Chapter 95: The Copycat Gene of Weiku Electronics
Chapter 95: The Copycat Gene of Weiku Electronics
After taking a tour of the R&D department and understanding the R&D status of each department, Xu Shenxue had a general idea in his mind!
In general, the research and development progress is pretty good. Even for the seemingly most difficult future flagship project, there are actually alternative plans...using a relatively expensive aluminum alloy body to reduce some profits.
Other aspects are all fine, and the next period of time is actually to slowly polish, strive for perfection, and solve many detailed problems.
Just like the C1 mobile phone, due to the rush, the first batch of C1 mobile phones launched on the market actually had some problems with details.
Later, Zhiyun Technology made detailed improvements during production and gradually solved these problems in subsequent batches.
The C1 phone was launched in a hurry because of market demand, but the C2 and future flagship phones do not need to be rushed. They can focus on polishing the details and strive to do better.
Especially for the future flagship phone, Xu Shenxue expects it to truly prop up the high-end brand of Zhiyun Mobile Phone, instead of relying on all kinds of publicity and boasting as it does now, taking advantage of the window period when Apple has not yet entered the market and four-star has not yet made Android phones, to force itself into the mid-to-high-end market.
Instead, we hope that when people talk about Zhiyun mobile phone, they will think of this future flagship phone, and then believe from the bottom of their hearts that Zhiyun mobile phone is a high-end mobile phone.
It's not just the company's own bragging, but the customers... and not just its own customers, even users of other mobile phone brands, are willing to believe that Zhiyun phones are high-end phones.
Xu Shenxue's ambition is to create a well-deserved and widely recognized high-end mobile phone brand!
The current C series phones are unable to shoulder this heavy responsibility, so we can only hope for future flagship phones!
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After taking a tour of Zhiyun Technology's R&D department, Xu Shenxue thought that he had seen everything today, so he simply ran upstairs to the 29th floor to see Weiku Electronics' R&D.
Research and development at Weiku Electronics is much simpler.
Maybe it was due to Bai Qiwen's personal style, or maybe the copycat gene of Weiku Electronics was deeply rooted in their bones. When making smartphones, they thought about copying if they could, and if they couldn't copy, they would just copy...
When he came to the research department of Weiku Electronics and saw a mobile phone that looked very similar to the iPhone 3G, he was stunned: "I am not surprised by the appearance, but how did you achieve this single-button interaction? Without the return button and menu button, it would be difficult to use, right?"
Xu Shenxue didn't find it strange that the R&D department of Weiku Electronics was imitating and plagiarizing... Bai Qiwen liked to do that.
It’s just that he couldn’t figure it out…YUN OS system is the core of Android, and its interaction mode is a three-button solution that is optimized by itself.
As a result, Weiku Electronics removed two of the buttons and made a high-end imitation fruit phone... How do you operate it?
Bai Qiwen on the side chuckled, then picked up his phone to demonstrate the operation: "Boss Xu, look, our return button is in the upper left corner..."
Even the icons on the interface are highly similar to fruits!
Well, this is not high defense anymore, it’s completely plagiarized!
If this thing is released, the fruit companies will sue them until they go bankrupt... When faced with plagiarism and imitation, fruit companies generally don't pay much attention to those small manufacturers. After all, there is no threat, and suing them also requires costs, etc.
However, the fruit industry will not hesitate to file various lawsuits against large manufacturers for imitation and plagiarism...
Well, Zhiyun Technology is similar. Its preparations for various patent wars are all aimed at medium and large mobile phone manufacturers, and it doesn't bother to care about small manufacturers.
However, although Wecoo Electronics is just a small manufacturer, Zhiyun Technology is not... Outsiders may not know this, but people in the industry basically know that Wecoo Electronics and Zhiyun Technology are one family, and even the predecessor of Zhiyun Technology was split from Wecoo Electronics.
Backed by Zhiyun Technology, Weiku Electronics is now entering the smartphone industry... Even though the smartphone hasn't even been released yet, it has already attracted the attention of a large number of manufacturers, especially a number of domestic smartphone manufacturers, who see it as a potential enemy!
Because according to industry sources, under Liuhe Investment, Zhiyun Technology is a mid-to-high-end brand, and Weiku Electronics is a mid-to-low-end brand... This is not a secret.
This means that Weiku Electronics’ smartphones will be in the mid-to-low-end market... and the mid-to-low-end market is also the intended battlefield for a large number of domestic mobile phone manufacturers!
As for high-end, they didn't even dare to think about it... Not everyone is as stubborn and confident as Xu Shenxue, who can start with a high-end machine and actually succeed.
Most domestic mobile phone manufacturers, including Huawei and Lianxiang, do not have the confidence to produce high-end phones, and mainly focus on the mid- and low-end markets.
So... in the future, the biggest competitor of a large number of domestic mobile phone manufacturers will not be Zhiyun Technology, but Weiku Electronics, which currently does not even have a single smartphone.
