1991 Starting from the core

That night, Su Yuanshan kept his word and did not wait to see Jobs' press conference. He returned home early, practiced piano with his daughter for half an hour, and then babbling with his son for a while, then returned to the computer, read a paper, and spent another half an hour brushing it up. After a while of e-booking, I took a shower and went to bed.

Although he said he wanted to be a "big V", he knew very well that ebook, a social media that was born from campus classmates, is essentially a broadcast-style social network among acquaintances. Although it has been forwarded through continuous version updates, Function, but compared to pure data streams such as Twitter or Weibo, the intensity and speed of its dissemination are obviously not good.

The simplest example is that Mr. Beckham, who has the most followers on eBooks, does not have more than one million followers - don't forget, this is a global social media without walls.

Of course, the ebook cannot be thrown away, but Su Yuanshan hasn’t figured out what his first blog post to say hello should be...

He couldn't just send everyone a good morning.

…

Early the next morning, Su Yuanshan had just walked out of the room. Wen Xiaoqian, who had been waiting in the hallway for a long time, immediately came over. She first said hello to Ye Rudai, and then took a gentle breath: "Mr. Shan, the initial price of the iPhone is US$499. The contract price starts at US$199."

Su Yuanshan's pupils shrank slightly and nodded: "I understand, please inform He Wei to come to my office."

"Do you want to tell Mr. Duan?"

"No, Mr. Duan is busy with other things. I guess he will go to the capital today. By the way, please inform Chen Gang to come to my office at ten o'clock." Su Yuanshan looked back at his wife and saw that she was holding her daughter's little hand and looking at her. Himself - the two of them plan to send their daughter to school together.

"Dad, you go ahead." Unexpectedly, Su Xiaomu raised her chin at him skillfully: "I'll take mom to school."

These words made everyone burst into laughter.

"Okay, then I'll leave it to you, mom!"

*

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He Wei arrived at the office floor before Su Yuanshan. As Su Yuanshan entered the room, she immediately took out her notebook and sat in front of Su Yuanshan.

"Mr. Shan, after the Apple conference yesterday, we briefly considered the next steps."

Su Yuanshan was stunned: "You didn't sleep?"

"I'll take a nap first, it won't be a problem."

"...I am more interested in Apple's new products, but I don't think you have to keep an eye on them even if you don't sleep...Besides, if it was really that important, I would have asked about it a long time ago." Su Yuanshan complained while While sitting, he poured himself a cup of coffee: "Since you haven't slept, you have obviously read the public opinion. How is your reaction now?"

"The main reason is that after you showed me the iPhone yesterday, I really felt a little uneasy." He Wei smiled, and then said seriously: "Mr. Shan, the price of 499, I feel that it is not for us."

"Hmm...that's not right either."

"Huh?" He Wei opened her eyes wide: "Our 6S is equipped with fingerprint unlocking and is only priced at 599..."

"Don't just see this - of course, we must believe that Qiao is always an ambitious person." Su Yuanshan took a sip of coffee and exhaled softly.

——The reason why he was so anxious and wanted to call his most capable people over early in the morning was naturally because the initial price of $499 was too outrageous.

In the past six months, due to various factors, or to be precise, after confrontation, the RMB has chosen to appreciate steadily - from the late 1990s to the past few years, the exchange rate of the RMB against the US dollar has always been 8.0, but this year, after several adjustments Finally, it has now reached around 7.2 - Su Yuanshan still has reason to believe that this number will continue to shrink in the next few years, and the RMB exchange rate against the US dollar will continue to appreciate to above 6.0.

As we all know, the appreciation of the domestic currency is not conducive to exports. On the contrary, if the domestic currency appreciates relative to a certain country, it will be beneficial to exports.

In order to maintain the pricing strategy, Yuanxin has maintained the initial price of ordinary iteration products without S in the past at 499. Then the S model started at 599 and was divided into several versions to give different price points.

He Wei said that the iPhone has the same experience as Yidoo6S, but it lacks a fingerprint to unlock, and the camera has 1 million fewer pixels, which is $100 less...

In terms of configuration, this is an iPhone that has taken the initiative to downgrade itself. Apple has “not” listed itself as a competitor to Yuanxin, but this $499 deal can cause a massacre to other brands - there is no configuration in front of Yuanxin and experience advantages, but for other mobile phones, the advantages are even greater.

