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Chapter 2926 What I hate most is sabotage

People in Europe have been living a comfortable and affluent life for a long time.

They are afraid that the existing industrial structure will be destroyed when the times change, which will have an impact on the current relaxed, comfortable and high-welfare life.

If China and the United States pursue industrial upgrading, the sooner the better.

For example, in China, the knockoff phone industry was booming and doing very well. Not only did it capture the domestic market, but some of the leading knockoff phone manufacturers had already expanded overseas. But when smartphones came along, they just gave up.

Let’s quickly get rid of the copycat phone industry and embrace the new era of smart phones.

In the competition of the globalized economy, cost advantage is certainly important, but speed advantage is actually more important.

  Who can make the right decision the fastest!

It's just like competition between companies.

Which company has lower employee salaries and lower operating costs is indeed an advantage, but it is not the biggest advantage. In a fast-changing industry like the technology industry, if you want to truly lead your peers, the most important thing is to be fast!

We must keep up with the changes of the times.

Continuously strengthen the product's advantages and quickly improve the product's shortcomings.

The response from Europe is really too slow.

A few years ago, when Zhou Buqi was working on the European market, he saw the problem here. After so many years, the EU finally reacted and made up its mind to deal with Qualcomm, thinking about digitally unifying the EU market.

The movement is so slow that the opportunity has been lost.

Now that Qualcomm has been punished, what can we do?

Europe's mobile phone chip industry has been liquidated by Qualcomm.

Can punishing Qualcomm bring all those dead European chip companies back to life?

Now we are developing the EU's large digital market... hehe, the European online market has been completely dominated by Chinese and American technology giants. Those local small and medium-sized enterprises are trapped by the complex conditions in the EU and cannot develop at all.

Now Europe is thinking about making amends...

It's too late.

Can the market that has been taken over by Silicon Valley giants such as Ziweixing and Astar be spitted out?

Zhou Buqi will not allow the EU to restrict Helo's free service.

Free service means spending money to serve users.

  By spending money, dominating the market and achieving a monopoly position,

Then, the money spent on free services can be earned back through other related services provided by Helo.

This is the best way to kill European startups and SMEs.

If Helo is paid, users will have to pay to make voice or video calls.

The attractiveness of the product will be greatly reduced.

Other products in Europe have the opportunity to break out.

Just like the domestic market.

In an era where everyone uses WeChat, many people are worried.

WeChat is so important that all social relationships are included in it and have become a part of our lives.

  What if WeChat starts charging a fee one day?

This is obviously a misunderstanding of the Internet industry.

You beg WeChat to charge a fee, but they don’t dare to do so.

From the perspective of industrial structure, free has the greatest advantage, which is a prerequisite for obtaining a monopoly position.

Free is like opening a steamed bun shop, and all the steamed buns are free, and anyone can come and eat. In this way, all other steamed bun shops can be killed, and all the customer traffic can be attracted. Then, other businesses can be started in the steamed bun shop, and make money from other businesses.

This business model is good.

However, for the steamed bun shop industry, it was a disaster.

All other bun shop competitors will be wiped out.

Because the steamed bun shops have formed a monopoly in the market, their own voice has been strengthened, and they can negotiate a better purchase price when buying noodles and meat; when managing the stores, all stores can be standardized with a unified style and unified management, just like McDonald's and KFC, which can greatly reduce management costs.

With a monopoly position, there are thousands of ways to save money.

The ultimate goal of business is monopoly.

This is the core of making big money.

The EU now requires that the steamed buns shops should not be free, that a way out should be left for other steamed buns shops, that sufficient profit margins should be left for upstream and downstream rice, flour, oil and meat, and that the industry should be diversified...

For Zhou Buqi, this was of course impossible.

Everything else can be coordinated.

Ziweixing will spare no effort to cooperate with the EU in the management of user data and the protection of user privacy. We will do whatever they say! There will be no arguments!

