Chapter 297 Sales Announcement! Judgment!
Next, two pieces of news came from the Internet.
First, Renren and Quantum Technology have signed a cooperation agreement and will develop a special APP for platform users of quantum phones.
Second, Lightning Group bought back the Yangyang Live Broadcast Room from TOM Group.
The first piece of news caused quite a stir. What was going on? Did Renren give up?
From Lingxi Island to now, the two sides have been enemies for more than six years.
Even just a few months ago, the two sides were still fighting to the death, and Renren was still slandering the leader Ergou to death.
Why did Renren suddenly become timid?
As a result, an anonymous article came out.
"I have to say that Renren is still very powerful, and Chen Yizhou is still very capable. When Liao Feng was imprisoned, everyone thought that Renren was finished, but no one expected that it would survive and develop its own unique track."
"Renren and Facebook are no longer on the same track. Facebook is already the world's largest social networking site for the general public. Renren focuses on high-end social networking and sharing, especially for the female market."
"But we have to admit that the success of Renren today is inseparable from the support of Microsoft China."
"All along, Microsoft and Google have been the forces behind the attack on Ergou in China, and Renren has also served as a pawn in the attack on Ergou."
"But with the emergence of quantum phones, the conspiracy to suppress and discredit Ergou has failed in a sense."
"Of course, the most important thing is that Microsoft headquarters has subtly changed its position. A few years ago, Microsoft was dismissive of Ergou and the X operating system."
"Even though Google is Microsoft's biggest enemy, Microsoft has no intention of joining forces with quantum technology. This is the arrogance that is unique to world giants."
"But soon, the leader Ergou also made Microsoft taste the bitterness of this arrogance."
"Fallout 3 and The Witcher chose the PS3 platform and rejected the XBOX platform, which increased the PS3 sales by about 5-6 million units. The original balance between PS3 and XBOX360 was suddenly broken, and the balance of victory once again tilted towards the PS3 platform. The next big-budget games from the XBOX series include Fallout 4, Fallout: New Vegas, The Last of Us, and The Witcher 2. What does this mean?"
"If Ergou can continue his legend, the combined sales of these four games may reach 50 to 60 million copies. They still reject the XBOX360 platform and choose to launch on the PS platform first. This means that the XBOX platform will lose more than 10 million users worldwide, and will once again be left far behind by the PS platform."
"The most important thing is that the huge success of quantum phones has forced Microsoft to take the X operating system seriously."
"Microsoft is still the dominant player in mobile operating systems, but everyone can see that a new era has arrived. The old Microsoft mobile operating system can no longer adapt to the new smartphones, and a new revolutionary wave is on the way."
"According to relevant US media reports, Master Ergou has approached Microsoft several times, trying to transfer some of his shares to Microsoft so that Microsoft can help Quantum Technology gain a foothold in the United States and resist Google's fierce attack. Microsoft previously disdained this small amount of shares, but now Microsoft has to face up to the olive branch extended by Master Ergou."
"So, Microsoft headquarters' attitude towards Er Gou changed, and Microsoft China naturally changed as well. Once it lost Microsoft's support, Renren would be powerless to attack Er Gou."
"There is another important point. Microsoft headquarters has been evaluating Microsoft's related businesses in China. Whether it is the promotion of MSN or social promotion, they have seen a very narrow ceiling. For domestic Internet companies, the domestic MSN market and Renren are both considerable assets, but for Microsoft, they are just a drop in the bucket and can be abandoned at any time."
"Also, although Renren has stabilized its traffic and has a strong appeal in its unique market, it has always been losing money because of the low unit price of domestic advertising and the fact that Renren has already cut off the gaming industry, so profitability is even more far away. So it is highly likely that Microsoft will sell Renren again one day in the future."
"So from now on, Renren must think about its future."
“This is the core reason why Renren switched to X platform!”
I have to say that some people's intelligence is really accurate. They must be insiders, and insiders of a fairly high level at that.
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In fact, Chen Yizhou has reiterated this more than once at Renren's internal meeting.
Survive!
Because he has clearly sensed that Microsoft's support for Renren has been decreasing.
Up to now, Renren has been continuously burning money.
Many people even think that they have reached the ceiling and can no longer make any progress.
Small and beautiful, looks beautiful.
But in reality it is very painful and there is no hope.
Facebook is like a giant standing in front of all other social networking sites.
Of course, QQ is like a bigger behemoth, standing in front of all social fields.
Chen Yizhou also tried IPO. Even if he couldn't list on Nasdaq, he could list on the Hong Kong stock market.
