Crossover: 2014

Chapter 169 You Can’t Buy $9999 and Lose Money
Lin Hui remembered the eve of his rebirth, in the previous time and space.

A news summary algorithm program provided by a large company for medium and large enterprises that need flexible payment.

Medium and large enterprises that choose the corresponding service can have 5 opportunities to call the news summary algorithm program for free every day after choosing the corresponding service.

A free service can already do that.

It can be said that the things provided by the free service alone beat Lin Hui and now he has made this PRO version.

From the perspective of the technicians of the third generation of the former Lin Hui rebirth node, which is the core upgrade point of Nanfeng APP, which is the generative summary algorithm, Lin Hui is really not worth mentioning.

But for the pricing issue on the South Wind Pro version, Lin Hui has no apologies.

Today, humans may have no less than a thousand ways to make fire, but the only ones recorded in history are drilling wood to make fire in ancient times.

This example is a bit extreme, but it also illustrates a problem:
Disregarding the era to talk about the value of technology is hooliganism.

Even if you look at it from the perspective of the next few years, Lin Hui's things are not considered awesome skills now.

But it doesn't matter, and it doesn't prevent Lin Hui from relying on technology to cut leeks unscrupulously.

Moreover, Lin Hui decided that it is not enough to just release the PRO version. In the future, he has to go further and release an ULTRA version to earn a lot of money.

How beautiful it is to cut leeks.

Although Lin Hui is very satisfied with the pricing he arranged.

But not long after that South Wind Pro version was uploaded to the app store.

Lin Hui found that the version uploaded this time was actually rejected. The reason for the rejection was: it is suggested to modify the service price.

Lin Hui doesn't understand very well, the higher the price, although his share is indispensable, the platform's share is also indispensable, isn't it?
Especially when it comes to this kind of software that does not belong to the game category, the split between Lin Hui and the platform is still 80%: 20%.

Instead of 90%: 10% like "Hill Climb Racing".

The platform has no reason to refute Lin Hui for making this PRO version?
Just as Lin Hui was wondering, Lin Hui received a call from Huang Jing.

Huang Jing and Lin Hui were quite familiar with each other now, and Huang Jing didn't make any detours after connecting the phone.

Huang Jing asked directly: "Can the South Wind Pro software you got this time really increase the efficiency by 87% compared with South Wind as you said?"

Lin Hui said: "Of course, I am very confident in my algorithm, and the corresponding data is also obtained through accurate testing."

Lin Hui didn't quite understand why Huang Jing called to ask this question, obviously Huang Jing participated in the conversation between him and Eve Carly yesterday.

From the conversation with Eve Carly yesterday, Huang Jing should be able to know that foreign technical teams are very backward in this area when it comes to news summaries or text summaries.

Others may not be clear, but Huang Jing should at least be very clear about the level of technology that Lin Hui has achieved.

Huang Jing said: "I'm not questioning your ability, I'm just checking this matter.

I mean that the software you launched earlier was rejected. I think that if you make the software South Wind Pro, the efficiency is really as high as you claimed in the introduction.In this way, your pricing on the PRO version seems very unreasonable.

I think you can go up by 50%~100% on the basis of the previous pricing. I personally prefer that you go straight to the point and raise the current price by 100%. "

The price has risen by 100%, is it okay to just double it?

Huang Jing's attitude was a little unexpected to Lin Hui. Lin Hui originally thought that she would think the price was too high.

It is true that there can be a price increase, but it seems that it is not very appropriate to directly double it.

After all, when it comes to the buyout price of South Wind Pro, if the previous buyout price of US$4999 is doubled, it will be directly close to US$1.

Although the ugly people are rich and powerful, it should be difficult to expect most potential users to spend 1 US dollars to buy products at a time.

But Lin Hui felt that since Huang Jing made such a suggestion, she would definitely have her thoughts, so Lin Hui decided to listen to Huang Jing's suggestion.

Lin Hui said: "Tell me your reason."

Huang Jing explained: "According to some of my previous investigations, Nanfeng APP's biggest overseas competitor was actually Yahoo News (processing) Professional Edition.

Yahoo News (Processing) Professional Edition costs $99.99 for a monthly membership, which means that the annual fee is close to $1000 or $[-].

The annual fee you previously set is $1999, and even if it is doubled, it will only be less than $4000.

I remember that Nanfeng APP was already 241% faster in processing news than competing software in processing news.

