Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 498 The Senior Vice President’s Ambition!
Building F in the Science and Technology Park of Zhiyun Group’s Shenzhen Headquarters is the office building of Zhiyun’s software and Internet division.

Xiao Mincai, senior vice president of Zhiyun Group, sat at the top, and below him sat a group of vice presidents of software and Internet divisions, executive presidents and other group executives.

At this time, Gu Songquan, the executive president of the virtual software project department, was introducing the PPT to everyone present: "As of now, our important product 'Virtual Space' in the virtual era has exceeded 8,000 fixed active users!"

“The number of its fixed active users is actually highly consistent with the number of individual consumers who buy and sell our virtual machines.”

"That is to say, every individual consumer who purchases our virtual machine becomes a regular active user of our virtual space!"

"At the same time, there are more than 30,000 non-regular active users, who mainly come from virtual experience centers in various places. Our group has opened a total of 12 self-operated virtual experience centers at home and abroad. These virtual experience centers have also brought a large number of users to our virtual space. However, due to the current difficulty in booking virtual experience centers, users cannot go online for the second time within a short period of time after using it once, which brings uncertainty to this group of users!"

"However, as the group's plan to recruit virtual experience center partners continues to advance, a large number of third-party virtual experience centers will appear in the future. According to the notification we have received, the first third-party-invested virtual experience center will open for business within this month, and by March, it is expected that 30 centers will open for business one after another!"

"By June, as the production capacity of virtual equipment further increases, the number of virtual experience centers will experience explosive growth!"

"This means that the number of non-regular users of virtual experience centers will also see a huge increase. At the same time, as the number of virtual experience centers increases, non-regular users of virtual experience centers will gradually become regular users, with a second, third, or even more online visits!"

“In the next year, the monthly active users of our virtual space may grow to more than one million!”

“This will make our virtual space the most important, or even the only virtual social platform in the virtual world!”

“It will not only be a virtual social platform, but also a virtual shopping platform, virtual entertainment platform, etc.”

"We have reached cooperation with many brands. In the next month, high-end brands such as Zhiyun Group, Hailan Automobile, Dami, Huawei, Sixing, and LV will successively launch virtual flagship stores. The number of virtual stores we will initially launch will reach about 100."

"At the same time, we are also negotiating with Taotao, Jingxi and Yihai Technology's Multi-sea Platform to discuss the possibility of opening a large virtual world supermarket. At present, these three companies are very active... After all, the virtual era has arrived. Even if there are still very few virtual users now, they all want to occupy the starting point of the virtual world as soon as possible!"

"In our early business operation trial strategy, in order to avoid adverse effects, we gave up the previously planned sales commission plan and switched to renting buildings and advertising spaces in the virtual space!"

"In other words, we gave up our original plan to build a super shopping mall and instead turned to creating a real virtual world, only charging rent and traffic fees, and not interfering with the merchants' own operations!"

In fact, the virtual space project team originally planned not only to rent out the land and advertising space, but also to take a share of the turnover of each merchant that settled in the space...but later they were reminded: Don't go too far!

How should I put it? It is understandable that Zhiyun Group created a virtual world and then acted as a landlord to collect rent, but it is not okay for you to collect taxes...

This mainly involves a very sensitive monopoly issue.

You are the only virtual device manufacturer in the world, there is only one virtual world and one virtual space in the world, which means that before the emergence of competitors, global users and merchants have no other choice.

This is a serious monopoly!
Ten thousand or one hundred thousand users now is nothing, but what about ten million or one hundred million users in the future?
What’s the matter? Zhiyun, you are so awesome that you really want to impose taxes on global companies... Not to mention outsiders, even people at home can’t stand it anymore.

Therefore, the virtual space project team under Zhiyun Group "reluctantly" gave up its original business plan of mainly extracting sales from merchants, and instead only collected rent for the land/building of the virtual space, as well as rental advertising space and traffic fees.

If you don't accept it, you can be fined until you go bankrupt... Anti-monopoly fines are always accurate!

