Chapter 256 Production Capacity Limitation
Umbrella's mobile phone launch conference made many mobile phone manufacturers feel dizzy.
There is a feeling that the new product they just promoted not long ago is about to become waste.
Yes, that’s the taste!
This is Umbrella!
One battery directly reshaped the entire industry, and you yourself quietly took out so many of them ?
Although these are breakthroughs and beautifications in details, they do not affect the performance of the phone.
Moreover, the price of Umbrella’s mobile phones is relatively high, so many people still don’t choose them.
But even though they have completely mastered this technology, they don't feel at ease!
In this regard, Guo was decisive enough. As soon as the board meeting started, he introduced Umbrella's new technology without any hesitation.
And the release date of Fruit 6 was postponed.
They want to make sure that Fruit 6 is no less powerful than Umbrella once it comes out!
Yes, I paid a lot more, 10% of the whole machine! I haven't even counted the cost of the screen and camera! Add to that the tax from Qualcomm, and the profit margin of the fruit industry has been cut down.
Fortunately, the profit margin of fruit is already quite high, so a slight price adjustment is acceptable. If the price of wheat remained unchanged, we would lose money.
For fruits, if they follow their orders, they will just earn a little less, but if they don't, it will be a lot of fun.
After all, the strongest point of fruit is still the IOS ecosystem and the fruit tax!
Or is it a high-end brand of the fruit itself.
This is something they will never give up.
At least the plummeting stock price stabilized after they announced their cooperation with Umbrella. This is the confidence of investors!
They are heading in the right direction!
Other mobile phone companies are also feeling quite a headache and trouble at this time.
Because Four Star had an original cooperation with Umbrella, it finally chose to pay part of the tax.
The high-end flagship machine fully introduces Umbrella's technology, and it's done.
Whatever fruits have, I must have too!
However, considering the price issue, the mid- and low-end still adopt the ordinary mobile phone model, but pay the "IQ tax".
You get what you pay for!
Another option is Hanwei.
On the contrary, Xiaomai doesn't have much pressure. You do yours, I do mine. It doesn't matter as they are not from the same world. However, he did give some thought to the 'IQ tax' and chose to add this function to some phones at a higher price, but not to the original ones.
Anyway, it is not impossible to make temporary adjustments to the software demand. For Wheat, which focuses on cost-effectiveness, we need to see the market reaction first.
After all, more and more people buy affordable mobile phones for around one or two thousand yuan these days!
And after the Umbrella official website started pre-sales, all parties discovered it.
This phone is so rare!
Gone in seconds!
It’s a bit similar to the situation with wheat back then.
"Haha! I got it!"
"I'll raise the price!"
"Sure enough, what I was worried about has happened. After all, Umbrella has just entered the mobile phone industry, and even the manufacturing industry. They have to rely on the acquisition of Ningya to increase the production of batteries. I'm afraid they can only rely on other factories to help assemble mobile phones, and there are still a lot of components."
"Can't Umbrella provide the batteries themselves? Screens and cameras too."
"But mobile phones also require chips, motherboards, memory, etc., which Umbrella does not have on its own. They can only purchase them. The original production capacity of components in the mobile phone market has been divided up, and the new production capacity must also be grabbed, so they will squeeze the toothpaste, or refer to wheat."
"Besides, the Umbrella is a high-end model, and things are picky. Not everything can be used."
"It turns out that we still need to have our own factory."
"In fact, Umbrella has acquired a lot, but the integration speed cannot be so fast. Umbrella is already very scary. It swallowed up Neia in such a short time, and it has blossomed in many aspects."
“…”
Many people expressed their feelings online, feeling that Umbrella’s mobile phone is the same as its original contact lenses, and they can only wait for the production capacity to increase slowly.
I don’t know if I will be able to buy it when the next generation of other mobile phones is released.
However, during the time that Wang Yi was in Seoul, Umbrella still stocked up three million units. Although it is not a big deal to release them globally, many people still grabbed them!
What follows is a ceremony unique to Umbrella.
The ceremony was initiated by Ma Dong.
In front of the camera, Ma Dong was wearing casual clothes, revealing his strong arms and bulging muscles, looking quite tough.
The lights in the room were adjusted to a dimmer tone, which immediately caused a group of netizens to shout for more restraint.
It has to be said that Ma Dong, who has played villains for many years, does have a bully temperament.
"Brothers, this is Umbrella's cell phone. Let's test its functions..."
In fact, a general explanation was given at the previous press conference. Although relevant tests have been done, it is obvious that it has not met the requirements of all the audience. After Ma Dong started the live broadcast and interaction, he immediately made all kinds of weird requests, and many people gave him rewards.
Ma Dong also conducted tests one by one according to the fans' requirements, and then they truly understood the power of this "intelligent system"!
"Oh my god, it really is mind reading! I was worried that I would not be used to the lack of a home button, but I never thought it would be so smooth, no need to worry about accidental touches! The fingerprint recorder will wake up only after sliding your finger on the screen! And taking screenshots, taking photos, opening the camera, etc., how can I put it, it's just smooth!"
Ma Dong was really surprised. He was just interacting with his fans, but he didn't expect the convenience of this mobile phone to far exceed his expectations.
What follows is a variety of activities.
Soak in water, chili oil, and beat.
"Everyone says Nokia is like a brick, but now I think this phone can really kill someone."
Ma Dong is already strong and healthy. He showed off his muscles while holding the phone and made tapping motions.
