Chapter 641 The Lame Giant
If you want to ask what the most popular news in the high-tech field was in early 2011, everyone will definitely tell you that Yezi Technology launched the strongest and most powerful attack on the Microsoft Empire.
First of all, in the ultrabook, Yezi Technology's ultrabook was finally launched, and in the early pre-sales period, it obtained a hot pre-sale order of 100,000 units. Once it was launched, it gave a shot in the sluggish PC market. Moreover, Yezi Technology's ultrabook is not cheap, and it is from US$999 to US$1,699 according to the configuration, which can be described as a luxury product.
According to the famous market research company IC, less than a month after Yezi Technology launched Ultrabook, it has sold 400,000 units in North America. With the launch of Europe, Asia and other regions one after another, sales in the first quarter of 2011 will have the opportunity to exceed 1.5 million, which is definitely a rare good news for the PC market where sales continue to decline and sluggish.
According to IDC's comments, one of the important reasons why Yezi Technology's ultrabooks have become popular in sales is the crazy continuation created from mobile phones to tablets in the past. After all, Yezi Technology announced that this ultrabook that uses Android system can be shared and used in the Android system through the Android store.
Another important aspect is that this ultrabook has a very attractive appearance design, as well as a convenient control system and a powerful computer energy. Although the price is still high, it continues Yezi Technology's consistent reputation and brand effect, making users still highly respect this product.
IDC analysts also said in an interview with the media that the birth of ultrabooks represents a disagreement between Microsoft and Intel, and with the hot sale of ultrabooks, Intel and Microsoft will be increasingly disagreement.
"In the past, Intel and Microsoft could only be interdependent, but with the birth of tablets, the traditional notebook and PC markets were greatly impacted, and sales declined very significantly. Intel also had a lot of complaints about Microsoft's own lack of innovation capabilities. So when Yezi Technology proposed to develop the concept of ultrabooks, the two sides almost hit it off."
"The biggest difference between Microsoft and Yezi Technology, or the biggest difference in the two parties' concepts, is hardware, Microsoft has always insisted on OEM, that is, authorization. Microsoft itself almost never touches those hardware, but Yezi Technology insists on jointly developing software and hardware, grasping it together, and the software and hardware are developing well."
"In terms of concept, Microsoft used to regard laptops as a mobile extension of PC computers. Naturally, after the rise of smartphones and tablets, Microsoft also regarded these two markets as extensions of PCs, so what they thought was how to reduce everything on the computer to mobile phones and tablets."
"The concept of Yezi Technology is obviously different. After the smartphones were sold, they have been brewing cross-borders. They have always believed that smartphones are only part of the smart ecosystem, and tablets are another component of the smart ecosystem. Similarly, they are now targeting the traditional PC market, so they have the concept of ultrabook two-in-one."
"And an important issue that Microsoft management must be clearly aware of is that in the past few years, Yezi Technology has had a very clear goal, that is, to transform from a user of content to a creator of content, and the entire Android system and smart ecosystem are developing and setting goals around this link."
The famous analyst of idc also said that Microsoft does not have a very effective way to resist Ye Zi Technology's attack. The only thing they can do now is actually very few, that is, to improve and launch innovative operating systems, or mobile phone intelligent operating systems as soon as possible, but whether they can withstand the impact of Ye Zi Technology is still an unknown number.
Not just the ultrabook, at the January meeting, Yezi Technology also officially launched its own smart TV box, which is an Android system specially customized for TVs. It can be used on any TV. The main control system includes both traditional remote control and control modes that transcend somatosensory control technology.
The TV box has received great praise in human-computer interaction and control experience, especially surpassing somatosensory control technology, which is considered to be far beyond the somatosensory technology launched by Microsoft. At the same time, it can be interconnected with mobile phones, tablets and ultrabooks through wifi, and can run games and applications in the Android store.
Not only that, Yezi Technology has also specially launched a batch of somatosensory games for TV boxes. Some mini games were developed by Yezi Technology itself, but most of them were previously released for developers and launched on the market.
The launch of the smart TV box is also seen as another strong impact on Microsoft's home console business. After all, Yezi Technology has absolute advantages in content, and the human-computer interaction and control experience are quite excellent, but it is relatively poor in the gaming field. After all, Microsoft and Nintendo have developed in this area for many years.
But games are obviously not the biggest selling point of Zeus TV Box. Its biggest selling point is that it can be upgraded. According to Yezi Technology's plan, more smart home products will be launched and developed in the future, and the potential of TV Box will be further explored.
