Such a hot scene, let alone Polaris Company, even Zhao Yi did not expect that the minimum price of 2,000 yuan per unit is not cheap in this era. Even ordinary people in high-income countries will have to spend more than a month. salary.
According to such a fast sales rate, Polaris's smartphone sales are likely to reach 100 million units throughout the year. Although it is a bit optimistic, it is not impossible.
What makes Polaris more concerned is the sales of smartphones in China. In fact, domestic people also know that Polaris' products are very good, but the high price is also complained by domestic people.
Originally, they didn't have much hope for the domestic market. You must know that the current domestic average monthly income is only more than 700 yuan, and buying a Polaris smartphone will cost more than two months' salary.
Under normal circumstances, few people would consume like this. It may be that Polaris's smartphones are indeed excellent, which makes many people bite the bullet and spend a lot of money to buy them.
It may also be because the domestic economy is booming, salaries are rising almost every month, and various welfare systems are very complete, so people are willing to spend money.
Of course, it may also be related to the previous consumption inertia. In the past, the domestic material supply was tight, and many people could not buy the goods they wanted even if they had money. As a result, people did not pay as much attention to money as they did later.
Rather than saving so much money in your hands, it is better to buy your favorite products. Although the price of Polaris Company's products is still too high for domestic people, it is definitely worth it in terms of design, quality, and technical content. .
Therefore, among the tens of millions of sales, domestic sales have reached millions. As time goes by, by the end of this year, people's average monthly salary will reach more than 1,000 yuan, and sales will definitely increase further.
Since my country's reform and opening up, especially since Zhao Yi invested heavily in business and industry in the country, the average monthly salary in the country has basically increased every month, rising by dozens of yuan every month.
Because this process has basically never been interrupted, many people generally believe that money is easy to make now, their expectations for the future are quite optimistic, and their willingness to consume is very strong.
In this era, there is no need to save money to buy a house. Even if you want to buy a house, there is no house to buy, because there is no open commercial housing market at all. Everyone lives in houses allocated by work units or in rented houses.
And in this era, comparison is still serious. If a neighbor buys the latest product, then basically this product will become popular in the area, and almost every household will buy it.
Seeing that Polaris' smartphones have sold tens of millions of units in just three days, the inventory may be exhausted before long.
In order to have sufficient supply of goods, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company had to open a new production line, and the entire supply chain system responded quickly to avoid running out of goods to sell.
Seeing the performance of Polaris's smartphones also made Hengtong Communications and Huawei Technologies very restless. Their products are cheaper, so it stands to reason that future sales should be higher.
Especially Hengtong Communications Company, they have suffered huge grievances during this period. Originally, the mobile phone business was their monopoly business project. Because of the technology patents, there were no competitors at all.
This kind of behavior itself made other electronic companies quite angry. They didn't know how to curse Hengtong Communications Company. But at that time, they were just addicted to talking and there was nothing they could do against Hengtong Communications Company.
When Polaris' smartphones came out, although they didn't know why Polaris obtained the patent authorization from Hengtong Communications, a strong competitor appeared, which made people who had previously disliked Hengtong Communications completely rejoice. stand up.
Compared with Hengtong Communications Company's dominance in the field of communications, Polaris Company's strength in the field of consumer electronics is also obvious to all. In terms of corporate strength, the two companies will meet good talents and become rivals.
This caused many people to move out on small benches, ready to watch the excitement on both sides. What they didn't expect was that Hengtong Communications Company had no response at all. Their traditional mobile phones were still sold in major mobile phone stores, and they felt that they were not stimulated at all. .
This kind of reaction is not what the major media like. What they need is breaking news. It is best for Hengtong Communications Company and Polaris Company to fight each other. Only in this way can their news be sold well.
Since the two companies do not want to fight, they have no choice but to create an atmosphere of conflict. All major media are commenting on the changing situation in the mobile phone field, and it has become a general consensus to badmouth Hengtong Communications Company.
If Polaris comes up with traditional mobile phones, it may not be able to shake Hengtong Communications Company's position. After all, the patented technology is in the hands of Hengtong Communications Company, and there are many ways to dominate other mobile phone manufacturers.
