Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 559 Apple Judgment Day, Xingyi Semiconductor Highlight!

"The sales of iPhone 5s have dropped significantly, and even the sales of iPhone 5c are not as good as the sales of the previous generation iPhone 5 in the same period, not to mention the sales of Xphone 3 and Xphone 3 Plus."

"Cook, you are a loser. Since you became CEO, the iPhone has been getting worse day by day!"

"You're rubbish. You still want to be Joe's best successor? You're not even one-third as good as Joe. You're just a loser!"

"The Apple empire built by Steve Jobs will be destroyed in your hands!"

"All the achievements that Qiao had worked so hard for over ten years were ruined by you in just a few years!"

"Cook, Apple's revenue and profits continue to decline, and my stock has shrunk by more than half. It wouldn't be a pity if you died ten thousand times. I'm going to sink you into the Pacific Ocean to feed the sharks!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two people lifted him up and threw him directly into the sea!
"No!"

"Help!"

Cook cried out loudly, but unfortunately no one paid attention.

There was a pop.

He was thrown into the vast ocean, and the surging waves swept him to the bottom of the sea.

Cook choked on the water several times and finally struggled to the surface of the sea, trying to swim towards the cruise ship.

But I found that the cruise ship had already gone away.

The shareholders on the deck waved at him, as if wishing him good luck.

"Fake!"

"Help!"

Cook shouted loudly, but there was no one in the sea ahead.

Only the smell of blood came from behind.

"This is..." Cook was horrified and thought of the worst case scenario in an instant.

Suddenly he looked back and saw a huge bloody mouth opened and swallowed him whole.

"No!"

"No!"

Hysterical screams echoed throughout the villa. Cook was terrified and sat up suddenly.

Only then did I realize that it was another nightmare!
In recent days, Cook has been suffering from insomnia and nightmares.

What I dreamed about was a sharp decline in Apple's sales. The sales of iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c combined were not as good as the sales of iPhone 5 in the same period, and not as good as the sales of Xphone 3 alone.

For this, the board was furious and threw him into the sea to feed the sharks, or shot him with an AK...

Every time was extremely miserable, every death was horrible, and then I woke up in shock from the dream.

Just like today, my back is soaked with cold sweat!
dong dong dong.

There was a knock on the door, and the butler said gently, "Mr. Cook, are you okay?"

"Oh it's all right."

"I'm right next to you, just call me if you need anything."

"it is good."

The housekeeper returned to his room. He was no longer surprised by such things.

This has happened several times in the past week.

He couldn't say anything and could only pray that God would bless Cook.

Amen!

"Fortunately it was a dream!" Cook breathed a sigh of relief, feeling exhausted.

Recently, I have been racking my brains to increase sales during the day, and being tortured by nightmares at night.

That’s really enough.

"However, today is the eighth day since the iPhone 5s went on sale, right? The first week sales report should be out..."

"The storm is coming!"

Cook's mood, which had just relaxed, became tense again.

As a result, I didn't sleep at all for the next half of the night.

I couldn't even eat breakfast.

I arrived at the company headquarters with trepidation, as anxious as a poor student waiting for test results.

This day is a day of judgment for Cook and Apple!
Not only him, but also the marketing department, R&D department, etc., all have the same feeling.

But some things cannot be avoided.

Cook came to the conference room, looked around at everyone, and said calmly, "The first week sales report is out, right?"

"Chairman, come out." The marketing director handed over a document, but his hands were shaking a little.

Cook took a deep breath and opened the file, his expression somewhat complicated:
“iPhone 5S sold 400 million units worldwide in one week!”

“iPhone 5c sold 200 million units worldwide in one week!”

The good news is that the combined sales of the two phones exceeded the first-week sales of the iPhone 5.

Last year, after the iPhone 5 went on sale, global sales exceeded 500 million units in the first week.

The bad news is that this year's two models combined, which were simultaneously launched in multiple countries including the United States, barely surpassed last year.

Cook didn't know what to say for a moment.

