Li Wanyi stayed in the capital for two and a half days. After having lunch with Wei Qingchan, Wei Qinghuan and others at noon on the 3rd, she flew back to Xiamen in the afternoon.
Li Miaoyu probably wanted to give Wei Qingfan and Li Wanyi some time alone, so he didn't follow them this time.
"The Spring Festival will be here soon, and we can meet again then..."
In the hall, Wei Qingfan held Li Wanyi's hand and comforted her softly, but Li Wanyi didn't seem to need it. She glanced at him, then curled her lips and said, "I don't want to see you."
"But I want to see you."
Wei Qingfan smiled, squeezed her soft and tender palm, and said with a soft smile: "Wanwan, marry me as soon as possible."
Li Wanyi turned her head and stared at him with her clear and charming eyes for a while, then pursed her lips, looked away, and said in a somewhat arrogant tone: "Is this how you propose?"
"Form is not important, emotion is important."
Wei Qingfan held her hand, put it to his mouth and kissed it gently, "When I get home during the Spring Festival, I'll tell my family and see what the procedures are..."
Li Wanyi thought for a while, turned to look at him again, and said softly: "Let me think about it again."
Wei Qingfan smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll ask again in a few days."
Li Wanyi lightly slapped him on the arm, then leaned over, gently leaned on his shoulder, and whispered: "Your phone is now ready, do you still have to wait until March 3rd to release it?"
"Um."
Wei Qingfan nodded and sighed: "It's just the first batch of tests, there will be several more batches to come... Let's start with the cleanup, I will definitely get it, and the next step is to make sure every step is taken."
In terms of first-mover advantage, Xiaomi can't actually talk about it, and the same goes for Meizu, because Meizu is a small factory from the beginning to the end, and the real "first mover" is HTC.
In its original history, HTC was once the world's second largest smartphone manufacturer, and probably within the next two or three years, it even surpassed Apple in terms of market share in Apple's home base, and its market value also surpassed Nokia, becoming second only to Apple.
The world's second largest mobile phone manufacturer.
It is such a seemingly prosperous brand that is dying step by step during the expansion period when smartphone shipments are increasing every year.
The reasons for this are very complicated. On the one hand, HTC does not want to make progress and relies on first-mover advantage to rise. It only has first-mover advantage from beginning to end and does not have any core competitiveness. On the other hand, in terms of brand strategy... it is really cerebral palsy, such as
The widely circulated saying that "first-class products are supplied to Europe and the United States, second-class products are supplied to ourselves, and third-class products are supplied to the mainland" is more serious discrimination against the mainland than the Samsung Note7 explosion incident.
There are actually voices within the company that want to release the product earlier. After all, there are not many competitors right now. An earlier release will help capture the popularity and market. However, Wei Qingfan suppressed them all.
In the early stages of the development of Guci mobile phones, the after-sales service will definitely not be able to keep up. In this case, Wei Qingfan can only try his best to improve the quality and make the mobile phones as problem-free as possible.
For him, at the current stage, quality and output are more important than releasing one or two months earlier.
After all, according to the historical process, Xiaomi, the early rival, has not been established yet, it seems that it was in April.
By then, the first generation of Guci mobile phones will have been released, and it is still unknown whether Xiaomi can become Xiaomi.
However, the next few years will be a period of rapid expansion of the smartphone market. Xiaomi will always stick to the cost-effective route and can always capture one-third of an acre...
After the incremental market turns into a stock market, it is the decisive moment!
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While Wei Qingfan and Li Wanyi were chatting, three middle-aged men were standing on the roadside next to the Ancient Poetry Company in Zhongguancun, blowing the cold wind.
"Why did you stop here?"
Lin Bin got out of the car and asked Lei Jun who suddenly stopped the car a little strangely.
Li Wanqiang also got out of the car and said, "Parking is prohibited here, don't get fined."
"Leaving right away."