But basically, it's no longer possible.
Once Microsoft China stops its continued financial investment, Renren will be in big trouble.
But in fact, in Lin Xiao’s view, whether it is the Yangyang live broadcast room or Renren, it is all the darkness before dawn.
Of course, it will be dark for at least several more years, at least five or six years.
The Yangyang Live Room is waiting for the arrival of the live broadcast trend.
Renren, on the other hand, is waiting for the huge explosion in the tourism and online shopping markets, and is starting to completely transform itself from now on, directly becoming Xiaohongshu.
Anyway, in the past few years, Renren has been promoting high-end social sharing, biased towards the female market.
Taking advantage of this wave of mobile Internet, the transformation has to be more thorough.
Of course, the four or five years in between were very difficult to endure, as we had to burn money continuously.
So, Xia Xi specifically found Lin Xiao.
"If Microsoft gives up on Renren, should we take it over? Buy it outright?"
"Three or four years ago, Renren was completely redundant with us and had no value. But now Renren has already transformed itself and is complementary to us."
Lin Xiao: "You have the final say."
"Go away..." Xia Xi said, "I am seriously asking for your opinion now."
Lin Xiao: "Buy it, completely transform it, and change its name to Xiaohongshu."
"But what? We don't need to take the initiative to ask for it. Just wait for Microsoft to give up and Renren will come to us on its own."
“No one will rush to buy it this time, because this market opportunity will not appear for at least five or six years.”
In addition, Lightning Group actually has an unexpected surprise.
That was the former Zhuanghu Forum, which has now gradually developed into the historical Zhihu, and is far ahead in this unique track.
However, it is currently a completely insignificant small industry in the Lightning Group sequence.
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There is still a market in China that no one has dared to break into until now, and it is still monopolized by the Lightning Group.
That is the dating market.
Jiayuan.com has always held more than 85% of the market share.
In terms of the number of users, it has also reached a very astonishing number.
However, there has not been a dramatic improvement in revenue, because the expansion of offline activities is limited and cannot be increased endlessly.
There are already several hundred matchmakers in the entire company.
And in terms of charges, there is still only VIP monthly subscription.
It does make money, but…it’s also more like a social responsibility.
Authority, authenticity achieved to the extreme.
When it comes to making money and charging fees, I remain extremely restrained.
Therefore, the serious online dating market has been completely wiped out, and any new entrants will have almost no hope of making a profit.
The only thing that can develop is probably the dating APP after the explosion of mobile Internet.
However, Lightning Group no longer plans to do so.
Although this market is not small, some trade-offs must be made for the sake of the overall group's style.
On the other side, Wu Lingxi was already sharpening his knife.
Instagram and even apps similar to OnlyFans are already in the works.
However, it is highly likely that Wu Lingxi will not launch onlyfans directly, but will indirectly invest in or hold controlling stakes in related companies.
Creating colors, female Bodhisattva, is the real productivity.
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August 31st! Quantum Technology released an announcement.
Three months after its release, global shipments of quantum phones officially exceeded 5 million units.
When this data came out, practitioners around the world trembled.
Even Lin Xiao himself was trembling.
Because, according to his plan, sales of five million units within the entire cycle of one and a half years would be a remarkable achievement.
As a result, it exceeded five million in just three months.
2 million units were shipped to the Chinese market, 2 million units were shipped to the American market, and the combined shipments to the Japanese, Korean, and European markets were 1 million units.
Lin Xiao had never expected this sales distribution.
The sales volume in the US is the same as that in China? In his plan, if he could sell 500,000 units in the US, that would be a blessing.
But people really underestimated the destructive power of an amazing product in the wild era of smartphones.
The overdrawn design aesthetics for three to five years and the overdrawn product strength for two years have resulted in an explosive power that is simply too strong.
Of course, this shipment volume is still far from that of Nokia and Motorola.
Especially Nokia, whose shipments exceeded 100 million in three months.
But this is the trend! Especially in the mature market of the United States, the response to smartphones is so strong that almost all users believe that this is a dimensionality reduction attack on previous mobile phones. Once used, there is no going back.
So.
Quantum technology can only continue to increase in production.
In this case, the happiest one is Texas Instruments.
We originally thought that the shipment volume of 5 million SOC and baseband chips was the ceiling, but now it may exceed 10 million.
Sharp's screens and Sony's CMOS production capacity will also be monopolized by quantum technology for a long time.
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And at this moment, another piece of news came.
