The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 1219 Sold tens of millions more
"Tell me, if those people in the US know that after we gave up the universe terminal, we actually earn more than before we didn't give up, I don't know if we will be pissed off!" Leng Zhiruo said with a smile.

At first hearing these words, it seems to be saying that after the Jiangnan Group gave up the Tianyu Terminal, the total income it earned was actually more than before it was not given up.

But in fact, this understanding is wrong, because before giving up the universe terminal, the group's annual net profit on the universe terminal was only less than 20 billion U.S. dollars, but now, more than half of the total revenue of 800 billion U.S. dollars , that is, the revenue of 400 billion U.S. dollars is the net profit of Jiangnan Group, which is equivalent to an exaggeration of 20 times the previous amount.

In fact, before the release, Jiangnan Group’s total income from the universe terminal was not low. In 2009, it sold a total of 1.5 million universe terminals of various models. If the selling price is about US$400, the total sales revenue will be US$600 billion. If the application revenue is added, the total revenue will also exceed US$800 billion, which is actually higher than it is now.

But why is the profit only a measly $20 billion?

First of all, in order to compete for the market, Jiangnan Group basically lost money in terms of cost. A common version of the universe terminal sold for $299, the manufacturing cost, and various taxes and transportation costs are included. In fact, the cost of each unit has to reach At around US$320, only some higher-end versions can be profitable, but in this period, consumers around the world mainly buy ordinary versions, and the sales of mid-range versions are very low, let alone high-end versions.

In addition, within a very short time window, Jiangnan Group has built an entire terminal application ecological network by itself. At its peak, Jiangnan Group recruited more than 6 programmers at the same time to develop various programs for Tianyu Terminal. , the cost in this regard is extremely huge, exceeding $50 billion in personnel costs.

In addition, there are a lot of research and development costs. The development cost of the terminal in the Jiangnan Group's research center is more than 900 billion a year, especially in recent years. Although the terminal has been developed, the terminal Subsequent upgrades and research and development costs are still high, even higher than before the development was successful, which eventually led to a revenue of more than 20 billion U.S. dollars in a whole year, but only a profit of [-] billion U.S. dollars. The low profit margin Pitiful.

It is hard to imagine that this is the profit margin owned by a company that occupies a monopoly position.

At the same time, because of the huge potential of the terminal market, more and more companies, even when you have almost formed a monopoly, are still entering the game strongly, such as Apple and Google. Although their sales are not too high, who knows what will happen in the future? Will it grow into the strongest competitor of Tianyu Terminal?

Not to mention that there are some guys behind who want to play some outside tricks, so even in a monopoly position, Boss Huang still feels very headache.

But it will be different after the full opening, first of all, in terms of parts sales.Because it is directly aimed at the enterprise sales, not the direct user market, so there is no need to consider the user market's ability to accept the product price. You only need to set the price according to the 10% profit margin. This is a guaranteed profit. .

As for how those terminal companies that have purchased parts can ensure that their prices are competitive under these costs, that is something that these companies have to consider.

Another point worth mentioning is that throughout 2010, the total sales volume of the terminal market was actually 2.4 million units, but Jiangnan Group sold 3.2 million terminal chips.

Considering that terminal chips can only be used on terminals and not on other products, nearly 0.8 million pieces of terminal chips seem to have disappeared from the market and were bought by existing users.

Well, Jiangnan Group can confirm that there are only 2.4 million units sold.

And each terminal must be activated through the network if it wants to use it, and each chip has its own unique code, so once the terminal of this chip is activated, Jiangnan Group can receive the corresponding data.

So Jiangnan Group is very sure that only 2.4 million chips have been activated, and the remaining 8 million chips really seem to have disappeared and have not been activated at all.

This situation aroused the curiosity of the Jiangnan Group, so they sent a special team to investigate, and the results of the investigation came out soon.I thought there would be some kind of conspiracy in it, but it turned out to make people laugh and cry.

It turned out that the competition in 2010 was too fierce, too many new terminal manufacturers entered the game, and each company was full of confidence in itself, starting with [-] terminals.