Although Weiku Electronics has not officially launched a mobile phone yet, it is preparing for a test of Zhiyun Technology. It does not need to engage in real research and development and can use it directly. Therefore, it is inevitable that Weiku Electronics will launch a mobile phone, and it may not take long.
Weiku Electronics is too threatening!
In addition, although Weiku Electronics' low-end products do not threaten Apple's market position, Apple will sue it if it becomes large-scale and makes high-end imitation phones too much...
So Xu Shenxue took a look at the phone, tried it for a while and said, "Don't use this thing. Not only is it an infringement, but you guys have messed up a good cloud system!"
Xu Shenxue was actually quite speechless.
Although Wecoo Electronics started out as a manufacturer of copycat phones, times have changed. Now we have entered the era of smart phones and can no longer make high-end imitation phones. You can imitate, but you cannot copy them exactly.
And even if I copied it, it wouldn't be right...
The prototype in my hand, whether it is for viewing or use, is just like the model machines that scammers use to defraud money... It is too low-end and will seriously affect the brand. Although the two brands of Weiku and Xiaolan are not very good, no one says they are copied from scam brands. Outsiders at most say that they are low-end brands.
Seeing Xu Shenxue say this, Bai Qiwen's expression did not change. He was not embarrassed at all, but excitedly pulled out seven or eight prototypes...
Really, not one or two, but seven or eight!
"Then Mr. Xu, please take a look at these. These are the prototypes we made during this period!"
Xu Shenxue thought about the future flagship phone that had been held back for so long but hadn't even produced an engineering prototype, and then looked at the row of Wecoo Electronics prototypes of various styles.
It just feels ridiculous!
When did smartphones become so cheap? How can you just pick up so many smartphones?
Perhaps seeing Xu Shenxue's confusion, Bai Qiwen took the initiative to say, "Hey, Mr. Xu, don't get me wrong. In fact, these prototypes all have the same core, but they are different in appearance!"
"It's just like the J56 we made before, and the J58 feature phone we have now. The core is the same, and we launch new models by changing the appearance!"
"I think that although smartphones are a bit difficult to produce and we can't quickly launch a large number of models, it shouldn't be a problem to make a few models with different appearances using one core!"
Bai Qiwen picked up one with his hand, and then picked up another one with his other hand… and then said to Xu Shenxue: "Look, Mr. Xu, the cores of these two prototypes are the same. They use the 7200A chip and can also have 256 memory. The screen is 3.5 inches, with a resolution of 480x320. This screen supports multi-touch. After the subsequent system upgrade, it can use multi-touch. The rear camera is million pixels, and the front camera is pixels!"
"The storage space is 4GB, and there is also a high-end plan with 8GB!"
"It uses a removable battery with a capacity of 1200 mAh!"
“Overall, it’s a scaled-down version of C1!”
"Based on our hardware costs and other costs, even if this phone is sold for 2,000 yuan, we can still make a lot of money!"
Xu Shenxue picked it up and took a look. It didn't have any special features. The appearance was just an ordinary plastic body, the screen was small, and the resolution was low... If he had to point out its advantages, it would probably be the YUN OS system it was equipped with.
After reading it, Bai Qiwen took out another mobile phone. This one had an even smaller screen...
"This is another core design of ours. It uses the lower-cost 7225 chip, 196MB of RAM, 512MB of storage space, and supports expansion up to 16GB. It uses a 3.2-inch screen with a resolution of 240×320. Due to cost control, the hardware of this screen can only support two-point touch, and even if the system is upgraded later, it will not be able to support multi-point touch."
"The camera is 1.2 megapixels, this +"
"This is a mobile phone. We plan to lower the selling price to around 1,500 yuan."
Xu Shenxue also took it and took a look, but he was even more annoyed... the screen was too small.
According to Xu Shenxue, even the C series phones are very low-end... But technology is like this in this era, and this is all you can do if you want to control costs.
Xu Shenxue’s personal preference is actually not very important. What’s important is that the contemporary mainstream market is like this, and it’s OK as long as consumers don’t think it’s low quality.
Anyway, the mid-range mobile phones of the so-called international big manufacturers are just like this... If Weiku Electronics makes them and sells them cheaper, there should be a market for them, and it may even explode the market.
After all, the poor still make up the majority of people in this world!
No matter how bad a smartphone that costs more than a thousand dollars is, it is still better than a feature phone.
Even if the performance is poor, but with a Yun OS system, you can enjoy a richer ecological content than feature phones.
Besides making calls, mobile phones are actually used for playing!
The system and ecology are very important.
The hardware of these mobile phones produced by Weiku Electronics is average, but the system and ecosystem are good...because this system is directly applied to the YUN OS system of Zhiyun Technology, and the ecosystem also directly uses the renamed version of Zhiyun APP Mall.
I turned on the phone and tried using it. It wasn't very good, but it worked.
He immediately said: "The phone is pretty good, with good performance and cost control. We still need to continue to polish the details. It's April now, so there's no need to rush. Spend some more time polishing it, and then try to prepare the stock in July, and then start selling it in August to catch up with the back-to-school season market!"
(End of this chapter)