Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 491 Market Changes

Honor 5 is on the market. As the world's first all-network-connected mobile phone, it is still very attractive. There are queues to buy it in countries around the world. 500 million units were sold in a week, making it once again the focus of the news.

Well, this sales volume is not amazing. When the iPhone 5 sells 500 million units in three days next year and 1000 million units in a week, it will be truly awesome.

Also released at the same time as Honor 5 is the second-generation Matebook, which is equipped with a 120G solid-state drive. Different from the 250M/S read and write speed of the previous generation product, this generation's read and write speed exceeds 500M/S, which can guarantee the boot speed of Windows 7 system. It stays within 10s for a long time, unlike the first generation Matebook which didn’t last long after being used...

Magicbook and Matebook notebooks are not very popular, with less than 500 million units sold since their release, but they have made the combination of solid-state drive cabinets and mechanical hard drives a regular configuration.

In addition to the system chip and solid-state drive, Matebook's multi-terminal synchronization function has been strengthened, with Honor's account system, cloud disk service, and free security software. In China, it is a customized version of 365 Security Guard without advertising, and in foreign countries, it is a free value-added model. The international version is free for the first year.

Besides, Security Guard is not friendly to novice users, but with some time, you can still configure Security Guard without ads.

Matebook has not only improved its configuration, but also its quality. There are many excellent engineers in the PC industry. As long as you are willing to spend money, it is easier to improve the quality. Only cost-effective computers can hardly balance both.Honor's laptops use solid-state drives, which are fast to boot up, have long battery life, and have a stylish appearance. They can be used with Honor phones, tablets, and drones. The price is slightly lower than the MacBook, with a starting price of about US$1000, and there is enough profit margin.

If Honor’s tablet sales are slightly more than half of iPad sales, then laptop sales are less than one-third of MacBook sales. This is a first-generation product with a low price. What kind of chain reaction will there be after the price increase? have no idea. It is too difficult to innovate in the PC market. Apple not only has brand advantages, but also has a differentiated operating system.

It is difficult for Honor’s laptops to differentiate themselves from HP, Dell, Moxibustion, and Samsung, so Microsoft’s Honor products can only be differentiated. For example, there are product bonuses between Honor family buckets, including easy-to-use data backup, and no Simultaneous recording of human-machine video...

That is to say, you can only use Honor mobile phones or computers to control drones, synchronize smart watch data, etc. Honor is developing an operating system for this wearable smart device, which may be a real-time microkernel product to prepare for automotive systems.

In the foreseeable future, Honor's various products, from computers, mobile phones, drones to cars, will be organically integrated together. Honor phones and smart watches can be used to open the door to the home and replace car keys.

Honor is a very imaginative company that takes into account both technology and art. Qu Li flew to Beijin to discuss the future with a group of artists.Honor, with its deep pockets, is willing to spend money to invite artists and fans to do some "useless" activities.

At this time, another bad news came. Nokia gave up its self-developed Symbian and Meego systems and jointly released a new phone with Microsoft.

"How do they have anything to do with Microsoft?" Qu Li was very curious. He had clearly dismantled Microsoft's Trojan horse.

"Nokia India CEO..."

"..." How come there are Indian CEOs everywhere? Indians won't dominate the earth in another form, right?By then all heads of state in Europe and the United States will become Indians...

"Microsoft saw that the sales of Honor MateX mobile phones were not good when cooperating with us..."

The sales volume in a month is less than 100 million units. This sales volume is indeed not good. How many MateP units are sold in a month?For example, in November, although the launch of Honor 11 suppressed other mobile phones, Honor's sales this month must have exceeded 5 million units.

“How are the sales of Nokia’s Android phones?”

"They have been releasing new phones every month recently, and their monthly sales should be about 200 million units. This year they may exceed 1000 million units."

"So many?" How many did you say last time?

"They also have an Android mobile phone development department in the United States..."

Nokia Symbian has not been discontinued, and Meego has only released one mobile phone. The situation this year is not optimistic, but why choose Microsoft?

"Oh, by the way, Samsung teamed up with Intel and the Linux Foundation to acquire meego"

"Is Samsung preparing to rebel?"

“Maybe their sales didn’t meet expectations?”

It is understandable that Qu Li pays great attention to guarding against Samsung, but a large number of orders are given to Samsung Display every year. The production capacity of retina screens is limited, and Apple and Honor account for the majority. It is normal to affect the sales of mobile phones of Samsung and LG.

Historically, Apple sold about 9300 million iPhones this year, and Samsung sold about 9000 million. Now the best screens are sold to Honor, and Samsung may not even have 5000 million.

"Samsung's high-priced Android smartphones are not as competitive as iPhone and Honor. It is mainly mid- to low-end smartphones that support sales."

"Their chips are obviously very powerful." Qu Li exclaimed. Apple's mobile phone chips originally used Samsung's, but now they need to use Samsung's patents, so they can't find TSMC for OEM.

"Maybe their system optimization capabilities are not good, or maybe Honor is the well-known Android king."

Ma De, when he heard this name, Qu Li felt that there was little hope of acquiring MOTO.

Contact colleagues in the US market to learn about the performance and market feedback of Nokia Windows Phone system mobile phones.

"It's pretty good. The experience is similar to MateX..."

"The appearance design is very distinctive, and Nokia's industrial design capabilities are superb."

"Using Zeiss lenses, the imaging effect..."

Nokia's Windows Phone system mobile phone seems to be quite good. Now it depends on the market performance. Qu Li is suddenly worried. What will happen in the future if Windows Phone breaks out and occupies a certain market share?

"Both Microsoft and Google hope that Honor will acquire MOTO. The United States seems to be willing to relent, but we need to make certain concessions..."

"That means there are conditions. Is it reasonable?"

"Maybe we should give up using the Xingxiu chip and KOS system..."

"It can't be done." Qu Li didn't hesitate. I don't know if it's a bug or a backdoor left by Qualcomm chips. Even if the mobile phone user is not connected to the Internet, as long as there is a network nearby, he can bypass the system and send information to Qualcomm.Although the Android system is open source, it seems impossible to say that there are no "security vulnerabilities".

"We can gradually reduce the sales of mobile phones with the combination of Xingxiu chips and KOS in the North American market..."

"Then let me try. Americans are hard to talk to."

"We can't compromise on matters of principle. Without our own operating system, we will become mediocre." Qu Li doesn't know how terrible the American father is? Of course he does, but there are some things, such as integrity, and the possibility of making a company great. He didn't dare to give up.