  However, there can be no compromise on the issue of Helo being free!

Ansip then brought out a competing product, "Microsoft's Skype is a paid software. Users need to pay to use better voice and video call services. Skype will share this fee with the operator."

Zhou Buqi said: "That's different. Helo and Skype are not the same product. Skype is a software, a traditional software; Helo is an Internet product, a new vitality in the mobile Internet era."

Ansip frowned slightly. "But when it comes to Internet calls, Skype is not that disruptive."

"Do you really think so?" Zhou Buqi pretended to be surprised. "Then you have been deceived! In terms of the damage to operators, Skype is at least ten times or even a hundred times more than Helo! Mr. Chairman, you were not deceived by the Americans, were you?"

Tang Binchen followed the boss's meaning and added: "Skype is not a paid software. Payment is only a small form of it. Skype is still mainly free, and the vast majority of users use free services."

Zhou Buqi said: "In the final analysis, it is a ridiculous view to put Skype and Helo on the same level. These are two completely different industries. Helo has many functions, free voice calls are just one of them. When users use Helo, the average usage rate of voice calls is less than 4%. But what about Skype? Skype is a dedicated voice call product with only this one function. 6 million users use Skype just to use voice calls for free! In terms of the damage to operators, Skype is a hundred or a thousand times that of Helo!"

Ansip seemed to be looking for trouble. "Ten times? One hundred times? One thousand times? Does Mr. Zhou have any evidence?"

Zhou Buqi said calmly, "No evidence is needed. If you really understand these two products, you will definitely come to a similar conclusion. The reason why Skype launched a paid service is because Skype has caused too much damage to operators. Helo can be free because Helo's business does not actually overlap with operators. They are both voice calls, and the two sides are actually fundamentally different."

"different?"

"Helo's voice calls are between Helo users, a typical point-to-point model of the Internet. This is the product that best fits the spirit of the Internet. Skype's voice calls are based on the operator system, and can directly call other people's mobile phones and landlines. This does not use the Internet protocol at all, it uses the operator model."

"Uh……"

Ansip remained calm and seemed dissatisfied with such a statement.

"From a technical perspective, Skype is a product that competes head-on with operator services. Helo is completely different from operator services, it is a real Internet service. It's just that with technological advancement, Internet services have a certain ability to simulate operator services. Helo has not crossed the line, it's just a simulation at the Internet level." Zhou Buqi would seize the opportunity to give the Silicon Valley giant a thumbs-up, "Skype is completely different, they are not simulating operator phone services, they are providing full phone services in the name of the Internet without an operator license!"

Tang Binchen said slowly: "The core function of Helo is not voice calls. It is just an auxiliary tool for online communication that we launched to provide better services to users. Skype is completely different. This software is designed to transcend operators. Bypassing operators is Skype's core competitiveness."

Zhou Buqi said confidently: "To be frank, the reason why Skype can still survive and still has 6 million users is because Helo has never crossed the line and never bypassed the operators. If Helo really bypassed the operators and did the same thing as Skype... It's not that I'm arrogant or look down on Microsoft. If I really wanted to do it, Skype would have died long ago and they wouldn't have survived for a day!"

This is a bit of an exaggeration.

Is Microsoft made of paper?

However, when these words came out of Boss Zhou's mouth, the people present felt that it was natural.

Zhou Buqi went on to say: "The reason why I didn't do that is not because I was afraid of Microsoft, but because of my business principles. What I least want is to cause huge damage to traditional industries while innovating in technology. This is not in line with my values. The reason why I didn't do it is because I want to protect the operators! But what is the result? I want to protect the operators, but some people want to sabotage them. In terms of the understanding of Helo and Skype, I think you should be more comprehensive and make a comprehensive analysis from a higher perspective, rather than simply deciding who is free and who is charged."

Tang Binchen smiled.

This means that I believe whatever Boss Zhou says, no matter whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway.