this man is not calm

Chapter 381 Huge Gap
After arranging this important matter, Jin Shang breathed a sigh of relief for a while.

Although he agreed with the judgment of Yang Qi and Liu Yanqing, he still felt a little uneasy inside. It was not until more than a week later, when he saw the investigation report submitted to them, that Jin Shang was shocked and helpless.

According to the data report released at the beginning of the year, the average monthly salary of employees in Beijing has exceeded 1,000 yuan, and it is not uncommon to have an annual income of more than 10,000 yuan.

There are many jobs that do not require any technical skills. As long as you work hard and get the full bonuses and subsidies, you can earn more than 800 or 900 yuan a month, which is pretty good.

In some economically developed cities in the southeastern coastal areas, the salary is close to this level. But in second- and third-tier cities in the central and western regions, which are still fairly influential prefecture-level cities rather than small county towns, the salary of workers should be around 600 or 700, right?
The result was unexpected. Not many people were paid over 500, let alone 600 or 700 yuan. As for temporary workers, outsourced workers, dispatched workers, etc., it was normal to get half the salary. After working hard for about ten hours a day, they only earned a dozen or twenty yuan.

Having grown up in big cities in both his past and present lives, Jin Shang did not realize that the gap between core cities and local areas was so huge.

A salary of four or five hundred yuan is a good job that people are fighting for in most areas. Even if it is a temporary job with a precarious job, it is still more profitable than working in the fields.

The scissors gap between the primary industry and the secondary industry cannot be changed by human will.

Agriculture is agriculture. It is almost impossible for small farmers to get rich from it. Even large farmers like my second uncle-in-law Zhang Hua could only gain a foothold after years of huge investments. Even so... a series of preferential policies and subsidies are needed to maintain considerable profits and drive the industry to invest in research and development upgrades.

You can’t make money by farming, let alone now. Jin Shang’s experience in his previous life tells him that no matter what, even if it is a “lighthouse”, farmers cannot make money without institutional benefits.

After the rapid development of industry, it is imperative to have spare capacity to feed back to agriculture.

For young people in small counties and towns, there is no future in carrying hoes to farm, and going out to work in groups is the only chance to change the status quo.

"The hourly wage is only about two dollars. This is the true portrayal of the current situation!"

As for ideals and ambitions, only people like Jin Shang who have nothing better to do and have nothing to do have the time to think about them. For many of our compatriots, it is already very difficult to make a living.

"There is still a long way to go! There are many people whose living conditions have improved, but compared to the huge population base of our country, they are still a minority!"

With a large total number, there will always be a bunch of people with affluent families. For Jinxi Culture, these people are the present, and more ordinary people who are still working hard to improve their living conditions are the future.

Silently, Jin Shang increased his private donation amount by 50 million to contribute to poverty alleviation. At the same time, he approved an additional 100 million yuan in funding for the school project for children of migrant workers and left-behind children that Editor-in-Chief Zhao was promoting.

It doesn't matter whether it's money or not. Jin Shang is no longer the small boss who worried about millions or tens of millions two years ago. With sufficient cash flow, it won't be a problem to withdraw one or two hundred million.

If it is implemented one day earlier, it can save more children from dropping out of school and reduce the burden on parents.

"It seems that doing charity can deduct part of the tax! This... is not bad, I can do good things and enjoy the benefits with peace of mind!"

As for more, that is not Jin Shang’s business.

As the big boss, Jin Shang would not care about how his subordinates promoted the manufacturing and promotion of MP3 players, nor could he care about every detail. He could only leave it to someone he trusted to take charge.

Such a big company cannot be the only business of MP3. Xiaolingtong has spread across the country at a rapid pace. By the end of March, the number of users exceeded million, and the growth trend shows no sign of slowing down. It is estimated that it will take to million before it slows down, and the goal is to exceed million by the end of next year.

Correspondingly, there are currently more than 6.6 million registered mobile phone users. Excluding duplicate and zombie numbers, it is estimated that there are only about 6.3 million.

