I don’t know since when, coming to the capital once a year for a press conference has become a must-have for Bai Yongxiang.
At first he had no confidence, so he just sold dreams with Yao Yuan, shouted passionate slogans, and built a golden body for himself. But the more he shouted about dreams, he became involved in them without realizing it, and the fake ones became real.
Meizu has gone through two generations of phones and is now in its third generation.
Bai Yongxiang's transformation has been successful. His vision and structure are completely different. Even his demeanor has become calm and reliable, just like the few hairs on his head.
He arrived in the capital in the evening, had a meal and rested, and it was already 10 o'clock in the evening.
He had no intention of resting because he knew that Yao Yuan would definitely come over overnight - this man always had unlimited energy at work.
"Dong dong dong!"
At 10:30, the customary three knocks on the door rang.
He went over to open the door, and there were Yao Yuan and Cheng Wei outside. Yao Yuan came up and gave him a big hug, saying with a smile: "Old Bai, you and I are like the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on both sides of the Milky Way, we meet once a year!"
"This is a terrible example. Who is the Cowherd and who is the Weaver Girl?"
Bai Yongxiang also smiled.
"The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl don't know, but the cow is here anyway!"
Cheng Wei suddenly poked his head out and made a cow horns gesture, which made the two of them laugh. If the three rookie candidates had seen it, they would have been in admiration. This action alone represents at least five years of skill!
I have had two experiences and everyone seems to be comfortable with it.
After chatting for a while, Bai Yongxiang took out two mobile phones, yes, two.
One is Meizu 3.
In terms of names, several senior executives were undecided about choosing between Meizu 3 and Meizu 2s.
Because they are more confident now and are not as timid as they were at the beginning, they think that the new phone still has no breakthrough in design. It is just an upgrade of software and hardware, and it cannot perfectly present the "small circle breathing light" that Yao Yuan said. Sorry to call it Meizu.
3.
In the end, it was Yao Yuan who made the final decision. It doesn’t matter what it is called. This generation has not made a breathing lamp. The next generation should work hard.
He had seen the prototype before, and this one was the finished product. He carefully took it out of the packaging box and held it in the palm of his hand. The biggest impression was that it had become bigger.
The first generation screen was 4 inches, the second generation screen was 5 inches, and the third generation screen has reached 4 inches.
Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260 dual-core processor, frequency 5G Hz, rear 8-megapixel camera, 1GB memory, 4GB capacity, supports up to 32GB capacity expansion...
“Updated too quickly!”
Bai Yongxiang fought on the front line and felt the deepest feeling, saying: "Last year, only mid-to-high-end machines could use 1G Hertz processors. Just one year later, dual-core processors came out.
The four major mobile phone chip manufacturers have all produced dual-core chips. Samsung and HTC already have dual-core finished phones, and the 4S that Apple is about to launch is said to be dual-core.
It seemed like everything was turned upside down overnight.
Meizu 2 was still a mid-to-high-end configuration last year, but this year it has become a mid-to-low-end configuration. If you don’t install an 8-megapixel camera, you will be embarrassed to take it out... But it is also a good thing. The price of our supply chain has dropped.
The cost can also be reduced a little bit.”
"Hey, apart from Apple, how much money can mobile phone vendors around the world make from mobile phones?"
Yao Yuan played with Meizu 3 and tried it after turning it on. The gaming experience was even better. The 99 series APPs were neatly pre-installed, and the Meizu store directly blocked WeChat.
The obvious change is that the technical support provided by 360 has a serious "mobile phone butler".
"What's going on with other manufacturers?"
"Like a hungry wolf!"
Bai Yongxiang used an adjective and said: "Operators' contract machine subsidies continue to increase. ZTE, Huawei, Coolpad, Lenovo, Gionee, Tianyu, etc. are all gearing up to do something big in the second half of the year."
"Are they all thousand-yuan machines?"
"They can only make thousand-yuan phones, but they can't make good phones at all. Oh, by the way, OPPO and vivo have great ambitions and want to launch their own flagship smartphones."
"Good fellow, troubled times are coming!"
Yao Yuan listened to the names of these manufacturers, as well as the overseas giants Samsung and HTC that had already entered the market. Starting from this year, all major players have entered the market.
Everyone will fight from the blue ocean to the red ocean and fight until ten years from now.
Immediately afterwards, Yao Yuan looked at the second mobile phone. This one was a prototype - Meizu's newly established sub-brand, Meizu!
Meizu 1 has sold just over 3 million units, and Meizu 2 has sold 3.8 million units so far. The sales volume of a single model is unmatched, second only to Apple. The sales of individual models of other manufacturers are not as good, but they have many models and the total sales volume is considerable.
Meilan came into being, one to fill in the style, and the other to sink into the thousand-yuan phone market.
The next two years were when thousand-yuan phones were most popular. China Cool Alliance produced a bunch of crappy phones, but they raked in a lot of money from carrier subsidies.
Meizu’s positioning has been made clear and it is impossible to cut prices any further.
Then let Mei Lan take over.
Probably the relationship between Xiaomi and Redmi...
According to data from 2022: Apple can earn 1,456 yuan from selling an iPhone, followed by Huawei with 426 yuan and Samsung with 262 yuan.
Vivo can earn 55 yuan, OPPO earns 48 yuan. Xiaomi is the worst, losing 22 yuan on selling a mobile phone...
This data is not necessarily accurate, but it can explain some problems.
Xiaomi's impact on the high-end market is not ideal, and users' impression of it is its cost-effectiveness. Huawei started out with bad phones, but later successfully launched high-end phones, which can only be called awesome.
In other words, Huawei is the only domestically produced high-end machine that is relatively recognized by users - and of course it is criticized a lot.
Yao Yuan chose Xiaomi's route when he started, and he will inevitably face the same problem in the future.
At this moment, he unceremoniously left a dozen mobile phones for gift giving as usual, saying: "Don't worry about the press conference. I am both familiar with it. I want to promote WeChat now, which can also give a lot of promotion to mobile phones."
resource.
There is currently a program called "The Voice of China", and you can be the exclusive sponsor and I guarantee you will not lose money."
"good!"
Bai Yongxiang nodded. He didn't understand entertainment. Anyway, Mr. Yao was right.
"How is overseas sales going?"
"We have sent people to Europe, America, East Asia, and Southeast Asia to set up branches and are in various discussions. You know, this is not something that can be accomplished overnight."
Meilan plans to debut at the end of the year or early next year.
Based on their current accumulation, the two of them unanimously regarded the next-generation phone, Meizu 4, as the first flagship phone.
Unconsciously, the conversation lasted until late at night, and it was time for Yao Yuan to say goodbye. He looked at the time and said with a smile: "Lao Bai, can you predict how much sales the third-generation phone will have?"
"With our configuration and price, it will definitely explode..."
Bai Yongxiang thought for a while and said very confidently: "I think at least there is... Hey, why don't we write it on paper and see if we have a clear understanding?"
"sure!"
Yao Yuan loved playing this kind of little game, so he immediately tore up two pages of paper, wrote each one, and handed it to Cheng Wei.
"Mr. Yao and Mr. Bai are worthy of being partners for many years, and they both want to go together!"
Cheng Wei said casually and opened the paper. There was a big number written on it: 6 million+!