Chapter 272: Opera's Dilemma
"Xiaoya, what's the matter, I'm sad." As soon as she got to work this morning, Ning Zixue saw Xiao Ya with a sad face, and now Xiao Ya is no longer her assistant, but the deputy general manager.
During this time, Xiaoya's ability to show is already very condescending in the position of assistant. Therefore, Ning Zixue was very decisive and let Xiaoya serve as the deputy general manager of Opera Group.
During this time, she did a good job, the company's product sales were increasing, and funding was not a problem for Opera at all.
Now all the staff of the company have that feeling of pride.
Because now Opera can also be said to be a Shijie-level big company.
At present, Opera's business has expanded to more than 80 countries around the world, and basically the mainstream skeletons have been designed.
Although some countries are initially involved in knowledge, but developed countries such as Zia, Mi, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico, Opera is developing at full speed.
"Nothing!" Seeing Ning Zixue, Xiao Ya was slightly stunned, and then forced a smile on her face.
"Xiaoya, is it still necessary for the two of us to do this?!" Ning Zixue had a pretty face, pretending to be very unhappy and said, but although this expression was pretended, there was still a part of it that was really angry, Xiaoya had such a good relationship with herself, and the two were like best friends, but now her best friend had something on her mind, but she forced a smile and didn't tell herself, which made her a little angry
"Huh!" Seeing Ning Zixue's angry appearance, Xiaoya smiled helplessly and said.
"Sister Xue, it's not that I don't want to say it, it's just that I'm afraid you won't believe it!" Xiao Ya said helplessly.
"Hehe, you say, sister, listen, as long as it is reasonable. Sister just believe it! Ning Zixue said seriously, at this moment, Ning Zixue felt a little wrong, she had not seen Xiaoya in the past three years.
"Okay, I'll tell you I'm worried!" Xiao Ya exhaled a breath of turbid air and asked Ning Zixue to sit down, Ning Zixue didn't say anything, she knew that this matter might be a long time to talk about.
"Our company has hit a bottleneck!" Xiao Ya confused Ning Zixue with a word, and she didn't understand that Xiao Ya Weishenme was saying such a thing at this time.
Soon, though. A cold sweat appeared on Ning Zixue's body. Recently, I was carried away by the company's gratifying performance, and I didn't know about internal and external troubles, and now I don't know about the company's internal problems, but the problems outside the company must be solved, otherwise there will be a big mess.
"You tell me in detail, what the hell is going on, I may have been carried away by the joy of victory during this time, and I didn't notice this problem for a while." For her mistakes, Ning Zixue admitted them frankly in front of Xiaoya. There is not a hint of artificiality.
"The company's products are too monotonous. Now that other competitors are constantly suppressing us, Apple's attitude towards us has also changed from good to cold, because our iPod infringes on their interests, which makes Steve Jobs very annoyed. Your own products are higher promotions. That is, a price reduction in disguise, you also know the virtue of the US government, and it has a special preference for its own people, and Apple does this. It has received strong support from the U.S. government and won the favor of the government.
Now the attitude of the government towards us is not as good as before, and I feel that our market in the United States may shrink due to these various reasons.
Also, our products are good. But the products of other companies are also good, and they are not absolutely convinced. So it's not good for our company.
Sales in other countries are also starting to calm down, not only because we are not doing our marketing properly, but also because of the saturation of the market, where our products are almost saturated.
Nokia's Symbian has come out, and some other systems have also appeared, and now the situation we are facing is very dangerous" Xiao Ya's tone was very heavy, and the speed of her speech was not very fast, but it stopped in Ning Zixue's ears and was exploded like a bomb
"I understand, I think the company should be in a situation of internal and external troubles now, the company's internal employees see the company's performance so haode, a little complacent, I don't know that we are now in ambush on all sides, those international giants have already shown their cold teeth, ready to take a bite of Opera at any time." Ning Zixue said lightly, Ning Zixue is not an ordinary person after all, and she quickly understood her current situation, if she is still comfortable, then what awaits her will be a recession.
Xiao Ya didn't speak, but looked at Ning Zixue lightly, and the faint sadness in her eyes poured out her truest thoughts in her heart.
Slender little hands kept tapping on the table, making a clicking sound
In recent times, Opera's sales performance has declined to a certain extent, although it is only a small part, but this is definitely not a sign of haode.
"Opera's products are very easy to use, but the price is a bit too expensive, and the entertainment is a little low." This is the evaluation of Operaones by a technology commentator in the United States, and such an evaluation is very pertinent.
The price of Opera in the United States is indeed a bit high, compared with Nokia, Symbian, etc., which do not produce much of their own products, the advantage of Opera is very low
"By the way, how are our iPods selling?" Ning Zixue asked, she hadn't asked about this piece recently, so she wasn't very familiar with it, and it just so happened that Xiao Ya was in charge of this piece. So Ning Zixue didn't bother to let Xiaoya sort out a piece of information for herself, and asked directly.
"The sales are okay, the most haode is the 1G version, and the worst is the 10G version. However, even the worst has 550,000 sales, and the highest has 3.7 million sales. And some time ago, Ziweixing brought us a sum of money, and at present, we only have seven billion US dollars on our books to use, and the rest has been allocated as a budget. A big part of it is marketing. Xiaoya briefly talked about the situation within the company.
"I heard someone from the Jishu Department say that a new product is coming out, but I don't know what I'm talking about?" Xiaoya asked suddenly. Because the advent of a product means that the company has one more path and one more direction of development.
One more way to break through the bottleneck.
"You're talking about desktop computers, which are not new products, but our design is more beautiful, and there are some auxiliary software designs, our company's system software is still under development, and it will not be available until at least next year." Hearing Xiaoya ask about the new product, Ning Zixue said lightly, in Ning Zixue's opinion, the desktop really doesn't have too much jishu content, but he doesn't know that a haode computer not only needs the layout of the hardware, but also the coordination of the software.
Moreover, Opera has invested one billion dollars in system development, and this system development is mainly closed, humanized development. For those unnecessary developments, it will be temporarily slowed down.
And the people on the opera side are basically people who are senior engineers or above in the United States. Has a strong ability. The efficiency of the people of the United States is absolutely leveraged.
"Desktop, isn't it beautiful in appearance, and it's also very comfortable to use?!" Xiaoya asked the question she was most concerned about, for Xiaoya, no matter how good your product configuration is, I only look at these few points, one is whether the appearance is very good-looking, and the other is whether it is comfortable to use.
"Maybe, I don't know, but I do know one thing, that is, as long as this machine is for those private people, it is not suitable for large offices.
First of all, the display is very delicate, although the running speed is not the fastest at present, but it is also more than the mainstream. Although the combination of performance cannot be said to be perfect, it is perfect enough.
And then there's the point, the appearance is really good-looking and dazzling. It's very comfortable to use, unlike some other products, which give people a stiff and cold feeling.
The materials we use are all relatively advanced carbon fiber coagulate, which gives people a skin-like touch
After listening to Ning Zixue's words, Xiao Ya's face was suddenly full of smiles. This is a good way to make a fortune, giving people a skin-like touch, and according to Xiaoya's speculation, the designers in his own company, one of them are aestheticians, and the products they design are absolutely dazzling. (To be continued......)