But at least, I don’t have to be fed to sharks, right?
When a CEO like him has outstanding performance and can bring profits to shareholders, capital consortiums will be very polite to him and support him.

But if the performance is not good and the shareholders suffer heavy losses, the capital and the consortium will be ruthless to him and even kill him.

As for feelings? Humanity?

If capital and consortium pay attention to these things, they cannot become capital or consortium.

Even Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was fired many times!

When you need him, invite him back.

What’s more, he is just a Cook.

If Apple's sales really decline severely, its stock price plummets, and its shareholder consortium loses tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, it is possible that it will be fed to sharks or dump trucks.

"However, what were the first-week sales of xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus?" Cook couldn't help but ask.

The combined sales of iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c exceeded those of iPhone 5, which only means that it has survived, but its future can be determined only by comparing it with the Xingyi phone.

"Xphone 3 sold 300 million units in the first week."

"Xphone 3 Plus sold 400 million units in its first week."

"The two models sold a total of 700 million units, only one million more than our iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c."

"Only one million more?" Cook laughed. "The data you are talking about is only the sales of Xphone 3 and Xphone 3 Plus in Xia Country, right? What about overseas sales?"

"This..." The marketing director hesitated for a moment: "Chairman, this is the official data released by Xingyi Technology, which is more reliable."

"Reliable as hell!" Cook was furious: "The data they released is only the sales of licensed products, just normal data, and does not include the sales of parallel-imported products sold overseas at all!"

"As for the overseas sales of parallel-imported products, a conservative estimate is that 200 million units were sold to consumers in the first week!"

"Therefore, the first week sales of Xphone 3 and Xphone 3 Plus have exceeded 900 million units, which is 5 times the total first week sales of our iPhone 5S and iPhone 1.5c!"

"This……"

Everyone was shocked. They never expected there would be so many, 1.5 times as many as Apple!
Too scary!

"Alas, this is all caused by the Prism Gate." Cook was filled with emotion:
"The xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus are better and more powerful than our iPhone 5S, and they sell better in Xia Country. Plus, due to the impact of the Prism Gate, we were boycotted and our sales declined. Their sales were favored and soared. Even the parallel imports sold out. The positive and negative sides are 1.5 times ours, which is normal."

After that, Cook fell silent: "How should I explain such a big gap to the board of directors?"

What a big head!
Looking at the senior executives, Cook was even more furious:

"Everyone, find a way to increase sales. If the sales in the second week are only two-thirds of the new Xingyi flagship, the board of directors will not let me go, and I will not let you go either!"

"Yes!" Everyone's face changed drastically and they began to discuss countermeasures.

Cook was struggling with how to report to the board of directors artistically...

The sales gap in the first week was 1.5 times, and it’s hard to say what the sales gap will be in the second week.

After all, in the second week, Xiaomi had xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus on sale in the market, so the gap might be even bigger.

Without the Prism Gate, the new Xingyi flagship would not be able to sell as well as the new Apple flagship sold globally.

But with the Prism scandal, even the parallel-imported Xingyi flagship is hot-selling, so Apple’s new flagship is no match.

Wang Yi didn't pay much attention to these, his eyes were still on "Boom Beach".

If this momentum continues, the revenue of "Boom Beach" in September is expected to exceed 9 billion.

These days, there aren’t that many smartphone terminals and mobile game users.

Therefore, a monthly turnover of 10 billion is considered a SSS god-level hit.

It can be said that such revenue is equivalent to that of Genshin Impact and King of Glory ten years later!

However, although "Boom Beach" is well done, it certainly cannot be compared with "Honor of Kings" and "Genshin Impact".

Not on the same level.

To put it bluntly, "Honor of Kings" and "Genshin Impact" are SSS-level blockbuster games, while "Boom Beach" is at most an S-level blockbuster.

In the middle, there is still a SS-level blockbuster like "PUBG Mobile"!

But even so, "Boom Beach" still achieved SSS-level revenue and was completely upgraded!

As for the reason, I can only say thank you to our friendly competitors for their assistance.

