Chapter 215: The car that will help the owner make money
The PHC ecosystem is formed by a cyclic supply and demand relationship between the platform, developers and consumers. This is a bit complicated. It is as difficult as trying to sue Coastline Company and succeed.
At the press conference, Qiao Wei’s disclosure was very clear. To put it simply, Coastline Company feels that its role is more like a “housing agency”. It will charge commissions from renters (i.e. developers), and it will also charge commissions to people looking for houses.
People (i.e. consumers) recommend properties.
Because of this, Qiao Wei responded to the outside world at the press conference by saying that the real person being sued should be a third-party developer, not Coastline Company and PHC-Store itself. This is also a core argument that Coastline Company is currently emphasizing.
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The consumers who sued Coastline Company, well, Xiaobenzi sued Ye Hua or Coastline Company as a "consumer" this time, so they believe that problems such as commission sharing and excessive prices are all caused by
Due to Coastline Company’s monopoly on the phc-store application ecosystem.
If Coastline allows third-party markets to exist, can others provide developers with a distribution platform with lower commissions than PHC-Store? Can they provide consumers with lower-priced services?
In fact, third-party developer service providers around the world are very dissatisfied with Coastline's 33.3% revenue sharing ratio. It hurts everyone, but there is nothing they can do.
In fact, there is not much point in suing. It is a waste of energy and offends the platform, so everyone has no choice but to accept it. You know, since phc-store plays the role of an "intermediary" and recommends good products to consumers.
what does that mean?
This means that when there are so many applications in the future, the alleys will be deep, and if the "intermediary" Coastline can recommend a wave, then the application may be used by more consumers, which is equivalent to a major
Promotion resources.
On the other hand, if you are not recommended, your app will lose this important channel to push it to consumers, which means you have to spend money to promote it yourself, which in turn means increased investment and operating costs in terms of monetization.
This is nothing. What really scares developers is that phc-store has the power of life and death of third-party applications. As long as it feels that you have violated its rules, it can have n kinds of reasons to remove your application services.
If you use other people's things, you have to be controlled by others. This is a very real problem.
After the topic became heated, it was pushed back and forth and finally pointed at the story of "ecology". In fact, the real reason for people who hate "ecology" is because they are not the owners of this ecosystem, so they hate it.
After talking about "ecology" and wandering here for a long time, the final controversy has returned to the original point, that is, is an open ecosystem better? Or a closed ecosystem?
This kind of dispute that is trying to be settled may not have an answer at all. This dispute has been going on for 20 or 30 years.
Obviously, PHC is a closed ecosystem. Compared to the open ecosystem, the most typical one is the Android platform. Third-party application markets are allowed to exist. Almost every domestic mobile phone manufacturer using the Android system has its own application store, not to mention the
"Invisible in-application ecosystem" such as Tencent WeChat and mini programs exist.
Even Android may have to charge a fee, and there is already a lot of commotion in Europe about Android charging.
So, the ultimate question remains, which one is better, open or closed loop?
Those who support the open ecosystem will say that a typical example is Android, which relies on its openness to gain more than 80% of the world's industry market share, so an open ecosystem is good.
However, those who support closed ecosystems will also say that the lack of unified management has also given rise to more rogue applications, especially the "family bucket" installations that are deeply hated by consumers. In comparison, although PHC applications require a longer and strict review process,
Developers must also accept the 33.3% sharing rule, but it is precisely because of the double closure of Coastline's software and hardware platforms that content can be controlled and many profit models can be derived.
I guess whether open or closed loop is better, I can probably continue to fight each other for twenty or thirty years without any results...
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As soon as the press conference ended, Qiao Wei came to the CEO's office to report on her work.
"Performing well!" Ye Hua boasted with a smile when he saw her strolling over.
"You don't seem to be worried about this at all." Qiao Wei saw his relaxed expression and said angrily.
Although the company is not afraid of being entangled in antitrust lawsuits, this kind of thing is very annoying and has to be dealt with.
"What's there to worry about?" Ye Hua asked back.
"You just discussed it with a group of global CEOs at last night's dinner, but in the end, I quit." Qiao Wei said as she entered the office and went to the water dispenser to pour a glass of water and take a sip.
"Those people, I guess they are secretly enjoying themselves right now. I wish they could have the Japanese come and apply eye drops on me." Ye Hua said casually.
"Then how to break this game?" Qiao Wei looked back at him and said.
"wait!"
"wait?"
Ye Hua nodded and said: "We can sit down and wait. The Japanese cannot bear it because they don't have the courage to lose the economic development of the next twenty or thirty years. As for him suing this matter, he is desperate and angry.
It's just an unacceptable behavior at the moment. It will be fine after you calm down in a few days, so don't worry."
Qiao Wei put down the water glass, folded her hands in front of her, and said thoughtfully: "But if we wait like this, if he goes to the Americans, then the domestic automobile industry will not be able to get technical support and have to stop? And what's more?
Shin-Etsu will not fall into the hands of our company."
Ye Hua disapproved and said with a smile: "Even if he goes to the Americans, the Americans will not offend him, because the Americans want to give me face, and the source is in my hands, not to mention that the Americans want market share most.
I learned from the notebook that the Japanese automobile industry technology has been of great help to our country's automobile industry enterprises, but the Americans lack interest. They are already a powerful automobile country, so why should the Americans offend me? Don't forget that the most important thing is the United States.