But this time Polaris has come up with a mobile phone product that is completely different from traditional mobile phones. It has even been called an epoch-making mobile phone product by far-sighted people.
If Hengtong Communications had not been prepared for this before, it would have taken about a year to develop a similar smartphone. If it were launched by then, the day lily would have been cold.
At that time, even if Hengtong Communications Company's smartphones were launched, they would not be able to save the situation. In the field of smartphones, Polaris Company would dominate the world.
As long as you are a normal person, you will inevitably be affected by the overwhelming news reports that badmouth Hengtong Communications Company. Especially for ordinary employees, such criticism of a company that they are proud of will naturally make them feel very uncomfortable.
The employees of Hengtong Communications Company even had to argue a few words when faced with doubts from relatives and friends. However, they could not produce strong evidence, but their rebuttal was so weak, more like a useless struggle.
Hengtong Communications Company was previously a unit, but it was a global communications giant and an industry monopoly. It had previously been robbed of a large amount of communications business by Huawei Technologies Company, which was already a bit uncomfortable.
Who knew that this time even the mobile phone business would be taken away by Polaris Company. This would be difficult for ordinary employees to accept. Some radical employees even raised questions in front of the management.
Although Hengtong Communications Company is a private company, workers in this era still have a strong sense of ownership, especially in giant companies, where many employees regard the company as their home.
This kind of personal voice of employees, after fermentation, actually has a lot of support. These people feel that it is because the company management betrayed the company's interests and licensed its patented technology to Polaris Company that led to such a result. .
And this behavior is not just once or twice. Previously, because it licensed many patented technologies to Huawei Technologies Company, a strong competitor appeared in its own company.
Not even a few years have passed, but due to patent authorization, it has established a strong competitor for itself. The strength of Polaris Company is not even a bit stronger than that of Huawei Technology Company.
A misjudgment, which can also be said to be a mistake, and the same problem occurring one after another will be unforgivable. The management headed by Hou Weigui was completely put on the fire.
In the past few days, there has been a lot of news about the booming sales of Polaris' smartphones. Any responsible employee feels anxious and uneasy, and some even block the management, wanting a clear explanation.
Not to mention those at the vice president level, even as the president of the company, Hou Weigui was blocked once. Although he did not take action, this behavior still made Hou Weigui very embarrassed.
How could he explain this? Could it be that the boss asked him to authorize the Polaris Company? So I can only comfort myself, saying that I have all-round considerations on my side and will give everyone a clear explanation in a few days.
Not to mention ordinary employees, when the decision to authorize external parties was made, even the company's management fiercely opposed it. If the boss had not been brought up in the end and said that it was the boss's personal decision, it is estimated that Hou Weigui's order would have been difficult to be implemented.
In fact, in the past few years, similar problems have occurred in the business exchange process of Zhao Yi's companies. For example, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company transferred Tengger Ranch to Tianji Dairy Company.
The top management knows that the boss of the two companies is actually the same person. This kind of business division is just a matter of left hand and right hand, and there is no big problem.
But this is not the case for ordinary employees. They rarely know who their boss is, let alone know that other companies are actually brother companies. This kind of unreasonable business transfer is difficult for people to accept.
This is also the reason why Zhao Yi had to compensate them in the first place. It was because he needed to appease ordinary employees through financial compensation, which barely solved the problem.
As for arbitrarily firing these restless employees, neither Zhao Yi's corporate management system nor the country's relevant labor laws are allowed.
Moreover, this kind of employees who seem to be causing trouble are actually a manifestation of the company's cohesion. If all ordinary employees have no concern for the company's business, it means that there is a big problem in the management of the company.
Although the ordinary employees were temporarily appeased and they knew what was going on, Hou Weigui was still having a hard time these days, especially after the news of "The Collapse of the Empire" came out, which completely put Hengtong Communications Company on the fire. .
In this news report, it is described in detail how Hengtong Communications Company came from behind after Motorola's 1G communication technology came out, secured the world's top spot, became a veritable industry monopoly, and created a huge communications empire with bare hands.
This kind of historical review naturally makes people excited to watch it, making many readers realize the hardships and inappropriateness inside, and they are even more proud of the glory of Hengtong Communications Company.
