Chen Xiao said that Changtian Technology is also fast. Of course, he means that Changtian Technology will soon make a FMCG mobile phone that is better than Apple.
Wang Xiang is also looking forward to this day, but he is still very happy to say: "Fortunately, our hardware, cameras, and batteries are widely used in iPhone 4S, so Apple mobile phones are selling well, and our Changtian Technology's profits are also
Very high.”
What Wang Xiang said is not wrong at all, but if we only look at profits, the profits obtained by Changtian Technology are less than 1/3 of Apple's total profits.
Because Apple designed the iPhone 4S mobile phone, both the added value of Apple’s mobile phone brand and the majority of the overall profits of the mobile phone itself have been taken away by Apple.
Starting from Apple mobile phones, a profit chain has been formed to complete the mobile phone industry. The brand side takes the big share and others take a small amount. This highlights the importance of mobile phone brands.
This phenomenon started with Apple and finally expanded infinitely in the Android camp.
After all, there is only one Apple, and it uses a closed operating system, so it is not comparable.
But in the era before Chen Xiao was reborn, most Android phones used Qualcomm chips, Samsung storage, Samsung and LG or BOE screens, Sony cameras, etc.
You can buy these mobile phone hardware from Xiaomi and Huawei. You can also buy mobile phones from Vivo and OPPO.
However, Xiaomi may only sell a mobile phone with the same hardware for 2,999 yuan, but Huawei and Samsung can sell it for 5,000 or even 6,000 yuan, making Xiaomi’s profit huge.
This is the importance of mobile phone brands.
As the iPhone 4S is selling like hotcakes around the world, Apple's stock price has once again hit a new high in the U.S. stock market, with a total market value of nearly $400 billion.
Nokia has suffered huge losses for several consecutive years, and its market value has shrunk to 30 billion US dollars.
The number one mobile phone brand in the world in terms of sales last year was Apple, and there is no doubt that Apple is also the brand with the lowest mobile phone sales this year.
Samsung has begun to launch its flagship series to compete with Apple, and Nokia can no longer be ranked.
Once an established company in the feature phone era and smartphone 1.0 era, Nokia has fallen.
Let’s not talk about Nokia’s share of the global market. Even in Nokia’s headquarters in Finland, its share has dropped from 76% a few years ago to less than 30%.
One week after the iPhone 4S was officially sold, the credit rating agency Fitch lowered Nokia's debt rating from "BBB+" to "BBB-", which is one notch away from being in line with junk status.
On November 23, 2011, Nokia Siemens announced that it would lay off 17,000 employees worldwide by the end of 2013. This basically eliminated all employees in Nokia’s mobile phone terminal department.
This is also Nokia's last self-rescue method, hoping to ensure the normal operation of the company through layoffs. If the liabilities from the price reduction continue to worsen after the layoffs, Nokia may file for bankruptcy or be sold next.
On November 26, 2011, Nokia applied to delist from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Ollila was not wrong at all, at the Nokia board meeting in November 2011.
Ollila officially steps down as CEO of Nokia.
The new CEO's approach is even more extreme than Ollila's.
Nokia officially gave up the Symbian system, which it had been extremely optimistic about and invested a lot of money in, and instead cooperated with Microsoft. Both parties jointly studied the Windows phone system.
Microsoft and Nokia expect that next year, in 2012, they will launch a very advanced mobile phone with wp8 system, and believe that this mobile phone can surpass the current number and huge number of Android phones and launch an impact on Apple.
Except for Chen Xiao, no one in this world can look at problems from God's perspective.
Therefore, whether it is Microsoft or Nokia, they have no idea whether the wp8 system, which has spent a lot of time, energy and money to develop, can gain a firm foothold in the mobile phone market and whether it can launch an impact on HTC and Apple.
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It’s hard to say what will happen next year, but at least Nokia, the once dominant player of the generation, is gradually withdrawing from users’ horizons.
At this time, in the United States, both users, Wall Street capital, and relevant departments in the United States have discovered some problems.
American mobile phone users suddenly discovered that overseas mobile phones are much cheaper than American mobile phones, so why not ask overseas friends or intermediaries to help purchase them, and then send the mobile phones to the United States by mail?
