Vol 6 Chapter 605: relative advantage
The first Android smart phone, the T-Mobile telecom company's customized machine officially named G1, became popular after being launched simultaneously in Europe and America on the weekend.
While critics expressed their different opinions on the first mobile phone in the Android camp, in the United States and Europe, the sales of G1 exceeded 200,000 in the first day of launch. Unexpected numbers.
Although Apple no longer announces specific sales figures, it can be concluded that the monthly sales of iPhone 3G should be around 2 million units based on the data collected by various telecom operators.
Considering that G1 is just launched and has the gimmick of the first Android smartphone, 200,000 a day and 2 million a month are not comparable, but in any case, this is enough to illustrate the success of G1.
There are many reasons for its success.
Because of the location of HTC’s headquarters, its advantages in manufacturing, and its sufficient preparation time, of course, we have to thank the pioneer Apple for paved roads, so that G1 can already do a lot of distribution before it goes public.
T-Mobile and its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, are obviously also preparing to take advantage of the listing of G1 to develop a group of users, so they also show great sincerity in sales.
Although the price is not much different from the iPhone, because the 16G version of the iPhone is originally priced at only US$299, the 8G version is only priced at US$199, which is already low enough, so the US$288 G1 is in terms of price. , Does not have an advantage.
But they have targeted discounts in terms of packages.
The mainstream iPhone package in the United States. Take AT&T as an example. The monthly rental fee for the iPhone is US$10 to US$30, and the monthly fee for 200 text messages is US$5. There is no limit to US$20... T-Mobile is very unstyled and directly calls. 10% off.
In addition, for various reasons, users who did not start Apple before, choose G1 at this time. It should be said that many of them are really for Android.
In developed countries like Europe and America, users are very individual. Apple is good and exquisite enough, so it is somewhat arrogant. Some people just like this. Naturally, some people don’t like it very much.
In any case, compared to the closed Apple, the open source Android is inherently higher morally than Apple.
When receiving a series of surprise calls from HTC, Feng Yiping felt that the reason why G1 has achieved such good results once it went on the market may also be related to the nature of most consumers.
Although we can only choose one product like this in the end, or even become the iron powder of that company, if there is only one product on the market for similar products, even if it is your favorite, you may feel a little bit in your heart. Unwell.
As consumers, we are born to dislike monopoly.
And the efforts of Mr. Wang and Hongda Electronics suddenly filled up the faint feeling of anxiety in many people's hearts.
So, in many cases, if you act proactively and always strive for the first place, you will get a good return.
Rubin, who was a little restless before the press conference, was very quiet on the return flight. He didn't even care about the evaluation of the Android system by professional commentators, because he was preparing for the next version of the development.
And he is really confident. This first mobile phone from Android is enough for Apple to drink a pot, and enough for Jobs, who always scolds him by name, to be depressed for a while.
Although he didn't realize it when he was developing Android, after the company was acquired by Feng Yiping, he was quickly instilled and accepted the concept that in the future, differences in smartphones, hardware, are only one part, and differences in software. , Is the key.
For this reason, the Android team put effort into the Android store from the very beginning, creating a very good environment for third-party application developers, including providing them with very powerful development tools. Pack and so on.
And Apple, because of Jobs’ arrogance-as everyone knows, he always thinks that the products he developed are the best and the best. For this reason, he was reluctant to install other third-party applications on the iPhone at first, because He suspects that those applications will affect the performance of the iPhone.
Although there have been improvements later, it is naturally not as good as Android, which is very important at the beginning.
Rubin is right. In the Apple Park this weekend, there are still many people who "actively" work overtime. Even those who don't work overtime will spontaneously compare the differences between G1 and their own products. There are many aspects that they dislike. So thick," "So heavy," "So cheap to the touch,"
Or, "The camera is 1.2 million pixels higher than ours, so the photo effect must be better than ours?"-It's really better than them.
But the interface of the Android system and the smoothness of operation... make it difficult for them.
Especially the abundance of apps in the Android store is far beyond their expectations-there will naturally be a lot of difference between active and passive.
And they all know the importance of applications to their benefits.
In the first 30 days after they officially released the Apple Store in early July this year, Apple users downloaded 60 million apps.
In the same period, iTunes has been launched for more than 5 years. The number of music downloads in the world is nearly 200 million, which is equivalent to that in a month’s time, the number of downloads in the Apple Store is equivalent to 30 of iTunes downloads %!
Among these more than 60 million applications, although most of them are free applications, they still bring in more than 30 million US dollars in revenue.
According to the share ratio of 37, Apple’s revenue has exceeded 10 million U.S. dollars.
With the increase in the number of applications, with the increase in iPhone users, soon, this will be a billion-dollar market.
The important thing is that this money is so easy and unexpected-because they had never thought that there would be such a piece of income before.
But it seems that it is not good to say that Android will quickly surpass them in this aspect in the future.
Being surpassed in the field created by others, this will not be a pleasant thing for anyone, especially for Apple people.
But, this is a very helpless thing.
They all know that as more and more manufacturers launch Android phones, users of Android phones will soon surpass Apple, and there is no possibility of reversal.
Because they know that their own system is never free and open source.
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Now every time I go back to Silicon Valley, I don’t go to Mountain View or Los Gatos, but to the house on the outskirts of Los Gatos.
Feng Yiping felt that after the exchange of voices between his two original homes in Silicon Valley, he seemed to have been expelled by the mother of his two children at the same time, so he had a third home.
But he is not alone in this third home, on the contrary, this is the most lively home.
The car was still on the mountain road, and he saw two small figures with a dog wagging its tail dashing out of the yard.
Looking at the two children from a distance, his hard work and exhaustion these days disappeared immediately.
He just got out of the car and just said "Hi," and he was almost washed to the ground by the two little guys rushing over.
This is not the lawn of the yard, this is an asphalt road.
"Dad," "Dad," Feng Yiping squatted down holding a pair of children in his arms, feeling unusually satisfied.
Candy stuck his tongue out and circled them, the little master’s father’s face no longer had its place, so it could only kiss Feng Yiping and hold the hands of the two children.
"Wait, Vincent, hold your arms tighter, OK, let's go," Feng Yiping held a child in one hand and stood up a little harder, "Do you miss me?"
"I want," "I want to,"
"How much do you think?"
"I have discussed with my brother~www.wuxiaspot.com~ If you don't come back, we will go to you," Amanda said.
"Yeah, you all have such ideas, not bad, not bad," he was very arrogant when he was so concerned by the two children.
But the two children suddenly talked about another topic, "Dad, I watched you interview with that aunt yesterday," Amanda said.
"Dad, that aunt is not pretty," Vincent said.
"Dad, why are there so many aunts interviewing you?" Amanda asked.
Feng Yiping:...
He is very sure about one thing. The reason why the two little guys pay attention to this matter must be influenced by others.
"This is because in the host industry, there are more aunts... Oh, Vincent, take out my cell phone... I have to answer this call,"
"There are gifts in the car, can you get them by yourself?"
He should have said this earlier, because the two children immediately forgot the topic just now, and they sprinted at a speed of 100 meters to find gifts. They wanted very much, maybe there are gifts?
He smiled and pressed the call button, "Hello, President,"
"Haha Feng," Xiao Ohei over there smiled, "Do you have time now?"
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