Global monopoly of technology

Chapter 355 [Domestic first, shifting focus]

For mobile phone consumers, the price and release date of Azure-3 are what they are most concerned about now.

This new product really refreshed their understanding of smart phones once again. I originally thought that the industrial design of the first-generation product in 2006 was already beautiful enough.

And this time, the products launched by Côte d'Azur after two years of painstaking research and development broke their cognition once again. The appearance can be called the rhythm of bursting, and it is definitely a new generation of artifacts.

Anyway, the audience at the scene already loved industrial design at a glance.

And don't think about it, this model is absolutely unprecedented for girls who like electronic products.

At the scene, Luo Sheng on the stage had no more appetite, and said directly: "We also prepared two gears for Azure-3. The domestic retail price of the 8GB storage capacity version is RMB 4,099 ($600 USD), and the international price It is 699 US dollars (excluding tariffs); the domestic price of the 32GB storage capacity version is 4999 yuan; the international price is 799 US dollars."

Hearing that such an offer is so much cheaper in the Mainland, domestic consumers feel more comfortable. As always, the price in the Mainland is six to seven hundred yuan less than that in foreign countries. At present, there is really only one store.

But then again, as a consumer electronic product, the Azure series of mobile phones are indeed not cheap, but then again, their innovative technology, industrial design and other aspects are impeccable and worth the price.

It is not an exaggeration to say that if Azure mobile phones are now sold for two to three thousand yuan, other newly established mobile phone brand manufacturers can directly declare bankruptcy.

Because there is no competition at all.

Luo Sheng will not do this. The positioning of the Azure series of mobile phones is very clear. It is a high-end brand of consumer electronics products, and the market needs other manufacturers to make mid-to-low-end phones to set off. This is a perfect closed-loop structure.

At the same time, he must also give him a bite of food to avoid being caught in monopoly cases.

After the offer, Luo Sheng once again announced a piece of news that made domestic smartphone users extremely excited.

"As for the release date, we have decided to launch the domestic market first, and will be officially launched nationwide on October 5th after the National Day, while the major international channels will be launched simultaneously on December 24."

As soon as this remark appeared, the audience in the mainland suddenly shouted enthusiastically and excitedly, and the applause lasted.

An audience member at the scene excitedly said: "Is it true that you can buy this product with all-round appearance and performance in a week?"

"Yes!"

"Cool!"

After listening to the translation, all the foreign users on the scene were not happy. They were all sold simultaneously before. Why did Hua Guo two months in advance?

Netizens who eat melon overseas were watching the live video and started to discuss on the Reddit forum.

"This is too unfair. It is more expensive than ours and it was delayed for nearly three months before the sale."

"No way, this is Huaguo's product."

"RIM has a long snack."

"God, it's really too expensive. The retail price starts at more than $900 plus tariffs."

"But Azure-3 is really perfect, no matter in which aspect, OK, I think it has replaced the second-generation Azure as the sexiest mobile phone in my mind."

"I think I should unplug the network cable in the next three months, don't go to BlueSpace, don't go to Reddit, and don't open the BV video website, because I don't want to see being shown and can only envy."

"Haha, trust me, you will reinstall it."

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Compared with the heated discussions among netizens who eat melons around the world, people in the industry, especially some keen bigwigs, seem to have peeped out some of Luo Sheng's strategic intentions from the confirmation of the release date of the Cote d’Azur.

You must know that whether it is Bluestar Technology or the Côte d'Azur, it used to pay great attention to the development of the international market.

And this time the Côte d’Azur’s new product launch is the first to be released in the mainland, which is equivalent to an indirect indication that the focus of business has shifted to the domestic market. At least it is affirmative that more emphasis is placed on the mainland market.

After the press conference was over, some big players in the industry issued articles to analyze and express their views. Of course, some people published articles saying that the overseas business expansion of the Côte d’Azur was hindered.

Many comments and opinions in the industry seem to be reliable, and some are pure nonsense.

With the end of the press conference, the major media quickly spread the latest news, and the media in the science and technology industry rushed to report that the Cote d'Azur properly occupied the current news hotspot in late September.

Especially the consumer market.

Now is an increasingly developed network information era. News can be spread all over the world within a few minutes. After the press conference, various interpretation articles have been published.

Whether it is cloud search, whiteness search, or Google search index, the keyword popularity of "Azure-3" all tops the list.

Some technology bloggers on the Internet have also followed up. After all, this is the current traffic hotspot, and it happens to have a relationship with them. Fans all ask the UP host to comment. There is no reason not to avoid this wave of traffic.

On the day the press conference ended, domestic offline retail stores started to queue up for purchases that day.

It is true that every offline retail store is rushing to buy it in advance. You have to wait another week for new products to be released.

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Blue Coast Company, Yao Jianhong's office.

"Mr. Yao, the current 27 offline flagship stores in the mainland are queuing up and waiting to buy consumers. According to incomplete statistics, there are already more than 20,000 people waiting in line at the store to buy. high."

Hearing this report from his assistant, Yao Jianhong nodded, and suddenly couldn't help but said with emotion: "Mr Luo's strategic forward-looking is really invincible..."

Just before this year, the Cote d'Azur has fewer than 10 offline flagship stores in the mainland.

In 2009, under Luo Sheng's decision, he opened more than 20 stores in a row. The average investment cost of a store was 35 million yuan, and the total expenditure exceeded 700 million yuan.

As early as the beginning of the year, Yao Jianhong also felt that Luo Sheng's decision was a bit overestimating the mainland market, because the sales before 2008 were there, and the impact of the financial crisis was global.

But Luo Sheng resisted the crowd and did just that.

However, no one in the world expected that since the global financial crisis, China was the first country to realize economic recovery and take off directly. Consumption in the inland market suddenly poured out like a dam opening.

In this era, every household really has more or less savings. For this reason, European and American countries once pointed out that Chinese people would not upgrade their consumption.

In fact, which consumption upgrade is relevant?

The biggest reason is that the national infrastructure has not kept up, but after almost ten years in the new century, the inland infrastructure has kept up, and consumption will inevitably keep up.

Let's just talk about home appliances going to the countryside. What kind of cars can the people buy without repairing the road?What kind of computers do ordinary people buy without access to the Internet?When to display?

But today is different.

The rapid development in recent years, the crazy construction of infrastructure, the mileage of railways, highways and other transportation networks continue to break records, various infrastructures are available, every village is connected to cement roads, every village is connected to electricity, and the Internet, etc. .

People can use everything they buy, and consumption will naturally go up.

Although the 3G network has only been rolled out last year, it only took less than two years. The three major operators have basically covered large, medium and small cities, and are further expanding to remote and underdeveloped areas.

This is the speed of China.

"Xiao Li, you go to make arrangements and go to Pengcheng tomorrow to see the situation of the foundry." Yao Jianhong ordered that the king in charge of Biadi always slapped his chest and promised him that he would be able to meet 70 to 80 million in the next year The output of mobile phones.

But Yao Jianhong is still not at ease, especially whether the problem of yield rate will be affected by the expansion of production capacity.

If shipments with hidden dangers trigger a large-scale global recall, it will be deadly, and there is no way to explain to Luo Sheng, the boss.

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