook.
"He? He knows a fart! Lu Yuan glanced at Zhao Qi with disdain, but he didn't have much confidence in this sentence, after all, whether it was a dragon claw mobile phone or a tablet. Almost all of them are the directions he pointed out, and even the crisis of public opinion is solved by him. On the contrary, it was Lu Yuan himself. But he failed to develop a battery worthy of mass production, in order to hide his embarrassment, Lu Yuan went to break Situ's notebook, "What to draw?" I don't pay attention to the meeting...... Cart? Plane? You're a fur designer, don't you paint your bags well, what cars and planes do you draw? Why don't you draw aircraft carriers? ”
"It's product design!" Situ quickly snatched back the notebook and protected it in his arms, as nervous as someone else moved his daughter-in-law, "Don't move!" It's worth a fortune! Maybe in two years, this will be the product of Dragon Claw! ”
"What?" Lu Yuan thought he had misheard.
"Hah! We're going to make flying machines, huh? Get a flying saucer tomorrow and sit on it? The gold ingots scoffed.
The others also looked at Zhao Qi with a hint of nervousness.
Obviously, everyone knows that although Zhao Qi likes to hold meetings with everyone and express his opinions freely, the final decision of the entire company is still made by him alone. Because of the overwhelming shares, Zhao Qi's decision was unchecked.
Does he really want Dragonclaw to change careers? This is even more radical than the radicals! No! This is the real crazy pie!
Zhao Qi knew that everyone was waiting for his statement, so he sat on the corner of his desk and lit a cigarette: "You are too conservative!" Including the so-called radicals among you, too, too conservative! What is the real core value or the strongest competitiveness of Dragon Claw Technology? ”
Without a positive answer, Zhao Qixian raised a question.
Radicals are still conservative?
"Hey! The strongest thing about dragon claw is hardware technology! Until now, we have been the only one who has been able to produce smart devices with all-metal housings. Jin Xiaobao said.
"No, it's software technology. The Dragon Claw system is far ahead of the current Android and Apple mobile phone systems. Wang Xiaohua disagreed and retorted.
"It's a marketing tool, and we are the only ones in the world who use the entire online shopping platform!" Lorey Road.
The rest of the people also expressed their opinions, and so on.
"None of them are right!" Zhao Qi shook his head, then pointed to his head, "It's imagination!" ”
Everyone frowned, as if they felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't refute it.
"If there is no imagination, whether it is hardware technology, software technology or marketing methods, it will be copied and surpassed by other companies in a very short period of time." Zhao Qidao, "Any external technology and means are not safe, only imagination is unique." ”
Su Bei looked at Zhao Qi, his eyes lit up slightly.
Zhao Qi jumped off the desk and said: "The goal of Dragon Claw Technology is not only a smartphone or tablet, our ultimate goal is to create a fully intelligent ecosystem for the world, so that electronic intelligence can be integrated into every detail of human life!" In other words, we're building a fully intelligent lifestyle for humans! Of course, this is a long-term plan, but this goal will guide us to find the right product direction. This direction can never be backwards, but infinitely forward. Therefore, feature phones, MP3s, and traditional computers that have been abandoned by the times will never be our target products! ”
Create a fully intelligent lifestyle for human beings!
No one knew, and even Zhao Qi would not have thought that even if there were no amazing products later, just this sentence would make him go down in history and leave his name.
Many years later, when Su Bei raised his anger in his memoirs, he couldn't help but sigh: at that time, all the people in the meeting thought he was crazy, but they didn't know that he was creating a new era. (To be continued......)