People have to join us in singing this good show of red faces and white faces, so the Japanese have no choice."
Hearing this, Qiao Wei felt that there was no need to say more here, but she was moved in her heart and said: "By the way, I think I have found a big business opportunity, at least a hundred billion US dollar supermarket waiting for our company to develop.
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When Ye Hua heard this, he looked at her curiously and said with a smile, "Is that so? Let's talk about it."
Qiao Wei came to him and sat down with a smile on her face. She looked at the other person and said, "Once self-driving cars are popularized in the future, driverless taxi services will definitely emerge, and..."
Ye Hua pretended to be shocked and said, "Huh? What do you mean by this are you trying to grab Didi's business in China and Uber's business abroad?"
Qiao Wei glared at him dissatisfied and said angrily: "Oh, you are really annoying. Don't interrupt me yet. Let me finish my sentence first."
Ye Hua suddenly pretended to be serious and said: "How many times have I told you? As a member of the company's senior management or as an assistant to the CEO, you are the person closest to the company's core power. You must behave accordingly during your work.
Especially sit upright with your butt straight!”
Sitting on your butt... upright?
"Who's to blame! Who made you act like a gangster all the time? It wasn't you who led you. The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked..." Qiao Wei blushed and said strangely.
"Huh? Are you dumping the blame on me?" Hearing this, Ye Hua suddenly said seriously: "Remember to position yourself correctly, especially remember that the boss is always right at any time, you know?"
Qiao Wei was speechless. She felt that the topic that was so good was unknowingly brought to a strange area. She immediately said angrily: "Let me finish my words first."
Ye Hua looked at her anxious look and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, you tell me."
Qiao Wei reorganized her words and then returned to the topic above, saying: "I think this is a business that can serve multiple purposes. You see, all taxi services now require drivers, whether they are domestic Didi or international ones.
Uber, and I think it is a great opportunity to take action. The key is that these two companies have a bad reputation. If we take advantage of the trend and launch an autonomous taxi service, we will definitely be able to quickly capture market share."
"And our launch of this business will further help promote the sales of driverless cars, and the PHC ecosystem will become stronger. This is a beneficial positive cycle. We can come up with a new slogan, and car owners buy one
Self-driving cars are not just a means of transportation, but also a part-time money-making tool for car owners."
"For example, as an ordinary consumer, I happen to have purchased an autonomous self-driving car, but I cannot use it all the time. Parking it in the garage when not in use is a huge waste of resources."
"Then why not let the car leave the garage or parking lot and let it run its own business? For example, when I drive to the company for work, the car will pick up orders by itself during the period from when I get off work. This can also bring benefits to the car owner.
An extra income. For people without cars, taking a taxi will definitely be cheaper and more affordable than the current taxis and Didi travel, because self-driving cars save labor costs and are purely an extra money earned by car owners.
, it is also cheaper for consumers to travel, so existing taxi-hailing software will definitely not be able to compete with us."
"In this way, for the middle-class car owner who has purchased an autonomous self-driving car, this car can not only help him travel, but also help the car owner make money. Even when he sleeps at night, his car is still running business outside to make money.
It is undoubtedly an excellent reason and advertising method to buy self-driving cars."
"This is the true sharing economy. Energy-saving travel, where multiple parties benefit at the same time, is the best sustainable development model."
"I have also thought about whether we can directly purchase autonomous vehicles on a large scale to build shared cars. However, the cost investment of shared cars is no longer on the same order of magnitude as shared bicycles. To meet the taxi demand of a city, at least hundreds of billions of funds must be invested.
, the cost recovery is far away, so car sharing can be overturned. Only the strategy I mentioned above is enforceable, the cost can be evenly distributed to each car owner, and then everyone can share the profits, which is very good."
"And only our coastline company can do it, because we can't open source artificial intelligence technology to Didi or other online ride-hailing companies. You said this is the core technology. As for unmanned taxi-hailing, we are the only one in the world who can do it. We
If you don’t do it, no one can do it.”
After finally saying everything she wanted to say, Qiao Wei looked at Ye Hua expectantly, as if impatiently hinting: Praise me quickly!
After listening to these words, Ye Hua was indeed quite surprised. Qiao Wei did not say this, but he did not think of this market. He could only say that the progress of artificial intelligence technology, once revolutionary emerging technologies appear, will stimulate the emerging market.
There is so much room for imagination in the market and competitive advantages. I believe it can be applied in more places than just driverless taxis.
Of course, to be a bit exaggerated, Ye Hua no longer needs to think in such detail. It is enough to embrace the PHC ecosystem and collect developers' commissions.
However, in terms of driverless autonomous driving, if you want to develop shared driverless cars, only Coastline Company can play. The special point or the biggest breakthrough is that the driver of the car has changed from the original driver to the current artificial intelligence system. This
It was a technology that Ye Hua had to keep tightly guarded against. No third party could even think of getting its hands on it.
Then we can only play along the coast, unless there is someone in the world who is more skilled than Ye Hua in the industry.
Ye Hua looked at her expectant look and satisfied her little desire, boasting without hesitation: "Okay, okay, I really didn't expect it."
"Then...should we do it?"
"You look like you really want to do it? Then do it!"
