Hu Mingchen originally thought that the key to the future development of IPENG's product was whether the production could keep up with the quality and quantity, but the further it went, the more things were not like this.

Ten days after Hu Mingchen left Zhennan, Nathan Luo, the general manager of the international marketing department, sent Hu Mingchen an email with SOS connotation, in which he told Hu Mingchen a very bad news, that is, the United States did not approve IPENG to enter the American market at all.

Nathan Law is now in the United States, and he has not received a reply before, so he flew over, hoping to move the regulator to give them product release.

However, the U.S. Federal Telecommunications Commission told Nathan Law that the product did not meet the technical specifications of the U.S. side, and they did not say clearly where it did not meet, in short, IPENG was rejected by the world's largest market.

Seeing this email, Hu Mingchen immediately became anxious, and hurriedly called Luo Guancong to inquire.

Hu Mingchen had to be anxious, the North American market is the largest market, and the United States market is the world's largest single market, especially in terms of sales of this electronic product, it is far ahead of other regions. If there is no support from this market, then there is no need to think about it, and the market sales of IPENG will definitely be greatly affected.

"Mr. Luo, have you met the head of the Federal Telecommunications Commission?

"Mr. Hu, I'm very sure that I didn't meet with the chairman of the committee, Mr. Bowell, but I met with the vice chairman Lewis, and he told me that our IPENG has not been verified to be safe, and the technology does not meet the relevant regulations of the United States, and they will not approve it to enter the American market. Nathan Law replied.

"The United States prides itself on being a country governed by the rule of law, and even if it doesn't meet the regulations, it will clearly tell which regulations are not met, how can this be?" said Hu Mingchen with a frown.

"Mr. Hu, internally, the United States is indeed such a country, but when it comes to the outside, it is not exactly like that. What's more, the laws of the United States in all aspects are very complicated, and if we want to enter, they can find the appropriate provisions, but if they want to reject us, they can also find the corresponding provisions, which is not uncommon, and they have been doing this to the whole world for decades. Even if it is a rule they have erected, if it is not in their favor, they may not admit it or overturn it, let alone anything else. Nathan Law said.

Nathan Law previously held the position of senior vice president of an international company, and often traveled back and forth between Europe and the United States, and he still has a deep understanding of the US market.

Of course, the senior vice president of Nathan Luo has dozens of them in that company, don't think that a famous name is the highest level of the company, in fact, outsiders like them can only get infinitely close to the top, and people will not really regard him as their own.

It was precisely because he saw through the other party's hypocrisy that he had no hope of being promoted, so Luo Guancong left the company and turned to Pengbo Electronics.

The reason why people like Nathan Luo are willing to be recruited by a small company like Pengbo Electronics is, on the one hand, the treatment given by the company is indeed good, even if there is still a certain distance from the international salary, but at least it is sincere. On the other hand, it is natural that Nathan Law is interested in IPENG's market progress, in other words, this platform can give him more room to play.

"Then what should I do? You know more about that side than I do, you tell me what to do, is it so helpless?" Hu Mingchen said impatiently.

In addition to impatience, Hu Mingchen's tone also seemed stern. This is not to blame Hu Mingchen, the reason why Pengbo Electronics is willing to hire people like Nathan Luo with high salaries under pressure is to use their international experience to solve problems and open up the market. If they encounter problems and throw them all at him, then they will lose the value of their existence.

"Mr. Hu, it's not exactly, you mentioned before to find a consulting company to help, I have found a well-known consulting company based in New York, and now it's up to them to see if they can help us solve substantive problems, but ...... I have a vague feeling that this will not work. I've dealt with people from the Federal Telecommunications Commission before, and even if they want to get their necks stuck, they use rules to make technical cards, and they don't do it so rudely. So I suspect that Apple is doing the job of deliberately excluding us so that they can monopolize the market. Nathan Law said.

If that's the case, it's a bit beyond Nathan Law's scope.

Regarding the competitive relationship between Apple and Pengbo Electronics, Nathan Luo knows it, so he will have such a judgment.

"You mean to say that it's an artificial threshold, and it's not really a problem that the standards don't meet?"

"That's how it should be, I guess. Although Nathan Law said that he guessed, his firm tone already showed that he was so sure of his judgment.

In fact, it is not only Luo Guancong who judges like this, but Hu Mingchen will ask that, which shows that he basically thinks so.

Because since Glittery left, Hu Mingchen and the others have never received news from Apple. From the perspective of market competition, they were able to persuade the Federal Telecommunications Commission to block the entry of Pengbo Electronics, which was the best way to extract wages.