If the director of Supercell Oy didn't seek death, publicly insult and belittle players, there wouldn't be so many Clash of Clans players quitting the game and switching to Boom Beach!
The release of AI translation triggered the anger of "national war" among players from various countries, making "Boom Beach" more playable.

As a result, players from all countries have begun to form alliances, build bases, and improve their combat capabilities in preparation for the national war that will be coming next month!
Wang Yi was very happy about this.

The more aggressively players fight, the more Boom Beach makes.

But Supercell Oy was dumbfounded.

As soon as the internal email was exposed, "Clash of Clans" lost a large number of users every day, and the daily revenue was declining rapidly.

In just one week, daily revenue has fallen by 7%.

Not many players would spend money on the game while being scolded.

This is not realistic.

In response, the CEO of Supercell Oy was furious and quickly launched an internal investigation.

Leander Arnold, the development director who triggered this incident, was bound to be the first to bear the brunt and be directly fired.

R&D manager Karen Herick was also internally investigated for negligence, but the final investigation results showed that it had little to do with Karen Herick.

In addition, Kyron Herick is indeed capable and is the head of R&D. Supercell Oy just laid off Ander Arnold and was short of people. Kyron Herick spent a lot of money to operate and finally succeeded in taking over, replacing Leander Arnold and becoming the new director of Supercell Oy!

It can be said that Andel Arnold suffered heavy losses in this incident, but Karon Herick won a lot.

But he wasn't happy at all.

It was simply that Kaylon Herick found himself going too far.

I've ruined Clash of Clans!

After this incident, the daily active users of "Clash of Clans" have dropped by more than 70%!

Revenue dropped by 80%!

And the decline is still increasing!

Not only did Clash of Clans crash, but other games from Supercell Oy were also boycotted and crashed!
The kind that causes hemorrhage!

It can be said that the new director, Karen Herick, is facing a mess!

What a rotten mess!
It was still his own fault that he ruined the mess!
In desperation, Karon Herick could only start a series of rescue measures.

Determined to issue an apology announcement:
[Dear Clash of Clans players, we express our deep regret and strong condemnation for the troubles and harm caused to the majority of users due to the former director's personal behavior and inappropriate remarks.

To this end, we have dismissed former director Ander Arnold and held him accountable.

We once again offer our sincerest apologies to our users. Supercell Oy has always put users first and thank you for your continued support.

In order to compensate users, Supercell Oy will give all users game coins worth US$10 as compensation.

Supercell Oy will continue to work hard to bring you more games. 】

This announcement won back some players, but many players still gave up on returning.

Although $10 in-game coins are nice, dignity is more priceless.

What's more, the announcement only mentioned apology and compensation, but the most important issue, whether it is compatible with the XOS system, was still not mentioned.

The words between the lines are asking players to return and continue spending money.

Some users were not interested at all and continued to play Boom Beach instead.

After all, "Boom Beach" has XOS version, Android version, IOS version, Windows version and WP version.

It can be said that it is available all over the Internet!

Can be played on any platform.

However, the compensation of 10 US dollars is still very generous, and some players still choose to return.

Wan Taining was a little nervous about this and approached Wang Yi:
"Chairman, Clash of Clans has invested heavily and directly provided 10 US dollars in compensation. Many players have chosen to return to Clash of Clans. Should we increase the compensation?"

Wang Yi waved his hand: "No, absolutely no, let them continue to commit suicide!"

"Continue to commit suicide?" Wan Taining was puzzled.

Wang Yi said with a smile: "It seems very generous to give 10 USD in game coins as a one-time compensation. If we give it to all users, will it destroy the balance of the game? High-paying players don't care, but what about low-paying players?"

"They had finally built up an advantage after spending a lot of money, but this wave of compensation money is given to everyone, which directly wipes out the advantage. Everyone is equivalent to a low-paying player, so will these low-paying players continue to spend money?"

"No, I can't beat ordinary players even though I'm a low-paying player, so why should I spend money? As for becoming a mid-paying player, that's unrealistic. Anyone with the ability or the desire would have already become a mid-paying player."