In the electronic communication hardware market, Xiaolingtong has become the most eye-catching product in the past six months. Although it is a recognized product of backward technology, it has become the object of everyone's pursuit. The number of users has continued to increase, making several related companies regretful for missing out on this "big piece of fat meat".

By now, Xiaolingtong has become a big deal. It has grown into a huge and influential company while its colleagues were taking a nap.

Outsiders don't know, but Jin Shang knows how profitable this thing is. In the past month alone, he made a pre-tax net profit of 2.4 million yuan just by selling PHS devices and collecting phone bills. Note that this is not revenue, but net profit.

Even though Jin Shang had expected this, it was still beyond his expectations.

So much money.

This is the result of deploying a large number of base stations and investing a lot of marketing funds even though there is basically no profit from handheld mobile devices, and the basic operators take their commission.

No wonder Starcom in its previous life was able to build a listed company with a market value of more than 20 billion US dollars in 2003 with just a single business.

It doesn’t matter whether the technology is backward or not; the key is whether there is a market. As for the future, we need to rely on the excellent ability of the management to control the direction and invest huge amounts of research and development funds to see hope.

"I thought this thing would make money, but I didn't expect it to be so profitable. Even I, the boss who pushed it forward against all odds, was a little terrified."

As for the technical content, there is no need to mention it. Micro-cellular base stations are not a big deal. The signal is not good because the density is not enough. Handheld mobile devices are not much better than the handset of a cordless phone.

Just like that, he can easily earn hundreds of millions of dollars a month, which is really shocking.

Judging from the perspective of hindsight, everyone understands that Xiaolingtong is just a cheap substitute for mobile phones which are too expensive, but it is cheap.

Good quality and low price, as long as you achieve half of it, there will be no shortage of market.

"Now that we have money, can we get some of it and invest more in operating systems and underlying applications?"

Yang Qi, who was very busy after the New Year, was also looking at the documents in his hands with great joy.

"The hardware market is going to have a winner, and the software field has entered the knockout stage. It's time for the sword to fight to the death."

"I know, the time window has arrived."

At present, there are six or seven operating systems that occupy a certain share in the domestic market. The one acquired by Jinxi Culture was renamed Bai Ze System. After more than a year of hard work, it has occupied 7% of the professional office market and 39% of the rapidly developing Internet cafe machines. In general, among the millions of networked computers in China, nearly 23% are equipped with Bai Ze System, which is quite good, much better than the narrow range of 9% to 11% when it was first acquired.

One of the important factors leading to this result is that the Bai Ze system took advantage of the rise of Internet cafes and, together with the matching assembled brand desktop computers, continued to gain ground in Internet cafes and computer rooms of all sizes, and gradually became a force that could not be ignored.

When it comes to operating systems, the more there are, the better. The more chaotic the market is, the more troublesome it is for software development.

For example, Jinxi Culture’s instant messaging, electronic music, online video, game entertainment and other clients cannot just develop versions for its own Bai Ze system, right?
There are multiple mainstream systems on the market, which means that the company has to maintain multiple teams to develop, integrate systems, and operate across platforms separately, which is quite troublesome.

The more versions there are, the greater the overhead.

Generally speaking, two or three systems are enough. If there are more, it will be quite embarrassing.

For an operating system with a market share of only around 10%, it would be a bit of a loss if I don't adapt it, and it would be an even bigger loss if I did. I don't know how long it will take to earn back the money I spent on supporting the team.

Just like the game console market, the ideal environment for third-party electronic game development is that there are two or three absolutely strong platforms on the market, so there is room for choice without causing the development costs to soar.

Developing an operating system is extremely difficult, and promoting it and getting many software vendors to buy into it is even more difficult.

In addition, every compatible operating system requires hardware support. Only when the two work together can the full performance of software and hardware be brought into full play. The famous Wintel Alliance is a symbol of the cooperation between Microsoft and Intel, and the two jointly dominated the entire PC era.

The strength of domestic chip developers is average, but barely usable. Although they lag behind the world mainstream by one major version, they have achieved a certain degree of competitiveness through various means.

As for foundry, the era of third-party foundries has not yet arrived. Each semiconductor factory has some production capacity to a certain extent, but the quality and production capacity vary, and need to be carefully identified.