As a result, a large number of terminals cannot be sold at all. Many companies have 70 or 8000 units in their inventory, and more than [-]% of the new entrants are basically like this, so there are [-] chips squeezed in the warehouse. , is also a normal thing.

Seeing this news, Jiangnan Group naturally laughed even more happily. After all, the extra 8000 million pieces are the proceeds of Jiangnan Group's actual sales!

Of course, most of the terminal companies that have just entered the game will not be able to survive, and this wave will simply disappear.

Are these companies poor?

Not pathetic at all.

First of all, the employees of the enterprise are paid, and you will be paid as much as you do for the work you do. If the enterprise closes down, it has nothing to do with your personal income, so the employees of the enterprise will not suffer any losses.

Will the person in charge of the enterprise lose money?

It depends on the source of funds for the business. If the person in charge of the enterprise has his own funds, then the person in charge will indeed suffer a big loss.

However, for companies like terminals that need at least 100 million yuan to start, there are still a few entrepreneurs who really use their own funds to start a business. Most of them still try to fool investors' money, so the real losses should be Investment agency.

Will the investment institution cry at the loss?
Of course not, what investment institutions invest is not their own money, but the money of those investors who hand over the money to them for investment. They are also workers, and they can happily lead each month Fixed jobs, they cry hell.

The last ones to cry are mostly investors, that is, the majority of stockholders.

Therefore, stock investors are the benefactors of the entire market.

Closer to home, after the complete liberalization of the terminal market, the hardware cost that was originally a loss has completely entered a state of profitability.Moreover, the profit is huge. The profit of Jiangnan Group in one year exceeds 100 billion US dollars.

However, many people may not have imagined that in terms of scientific research, the opening up this time has also helped Jiangnan Group save a lot of scientific research costs.

First of all, if Jiangnan Group still independently develops and operates the universe terminal, then all the development and R&D work will have to be done by Jiangnan Group itself, and the cost pressure will be huge.

But after the entire system was completely opened up, the main developer changed from Jiangnan Group to other terminal companies.

After all, the technical authorization and special functions that Jiangnan Group can provide are also open to everyone. The special functions that I can have, other people can also have, so there are no special functions at all, and the rest is only Fighting price wars is the stupidest way to compete.

Therefore, finding ways to make their own terminals have unique features is the correct way to compete, so many terminal companies have begun to find ways to do their own research and development, and come up with some brain-opening features.

For example, the full-screen screen mentioned earlier was created by Xiaomi himself, by borrowing from the works of his predecessors.According to a rough statistics of Jiangnan Group, among all licensees, more than three figures have invested millions of R&D funds to develop various special terminal parts and functions.

So these things are all developed by the company itself, but these technologies themselves are based on the platform of the universe terminal.

According to some clauses in the original authorization agreement, although the technologies developed by other companies on the technology platform of the universe terminal belong to the company itself, Jiangnan Group also enjoys the exclusive authorization and use rights of these technologies for free.

To put it simply, as long as these technologies are developed by these companies, Jiangnan Group will automatically have the right to use these technologies, and can use these technologies in its own products reasonably and legally.

After all, I first licensed my own technology to you for free, and you in turn licensed the technology to me for free. This is a very reasonable, legal and fair transaction. Even when God comes, you can’t say no, so these companies , In fact, he became a free technology developer of Jiangnan Group.

In addition to hardware technology, software development is the same.

There are also rigid regulations in the authorization agreement. Any technical improvement and transformation carried out by various companies for the Zixiao terminal system, or bug repairs, etc., must be reported to Jiangnan Group as soon as possible, and then Jiangnan Group will report to the Jiangnan Group as soon as possible. These upgrades are put into the database of the Zixiao system, and a new version of the Zixiao system is launched every month, so that all terminal companies can use it for free, forming a super platform that is completely shared, free and mutually beneficial.

That's what the Androids of the later generations did, and that's why Android was able to change from a junk system that was stuck and unnecessary to a system that was as smooth as Apple's IOS in just a few years. Mobile phone manufacturers are tirelessly modifying the improvements brought about by various Android system programs.

And these things, which Jiangnan Group used to spend a lot of manpower to improve, are now paid for by major companies. Doesn’t Jiangnan Group save a lot of expenses?

(End of this chapter)