Chapter 899: A Flood of Things (4k)

As the head of Yike arrived in Silicon Valley, the time for the launch of the new generation of Mars was quickly determined.

It was still held at the Moscone Convention Center, but the time was one day later than last year, on June 27.

Unlike last year when Yike had to invite media from many aspects to launch the phone, this year many online and offline media asked about the launch before the time was determined, wanting to witness the launch of the "Android King" as soon as possible.

Android King.

This was not from the media, nor was it self-proclaimed by Yike, but a term used by Google to warm up this launch.

Although it has been confirmed that Samsung will also have models equipped with the Android system, Google still did not hesitate to officially put up a signboard and still spared no effort in promoting Yike phones.

This is the common understanding brought about by the global sales of Yike Mars single products exceeding 7 million units.

There are also media that are enthusiastically speculating whether Mars sales can exceed 8 million units before the launch. After all, according to the news released on the official website, it has successively reached cooperation with operators in different Asian countries.

More than one media outlet expressed regret about this. If China had not yet opened 3G, perhaps we could witness a manufacturer that had just entered the mobile phone industry and sold 10 million units.

Since the beginning of this year, there have been many analyses of Yike's successful transformation and the hot sales of Mars, the development of capacitive screens, systems that lower the threshold for use, and new models of profit sharing with operators...

Yike has received many invitations from business schools on behalf of its boss, but all of them have been declined in consideration of time and energy.

On June 14, Fang Zhuo listened to the stocking and channel deployment of Mars2 in Silicon Valley. Because of experience and changes in the competitive situation, this year's official sales were scheduled for July 10, two weeks after the press conference.

That night, after the conference ended, he flew to Houston to witness the end of the Rockets' season.

The Rockets' 2007-2008 season was not as full of injuries as last year, but without Carter, the All-Star's firepower point, the Rockets, who were still good in the regular season, had their shortcomings magnified in the playoffs.

Although the Rockets were lucky enough to reach the finals thanks to injuries to their Western Conference opponents, the Celtics did not give them a chance. The three games they had won were all very clean, and the only loss was by only 2 points.

When Fang Zhuo arrived in Houston and saw the team with low morale, he felt that it would be difficult for them to rebound.

This time, Fang Zhuo did not give them any chicken soup or excitement. He just talked about the success of the past three years and promised to continue to pay luxury taxes and strengthen the team next year, and would continue to keep the Rockets in the ranks of strong teams.

On the evening of June 15, the Rockets played at home in Houston.

Although it was a home court, the referees did not blow a biased home whistle. The league and the audience may also hope to see a new champion appear in sight.

After three quarters, the Celtics led by 15 points, basically announcing the ownership of the championship.

The live broadcast camera frequently focused on the Rockets owner who was watching the game in the first row, but he did not show any annoyance, but communicated with O'Neal who was invited to attend from time to time.

For O'Neal, this visit may be a little awkward. In the past year, he has shown the two championship rings given to him by the Rockets on different occasions, and said frankly that he is already a die-hard fan of the team. However, this year's game was one-sided, and it felt that this omen was somewhat bad.

"Change, we need change."

When Fang Zhuo used this as a starting point, O'Neal suddenly felt that it was quite a good match.

Today's O'Neal is no longer the same as he was last year. With Hillary Clinton's withdrawal from the election earlier this month, he is about to fight the last battle on behalf of the Democratic Party and Republican McCain.

Considering this identity and the change in the other party's mentality, Fang Zhuo never mentioned the matter of whether there is a fund or not, but just talked about basketball, golf, and the mobile phone he was going to release this month...

Actually, O'Neal did not show any difference from the past. He carefully analyzed the operating space of the Rockets next season, and happily agreed to teach Fang, a golf beginner, when he had time.

The final whistle sounded, and the Celtics, who formed the Big Three, won the trophy as they wished.

Fang Zhuo showed his grace, politely congratulated his opponent, and comforted his own team.

He saw that Yao Ming was quite depressed, and he ignited new fighting spirit with just one sentence: "Play well in the Olympics, don't get injured, and I feel good about the national team this year."

Yao Ming nodded seriously, the game at home was of extraordinary significance.

There were also sports reporters who came to interview the Rockets owner who only watched the last game this year. Fang Zhuo did not refuse and gave a brief speech on defeat.