From the very beginning, at Jin Shang's request, Jinxi Culture has been focusing on streamlined instruction sets, while taking appropriate consideration of complex instruction sets. This is also a preparation for future laptops, miniaturized tablets, and smart phones.

Judging from the current situation, with a one-fifth market share in China, there is a great hope for survival. As long as the software ecosystem can be successfully established, it is acceptable even if it does not occupy an absolute dominant position.

Even when Microsoft dominated the market, it failed to completely wipe out a number of operating systems in niche areas. In the mobile Internet era, it was even surpassed by Apple and Android. The former overlord is now in a really embarrassing situation.

Back to the Bai Ze system under Jinxi Culture, its development direction is to focus on convenience, speed, safety, practicality, auxiliary office, entertainment audio and video, and electronic games. It is not mainstream in the market, and it tilts the PC towards a production tool, but rather regards it as a large home appliance and consumer electronics product.

On the surface, there seems to be no deviation in the positioning of the two, but in fact, there is a huge difference.

For office computers, the requirements for system chips, graphics cards and sound cards are not high. Instead, office software, email, anti-virus software, network security and ease of operation are the key. Entertainment audio and video have very high requirements for graphics cards.

From the development direction in memory, it is obvious that the demand for electronic games has largely driven netizens to upgrade their hardware. In many cases, the CPU performance is slightly over-performing, but the graphics card is somewhat insufficient.

The specific details were left to Yang Qi and Liu Yanqing to handle, and Jin Shang only put forward his own opinions and gave many reminders.

"In the next one or two years, the software market will experience a wave of great turbulence. It is estimated that the number of domestic operating systems will be reduced by half, leaving only two or three brands with strong strength and high customer recognition. The others will be eliminated."

"Being eliminated doesn't mean that the technology is not good, nor does it mean that the programmers are not good enough. Should we acquire them?"

"Is this it?"

Yang Qi thought about it carefully for a while before nodding slightly.

"It should be feasible! The IT industry is more taboo to work in isolation. If talented technicians communicate more, perhaps more sparks of inspiration will emerge. Now it can be clearly felt that the speed of updates and iterations in this industry is getting faster and faster. Even for me, if I don't pay attention to new trends in the industry for a year or two, and don't persist in learning... No, if I slack off for three months, I will probably fall behind."

"Then...graduates in the computer industry..."

If this is true, then the situation in this industry is rather bad. You know, the update speed of domestic efficient teaching materials is not very fast, and what college students learned in class may have been outdated many years ago.

Yang Qi expressed optimism:
"It shouldn't be that bad. As long as you are good at math and have a basic knowledge of software, it won't be difficult to get a job and study further. Young people learn things very quickly."

"Right!"

Jin Shang almost agreed with this statement. For ordinary programmers, one can train them by oneself or recruit them from the market and connect them with corresponding training courses. However, the real high-level talents have to be masters of applied mathematics from famous universities.

Not to mention anything else, the blog that the company just quietly launched, building the basic framework, and the backend recommendation algorithm are not something that ordinary people can do.

Even a time traveler like Jin Shang, who has a good brain and the blessing of a "golden finger", does not understand those complicated mathematical formulas very well before systematic learning.

"Anyway, thank you for your help!"

Jin Shang is quite satisfied with the performance of Yang Qi, the chief technology officer. As a technical leader, his enthusiasm is a little lacking, but it does not affect the completion of the task targets assigned by Jin Shang. Being able to achieve this is enough.

It is very common for technical professionals to have some deficiencies in management.

"Regarding the cross-platform compatibility of systems and applications, please take care of it, Mr. Yang. Our company's software and hardware do not have an advantage, so we can only fight back with comprehensive strength. Mobile phones, game consoles, PCs, and mobile network integration, remote data transmission, cloud storage and computing, etc. are all our strengths."

If it is a bit difficult to compete head-on, then try to attack from the side. No matter what method you use, as long as you can hold on and wait for the other company to collapse, you will be successful.

"The last one standing is the winner" is a tried and tested strategy in the IT field.

Hold on until the day when the opportunity comes, and you will naturally win.

(End of this chapter)