For example, there are mobile phones from Sony, Xinghai, and Samsung, which are closely followed by the YOS camp.

Moreover, due to the appreciation of the RMB, the domestic initial price of the Iphone is only 4,399 including tariffs - this price is really very competitive.

"Our Yidoo6 just dropped in price to 4,399 with the release of the 6S some time ago. At the very least, it can give some people who want to choose Yidoo6 a new choice, whether to buy new or old. Moreover, at this press conference, Qiao He always only announces the iPhone - do you think he won’t follow up with us and launch iPhone 1S, or iPhone 1puls or something like that?”

"At that time, he can directly raise the price in one fell swoop by staggering the release of our highest-configuration mobile phones."

Hearing this, He Wei frowned at first, and then instantly realized what Su Yuanshan was talking about: "You mean, in May next year, Apple is very likely to launch an upgraded version of the iPhone, such as adding fingerprint recognition and optimizing photo shooting." …Then the price will be directly the same as our S series?”

"Yes - our conference time is fixed in May, and Mr. Qiao can definitely advance the conference time. As long as his upgraded iPhone can have a speed and experience that surpasses all current products - and I am inclined to Believe, he has.”

Su Yuanshan said seriously: "He Wei, you must not underestimate Mr. Qiao, especially Mr. Qiao who has been working hard for eight years."

He Wei took a deep breath and nodded heavily: "I understand. I will discuss it with everyone when I go back and try to come up with a good response plan."

"Well, go ahead. But... in a sense, what your marketing department can do is extremely limited. The most important battlefield in this battle is hardware and systems, and this affects the entire YOS camp..."

*

After He Wei left, Su Yuanshan immediately turned on the computer, found the replay of the Apple press conference on ivideo, and watched it very quickly.

There is no doubt that Mr. Qiao has confidence in the iPhone - because he directly took out Yidoo6S for comparison at the press conference.

"Damn..."

After watching a press conference, Su Yuanshan cursed.

At ten o'clock, Chen Gang, the head of YOS Laboratory, arrived at Su Yuanshan's office on time. Obviously, he had also watched Apple's press conference and had been paying attention to the situation there.

"I heard that people in the United States have already started queuing up to buy iPhones."

"Well, Apple still has brand appeal, especially after the Apad they launched has achieved a good reputation." Su Yuanshan asked Chen Gang to sit down and asked with a smile: "What are your thoughts?"

"Only when I touch a real machine do I realize that the mechanism of iOS is similar to that of YOS, but they are closed source... In this regard, they cannot compare with us."

"Well, open source has the benefits of open source, and closed source also has the benefits of closed source." Su Yuanshan stretched out his hand: "Where is the mobile phone? What are the results of your research?" - He directly sent the mobile phone delivered by Mr. Qiao before getting off work yesterday. Gave it to He Wei, and then asked He Wei to give it to YOS Laboratory.

"The result of our analysis is that it's not that our phones are slow or our systems are slow, but... our application developers are not standardized. In fact, according to the evaluation results, the 6S is faster than the iPhone."

Su Yuanshan immediately frowned: "Tests with different structures don't make much sense. And even if the test scores are faster... it doesn't represent the real user experience. After all, mobile phones are for use, not for benchmarking. And the mobile phone is not a productivity tool, and there is no need to use it for rendering and calculation."

"Uh...yes."

"Okay, let's not talk about this. Just ask, can it be solved?" Su Yuanshan put the two mobile phones together: "What I need is that at the same price and quantifiable configuration, the experience of the Yuanxin mobile phone is better than that of the iPhone .”

"... Then" Chen Gang said with a troubled expression: "Mr. Shan, YOS is a broad authorization system... it cannot be so targeted, and there is not much spare power."

"Then build a team right away."

Su Yuanshan took a deep breath as he spoke: "Frankly speaking, I was also wrong - I have long been aware that Apple is holding back a big move, but I always thought that Apple would not surpass Kirin in chip design, but now it seems … They did a great job of keeping it secret.”

Chen Gang believed it: "This means the enemy is in the dark... I am in the light."

"Yes, the enemy is in darkness and we are in the clear. They can quietly avoid all the pitfalls we have stepped on. This alone gives them a huge advantage."

