20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2801 Chris is right

As the world's best-selling company, Finland's Nokia, the remarks made by its North American president, Chris, were immediately reported by reporters who like to add fuel to the fire.

It was then widely publicized in newspapers, magazines, television and radio economic programs, and on the Internet.

They all brought their small stools, eager to watch the show.

One is the long-standing global leader. Last year, out of the 4.2 million mobile phones sold worldwide, Nokia alone accounted for 30.6%, selling 1.28 million units.

Motorola of the United States, which ranked second, accounted for only 13.3%, and Ericsson of Sweden, which ranked third, accounted for 9.7%.

The BlackBerry, which sold only a little over 10 units, is just a hair on Nokia's body.

However, although BlackBerry's size is only a fraction of Nokia's, it made a splash with its performance in September. When stock prices in the global Internet + mobile market continued to hit new lows, it stood out and was dazzling.

As the industry leader, it had no highlights in the incident in September. Comparison means there is a difference between good and bad, so Chris simply lowered his own status by talking about the rush to buy used BlackBerry phones, revealing the jealousy in his heart that he was unwilling to admit.

Other mobile phone manufacturers who hold similar views to Chris, as well as some economists and social commentators who "represent reason and conscience", have also made very negative comments and criticisms on this phenomenon.

Some even link this phenomenon to the hippie culture of the 1960s and 1970s, which represented decadent culture and nonsensical rebellious expression.

  We urge young people to be restrained and rational. North America is actually very safe without so many natural disasters or man-made tragedies. When buying a mobile phone, you should consider the price/performance ratio. Don't blindly follow the trend and rush to buy RIM6230 for an emergency channel that you will never use. It is even unbelievable and irrational to spend two or three thousand dollars to buy a shabby, outdated mobile phone!

However, what is jaw-dropping is that Chris and those economists and social commentators who "represent reason and conscience" never expected that with their hype and the media's fueling of the flames,

In less than two or three days, countless young people who were unconventional began to speculate on RIM6320 more vigorously on the numerous instant messaging software such as ICQ, AOL Messenger (America Online), MSN Messenger (Microsoft), and Yahoo Messenger. Some wealthy people even offered five or six thousand dollars to buy RIM6320 and invoices, no matter whether they were new or old.

ICQ, in particular, now has over 100 million users, making it the undisputed number one instant messaging software in the world, and it is filled with purchase requests.

For a time, BlackBerry dominated the world's screens for the second time.

The first time was two months ago. Although the BlackBerry BES+BIS channel was proven to be secure and unobstructed, it was still filled with gloom and worry.

This time, a new generation of North American youth is gradually rebelling against the hierarchy, injustice, the proliferation of guns, privilege, expert advice, the cries of people of justice, and these monkey-like clown faces that permeate society.

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Thursday, April 11th.

After the downward volatility in the previous few days, BlackBerry's stock price suddenly soared 16% in one day, from a low of US$22.3 to US$25.89.

Not only did it recover its previous lost ground in one day, but it also reached its highest point in history.

It surprised too many stock analysts.

On Friday the 30th, BlackBerry's stock price rose by another 11%, closing at $28.73 in the afternoon!

This made the stock analysts' jaws drop to the ground again.

That evening, all financial programs in North America could not avoid talking about the little star BlackBerry's 27% surge in the past two days.

Because BlackBerry's sales and profits so far are almost transparent and easy to estimate, except for the 10 million or 20 million (US dollars) it earned from Tianyue Future as a middleman at the beginning of the year. The total sales do not exceed 200 million, and the total gross profit does not exceed 40 million.

The problem is that the funds lost from the recall of this phone alone will not be less than 200 million, and this is not including the free emails they announced for ordinary users.

  These losses will eat up BlackBerry's profits for more than the next ten years!

In the end, almost everyone came to the unanimous conclusion that this was another old trick used by the Chinese man, Zhao Changan, trying to drive up the stock price and cash out and run away.

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Zhao Changan simply ignored these malicious speculations, because the turmoil stirred up by BlackBerry in the entire North American mobile phone market made him surprised and start thinking seriously.

  It was in this situation that, after Mike and Qiao Hang's team solved the technical problems of dual channels and minimum bytes to light up the email icon, how should the following RIM6230 be manufactured?

Are they just going to continue manufacturing the model that was launched in 99, which will already be three or four years old by next year?

'Make mobile phones thinner and smaller, with longer standby time, more mobile games and polyphonic ringtones, color screens, and built-in antennas.'

'Flip phones, camera phones, these are the new selling points.'

Frankly speaking, Zhao Changan agreed with Chris in his heart, just as he did not think that Jim's previous choice of BlackBerry's "secure and efficient mobile phone used by business and political elites" was wrong in its positioning.

In 99, if it weren't for Jim's brilliant positioning, BlackBerry would have gone bankrupt and been sold long ago.

However, Jim's positioning allowed BlackBerry to survive and thrive, but it could only be a niche phone.

For example, in Zhao Changan’s previous life, the 8848 titanium mobile phone was sold at a very high price and became a standard for some people who loved to show off.

And this group of people can make a fortune by using this gimmick.

However, this positioning means that this mobile phone brand will not last too long.

In Zhao Changan's previous life, if it hadn't been for the September incident, BlackBerry would probably have only existed for two or three years. Although it suffered a fatal Waterloo in the mobile phone industry, it would not have entered the embedded security operating system market relying on its outstanding performance in September.

So, Jim was right before. If it hadn't been for September, he wouldn't have been wrong. He could have made easy money for a few more years by 'serving the business and political elites and providing secure and efficient wireless email services', and then when the iPhone came out in 07, he would have cashed out and left immediately, and he would have become a billionaire in the days to come.

However, God has given BlackBerry this rare opportunity, and if you don't take it, you will be blamed. Now Jim is obviously still intoxicated with his previous glory and is unwilling to take a bigger and more ridiculous step. So now the baton of BlackBerry will be taken over by him, Zhao Changan.

And next, how should he go on this road? While thinking about it, Zhao Changan took Chris's words very seriously.

These days, the more Zhao Changan thought about Chris's words and the unspoken meaning in his words, the more he felt that what he said was very right and very good. He pointed out incisively that BlackBerry now even has survival issues.

It can be said that Chris’s position as the president of Nokia North America is not for nothing.

If Chris was willing to humble himself, Zhao Changan even wanted to poach him from BlackBerry with a high salary to be the director of product function design for BlackBerry.

He and his team gave new BlackBerry phones and PADs new functions, while Mike and Qiao Hang's R&D teams added modules to the phones and PADs based on these requirements.

Because he needed some time to think quietly, he borrowed a car from Mike and drove around on the maple mountain roads in the Great Lakes region, looking at the mountains, looking at the water, climbing high and looking far, and relaxing himself.

At this time, Zhao Changan was hesitating whether to make another exaggerated decision.