"The sales of iPhone 5s have dropped significantly, and the sales of iPhone 5c are not as good as the sales of the previous generation iPhone 5 in the same period, let alone compared with xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus."
"Cook, you are a waste. Ever since you became CEO, the iPhone has been getting worse every day!"
"Trash, you still say you want to be Joe's best successor? You are not even one-third as good as Joe, you are a loser!"
"The Apple empire that Joe built with his own hands will be destroyed in your hands!"
"Qiao's achievements of more than ten years of hard work have been ruined by you in just a few years!"
"Cook, Apple's revenue and profits continue to decline, and my stock has shrunk by more than half. It won't be a pity if you die ten thousand times, I will sink you into the Pacific to feed the sharks!"
As soon as he finished speaking, two people lifted him up and threw him directly into the sea!
"No!"
"Help!"
Cook shouted loudly, but unfortunately no one listened.
There was a pop.
He was thrown into the ocean, and the waves came and swept him to the bottom of the sea.
Cook choked several times and finally struggled to the surface, trying to swim to the cruise ship.
But they found that the cruise ship had already gone away.
The shareholders on the deck also waved at him, seeming to wish him good luck.
"Fake!"
"Help!"
Cook shouted loudly, but there was no one in the sea ahead.
Only the smell of blood came from behind.
"This is..." Cook's hair stood on end, and he thought of the worst plan for a moment.
Suddenly looking back, the huge bloody mouth opened and swallowed him whole.
"No!"
"No!"
Hysterical exclamations resounded throughout the villa. Cook was frightened and sat up suddenly.
Only then did I realize that it was another nightmare!
In recent days, Cook has been suffering from insomnia and nightmares.
What I dream about is that Apple's sales have plummeted. The combined sales of iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c are not as good as the sales of iPhone 5 in the same period, and they are not as good as the sales of xphone 3 alone.
For this reason, the board of directors became furious and threw him into the sea to feed the sharks, or shot him with an AK...
Each time it was extremely miserable, and they died horribly, and then they woke up from their dreams.
Just like today, my back is soaked with cold sweat!
Boom, boom, boom.
There was a knock on the door, and the housekeeper said gently: "Mr. Cook, are you okay?"
"Oh, it's okay."
"I'm right next to you. If you need anything, just call me."
"good."
When the housekeeper returned to his room, he was already used to such things.
This has happened several times in the past week.
He had nothing to say but prayed to the Lord to bless Cook.
Amen!
"Fortunately it was a dream!" Cook breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling exhausted both physically and mentally.
Recently, I have been racking my brains to increase sales during the day, and I have been tortured by nightmares at night that I would rather die than live.
It's really enough.
"However, today is the eighth day of iPhone 5s sales, right? The first week sales report should be out..."
"The storm is coming!"
Cook's newly relaxed mood became tense again.
So much so that I didn't sleep at all for the next half of the night.
I couldn't even eat breakfast.
I came to the company headquarters with trepidation, as anxious as a poor student waiting for test results.
This day is a day of judgment for Cook and Apple!
Not only him, but also the marketing department, R&D department, etc. all feel the same way.
But some things cannot be escaped.
Cook came to the conference room anyway, looked around at everyone, and said calmly: "Is the first week sales report out?"
"Here comes the chairman." The marketing director handed over a document, but his hands were shaking a little.
Cook took a deep breath and opened the file, with a complicated look on his face:
“One week after the launch of iPhone 5S, 4 million units were sold worldwide!”
“One week after the iPhone 5c was launched, 2 million units were sold worldwide!”
The good news is that the combined sales of the two phones exceeded the first week sales of iPhone 5.
Last year, after the iPhone 5 went on sale, global sales exceeded 5 million units in the first week.
The bad news is that this year's two models combined, and they were simultaneously launched in many countries such as Xiaguo, barely surpassed last year's.
Cook didn't know what to say for a while.
But at the very least, there should be no need to be fed to sharks, right?
When a CEO like him performs well and can bring profits to shareholders, the capital consortium will be very polite to him and support him.
