The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 1168 Garbage Apple

"Garbage, it's still garbage!" Jobs angrily threw away an iphone2 generation CP in his hand. This is the second generation product that the company is about to launch, but Jobs played with it in his hand and found that this product It can't even compare to the first generation of Tianyu Terminal. If Apple uses this thing to hold a press conference, God knows how it will be ridiculed.

But what is even more deadly is that this second-generation product has to be released, otherwise this gadget that has worked so hard to invest all of Apple's possessions will become an abandoned child of the times.

Who made Apple's first-generation CP suffer the most tragic treatment in history?

Originally, the situation at the beginning of the release of the CP generation was very good. Because of the long-term marketing, both CP and PT have attracted enough attention. The initial more than 200 million devices were all sold out immediately. Apple felt extremely excited from top to bottom.

But with the appearance of the end of the universe, everything is completely different.

In front of the universe terminal, whether it is your own CP or a friend's PT, they are all scumbags in seconds, not only in terms of equipment fluency, but also in terms of price. .

In the regular version of the universe terminal, the price is locked at 300 US dollars. At the beginning, Apple bit the bullet and continued to sell the original price of 500 US dollars. As a result, the sales volume was naturally bleak and unparalleled. It didn't sell.

So Apple in another world is also taking the high price route.But in that world, Apple was the first to eat crabs, and the experience of using mobile phones has indeed surpassed all Android phones in seconds. Even if you sell at a low price, many people will quit.

But after Boss Huang came to this world, the situation was completely different, so Apple was still the first to hold a press conference, but the quality of its products was instantly killed by the universe terminal and turned into scum.

Compared with the universe terminal, this simply cannot be sold.

However, Jobs has never given up hope, and he believes that Apple is more than 90% sure that it can counter-kill its opponents, because the opponents actually use anti-market quinary computer systems and programs.

This kind of system, apart from the Jiangnan Group itself, I am afraid that no third party can develop programs for him. There is no program in the universe terminal. Don't look at the bustle now. When the program software libraries of both parties are not in the same order of magnitude , that is when the universe terminal is killed in seconds.

But even Jobs himself did not expect that Boss Huang would come up with the genius routine of exchanging stock codes for stocks.

This caused a large number of program companies to bite the bullet and start developing programs for the universe terminal. It took only three months for the universe terminal to make the total number of applications in its app store exceed 10. Now the total number of applications in the app store It has already broken 30.

In comparison, the current apps in the itunes store have just exceeded 30, and they have been killed by opponents [-] times.

Faced with this situation, Boss Qiao could comfort himself at first. The application store of the universe terminal is full of junk programs specially used to redeem the codes on the shelves. The quantity is empty but the quality is not worth mentioning.

However, with the listing of 00 Network, the rules for exchanging stocks have also changed from quantity to quality. Although most of the leather bag companies have stopped the development of the universe terminal application, the growth rate of the number of applications in their program stores has also been greatly reduced. After that, various programs launched by third-party development companies gradually appeared on the various ranking lists in the Cosmos Store.

Of course, it is the application developed by Jiangnan Group that dominates all the rankings at this time.

While doing everything possible to encourage third parties to develop applications, Jiangnan Group has never left behind the most important environment of self-development. After all, at this time, the combined strength of the third-party pentad development cannot be compared with Jiangnan Group's own pentad development. Compared with power, the focus of the development of various program software still falls on Jiangnan Group itself.

Then Jiangnan Group launched a variety of programs and applications at a double-digit rate every week. Among them, the earliest super-dominant-level social APP WeChat will not be mentioned. Later, they also launched beauty cameras. Cosmos Office, Cosmos Photo Editing, Cosmos News, Cosmos Video, Cosmos Music, etc. Various applications with various functions are continuously developed and launched, and the various functions of Cosmos Terminal are also constantly enriched , firmly occupying the top positions in the application list.

However, the launch speed of the application is still low. The real launch speed is actually the game-related applications. When the universe was just launched, a built-in game called Cut the Rope became a popular game at that time. , triggering a stir on the entire network.

After that, the universe terminal will launch an explosive game almost every quarter. For example, the game Fruit Ninja was launched in the first quarter of 2008. It is said that many terminal screens are smoked.

