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"Zhao Han, I plan to open the store on Third Ring Road into a computer mall. What do you think?" Chen Wenwen suddenly asked.

"Third Ring Road, that big store, are you going to open a computer mall?" Zhao Han was a little surprised.

Chen Wenwen confirmed: "Yes! Computer City is very successful in selling computers at this stage!

After reading some information, I found that the annual installed computer capacity in China should be more than 1000 million desktop computers alone, and indeed the monthly sales volume is more than 100 million.

The market demand for DIY installation is extremely hot!

There are computer cities specializing in DIY installation all over the country, but there are none in Jiangcheng County!

There are only some brand computer stores and brand machine counters in shopping malls.

Some DIY computer installers don't even have their own stores. Instead, after receiving the order, they cooperate with DIY computer vendors in the provincial capital and send the hardware to the county for assembly.

DIY computer installation promoters work like selling insurance. When you meet a neighbor, you will introduce them to people who do DIY computer installation themselves. Do you have any computer installation needs? "

"Have you encountered it?" Zhao Han was surprised.

"Of course!" Chen Wenwen said, "I have a relative in the city, Chen Shijie, who should be considered my cousin. He graduated from high school but did not go to college. He sells DIY installations door to door in the compounds of construction companies and agricultural machinery companies."

"How is business?" Zhao Han asked.

"It's pretty average. I can install a few units every month." Chen Wenwen said, "Generally, the budget is [-] to [-] units. Each unit earns [-] to [-] units. The configuration is a little higher than that of brand-name machines. Once sold, I turn to him for after-sales service for all my computers. The main reason is that I can do some business by providing after-sales service."

Zhao Han smiled and said: "It's not bad! Are you recruiting him to come and work?"

Chen Wenwen shook his head and said: "Forget it about going to work! He can earn two to three thousand yuan a month working alone, so there is no need to recruit people to work. In the future, when Wenwen's service website opens, he can open a store on it, and there will be more orders online. DIY installation and computer repair are a huge market.”

"Yeah!" Zhao Han could tell that Chen Wenwen was avoiding suspicion.

Because it is a family relationship. If you rely on this relationship to act recklessly after being hired by the company, it will destroy the unity of the company.

If a company arranges for a large number of relatives to come in, and some relatives show off their relationship with the general manager, boss, etc., this approach is actually a trap for the company's boss and relatives who are senior executives.

Recruiting as few relatives as possible is a good thing for the company.

Of course, the two sisters Chen Wenwen and Chen Jingjing do not count.Both have the ability to convince the public, and they participated in the founding of the company.

Chapter 291 Cyclic Thinking

"Then do it! DIY installation is okay at this stage, after all, computers are still in the process of becoming popular." Zhao Han said with a smile.

"Oh? You mean, the computer market will reach its peak in a few years?" Chen Wenwen keenly discovered Zhao Han's subtext.

"That's for sure. If you look at the development of the TV market in the past few decades, you will know that there is a way! At present, there are more than 3 million TV sets in the country. It can be said that every household has a TV. Apart from replacement needs, essentially, there will be no room for growth.”

Zhao Han smiled and said, "The fate of computers is similar to that of televisions!

After the prosperity reached a peak, for example, the number of domestic PC users reached 3 million units.It began to gradually become a tool similar to home appliances and office properties!

Today's PC sales are only in the frenzied stage when users buy for the first time, and many users are still surfing the Internet in Internet cafes.These Internet cafe users will sooner or later choose to buy a computer of their own. "

"Then the Internet cafe business will no longer be viable." Chen Wenwen said with a smile.

Zhao Han said: "Internet cafes must have peaked before the PC market. Now that the PC market is selling, you can see that there are queues for computers in Internet cafes to access the Internet. Internet cafes are full of users, which is a reservoir of potential PC purchases. Wait until this area accumulates The water pool has dried up, and everyone has moved to their own homes to surf the Internet. Internet cafes are gradually becoming empty. In fact... the potential of the computer sales market has been exhausted!"

"I even considered applying to open an Internet cafe in that big store on the Third Ring Road," Chen Wenwen said.

"Fortunately not!" Zhao Han said, "The decline of Computer City was a few years later than that of Internet cafes."

The current prosperity of the domestic PC market is only temporary. The reason is that the PC market consumption started late, there are not many existing PC users, and new users are more enthusiastic about purchasing machines than existing users.

In developed markets such as Europe and the United States, PC retail began in the 80s. Users have long been stock-based. Therefore, the PC market has peaked early and has become a cyclical industry similar to televisions.

PCs in the domestic market are now showing rapid growth. Essentially, the penetration rate of computers is not high, and many users are buying computers for the first time.

Computers are essentially durable goods and have a much longer service life than mobile phones.

Even PC hardware manufacturers use various gimmicks to allow users to upgrade their hardware.It seems that every upgrade is a great technical iteration, but usually ordinary users do not need to update so frequently.

