Vol 6 Chapter 887: Strike while the iron is hot (Part 1)

In the helicopter flying over Mumbai, it was quite quiet. Even the old horse, who has always been more active than Feng Yiping, was looking at the scenery below quietly and diligently through the porthole, looking completely attracted and unable to speak.

What else should I say?

Although at a glance, Mumbai has many commendable buildings or scenery, but all of them are not worth mentioning in front of the slums that are everywhere, overwhelming, and full of your eyes.

Even, it’s not easy to praise Ambani’s house. Although it has only 27 floors, it is actually equivalent to an ordinary residence with a height of 60 floors. It has a unique shape and has the name of a small island that means Antilia. The super luxury mansion is so unique and impressive.

Facing the eye-catching slums and the millions or even more poor people who earn less than one pound a day, a family of 6 people lived in this way, costing more than 650 million pounds, and covering an area larger than the Palace of Versailles. Normal operation requires hundreds of people in a mansion... From most values, it is really not a glorious and bragging thing.

Feng Yiping also did not speak.

Although it is not the first time he has come to Mumbai, it is the first time he has been flying over Mumbai for such a long time.

No wonder that after the mansion was built, the Ambani family rarely stayed in, especially the hostess. I heard that they stayed in the UAE most of the time. Anyone who wants to look out the window will see more of the slums, and they are not in the mood. It would be great.

But this problem obviously does not exist in the luxurious UAE.

It seems that the shrewd Ambani sometimes makes mistakes...

The two hosts should be accustomed to the silence of the guests. They still looked calm and calm, but occasionally smiled and introduced them to the important scenery below, "...This is the main road of the city, Gandhi Avenue..."

"...That is the Prince of Wales Museum..."

"...That's Tata headquarters..."

Soon, they ended this journey that would make guests unforgettable and landed in the southern city of Mumbai.

This can be said to be the best area in Mumbai. It will completely make you forget everything you have seen before. The city has pleasant sunny beaches, continuous boulevards, historical buildings and magnificent buildings...

This makes people feel a sense of crossing and tearing. Did I go to a coastal city in the UK?

Lao Ma also became active, looking at the distinctive building in front of him, "It looks more beautiful than the picture!"

That is, anyhow, this is a big tripartite cooperation project!

To say that the value of this building is really not a small amount. In other aspects except population, Mumbai and our domestic first-class cities have a lot of gaps, but in terms of housing prices, they are really catching up. Stance.

Emall’s executives had been waiting around the apron for a long time, and they were all greeted at this time. The leader was a few Indians who could distinguish their ethnicity at a glance. This is also Feng Yiping’s company and its current strategy in India. , That is, the top person in charge of a company in India must be an Indian.

This is of course also to make Indian users clearly feel that you value them.

Fortunately, it is not difficult to find suitable candidates. More than 20,000 Indians from India's most famous university, the Indian Institute of Technology, chose to settle in the United States. Most of them are concentrated in Silicon Valley.

At this time, most of Feng Yiping and Lao Ma’s entourage should be still stuck in the city. Only a few assistants arrived in the second helicopter. Considering that they were also coming from a long distance, The four of them only visited the company briefly, and then they entered the small conference room and had a closed-door meeting.

The person in charge of the e-commerce company did not enter, but Moseli, the person in charge of Feng Yiping in India and one of the directors of Facebook's "next 1 billion" project team, joined the meeting.

"Really don't need to go to the hotel first?" La Dantata asked with a smile.

Feng Yiping also glanced at him with a smile, "It's really not necessary. The advantage of changing to a larger plane is that it will be more comfortable on such a long-distance flight."

This old guy never forgot to make fun of him.

Lao Ma didn't know, but Feng Yiping knew that there would be someone waiting for him in the hotel at this time.

"We all know that the itinerary for these two days is very tight, so I want to talk about the plan I mentioned with the two now," Feng Yiping said straightforwardly.

Although compared to other countries, in terms of revenue, all Indian businesses add up to be very inconspicuous, but India has undoubtedly become his company's most important market.

Including Facebook, Facebook's Whatsapp, Instagram, Snapchat, etc., as well as Twitter, India has already had, or seems to soon become, a country with a higher number of users than the United States and Europe as a whole.

Considering that at least a quarter of the people in the world who have not connected to the Internet are in India, and India does not have a family planning policy, the future potential in this area is even more exciting.

Therefore, what Feng Yiping needs to do now is to further establish his company's advantages in India, that is, to better occupy the Indian market. Specifically, of course, it is to develop more users in India.

"In this regard, Feng, you have to understand the reality that we are facing," said Ambani, who is a telecom operator. "Although there are enough options for smartphones, relative to the income of most people, let them The biggest obstacle to abandoning feature phones and choosing smartphones is not the future cost, but the high price of smartphones."

Since Feng Yiping mentioned it, Laden has naturally understood this aspect, "Currently, feature phones used by hundreds of millions of Indians cost less than US$20, but smartphones that cost less than US$100. Very few,"

Although due to the efforts of my country’s smart phone companies, since last year, many attractive smart phones less than one thousand yuan have appeared on the market, but even those products are still very big for many Indians. Expenditure.

At present, many Indians earn less than US$1,000 a year, which is a smart phone worth about US$100, which is a real luxury.

If you consider the traffic costs that will be incurred in the future, it will make many people stay away.

"In this regard," Feng Yiping smiled easily, "we are confident that we can urge mobile phone manufacturers to provide more reasonable choices for the Indian people."

"For this, we have developed a lighter system, Android Go, based on Android."

"This is a system that can run on smartphones with lower hardware configuration~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Feng Yiping throws out a heavy message, "After testing, we are very happy to see that Android Go is completely It can run smoothly on mobile phones with 1G memory, and also provide users with a good experience."

To get more Indians to replace feature phones and use smart phones, the expensive Apple, of course, can't count on it, so Android can only find a way.

Therefore, it is certainly one of the directions of good efforts to introduce an Android system that is suitable for hardware with lower configuration.

The current high price of smart phones is mainly due to high hardware costs.

On a large scale, promoting the reduction of hardware costs is the direction that a system provider should strive for. Otherwise, why has Microsoft been clamoring for the industry to produce lower-priced PCs over the years?

Because only then, their systems will be installed on more terminals.

Ambani is overjoyed, "When will this system be commercially available?"

As a telecom operator, he knows the significance of this matter best.

"We have communicated with many manufacturers, and they welcome this. I think that this system will be equipped in the third quarter of this year at the latest, so that lower-priced smartphones will be available on the market," Feng Yiping Say.

"So two," he looked at Ambani and Tata, "In order to attract more Indian mobile phone users and choose smart phones by then, I eagerly hope that we can jointly launch those price-sensitive users with great Attractive mobile package,"

"My initial assumption is that when new users use this package, they can use data for free for the first 3 months."

Lao Ma also added, "From our experience, the popularization and development of the mobile terminal has a very significant role in promoting our e-commerce."