Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2886 Africa

Staff cafeteria, private room 3 on the second floor.

There were still a few plates of food on the table, so the three of them started chatting.

This matter really needs to be resolved.

If the problem is not solved, no matter what, if Boss Zhou helps Meizu today, more mobile phone manufacturers will come to him for help tomorrow, and he will not have the energy to handle so many things.

Chen Guohuan followed his guess and expressed his own opinion.

Zhou Buqi did not comment.

Chen Guohuan knew the direction of his thinking, and it seemed that he had found the right one. This was indeed the boss's plan.

Zhou Shaoning thought this was not very reliable. "You really can't make copycat phones! It will ruin your reputation!"

Chen Guohuan said: "If we don't solve this matter, then after helping Meizu today, how are we going to deal with the subsequent series of events?"

Zhou Buqi looked at him with a smile, "Aren't you busy at work?"

"Not busy." Chen Guohuan was very frank. There was no need to hide anything in front of the big boss. He was not the kind of stingy boss who would feel uncomfortable if his employees were idle. "The current marketing department doesn't have much room for development. The promotion of the app belongs to the product department, not me. The marketing department mainly pulls in advertisements from outside. But now our products are the most popular in the domestic Internet industry. We don't even need to pull in advertisements. Advertisers actively come to us to cooperate with us."

Zhou Buqi asked: "I heard they want to transfer your job?"

Chen Guohuan sighed, "Well, Boss He suggested that I go to Fantuan.com as a senior vice president, where there is more room for development."

"What do you think?"

"There are indeed greater development opportunities there, but I have no interest in delivering food."

"Where's the cell phone?"

Zhou Buqi looked at him.

"what?"

Chen Guohuan was stunned immediately.

Of course he could understand what the big boss meant.

The big boss wants to solve the problem of unsold goods in the domestic mobile phone industry that is being oppressed by the supply side. He wants to solve the problem once and for all, rather than letting incidents like this one happen again and again.

How to deal with it?

  That means Boss Zhou will come forward and take over!

He wants to collect all the leftover goods from the supply side!

This is the way to solve the problem from the root.

The help given to Meizu this time is really a temporary solution. Samsung will not sell the remaining products to Meizu, but to other domestic mobile phone manufacturers. From a global perspective, this help will not bring any changes to the industry.

So the big boss has to "go to hell" by breaking the law himself.

In order to prevent those leftovers from affecting the survival of small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers in China and to create a better and more comfortable business environment for them, Boss Zhou wants to buy all the leftovers in the market. He buys all the leftovers that bother small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers, so that small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers will no longer be troubled by such troubles!

Then, Boss Zhou will rely on these acquired cheap leftovers to revive the copycat mobile phone industry that is close to bankruptcy.

Such a plan is really bold.

It's too risky.

It is not surprising that Zhou Shaoning opposed it.

But who will be responsible for this "copycat phone" business?

Chen Guohuan's heart suddenly moved.

He has realized that the big boss has taken a fancy to him.

Then, all the doubts in my mind before dinner were resolved at this moment.

No wonder he was asked to accompany Meizu's CEO Bai Yuanxiang to the cafeteria for dinner.

It’s not like he and Mr. Bai know each other!

He had no connection with the mobile phone industry, so it was inappropriate for him to come out to entertain guests. Ziweixing had a public relations department, an administrative department, and a logistics department. There were many departments specifically responsible for receiving important guests, but the marketing department was not responsible for this kind of thing.

Why did Boss Zhou think of sending me here today?

Now it seems that everything is clear.

  Boss Zhou is intentionally trying to push himself into the game!

It turned out that today's situation was under the control of the big boss, and there was no loss of control from beginning to end. Zhou Shaoning also heard that Zhou Buqi wanted Chen Guohuan to join the game to make a copycat phone. He was really shocked, his eyes were as big as copper bells, and he looked like a black cat sheriff. He said in a lost voice: "Old Zhou, you are not serious, are you?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It is true."

