Chapter 799 [The Fall of the Giant]
Science and Technology Complex Building, Luo Sheng's private office.
"The incident between Pindoduo and Azure Pure Electric Automobile Company has come to an end, and the other party turned off the engine directly, and there should be no follow-up if nothing else." An Qingxue came to the office and reported to Luo Sheng.
"So fast?"
Luo Sheng was stunned, and suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, this is also too fast, you only have a starting hand, and the other party directly showed the white flag before you made a move.
"This Mr. Huang also dares to fight, and he can bend and stretch, he is a character." Luo Sheng couldn't help but laugh, and there was a lot of appreciation in his words.
Because the other party is too fast, so that it is not good to remove his APP from the shelves to block, if it is forcibly blocked, he will immediately be able to win sympathy in a weak way, and he has become a victim, and the Cote d'Azur has fallen into the name of bullying the small.
Sympathy for the weak is a common psychology of human beings, and many times they don't tell you any logic at all, and the general public is easily mobilized to "sympathize with the weak" mentality, otherwise how could there be such a saying as "forgiving and forgiving" in ancient times......
Luo Sheng's several major enterprises have grown to such a huge scale today, the larger the scale, the same huge scale of the enemy, offending so many people, the majority of people and consumers can not be offended.
"Ding Ping handled this matter very reasonably, and achieved his goal and controlled the expansion of the situation." Luo Sheng commented succinctly, the company's plate is so big, it is easy to overturn the car with a preemptive strike, and only by preemptively striking can it win the version.
The first shot will give people a feeling of overwhelmingness, the Cote d'Azur and Bluestar Technology were "dragon slaying warriors" more than ten years ago, and now many people are actually afraid that the former "dragon slayer warriors" will become the new "evil dragons", everyone is watching with wide eyes, and they want to buckle the name of "evil dragons" to the head of the Cote d'Azur all the time, and then want to be the new "dragon slaying warriors".
After this episode passed, An Qingxue turned to other work matters.
"The first-week sales data of Azure-5X in the domestic market has come out, with shipments reaching 3.77 million units, winning the first week of October."
"Not bad." Luo Sheng nodded with satisfaction.
Azure-5X is the world's first 5G folding screen mobile phone, since the product was released, other domestic and foreign mobile phone manufacturers such as Xiaomi, Samsung, etc., have begun their own folding screen, 5G and other selling points of new product research and development on the agenda.
They don't want to follow the trend, but there is no way, the Cote d'Azur drains the trend of technology, if you sell new mobile phones that can't be folded, consumers don't bird you, just like the concept of full screen, it has now become a basic requirement.
As an electronic product priced at 18,999 yuan, it can be said that the price has broken through the sky, so far there is no more expensive smartphone than this, and the first week sales can record nearly four million, more than 70 billion yuan of turnover, it is simply a money grab.
Such a high price can also create such a good sales, even the Cote d'Azur did not expect that the new products are built by a purely domestic supply chain system, and once worried about whether consumers will buy it, but the sales data has proved that this worry is superfluous, and the company has temporarily added a production order.
"What about notebook sales? What has been the feedback from the market? Luo Sheng asked, he paid more attention to the performance of this edge business.
"AzureBook shipped 730,000 units in the first week, 30% more than expected, significantly exceeding expectations, and new production orders have already been added." An Qingxue replied methodically.
If the success of Azure-5X has made the industry look sideways, but it will not be too surprising, as the absolute head of the industry, the Cote d'Azur should have won such a result.
But what really surprised the industry was the laptop business of the Cote d'Azur, as a marginal business product with no roots, and even won the sales crown in the first week of October.
According to Strategy-Analytics data, global notebook sales in the second quarter of this year increased significantly, with a year-on-year increase of 27%, and Lianxiang and HP became the two fastest growing brands in this quarter, with shipments of 13.5 million units, becoming the world's first with a market share of 25%.
This is followed by other brands such as Dell, Apple, etc.
However, no one expected the sales of the first laptop on the Cote d'Azur to be so terrifying, and judging from the current sales figures, the sales in the fourth quarter of this year are likely to be firmly in the first place, and the shipment is expected to exceed 15 million units by the end of the year.
This is because the first week of sales does not include the international market.
Obviously, this is the rhythm of going to the first place in the industry, not to play soy sauce at all, and no one expected that the AzureBook bezel-less full-screen notebook would be such a big success as soon as it was listed, and its proper debut was the rhythm of the peak.
The AzureBook follows the industrial design style of the Azure mobile phone on the Cote d'Azur, and it has overwhelmed the products of its competitors in terms of appearance.
Another reason that cannot be ignored is the premium power of the "Côte d'Azur" brand, and the power of the brand value of $350 billion is absolutely impossible to ignore.
The LOGO trademark of the Côte d'Azur is a symbol of the trend of science and technology fashion and high-tech in the impression of consumers.
It is an exaggeration to say that even if it is a laptop of the 18th line, as long as it is labeled with a Cote d'Azur logo certification, it can also be a commercial success, and the number of "basic plates" of the Cote d'Azur alone is a huge consumer group.
Many consumers actually have the obsessive-compulsive disorder of "collection control", that is, the whole family bucket series, although not used, but can not be without, less than the same will feel uncomfortable, to be neat and tidy to be perfect.
To put it down-to-earth, it is to meet the sense of demand for the installation ratio.
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The official V of the Cote d'Azur released a news feed, announcing the first-week sales data of the two new products, Azure-5X and AzureBook, which also shifted people's attention from the incident of Pindodo and Azure pure electric car company.
The biggest characteristic of human beings is that they are easy to forget, and as soon as new hot topics come out, they quickly abandon old topics.
It is quite surprising that the price of Azure-5X can be so expensive, but it is not too jaw-dropping, and even in the eyes of many people, as a leader in the trend of technology and the leader of the industry, it is appropriate to win such a result, and if the sales hit the street, it can become a hot topic.
However, the most surprising thing to the outside world is that the sales of AzureBook also won the first month of sales in October, for this product many people think that the sales will not be too bad, because of the "Cote d'Azur" brand benefit guarantee, even as a novice in the PC industry, the sales performance will not be embarrassed.
As a result, I never expected to directly win the first week sales of more than 700,000 units, which is the rhythm of rushing to the first share of the industry.
At this time, the melon-eating netizens who did good things decisively turned out the couplet, and turned out Mr. Yang's "advice" to ridicule the whipping corpse.
On the day when the Cote d'Azur disclosed its sales data report, Lianxiang's share price plummeted by 20%, with a total market value of only HK$47.04 billion.
The development of Lianxiang has been difficult to reverse the decline in these years, and now the Cote d'Azur has entered the PC business and entered people's field of vision with the peak of its debut, which directly triggered secondary market investors to start voting with their feet.
On the same day, Blackstone Group, which ranks among the top four major shareholders of Lianxiang Group, announced that it had reduced its holdings of 64.568 million shares three days ago, and reduced its holdings by 200 million shares today, and the balance of its holdings dropped to 326 million shares.
According to public data, in March last year, Blackstone held 792 million shares of Lianxiang Group, accounting for 6.59% of the total share capital, and so far its holdings have dropped to 2.71%.
As the world's largest PC computer market share manufacturer, Lianxiang was listed on the Hong Kong stock market, and was selected as a constituent stock of the "Hang Seng Index", the price index of Hong Kong stocks.
But from seven years ago to now, Lianxiang's market value has evaporated by nearly 65%, from the pride of the Chinese people to the loss of the city now, abandoned by consumers, and evaluated by the media as the worst technology stock.
The once glorious giants have also fallen.
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