The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 1115 Developer Conference

As of the end of September 2007, Jiangnan Group officially announced that the global sales volume of Cosmos terminals had reached 9 million units, which shocked many people.

Therefore, this sales data is actually not too exaggerated in the entire mobile phone industry. After all, the sales of the top 10 single mobile phones in the world have all exceeded [-] million.

However, the advertising slogan in Jiangnan Group's promotion is: the sales volume of the world's first terminal exceeds 200 million units.

In addition, if you look closely at all the propaganda of the Jiangnan Group, you will find that the promotion of the universe terminal is doing its best to avoid any connection with mobile phones, and the word mobile phone is absolutely not seen in any promotional copy.

And all the cooperative media have also been requested by the Jiangnan Group, that is, no analogy between terminals and mobile phones is allowed... Although this request sounds a bit unreasonable, but considering Jiangnan Group's global presence Billions of dollars are spent on publicity every year. Except for a small number of media, almost all international mainstream media pay great attention to this.

Therefore, the initial sales of the first mid-range product in history exceeded 1 million. This news is indeed more shocking. Although according to the background data of Jiangnan Group, the total sales volume is actually just over 280 million, but this does not affect it at all. Continue to stimulate the development of Jiangnan terminal.

In addition, scalpers exaggerate the price of the Cosmos terminal, but in fact, as long as users who want to buy, as long as they watch the release time of the official website, and then place an order at the first time, they can actually buy the Cosmos terminal .

This has allowed hundreds of thousands of users around the world to experience the first real universe terminal, and then they sold their mobile phones directly.

There is no way, compared with equipment such as the universe terminal, traditional mobile phones are really killed in seconds, and there are not even scum left.After all, the Cosmos terminal has all the functions that a traditional mobile phone should have.

And the functions that traditional mobile phones don't have...that's not much to say.

Although Jiangnan Group tried its best not to associate the terminal with the mobile phone, users still instinctively compare the mobile phone with the terminal. After all, the two are indeed highly interchangeable in function.

Of course, it can't be said that the Jiangnan Group is wasting their minds in vain. Under this kind of publicity and momentum, at least there is no concept of smartphones as mobile phones in the future.

It is a feeling that the terminal is an evolved version of a mobile phone, just like a motorcycle is an evolved version of a bicycle. In the minds of users, terminals and mobile phones are still two different products, not the same thing.

The direct result of the hot sales of the universe terminal is to bring disaster to Apple's CP and Google's PT.

These two products, which were sold out directly after 50 pre-orders, became almost uninterested after the third batch of pre-orders were opened.

After 5 days, even 5 units have not been sold. What is even more frightening is that there have been a large number of new CP and PT sales at low prices on various second-hand trading platforms.

The price is about 20~30 dollars less than the normal price, which is a very scary thing, which means that CP and PT have begun to go downhill.

But the problem is that these two devices have only been officially released for about two months, and now they are starting to plummet, which almost means the end of the future.

But this is also normal. After all, after you have experienced the universe terminal, you will find that no matter whether you are CP or PT, there is no scum left that has been killed in seconds.

What's more terrible is that the initial price of the universe is only 299 US dollars, which is 499 US dollars cheaper than the 200 price of PT and CP. Really, no one will choose it except for the die-hard fans of Apple and Google. buy their equipment.

In the end, in October 2007, the universe terminal announced the third round of large-scale sales.

There is no need for Jiangnan Group to engage in any black-box operations, and more than 100 million devices around the world are all emptied within 2 seconds. At the same time, the sales of the elite version, deluxe version, super version, etc. have also exceeded 50 Taiwan's sales.

On the same day, the universe terminal also announced through various channels that three new production lines of the universe terminal will be built in the next week. Users can buy the equipment they want.

At the same time, Jiangnan Group also slammed the scalpers in a rare announcement, saying that they are destroying the harmonious market order. Jiangnan Group is about to launch large-scale goods. If they don't want to lose money, they suggest selling the goods at the original price immediately or something.

This angry reprimand against the scalpers aroused applause from the market, and the scalpers were in a dazed state when they saw this announcement.

There is a problem with the logic of this announcement. My scalper also bought your equipment at the original price. If you release the goods on a large scale, then I will sell it at the original price at worst, and I can’t lose money!

Feelings are taking my reputation, right?

Although the scalpers are angry, they are all shady existences, and there is no public channel for this to happen. They can only watch helplessly as the entire network praises Jiangnan Group's announcement, and then the prices of brand-new phones in various second-hand markets plummet. In the end, it fell to about [-] to [-] dollars higher than the original price... Then these devices were sold out. After all, the next batch of large-scale delivery will take a month, since the price of the scalper is only [-] to [-] dollars more expensive. , then buy early and enjoy it early!