"Damn it!" Zhou Shaoning disagreed with everything. "No, this is absolutely not possible! There is indeed a certain market for knockoff phones from both the supply side and the demand side, but you can't do it, especially you can't do it! You are Zhou Buqi, if you do something like this, how will people see it if it gets out? Also, college students today are different from those in previous years, you can't fool them with knockoff phones!"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Did you misunderstand? Do you think I made a copycat phone and sold it to college students on the campus network?"

"Huh?" Zhou Shaoning was slightly startled, "Isn't it?"

He thought that Boss Zhou wanted to take on this matter because of the consideration for the college students.

Smartphones are still a bit expensive nowadays.

The ultra-low-priced mobile phones from Aistar and Xiaomi for campus networks are limited in quantity and cannot meet the needs of college students. However, if you buy them at market prices, the cheapest one will cost more than 1500 yuan. Many college students still use feature phones.

However, smartphones and feature phones are completely different things.

Feature phones have only a few functions, and even if they use some relatively inferior components, they are not a big problem to use. They are not much different from big-name phones like Nokia and Motorola.

Smartphones are different. The core of smartphones is the processor chip, operating system and operating platform. They have more functions, are more complex and more sophisticated, which means a higher failure rate.

It is too risky to want to make a copycat smartphone.

If you dare to sell this kind of mobile phone to college students, you will be criticized.

Zhou Buqi had never thought of this before. He shook his head and said, "When facing college students, you must be sincere. I'm not talking about the campus network."

"Then you are..."

"I read the research report you forwarded to me, a report on developing the African market."

"Ok?"

Zhou Shaoning raised his eyebrows.

Zhou Buqi said, "That report is very good, and it also confirms the shortcomings of our previous understanding. Africa's Internet infrastructure is backward, and the Internet is not widely used. It is indeed too challenging to promote smartphones in Africa in a short period of time. Estar's low-end overseas business should still be focused on the South American, Middle Eastern and Indian markets. However, the African market must not be missed. Other countries are easy to say, but for the domestic mobile phone industry, the African market must be firmly grasped. This is a rare shipment market."

Zhou Shaoning suddenly realized, "Africa? You want to sell knockoff phones to Africa?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Not only is Africa's Internet infrastructure backward, the key is that the Internet product ecosystem is also insufficient. Even Ziweixing International has not opened many products in the African market. Except for international giants such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Yahoo, most Internet services are not provided in Africa."

Zhou Shaoning nodded and said, "If we want to provide Internet services in Africa, we need to open branches in some parts of Africa, recruit employees and build teams. This is indeed a big challenge, and it is quite different from just doing consumer services."

Zhou Buqi said: "Morocco in North Africa is okay, it is close to Europe and has basically been integrated into Europe. The other African countries are really daunting. This means that even if the rich people in Africa can access the Internet and use smartphones, there are very few Internet services they can use. Even Google's YouTube is not available in Africa."

Because Africa is too poor and has too many people.

YouTube survives on advertising revenue.

The advertising fees from operations in Africa are not enough to cover the huge operating costs incurred by Google due to the huge bandwidth and servers consumed by Africans watching YouTube.

This is very important.

  It has become a prerequisite for making smart phone knockoffs in Africa. !

Because the more functions a copycat phone has, the higher the failure rate.

However, smartphones in Africa are not what you think of as smartphones. Internet services in Africa are very limited, which means that smartphones do not need to provide too many functions. They can only be used for basic instant messaging, Google search, and taking photos.

Fewer functions can greatly reduce the failure rate of copycat smartphones.

Another thing is that Internet coverage in Africa is very limited and broadband is very expensive.

Most of the time, consumers' smartphones are disconnected from the Internet.

The phone is more stable.

Zhou Shaoning was stunned and speechless.

Chen Guohuan also took a deep breath, and suddenly realized, and the word "experimental field" almost came out of his mouth.

  It’s indeed the familiar taste!

Boss Zhou is indeed a world-class entrepreneur who has his eyes on the global market. Africa can be that “experimental field”!

When making atomic bombs, some countries chose to conduct test explosions in Africa.

Even atomic bomb experiments can be conducted in Africa, so of course mobile phones can too.