Lei Jun pointed to a floor in the building next to him, "On the 11th floor, that ancient poetry company is right there."
Lin Bin took out a box of green panda cigarettes, handed one to Lei Jun and Li Wanqiang respectively, and said with a smile: "What are they doing?"
"Hey, Brother Lin is so generous, even the big green cat is willing to give up?"
Li Wanqiang took the order, took a sip, and said, "That's right, I've already decided, so let's give it a try! At worst, I can go back to work for someone else."
"It's a bit emotional."
Lei Jun also lit a cigarette, took a breath, and then sighed, "We are too slow. Others are walking our way faster than us... It's a pity that the Meizu side didn't work out..."
"That person named Huang has such abilities and structure. If we all pass, he must not be afraid that we will take away his power?"
Lin Bin sneered, "If you ask me, it would be a good thing for us to do it on our own, at least to avoid internal intrigues... This kind of person can only say: There is no way to achieve great things!"
"You're not afraid over there, only the guy upstairs is afraid!"
"Didn't I say before that I'm still a student? I'm just a young boy. My family has some money, so I'll just run out and make a fuss."
"It's not like...this kid is quite stable."
Lin Bin shook his head, "I've talked to me twice. Frankly speaking, if I hadn't made the deal with you, I would have been a little moved, but I'm really too young and I don't have any confidence."
Li Wanqiang asked: "Brother Lin, why did Wei Wei come to you...how did he recruit people? Why is it so difficult for us to recruit people?"
Lin Bin said with a smile: "They recruit people directly and pay them wages. Even if the business fails, the wages of real money will at least be reduced. We have to draw a pie. It's different. If you lose, your work will be in vain. Of course, there are only a few people who are willing to come.
"
“Where there is a will, there is a way! This is not a gain or loss for one city or one place!”
Lei Jun took a long breath, stamped out the cigarette butt, and said: "Let's go, continue to find someone to talk to. Let's talk more while we are free during the holidays!"
"Big green cat, you finished sucking it so quickly?"
Li Wanqiang sighed and returned to the car to continue his entrepreneurial journey.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! A few days ago, on Lei Jun’s 40th birthday on December 16, Lei Jun expressed his idea of starting an independent business after being explicitly rejected by Carpenter Huang.
Many friends opposed and discouraged it, but a few people expressed support. Lin Bin and Li Wanqiang were all supporters and the original core backbone.
But at this time, there was only determination, no funds, no team, no office location, not even a company name.
The name "Red Star" has been mentioned, but it may not be convenient to use, and no preparation has been discussed yet.
Lei Jun mainly targets two people, Motorola in terms of hardware, and Google in terms of software. He has been trying to poach these two companies, but so far he has achieved very little.
There are so many companies starting up these days. Even though Lei Jun is a well-known figure in the industry, he just wants to fool people into quitting their good jobs and coming to burn their boats with you. Why?
Everyone knows that you can make a lot of money if you win in gambling, but everyone also knows that the probability of success is too low. In Beijing, let alone every month, a lot of startups die every day.
You are a small domestic team with no money and no technology. If you want to make a mobile phone, what are the chances of success?
If you lose, do you give the wife the money, or do you raise the wife and children?
The three of them divided the work and cooperated, and encountered many obstacles during this period, especially Lei Jun, who had been rejected countless times during this period.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
Wei Qingfan didn't know this, and he wouldn't react if he knew it. Who doesn't have a hard time starting a business? Even if he was a cheater, had the foresight, had the start-up capital, and had the right candidates, he would still be busy all day long.
He sent Li Wanyi away, and on the way back he received a call from Li Miaoyu, saying that he went out to play with Xie Yao.
Her roommates, Tang Shuyun, Sun Xiao, and Wu Jiajia, are all preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination. All three of them are planning to try to study abroad, so they have to prepare more, and they have also made a review schedule together.
Li Miaoyu usually studies hard, but compared to these three people, she still pales in comparison. She doesn't even have much rest time during the New Year's Day holiday.
She complained about her three roommates on the phone, and Wei Qingfan accompanied her for a while. After returning home, she played with the cats and dogs for a while, then sat in front of the computer and continued to think about her follow-up plans.
For the long-term development of a company, systems are very important. Today's ancient poetry has not yet reached that level, but Wei Qingfan still wants to make preparations in advance.
He has many system models of the company in his mind, and what he is conceiving at this time is the rank system.
He has been thinking about this for a while, and is initially planning to divide it into nine levels of technical and management categories, but the specific grades, positions, and salaries have not yet been considered.
Li Miaoyu was eating out in the evening, but Wei Qingfan did not go over to her. He went back to the school cafeteria to have a meal, then picked up Li Miaoyu, sent her to school for self-study, and picked her up again in the evening.
The situation has become more clear, and he was a little bit ready to make a move at night, but Li Miaoyu was very alert and gave a warning, and then returned to the room early, not giving him any opportunity to take advantage of it.
Wei Qingfan did not force her and continued to sleep alone. She got up the next morning, walked the dog together, bought breakfast, and then sent her to school before heading to the company.
"Good morning, Mr. Wei~"
"Morning~"
When we arrived at the company at early eight o'clock, many people had already arrived. Wei Qingfan said hello and came to his office. As soon as he sat down, Zhang Yuanping came in.
He placed a test machine on Wei Qingfan's desk and said, "It's yours."
Wei Qingfan picked it up and found that it was basically the same as the model on the computer, but due to workmanship issues, the look and feel were much cheaper.
It has a black plastic body and a black panel on the front. It looks slender and simple. It actually looks pretty good, but it feels cheap in the hand.
Wei Qingfan took it in his hand, touched it, then looked at the "Ci" logo on the back, then looked at the Micro-USB interface at the bottom and the headphone jack next to it, clicked his tongue twice, and tried the three buttons again.
, it feels looser in the hand, and also has an obvious sense of cheapness.
Zhang Yuanping knew what he was thinking and sneered: "It's good if you can make it, so don't pick and choose."
"Indeed, at least there are no quality control problems."
Wei Qingfan smiled and said, "There are only ten units in total, so there shouldn't be any quality control problems?"
"That's because the defective parts were thrown away."
Zhang Yuanping sighed, then looked at him and said, "I want to talk to you."
Wei Qingfan nodded, pressed the power button to turn on the phone, and gestured to the chair next to him, asking him to sit down and say.
"Don't you think you are a little too blindly confident now?"
Zhang Yuanping pulled up a chair and sat down, leaning on the back of the chair, looking more like a boss than Wei Qingfan. He frowned and said to him, "Do you think 1999 is cheap?"
Without waiting for Wei Qingfan to answer, he continued: "Compared to the configuration of the mobile phone, it is definitely cheap. I can vouch for this with my head! But!"
He stared at Wei Qingfan, "We are a new brand! And it is a domestic brand... Before this, there was only one domestic mobile phone brand priced at 2,000 that could sell in volume, Meizu!
"Other brands, they sound nice, but what about China Cool Alliance... What do they sell? It comes with prepaid phone bills and is not tied to an operator. How many people are willing to buy it?
"Let me put it bluntly, it's all rubbish!"
After he spoke, his tone was a little excited, and he seemed to realize it, and then he took a breath and stopped talking temporarily.
Wei Qingfan had long been used to it. He sighed and said with a smile, "It's more than enough!"
Zhang Yuanping was a little confused, and Wei Qingfan explained with a smile: "In my eyes, more than 80% of the mobile phones sold in those billboards on the streets and in those mobile phone stores are garbage."
He looked at Zhang Yuanping, leaned on the back of the chair, put on a posture that looked very impressive, and said calmly: "So, I'm going to make a mobile phone. The reason we make mobile phones is to get these junk products from China.