Your technical skills are so good that you have no competitors. There is nothing you can do about it. Even if others are dissatisfied, you cannot do anything about it.

However, if you use your technological advantages to establish a monopoly position, and then use this monopoly position to exclude or restrict competition, or cause adverse effects on consumers, then this behavior may constitute a monopoly...

Why do many online shopping platforms also charge various service fees but do not constitute a monopoly?

Because there are other online shopping platforms, consumers or businesses have other options!
And your Zhiyun Group has created a virtual device and a virtual space inside it, which is the only one of its kind in the world. Then you use this thing to extract branches, which involves an adverse impact on consumers/businesses.

However, if they do not take a commission and only collect rent, it is actually the same, and it will not affect Zhiyun Group's ability to make money by using virtual space... Of course, it is still a pure loss now, and this profit refers to the future.

How much money can be made in the future depends on how much virtual equipment can reduce costs... A virtual device costs 800,000 yuan, has few users, and is worthless.

If a virtual device costs 80,000 yuan, the number of users will increase significantly. As the number of users increases, the virtual space will become more profitable.

If virtual devices can be further developed in the future and the price can be reduced to 8,000 yuan per unit... not to mention whether the virtual devices themselves make money, just the virtual world extended by the virtual devices, including this virtual space, and other virtual games, at the very least, it will be a trillion-dollar market every year.

Whatever the current size of the mobile Internet market is, then what will the size of the virtual world market be like in the future!

Of course, a virtual device that costs 8,000 yuan is still a dream technology now, but a virtual device that costs 80,000 yuan can still be expected to be available in a few years.

After all...the cost and selling price of chips are falling very quickly.

The current APO4600 graphics card is still or yuan per piece, but what about three years later? Five years later? The price will definitely be cheaper!
The same goes for various other parts!

Six or seven years ago, a Hailan SEC had a range of no more than 2 kilometers and its assisted driving only reached the L+ level. The so-called fast charging took almost an hour to charge to %... and such a Hailan SEC cost or yuan at that time.

But now, the performance is more powerful and better, the Hailan SLMC has a range of more than 3 kilometers, autonomous driving can reach L level, and fast charging in ten minutes, and its price is only about yuan.

With the advancement of technology and the gradual reduction of costs, the price of products will also drop significantly.

Virtual devices are no exception!

Considering that the price of virtual devices will continue to drop in the future, there will be more and more users of the virtual world, which is also a point that Zhiyun Group's software and Internet division attaches great importance to.

This is why they specially developed a "virtual social space" product.

Gu Songquan, the executive president of the virtual software project department, continued: "In order to further enhance the integration of virtual space and the entire virtual world and prevent virtual space from becoming a regular virtual software, we will directly incorporate the system homepage into the virtual space in the next version of the system update as a part of the virtual space."

"After the update is complete, the user will first enter the boot page and then enter their personal username and password... The main reason is that many virtual users currently log in from public virtual devices, so we need to provide users with an exclusive personal virtual space!"

"After the user enters the account name and password to log in, the homepage of the personal exclusive virtual space will appear. There are many scenes for users to choose from, including beach and ocean, blue sky and grass, futuristic city, comfortable living room, coffee shop, etc."

“Users can do things here that don’t require interaction with other users, such as watching videos, reading, working, and using some common office software, etc. We will continue to improve this part of the software ecosystem in the future!”

“You can also directly enter virtual games or other virtual content from here!”

"From this virtual startup scene, when the user pushes open the door and walks out, he or she will enter our virtual world... a simulated future urban scene!"

"Our overall idea is that the user's personal exclusive scene after logging in will be used as the user's personal room in the virtual world. When you open the door and go out, you will see the entire virtual world!"

“In this virtual world, people can communicate face to face, shop, enjoy various performances or other things!”

"To this end, we have prepared to divide the entire virtual world into multiple zones, including domestic zone, European zone, ASEAN zone, American zone, etc., and users can enter the sub-zones under each zone according to their own choices."

