Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant

Ningbo is a good place. I don’t know if the scenery is good or not. Qu Li doesn’t have the time to spare. But as the largest port in the world, it is an important base for Jumei Logistics. As a new first-tier city, there is a glorious flagship store here, and there is a bright future ahead. direct store.

After Qu Li arrived, he did not expect that the local government would arrange for someone to pick him up in a geometric pure tram.

The glorious three-piece national gift set and the geometric pure electric car are the crystallization of the domestic high-tech industry. Qu Li has been awarded many honors by multiple media, how many people have changed the world, the world's outstanding entrepreneurs, the most famous Of course Time Magazine's Person of the Year. He thus became a world-renowned young entrepreneur.

Qu Li looked at the red slogan hanging on the welcome ceremony, feeling inexplicable joy, he is a vain person after all, he cannot escape the shackles of fame and fortune. However, during the whole process, he remained calm and calm, not wanting to encourage this unhealthy trend.

The communication between the two parties is friendly on the whole, and they hit it off immediately.

Qu Li did not participate in the specific cooperation details, and he flew to Beijin soon.

In June, the Honor Qualcomm chip full Netcom mobile phone was released, and the price was $100 lower than that of the self-developed chip mobile phone, which once again sparked hot sales.

Of course, this was not the reason why Qu Lifei came to Beijin. He had to go back to Beijin to discuss the cooperation between Microsoft and Nokia.

Nokia suddenly spun off the mobile phone business, and then Microsoft announced a stake.

"This, this, this..." Qu Li expressed disbelief when he heard the news.

"Nokia Android smartphones outsell WP smartphones, right?"

Is there really hope for a WP mobile phone that even glory can't afford?

"Nokia sold more than 20 million Android smartphones in the first two quarters, about 6 million WP smartphones, and only about 8 million Honor WP smartphones."

"Is Nokia crazy, why sell to Microsoft?"

"Nokia has a choice, Microsoft doesn't, unless they give up the WP system." Glory has a lot of talents, and these things can be analyzed.

The WP mobile phone system is now the third largest mobile operating system in the world, but IOS is three times its size, and Android is 10 times its size. With such an obvious gap, this sales volume is far from satisfying Microsoft's appetite.

But Honor has tried its best, and the performance of the mobile phone is excellent. The minimum price of 2K plus has not allowed the sales of WP system mobile phones to exceed 10 million units in two quarters. When Microsoft thinks that Honor should design more WP smartphones.

Will Glory agree? It is impossible to know without thinking, Google Android and Qualcomm are his most important partners, and Microsoft is nothing. That being the case, they must be looking for a more obedient and cooperative partner, Samsung? People's own operating systems are ranked after Android, and WP is only an alternative, so only Nokia is the best choice for Microsoft.

Without the help of the Trojan horse, Microsoft will have to pay a higher price this time. It’s not that Microsoft CEO Ballmer has never thought about giving up, but Honor and Nokia can sell about 30 million units a year, and it may surpass iOS to become the world’s No. 2 Mobile phone operating system, he really doesn't want to give up.

What about Nokia? The Android team led by Zhou Shaoning quickly launched a new phone every month, and sold 20 million phones in six months. Although the profit margin was not as high as Glory, it boosted Nokia's morale.

But the CEO of Nokia is Indian, and he is in charge of WP mobile phones and telecommunications equipment. The better Zhou Shaoning does at Nokia, the worse this CEO will be. Who knows if he will be replaced? So internal discussions began. Nokia has no advantages in the core components of smartphones. Without chips, operating systems and LCD screens, it is difficult to compete with Apple and Honor. Not to mention, this business will become tasteless...

They already knew these things, why did they bring them up again at this time? Maybe it has something to do with their chip development not going well. Talent like Mama Su isn't everywhere. The global competition between Apple and Honor for chip design talents has spread to GPU, while Nokia's first self-developed chip is still far away.

At this time, Microsoft offered a bargaining chip that Nokia's board of directors could not refuse. On the one hand, it was the profit that could be seen, and on the other hand, it was the mobile phone business with an uncertain future. After a heated debate within Nokia, it finally chose to let Microsoft take a stake instead of being acquired.

You ask Qu Li how he knows so clearly, hehe, this is a commercial secret.

"Microsoft's next step should be to acquire Nokia?"

"uncertain."

"Why?"

"Microsoft CEO Ballmer is retiring."

"The successor is his choice."

"But others don't necessarily align with Ballmer."

Qu Li recalled that Nadella, the next CEO of Microsoft, was also a very high-level Indian. He "refreshed" the Microsoft giant, shouted "Cloud first, Mobile first" and led Microsoft to grow from a market value of 300 billion US dollars to $2.5 trillion.

Many people on the domestic Internet look down on India and Indians, but seeing the number of executives and their achievements in the world's top technology companies, you should know that Indians are definitely not as miserable as everyone imagined.

Qu Li has always admired these outstanding talents, learning from them and surpassing them is the correct attitude towards life: blowing out the lights of others...

Going astray, some good words feel tarnished, the so-called "pattern" can confuse "right and wrong", and there is always something wrong.

"No matter how Microsoft will change, we will separate from WP from now on." Qu Li thinks that it is okay for big companies to waste a little money and make wrong choices sometimes, but Microsoft's approach is disturbing, and as a partner, he has to express it.

"Our Q3 product canceled?"

"We release one WP phone a year."

Qu Li and the others originally planned to release four smartphones in four quarters a year, but now it seems difficult. Their own chips are upgraded once a year. It is already very difficult to guarantee the release of flagship phones in November every year. Qualcomm chips can only wait. .

"What about our Snapdragon 600-based phone?"

"Change to KOS, the price remains the same, within $400."

This time they have really changed to a "machine-sea tactic", and they are short of mobile phone products that cost less than $300. However, there is a high probability that there will be no new phones released, and the price will be reduced in the second year.

"How to name it?"

Honor already has three series of numbers, mate and find, and a magic series that is hidden in the snow. What about now?

"It is still divided into the find series, called Find N or X."

"What's the meaning?"

"It sounds good, what's the point?" Qu Liman said indifferently, how much time would be wasted by choosing a name

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They thought about the coping strategy here, and Microsoft thought of Honor and explained the shareholding in Nokia: it will not affect the cooperation with Honor. Lei Jun expresses his understanding and believes that they will continue to maintain a good cooperative relationship...