Compared with the offline environment of Nanfeng APP, the efficiency of the PRO version you have now increased by 87% year-on-year.

Doesn't that mean that the Nanfeng APP PRO version is almost six times more efficient than competing software?

What's more, the accuracy of the PRO version you have now must be greatly improved compared to the previous version.

According to this line of thinking, even if the price doubles, it doesn't matter.

Users of your PRO version only need to pay more than three times the price, but can enjoy six times the processing speed of competing software and several times the accuracy of competing software.

Even if the price is higher, it is still very attractive to potential users who are willing to pay for the professional model.

It doesn't matter if the user doesn't adapt, the product is not designed to accommodate the user, but the user adapts to the product. "

Well, as expected of an Apple employee, this idea is indeed very Apple. It would rather sacrifice some potential users to be a brand and make profits.

As a user, not everyone likes Apple, but as an enterprise or from the perspective of an enterprise, it seems that everyone is eager to become an Apple.

Who wouldn't yearn for the model of lying down and making money?
Huang Jing continued: "Double the price directly will indeed directly dissuade some potential users.

But I think you should do this because it will drive away users and lose some market share. "

Lin Hui's heart: Actively force users away and give up the market, what kind of operation is this?
Could it be that he is hiding clumsiness?It seems that it can only be like this.

Sure enough, Huang Jing said: "If the PRO version of the Nanfeng APP is involved in the overseas market at a price of 1999 US dollars.

In this way, the price is not much higher than that of competing software, and it is supplemented by several times the efficiency and accuracy of similar software.

It is easy to sweep the Ugly Chinese market of news summarization software in a devastating manner.

That might be a good thing in the first place, but in the long run it won't be, and you can easily face a series of investigations such as antitrust investigations.

Judging from your previous series of layouts, it can be seen that you are a person with lofty ideals. I feel that there is no need for you to have side effects in these places. "

Lin Hui originally felt that Huang Jing's suggestion of "directly doubling the price" was inappropriate.

After hearing these words, I decisively set the annual fee of South Wind Pro to $3999 and the buyout price to $9999 according to Huang Jing's suggestion.

In order to arouse the consumption enthusiasm of overseas users, Lin Hui also filled in a few sentences in the introduction of South Wind Pro:
"Offline software can be used in an offline environment."

This sentence should be enough to make many wandering users pay the bill. After all, many irresponsible professional software developers often run away after abducting various membership fees.

Some even withdraw the servers, so that many users who purchased professional software that requires server support can only bear the consequences.

For offline applications, there is basically no need to worry about this problem.

As long as the user does not uninstall it cheaply, even if Lin Hui directly removes the software from the shelves in the future, it will not affect the user's use.

In short, even if it is a buyout, there is no need to worry about developers running away.

At $9999, you can’t buy it at a loss, and you can’t be fooled.

On the contrary, users will also get the most powerful summary processing software on the surface.

Speaking of why Lin Hui agreed to Huang Jing's proposal without thinking, it was because Lin Hui felt that Huang Jing's suggestion was very reasonable.

After forming a similar monopoly in overseas markets, it is very likely to face anti-monopoly investigations.

The various things that Lin Hui witnessed in the previous life have verified Huang Jing's judgment.

Ugly countrymen are not soft on their domestic corporate anti-monopoly investigations, let alone Lin Hui, a crooked nut.

In the next few years, various unfair antitrust investigations became commonplace.

Even if the subject of anti-monopoly investigations is generally a company or an enterprise, it is rare for an anti-monopoly investigation to be an individual, but as the saying goes, there is nothing wrong with trying to impose a crime.

Even without the help of anti-monopoly investigations, various other excuses may be involved. Ugly people always have excuses if they want to do something.

All in all, Lin Hui agrees with Huang Jing's statement that before it is not strong enough, there is no need to create branches in some trivial places.

What's more, if the price of the PRO version is doubled, Lin Hui's profits may not necessarily be lost.

After adjusting the price of South Wind Pro and going online, it passed the review quickly.

After a while, Lin Hui found that the software South Wind Pro could be found in the overseas version of the app store.

After chatting with Huang Jing for more than ten minutes, I got some news from Huang Jing and Lin Hui.

One of the news is that the game "Hill Climb Racing" previously developed by Lin Hui has been praised by the World Environmental Protection Organization.