Where there are transactions, there will be business. More and more American users are looking for scalpers to buy overseas versions of ip4s.
Those Chinese students in the United States had good resources. They quickly contacted their domestic students and asked them to buy the iPhone 4S at a lower price from the Apple Experience Store in Xia.
Xia Guo students will earn handling fees ranging from 500 to 1,000 RMB for each mobile phone. These mobile phones are sent across the ocean to the United States by mail.
After arriving in the United States, the price of a Xia version iPhone 4S phone was only about 6,000 yuan equivalent to RMB. This is far lower than the price in the United States (equivalent to RMB 7,000 yuan).
The most critical reason is that the number of local versions of iPhone 4S in the United States is already limited——
Because Pascal Company's hardware production is insufficient (Changtian Technology Hardware Company will first meet the needs of the Asian market, some quotas and excess hardware will be sent to France to be packaged into Pascal Company's hardware, and Pascal Company's hardware will first meet the demand of the Asian market.
After the assembly and sales of iPhone 4S mobile phones in Europe, the remaining parts will be sent to the United States), so the number of iPhone 4S mobile phones on the American market is originally very small.
These mobile phone resources are not taken away by scalpers.
This has resulted in the iPhone 4S being expensive and out of stock in Apple experience stores in the United States, and they can only purchase local phones priced as high as 8,000 or even 9,000 RMB from the local scalpers market in the United States.
So after all this time, the iPhone S4 mobile phones that flowed from the Xia market to the US market through irregular channels are about 350 yuan cheaper than the mobile phones in the US domestic market, which is equivalent to about 2000~3000 yuan in RMB.
In this way, the scalpers in Xia will make money, and the scalpers in the United States will also make money selling iPhones made in Xia.
Some scalpers in Xia State made a fortune of more than 100,000 and 200,000 a month through this method.
This phenomenon has also aroused the curiosity of the media. Some media went to the largest Apple experience store in the country to interview some scalpers who were stationed at the door.
Reporter: "Brother, I see you are young, but you stay here every day."
Perhaps because he made too much money, the scalper also answered the reporter's question very excitedly: "Even though I am young, I have been doing this for seven or eight years."
"I used to work in Huaqiangbei and tried every means to bring foreign mobile phones such as Nokia and Samsung to Xiaguo and sell them to our domestic consumers at high prices."
"How have times changed now?"
"I never thought we would buy these mobile phones in China and sell them to overseas consumers."
The reporter asked again: "Are you just selling mobile phones to overseas consumers? Are you not selling them to domestic consumers at a high price?"
The scalper said with some helplessness: "Many of Apple's foundries are in our Xia country, and the key components used by Apple are also produced in our Xia country, so the quantity of iPhone 4S mobile phones in our Xia country is sufficient."
"Ordinary consumers can buy affordable mobile phones directly from Apple's experience center. Why would they buy it from us scalpers?"
The scalper finally said emphatically: "We only make money from Americans, not our own people."
It seems that saying this also expresses his noble sentiments.
Some reporters couldn't help but laugh, but they also expressed some emotion. With the development of national science and technology, especially the rapid development of Changtian Technology, the gap between domestic and foreign countries in high-end fields such as mobile phones has become smaller and smaller. Even in some domestic mobile phone hardware, there are still some problems.
Occupied a huge advantage.
Wall Street capital and relevant departments in the United States saw another problem.
At the beginning of this year, after the hearing, many capitals on Wall Street lobbied the relevant departments in the United States to introduce relevant regulations.
Any products of Changtiantian Technology, including products and parts, are prohibited from being sold in the U.S. market in any form.
After the relevant regulations were promulgated, both Apple and other American technology companies have indeed complied with the regulations.
But more than half a year has passed, and the semiconductor products of brands such as Samsung, LG, Sony, Toshiba and Kingston Weiguang of the United States, which were driven out of the market by Changtian Technology, are still struggling and have not quickly occupied the market.
Changtian Technology's hardware products still occupy an important share of the world's computers and mobile phones.