Just when the Jiangnan Group used all kinds of despicable means to continuously help the universe terminal to open up the market and gain a firm foothold in the market as soon as possible, the Jiangnan Group also quietly held another large-scale event.

That is the "Universal Terminal Developer Conference."

The Jiangnan Group is very aware of the significance of a large number of third-party developers to the universe terminal, so this time the Jiangnan Group can be said to have spent a lot of money, using almost all the contacts in the industry, and no longer give any Well-known large companies have all sent invitation letters, and even many small companies that have just been established, or industry leaders who work independently, have all sent invitation letters.

And it was not submitted through the postal system, but the invitation letter submitted in person by the staff of Jiangnan Group all over the world.

If there is no staff in some areas, then directly entrust other people to help submit, anyway, highlight the word grand.

In addition, as long as all personnel are sure that they will come, they will directly cover the travel expenses and accommodation. Anyway, as long as they are related to attending the meeting, all the expenses related to the meeting are covered. This attitude of Jiangnan Group can be described as very sincere. It is really sad to hear. Those who wept.

So what is the actual situation?
There is a well-written ancient poem "I compared my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch"

Jiangnan Group sent out a total of 13 invitation letters this time, of which 826 invitation letters were sent to medium-sized and above-sized software development companies around the world, many of which have cooperated with Jiangnan Group for several years related.

But if you tell me the result, you may not believe it. That is, less than a fraction of the total number of 3432 companies came. Only 112 companies sent representatives to participate, and none of the other 3300 companies came.

There were more people from small companies, but in the end, only about 25% of the companies sent personnel to arrive. Instead, the largest number of people came were independent leaders from various industries. Almost all those who received the invitation letter showed up.

In the end, more than 3000 representatives attended this developer conference, which made the venue that had originally booked the entire conference hall as a venue look a little empty.

Of course, there are reasons for such an abnormal situation.

The reason for this is also very simple, that is, the entire industry has begun to unite against the quinary system.

In fact, on the third day after the invitation letter was sent out, Jiangnan Group received news secretly from some friendly companies, that is, under the leadership of several internationally renowned software development companies, in a short period of time, a large number of The software development companies reached an agreement, forming a private unified alliance.

The name of this alliance is very simple, it is called "Maintaining Binary System Development and Stability Alliance"

You can tell from the name that this alliance is dedicated to maintaining the binary system, and once the alliance was launched, there were a lot of followers, and more than thousands of companies joined the alliance within a few days.

The first rule of the alliance is that all members of the alliance must develop around the binary computer system, and absolutely no member of the alliance is allowed to participate in the development of other systems, otherwise this alliance member will not only be expelled from the alliance He said that at the same time, all software, development tools, system products, etc. in the alliance are all prohibited from opening permissions and patent licensing to these violating companies.

Just this one rule completely silenced the entire industry, so that almost no large software development companies in the industry had the courage to come to the meeting, and the same was true for small and medium-sized enterprises. Everyone was frightened by this policy.

Some people may find it strange, how can this rule scare so many companies?Is the binding force of this alliance really so terrifying?

Don't say it, it's really that scary.

Although the entire binary system has no copyright restrictions, any company can develop on the basis of the binary system.

But it is impossible for a software to be developed only on the most basic binary system. They need a complete binary system platform with a large number of users.

Such as computer windows system and doc system and so on.

In addition, the development of programs also requires various languages, databases, resource libraries, etc., and a lot of auxiliary development tools.

Some of these tools are free, and some are charged. Of course, no matter whether they are free or charged, they all have copyright behind them and are in the hands of many large software development companies.

So most of the software is free, but the problem is also in the word free.Because it is free, the two parties have not formed a transaction, and there is no constraint on the transaction rules.

On weekdays, these companies can license the software to you for free, and once these companies announce that certain people are prohibited from using their software, then these people can only be restricted from using the software helplessly, because they have not paid, so even It is impossible to appeal in the name of safeguarding consumer rights.

This is the intimidation that the entire software development industry is currently facing. Those companies that hold a large number of software development tools in their hands have joined the alliance. All tools are prohibited.

In this way, not only can new software not continue to be developed, but old software and programs already on the market may also receive a large number of lawyer letters requesting to be taken off the shelves.

This is equivalent to a skilled cook, but one day all the cook's pots, pans, knives, cutting boards, stoves and other cooking tools were confiscated and forbidden to be used. Do you think this cook is afraid?
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