On New Year's Day of the new millennium, Fengyu Electronics, Aiwa Electronics and Philips held a grand new product launch conference. They were going to launch an epoch-making mobile phone with a camera function!
This mobile phone is twice the size of Fengyu Mobile's previously launched Zhongbao. It uses a 300,000-pixel camera, three times digital zoom, 256 color screen, and a 2.1-inch screen.
These designs all show the unique style of Fengyu mobile phones. Mobile phones can actually take pictures, which no one had thought of before.
This is already the best that Fengyu Electronics can do, but the laboratory can do better, such as a more advanced color screen, a larger screen, a camera with higher pixels, etc.
However, actual mass production cannot be achieved, so it is naturally difficult to bring it to the market.
If it were not for the purchase of some patented technologies from Kodak, it would probably take another year for this mobile phone to be released. A digital camera function would be enough for the engineers of Fengyu Electronics to have a headache.
This mobile phone is also the first mobile phone with a camera function in history. With the rise of camera phones in the future, this mobile phone will inevitably be recorded in the annals of history, and the Fengyu brand will also be recorded in the annals of history!
This kind of opportunity is very important. In the future, as long as you add one sentence to the advertising slogan: The inventor and manufacturer of the world's first camera phone, you can overlook other mobile phone brands. It can even be said that other brands imitate our Fengyu mobile phones!
Of course, Feng Yu tried it out and found that the camera function was actually a bit useless. Taking photos at a close distance is okay, but if you are a little further away or the lighting is not good, the quality of the photos taken will be very poor. In addition, the screen resolution of the mobile phone itself is also poor, so the photos can only be kept for self-admiration.
But if it's just for showing off, that's enough. Even if the picture quality is a little sluggish, it's still much better than nothing. This mobile phone was launched to seize the first place in history, and it was not originally intended to sell well. The purpose is to attract consumers' attention and make them like this kind of mobile phone.
Subsequent upgrades will be carried out in this area, including color screens, cameras, system functions, etc., and in a year or two, camera phones will inevitably become mainstream.
After the launch of this mobile phone, Fengyu Electronics was in the limelight for a while. All consumer electronics manufacturers have taken notice of Fengyu Electronics, especially those that produce mobile phones and digital cameras.
It turns out that these two products can actually be combined, and judging from the reactions of consumers, they seem to be very satisfied with it.
As a result, all mobile phone manufacturers began to research mobile phones with camera functions, which further promoted the development of the digital camera industry.
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While Fengyu Electronics is thriving, Microsoft and other companies are worried.
The stock price began to fall slowly and could not rise no matter what. They released some news, such as launching a new operating system soon, etc., but it still didn't help.
Microsoft's antitrust case has not yet concluded and is in the investigation and evidence collection stage. However, the current evidence is quite unfavorable to Microsoft. What those people want most is to break up Microsoft. But once it is split up, Microsoft's influence will inevitably decline, which is something Bill Gates absolutely does not want to see.
Microsoft now has four major products, including operating systems, office software, media players and web browsers. No matter which one of them, it can bring huge profits to Microsoft. Well, maybe now it also includes an instant messaging app.
Office software is not sold in bundles, but operating systems, media players, web browsers, and instant messaging software are all suspected of being sold in bundles.
This constitutes a monopoly because it deprives other products of the opportunity to compete fairly.
During the period when Microsoft's stock price fell, the antitrust case was hotly discussed again. Media in various states claimed that Feng saw through that Microsoft would inevitably lose the antitrust case, so he cashed out his shares in advance.
And those investors who insist on being obsessed with Microsoft stock may suffer a loss. Once Microsoft is ruled to be broken up, Microsoft's stock price will inevitably plummet!
Although it is said that it may rise back later, it is only possible, right
If the price fails to rise, investors will lose money.
Some media also praised Feng Yu as a wise man who invests rationally and is ahead of everyone.
Some software companies have responded and denounced Microsoft. Even hardware manufacturers have begun to denounce Microsoft, believing that Microsoft interferes with their right to choose a Windows desktop system for their personal computers. Previously, they had installed Microsoft's system by default.
Not only the United States and Europe are also negotiating with Microsoft, but also many countries such as Japan and South Korea have filed monopoly lawsuits against Microsoft.
But in China, it's completely fine. It seems that people don't care about Microsoft's monopoly. In fact, that is because Microsoft has not formed a de facto monopoly in the strict sense in China. Because Microsoft's system is not forcibly bundled with other products because the money is too little.
Moreover, Lianxiang Yinshan is already prepared and plans to launch a new operating system within two years that is compatible with Microsoft's operating system and provides free upgrade services, so that it can squeeze Microsoft out of the Chinese market in one fell swoop.
Even though the price of Microsoft's operating system is the lowest in the world, there are still many people in China who are not using genuine software.
Microsoft is not afraid of fines. What it is afraid of is that this bundled sales model will be banned. In terms of operating systems, they have already formed a de facto monopoly, and even in office software, they are almost there. But media players, web browsers, and instant messaging software are all products that can make money from advertising. Microsoft urgently hopes that these products will also form a de facto monopoly.
If one product forms a monopoly, it can bring huge profits. If four or five products form a monopoly, Microsoft's profits will be even greater.
It rained all night long when the house leaked. This is how Microsoft feels at this time.
Although the stock prices of other companies have not risen back, they have stopped falling. And Microsoft's stock price is still falling.
The new "Forbes" rankings are out. Bill Gates ranks first with a net worth of US$79 billion, which is more than 10 billion US dollars short of the US$90 billion he originally thought!
And Feng Yu ranks second with 53 billion U.S. dollars. Well, that’s an estimate.
Feng Yu also created a miracle, that is, the others on the list control a large number of stocks of listed companies, and rely on the rise in stock prices to increase their worth. Feng Yu's most profitable companies are not listed on the market. That's it, he can still be ranked second!
Many people are also speculating that once Feng Yu's most profitable companies are listed, to what extent will Feng Yu's net worth soar
While everyone was concerned about these things, Feng Yu had quietly sold off all Yahu's stocks, causing Yahu's stock price to begin to fall. The next step is to wait for Microsoft to be fined by the court, which will cause the entire network technology company's stock price to fall as a whole!
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