"This is mainly to avoid too many people online, too large a virtual world, which would lead to a substantial increase in production costs. Also, too many people in the same map would also lead to too much data and cause the server to be overloaded."

"It is also to avoid too many people in one region, so that people cannot communicate with familiar people." "However, in order for people to communicate freely, people in domestic regions can communicate with each other and can migrate, and the same is true for foreign regions!"

"This is a game-like partitioning mechanism!"

"The above is our future plan for the virtual world. At present, our virtual world will be divided into two major regions: the domestic region and the overseas region. In the future, as the number of users gradually increases, we will further provide more regional options!"

After listening to Gu Songquan's words, the group of people couldn't help but fall silent... This time the virtual software project team is going to be on top!

No, if the price of virtual devices can be greatly reduced in the future, and the number of users increases from tens of thousands now to tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions in the future, then not only will the virtual project team rise, but their entire software and Internet divisions will also rise in the future...

This will change the current embarrassing situation where the entire software and Internet division is just a small division within Zhiyun Group!
In particular, Xiao Mincai, head of the software and Internet business unit and senior vice president of Zhiyun Group, is very much looking forward to this!
By the way, he is also the senior vice president of Zhiyun Group, and is considered one of the decision-makers of Zhiyun Group. However, Zhiyun Group is so large that there are quite a few senior vice presidents.

There are also differences in power and status among senior vice presidents!
Ji Chenghe and Gu Zhiming are also senior vice presidents, but when they go overseas, they are greeted by local leaders for talks...but Xiao Mincai doesn't get such treatment when he goes abroad!
There is no way around it. After all, Zhiyun Group is still an enterprise with semiconductors, smart terminals, and artificial intelligence as its core, and looking forward to smart robots and virtual equipment in the future!

What Zhiyun Group is actually dealing with is hardware...and the software and Internet businesses are all used to complement the hardware.

Even the software and Internet businesses of Zhiyun Group have annual revenues of several hundred billion US dollars. If they were to become independent, they would be one of the world's top Internet companies.

The problem is...it is not independent, but a part of Zhiyun Group!
This is so embarrassing!
Over the years, Xiao Mincai has been committed to enhancing the influence of the software and Internet divisions... Unfortunately, the effect is not great.

Zhiyun Group's software and Internet divisions have never been well-known, and the only thing the outside world knows more about is the Zhiyun APP Mall.

But in fact, Zhiyun Group's software and Internet division is also responsible for a large amount of software development work.

Among the core businesses are the research and development of various operating systems, such as Yun OS, the operating system for Zhiyun mobile phones; in addition, there is YunPAD OS, the operating system for Zhiyun tablet computers based on the Yun OS system; YunSW OS, the operating system for smart watches, YunAR OS, the operating system for AI/AR glasses, YunVR OS, the operating system for VR glasses, and so on.

In addition, Zhiyun Group also developed YunLPC OS, a computer operating system based on open source LINUX. This system is mainly used on Pangu computers to adapt to the self-developed SOP instruction set CPU chip!

At the same time, we have developed our own server operating system based on the YunLPC OS operating system, which is mainly used internally and provided to relevant institutions and enterprises for building servers.

In addition, the operating system of intelligent robots and the operating system of virtual devices are of the same category. They are very special operating systems developed based on artificial intelligence technology and are different from traditional operating systems.

Zhiyun Group's software and Zhiyun Software, which is under its Internet business unit, have as many as nine operating system projects of various types.

Of course, if you really talk about it, there are actually only three major technical sources in these operating systems.

One is developed based on Yun OS and is mainly used in various smart terminals.

One is developed based on YunLPC OS, mainly used for self-developed PCs and servers.

One is developed based on artificial intelligence technology and is mainly used on equipment using artificial intelligence technology, which today are robots and virtual devices.

In addition to operating systems, Zhiyun Group's software and Internet division also has a series of ecological software development businesses.