The first sentence was very... appropriate.

"Change we need."

"Now the situation in the league has changed, and stronger opponents have appeared in the East and the West."

"The Rockets are a championship team. We have fallen to the bottom and climbed to the top. This defeat is only temporary. The Red Army will surely make a comeback!"

Fang Zhuo's emotions did not fluctuate much. On the contrary, Jay Chou, the team's small owner who had been watching the game in the playoffs, had tears in his eyes, and made a comeback, a comeback!

There was also a championship award ceremony in the stadium.

Fang Zhuo did not stay at the scene and personally sent Xiao Ao and his group away.

Just as Xiao Ao got in the car, he gave a new contact number.

This was the phone number of his consultant Lu Peining.

It is worth mentioning that Lu Peining is a classmate of Xiao Ao, the legal director of his senator’s office, and a Chinese-American.

Fang Zhuo understands what Xiao Ao means. He should contact Lu Peining if he has something to do in the future. After all, his identity may change and his affairs will become busier.

Lu Peining, Lu Peining.

Fang Zhuo entered the phone number and sent a text message, intending to have someone check this person's resume and information.

Not to mention where Yike's stock may be used next year, this year, the technology introduction and equipment purchase license of Bingxin has come to be renewed. Although there are previous successful examples of SMIC, Fang Zhuo is still prepared to mobilize multiple parties. Prepare.

It is a four-year contract. If it is successfully renewed this year, the next one will be in 2012.

Considering the development of ice core and considering that Liang Mengsong's team will join this year, Fang Zhuo really doesn't know what kind of situation will change in four years.

Thinking of this, his thoughts drifted to Germany again. It's not necessarily useful. Using a vest might give him more space to move around.

It just so happened that Deutsche Telekom paid great attention to this Yike press conference, and the head of the headquarters, Obermann, flew in from Europe to attend in person.

Europe accounts for more than 50% of Yike's global sales. Compared with Mars' drive to new T-Mobile users and 3G business in the United States, Deutsche Telekom has achieved greater success.

In the United States, T-Mobile has lost its exclusive contract rights for half a year, but Deutsche Telekom is still Yike's only partner in Europe. Obermann believes that such cooperation must be continued.

3G business still has a lot of potential, and the European market still has huge prospects.

This is not just a "7 million sales" achievement.

Obermann is even optimistic that Yike will become the world's leading mobile phone manufacturer with the new track of 3G smartphones.

Of course, Fang Zhuo would not ignore Deutsche Telekom's goodwill. He had already kicked Legere out of the "iron triangle" position in his heart and gave this honor to Obermann, optimistic about the help he would bring to Yi Ke and himself.

Regarding the European inspection activities of the Yangtze River Delta Business Association at the end of the year, he hopes that Deutsche Telekom can show friendship, play drums from the side, and introduce suitable contacts.

On June 18, Fang Zhuo, who had recovered from the sadness of the team's defeat, once again held a coordination meeting with Yike's global regional leaders to confirm everyone's work progress and problems encountered. Among them, Mainland China is still a special place. .

Liu Qiangdong, as the person in charge of China, talked about the progress of operators and basically confirmed that it will be available for online sales in August.

So far, Yike Mars has sold 7.39 million units in Europe, the United States, and Asia.

Originally, the company's goal was 8 million units, and it also adopted many cooperation plans in Japan and South Korea, key regions in Asia, thinking that it must break through the integer mark again to make a good start for the new generation of Mars.

Unfortunately, the Japanese market is more conservative than expected, and the Korean market has experienced interference from the LG Group, making it difficult to achieve the set goals.

Because of this change, the Chinese market that Liu Qiangdong is responsible for has to bear the burden of digesting more old models and needs to make a new wave of adjustments.

Although Liu Qiangdong was a little depressed about the temporary change, he could only accept it. After all, this is 3G business with different speed and time differences.

On the 20th, there was only one week left before the press conference.

Yu Hong went to report to Mr. Fang about different operators in the United States, and unexpectedly saw him mumbling something serious in the office.

"What's wrong with you? Did Nokia sue you?" She was a little surprised.

"I'm reciting the manuscript for the press conference." Fang Zhuo replied seriously.

Yu Hong took a closer look and marveled: "You are carrying it so early? Why are you a little nervous?"