With the strong launch of new mobile phones, new tablets, ultrabooks, TV boxes and other businesses, Yezi Technology became the most popular high-tech company in the world in January 2011. Every move has attracted worldwide attention. Moreover, with the hot sale of many products, Yezi Technology's cash reserves are also increasing. Many analysts believe that Yezi Technology will complete the long-planned acquisition of Motorola.
But there is also relatively unfavorable news that Google called on many times to express its interest in Motorola's mobile phone business.
But just as Motorola was in the whirlpool of major technology giants and its market value soared, Finnish mobile phone industry giant Nokia reported its financial statements for the fourth quarter of 2010, which announced that the company lost 1.2 billion euros in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Once this news was published, it immediately caused a big decline in Nokia's market value, which directly fell below the bottleneck of 10 billion euros. It also shocked all the people in the world who are concerned about high-tech fields, and even issued one after another. Even Nokia began to scream and cry out.
Nokia's chairman Risto Silasma said in an interview with reporters at the meeting that the loss was because the company reorganized its business, especially the acquisition of some map businesses, which lost a total of one billion euros, resulting in such a huge loss in the company.
Regarding the news in the market that Nokia will spend a lot of money to buy out shares of the company's joint venture with Siemens, Risto Silasma also gave a positive answer, saying that the two parties are still in negotiations and there is no news that can be announced to the public yet, but there has undoubtedly been a positive answer to this news.
In this way, Nokia's market value will definitely decline in the long run, because according to this report, Nokia's smartphone system has not made much money at all. Although the company has huge cash flow and will not go bankrupt in the short term, its business has undoubtedly fallen into a quagmire and it is difficult to make any breakthroughs.
Therefore, Nokia's stock price fell sharply after the news conference, falling below 10 billion yuan. At the same time, the long-term development prospects have become very bleak. Many professionals even predicted that Nokia announced that it would launch an Android phone system in the second quarter. This is a last resort for Nokia to save itself.
Samsung, HTC and even many Chinese mobile phone brands have tasted great benefits from Android systems. After rapid development, Nokia has only entered this market now, which is obviously a bit late.
Of course, among the analysis of many professionals, there will occasionally be one or two comments that believe that whether it is a business restructuring, or buying out Siemens' shares, or further acquiring and improving the map business, although in the short term, Nokia's financial statements will definitely be very ugly, in the long run, Nokia's property quality will be higher.
Some top international financial report masters predict that in the first quarter of 2011, after Nokia acquired Siemens' business, the losses in financial statements will continue to exceed one billion. Even if Nokia really lays off 20% of the world's employees, that is, more than 70,000 employees, saving one billion euros in expenses, the losses will still be huge.
"What exactly is the reason that made Nokia make such a big decision?"
Top financial report masters and even some top investors in the world have all smelled some clues, that is, Nokia is attracting acquirers through this self-harm treatment!
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"Nokia is very sincere this time. Their negotiation team was led by John Olila himself, Chairman Risto Silasma, CEO Kang Peikai, Chief Attorney Louis Pentlan and Chief Financial Officer all participated in this negotiation in Finland."
In the small town of Totreitch in north London, Ye Qiu's home, Eliza Moon, Sandberg and others participated in the negotiation team of Ye Zi Technology in Finland this time. Because it was confidential, there were not many people participating in the negotiations this time. Ye Zi Technology only had four people, while Nokia had seven people.
For Yezi Technology, Nokiaken promised to negotiate, which was a good start in itself, and according to Eliza Moon, this was a text message sent to her personally, which led to this negotiation.
However, this is an acquisition that is related to over 10 billion euros, and it will be the largest acquisition made by Yezi Technology so far since its establishment. It will inevitably cause huge waves all over the world, so it is impossible to complete it in a short period of time.
"We don't need to be too anxious in the current negotiations!" Eliza Moon analyzed the current situation with Ye Qiu. "There are differences within Microsoft. Bill Gates does not want the company to involve too much hardware, but Ballmer wants to acquire a company with hardware capabilities, such as Motorola or Nokia. The two sides have a lot of differences and there is no sign of reconciliation for the time being."
This is also a big weakness for Microsoft. They are really bad in terms of hardware. It can even be said that almost all their digital products have never been achieved, which makes Microsoft look like a lame giant.
"Apple does not have such a major acquisition. They are more focused on developing their mobile phone and tablet businesses. They can't spend so much money to acquire Motorola or Nokia. Instead, Google, they are very close to Motorola."
Of course, Yezi Technology is also very close to Motorola, but its real goal is Nokia.