Lenovo Group announced that it will invest in the manufacturing of smartphones and will launch its first product as early as next winter.
And it will develop its own operating system LeOS.
The reporter repeatedly asked, "Is this operating system based on X operating system or Android operating system?" The other party did not answer, but Google released the news.
Welcome to join the Android family.
At this time, there were still about five days before the relevant departments would hold a meeting, so the other party had already taken advantage of the situation.
This is a decision I made in advance, not something I intend to go against the will of those above me.
What else? At this time, it was at its peak, and to some extent, it was a source of national pride, with the halo of being the world's largest PC manufacturer.
Whether in terms of output value or reputation, they far surpass Quantum Technology.
Five days later!
This is a very high level meeting.
Major domestic mobile phone manufacturers are preparing to deploy the production and manufacturing of smart phones, and have basically stated that they will fully support the X operating system.
However, at this time, the share of domestic mobile phone manufacturers was already very low.
Not only in the global market, but even in the domestic market, it has little voice.
Immediately afterwards, HTC also announced that it would work with Qualcomm and LG Group to produce the second generation of Android phones.
By then, whether it is chips, screens, or appearance designs, they will all be at the world's top level.
Google also announced that it will release Android 2.0 next spring, which will be the world's best operating system.
Immediately afterwards, Motorola announced that it would launch its first Android phone next year, which would be equipped with the Android 2.0 system.
This is no less than a bombshell!
Because Motorola is now the world's second largest company, it can be said to be in its heyday.
Its stance carries enormous weight.
then……
LG announced that it will launch its first Android phone next year.
For a moment, it seemed like a turbulent situation.
It has to be said that Google's power is indeed strong. Even though quantum phones have performed so strongly in the market, within just a few months, these giants still stood on Google's side.
So far, giants such as Motorola, Lenovo, HTC, and LG have publicly taken sides.
These four are all top global giants.
Currently, there are only a few Chinese mobile phone manufacturers standing on the side of the X operating system, but whether it is ZTE, Huawei, Coolpad, OPPO, or VIVO, they are all unknown in the mobile phone market.
Even OPPO only started to enter the mobile phone manufacturing field this year, and vivo will need to enter the mobile phone manufacturing field next year.
Therefore, up to now, the only X operating system is Quantum Mobile itself, and no giant has publicly joined the team.
Google also announced that they are currently in active contact with Samsung Electronics.
"These hardware giants stand on Google's side because they believe in our technological capabilities and our mobile phone ecosystem."
"There is another core reason. I don't think any mobile phone manufacturer would use an operating system that could be banned at any time, right?"
"The lawsuit in the United States is becoming increasingly clear, and I believe there will be a result soon."
"So I think all hardware manufacturers around the world need to consider the significant risks involved."
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Almost all eyes in the world are on Sony.
Now global giants have taken sides, and a large number of them have already sided with Google.
Sony is the biggest ally of Quantum Technology, so why don't you speak out publicly? Loyalty that is not absolute is equal to absolute disloyalty.
Quantum Technology, Lightning, and Facebook are almost Sony’s most important and core allies.
If you don’t express your opinion now, when will you?
However, there was also a fierce struggle within Sony at this time.
Because Sony Ericsson is not completely controlled by Sony, it does not want to side with a Chinese company, even if Quantum Technology has Sony shares.
Ericsson, in particular, does not want to stand on the side of quantum technology.
As for Nokia, the world's top mobile phone manufacturer, it disdains to take sides because it wants to promote its own Symbian operating system.
There have been rounds of internal fighting within Sony.
Finally, Sony Ericsson's president Bert Nordberg wanted to give the final opinion to Sony Group.
"Since there are already a lot of giants on Google's side, Sony Ericsson can launch two smartphones to be on the safe side, with the main model using the Android operating system and the other using the X operating system."
Suddenly, Sony's entire senior management was furious.
What the hell is this idea of yours?
Then, Kazuo Hirai called Lin Xiao.
"Lin, this lawsuit in the California court is extremely important."
"According to my information, the judge and jury are inclined to believe that you have committed some level of plagiarism."
"Because the underlying architecture and design logic of the two systems are too similar, and the Android system is earlier."
"So, as one of my best friends, can you tell me, are you sure about this lawsuit?"
"Or, do you have any core evidence?"
Lin Xiao: “Yes!”
Hirai Kazuo: “Then I understand.”
The next day!