As long as Pengbo Electronics is blocked from the U.S. market, then even if Hu Mingchen and they take the lead, Apple will still be able to catch up, after all, they have the world's largest single market, as long as they swallow this market, Pengbo Electronics will not be able to develop that overwhelming advantage.

On the contrary, if Apple dominates the U.S. market, they can take advantage of the sales and profit advantages formed by this market, so as to counterattack Pengbo Electronics' first-mover advantage.

They can invest more money in technological improvement and development, they can use the advantage of scale to reduce costs, and maybe in a year or two, Pengbo Electronics will be crushed in front of Apple's strength, and thus return to its original shape.

Of course, there is also a possibility that the other party is using this means to force Hu Mingchen to compromise on their side, and even accept the other party's cooperation conditions.

No matter what the situation is, Hu Mingchen is not the kind of person who easily admits defeat and relents, and the more pressure he puts on him, the more unwilling he is to give in. finally got such an opportunity, and if he encountered such a little problem, he would push it away, which was not Hu Mingchen's style of doing things at all.

Even Hu Mingchen is like a spring, the greater the pressure, the greater his rebound.

In the process of calling, neither Hu Mingchen nor Nathan Law came up with a good solution.

However, when Hu Mingchen combed through all the information about the international market sent to him by Nathan Luo earlier, he found a problem.

In this email, Nathan Law told Hu Mingchen that they had contacted AT&T's commercial market group, and at the beginning, this AT&T subordinate commercial market group expressed a strong interest in IPENG, but the company also gave Pengbo Electronics a problem, they were willing to cooperate with Pengbo Electronics to help IPENG's sales in the US market, but asked Pengbo Electronics to reduce the shipping price by $100.

At that time, Hu Mingchen refused this unreasonable request from AT&T without thinking about it.

Although AT&T is the largest telecommunications operator in the United States, and its seven groups have a turnover of more than $100 billion a year, Hu Mingchen cannot succumb to the power of the other party because of his size.

What's more, Hu Mingchen adopts a price strategy for the European and American markets, once he agrees to reduce the price of AT&T, then he must also reduce the price for other customers, otherwise it will trigger a violent rebound, which will affect the layout of the main topic.

Moreover, the price reduction of 100 US dollars, this range is too large, which is basically equivalent to 40 to 50% of the profit of IPENG products, once the price is really reduced, then the profit of Pengbo Electronics will decline sharply, there is no huge profit, then the latter investment in research and development can only be seriously reduced.

In addition, regarding the price of IPENG, Hu Mingchen has publicly said at the Xinping press conference, if the product has not been listed, the price will be greatly adjusted, which will make consumers misunderstand that there is a problem with their quality, if there is no problem, why should the price be greatly reduced, from high-end machines to mid-range machines.

Once there is a groove somewhere, then the development strategy of Pengbo Electronics will be profoundly affected, and even this impact will be reflected from the international market to the domestic market.

Hu Mingchen will not put Pengbo Electronics in danger because of an unreasonable request from AT&T.

So after Hu Mingchen thought about this information again, he had doubts about his previous judgment.

Maybe it's not necessarily Apple's ghost, although Apple is also a big company, but now is not ten years later, ten years later, Apple is indeed a giant as the world's most valuable company, but now, it does not have that scale, and its influence is still relatively limited.

In addition, Hu Mingchen analyzed the following Jonas's personality, he doesn't seem to do such dirty things, just like Glittery said, Jonas is an entrepreneur, not a businessman, maybe further, this guy can be regarded as an artist.

After thinking of this link, Hu Mingchen immediately told Luo Guancong about his new speculation, and asked him to find a way to verify and implement it from the side.

Three days later, Nathan Law gave Hu Mingchen information feedback.

"Mr. Hu, you guessed it, it was indeed AT&T that got in the way, not Apple, and I blamed me for being too negligent, why didn't I think of this possibility, if you want to say that the influence on the Federal Telecommunications Commission, five Apples are not as good as AT&T, they are the real predators. Nathan Luo called Hu Mingchen to report.

"Guessed right, guessed right, but...... It's also more cumbersome. If it was Apple, maybe it would be easier to do, but now it's such a Big Mac, I'm afraid we really can't bear it. Hu Mingchen was not happy that he had found the problem, but became more worried.

"Mr. Hu, maybe this is also a good thing, their commercial market group didn't ask us to cut the price by $100, if we can properly meet their requirements, we should be able to enter the North American market." Nathan Law is optimistic.