But if his performance is not outstanding and shareholders suffer heavy losses, capital and financial groups will be ruthless and cruel to him, and even kill him.
As for feelings? Humanity?
As long as capital and consortium pay attention to these things, it will not become capital or consortium.
Even Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was kicked out many times!
If you need to use him, invite him back.
Not to mention a mere Cook.
It is possible that Apple's sales will seriously decline, its stock price will plummet, and the shareholder consortium will lose tens of billions or hundreds of billions, feeding sharks and dump trucks.
"But how many sales did Xphone 3 and Xphone 3 Plus have in the first week?" Cook couldn't help but ask.
The combined sales of iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c exceed iPhone 5. It can only be said that he has saved his life, but only by comparing with Xingyi mobile phone can he determine his future.
"Xphone 3 sold 3 million units in its first week."
"Xphone 3 Plus sold 4 million units in its first week."
"The two models combined have sold a total of 7 million units, which is only one million units more than our iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c."
"Only one million more units?" Cook even laughed: "The data you are talking about are just the sales of xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus in Xia, right? What about overseas sales?"
"This..." The marketing director hesitated for a while: "Chairman, this is the official data released by Xingyi Technology, which is relatively reliable."
"It's so unreliable!" Cook was furious: "The data they announced are only licensed sales, just normal data. They don't include parallel import sales from overseas sales at all!"
"As for how many parallel imports were sold overseas? A conservative estimate is that 2 million units were sold to consumers in the first week!"
"As a result, the first-week sales of xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus have exceeded 9 million units, which is 1.5 times the total first-week sales of our iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c!"
"this……"
Everyone was shocked. They never expected that there would be so many, 1.5 times that of Apple!
So scary!
"Oh, it's all the fault of the prism door." Cook said with emotion:
"Xphone 3 and Xphone 3 Plus are already better and more powerful than our iPhone 5S, and have better sales in Xia Country. Coupled with the impact of Prism Gate, we were boycotted and sales declined. They were favored and sales soared. Even parallel imports were sold.
It exploded. It’s 1.5 times ours and it’s normal.”
After speaking, Cook fell into silence: "How should we explain to the board of directors such a huge gap?"
What a big head!
Looking at the senior executives, Cook became even more angry:
"Everyone, please help me find a way to increase sales. If the sales in the second week are only two-thirds of the new Xingyi flagship, the board of directors will not let me go, and I will not let you go!"
"Yes!" Everyone's expressions changed drastically, and they began to discuss countermeasures.
And Cook is struggling with how to artistically report to the board of directors...
The gap in the first week was 1.5 times, and the sales gap in the second week is hard to say.
After all, in the second week, parallel imports of xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus were on sale in the Lao Mi market, so the gap may be even greater.
Without the prism door, Xingyi’s new flagship cannot sell as well as Apple’s new flagship, which is on sale globally.
But with the prism door, Xingyi’s new flagship is selling well in parallel, so Apple’s new flagship is no match.
Wang Yi didn't pay too much attention to these. His eyes still fell on "Boom Island".
If this momentum continues, the revenue of "Boom Island" in September is expected to exceed 1 billion.
These days, there are not that many smartphone terminals, and there are not that many mobile game users.
Therefore, a monthly turnover of 1 billion is considered a god-level hit for SSS.
It can be said that this kind of revenue is already equivalent to that of Genshin Impact and King of Kings ten years later!
However, although "Boom Island" is doing well, it certainly cannot compare with "Honor of Kings" and "Genshin Impact".
Not on the same level.
To put it bluntly, "Honor of Kings" and "Genshin Impact" are considered SSS-level hit games, while "Boom Boom" is the most S-level hit game.
In the middle, there is still a big SS-level hit like "Exciting Battlefield"!
But even so, "Boom Island" still achieved SSS-level revenue and was completely promoted!
As for the reason, I can only say thank you to my friends for their help.
As long as Supercell Oy director does not seek death, publicly insults or belittles players, there will not be so many players of "Clash of Clans" abandoning the game and switching to "Boom Island"!
