Chapter 2886 Africa
Staff canteen, 3 private rooms on the second floor.
Several plates were still on the table, so the three of them started chatting.
This matter really needs to be resolved.
If it is not resolved, nothing else, Boss Zhou helped Meizu today, and tomorrow more mobile phone manufacturers will come to him for help. He will not have the energy to deal with so many things.
Chen Guohuan followed his guess and expressed his opinion.
Zhou Buqi was noncommittal.
Chen Guohuan knew the direction of his thinking. It seemed that he was on the right track. The big boss had indeed planned this.
Zhou Shaoning, however, felt that this was not very reliable, "It's really impossible to make a copycat phone! It's a bad sign!"
Chen Guohuan said: "If we don't resolve this matter, if we helped Meizu today, how will we deal with the subsequent series of incidents?"
Zhou Buqi looked at him with a smile, "Aren't you busy at work?"
"I'm not busy." Chen Guohuan is very honest. There is no need to be secretive in front of the big boss. He is not the kind of stingy boss who feels uncomfortable when his employees are idle. "There is not much development in the marketing department now." There is no space. The promotion of the app belongs to the product department and is not under my control. The marketing department mainly pulls in advertisements from outside. But now our products are the most popular in the domestic Internet industry, and there is no need to pull advertisements. The advertisers are all. Take the initiative to come and cooperate with us.”
Zhou Buqi asked: "I heard that they are going to transfer your job?"
Chen Guohuan sighed, "Well, Boss He's proposal is that he wants me to become the senior vice president of Fantuan.com, where there will be more room for development."
"What did you think about it?"
"There are indeed greater development opportunities there, but I have no interest in delivering food."
"Where's the cell phone?"
Zhou Buqi looked at him.
"ah?"
Chen Guohuan was stunned immediately.
Of course he can understand what the big boss means.
The big boss wants to solve the problem of low-end products in the domestic mobile phone industry that is bullied by the supply side. He wants to solve the problem once and for all, instead of letting the Meizu incident happen again and again.
How to deal with it?
That's when Boss Zhou comes forward and takes over!
He wants to collect all the tail goods from the supply side!
This is to solve the problem from the root.
Helping Meizu this time is really treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. The remaining batch of products in Samsung's hands will not be sold to Meizu, but must be sold to other domestic mobile phone manufacturers. From an overall perspective, this help will not make any changes to the industry.
So the big boss will try his best to "go to hell".
In order to prevent those low-quality goods from affecting the survival of domestic small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers and to create a better and more comfortable operating environment for them, Boss Zhou wants to buy all the low-quality goods in the market. He bought all these unfinished products that troubled small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers, so that small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers would no longer be troubled by such troubles!
Then, Boss Zhou will rely on these cheap products to revive the copycat mobile phone industry that is close to bankruptcy.
Such a plan is really courageous.
It's too risky.
It’s not surprising that Zhou Shaoning objected.
However, who will be responsible for this "copycat phone" business?
Chen Guohuan's heart suddenly moved.
He has realized that the big boss is interested in him.
Then, all the doubts in my mind before eating were cleared at this moment.
No wonder he was asked to accompany Meizu CEO Bai Yuanxiang to the cafeteria for dinner.
It’s not like he and Mr. Bai know each other!
He has nothing to do with the mobile phone industry, so it would be inappropriate for him to entertain guests. Ziweixing has a public relations department, an administrative department, and a logistics department. There are many departments responsible for receiving important guests. The marketing department is not doing this kind of thing.
Why would Boss Zhou think of sending him here today?
Now it seems that everything is clear.
Boss Zhou is deliberately pushing himself into the game!
It turned out that today's game was all under the control of the big boss, and there was never any loss of control from beginning to end.
Zhou Shaoning also heard that Zhou Buqi wanted Chen Guohuan to join the game to make a copycat machine. He was really shocked. His eyes were as wide as copper bells, and he looked like a black cat police chief. He lost his voice and said: "Old Zhou , you won’t come seriously, will you?”
Zhou Buqi said: "It's true."
