Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 92 Da Lei and Xiao Huang

Zhuhai, Meizu headquarters.

Huang Zhang frowned and looked at the MIOS system on his mobile phone, feeling somewhat shocked and helpless.

Unexpectedly, Lei Jun was actually playing a trick of pretending to build a plank road while secretly attacking Chencang. He should have thought that with Lei Jun's style of doing things, there must be a back-up plan.

After all, MIUI learned everything from Meizu.

Huang Zhang cursed inwardly at this shameless hypocrite.

Huang Zhang’s resentment towards Lei Jun can be traced back to when Meizu was making mobile phones two years ago.

In fact, Meizu did not start out making mobile phones, but rather MP3 players.

From 2003 to 2006, Meizu, with almost no advertising, relied on only 10 products, especially the miniplayer (M6), which became its pinnacle product and had no rivals in the domestic MP3 market!
At the end of 06, the founder Huang Zhang resolutely decided to transform into a mobile phone company at the peak of the company. At that time, there were only a few dozen people in the entire Meizu company.

The first version of M8 was a traditional touch screen with physical digital buttons, and even a patent was applied for.

The result was halfway done when Apple's press conference came out. The moment Steve Jobs took out the iPhone, he redefined the smartphone.

This really taught Huang Zhang a lesson. He directly overturned the previous M8 plan and decided to follow Apple. He quickly registered a second appearance patent just one month later.

After more than two years of arduous efforts, Meizu M8 was finally officially launched nationwide, becoming the originator of the "futures mobile phone".

Although the price of M8 after it was launched was several hundred yuan higher than the 1999 yuan promised by Huang Zhang on the forum, the sales volume reached 10 units in just two months after its launch, and the sales revenue exceeded 5 million yuan in just five months!

It is worth mentioning that when M8 was launched, iPhone 3GS had not yet been released, Huawei phones were still seen as "OEM phones", the blue and green factories were still selling music phones, and Xiaomi had not yet been born!

Therefore, the M8 was called the "king of domestic mobile phones" at that time, which was not an exaggeration at all. Later, this model was collected by the exhibition hall of Microsoft headquarters.

And at this moment, the gears of fate turned, and Da Lei and Xiao Huang met.

At the beginning, the two had a lot in common, such as they both liked electronic products, were geeks, and wanted to do something in the mobile Internet field.

Therefore, they met each other very happily and hit it off immediately.

How good was the relationship between the two? According to a Meizu employee, at that time, the refrigerator in Huang Zhang's office was often filled with Lei Jun's favorite Coke (he really did, it made me cry).

The good times did not last long. After the two got to know each other more deeply, they found that they were actually sleeping in the same bed but having different dreams.

At that time, Lei Jun hoped to enter Meizu as an angel investor, aiming for the position of chairman, and wanted to take Meizu under his own name;

Huang Zhang wants Lei Jun to be his CEO. He is willing to discuss high salary and dividends, but not shares - Huang Zhang values ​​shares but is also afraid of capital.

Lei Jun later compromised and recommended Lin Bin as the CEO of Meizu and suggested giving Lin Bin 5% of the shares. However, Huang Zhang was still worried about someone usurping the position and refused to agree.

The two sides ended up parting ways on bad terms.

If you don't want to play with me, I will do it myself. Since then, Lei Jun, who was thinking "I will aim for the bright moon, but the bright moon only shines in the ditch", angrily founded Xiaomi at the beginning of the year.

But when Huang Zhang saw the news that Xiaomi Technology was established and announced its entry into the mobile phone market, and looked at the photos of Lei Jun and Lin Bin drinking millet porridge with smiles on their faces, he regretted his decision.

But he was not afraid. He knew how difficult it was for Meizu to make mobile phones. Moreover, Lei Jun was a newcomer. Money alone was not enough to deal with the suppliers.

Therefore, Huang Zhang looks down upon Lei Jun's Xiaomi and estimates that the company may not be able to survive until the end of the year.

As a result, two weeks ago, Huang Zhang was shocked when he heard his subordinates report that Xiaomi had developed MIUI. Especially when he saw the familiar interface and user experience, which were the essence he learned from the iPhone, it was like rubbing salt into his wounds.

Huang Zhang couldn't help but think of the past that he couldn't bear to look back on. It was probably during the short one month they spent together that he learned a lot from him. Now thinking about it, he was just letting a wolf into the house. He was deceived by this hypocritical guy.

Meizu was stolen by this person whom it once considered a "confidant".

In fact, Huang Zhang has always been resentful towards Xiaomi.

So when he noticed a problem with one of the MIUI versions, he knew his opportunity had come.

He immediately asked his confidant to find a third party to muddy the waters and started a public opinion war online.

Moreover, during the process, coincidentally, they discovered that there was a more obvious force quietly making efforts to throw dirty water on Xiaomi, and there were other forces involved. It seemed that many people did not want Xiaomi to enter the mobile phone market, whether out of fear or other purposes.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Although the two parties have no communication with each other, they have a tacit understanding in cooperation.

Lei Jun, don't you like to go with the flow? Then I will give you one too.

Huang Zhang ordered to intensify the firepower and exaggerate the 10-point shortcoming to 100 points.

The effect was obvious after a few days, and the popularity of MIUI was suppressed.

As a result, Huang Zhang now finds himself playing a whack-a-mole game. As soon as he presses MIUI on one side, MIOS pops up over there, and both are produced by Xiaomi.

And the quality is better and better, is there still justice? Is there still law?

What a hell!

Therefore, Huang Zhang immediately called his confidant and planned to repeat the old trick, and ordered, "Have you seen this forum? Let our people analyze this MIOS, and then find out the shortcomings of this system and continue to work on it!"

"Understood." The subordinate was about to leave.

"Wait, come back, we need to clean up the tail, we won't be discovered, right?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Huang. All the contacts were made in personal names, and they were made through two layers of cover before contacting the third-party agency. Even the FBI had a hard time!"

"Well, that's good. Once the script materials come out, you can give them to them for polishing, and then take action."

"Okay, Mr. Huang!"

Looking at the MIOS system that had just been flashed on his mobile phone, Huang Zhang's face was unclear, with surprise, jealousy and a little resentment.

But what makes him wonder is, is there someone else at Xiaomi? The MIOS system is quite different from the Meizu system.
after one day.

"No flaws? How can there be no flaws?"

Huang Zhang slammed the MIOS system analysis report on the table and paced back and forth in the office in frustration.

"If I say there are shortcomings, then there must be shortcomings. Even if there are no shortcomings, there are shortcomings! Yes, plagiarism. They say he plagiarized, plagiarized, and engaged in malicious competition. Do you understand?"

"Boss, I understand. I'll arrange it right away!"

“Go do the work, I hope to see the results I want!”

"Understood, understood!" The assistant wiped the sweat from his forehead and left.

Huang Zhang picked up the system analysis report on the table and looked at it carefully, his face changing from gloomy to happy.

(End of this chapter)