As soon as the AI ​​translation came out, it aroused the anger of "national war" among players from various countries, making "Boom Island" more playable.
So much so that players from all over the world have begun to build alliances, build bases, increase combat power, and prepare for the upcoming national war next month!
Wang Yidu was very happy about this.
The harder players play, the more Boom Beach earns.
But Supercell Oy was dumbfounded.
As soon as the internal emails were exposed, "Clash of Clans" was losing a large number of users every day, and its daily revenue was declining rapidly.
In just one week, daily revenue has dropped by 70%.
Not many players would make money while being scolded.
This is unrealistic.
In response, the boss of Supercell Oy was furious and quickly started an internal investigation.
As the development director Leander Arnold who caused this incident, he must have borne the brunt and was kicked out directly.
R&D manager Kelon Herrick was also investigated internally for negligence, but the final investigation results showed that it had little to do with Kellon Herrick.
In addition, Kelon Herrick is really capable and is the head of R&D. Andre Arnold has just been laid off. Supercell Oy is short of people.
Kelon Herrick worked hard again and finally succeeded in taking over, replacing Leandre Arnold and becoming the new director of Supercell Oy!
It can be said that Andre Arnold suffered heavy losses in this crisis, but Kelon Herrick won.
But he was not happy at all.
Without him, Kelon Herrick found that he had gone too far.
I’m ruining Clash of Clans!
After this incident, the daily activity of "Clash of Clans" has dropped by more than 70%!
Revenue dropped by 80%!
And the decline is still increasing!
Not only did "Clash of Clans" collapse, Supercell Oy's other games were also boycotted and collapsed!
The kind that causes bleeding!
It can be said that Kelon Herrick, the new director, is facing a mess!
What a mess!
Or was it his own fault?
In desperation, Kelon Herrick could only start a series of rescue measures.
Issue an apology announcement decisively:
[Dear "Clash of Clans" players, due to the personal behavior and inappropriate remarks of the former director, it has caused trouble and harm to the majority of users. We express our deep regret and strong condemnation.
For this reason, we have fired former director Andel Arnold and will hold him accountable accordingly.
To all our users, we once again offer our most sincere apology. Supercell Oy always puts users first, and we thank you all for your continued support.
In order to compensate users, Supercell Oy will distribute game coins worth 10 US dollars to all users as compensation.
Supercell Oy will continue to work hard to bring you more games.】
As soon as this announcement came out, some players were saved, but many players still gave up on returning.
Although the $10 game currency is delicious, dignity is even more priceless.
What's more, the announcement only said apology and compensation, but the most important thing, whether it is compatible with the XOS system, was still not mentioned at all.
Between the lines, players are asked to return and continue to make money.
Some users have no interest in this at all and continue to play "Boom Island" instead.
After all, "Boom Island" has an XOS version, an Android version, an IOS version, a Windows version and a WP version.
It can be said that it is available all over the Internet!
Can be played on any platform.
However, the compensation of 10 US dollars is still very impressive, and some players still choose to return.
Regarding this, Wan Taining was a little nervous and approached Wang Yi:
"Chairman, we have invested a lot of money in "Clash of Clans" and will directly give us a compensation of 10 US dollars. Many players have chosen to return to "Clash of Clans". Do we want to increase the amount?"
Wang Yi waved his hand: "No, no need at all, let them continue to die!"
"Continue to seek death?" Wan Taining was a little confused.
Wang Yixiao said: "The one-time compensation of 10 U.S. dollars in game currency seems very generous. If it is given to all users, will it destroy the balance of the game? High-end players don't care, but what about those low-end players?"
"The advantage they have only established after hard work, this wave of compensation is available to everyone, which directly eliminates the advantage. Everyone is equivalent to a low-Krypton player, so these low-Krypton players will continue to make money
?”
"No, I can't beat the common people as a low-Krypton player, so why am I a loser? As for becoming a mid-Krypton player, that's unrealistic. Anyone with that ability or idea would have already become a mid-Krypton player."
"Yes, that's the truth. Let them give it away. Feel free to give it away. It will destroy the balance of the game and they will cry." Wang Yixiao said.