"Of course I'm nervous. Last year we were barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes. This year we are a dark horse in the industry." Fang Zhuo gave the reason, "Last year, our Mars was unique in the world. Many of the upgrades this year are internal. I really It’s not okay to worry about market feedback.”

Yu Hong pondered for a moment: "I don't think there should be much of a problem. At least, here in the United States, T-Mobile's 3G covers more cities, we also have more cooperative operators, a wider range of channels, and Mars upgrades Both bring obvious performance, the difference between 5 million cameras and 2 million cameras is still very big.”

If you ask her to evaluate her own products, it would be that the shortcomings have become longer and they look more like a "machine king".

Fang Zhuoxian nodded and said, "That being said, we won't know until next month what the attitude of consumers is."

He handed the manuscript over: "Mr. Yu, would you like to read it for me? Let's see where the introduction doesn't work."

Yu Hong was not polite. She flew to Silicon Valley basically once a week in the past six months. She was very clear about the progress of mobile phone design work from beginning to end, and she was familiar with the parameters.

I first gave the manuscript a rough pass, and then thought about it in detail.

After two cups of tea, Yu Hong raised her head and said thoughtfully: "The introduction of Mars 2 is quite contrasting. Apart from being a little complicated, this may be my subjective feeling. Well, the most important thing is that I always feel that it is different from last year." Nothing compared to that.”

Fang Zhuo repeated: "What's the near miss?"

How does it feel to almost feel?

Yu Hong considered it carefully.

Just as the two people in the office were discussing the press conference manuscript, the landline phone rang first, then there was a hurried knock on the door, and finally even the mobile phone on the table vibrated.

"Come in."

"Hello?"

"Answer it."

Fang Zhuo asked someone to enter the office, picked up the landline, and threw his mobile phone to Yu Hong.

Three notification methods, but the notifications were not the same news.

——Nokia confirmed that the full-touch screen mobile phone equipped with Symbian S60 V5 will be released on June 26.

——HTC announced that the full-touch screen mobile phone equipped with Microsoft WM system will be released on June 25.

——Motorola announced that it would sue Yike Mars for infringing on mobile phone patents.

The news summary was obviously not good news.

"Nokia seemed to have released new phones in New York before? This time it changed to Silicon Valley? And it happened to be the day before our press conference?" Fang Zhuo frowned slightly.

"Well, N95 was released in four places around the world. This is New York in the United States. Nokia did get stuck at a time point like we released it before Apple." Yu Hong nodded.

Fang Zhuo stopped frowning, oh.

"Motorola suddenly came out to sue, this matter deserves attention." Yu Hong had a headache about the news of the patent. Previously, she heard Mr. Fang talk about his response measures at the capital level. That was a last resort. Now Motorola has jumped out again. With weak patents, it is easy to be targeted.

"Let the legal department evaluate first." Fang Zhuo was very calm. "No matter how bad it is, it will not be a greater threat than Nokia."

"Huh? That's right." Yu Hong was relieved.

As for HTC equipped with WM...

Before the two had time to talk, they received new news as if they had made an appointment.

- Apple announced that the sales of the iPhone released in March exceeded 2 million units.

The new generation of iPhone was released in March, but in fact, it was only sold in April.

In other words, the iPhone with 3G function exceeded 2 million sales in less than two months.

This news surprised Fang Zhuo and Yu Hong.

LG's new phone was released and launched in March, and it took only one month to break through one million units. However, after two months, there was no news of breaking through two million units. However, the iPhone was quietly advancing rapidly and directly broke out the two million figure.

The iPhone, which made up for the 3G function, front camera, Apple store, and European channels, showed a different color.

"This generation of iPhone sells very well." Yu Hong said solemnly.

Fang Zhuo read the news and analyzed this opponent who was somewhat neglected by himself.

Just as he was halfway through, the last news of the day was delivered to the case.

——Sony Ericsson's new phone launch conference will be held in Silicon Valley on June 25.

"Once you confirmed the time of the launch conference, your opponents are all excited." Yu Hong had to connect these together, "How is it? How do you feel?"

Fang Zhuo did not analyze the iPhone anymore. He clenched the original press conference manuscript, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it accurately into the trash can: "Very good, suddenly I am not nervous at all."