What connection can a game have with the World Environmental Protection Organization?

It turned out that Lin Hui designed it in the game "Hill Climb Racing".

When Lin Hui reproduced the game "Hill Climb Racing", he added a pair of polar bears to the Arctic Circle scene.

When the player drives past a polar bear.

The polar bear will give the player 100 gold coins.

Moreover, the initial value of the probability that the polar bear will give the player gold coins is 100%.

But this probability will gradually decay as the number of times players obtain gold coins through polar bears increases.

If the player asks for too much.

The probability of polar bears giving players gold coins will also decay to 0%.

And when the probability becomes 0%.

This mechanism of brushing gold coins will eventually fail.

Such a design is interpreted by the World Environmental Protection Organization as Gray Forest promoting the concept of environmental protection to the outside world:
——Treat nature kindly. If you treat creatures kindly and ask too much, you will get nothing in the end.

Uh, is this still possible?
The reason why a polar bear is added to the game is to prevent gamers from being bored in the arctic circle scene.

After all, where the Arctic Circle scene enters the eye, it is almost a vast expanse of whiteness.

The reason why the probability of polar bears giving players gold coins is set to gradually decrease until it decays to 0%
It is to prevent some smart players from using this easter egg to brush gold coins.

If gold coins can be swiped in such an easy scene, how can Lin Hui make money happily.

After all, gold coin income is the second largest source of income in the game "Hill Climb Racing" after painting income.

(⊙﹏⊙), such an unintentionally set easter egg is actually praised by the world environmental protection organization, which is considered unintentional.

It is worthy of being an excellent representative of the Chinese class.

Listening to the information introduced by Huang Jing, it seems that not only the World Environmental Protection Organization has liked it.

The China Environmental Protection Association also praised the forest ash design concept.

Although I don't know what impact this news will have, it is a good thing to be recognized by international organizations.

(ps:...except for being recognized by the Nobel Peace Prize)

In addition to this news, Lin Hui also learned from Huang Jing that Apple China is about to usher in a wave of resignations.

The reason for his resignation is that Apple treated the frequency reduction incident involved not long ago differently.

Obviously, the Chinese market was the first to feed back the information about the frequency reduction event, but it was the first to release a patch to fix the frequency reduction in the US market.

This kind of differentiated treatment and the practice of eating east and lodging in the west will undoubtedly make Chinese employees very unhappy.

Are you upset now?It can only be said that it was because it was too fanciful at the beginning. It is enough to talk about benefits with a big company like Apple, and it is a waste of hormones to talk about feelings.

Moreover, it is not a day or two for major foreign manufacturers to treat them differently.

Guozi is an old hermaphrodite, you will know how many times the computer breaks down, and the shit warranty policy is the same as shi.

Try to change to a foreign country, and they can't take care of themselves if they are sued and fined every minute.

Huang Jing told Lin Hui that she had recently submitted a resignation report.

After all the handovers are completed, I will officially resign in mid-July.

Huang Jing smiled and said that she would go to Lin Hui after resigning.

Huang Jing has expressed her thoughts in this regard many times, and Lin Hui has long heard the strings and knows the elegance.

Lin Hui said that Huang Jing should not have any worries, and just come to him directly when the time comes.

Lin Hui is not embarrassed because of face, Lin Hui is really short of manpower, and he is really incapable of doing many things by himself.

Even Lin Hui, who Huang Jing had a good relationship with in Guozi and who was about to leave the job together, welcomed it very much.

In fact these guys seem to be popular everywhere they go.

Not to mention the current time and space, even those who can resign from Guozi in the next few years will all have the green light to interview all the way.

In short, Lin Hui welcomes these people to come to Lin Hui, whose career has just started.

Although this kind of people with the same label can easily form small factions, it doesn't matter, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Although the general grassroots team rejects such things as factions.

But in the face of the grand cause that Lin Hui is going to do, any small faction will eventually continue to dilute.

Of course, these are all things in the future.

It's a bit outrageous to think about drinking and releasing military power before adding a yellow robe.

Lin Hui also learned a piece of news from Huang Jing.

After Lin Hui finished the game "Hill Climb Racing".

Many game manufacturers at home and abroad are seeking the agency rights of the game "Hill Climb Racing" developed by Lin Hui.

Some game manufacturers even plan to directly buy this game outright.

Lin Hui knew that the peach picker was here.

(End of this chapter)