"Yes, that's the truth. Let them give it away. Let them give it away as much as they want. If they destroy the balance of the game, they will cry." Wang Yi said with a smile.

Sure enough, after this wave of subsidies, the advantages of low-paying players who used to bully zero-paying players were greatly reduced, and they were even unable to beat zero-paying players.

This caused many low-paying players to quit.

After a series of operations, Clash of Clans lost a large number of low-paying players, and many zero-paying players who usually don’t recharge returned...

The number of users of "Clash of Clans" has increased slightly, but the revenue has become worse due to the loss of low-paying players.

As for medium and high-spending players, they don’t care about this compensation at all.

When Andel Arnold insulted the players, many mid- to high-spending players had already cancelled their accounts and ran away.

Not to mention a subsidy of 10 US dollars for game coins, even if you call out to them, these medium and high-paying players will not return.

These mid- to high-spending players like this type of game and have turned to "Boom Beach".

Just start a new game from scratch and spend money all over again.

As you can imagine, the number of users and revenue of Boom Beach began to grow rapidly.

Last week, the daily turnover reached 5000 million RMB, and we thought it would drop to 4000 million this week.

However, unexpectedly, it surged again, breaking through 5500 million RMB, or even 6000 million RMB!

If this momentum continues, the revenue in September will exceed 13 billion!
It may even exceed 15 billion in October!
Wang Yi was pleased to hear this.

Thanks to Supercell Oy for committing suicide, and thanks to our friendly competitors for their help!
Now "Clash of Clans" is considered useless, and "Boom Beach" has replaced it and become the most popular game of the same type.

On the 23rd, Apple’s second week sales figures came out.

The global weekly sales of iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c were only over 500 million units, which was not only not an increase compared to last week, but actually a little less.

The second week sales of xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus were disclosed to be approximately 600 million units.

The weekly sales volume for the third week announced was five million units.

But everyone knows that this is only domestic sales.

The parallel import sales in the past two weeks have been at least one to two million units per week.

It’s just parallel import sales and will not appear in the statistics!

Only the core senior management of Xingyi Technology knows how many Xphone 3 and Xphone 3 Plus have been sold.

Even fewer people know how many activations there are.

In the past twenty days, the 800 million parallel-imported units sold to overseas parallel-import vendors will not be sold out in full. A large part of them are still in the hands of parallel-import vendors and are being continuously shipped out.

As Wang Yi saw, in three weeks, a total of 3 million licensed Xphone 3 and Xphone 1800 Plus units and 800 million parallel import units were sold.

There are 2600 million phones in total, but only 2200 million have been activated.

There are still four million units in the hands of parallel importers and have not been sold.

There is no way. For example, in the United States, large-scale arrivals will take place around the 15th. In a week, not many can be sold and it will take time to digest.

But Xingyi Technology has already received all the payment for 2600 million mobile phones!
In just three weeks, it has broken the first-sales record of the past month!

Make a lot of money.

All I can say is that the Prism Gate is very powerful, and the Xphone 3 and Xphone 3 Plus are equally powerful.

At this time, Zhu Changlin walked in:

"Chairman, Meizu and Xiaomi have also placed orders for 500 million Kunpeng 902 SOCs and 500 million fast charging module sets. This is the current total sales report."

"Very good." Wang Yi took the report.

What’s hot-selling right now are not only the xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus, but also the Kunpeng 902 SOC and the 20-watt fast charging chip set!

In theory, these are the core advantages of the Xingyi mobile phone. If it were Samsung, they would keep them hidden and be reluctant to supply them to third-party brands.

They are afraid that third-party brands will have higher sales and take away their market share.

But Wang Yi didn't care and started selling directly!
Whether it is the Kunpeng 902 SOC, the 20-watt fast-charging chip module, or the push-type fingerprint module, they are all on sale!
Wang Yi didn't care at all.

The core advantage of the Xingyi mobile phone is not the Kunpeng 902 SOC, nor the 20W fast charging chip module, nor the press-type fingerprint module...

It’s the XOS system!

