Chapter 42: One Night Back Before Liberation
In the middle of the dream, Xu Cheng was awakened by the sound of discussion in the living room.
Slightly staggered a crack in the bedroom, Xu Cheng found that several of his father Xu Jianghe's colleagues were sitting in the living room, including Xu Jianghe's master Nie Yongjun.
In the past four years, Dad has actually been regarded as a member of his master's Nie Yongjun faction, and Nie Yongjun is in the top level of Jing'an Communications, and it seems that he still holds the position of director.
In the living room, a group of big men are impassioned about what "top products", "industry benchmarks", "national brands", "independent research and development", "breakthroughs in key technical points", "all rely on ourselves"...
Xu Cheng's head hurts when he listens, people in their thirties and forties can't recognize the reality and talk about ideals, and the little money in your hand is enough for you to break through what technology...
If they really want to develop so independently, just a prototype, I'm afraid MP5 will be eliminated.
"Can't you have Motoko and dream again? And the point is... This market entry point is wrong! ”
After they all left, Xu Cheng went to the bedroom and waved the smell of smoke in the house in disgust.
"Dad, is your company going to make MP3s?"
Xu Jianghe nodded, "What's wrong?" Woke you up? ”
Xu Cheng shook his head and sat on the sofa to chat with Xu Jianghe.
"Dad, how much will you be able to produce this? Send me a few, and in a few days I have several classmates who have birthdays, and I will take them to them. ”
Xu Jianghe smiled, "A few days? Production is as simple as you think, it will be produced, and it will take months just to design it. ”
"Huh? It's been so long, isn't this thing already made abroad, why do you still need to design it, take apart their foreigners' products, and then reassemble the components to change the shell. ”
Xu Jianghe glanced at him, "What does a child understand?" The kind of thing that does not have its own characteristics and advantages is made, will anyone buy it? ”
Xu Cheng thought for a while, "Yes, isn't cheap the biggest feature?" If you replace the components in the MP3 with some other models and lower the price, this is a very good advantage! ”
After a pause, Xu Cheng continued, "And... Dad, in fact, I thought about it, we poor students don't care about the sound quality or anything, we just think it's very cool to hold this thing, it's very pretend, as long as it's cheap enough, we will definitely choose to buy it! ”
It is very important to grasp the entry point of the market, like Haier Zhang Ruimin studied why summer is the off-season for washing machine sales, and later found that everyone had few clothes in summer, washing machines cost water and electricity, and no one used them, Zhang Ruimin directly found the market entry point, and launched a small washing machine that saves electricity and water, which is specially used to wash small clothes such as underwear and stockings, and it really sold out.
In the MP3 industry, the main focus of the later moonlight treasure box is the first-hand cost performance, to put it bluntly, it is cheap, and the market entry point of cheap is hard, and it has played a piece of domestic production.
After listening to Xu Cheng's words, Xu Jianghe's eyes were half-squinted, and a flash of inspiration flashed in front of him.
Cheap is the biggest feature?
How do you feel about what this kid said... There's a little bit of truth to that...
But adults still like to be hard-mouthed, "What do you know as a child, even if it is hardware integration, you need to consider circuit design, DAC decoding chip, power supply... It's a whole set of things, and there's also the problem of sourcing and grinding components..."
Xu Cheng scratched his head, "Oops, I don't understand what you're talking about, Dad, but I think the hardware in it or something, go to buy from other manufacturers, and in the end, you will integrate it, it must be much easier than making it yourself... As long as you can buy a working MP3 for very little money, this cost-effective product will definitely be bought by our students! ”
Xu Cheng peed, slipped back to the bedroom to sleep, and left Xu Jianghe alone in the living room.
"Cost-effective? That's a good word..."
Although I feel that Xu Cheng is messing around, he is easy to be confused by the authorities, and this kid just thinks from the perspective of users.
Cheap electronics? Have we been thinking in the wrong direction?
Compared with the production of high-precision products, with cheap... Oh no, it seems easier and easier to open the market with cost-effective electronics, especially the Dragon Country market...
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Next.
Xu Cheng received a call from NetEase, where someone told him that the number of users of "16 URL Navigation" has continued to soar these days, and Xu Cheng needs to make up the payment for them.
That's the case, when he was just about to start 16 URL navigation, Xu Cheng found a very embarrassing problem, as we all know, the three basic elements of a website are: domain name, server, program.
So the problem is, Xu Cheng obviously can't afford the server, even if in the early 2000s, a large number of domestic Internet companies went bankrupt, and second-hand servers were sold all over the sky, Xu Cheng couldn't afford it.
Fortunately, there was a very nice thing at that time, many large factories launched conscience services, providing netizens with virtual space for servers for free, such as NetEase, Sohu, Sina, and other royal three, will divide their large servers into multiple virtual spaces with independent domain names and complete hosting functions.
The size is 20M, most of the time, 20M is enough for you to prostitute for nothing, but a few times, like Xu Cheng is now, 20M is no longer enough.
16There are currently more than 100,000 users in the web navigation, Xu Cheng has to pay some money to NetEase, but it's not expensive, 300 yuan only, it's a year, and the pocket money he usually saves is prepared for this moment.
Buckle the butt of the piggy bank, count the yuan inside, open the Xinhua dictionary, take out the ticket sandwiched inside, even the steel hammer with change, full of counting, 312 yuan 7 mao 5, just enough to pay this...
Years of savings were emptied in an instant, and Xu Cheng's wallet was dried back to before liberation overnight.
It's very uncomfortable!
Raising this website is like raising a daughter, throwing money into it, throwing energy into it, and there is no income at all halfway, just waiting to be married by Brother Du, and the sky-high dowry.
"If only it could be just enough for advertising..."
It's a pity that Xu Cheng doesn't have a reasonable bank card source, so he can only miss this big piece of cake in vain.
asked NetEase for a remittance information, and Xu Cheng went out with a thick pile of 300 yuan.
Although he is a minor, he can also send money, fill out the remittance form and pay in cash, the service staff at the counter is very surprised and keeps asking.
"Kid, who are you sending money to?"
Xu Cheng replied without blushing and heartbeat, "To my uncle who works in the field, he has no money outside alone, and my parents are busy at work, so let me come over." ”
This set of reasonable answers immediately dispelled the suspicions of the counter.
How could such a cute and sensible child lie?
Xu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, once they felt that they had been deceived by someone and started to investigate, things would be in trouble.
Finally, I got a receipt from the post office, and double-checked the name and amount again, and it was done.
Compared with the later direct transfer of WeChat message and Fortune Treasure, it is indeed a lot of trouble.
Coming out of the post office, there was a lot of traffic at the door, bustling, Xu Cheng suddenly found a familiar figure in the crowd, although the sense of presence was extremely low, but it was still captured by him.
Small size, wide school uniform, jet-black hair, and a pair of touching peach blossom eyes.
"Yu Yu? What is she doing here alone? ”
Let's follow along...