After the installed capacity of computers reaches its peak, the only need to replace computers will be when their configurations are outdated or broken.

By that time, the profits of the computer market will become thinner and thinner, and the market will continue to shrink. Even Intel, which is now at its peak, will continue to lose money and lay off employees in the future.

Intel's subsequent decline was a technological dividend that emerged from several successive rounds of market transformation, but it failed to seize it.

In the mobile Internet mobile phone chip market, Intel's energy consumption cannot be used in mobile phones. Therefore, in the mobile Internet era, Intel's market position is shrinking day by day.

It's not terrible to miss the opportunity once.

The scary thing is that Intel is mainly based on CPUs, and CPUs are the core hardware of PCs and servers.But in the era of AI computing power, it is not the best computing hardware.

Strictly speaking, the CPU can definitely be used as AI computing power, but its power consumption is not cost-effective. Running AI on a GPU definitely saves power than a CPU.

Therefore, the demand brought by various game players later was that NVIDIA was winning, and the CPU was no longer the core hardware.

In the era of graphics card mining, Nvidia wins again.In the subsequent AI era, the biggest winner will still be NVIDIA.

Relatively speaking, Intel is too tied up with its X86, that is, PC business. Although it has built a moat for the PC market, it also prevents Intel from seizing other opportunities.

Even the big brother of the PC era, Intel, has been declining year by year. You can know how bleak the future of the PC market will be.

even so……

Zhao Han at least knows that the current PC installation should be quite profitable.

Investing in a computer mall with PC installations can not only make profits at this stage, but also serve other businesses.

For example, online computer DIY installation and maintenance services.This business can also contribute to the development of Wenwen Service Network.

Generally speaking, the PC business should still be able to do well in about the next five or six years.

In a general sense, all kinds of businesses in China are actually quite easy to do now. The main issue is the penetration rate.

Any product that becomes popular first will gradually enter a mature stage, and the market will no longer be easy for it.

The market penetration rate was not high at the beginning, but the potential market space is huge, users are still growing rapidly, and business is very easy to do.

For example, in the past, the popularity of color TVs and refrigerators was very low at the beginning, and demand exceeded supply. It was easy to pick up money with your eyes closed.

As the penetration rate increases, everything that needs to be bought is bought, and the market gradually reaches its peak. Gradually, manufacturers begin to engage in crazy involution, and compete with each other on price to kill their opponents and force them to withdraw. After a large number of competitors are reduced, Those who survive will have an easier time.

Today's PC sales will continue to increase. From more than 2004 million PCs sold in 1300, domestic PC sales gradually reached 2011 million units in 1.Then, it peaked, and like the global PC market, it declined year by year.

The reason is very simple. By 2011, PCs have almost become popular.

In addition, after 2011, the mobile phone market exploded, and the budget was used to buy mobile phones. If the computer can be used, I will continue to use it, which naturally slows down the frequency of PC replacement.

The mobile phone market follows a similar logic. In the future, as smartphones become more popular, they will almost peak in 2016, with sales of 5.6 million units creating a miracle. By 2017, domestic mobile phone sales fell below 5 million units. Since then, it has declined year by year.

Not long after mobile phone sales peaked, roughly around 18 years ago, the scale of mobile Internet users also peaked.

This is also the law of all things. Prosperity has its limits, and there is no infinite way to get better.

When prosperity reaches its limit, there will be prosperity and decline later.

Looking at things with a historical cyclical mindset is probably the biggest change in outlook that Zhao Han brought to Zhao Han after his rebirth.

before……

Before his rebirth, Zhao Han didn't know the true face of Mount Lu. Just because he was in this mountain, it was difficult to think about where he was in the cycle of history.

But after time goes back, Zhao Han can not only foresee the future.

The greater benefit is that Zhao Han gradually uses the dimension of time to sort out the cyclical patterns of many industries.

This kind of thinking may not make much sense to ordinary people who work step by step.

But for corporate decision-making, it is equivalent to people groping in the fog of war.

And Zhao Han was already cheating, and he knew the patterns and trends very well.

Chapter 292 The End of the 2004 Anti-Pornography Campaign

In early November 2004, the domestic Internet crackdown on pornography came to an end.

News from various places also reported successes and reported results in various places. According to summary statistics, more than 3000 bad websites of various types have been closed down.

Some bad website operators have already entered.

There are even legends that the authors of some bad novels have also entered, but they are just legends in the world.

In fact, during the anti-pornography campaign in 04, there was a list of banned books, but the author of Liu Beiwen should be fine.

In later generations, it often happens that the author Liu Beiwen made a lot of illegal profits because of his creation of such and such, and then got involved.The premise is that the profit... Well, it is domestic consumers who purchase this kind of works, and only then will Liu Beiwen's author be in trouble.

