In a bar in the 1912 neighborhood, Lu Yan and Zhou Xiaoqing, who had gone home and changed clothes, were sitting in a booth drinking.
What Lu Yan wants is Carlsberg beer. He has never liked drinking white wine. He has a general taste for red wine and cocktails. He only drinks two glasses when socializing, and then he is more casual.
What Zhou Xiaoqing ordered was the blue margarita. The deep blue color can easily remind people of holiday destinations such as Qiongzhou and the Maldives.
In fact, Zhou Xiaoqing really wanted to take a break.
As soon as she came out of the sales office, she started to talk about some recent things at home. It was nothing more than her brother who was not famous and lost money and played with women and so on.
They are just commonplace words, but she suddenly discovered recently that in fact, in her father's heart, the most important thing is her brother, no matter how well she does.
Finally, I said with emotion, fortunately we are not fighting for the throne, otherwise I would not dare to think about the future.
Lu Yan didn't know how to comfort him, so he just said: "So you want to start your own business?"
"I just suddenly got bored and didn't want to get involved in those things anymore!"
"Your family is one of the top 100 private enterprises in this province!"
"So what? Dad doesn't want me to take over at all. It's better for me to just come out. How much he is willing to share with me in the future depends entirely on what he thinks!"
Lu Yan couldn't persuade the girl to regain her confidence in seizing the family property, so the two of them remained silent until they went back to change clothes and came to the bar, where they started talking again.
"What are your plans for the future? You can't keep trading in stocks, right?" Zhou Xiaoqing took a sip of her cocktail, raised her head and asked.
"Of course it's impossible. I'm still thinking about the future!"
"Have you come up with a way out? Don't hide it!"
"I want to make a mobile phone!"
"Mobile phone?" Zhou Xiaoqing was stunned when she heard this, and said: "Isn't this industry more competitive than real estate? Nokia, Samsung, and Motorola are all dominant competitors, and almost all of our domestic mobile phone brands have become copycat phones!
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But Lu Yan suddenly thought of Lu Ziqiao's line, "Phelps's special copycat waterproof machine, a copycat phone, is awesome!"
But he smiled and said: "Who said that copycat phones have no future!"
In 2019, at Xiaomi's ninth anniversary employee celebration, Rebus said when talking about Xiaomi's development history: Xiaomi's greatest significance is that through nine years of hard work, it has eliminated China's copycat mobile phones. Now, all copycat mobile phones on the market have disappeared.
But this statement is actually one-sided, because this "elimination" is limited to the domestic market.
In fact, China's copycat phones have not only not disappeared, but have become stronger, because they have not disappeared, but have embarked on the path of "going abroad" development and achieved impressive results.
For example, in Africa, the dominant player in the mobile phone market is not Apple, Samsung, Huawei, or Xiaomi, but a mobile phone company called Transsion. Let me just say, everyone here is rubbish.
According to IDC data in 2018, Transsion Mobile accounted for 34.9% of Africa’s smartphone market share in the third quarter, and gained as much as 58.2% of the feature phone market share, making it the well-deserved “King of Africa.”
How does this company succeed? It takes into account the needs of local users, rather than being as arrogant as some big-name manufacturers.
Africans like to sing and dance, so Transsion mobile phones are designed to make the speaker louder, and the software has built-in music software and comes with a large amount of music that suits the local people's preferences.
Because Africans have dark skin, it is difficult to recognize faces when taking photos at night, so Transsion mobile phones have improved their front-facing cameras.
After that, based on the skin characteristics of Africans, beauty effects were developed for them, which can be said to have contributed to the dominance of Transsion mobile phones in Africa.
In addition to Transsion, there is another mobile phone manufacturer that is good at "imitation". It has also achieved good results overseas by constantly borrowing the designs of other mobile phone manufacturers. It is the famous domestic copycat brand-Elephant Mobile.
The English name is Elephone.
This manufacturer's "copycat" efforts can be described as "insane", which can be felt from the names of the products it launches: ELEPHONE S7, ELEPHONE S8...Elephone C1 Max, etc.
Elephone, like Transsion, directly targets overseas markets and has achieved great success in overseas markets through its extremely high cost performance and imitation of first-line brand designs.
According to a 2018 report by AH, a well-known foreign technology media, among the top ten most popular Chinese-made mobile phones overseas, two Elephones were on the list, while only one phone from Huawei and Meizu was on the list.
Therefore, the mobile phone market still has great potential, whether it is domestic or foreign markets.
What's more, the future domestic mobile phone overlords, Xiaomi Weisheng, Huawei Startup, Oppe and Vivo are all on their way, so the mobile phone market still has great potential.
But Zhou Xiaoqing could not see this. He only knew that Lenovo, the dominant player in the computer industry, was not developing well in cross-border mobile phone manufacturing. He was not particularly confident in what Lu Yan said.
Question: "Now the high-end and high-end markets are dominated by Nokia and Samsung. The low-end market is dominated by domestic copycat phones. Where is the way out?"
Lu Yanxiao: "But the market will change. Now it is 2G, and mobile phones are basically used for making calls and sending text messages. In the 3G era, the network will be faster and more things can be done. Mobile phones also need to improve accordingly.
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"Are you talking about a smartphone?" Zhou Xiaoqing took out a Nokia N93i from her pocket and sighed: "To be honest, I really don't think it's very useful!"
Lu Yan smiled: "That's because the system is not good and the screen is not big enough!"
"Then I hope you can make a good mobile phone as soon as possible!"
Zhou Xiaoqing smiled, took another sip of the wine in the glass, ran her hair with her hands, and said: "Actually, what I am most familiar with is the real estate industry, from acquiring land, to designing, building houses, selling houses, and all kinds of things in it."
I am clear about all kinds of messy things. In fact, I want the two of us to start a company together and make it big! Do you believe me?"
Lu Yan smiled, "Of course I believe it!"
"You don't believe it!" Zhou Xiaoqing shook her head, seeming a little drunk, "The mobile phone industry is fiercely competitive and the future is uncertain. In the real estate industry, I have private money and you also have funds. We are also familiar with the process, which is equivalent to copying past projects...
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Zhou Xiaoqing talked a lot and drank a lot.
In the end, I was a little drunk and sleepy, and I kept yawning.
Lu Yan said: "Forget it, I'll take you back!"
"It's okay, I'll just rest for a while and go to the bathroom first!"
Seeing that she was shaking a little while walking, Lu Yan was worried about her safety, so he helped her to the bathroom and stood at the door waiting.
Not long after the clinker started, a girl came out and suddenly pointed at Lu Yan and said: "Hey, Lu Yan, why are you here? Why are you waiting any longer...!"
But it was Ruan Xiaoxiao’s roommate, Xiao Mengyao.
Block 1912 is not far from Yangtze University. Some students who like nightlife and are not short of money often come here to play.