After analysis by relevant departments in the United States and Wall Street, they discovered that Changtian Technology used indirect holdings to jointly establish the French Pascal Company with the French Bouygues Communications Company.
The hardware sold by Pascal Company is exactly the same as the carbon crystal hardware of Changtian Technology in terms of model and performance.
A further in-depth investigation revealed that Tasca Company had not even built a factory. It directly imported Changtian Technology's hardware from Xia, put a brand on it and sold it in France, in order to avoid the outcome of the hearing in the United States.
After receiving such information, the relevant departments in the United States and capitals such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were so angry that they vomited blood.
I think at the beginning of the year, I spent a lot of effort to make the hearing beneficial to myself and even sacrificed some of my own interests to get the result of the hearing. Now it seems that the hearing passed and failed.
Passing makes no difference.
What angers relevant U.S. departments the most are companies such as Apple and HTC.
Apple, in particular, ostensibly raised its hands in favor of the outcome of the hearing, and patted its chest, promising that it would never have any relationship with Changtian Technology.
As a result, we ended up purchasing a large amount of hardware from Changtian Technology.
In regions such as Asia, the hardware of Changtian Technology is directly used, while in regions such as Europe and America, the hardware of Pascal Company is used.
After struggling for a long time, the items are still the same, without any change, and in the hands of American consumers, the prices have increased a lot.
Relevant departments in the United States urgently talked to Apple and asked Apple to explain this.
There is no airtight wall in the world. This day will come sooner or later.
So under the instruction of Jobs, Apple had already prepared a set of rhetoric.
Apple's reply is that Apple has strictly complied with the results of the hearing. The hardware of the iPhone 4S mobile phone that appeared in the US market is the product of Flange Technology Company, not Changtian Technology.
Such a reply made the relevant departments extremely angry, but it had nothing to do with it because the other party was legal and compliant;
There is no way, if there are loopholes in policies and regulations, then the only way is to drive into such loopholes.
However, according to the relevant legal procedures in the United States, if loopholes are discovered, measures are formulated and passed through meetings, and then the loopholes are plugged, it will be the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.
The most critical issue is that this also involves the interests of France.
If Paster's products are banned, will it offend France and affect trade between the two sides?
But when it comes to capital issues, especially those that hurt the interests of the capital behind it, the capital behind it will do whatever it takes to achieve its goals.
All regulations and laws in the United States serve capital.
Therefore, the United States is preparing to use special means such as antitrust, hoping to close the loopholes in the hearing results in a short period of time.
The relevant situation was still exposed by the American media.
"Washington Post": Most of the hardware used in the iPhone 4S comes from the French company Pascal, and Pascal's hardware comes from Changtian Technology, so after the hearing, Apple's hardware did not change in any way.
, but after it reaches consumers, the price is 40% more expensive than abroad.
"Washington Post": Relevant departments are working on formulating relevant policies to fill this loophole.
After this news was announced, Apple fans in the United States were very angry.
"This policy is stupid, right? I said why buying mobile phones in the country where Apple is headquartered is actually hundreds of meters more expensive than overseas ones. It turns out to be this policy."
"What is the use of this policy? Ban Changtian Technology's hardware? Wall Street is indeed happy, but it is our consumers who are hurt."
"Not only is it expensive, but Pascal's hardware production is insufficient, which has resulted in a serious shortage of iPhone 4S mobile phones in the US market, leaving many consumers with no choice but to purchase overseas products at high prices."
American consumers are very impulsive. After receiving such news, they were shocked. Many people came to Apple's headquarters and major experience stores wearing T-shirts with Steve Jobs's face and Changtian Technology logo printed on them.
Demonstration.
Their appeal is that they hope that the relevant departments in the United States will cancel the relevant results of the hearing, so that Changtian Technology's hardware can enter the American market at a lower price, so that the production of Apple mobile phones can be increased and the price will be cheaper.
This kind of news traveled across the ocean and came to Xia State, which made netizens happy.
“Thumbs up for America’s relevant actions.”
"I'm convinced. This is the first time I know that the iPhone 4S in the United States is actually more expensive than the one in China."
"It's so funny that Changtian Technology is really awesome, since it has disturbed the relevant laws of the United States in this way."