In the second quarter, the game "Little Crocodile Loves Bathing" was launched, and once again dominated the list.

In the third quarter, that is, a month ago, Cosmos Terminal launched a game that was several times more influential than the previous ones: Plants vs. Zombies.

This tower defense game, which relies on plants to fight against zombies, quickly hit the Internet.Especially at this time, facing the subprime mortgage crisis, a large number of people stay at home and have nothing to do, and just use the terminal game to relieve boredom, which also leads to the wave of the plant vs. zombie game in disguise.

Even in order to keep up with the trend of the times, many people gritted their teeth and saved $300 in cash to buy a Cosmos terminal, so that the first generation of Cosmos terminal ushered in the whole August. A sales climax, a full 1 million units were sold in a month.

This sales data is more than 200 million more than Apple CP's annual sales data. Boss Qiao was so angry that he even gave up the morning and evening classes that day. He even said for the first time that Apple will also create its own game development department. of.

But Jiangnan Group's own development of games is actually not too fatal. After all, no matter how fast their development speed is, there are only a dozen games in a quarter. The meaning of joining the battlefield of terminal games, after all, they do not have the ability to develop games of the quinary system.

Then 00 Network made a move. After completing the listing, OO Network held a terrifyingly huge amount of cash flow in its hands. 00 Network didn’t even know what to do with the cash, so they announced that they would carry out a large-scale transplant plan and spend a lot of money. Recruit personnel to transplant all classic PC and console games to the terminal.

Because OO Network stated that after the game is successfully transplanted, the holder of the game IP can still get 50% of the sales share, so the major game companies have no resistance to this plan, and let the game team formed by 00 Network take Make your own classic games into terminal versions.

In just half a year, more than 600 classic PC games and console games have been transplanted to the universe terminal, and also in August, 8 Network even announced that it will start a new simultaneous transplant.

That is to say, when a game company wants to release the latest game, for example, if Nintendo wants to release the host game of "Pokémon Angel and Demon", then 00 Network will release the terminal version of "Pokémon Angel and Demon" on the same day. ".

Of course, this is just an example. Nintendo is still very stubborn in cooperating with the OO game platform. It still takes the path of self-production, self-sale and self-built sales network, and ignores the olive branch extended by 00 Network.

However, other game manufacturers are not so stubborn. It is SB who has money but does not make money. There is no reason to refuse at all.

So although Apple, Google, and even Boss Qiao himself have always firmly believed that in the absence of a large number of third-party developers, no matter how good the performance of the universe terminal is, it is absolutely impossible to win this battle.

But a year has passed, and the classic programs and games on the universe terminal are emerging one after another, and a large number of new applications are launched every month. However, in contrast to Apple and Google, the growth rate of applications in their application stores has begun to decline.

Now the number of new third-party applications released every month is less than three digits, and most of them are applications developed by unknown small companies or independent producers. Those major program manufacturers have almost given up on CP and PT. The above third-party program development.

It is said that these major program companies have secretly established holding affiliated companies, and then invested huge financial resources in these affiliated companies to develop applications for the universe store.

Even if they don't have pentadic computer system development talents at all, then they bite the bullet and spend high salaries to poach people from other companies, or even fly directly to Huaxia, go to Jiangnan University to snatch people or something, just to take away a person who knows how to develop 5th system. Programmers of binary programs.

It is said that the average monthly salary of a pentary program developer in the market has reached a terrifying price of 7000 US dollars, while the average monthly salary of the same binary program developer is only 4300 US dollars. There is almost a double-kill gap between the two. .

By the way, Apple has also conducted a sincere research. Jobs himself went to chat with some friends to understand why they would rather get involved in the quinary computer system with no experience at all than to develop on the familiar iOS platform. program.

And the answers of these friends hit the nail on the head, simple and clear, "You have almost no active users now, and you can't make any money developing programs for you. Although the development cost of the universe is high, as long as you can make good things, it's still worth it. Can make money!"

"Now that the economy is in a downturn, the sales of various industrial software have been falling again and again, but the profit of games has risen astonishingly, and among them, terminal games are the fastest growing. If we don't step on this trend, we will fall!"

(End of this chapter)