Chapter 82 Beauty Tax
"Boss Wang, I think those people in the entertainment industry are just trying to make money and create a gimmick of beautiful women, so I rejected them all. Do you think this is appropriate?"
Wen Yu is a company boss after all, and he is not very old. He is definitely young and promising, but he looks quite humble standing in front of Wang Yi's desk.
This made Wang Yi look at him again.
Perhaps Wen Yu also borrowed the first start-up capital from his family, but since he was able to set up such a media company on his own, he must have his own abilities.
He was able to completely reject all his connections in the entertainment industry and then find the two giants in the mobile phone manufacturing industry. This was a very accurate vision.
In fact, Wang Yi's original intention of suppressing the beauty software was to cooperate with mobile phone manufacturers.
Now can be said to be the explosive period of smart phones, and the potential customers and sales volume are absolutely mind-blowing numbers.
If beauty software is pre-built into mobile phone cameras and becomes a function, it will definitely be something that mobile phone manufacturers cannot refuse.
Putting aside other things, your competitors have this function, but you don’t. Which one would a beauty-loving girl choose?
Voting with feet has come out!
Once one manufacturer uses it and pays the 'beauty tax' to Wang Yi, it will affect all manufacturers!
The fact that Wen Yu was able to think of this and was willing to give up his previous relationship to do so shows his ability.
Wang Yi could see that after discovering this thing, the mobile phone manufacturer would certainly take it seriously.
But at the beginning, they thought this should be a post-production software, just with more complete post-processing.
But now that I know that Temo is a synchronized beauty software, I can no longer remain calm.
Hanwei and Xiaomai are two of the most representative companies!
Xiaomai plays with fan economy and cost-effectiveness, and has a group of loyal users in China. Moreover, if we only consider the cost-effectiveness of the mobile phone configuration, it is indeed unique.
Although this cost-effectiveness also sacrifices functions such as heat dissipation and stability, it still has a unique gimmick.
As for the relatively low-key Hanwei, there is no need to mention it. As a typical technology company, mobile phones are only a part of its business. It also has a corresponding software department within the company and has made corresponding optimizations to the Android system.
As they have a strong software department, they also understood the horror of this software right away.
Can they design their own beauty software?
It really works!
But in terms of quality, it was definitely beaten up and had no ability to fight back.
God knows how excited they were when they found out that this thing was just a beauty software.
Although it looks like a small software, it definitely demonstrates the other party's terrifying R&D capabilities.
Therefore, Hanwei sent a vice president to lead the team, which made the deputy director of the marketing department led by Xiaomai a little confused.
However, Wang Yi's company is really a small company, and both sides have a large number of legal personnel. In the end, Wang Yi said that he wanted to keep it simple and just take the two of them to his office to have a casual chat. His small company doesn't have such a grand ceremony.
"I know your intentions, and I won't quote you any prices. For all mobile phone manufacturers that want to embed our software, we need 0.1% of the price of the whole device as a licensing fee, with a minimum of one dollar."
Wang Yi’s asking price was actually not that high, but the software itself was not suitable for a high price. Moreover, the also had another more important purpose.
Even though the offer was not high, this long-term commission method still made Minister Qian of Xiaomai open his mouth again and again.
"Hey, Mr. Wang, isn't your asking price a bit too high? There is already a team working on the beauty software. Can you ensure that your advantage will be maintained? Why don't we negotiate a fixed price for the usage rights? How about using our sales this year as a measure? If we can sign some exclusive agreements, the price can be even higher than the commission."
This is due to Wang Yi's reputation as a great mathematician, plus the blessing brought by his recent rejection of Microsoft's offer of 400 million US dollars!
Otherwise, if you say this when the software is just released, it will definitely be a laughing stock.
Now, Wang Yi has the confidence to speak .
"It's okay. You don't have to sign it if you find something better."
Wang Yi was quite magnanimous and reasonable.
Although beauty software is not a chip and is not irreplaceable and will not be a bottleneck, it definitely has a qualitative impact on sales!
Moreover, this kind of tax itself may not be too high in total cost due to its low proportion, but its significance is quite significant.