But the more glorious the front is, the more serious the problems behind it are. The first is the licensing of communication technology patents to Huawei, resulting in Huawei Technology Company and Hengtong Communications Company now being divided into two countries.
Although the current overall share is still dominated by Hengtong Communications Company, the upward trend of Huawei Technology Company cannot be ignored. Many people believe that the future outcome is difficult to predict.
If Hengtong Communications Company does not make mistakes, it will not cause their empire to collapse, and they can still maintain the face of the empire.
But now they have licensed their monopoly mobile phone technology patents to Polaris, a consumer electronics giant, which has led to Polaris developing epoch-making smartphone products.
This adds another layer of dirt to the grave of the empire of Hengtong Communications Company. If you make a mistake once, you can be forgiven. If you make the same mistake twice, it means the stupidity of the management. You can even guess whether the management has appeared. Corruption issues.
This news report was reposted crazily on the Internet, so much so that Qianxun Technology Company and Xinghan Technology Company had to call Hou Weigui to ask if they should limit the relevant popularity.
Although Hou Weigui felt sad after reading this article, although it is not all the facts, part of the facts still exist, that is, Hengtong Communications Company did give away a lot of benefits.
Although he knew that such an arrangement was inevitable, because without authorization, Hengtong Communications Company would remain in a stalemate with Western countries, which would be of no benefit to anyone, especially to the interests of the boss, not to mention the interests of the boss. Benefits.
If enterprise-side communication technology licensing is necessary, then the licensing of mobile phone-related technology patents will directly benefit Hengtong Communications Company, because the mobile phone business should be exclusive to Hengtong Communications Company.
Now not only Polaris Company has entered, but Huawei Technologies Company will also come in later. By then, the world will be divided into three parts. Moreover, Hengtong Communications Company still has a certain lack of confidence in whether it can surpass Polaris Company.
It's really because Polaris is too strong in the field of consumer electronics, and it can't deliberately embarrass itself in communications patents, because smartphones also use many of Polaris' patented technologies.
Smartphone-related technologies basically come from Polaris and Hengtong Communications. In comparison, Huawei Technologies is a pure pick-up.
It is precisely because of this that Huawei Technologies is willing to be a little brother and focus on the low-end market. Otherwise, it will not be able to bring enough bargaining chips and will not have enough confidence when negotiating.
This is why the three companies have discussed it. Polaris focuses on the high-end market, Hengtong Communications focuses on the mid-range market, and Huawei Technologies focuses on the low-end market. This is determined by the respective strengths of the three companies.
Regardless of the disturbances from the outside world and the floating thoughts of some internal employees, Hengtong Communications Company is actively preparing for its product launch.
Just a week after Polaris' smartphones went on sale, Hengtong Communications announced that it would hold a product launch conference, and the conference deliberately created a confrontational atmosphere with the theme "No one is allowed to stand out."
As soon as the theme of this product launch conference came out, it immediately attracted widespread attention from the media. There were too many news badmouthing Hengtong Communications Company during this period. It seemed that Hengtong Communications Company was about to die and go to the west.
This time Hengtong Communications held a press conference with such a theme, which naturally made the global news media excited. They smelled the smoke of gunfire, and this is the pursuit of news.
Therefore, as soon as Hengtong Communications Company announced a product launch conference, it immediately received a large number of media applications, and even a large number of business people expressed their hope to attend their product launch conference in person.
On the day of the press conference, the number of media reporters and business people who came over was larger than that of Polaris' product launch. There were even some media people who did not get tickets and could only stand outside and share the atmosphere with the audience. .
At this product launch, Hou Weigui himself was the keynote speaker, which was relatively rare before. When he walked onto the stage, he said: "We won't do anything fake. Making a skit is just a waste of everyone's time."
This opening statement was full of gunpowder and instantly ignited the atmosphere at the scene. Both media reporters and other audiences gave warm applause, and some even shouted words of support.
When the scene became quiet, Hou Weigui said: "As a global communications giant, how could we not be prepared at all? If we couldn't do this, we wouldn't be where we are today."
These words are very relevant to the main theme of today's product launch conference, which is that Polaris cannot be the only company to stand out. We are also prepared, but we are just giving you the upper hand for the time being.
