Chapter 309 Apples Delivered to Your Door
If you think about it carefully, you will know that battery life is not only an urgent need for electric vehicles, but also for any electronic device. The immature durability of mobile phone batteries is a topic that is too old to do.
This also brings countless low-battery phobia. You must bring a power bank when you go out. If you charge it once a day, you will not be able to live... Yang Ming can also understand the barrel effect of battery life on smartphones.
If Apple is working on batteries, they will definitely have the idea to develop this area. However, Yang Ming is mainly engaged in power batteries, and the unit battery is very large, which is different from other electric cars.
Take Tesla as an example. They all use 18650 batteries, which is about the same size as No. 5 battery. The entire battery block consists of seven or eight thousand 18650 batteries.
But for Yang Ming's improved system, a single battery is very large, and the battery block of a car consists of less than a hundred batteries, and its size is larger than that of the big brother.
If you want to apply it to your mobile phone, it will be a bit verbose, the production process requirements are higher, and the cost will be much higher. So Yang Ming did not consider this at the beginning. He wanted to build a larger power battery in the market first.
But now Apple has arrived at the door by itself, so people have to use their brains to think about ways to get more benefits from this meeting.
Who is not doing business for the benefit? Especially this apple is a golden apple!
As of this year, Apple's market value reached a maximum of US$1.1 trillion, which is an unprecedented peak in the US stock market.
Needless to say, Apple's global sales are not the most sold, but its profits are not comparable to those of the latter. Just say that its cash reserves, which have been operating overseas for many years, have exceeded US$280 billion this year.
What does this mean? It is equivalent to 1.8 trillion yuan! The foreign exchange reserves of most countries in the world are not as good as the cash held by Apple!
Among the foreign exchange reserves counted this year, Singapore (US$279.8 billion), which means that if Apple is a country, its foreign exchange can rank among the top ten in the world.
But what’s funny is that because of the tax avoidance policy, Apple can only be kept overseas and dare not take it back to China! Apple, a local American, is also facing the dilemma of having to borrow money to make a living!
Apple, which is so rich that it is full of gold, is now going to come to him to cooperate with him?
After Yang Ming came to his senses, he had already seen the opportunity to take a bite!
This rich man with unprecedented financial strength, this delicious golden apple, is really sorry for the opportunity in his hands without taking a bite!
At the Oriental Club, entertainment until late at night, and after going home to exercise, Yang Ming became clear-headed and the person who had no feelings for him came back: "I know what you want to do!"
Li Wei smiled under him: "I've been sleeping with my baby."
"It has provoked my fire, and now I want to run away irresponsibly!" Yang Ming held her face and kissed her, "Tell me, what do you want to do!"
"It doesn't count if you are perfunctory." She was not satisfied.
"No matter how beautiful a man holds a woman, he is like holding a stone. I can still be so enthusiastic that I have defeated 99% of the world--"
"Looking!" Li Wei took the initiative to kiss her. "There are many ways. The power battery needs to be turned to a small-sized mobile phone battery, which requires funds to develop. We can cooperate and then ask for a lot of prices."
"Let them participate? There is less operational operational operational work." Yang Ming felt.
Li Wei said again: "Or we will pay for this problem ourselves, and then we will clearly ask for cooperation fees and licensing fees with Apple - how much does Apple's battery cost? How much does it cost?"
Yang Ming thought: "I changed it once before, and it costs 600 yuan. It seems that the whole world is the same. Now it is said that it has been reduced a lot. As for the cost, it should be twenty or thirty yuan."
Li Wei checked the phone: "The battery cost is 26 yuan, and it will be charged 600 yuan for each change. After the frequency reduction gate incident, the price was reduced to 218, with a peak profit margin of 2300%, and a minimum of 800%.
After hearing the exact value, Yang Ming couldn't help but sigh: "I never dare to say that my pharmaceuticals make money. Compared with Apple's legal and legitimate robbery, I'm simply a beggar!"
"Apple's technology premium is very high, but now, on the other hand, we have a key trump card in the lead of smartphones, which means we have the right to make market decisions."
With the development of smartphones so far, there are not many highlights. How powerful is this camera today, how big is the screen ratio tomorrow... But these are not obvious features that can open up the watershed.
How to design a mobile phone is not like a bird. The most important thing is whether it is daily use, surfing the Internet, or playing games, its core battery is not strong, and everything is useless!
If a brand can obtain a separate cooperation and the battery capacity is one or two times that of the same type, it will definitely be a killer weapon for other brands!
When the battery capacity is sufficient to suppress the opponent, the other advantages of embellishment are nothing more than ants blocking the cart and cannot pose any threat.
Yang Ming also felt: "Our cost is not low. In addition, the average scientific research cost is hundreds of dollars, so it is not surprising that the battery needs to be worth 1,800 yuan!"
Once Apple replaced the battery after-sales service at 608. Now, if the battery with more powerful ones is coming, it is really not an exaggeration to make a thousand dollars!
As for whether it will affect Apple's pricing strategy and their sales? This is not what Yang Ming needs to care about. Apple, which holds $280 billion, will definitely not worry.
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Yang Ming, who had discussed some preparations all night, went to the meeting in person.
After getting into the Maxwell branch of the Magic City, the employees mainly focused on the two major fields of car manufacturing and power batteries, and were also a little surprised by the arrival of Apple's president.
I never thought that I could see the president of this company with the largest market value, and I never thought that Cook was even more enthusiastic than the boss. I met just by shaking hands and using greetings to learn Chinese.
Yang Ming couldn't quite understand the other party's bulk Chinese, so he communicated in English: "I really welcome Apple and Mr. Cook to visit. I am full of expectations for the cultural friendship between the two companies!"
Cook was also satisfied with the other party's attitude and was enthusiastic: "I want to congratulate you first for being at the forefront of the world in battery technology, allowing pure electric to step into reality faster! This is definitely a great invention, just like a smartphone defining the world!"
"Thank you!" Yang Ming smiled and accepted these praises. He didn't need to be humble to Americans, and they didn't understand anything.
Yang Ming wanted to say it bluntly: "What the outside world can see is only part of it. We have more powerful and advanced technologies. We will expand and use this system to the whole world! We are also committed to investing in and affecting every industry, including the mobile phone field you are involved in!"
Strong confidence and no humility at all are telling Apple people that I can do it and that I can do it, and I know your purpose.
Cook also simply: "Since our two companies are very happy to cooperate, on behalf of Apple's position, we are very much looking forward to the application of your technology on Apple's mobile phones, which will be a strong combination situation!"
Chapter completed!