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Chapter 2885: Disciples on Ziwei Star

Zhou Buqi said: "Like you said, helping Meizu this time is really a bit ill-considered. Even if we help, it is only a temporary solution. If Meizu doesn't accept this batch of Samsung's leftovers, other mobile phone manufacturers will take it. This way of handling is really not good. The market economy really has a hidden powerful force. The copycat phone industry has existed for so many years and is still so powerful. There is really a market reason for its existence."

Zhou Shaoning further confirmed his guess, and said with wide eyes: "You are not trying to restore the monarchy, are you? Do you want to revive the copycat phone industry?"

Zhou Buqi burst into laughter.

Zhou Shaoning disagreed at all, "No, no! This won't do! If we kill the copycat phones, wouldn't it be a big joke if we make our own copycat phones?"

Zhou Buqi said, "But you also said that knockoff phones are necessary. The remaining goods on the supply side, even including some obsolete products, inventory and second-hand goods, must have a shipping channel. If knockoff phones don't take over, who will? Let the legitimate mobile phone manufacturers take over? Isn't this just breeding a gray industry chain?"

"Uh..." Zhou Shaoning twitched his lips, "So in order to prevent this gray industry chain from affecting the healthy development of the domestic smartphone industry, you want to monopolize this gray industry?"

Zhou Buqi said with compassion: "If I don't go to hell, who will? Rather than letting this hidden gray industry harm the entire domestic mobile phone industry, I might as well take the initiative to stand up and bear all the bitter consequences!"

Zhou Shaoning almost choked to death.

Chen Guohuan burst into laughter.

He is indeed the big boss!

He had heard this way of speaking many times inside Ziweixing. If you were not familiar with Boss Zhou, you might be moved to tears after hearing this. But if you stayed with him for a long time, you would understand that the boss was very smart and would never do a business at a loss.

Chen Guohuan said very seriously: "Although I am not from the mobile phone industry, I basically understand it. The market for supplier leftovers is bound to exist. As long as this market exists, they will rack their brains to find shipping channels. Just like Samsung, if friendly negotiations cannot sell it, then they can only force bundling and force sales. If they dare not force bundling on large manufacturers, they will force bundling on small manufacturers."

Zhou Buqi nodded. "Those small manufacturers are bullied by suppliers every day. Not to mention the small ones, aren't the big ones the same? Even Apple and Samsung are forced to be tied up by Qualcomm? Even Lenovo and HP are constrained by Intel? Small mobile phone manufacturers are weaker, which will only allow more suppliers to bully them. If you want to get the goods on the purchase list, you must buy the remaining inventory from the suppliers."

Chen Guohuan said: "This is a general industry environment."

Zhou Buqi said, "Yes, it is the result of the market economy. It is not realistic to rely on laws and policies to restrict it. We have seen that in the PC industry, small factories have all died. There is also the factor of suppliers poisoning small factories. Now, except for a few foreign companies like Apple and Samsung, most of the global mobile phone manufacturers are in China. Such a tail market can only be taken up by domestic mobile phone manufacturers."

“And it’s a small manufacturer.”

"Correct."

"I... I bought a mobile phone, a Hammer phone." Chen Guohuan suddenly changed the subject, but he was a little embarrassed, after all, Astar was his own company. "But I really like the industrial design of the Hammer phone."

Zhou Shaoning disagreed and shook his head repeatedly, "The Smartisan phone will never succeed. The design details look good and took a lot of thought, but in fact they are full of cheapness that is not worth mentioning. At most, they can accumulate reputation in the niche field, and it is difficult to break into the mainstream mass market and get a chance to be on the table. Meizu can succeed, LeTV can succeed, but it is not the turn of Smartisan."

Chen Guohuan said: "But Smartisan is indeed innovating, real innovation. Smartphones are becoming more and more homogeneous nowadays, and innovation is becoming more and more difficult. Innovation is the biggest competitiveness of a product, especially in the international market. If Asda wants to compete with Apple and Samsung, it must not lag behind in innovation. For many innovations, large companies like Asda should not take risks to undertake, but small companies like Smartisan and Meizu can be bolder and braver."