Hou Weigui then continued to incite the atmosphere at the scene and explained their smartphone products in detail. When the pictures of their smartphones came out, the scene really reached a climax.
I originally thought that the smartphones of Polaris Company were groundbreaking products and a glory that belonged exclusively to Polaris Company. However, I did not expect that the smartphones of Hengtong Communications Company were not much different from those of Polaris Company in appearance.
If Polaris's smartphones give people the impression of being fashionable, then Hengtong Communications's smartphones give people the first impression of being mature and stable, making them a very suitable choice for business people.
As Hou Weigui explained the various functions of their smartphones in detail, it seemed that the functions of the smartphones of the two companies were so similar.
It's just that one uses its own system, and the other uses the mobile operating system of Fanxing Software Company. Apart from the different main markets, there is not much difference between them.
This has to make people think some other things. The two products must have been developed at the same time. This is beyond doubt. Otherwise, it would be impossible to produce such a mature product in such a short time.
Do the two companies have the same vision? Or is there close communication behind the scenes? No one at the scene could explain why, but there must be something fishy inside.
Of course, it is not true that the functions of the smartphones of the two companies are exactly the same. There are still many slight functional differences, but the main functions are basically the same.
If even the detailed functions are the same, then there is no need to guess. The two companies must have colluded, otherwise there would be no such high similarity.
After the product launch of Hengtong Communications Company, it indeed caused a huge sensation around the world. Unlike the sensation of Polaris Company, major media launched various speculations surrounding the story behind it.
No matter how the global media views this matter, Hengtong Communications' product launch was a success, letting global consumers know that Hengtong Communications has also developed a smartphone, and the price is cheaper than that of Polaris.
This forces consumers who originally planned to buy Polaris' smartphones to have to wait and see how Hengtong Communications' products perform. Especially for people who don't have sufficient funds, cheap prices are a very important indicator. .
Sure enough, the next day, the smartphone of Hengtong Communication Company was launched globally, and it was also launched simultaneously on the e-commerce platform of Shangtong Trading Company.
After the video shared by buyers on the first day spread on the Internet, it completely ignited the purchasing enthusiasm of many consumers around the world. In three days, about 15 million units were sold worldwide, which was better than the three-day data performance of Polaris. Be eye-catching.
The starting price of Hengtong Communication's smartphones is 1,200 yuan, and the price of high-end configurations is 1,500 yuan. This price is much cheaper than that of Polaris, which naturally attracts a lot of consumers.
However, major evaluation agencies are not surprised by this performance. Hengtong Communications itself is a communications giant. It has been working in this industry for so long, and its strength is beyond doubt.
Moreover, the performance of their mobile phones is not much different, and more importantly, the price is much cheaper. If they are not a loyal fan of Polaris, most people will choose to buy smartphones from Hengtong Communications.
After the global sales of Hengtong Communications Company's smartphones, it will inevitably have a certain impact on Polaris Company's smartphone business, but not too much because their target groups are different.
After the success of Hengtong Communications' mobile phones, the global media no longer blamed the decline of Hengtong Communications. Instead, they commented: "The global mobile phone market will enter a two-power structure."
Judging from the current situation, this conclusion is correct. Although the overall sales volume of Polaris Company is less than that of Hengtong Communications Company, its profit margin is definitely much higher than that of the latter.
Not long after this conclusion came out, that is, one week after the sales of smartphones by Hengtong Communications Company, Huawei Technologies also announced a smartphone product launch conference.
When the global media heard the news, ten thousand horses rushed through their hearts. The feeling cannot be described in words.
Because they arrange the time of the press conference so regularly, anyone with a normal mind will find it unusual. Moreover, Hengtong Communications Company has suffered a loss from Huawei Technologies Company once, and after suffering the second time, it is not normal. .
This makes people wonder whether it is the management of Hengtong Communications Company that has abnormal brains, or whether it is their own brains that are abnormal.
As this speculation spread, the news article that best explained this matter came out, "You guys negotiated this, right?", which perfectly expressed everyone's inner thoughts.
Because there are too many coincidences and similarities, if you don’t think there is anything fishy in it, it would be a bit insulting to people’s intelligence, especially for the more sensitive media people. (End of chapter)