Sure enough, after this wave of subsidies, the advantage of low-Krypton players who originally abused zero-Krypton players has been sharply reduced, and they cannot even beat zero-Krypton players.
This caused many low-Krypton players to give up.
After a ridiculous operation, "Clash of Clans" lost a large group of low-Krypton players, and returned many zero-Krypton players who usually don't recharge much...
The number of users of "Clash of Clans" has increased a bit, but the revenue has become uglier due to the loss of low-cost players.
As for the mid-Krypton players and high-Krypton players, they don’t care about this compensation at all.
When Andre Arnold insulted players, many mid- to high-level Krypton players had already sold out their accounts and ran away.
Not to mention the 10 USD game currency subsidy, even if you call me daddy, none of these high-earning players will return.
And these mid-to-high-level Krypton players like this type of game, so they have switched to "Boom Island".
Just starting a new game from scratch means you have to start earning money from scratch.
As you can imagine, the users and revenue of "Boom Island" have begun to grow rapidly.
Last week, the single-day turnover reached 50 million yuan, and I thought it would drop to 40 million yuan this week.
Unexpectedly, it surged again, once exceeding 55 million yuan or even 60 million yuan!
If this momentum continues, revenue in September can exceed 1.3 billion!
It can even exceed 1.5 billion in October!
Wang Yi was delighted to hear this.
Thanks to Supercell Oy for committing suicide, and thanks to friends and businessmen for their help!
Now "Clash of Clans" is considered dead, but "Boom Island" has taken its place, becoming the most popular game of its kind.
On the 23rd, Apple’s sales figures for the second week were released.
The global weekly sales of iPhone 5S and iPhone 5c were only over 5 million units. Not only did they not increase compared to last week, but they were even less.
The sales of Xphone 3 and Xphone 3 Plus in the second week were about 6 million units.
The announced weekly sales volume for the third week was 5 million units.
But everyone knows that this is only domestic sales.
Parallel import sales in the past two weeks have been at least one to two million units per week.
It’s just parallel import sales and will not appear in the statistics!
Only the core executives of Xingyi Technology know how much the Xphone 3 and Xphone 3 Plus have sold.
As for the amount of activation, even fewer people know.
In the past 20 days or so, not all of the 8 million parallel import units sold to overseas parallel importers will be sold. A large part of them are in the hands of parallel importers and are being shipped continuously.
As Wang Yi saw, in three weeks, a total of 18 million licensed units and 8 million parallel units of xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus were sold.
There are 26 million units in total, but only 22 million mobile phones are activated.
There are still 4 million units still in the hands of parallel importers and have not yet been sold.
There is no way. For example, in the United States, large-scale goods arrive around the 15th. In a week, not much can be sold, and it still takes time to digest.
But Xingyi Technology has already received all the payment for 26 million mobile phones!
In three weeks, it has broken the first sales record in the past month!
Make a lot of money.
I can only say that Prism Gate is very powerful, and xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus are equally powerful.
At this time, Zhu Changlin walked in:
"Chairman, Meizu and Xiaomi have also placed orders for 5 million Kunpeng 902 SOCs and 5 million fast charging module sets. This is the current total sales report."
"Very good." Wang Yi took the report.
Right now, it’s not just the xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus that are selling well, but also the Kunpeng 902 SOC and the 20-watt fast charging chip set!
It stands to reason that these are the core advantages of Xingyi mobile phones. If it were Samsung, they would hide them and be reluctant to supply them to third-party brands.
I am afraid that third-party brands will have high sales and take away their own market.
But Wang Yi didn’t care and started selling it directly!
Whether it is Kunpeng 902 SOC, 20-watt fast charging chip module, or push-type fingerprint module, they are all on sale!
Wang Yi didn't care at all.
Without him, the core advantage of the Xingyi mobile phone is not the Kunpeng 902 SOC, nor the 20-watt fast charging chip module, nor the push-type fingerprint module...
But the XOS system!
It is the XOS system unique to Xingyi mobile phones and Wujie mobile phones, with a unique 60% improvement!