"Fuck!" Zhou Shaoning disagreed with everything he said, "No, this is absolutely not possible! There is indeed a certain market for copycat phones from the supply side to the demand side, but it can't be done, especially you can't do it! You are so dignified, Zhou Buqi, What will everyone think if something like this is spread? Also, college students today are different from those in previous years, so you can’t fool them with copycat phones!”
Zhou Buqi said amusedly: "Have you misunderstood? Do you think I made a copycat phone and sold it to college students on the school network?"
"Huh?" Zhou Shaoning was slightly startled, "Isn't it?"
He thought Boss Zhou wanted to take over this matter because he was a college student.
Smartphones are still a bit expensive these days.
The ultra-low-price mobile phones of Asda and Xiaomi for the campus network are all limited edition and cannot meet the needs of college students at all. But if you buy it according to the market price, the cheapest one costs more than 1,500 yuan. Many college students actually use functional phones.
However, smartphones and feature phones are not the same thing at all.
A feature phone has only a few functions. Even if it uses some inferior parts, it won’t be a big problem to use. It’s not much different from big-name mobile phones like Nokia and Motorola.
Smartphones are different. The core of a smartphone is the processor chip, operating system and operating platform. It has more, more complex and sophisticated functions, which means more failure rates.
If you want to make a copycat smartphone, the risk is too great.
If you dare to sell this kind of mobile phone to college students, you are really looking for scolding.
Zhou Buqi had never had such an idea before. He shook his head and said, "When facing college students, you must be sincere. I'm not talking about the campus network."
"Then you are..."
"I read the investigation report you forwarded to me, the report on exploring the African market."
"Um?"
Zhou Shaoning raised his eyebrows.
Zhou Buqi said: "That report is very good, and it also confirms the shortcomings of our previous understanding. Africa's Internet infrastructure is backward and the popularity of the Internet is not high. Going to Africa to promote smartphones is indeed too challenging in a short time. Big. For now, ASDA’s overseas business of low-end phones should be focused on the South American, Middle East and Indian markets. However, it’s okay to not let go of the African market, but for the domestic mobile phone industry, it must be. We must firmly grasp the African market. This is a rare export market.”
Zhou Shaoning suddenly realized, "Africa? Are you going to sell knockoff phones to Africa?"
Zhou Buqi said: "Africa not only has backward Internet infrastructure, but the key is that the Internet product ecology is also insufficient. Even Ziweixing International, many products have not been opened in the African market. Except for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Yahoo, these international Giants, most internet services are not available in Africa.”
Zhou Shaoning nodded, "If you want to provide Internet services in Africa, you need to go to some areas in Africa to open branches, recruit employees, and form teams. This is indeed a huge challenge, and it is not the same as just doing the consumer side."
Zhou Buqi said: "Morocco in North Africa is okay. It is close to Europe and has basically integrated into Europe. Other African countries are really prohibitive. This means that rich people in Africa, even if they have access to the Internet, can With smartphones, there are very few internet services available. Even Google’s YouTube is not available in Africa.”
Because Africa is too poor and has too many people.
YouTube relies on advertising dollars to survive.
The small amount of advertising money operating in Africa is not enough for the huge bandwidth consumed by Africans using YouTube and the huge operating costs of servers for Google.
This is very important.
This has become a prerequisite for making smart copycat mobile phones in Africa. !
Because the more functions there are, the higher the failure rate of the copycat phone.
However, African smartphones are not smartphones in the general sense. Internet services in Africa are very limited, which means that smartphones do not need to provide many functions. Basic instant messaging, Google search, and the ability to take photos are enough.
With fewer functions, the failure rate of copycat smartphones can be greatly reduced.
There is also little Internet coverage in Africa and broadband costs are very expensive.
Most of the time, the smartphones in the hands of consumers are disconnected from the Internet.
The phone is more stable.
Zhou Shaoning was stunned and speechless.
Chen Guohuan also took a deep breath and suddenly realized that the word "experimental field" almost blurted out.
Sure enough, it still smells familiar!
Boss Zhou is indeed a world-class entrepreneur, focusing on the global market. Africa can be that "experimental field"!
When they were developing atomic bombs, some countries chose to conduct test explosions in Africa.
Even experiments on atomic bombs can be done in Africa, and of course mobile phones can be used.
