Chapter 455 Apple prices have increased
The price is more expensive than the Yuanfang mobile phone in China. Of course, this is due to the influence of exchange rates.
In fact, it is still very easy for people in developed countries to buy Yuanfang mobile phones. Even the most basic π mobile phone can be bought with only one-fourth or one-fifth of a month's salary.
According to Gao Yuan's estimate, the π mobile phone can be profitable as long as 20 million units are sold.
This is mainly because the π mobile phone and the Yuanfang mobile phone have the same origin. As long as one is developed, the other will also be developed.
Only one R\u0026D cost needs to be paid.
The main cost of the π mobile phone is still labor cost and factory construction cost. The salary in Australia is much higher than that in China.
When 20 million units are sold, the net profit will be about 10 billion US dollars. When 30 million units are sold, the net profit will reach 10 billion US dollars.
If the sales volume in the first year can reach 50 million units or even 100 million units, the profit may reach more than 150 billion US dollars, which is more than 1 trillion RMB.
Even if a part of it is given to Musk, Gao Yuan's income will be a terrifying 900 billion RMB.
Combined with Yuanfang Automobile, Yuanfang Mobile Phone and other industries, Yuanfang Group's annual net profit will reach an astonishing 2 trillion RMB.
But there are many places where money needs to be spent next, especially in the field of space exploration, which requires heavy investment in research and development.
Gao Yuan is doing it with his own strength, without the support of the country, so the funds needed are huge.
Those researchers are the most elite in the world, and their annual salary starts at one million. There are also countless research assistants, supporting facilities and many aspects of cooperation, which all require money.
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Musk's live broadcast is unprecedented, and about 300 million people around the world watched this live broadcast.
On foreign websites, there are hundreds of thousands of millions of likes about Musk's live broadcast slices.
The same trend is that the π mobile phone sold out instantly. In just twelve hours, the sales exceeded 8 million, and the sales exceeded 12 million units in 24 hours.
Seeing this dazzling data, Musk was not calm.
The reason why Fruit Group can become the company with the highest market value in the world is that their main business, Fruit Mobile Phone, has an annual sales volume of more than 200 million units, nearly 300 million units.
On average, they sell 800,000 mobile phones worldwide every day, and 24 million mobile phones a month.
And the Pi phone sold as much as the Apple phone in half a month in one day.
"Mr. Gao, I have reason to believe that you are going to challenge the throne of the world's richest man." Musk congratulated, "The performance of the Pi phone is better than that of the Apple phone. When it is equipped with the super chip you developed, the sales will far exceed that of the Apple phone."
"Then the richest man should be you." Gao Yuan smiled.
The Pi phone is nominally owned by Musk, and Gao Yuan only has control.
Once the Pi phone surpasses the Apple phone, Musk will become the world's richest man in public, and Gao Yuan will only be the world's richest man in private.
This is also good, without having to show up in front of too many people, and Gao Yuan's purpose is to make a fortune quietly.
Moreover, the sales rights of the Pi phone are in Musk's hands, and Musk will also make a lot of money.
"Hahaha, Mr. Gao, the two of us are the richest men. I believe that the future business world will be the world of the two of us." Musk said.
Gao Yuan now has many industries on the surface, but even more behind the scenes.
Apart from the Pi mobile phone, Gao Yuan has trillions of assets from the Australian royal family, and Samsung in South Korea, of which Gao Yuan still has 20% of the shares. When Lee Won-joo becomes the helmsman of Samsung Group in the future, Musk believes that Gao Yuan will definitely support Lee Won-joo and buy back all the shares of Samsung Group, so that Lee Won-joo can control Samsung Group 100%.
In addition to Gao Yuan's Yuanfang Group in China, the market value may reach an astonishing 30 to 40 trillion.
So terrifying!
Cooperating with Gao Yuan is the most correct decision Musk has made.
It is hard to imagine how miserable the end would be if he went against Gao Yuan.
On the other side.
Headquarters of Fruit Mobile Phone.
Yuanfang Mobile Phone in China is constantly squeezing the market of Fruit Mobile Phone in China, but Fruit Mobile Phone does not care.