Including the CPU development ecosystem of self-developed instruction set SOP chips, the CPU development ecosystem of X86 instruction set, and the GPU development ecosystem.

In addition, there are a series of free office software developed around its own ecosystem.

For example, free office software, including word processing, spreadsheet processing, image processing software, as well as audio and video development software... These office software are not made for the purpose of selling them, but for use with their own many smart terminals and PC products.

The original idea of ​​developing these office software was just to provide accessories for our own tablets and computers... At that time, there were no suitable supporting office software for tablets and Pangu computers, so we had to do everything ourselves. In order to avoid the situation where users had no software to use after purchasing tablets or Pangu computers, we developed this complete set of office software.

It was subsequently used on a series of its own PC products based on the X86 instruction set.

As time goes by, these softwares are gradually updated every year and are now quite good, at least they can be used for basic office work.

Of course, this still cannot be compared with those professional office software... It’s not that Zhiyun’s strength is inferior to others, but that Zhiyun does not pay too much attention to these things. It only invests the most basic small amount of personnel and funds to maintain basic development and updates.

It is also impossible for Zhiyun Group to invest too much money and personnel in the field of ordinary software and then compete with a large number of office software companies.

These office software of Zhiyun Group only provide the most basic protection for users of its own devices.

It's not very useful, but it's free.

Therefore, there are many people now, mainly individual users of Zhiyun devices, who use these things.

Operating systems and various development software and office software are the main businesses of Zhiyun Software Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Zhiyun Group's software and Internet business unit.

Also belonging to the Software and Internet Division is Zhiyun Computing Technology Co., Ltd. This subsidiary is engaged in supercomputing, server and cloud computing businesses. Although this is considered the hardware part, it is still classified as part of the Software and Internet Division.

Later on, there will be another Zhiyun Mall Technology Co., Ltd., and the Zhiyun APP Mall under this subsidiary is very famous... Zhiyun tax and the derived IQ tax refer to Zhiyun APP Mall!

Products from a large number of Internet companies have to pay channel shares ranging from 15% to 90% if they use the Zhiyun APP channel, especially its recharge channel.

The revenue from Zhiyun APP Mall is also the main external revenue source for the software and Internet division.

And now, Xiao Min saw the virtual world... not the virtual space of today, but the virtual world of the future!
Although everyone is focusing on the various hardware parts of virtual devices, and thinking how much money Zhiyun Group can make in the future by selling virtual devices.

However, Xiao Mincai firmly believes that in the future, the virtual world under his leadership will be the core revenue and profit source of the entire virtual project.

Of course, it's not easy!

The current hardware level is not yet up to par, and the development of the virtual world still faces many difficulties!
But Xiao Mincai has great confidence in this.

After a meeting, Xiao Mincai personally made the decision to expand the scale of the virtual software project team, recruit top software development talents from around the world, and create a real virtual world!

As for the funds needed for the project, as the senior vice president of the group, he dared not say how much, but it should not be a problem to apply to Mr. Xu for several billion dollars in funds to carry out the preliminary projects.

He has also been Xu Shenxue's subordinate for many years. He has worked diligently in the software and Internet divisions for so many years. Even if he has no merits, he has worked hard. Now that he wants to move up, President Xu will still give him this opportunity!
However, this expensive opportunity, which costs billions or even tens of billions of dollars in the future, is only limited to one time!
Having succeeded and gained fame, he moved up a level in the power rankings within the group.

If you fail, you will inevitably be ridiculed by other departments of the group, and you may even be brought down.

Over the years, senior vice presidents and vice presidents in Zhiyun Group have not remained the same.

The competition among senior executives in Zhiyun Group is also very fierce. Once a senior executive makes a mistake and is caught by the opponent, the outcome will not be good, and he will be kicked out of the power sequence... For the executives who are kicked out of the power sequence, those who are lucky may be assigned to idle positions, especially in some subsidiaries for retirement, while those who are unlucky may even be forced to "resign".

That’s why Xiao Min doesn’t allow failure!

(End of this chapter)