For example, when publishing traditional Liu Bei's books, generally the author is fine, because the traditional Liu Bei's books are sold in the traditional Chinese market and are not sold in the mainland market in compliance with regulations.

The more people who get in, in fact, are not the kind of Liu Beiwen author who is particularly motivated to "open up the market" and take advantage of loopholes in the country to sell.

For example, the author of Liu Bei's article in question not only wrote it on unscrupulous overseas websites, but also quietly peddled Liu Bei's article for a fee on domestic e-commerce platforms, QQ groups, etc. In other words, it was sold and profited within the country.

There is no injustice in this kind of accident.

Of course, entering November, the server of Eagle Eagle Literature is still locked.However, the Yingying management team changed the website's server, changed its name to Yiyi Literature Network, and reopened it directly.

"Yingying Literature has been changed to Yiyi Literature?" Zhao Han saw the rush to tell each other on the industry dragon forum.

So, I went to Yiyi Literature to have a look.

Well...it's still the same Yingying, not much has changed.

Some books that seriously violate the rules, such as "Jiangshan" and "Fengyue", have been blocked.

Without "Jiangshan" and "Fengyue", Yingying's vitality would be severely damaged.

After being resurrected by Yiyi Literature, Yingying now has more than 6000 novels in his library, which is more than 1000 books less than before.

On the first day after returning to the world, Yiyi Literature only updated dozens of books.

At its peak period, from the end of July to the beginning of August, more than 1000 books were actively updated on Eagle Eagle Literature Day!

There are more than 500 VIP novels updated daily.

In a sense, the number of novels updated on Eagle Literature Day and the number of VIP novels at that time were ranked first in the industry.

Of course, when it comes to subscriptions, it’s more embarrassing. Most of the books I dug out from pastries, such as at least a thousand copies of "Online Games: So-and-So", are all available at Yingying. I have to find a copy. It is difficult to order anything over 500.

At that time, Yingying's main players in the paid subscription market were basically "Jiangshan" and "Fengyue".

The collection of these two books in Yingying basically exceeds 5, and the number of clicks every day must be [-] to [-].

In terms of subscription performance, the two books also have a monthly income of tens of thousands.

During the previous heyday of Yingying, no one was convinced except pastries.Well, maybe pastry is not convinced either. After all, it once surpassed pastry in terms of traffic.

Soon after, Zhao Han logged into QQ and saw lively discussions everywhere, and Yingying was resurrected.

“Eagle Eagle, my Eagle Eagle!

Finally resurrected, but unfortunately I have already signed a contract with Jingjing.Next book, when the time is right, I am ready to return to Eagle Eagle.

I think it won’t be long before Yingying should regain his position as king! "Missing Yingying started to brag in a group of contracted authors.

It would have been more convincing if he hadn't signed Jingjing during the period when Eagle Eagle was closed.

"Impossible! I think Jingjing Reading Network has more prospects! With the full attendance system, can the whole network find a second one?" He rushed to the street like the wind and made some remarks to defend Jingjing.

"Well, Jingjing Reading Network is definitely underestimated, and its strength is unfathomable. You know. Jingjing Pinyin Input Method, I went to the major download sites to see the data, in the past few months, in the rankings, major As for downloading channels, the number of downloads is either ranked first or second! The number of downloads is unbeatable, even QQ’s downloads are far inferior to Jingjing Pinyin!”

Meteor (a second-rate coder and a third-rate writer) said, “Many developers in the industry are overwhelmed by the number of downloads of the Jingjing input method, and some are envious and jealous of it! However, many experts say that Jingjing Pinyin input The method is not simple and can only be made if you have a high level of technical knowledge!"

"The download volume of QQ is not as good as Jingjing Pinyin, are you kidding me?" Xiaobai Zhenbai said.

“I’m talking about weekly and monthly downloads.

QQ definitely ranks first in total downloads! When QQ could not be logged in before, it was because there were too many users. The number of registered users was approaching 3 million, and there were about 700 million online users at the same time.

The number of computers with Internet access in China is estimated to be just over 4000 million, and not all computers can be turned on at any time.

Assuming that each computer is turned on for an average of 8 hours a day, 1000 million computers are turned on at any time, which means that 70% of the Internet-connected computers that are turned on have QQ numbers!

For existing users, QQ is invincible. It is estimated that there are not many computers that do not have QQ installed!

But the main reason why Jingjing’s pinyin is awesome is the user growth rate!In the short term, new users will continue to be attracted to download! "Liu Xing (a second-rate coder and a third-rate writer) is popularizing science in the group.

"Boss Meteor is a programmer, right? Which major factory did he get a job in?" Xiaobai Zhenbai was curious.

"Ashamed, I am just a low-level coder, fishing on portals. What did our stupid boss say? He said that humans can be energetic after four hours of sleep.

He actually slept like this for four hours, so he had dark circles under his eyes and dozed off while sitting on the chair. There was also a pillow in the car, so he fell asleep anytime and anywhere.