"This is because you two are domestic brands. For foreign manufacturers, I charge 0.2%."
Love or not, this is Wang Yi’s attitude.
"We have Chinese and Uyghur visas!"
Compared to Minister Qian's haggling, General Zheng seemed quite generous and agreed directly.
This immediately made Mr. Qian, who was about to say something, look bitter .
Come on, you don't bargain in business? Are you kidding me?
"We also hope to have the opportunity to cooperate more deeply with your company in the future."
"If there is, of course no problem."
Wang Yi knew Hanwei’s R&D capabilities, so it was normal for them to see the potential of this software. The fact that a vice president came in person was very telling.
"I, I need to report."
This is now beyond Minister Qian's authority, but Hanwei has already agreed, so he must ask for instructions.
You have to know that this is not a one-time buyout, but a continuous blood draw.
Qualcomm has already been taxed a lot, and now a beauty software wants to come in.
Well, if there are competing products, then it is really necessary to have them. After all, he is the deputy director of the marketing department, so he does have some vision.
It would be fine if everyone could resist together, but once someone surrenders it will be an avalanche.
Finally, Xiaomai agreed to the offer after much hesitation. Now they are the only two companies that have come forward, and they also want to finalize the deal quickly and complete the software implantation!
Get a batch of goods first!
After seeing the situation of these two companies, other mobile phone manufacturers will definitely not be able to sit still and will roll up.
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0.1% of the whole machine price is not profit.
It seems like you only spend one dollar on a thousand-yuan mobile phone, but now is the boom period.
Hanwei's mobile phone sales this year exceeded 50 million units, and Xiaomai's sales were close to 20 million units, and it is obvious that the numbers will be even greater next year.
This is also the reason why Xiaomai began to want to use this year's sales as a fixed measurement. They can see the sales figures during the future explosive period.
Of course, the beauty program is different from Qualcomm's dense 3G and 4G patent fees, and it can be cracked and "borrowed".
However, if the mobile phone manufacturers do something shady, it doesn’t matter to Wang Yi. Lin Shiqin seems to be laughing every day, but she has too many bad ideas. If they eat my food, they will definitely pay it back in other ways.
The main purpose of implanting the beauty program this time was not for money...
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Nowadays, there are a lot of discussions about "Minecraft" and "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" on the Internet.
Needless to say, "Minecraft" has just been released for a month and is now at its peak of popularity.
There are endless videos of various players doing funny things, all kinds of fancy moves.
It can be said that Cube Man has dominated various gaming forums.
"I never thought that one day, I would be able to play Cube Man..."
Jiang Bo is addicted to "Minecraft". He always thought that he liked pretty girls, but why is he so enthusiastic about playing Minecraft?
After meeting up with a few friends and starting a new online session, he suddenly heard his friend’s exclamation in his headset.
"Wow, Xiaomai and Hanwei are starting to make trouble. Oh my god, my Xiaowen-chan, Miyue-chan, how could they..."
Jiang Bo, who was originally addicted to games, was stunned. This was his dream lover, he couldn't help but pay attention to her!
During this period of time, many models of Yuzhong can be said to have slaughtered the small broken station, just like locusts passing through and leaving no grass behind.
There is also a group of loyal fans.
The people they connected with this time were a few friends who all liked the two-dimensional world and had almost the same hobbies.
"What's wrong? What does it have to do with Hanwei and Xiaomai?"
Jiang Bo asked quickly, and then he saw the link sent by his friend. After clicking it, he saw the press conferences held by Hanwei and Xiaomai on almost the same day.
In addition, several model UP hosts of Yuzhong have also begun to promote the new systems of these two companies.
Wen Yu was busy all the time, so he was sure to get some soup too.
How can we quickly maximize the value of this beauty software?
Of course, the first batch of users will speak out!
It can be said that the advertising fee this time exceeded Yuzhong’s total annual revenue in the past, which made Wen Yu understand that the direction he chose was correct.
How can the entertainment industry compare with the technology industry?
They developed a software for dimensionality reduction, and it already had such a terrifying effect...
