Xinghai Technology.

In the high-rise conference room.

Regarding the "Work Assistant 1.0" that is about to be launched to the market, the senior management of Xinghai Company discussed the pricing of this product.

It's a good idea to decide how much money to set.

"Mr. Chen, our work assistant belongs to the 'software tool', and the hardware used is only a supercomputer with a computing speed of 100 million times and more than a dozen cloud servers that store data, and the hardware cost is still relatively low.

"Yes, it's too troublesome to make hardware products, not to mention the risk of getting stuck, the tax in the middle, and the later maintenance...... Very troublesome, the actual profit is not very high. ”

"Just look at Microsoft to see how profitable it is to make software, Bill Gates has topped the Forbes world's richest man more than 20 times, and has never fallen out of the top three...... Making software is more profitable than making hardware. ”

Hou Xiaofeng said, he has long suggested that the boss should use the company's technical advantages to make more software products, but it is only now that he has come up with a decent software product and realized that the huge profits come from software.

Chen Jin, who sat at the top, nodded, he didn't know that software is equal to huge profits, but everything has a sequence, there are too many money-making products, and he can't take care of them all.

Now after listening to the analysis of the executives, he found that the future profit focus of Xinghai Technology has to be shifted to software.

If you don't transfer, you have to be forced to transfer.

Because the Wow Wow sweeping robot launched by Xinghai Technology can generally be used for ten years.

Xiaoxing learning machine can be used for about five years.

Bangbang robots, with an average service life of more than ten years.

The quality of the products is so good, after harvesting this stubble, the next stubble will have to be harvested many years later.

For example, the company that bought hiking boots in country M was of very good quality, and they could not be worn out for five years, and the price was very affordable, so it attracted a large number of consumers to buy them, but after five years, the conscientious company went bankrupt because the customer's shoes were not worn out, but they went bankrupt because of too much inventory.

Although the price of Xinghai Technology's products is not low, the quality is absolutely conscientious, so after the market is saturated, Xinghai Technology will definitely face the dilemma of plummeting sales.

Fortunately, Chen Jin took that problem into account, and the software tool "Work Assistant 1.0" is the new profit growth point of Xinghai Technology.

According to statistics, there are about 5 million+ programmers in country Z, that is, a market of 5 million users...... This market is not very small.

Programmers generally belong to the high-tech group, and the income of more than three years is generally 10,000 or 15,000, so it is extremely cost-effective to let them take out 1/10 of their monthly salary in exchange for 10 times more work efficiency and a significant improvement in code quality.

Marketing manager Li Yuanliang said: "Mr. Chen, the use fee of the work assistant is set at 1500 per month, if all programmers buy it, it can bring 7.5 billion revenue to the company every month, the revenue created by this wow robot is comparable, but the net profit margin is more than 50%!" ”

"1500 per month?"

Song Bojun shook his head and said: "Isn't this price a bit high, although senior programmers can fully afford it, but in fact, a considerable number of programmers are junior programmers with only one or two years of programming experience, and their salaries are not very high, one thousand and five per month, this price is difficult for them to bear." ”

"Junior programmers don't need to use it, let's learn the technology for two years first, and then it's not too late to buy a work assistant after learning the technology."

"No, they don't have a chance to learn technology."

Song Bojun said solemnly: "Instead, he was directly expelled!" After the launch of the work assistant, the programming efficiency has been greatly improved, and many companies will lay off some programmers for cost saving considerations! At least half of the population will be laid off, leaving millions of people unemployed. ”

Li Yuanliang's mouth is long, and millions of programmers are unemployed, which ......

No matter how much Xinghai Technology pursues profits, it is impossible to be indifferent in the face of so many jobs being smashed.

Before launching the "work assistant", it is important to consider the impact and impact on society so as not to destroy the livelihoods of too many people...... Profit is second.

So after some discussion.

Everyone finally came up with a better plan.

"One guarantee" and "one limit" have been achieved.

That is, to ensure that every programmer can use it.

There are certain limits to the powerful capabilities of the "work assistant".

