"Mr. Fan said this a little bit over? After all, Microsoft has invested a lot in this project, so they will not be unable to see the risks of the market?" Someone expressed his opposition to Fan Wubing's statement.

Fan Wubing said with a smile, "Microsoft has made many mistakes, but everyone is used to promoting their success and deliberately ignores other mistakes. Besides, the investment of billions of dollars is really nothing for Microsoft."

Everyone also felt something was right after hearing this. After all, Microsoft's huge size is an indisputable fact. They are rich and can afford to spend this money and bear this loss.

Microsoft is not always successful, and its development history has had several major failures. The first is that in December 1987, Microsoft cooperated with ib to develop the successor product 2 of -d, and claimed that 2's performance would surpass ind. However, the sales momentum was super good, which eventually led to Microsoft parting ways with ib and abandoning 2 projects, and 2 gradually withdrew from the market.

Secondly, in March 1995, Microsoft released the launch mainly to meet the needs of primary computer users. Although it is very creative, it is too simple. It only explains how to use a computer, but the price is as high as one hundred dollars. It was eliminated without a market.

The third time was in 1997. In February, when Microsoft tried to enter the toy market, the lifespan of the tite, which costs up to $100, was not as popular as that of Ind or I. Microsoft launched the toy called Tite, mainly targeting education, but children obviously have no interest in these toys. Now Microsoft has completely abandoned this expensive toy.

In short, many companies make people see their success but are unwilling to let others see their failures. This makes many people have longing for those big companies, but they don’t know that they have gradually grown into towering trees after experiencing many ups and downs.

But Fan Wubing also said, "This term for information home appliances is quite broad. We cannot just focus on the set-top box and follow Microsoft's baton. In fact, our Fan has also recently developed similar information home appliances, mainly D and other products, as well as some digital products."

Mr. Li from bdl Home Appliances Group Company is quite interested in this, so he thought about asking about the details.

Fan Wubing simply talked about his plans. After all, he has made considerable progress in R&D and can already set up his own business, but he has not expanded much in terms of production capacity for a while. He hopes to become a travel manufacturer and sell mature chips and systems to downstream manufacturers. In this way, the market risks he has to bear will become very small and the profits are indeed quite high.

Therefore, the cooperation between Fan's Investment Group and domestic home appliance manufacturing companies should be a win-win situation, and it is even more important for Fan's Investment Group to become a truly influential large enterprise.

"Of course, this is my idea. It still needs to be seen how far it can go. This market cannot be built in the short term." After talking about the bright prospects, Fan Wubing also mentioned the difficulties he will encounter at the moment.

The development of information home appliances originated from computers. Because information home appliances have similar system structures, operating systems and computers, information home appliances inherit the characteristics of some computer products and have the unique essence of information home appliances.

If computers are a locomotive industry, then information home appliances are an extension industry. Computers are a new locomotive industry that has grown from scratch and then grown from scratch. Information home appliances are an extension industry formed by the maturity of computers, networks and many existing technologies. At this stage, D, the iconic product of the information home appliance industry, is still a smaller computer, and most of the users are computer veterans to extend to portable applications. In other words, d is still limited to the scope of computers and has not expanded to a broader market area for non-computer users.

In addition, computers are independent industries, and information home appliances are dependent industries. Computers have independent and complete functions and can be operated by themselves. The unique appeal of information home appliances is mainly to be able to be used with you at any time. Therefore, the vigorous development of information home appliances must rely on the maturity of broadband communication networks. In the short term, if the mobile broadband communication network has not been fully established, information home appliances will not be better than computers.

"In short, computers are necessities, and information home appliances are non-essentials. Since its launch, computers have become necessities for enterprises and then necessities for families. Therefore, the global computer market will be more than 100 million units this year, and various information home appliance products such as D have not yet become necessities. It is estimated that by three years, the global market size of d will only be 10 million units, and there is still a huge gap with the market size of computers. Before the functions of information home appliances such as D have been able to make breakthroughs to meet the real needs of users, the information home appliance industry will not be able to relax its pace and grow rapidly." Fan Wubing said to everyone.

"Mr. Fan's interest is still on the computer!" Dong Li said with a smile.

It can be seen that Fan Wubing's analysis this time had a relatively large impact on the participants. Many people were considering whether they should conduct a careful investigation and research on this issue? However, some people disagree with Fan Wubing's words, but instead think that Fan Wubing is a bit alarmist. After all, Fan's Investment Group also has a relatively close relationship with Microsoft. It is difficult to say that Fan Wubing speaks like this, not to scare other competitors away? This matter is difficult to say, and it takes time to verify the conclusion.

In fact, the domestic interest in the Venus plan is based on the success of this plan. However, now it seems that many people are deeply doubting whether the Venus-style set-top box products can be accepted by the market. Moreover, most people currently hold this mentality, including the bosses of some domestic home appliance companies that have been strongly supporting Microsoft this time, and they are also waiting and watching.

Many media people even asserted that this type of set-top box product is just a conceptual prototype, just a big pie drawn on paper, and it is impossible to form a market. The simplest reason is that the threshold that affects the domestic network is not the device, but the high network line costs.

China Telecom's tariffs have always been a problem. Although it has been thunders several times and said it will be lowered, there are no obvious substantial changes in reality. Secondly, the number of netizens is not large at present, but the network speed has been difficult to pull a cart, and exports and bandwidth are a realistic bottleneck. If a craze for the national network is set off, the consequences are really unimaginable.

Furthermore, if the resolution of the TV screen is 300 lines, the effect will be very bleak if you want to display ordinary web pages. And it is completely different to let ordinary people change their guns and increase the resolution of the TV. If you cannot surf the Internet normally, the existing network resources will be difficult to use the set-top box, and you can only browse simple web pages tailored for it, which will be difficult to truly attract ordinary people.

Another point is that the key issue in catching the people in the Internet is still content. At present, the development of domestic i is still in the original initial stage. The improvement of this market requires long-term investment and it is impossible to achieve qualitative improvement in just a few years.

The final problem is the price of the product. Due to the relatively large software and the large hardware resources, the cost of the machine is difficult to effectively reduce. For TV users, one or two thousand higher means double the cost. For set-top box products, the price is daunting. After all, the price of domestic personal computers has dropped, and it can be fully configured within 5,000 yuan, and the functions are satisfactory.

Based on various analyses, it is indeed not easy for set-top boxes to succeed in China, but it is still a bit surprised to directly assert that set-top boxes are Microsoft's fault like Fan Wubing.

Others think that what Fan Wubing said is a bit big, but Boss Zhu doesn't think so. After all, he knows very well that the strength of Fan's Investment Group is far greater than that of Microsoft. Fan Wubing's personal value is also far more than Microsoft.

After Fan Wubing and others passed away, Dong Li wanted to take Fan Wubing to drink, but Fan Wubing refused. He and these half-old men basically had no common language, and his precious night time could not be wasted in such a place.

When he gathered with Davis and was about to leave, he found that someone was waiting for his car, the extremely cool Bugatti Veyron.

"Miss Ye hasn't returned to the hotel yet?" Fan Wubing looked at Ye Jiarong who was standing there with two bags in a complicated look, and asked with a gentle smile.

Ye Jiarong nodded awkwardly, and then said, "I originally wanted to go back to the hotel, but I thought that Mr. Fan's clothes were still in my car, so I sent them here. Maybe there was some red wine on the side, so I took advantage of the opportunity just now and went out to buy a set of clothes for Mr. Fan, which should be able to wear."
Chapter completed!