He is not a product maker.

But he is also a senior executive of Ziweixing.

After being influenced by him for so many years, he has long become Zhou Buqi's disciple in product thinking.

One of Zhou Buqi’s very important product ideas is the “experimental field” idea.

The risks of innovation are too high and the costs are too great.

Samsung's mobile phone "explosion" was the result of a failure to innovate, and the introduction of fast charging when the technology was immature. The result was a fatal blow, and Samsung completely lost the domestic market, with its market share dropping from 20% to 0%.

Without innovation, even if the products are criticized for being outdated, the market share will only decline to a limited extent, at most from 20% to 18%.

If you innovate, you may be a huge success, increasing your share from 20% to 30%.

Or you may fail miserably and lose everything.

The bigger the company, the more cautious it is in terms of innovation. Even the iPhone stopped innovating after becoming the world's number one. Small companies are different. If they want to stand out, they must fight for their lives and rely on innovation to attract attention and find opportunities for breakthroughs. The most important factor for Ziweixing to have such a strong product line today is that Zhou Buqi built a perfect "experimental field" in his early years - Xiaonei.com.

However, Astar also relies on the campus network as a test field, so it must be cautious.

Ziweixing's products are all free, so even if college students don't have a good experience using them, they can just give up and not use them, which won't cause them any loss. This is the key to the "experimental field." It's different with Astar, because college students have to spend money to buy their phones. Once the experimental phones don't have a good experience, that's bad.

The college student didn't have much money, and ended up being in trouble because of Aisda's experimental cell phone...

This is not benefiting college students.

This is taking advantage of college students.

If you want to continue the product concept of "experimental field" in Aistar, you have to find other ways. Domestic small mobile phone manufacturers such as Meizu, Hammer, and TCL are good choices. We must protect them! We must free domestic small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers from the gray industry of suppliers' tail goods!

Only these small factories have the courage to innovate, and their innovative designs that are recognized by the market may be adopted (copied) by large companies like Astar!

After all, Chen Guohuan has been with Boss Zhou for a longer time.

Moreover, Zhou Buqi usually expounds his product ideas on Ziweixing, and his disciples are all on Ziweixing.

This is where the disagreement at the dinner table lies.

Zhou Shaoning was still wondering why he should pay attention to the copycat mobile phone industry and why he should go through so much trouble to solve such a thorny gray industry dilemma. However, Chen Guohuan could follow the clues of Boss Zhou's product ideas and then follow his strategic industry ideas!

  We must protect Meizu!

Is it really inappropriate?

not necessarily!

  This can become a typical case in the mobile phone industry!

We must protect domestic small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers and prevent them from being attacked by suppliers' gray strategies, so that they can focus more energy on product innovation.

This is actually very cruel.

  Because small companies are the experimental fields of big companies!

If Asda wants to compete with giants like Apple and Samsung in the world, it must not only rely on its own strength, but also rely on the collective innovation of the huge domestic mobile phone industry, and then learn from it and apply it to its own use, so as to maintain its own competitive advantage.

Buddha said: If I don’t go to hell, who will?

This certainly reflects the Buddha's great compassion and great spirit.

At the same time, it is precisely because of such thoughts that the Buddha truly became a Buddha. This is the benefit brought by such great compassion and great spirit.

By resolving the problems of the gray industrial chain of leftover goods, obsolete products and second-hand goods for the domestic mobile phone industry, a broad mind and a broad vision can also bring higher-level benefits to the industry.

Chen Guohuan saw his boss clearly.

Feeling excited.

Sincere admiration, admiration from the bottom of my heart.

Other companies offered high salaries to poach him, but he was never tempted because only by following Boss Zhou could he truly feel the infectious charm of the business market and the various meanings of life.

It’s a pity that Chen Guohuan thought he was more of a direct descendant than Zhou Shaoning and could understand Boss Zhou better.

But he still underestimated Boss Zhou's plan.

He was only half right at best.