And the XOS system has no backdoors, is not afraid of monitoring, and is absolutely safe!
As long as the core advantages of the XOS system are there, it won't be a problem if everything else is sold to third parties.
What's more, it will take time for third-party brands to integrate Kunpeng 902, 20W fast charging, and fingerprint unlocking.
If a new generation of mobile phone is developed from scratch, it will take half a year at the earliest, that is, after March next year.
Even if we don’t develop it from scratch, it will take four months at the earliest to perform partial surgery, overhaul, core replacement, fingerprint replacement, and fast charger replacement on the previous plan.
At that time, tens of millions of xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus units had been sold.
The next generation Xingyi X1 is coming out soon.
Faced with the epoch-making innovation of Xingyi X1 full screen + pop-up front camera, let alone domestic friends, even the next generation flagships of Apple and Samsung cannot handle it.
Even the newly released xphone 3 and xphone 3 plus can't hold it.
This is also the reason why Wang Yi plans to use Xingyi X1 to start internationalization and go to the higher end!
Epoch-making innovation, powerful enough!
Wang Yi looked at the order list:
HTC was still the first to try it out, placing orders twice for a total of 10 million Kunpeng 902 SOCs and 10 million 20-watt fast charging kits.
ZTE, O, and V have also placed orders for 10 million Kunpeng 902 SOCs and 10 million sets of 20-watt fast charging chip modules.
These brands are all big sellers.
In his previous life, he could sell tens of millions of mobile phones, or even hundreds of millions of mobile phones a year.
Now being affected by Xingyi Technology, sales have declined, but there is still no pressure to sell tens of millions of units.
It is worth mentioning that Lenovo also gave up on Qualcomm and placed an order for 10 million Kunpeng 902 and 10 million sets of 20-watt fast charging chips.
As for the reason, it is very simple. In order to sell sales and make money, there is no so-called Qualcomm loyalty at all.
In its previous life, Lenovo did not have the so-called Qualcomm loyalty and also used a large number of MediaTek processors.
Today, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 SOC starts at 290 yuan for a 5 million order, and Kunpeng 902 SOC is 295 yuan.
At a similar price, Kunpeng 902 has more powerful performance and a 64-bit processor. For an extra five yuan, it also provides tuning services!
It is better than Qualcomm in every aspect, so Lenovo will naturally not make any detours.
In addition to the above-mentioned brands, Coolpad, Gionee, Meizu, and Xiaomi have also each placed orders for 5 million Kunpeng 902 SOCs and 5 million sets of 20-watt fast charging modules.
All added up, Kunpeng 902 has sold a total of 70 million Kunpeng 902 SOCs and 70 million sets of 20-watt fast charging modules.
This volume is basically the volume for the next year, and all major brands have placed orders all at once.
There is no way, Xingyi Technology still follows the old rules, the more chip orders, the lower the price.
Kunpeng 902 SOC, plus tuning services, costs 300 yuan per piece for 5 million units, and 290 yuan for 10 million units.
If the price is less than 5 million, the price will be 310 yuan per piece.
As for price cuts?
Given the situation, it would be good if the price does not increase.
For example, the previous Kunpeng 702 SOC originally cost 240 yuan, but it sold so well that a few months later, instead of reducing the price, the price increased to 260 yuan!
There is absolutely no reason to explain!
Even though the Kunpeng 902 is now released, the Kunpeng 702 still costs 250 yuan, which is not much lower.
The price will be reduced a bit when the Kunpeng 706 is released later.
At that time, the volume of 5 million yuan will include training services: Kunpeng 902 will cost 300 yuan, Kunpeng 706 will cost 270 yuan, Kunpeng 702 will cost 240 yuan, Kunpeng 700 will cost 210 yuan...
Since there will be no price cuts within a year, or even price increases, major brands will not wait and place orders directly.
There is no way, Kunpeng 902 is so powerful, all major brands have to place orders. A company with 5 million to 10 million is a big order of 70 million. With so many orders, it will be late to place the order, and it will take a long time to queue for delivery!
Chapter completed!