The CEO of Sony Group directly bypassed Sony Ericsson and publicly announced that Sony Ericsson would launch its first smartphone in the shortest possible time, which would use the X operating system.
finally……
Behind quantum technology, there is a giant standing.
But... just a few hours later, Sony Ericsson's top management sounded a different note.
Said Sony Ericsson has not made a final decision at this time.
For a time, a public opinion storm was once again stirred up, directly exposing the internal conflicts between Sony Ericsson and Sony Group to the world.
Of course, this can also be regarded as the early disclosure of the contradiction.
Historically, the differences and conflicts between Sony and Ericsson grew larger and larger. Eventually, Sony directly invested in acquiring almost all of Ericsson's shares in Sony Ericsson, and then abolished the name Sony Ericsson and returned to the Sony brand.
And now all this will probably happen ahead of time.
But it also means that Sony will face huge turmoil in mobile phone manufacturing.
The most important manufacturer now is Samsung! Of course, from a global perspective, Samsung's weight in mobile phone manufacturing is not as high as Motorola, but it is comparable to Sony Ericsson and LG.
Now LG has joined Google Android.
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Lin Xiao flew directly to Seoul to meet with Lee Kun-hee, the head of Samsung.
"President Li, the X operating system is far superior to the Android system in every aspect."
“Even in terms of the ecosystem, our only weakness is that Lightning Maps cannot compare to Google Maps, but this can be solved by spending money.”
"But in terms of key ecosystem applications such as Facebook, YouTube, and mobile games, the gap between Android and us will only get bigger."
"Most importantly, I will completely separate XSoft from Quantum Technology, and then welcome Samsung Group to invest in it."
Li Jianxi's eyes narrowed: "Have you told other manufacturers about this condition?"
Lin Xiao: "No, Samsung is currently the first and only one."
Lee Kun-hee: "Mr. Lin, are you so optimistic about Samsung?"
Lin Xiao: “Yes.”
Lee Kun-hee: "Mr. Lin, I have already felt your importance. Dr. Liang is now the most important member of Samsung Semiconductor. He has praised your strategic vision in front of me many times, and even more so your breadth of mind and vision."
"Then I want to ask, is it possible for your X Semiconductor's new generation of chips to be outsourced to Samsung?"
Lin Xiao: "We only outsource our manufacturing to the best foundries. If Samsung Semiconductor has shown a trend of being ahead of TSMC, then I am also very happy to cooperate with Samsung."
Lee Kun-hee: "Mr. Lin, what Google said is very right. The most important risk for the X operating system right now is policy risk. The whole world is watching the verdict of the California court."
“Once a ruling is made that is unfavorable to quantum technology, no matter how excellent your system is, I believe that global manufacturers will not dare to use your operating system.”
Lin Xiao: "President Li, regarding this lawsuit, I believe the situation can be reversed soon."
When Lin Xiao finally left Seoul, he still hadn't received a clear response from Samsung.
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So there's a strange trend emerging globally.
Quantum phones are still selling well and are becoming more and more popular.
Google G1, a crude product, is almost completely unsaleable.
But Google's chances of winning with phone makers appear to be growing.
Moreover, they continue to exaggerate the lawsuit in the California court, saying that Quantum Technology is likely to lose, and constantly emphasize the policy and legal risks of the X operating system.
As a result, more and more attention around the world has begun to focus on the lawsuit between Google and Quantum Technology in the California court.
Who will win and who will lose?
And just at this time, a big news came from Yahoo Group.
Yang Zhiyuan resigned as CEO of Yahoo and almost all related positions in Yahoo Group, retaining only a seat on Yahoo's board of directors.
Silicon Valley queen Carol Bartz will succeed Jerry Yang as the new CEO and chairman of Yahoo Group.
This means that the founder Yang Zhiyuan has completely left Yahoo Group.
Many people lamented that Yang Zhiyuan, the godfather of the first generation of the Internet, had now left the stage in disgrace.
but……
Immediately afterwards, Yang Zhiyuan announced his second venture to the public.
Twitter!
"Thank you, Mr. Lin Xiao, for giving me great courage."
“From now on, all my time and energy will be focused on Twitter.”
"This is my second startup and my second life."
"I want to advise everyone that Lin has accomplished all of his goals so far, and he has never failed."
"So, our Twitter will fully embrace mobile Internet, or more precisely, embrace the X operating system!"
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Next, the global technology media will focus on September 21st! Because on this day, the California court will hold the third hearing of Google's lawsuit against quantum technology.
In the eyes of many people, this court session will produce a result! And this result will also affect the future fate of the two operating systems.
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