"Haha, Brother Ma is so funny!"
“But it’s really solid.”
"By the way, Brother Ma, aren't you going to play the leading role? Is it an undercover movie ?"
"When are you going to have a baby after you get married?"
“…”
Hearing the fans' concern, Ma Dong also laughed
"It is indeed an undercover film. This is my first time playing the lead role. Besides, your sister-in-law is already pregnant and is currently taking care of the baby..."
…
Apart from some basic tests done by Ma Dong, another anchor from the World System, Jiang Bo, also got an Umbrella phone at this time. Moreover, he actually developed a new function for this phone, a perfect interactive function that can be called the kingly way...
"Brothers, it's awesome! It's really awesome! Let me show you!"
Jiang Bo said something excitedly in front of the camera, then he took out his new mobile phone, fiddled with it for a while, and placed the phone in front of the camera against a stand. Then he took his hands away and stood aside.
"Red Queen, open Star World and log into the game directly."
Jiang Bo spoke directly and gave instructions.
Red Queen immediately ran the Starry Sky World and then logged into the game.
"Enter the spacecraft training ground, practice shooting for ten seconds, then take the landing capsule to the nearest asteroid to retrieve a rock sample ..."
Following his series of instructions, everyone was shocked to find that the phone could actually control itself!
"Fuck! Built-in cheat?"
"script?"
"What the hell!"
“Are there any other functions?”
“Can any software control it?”
“…”
In an instant, dense barrage of comments began to fill the screen, and then Jiang Bo signaled everyone to stay calm.
"Don't get excited, Red Queen is not omnipotent. She only knows how to enter some unpopular software, but she doesn't know how to operate them. But Red Queen knows how to learn! You can teach Red Queen how to perform some simple mechanical operations. Her interactive ability is extremely powerful! And for some mainstream software on the market, Red Queen knows the basic operations..."
While Jiang Bo finished his explanation, he also re-instructed Red Queen to perform some mainstream software operations similar to TT.
"The era of lying down and watching TV shows with your hands completely free has arrived. These are all basic operations. Maybe I can teach Red Queen some more complex controls."
After that, Jiang Bo took out Red Queen-V1.0 and entered the system interface and continued
"Also, although this system is Android, it can run apps in the minimum optimized mode. I suspect it uses the technology of a world company to ensure that some apps that need to run in the background do not occupy the running memory. It can also open a large number of apps at the same time, and can also perform corresponding split screen operations."
As he finished speaking, Jiang Bo gave verbal prompts to Honghou to perform relevant operations, opened four apps, split the screen, and performed several different operations.
After this wave of demonstrations was finished, it instantly took the entire Internet by storm!
Today, Red Queen-V1.0 has only two shortcomings, the first being that there are too few stocks!
Second, the price is on the high side.
The rest is almost perfect!
Many people got the phone at the first time, both from China and abroad.
Now that TT is also popular abroad, there will naturally be related unboxing tests.
The functions of Red Queen are all in the details, and the more you explore it, the more powerful it becomes.
Various exclamations continued to appear, and this also attracted the attention of friendly competitors.
The fruit technology team’s hair has turned white with worry.
Well, keep upgrading!
Fortunately, they had already completed the connection between Red Queen and Siri, so after working overtime, they managed to complete the synchronization of many functions, and then officially announced that the latest Fruit 6 will be on the market soon!
It has to be said that with the Apple IOS system itself, Red Queen's killer weapon, and some technologies authorized by Umbrella, Apple's overall market competitiveness is still quite strong.
Four-star high-end flagship phones are almost following closely behind, and no one wants to fall behind.
Fortunately for them, although Red Queen was released first, the impact is still controllable due to production capacity.
After the initial preparations are completed, the follow-up is really just a matter of squeezing toothpaste.
In particular, Fruit and Four Star were completing negotiations and placing orders with Umbrella while also rushing to buy other components.
Everyone is doing normal business, and there is no monopoly, right?
You, Umbrella, don't want to be labeled as a monopoly, right?
In fact, other mobile phone manufacturers have not taken any additional actions. Regardless of whether they are competitors or friendly companies, they have increased their monopoly on the production capacity of high-end chips!
The output of high-end chips is limited. Although Apple develops its own chips, the production of chips will also occupy the production capacity of the wafer fab. In addition, other manufacturers are also increasing their panic buying and hoarding, so there are fewer chips available for circulation.
After all, they are an old partner, and the production capacity that has already been ordered has been allocated. They will also scramble for the newly added capacity, so there is really not much space left.
No matter how domineering Umbrella is, it can't just hold a gun and force others to sell themselves out first, right?
After all, it didn't mean that they directly snatched Umbrella's order. In fact, Four Star was still willing to use part of its own wafer factory production capacity to do Umbrella a favor, but it just prevented Umbrella from increasing its production capacity!
But Umbrella has never said anything about this.
These are all normal business practices. We are reasonable and will not bully you all the time.
It just increased orders for components other than chips.
Because many components can be mass-produced domestically, there will be absolutely no problem with production as long as the order is placed, and there are no such big restrictions.
Umbrella's actions also left its competitors a little confused.
Is this, planning to purchase lower-end chips to build some mid- and low-end machines?
To be honest, this is a bit inconsistent with the current status of Umbrella, and even the fruits will be secretly happy.
He is the one who gets the most profit. If Umbrella lowers its status, that would be a good thing...
