Chapter 157: Increasing Costs to Seize the Market (3/6 Seeking Subscriptions)
Wen Ming, who was originally going to go back to the company to inspect a circle, stayed a little longer because of Tomding's script.
"It's decent, but it's just a commercial film, and it doesn't need too much truth."
After reading the script, Wen Ming put forward his own opinions and instructed Tom Ding to revise it to a certain extent. Although this made Thomding a little reluctant, the "Jurassic Park" series from another world that swept the box office all over the world left Thomding speechless.
Looking at Tom Ding, who was polishing the script, Wen Ming's heart was full of emotion. Because when he first came to this world, he wanted to go to Hollywood to be a screenwriter.
Many companies and products in this world are similar to or even identical to another world. But it may be because Wen Ming's ability is to 'daydream', and the content of the dream is a movie from another world, so there is a big difference between Hollywood in this world and another world.
But none of the movies that involve sci-fi content are the same, and there are even very few similar ones.
At that time, Wen Ming was still very melancholy, he had no foundation at all, how should he mix in Hollywood, you know, there are really tens of thousands of screenwriters in Hollywood, how many of them can come out?
Even, for a time, he raised a plan to return to Huaxia and then become a foreign language teacher. Or the plan to stay in the U.S. and become a Chinese language teacher.
However, only a year has passed, and he has been called the richest man in the world by many people, and this transformation is really incredible.
(ps: I'm going to complain, they all say that I'm slow-paced, and I'm already the richest man in the world in more than a hundred chapters, how fast can I go?) Cover your face...... )
"Boss, you're really a genius."
There was a very obvious admiration in Tomding's eyes, which he couldn't understand before, but after looking at it more in recent months, he was able to understand what it meant.
Smiling, Wen Ming said, "I just understand a little bit more, just a little bit." ”
Let Tomding be responsible for developing an Apple Film and Television, and be responsible for going to Hollywood to occupy a little territory, Wen Ming no longer cares about this matter.
In the final analysis, Titanic and Avatar can only be made by James Cameron, and even if other movies make more money, how many movies can be made in a year?
It's not as profitable as the sales on the first day of the iPhone series.
Otherwise, Wen Ming would not have put this Apple Film and Television under Apple, because if he did so, Apple Film and Television would be equivalent to Apple's property, and all shareholders of Apple would enjoy the profits created by Apple Film and Television.
Of course, because Wen Ming owns almost all of Apple's shares, there is almost no difference whether Apple Film and Television is listed under Apple's banner or separated separately.
It's only billions of dollars if it's dead, Teresa Roy and Bill Gates combined, at most, they only occupy 5% of Apple's shares, and how much can they have for 5% of billions of dollars?
"Boss, iPad sales are even hotter than we expected."
In the conference room of Apple's headquarters, Peter, who was originally in charge of Apple's mobile phone business, has begun to coordinate Apple's digital product business because of his very good ability.
In fact, at present, it is just one more iPad.
"Since the official launch, we have sold 8 million units, and there are still 2 million units to be ordered. In other words, in half a month, we have sold 10 million units worldwide. ”
At this time, since Christmas 2009, D's sales work has also begun to accept global reservations from the first day after Christmas.
Based on the global sales system of the iPhone established before, the sales of the iPad are much simpler. It is worth mentioning that Apple's official experience stores, which have been established at a high cost in major cities around the world, are finally no longer only iPhone experience products.
Peter continued: "The key issue now comes back to the problem we had when we first launched the iPhone, which was the lack of production capacity, which led to our lack of supply capacity. ”
When the iPhone was first released, Apple had no money, so the stock was small and the cycle was long. But the lack of production capacity of the iPad is because of Wenming.
His time to develop the iPad was so fast that Apple and the parts suppliers didn't have time to breathe.
If it weren't for the fact that many parts of the iPad are common to the iPhone, let alone 10 million units, in such a short period of time, even 5 million units would be enough.
Because from the establishment of the final model of the first-generation iPad to the global launch of Wenming, there are only more than two months.
Peter concluded: "In order to seize the tablet market as quickly as possible, we have asked Foxconn and our parts suppliers to start reducing the supply capacity of iPhones. However, although we were able to establish our company's leading position in the tablet industry, and even the industry standard, before other manufacturers launched tablets, the sales of iPhones slowed down a bit. ”
Wen Ming frowned and looked at the report, which showed that the global sales of iPhones had successfully exceeded 35 million units, and the speed had slowed down compared to when it was first released.
However, given that the iPhone is a brand new mobile phone product, it will take some time to build user trust, and having those who have already purchased the iPhone help Apple establish its reputation.
This slowdown is perfectly acceptable, and it can even be said that it is this slowdown that will allow the iPhone to remain the best-selling phone in the world in the coming months.
"In addition to the fact that parts such as processors have to be fixed standards, you can't choose two suppliers."
Wen Ming put forward his own opinion: "Similar to batteries, gyroscopes and other parts, we can add new parts suppliers, as long as they can guarantee our acceptance standards." And the foundry, I think we can also start looking for new ones, we can't just let Foxconn do our foundry, they can't keep up with us now. ”
Peter nodded and said, "Boss, we also mean the same, after this period of investigation, we have selected 17 new parts suppliers, as well as foundries. However, if we increase the number of suppliers and foundries, then our costs will increase because the amount of orders from the same supplier decreases. ”
"At present, the optimal cost we have calculated is 0.89% higher than the previous standard."
It's like wholesale, there must be a difference between the wholesale price of buying 1,000 pieces and buying 10,000 pieces.
For this, Wen Ming didn't mind at all.
"Sales volume represents how many markets we occupy, and even before and after our position in the industry. So, the cost of this can be increased. ”
The meeting lasted longer than Wen Ming expected, and although he would find time every day to deal with company affairs, many issues still needed to be discussed and resolved in person.
After the meeting, Wen Ming signed some documents and left Apple in a hurry. His most important goal when he returned to the continental United States this time was to go to Tesla.
Because he has solved the technical problems that Tesla can't solve, this time, it is to apply those technologies to Tesla's electric vehicles, and then make Tesla the leader of the pure electric vehicle industry.
"Lilith, you can help me see when the private jet will be delivered as soon as possible, and help me buy one as soon as possible."
Lilith asked in surprise, "Boss, don't you choose a model yourself?" ”
Wen Ming smiled: "Just buy the most expensive and the best." ”
Lilith: Boss, are you a nouveau riche appropriate? Isn't Apple a high-tech company?