Because the sales volume of Fruit Mobile Phone in China only accounts for about one-fifth to one-sixth of the global market, and for so many years, many mobile phones have also wanted to seize the market of Fruit Mobile Phone, but none of them succeeded.
But during this period of time, their mobile phone market in China has not recovered.
And Samsung Group officially announced that they will install 1 nanometer chips on Samsung mobile phones next year!
For fruit phones, this will be a huge threat.
Samsung mobile phone sales worldwide are not much different from fruit phones.
Once they really carry 1 nanometer chips, the market for fruit phones will be in jeopardy.
Especially now that Musk has also developed the π phone to seize the global mobile phone market share.
In this way, fruit phones will face multiple pursuits.
"Everyone, can you discuss an effective strategy?" Cook said, "Whether it is the π phone or the Samsung phone, it is a huge threat to our fruit phones."
"And who can tell me how Samsung Group suddenly developed a 1 nanometer chip?"
This news is really too shocking.
When Samsung Group developed 3-4 nanometer chips before, Fruit Group did not pay much attention to it, because their company's research and development has always been at the forefront, and it is stronger than Samsung Group.
But suddenly Samsung Group is four or five years ahead of them!
They cannot bear this result.
It's like two top students in the class. Usually, their levels are similar, and their test scores are not much different. As a result, one day, one of them said that he was recommended, and he directly skipped the university and was recommended to study in the graduate department of a top university.
The remaining top student was naturally dumbfounded!
He hasn't even gone to college yet!
"Mr. Cook, how did you develop a 1-nanometer chip? I don't think this is important. What's important is how to maintain our market."
A vice president said with some disdain.
Under the leadership of the previous controller, Fruit Mobile has grown into a world-renowned company.
As the successor, Cook is too far away from the previous controller.
Today's Fruit Mobile has almost no innovation, but has been changing the shell.
Those shareholders holding shares in Fruit Company have long been dissatisfied with Cook. If the previous controller was still there, this situation would never happen.
"Mr. Cook, I think you need to give an explanation to the directors and shareholders of the fruit company."
Another vice president shouted.
"That's right, why is our fruit phone the best phone in the world, but now it has become like this."
Others began to blame.
Cook was helpless, because these vice presidents dared to attack him only after being instructed by those shareholders.
And those shareholders were Wall Street tycoons who had invested in the fruit company many years ago. Coupled with their own influence, Cook was really not their opponent.
Don't look at Cook as the CEO of the fruit company, but if those tycoons are not satisfied, they can replace him at any time.
Even the previous controller, Jobs, was driven out of the company by these people. If it weren't for the fact that the performance of the fruit company was getting worse and worse after Jobs was driven out, they had no choice but to let Jobs come back and control the power of the fruit phone.
Otherwise, Jobs might never return to the fruit company in his life.
As Jobs' successor, Cook can become the current controller of Apple mobile phones. On the one hand, it is because of Jobs' support before his death. He continued to support him and let him have a certain voice in the company.
On the other hand, it is also because Cook has a good relationship with those shareholders.
But when it comes to money, even if the relationship is good, these tycoons will not show mercy.
"I can give up the position of CEO, but can you find someone more suitable than me?" Cook asked back, "If you come to my position, can you guarantee that you can do better than me?"
As soon as this was said, all the vice presidents were silent.
Cook is indeed the most suitable candidate at present. Although he is not pioneering enough, he is still very capable of defending the city. At least after Jobs left, Apple did not face a big crisis.
Others who take over the position of CEO will not do better than Cook, and may be far worse.
"I called everyone here today mainly to discuss countermeasures, not to discuss who is doing well and who is doing badly." Cook said, "The pressure from Samsung mobile phones, the pressure from Pi mobile phones, and the pressure from Huaxia Yuanfang mobile phones, the fruit company has to face three enemies."
"The top priority is to alleviate the impact of these three mobile phone companies."
What Cook didn't know was that these three mobile phone companies were actually all owned by Gao Yuan.