It is the XOS system unique to Xingyi and Wujie phones, with a unique 60% improvement!

The XOS system has no backdoors, is not afraid of eavesdropping, and is absolutely safe!

As long as the core advantages of the XOS system remain, it is not a problem to sell everything else to third parties.

What's more, it will take time for third-party brands to integrate Kunpeng 902, 20W fast charging, and fingerprint unlocking.

If we develop a new generation of mobile phones from scratch, it will take at least half a year before it can be put on the market, which is after March next year.

Even if we don't develop from scratch, the previous plan can only be partially repaired, with a major overhaul, replacing the core, fingerprint, and fast charging...it will take at least four months.

By that time, Xphone 3 and Xphone 3 Plus had already sold tens of millions of units.

The next generation Xingyi X1 is coming out soon.

Faced with the epoch-making innovation of the Xingyi X1's full screen + lifting front camera, not to mention domestic competitors, even the next-generation flagships of Apple and Samsung can't handle it.

Even the newly released xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus can't handle it.

This is also the reason why Wang Yi plans to use Xingyi X1 to start internationalization and move towards a higher end!

Epoch-making innovation, powerful enough!

Wang Yi looked at the order list:
HTC is still the first to try it out, placing two orders for a total of 1000 million Kunpeng 902 SOCs and 1000 million sets of 20-watt fast charging kits.

ZTE, O, and V also placed orders for 1000 million Kunpeng 902 SOCs and 1000 million sets of 20-watt fast-charging chip modules.

These brands are all big sellers.

In the past, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of mobile phones could be sold in a year.

Now that it is impacted by Xingyi Technology, its sales have declined, but there is still no pressure to sell tens of millions of units.

It is worth mentioning that Lenovo also gave up Qualcomm and placed an order for 1000 million Kunpeng 902s and 1000 million sets of 20W fast charging chips.

As for the reason, it is very simple. For the sake of sales and to make money, there is no such thing as Qualcomm loyalty.

In its previous life, Lenovo did not have the so-called Qualcomm loyalty and also used a large number of MediaTek processors.

Today, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 SOC has a minimum order price of 500 yuan per piece for a 290 million unit, and the Kunpeng 902 SOC is 295 yuan.

At a similar price, Kunpeng 902 has more powerful performance and is a 64-bit processor. For an extra five yuan, it also provides tuning services!
Lenovo is stronger than Qualcomm in every aspect, so it is natural that it will not take detours.

In addition to the above brands, Coolpad, Gionee, Meizu, and Xiaomi have also each placed orders for 500 million Kunpeng 902 SOCs and 500 million sets of 20W fast charging modules.

全部加起来，鲲鹏902总共卖出去7000万颗鲲鹏902 SOC，以及7000万套20瓦快充模组。

This volume is basically the volume for the next year, and all major brands have placed orders at once.

There is no way, Xingyi Technology still follows the old rules: the more chip orders, the lower the price.

Kunpeng 902 SOC, plus tuning services, costs 500 yuan per piece for a 300 million piece, and 1000 yuan per piece for a 290 million piece.

If it is less than 500 million, the price will be 310 yuan per piece.

As for price cuts?

Given the situation, it would be good if the price didn't increase.

For example, the previous Kunpeng 702 SOC was originally priced at 240 yuan, but it sold so well that a few months later, not only did the price not drop, but it increased to 260 yuan!
There is absolutely no way to reason!
Even though Kunpeng 902 has been released, the price of Kunpeng 702 is still 250 yuan, which is not much lower.

The price will drop a little after Kunpeng 706 is released.

到时候500万的体量，包含调教服务：鲲鹏902 300元，鲲鹏706 270元，鲲鹏702 240元，鲲鹏700 210元……

Since prices will not drop within a year and may even increase, major brands will not wait and place orders directly.

There is no other way. Kunpeng 902 is so powerful that all major brands have to place orders. If one brand places an order of million or million, that’s a huge order of million. With so many orders, if you place an order late, you will have to wait in line for a long time for delivery!
(End of this chapter)