In Ye Qiu's view, having won the huge patent of Beidian, coupled with the huge patent system that Ye Zi Technology itself holds, the mobile phones and tablets now launched by Apple, Microsoft and Google are all equivalent to helping Ye Zi Technology make money because to obtain patent authorization, of course, the cost is still relatively reasonable.
As for companies such as Samsung and HTC, this is even more true. In addition to earning licensing fees from them, Yezi Technology also has an Android store equipped with mobile phones. Now the money that Android stores make for Yezi Technology every year is more than enough to acquire a Nokia, relying on the entire huge global market.
If Yezi Technology is allowed to take over any of Motorola or Nokia, the dominant position of the Android system will be as stable as Mount Tai. Other competitors should not expect to reach Yezi Technology's leading position at least in a short period of time.
"Nokia has opened a green light to the acquisition, but the valuation is very different from us. They believe that the current market value of Nokia is seriously underestimated, whether it is the mobile phone business or the map business!" Eliza Moon's words made many people present laugh.
When Nokia acquired Navteq, the American digital map technology company, it spent $8 billion, a little less than the current market value of Nokia. Therefore, if it wanted to acquire Nokia, it would never be possible to follow its current market value. Even if John Olila was stupid, he would not agree to do so.
The map business is a very large market, but it is also very difficult to enter this field. Google spent tens of thousands of hours manually developing Google Maps, and a lot of data were found in Nokia. It is conceivable how much manpower and financial resources Google has invested in this.
Looking at it from another perspective, many people think that Google Maps is free now, and Google has always advocated open source, but the so-called open source is just a commercial gimmick. Google has now restricted the software development of the map business, that is, anyone who wants to develop software and applications based on Google Maps needs to get Google's consent.
This is the precursor to the charge!
Of course, Google may not charge ordinary users, but it will definitely charge other corporate users, and the fees are definitely not low. Therefore, Yezi Technology needs to have its own map business, whether it is based on the smartphone field or the future smart cars, rather than being subject to Google.
This is why Ye Qiu values Nokia over Motorola!
"After negotiation and consideration, we decided to use Nokia's maps from the next generation of Zeus mobile phones, tablets and ultrabooks. Nokia will also put the map app on the Android store. In addition, they will also launch Android phones. I think this will be beneficial to us and can help us better transfer users from the original Symbian to Android."
Eliza Moon's idea was affirmed by Ye Qiu.
It depends on the fact that the Android system is very profitable now, but if we look at the market share, Saipan is the well-deserved leader, so no matter whether it can acquire Nokia in the future, it is very necessary to open the Android system to Nokia, and it is also a very good decision for Android.
If all Symbian users can be transferred to Android, the Android system's share in smartphone systems will exceed 90%.
"I'll find another opportunity to talk to them, not just the mobile phone business, but also the huge patents, talent teams, and their map business in Nokia!" After a pause, Ye Qiu said again: "I met BMW CEO Norbert Resef in London not long ago, and we talked a lot."
BMW is now a car sponsor of Tottenham Hotspur. The German company has received generous returns on profits from this sponsorship, especially in the Asian market, with a very impressive growth rate, thanks to Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur's strong appeal and market influence in Asia.
"He hopes to work with us further, such as using lighthouse technology in their 4S store, and then launching apps through tablets, TV boxes, and even directly in our Android store to serve their users. For this reason, they will purchase 3,000 tablets in a unified manner and order our ultrabooks next."
This is a major achievement achieved after Volkswagen purchased 5,000 tablet computers and invited Yezi Technology to design the lighthouse technical solution for their 4S flagship store. The amount involved is not very high, but the problem is that this has made a free publicity for Yezi Technology, and the source of customers will continue to rise.
Moreover, BMW and Volkswagen will cooperate with Yezi Technology in the field of smart cars, and have achieved good results at present and are expected to be launched in the market in the near future.
Interestingly, once Ye Qiu asked Ye Zi Technology to develop a super-large LCD screen, it immediately attracted many interested companies around the world. They are paying attention to the development and effects of this set of equipment. It is expected that when this set of the world's largest LCD TV will be unveiled at the Stratford Stadium, it will bring a lot of orders to Ye Zi Technology.
Among them is BMW.
This is indeed something Ye Qiu never thought, and the interests of customers have also made Ye Zi Technology's research and development more active.
The successive good news undoubtedly diluted Ye Qiu's depression caused by three consecutive league draws, especially the team reached the finals in the League Cup, which made Ye Qiu feel satisfied with the performance of this group of young players.
Chapter completed!