After chatting with Chen Gang about the formation of Yidoo's dedicated YOS team, Su Yuanshan called the head of the Kirin team over and seriously discussed the next development direction of the Kirin chip's core architecture - it was time to leave the YX architecture. Authorize the core and form your own core design team.

…

Three days later, Apple announced that first-day sales of the original iPhone, including pre-sales, totaled 800,000 units.

And as various reviews and unboxing videos of Apple mobile phones are posted on the Internet, its shortcomings are also exposed - its display chip is not good.

If the display chip is not good, it means that the performance of 3D games is not good - and driven by a group of mobile game manufacturers led by domestic finger games, mobile games have been firmly moving towards the goal of excellent graphics - Apple's mobile phones are currently It seems that playing small games and watching videos is okay, but once you play 3D mobile games with excellent graphics such as "Open Sky" and "Forbidden City", the iPhone is somewhat beyond its capabilities.

These news made Su Yuanshan slightly relieved, and he couldn't help but lament his own "wisdom" again - the cooperation between Yuanxin and Sony's PS series, coupled with the establishment of Silicon Core, allowed Yuanxin to accumulate a lot of graphics chip experience. These trivial or even inconspicuous advantages have become extremely important today.

——In all performance evaluations, whether it is a mobile phone or a graphics card, gaming performance has gradually become the most mainstream evaluation direction.

So, after setting up two laboratories specifically for Yidoo mobile phones, Su Yuanshan posted his first self-published ebook blog post.

"Hello everyone, I am Su Yuanshan."

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"It seems I still like to post on Weibo a little bit."

After getting on the plane, Su Yuanshan turned off his mobile phone and muttered to himself.

Zhou Xiaohui was sitting next to him and was slightly startled when she heard this: "What Weibo?"

"Oh, it's a secret...a new product." Su Yuanshan chuckled and changed the topic, and then chatted with Zhou Xiaohui.

——This time Zhou Xiaohui returned to China to handle some matters, so she was waiting to return to the country with him. When Su Yuanshan went to the United States, he was naturally invited to give a lecture at Seoul University in the United States - as a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

And this time he is not only going to the country of Bang, but also to the country of Ni for an academic visit. Then when he comes back, it will be almost time to go to Stockholm to receive the award.

After going to Stockholm, he will continue his exchange visit in Europe, and finally go to North America, and then come back.

By then, it was almost time to celebrate the New Year.

At the same time, Weibo was about to be launched - in fact, according to EM's current productivity, it would not take that long to simply build a Weibo website. It just had to develop the APP simultaneously, so the time would be delayed to half a year.

Su Yuanshan believes that with the advent of micro blog, mankind has truly entered the era of social media and the era of information sharing - now it is the era of information broadcasting.

At that time, it would not be too late to become his big V again.

Of course, Su Yuanshan is not just an academic visit, this circle can be regarded as Yuanxin's business scope, and he needs to communicate.

"Mr. Shan."

"Well, you say."

Zhou Xiaohui looked at Su Yuanshan and called him but hesitated and did not speak. She just looked at him with her lips pursed. This made Su Yuanshan slightly surprised. He smiled humorously and joked: "What are you doing? Oh, by the way, since you are both My sister-in-law. Call me Xiaoshan..."

"..."

Because Zhou Xiaohui is in Bang Country, the so-called unfamiliar place and social circle... Although she herself is a "rich family" and has access to all the top social circles in Bang Country, in the final analysis, her final emotional support is still chosen "One's own people" who are also "wandering" outside.

Just last year, she and Chen Jianguo officially received the certificate. The two came because they were busy and because of their special status, so they didn't do anything big. They just went back to the country and invited a small number of guests and that was it.

"I've been calling you for more than ten years, so you should be familiar with it." Zhou Xiaohui laughed, crossed her arms, and after a few seconds of silence said softly: "SK Telecom... is on the right track."

"Yes." Su Yuanshan nodded naturally - over the years, Zhou Xiaohui's ability and dedication have been obvious to all, and SK Telecom's development has also been booming.

But then, Su Yuanshan raised his head and looked at Zhou Xiaohui: "Are you planning to come back?"

Zhou Xiaohui pursed her lips and nodded slightly after a while: "I am already thirty-five this year."

Su Yuanshan looked at Zhou Xiaohui, who had a few wrinkles on her face, and suddenly felt a sense of guilt in her heart.

——This girl has been in Yuanxin since she was twenty-two years old. By now, it’s time to think about having a child.