He thought he was facing three forces, but in fact it was just the pressure from Gao Yuan.
"Take some time to talk to Musk and discuss a suitable method to cancel our antagonistic relationship. Secondly, find the Samsung Group in South Korea and rely on external forces to put pressure on South Korea, so that South Korea can put pressure on Samsung Group."
"As for the mobile phone market in China, the more this is the case, I think our mobile phones should be more expensive, so that they know that the fruit mobile phone is the best mobile phone in China."
The people in China are vain. A survey data shows that among the people who buy fruit mobile phones in China, a considerable part of them are in the service industry and already work in factories.
In Cook's country, people in industries such as waiters and workers have a good income.
But in China, the salaries of waiters and workers are not very high. Most of these people are young people. Although they don't have a car or a house, they don't have much pressure.
They don't earn much money, but they have a strong consumption concept.
They often like to buy fruit phones in installments, or save up one or two months' salary to buy fruit phones in full.
They are very vain and always think that they are upscale with fruit phones.
The more the price of fruit phones increases, the more they can meet the psychological needs of these people.
Moreover, the second-hand market of fruit phones is also very hot. The price increase of new phones promotes the sales of second-hand phones. When those people see that the second-hand phones of fruit have a strong ability to maintain their value, they will intensify their psychology of buying fruit phones.
A mobile phone bought for five or six thousand yuan can still be sold for three or four thousand yuan after one or two years.
And other brands of mobile phones lose half of their value as soon as they are bought. These people must feel that it is not safe, so it is better to spend more money to buy fruit phones.
Who makes a part of China a die-hard fan of fruit phones!
That afternoon, the Fruit Mobile China region issued a notice that due to various reasons, the price of Fruit Mobile phones in China would increase by 10%.
As soon as this news came out, the Chinese people were shocked.
It caused an uproar on the Internet.
"Fortunately, I bought the Fruit Mobile phone half a month ago. If I buy it now, I will have to pay 500 or 600 yuan more."
"Otherwise, everyone says that Fruit Mobile phones are amazing. They dare to increase the price even though the sales volume has declined. I have used Fruit Mobile phones for more than ten years and I am used to it."
"To be honest, Fruit Mobile phones are really easy to use. Other mobile phones are just average. Huawei Mobile phones are just advertised as great, and Yuanfang Mobile phones are new. How can they be the opponent of Fruit Mobile phones?"
There are related comments under many videos.
In fact, most people follow the crowd. They don't understand what products are good and what products are bad. They only know the specific situation of this mobile phone when they see those bloggers posting videos when browsing information on the Internet.
If the blogger says that this mobile phone is good, then they will think that this mobile phone is good. If the blogger steps on this mobile phone, they will naturally think that this mobile phone is bad.
As for the performance of the phone, if the bloggers received money, they would definitely make up for it in all aspects, and then praise it openly and criticize it secretly.
Apple Mobile Phones bought a lot of review bloggers and water army to improve its reputation.
Coupled with their long-standing brand effect, they actually reversed the downward trend in a short period of time.
After Gao Yuan attended the press conference, he stayed in Australia temporarily. Li Wei reported the news by phone as soon as possible.
"Since this week, the sales of Yuanfang Mobile Phones have declined significantly." Li Wei said, "If this continues, it will be difficult for us to achieve sales of 50 million units."
"The most annoying thing is not those review bloggers who received money, but those public intellectuals. Even if these people don't receive money, they will spare no effort to promote Apple Mobile Phones and belittle Yuanfang Mobile Phones openly and secretly."
"They haven't used our mobile phones either, they just know how to criticize them without thinking."
This is the most troublesome thing.
These public intellectuals are not reasonable at all. They only know how to post one article after another, and they are merciless when throwing dirty water.
"First, limit their traffic on the YouNi APP." Gao Yuan ordered, "Also limit the traffic of several other softwares at the same time, then collect evidence and sue them."
There is no need to be polite to these public intellectuals, just spreading rumors is enough to make them suffer.
Gao Yuan can understand that they took money to hack into Yuanfang's phone, after all, it was for a living. (End of this chapter)