Song Bojun said to Chen Jin: "Mr. Chen, in the process of generating code, the work assistant needs to use computer computing power, and the more complex the code function, the more computing power is used. ”

"The computing power of our supercomputer is about 100 million times, and if we divide it into 100 million copies, we can sell 100 million copies."

"The price of each copy of computing power is 500 yuan / month, and if it is not enough, you can buy it again, and each account can be superimposed with up to 100 copies of computing power."

"According to the calculations of our technicians, even if your work assistant only buys 1 computing power, this work assistant can increase the work efficiency of programmers by 2.5 times."

"For the average middle and high programmer, it is basically enough to buy 10 copies of computing power, unless you are a senior programmer to use more than 100 copies of computing power."

"So if you're a junior programmer, spend 500 yuan a month, and it's enough to buy one computing power to implement some simple functions...... It's within their reach. ”

"If you are an intermediate and senior programmer, you can buy a computing power stacking package, stacking one, two, ten, and one hundred copies, the more you stack, the more powerful the work assistant will be!"

"But it's also expensive."

For example, buying 100 copies of computing power can help programmers increase their work efficiency by ten times, but the monthly usage fee spent on work assistants is as high as 50,000 yuan.

Since the code generated by the work assistant is of very high quality, recruiting junior programmers is not much different from recruiting middle and senior programmers.

This avoids the embarrassing situation of a large number of junior programmers, who may lose their jobs en masse...... Of course, due to the general increase in work efficiency, it is still inevitable that some programmers will lose their jobs.

Xinghai Technology can only try to control the impact in a small range.

Chen Jin nodded: "That's it!" Otherwise, the bosses of those IT companies will feel that work assistants save money than programmers, but let them know that programmers who can use this tool are more valuable! But ......"

"If the wave of programmer unemployment is still unavoidable, Xinghai Technology will build a number of software centers and recruit tens of thousands of programmers to make domestic operating systems, domestic special effects engines, domestic office software, and domestic industrial software...... These software are not done by others, Xinghai Technology does! On the one hand, it fills the gaps in these areas; On the other hand, it has absorbed a group of unemployed troops, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone. ”

"Mr. Chen is very thoughtful."

Song Bojun nodded: "We have too many software fields in a blank state, if there are domestic IT companies willing to fill these gaps, the programmers in country Z have to add another 200 to be enough, now the work assistant has been launched, if there are programmers who don't want to be unemployed and love programming work, then it is quite a good choice for them to fill the gaps...... Those shortcomings in the software field of country Z that no one is willing to make up for, I am not afraid that no one will make up for them. ”

Proper unemployment, on the contrary, turned out to be a good thing.

All the executives nodded their heads one after another.

The pricing standard for "work assistants" has been set.

The release of the Work Assistant is scheduled for March 22, when all programmers will be able to download the Work Assistant client and pay for computing power.

However!

March 20th.

Brother Gu released the latest version of Android 12, and from this day on, the Android system ended the free era, and every new device using the Android system in the future had to pay a certain fee to Brother Gu.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Guge, explained: "Charging a certain fee is to make better products and bring a better experience to users!" ”

In this regard, the companies and netizens of country Z are generally expected.

"Brother Gu's company has been shouting for two years, and now the boots have finally landed, and the wolf has finally come."

"No matter how much Gu Ge charges for each device, our mobile phones, tablets, smart homes, and all Android products will increase in price."

"Android, which claims to be forever free and open source, has fallen, is Brother Gu really short of money, or are we fat sheep growing up, and they are going to start harvesting?"

"Hey, in the authorized list of enterprise enterprises in country Z of the Android system, why is there no Xinghai Technology, but Xinghai Technology is included in the list of prohibited authorizations?"

"Brother Gu's company strictly prohibits Xinghai Technology from using the Android system? Illegal use will lead to judicial proceedings! ”

"In other words, the Xiaoxing learning machine must not be equipped with Android and can no longer be sold?"

"Why did Brother Gu do this?"

Netizens in country Z were very surprised and angry.

……

"Oh, the suppression of Brother Gu's company is coming?"

Chen Jin was not surprised when he learned the news, but three words popped up in his mind: Such a coincidence?