Chapter 789 Can iPhone sell well?
Jobs stared at Xiao Qi, waiting for his answer.
It is simply a dream for Gang Leader Qiao to rely on other people's advice to judge things!
According to this paranoid temper, it is already a great control to be able to control his violent temper after returning to Apple and no longer act as wantonly as before.
The so-called genius is lonely, including in thinking.
Gang Leader Qiao always only believed in his own judgment. Even if he was wrong, it was his own business.
The young man guessed what he meant, probably because he wanted to give him a reference value to see if it was the same as what he had in mind.
It's for reference only.
He has already made a decision in his mind, and Xiao Qi also knows what the decision is - let's put some iPhones on the market to see the situation first. If the response is good, increase production in large quantities. If the response is average, sell them slowly and sell them as soon as possible.
to accelerate the cultivation of next-generation mobile phones.
This is what Gang Leader Qiao did in his previous life. Facts have proved that everything is developing for the better, so after a short period of shortage, iPhone crazily swept the world.
Xiao Qi admired Gang Leader Qiao's achievements, but the two were outright business rivals.
If you want to be the first person in smart electronics, you can only climb up by stepping on Apple. Xiao Qi knew this from the beginning.
And Gang Leader Qiao must have the same idea now. If Apple wants to be the first in smart electronics, it can only climb up by following Fairy Company. There is no other way.
But at the same time, the two are very important collaborators. The creation of the Smart Patent Alliance contract is not just as simple as mutual assistance and mutual benefit. In the future, the entire development of smart electronics must be under the leadership of the two.
Moving forward, other companies will have to pay a huge price if they want to enter.
Xiao Qi was still thinking that Gang Leader Qiao was a complex of contradictions just now, but now he suddenly realized that the relationship between Fairy Company and Apple Company had become such a contradiction.
In this world, contradictions can be seen everywhere. Our poor ancestors dreamed of a unified world thousands of years ago, but they never thought that this was impossible.
Ignoring contradictions will inevitably lead to greater contradictions.
Proper use of contradictions will be more conducive to moving forward.
Fairy Company and Apple are such existences.
All right.
Back to the present.
The success of the iPhone is definitely an unstoppable trend. With only 3 million iPhones, I am afraid that even fans in the United States cannot satisfy them, let alone fans in Europe, South America, Japan and South Korea.
I don’t know what Gang Leader Qiao is thinking, but Xiao Qi will not remind him to step up stocking up. On the contrary, Xiao Qi will do everything possible to prevent Apple from rushing so fast from the beginning. The young man still wants to give Dreampad more time to develop strongly.
"I think iPhone sales will be very good, and they should be sold out within three days." Xiao Qi lied carefully, "If Apple implements unified global sales, it will only take a day and a half."
"How is it possible to sell it globally? My home base is in the United States, and I have to satisfy us Americans at any time!" Jobs smiled lightly.
Past failures made Jobs very cautious after he returned to Apple.
This life is the same as in the previous life. Even though Jobs knew that the iPhone would definitely sell well, he was still very cautious. After he saw that the Dreampad was extremely popular, he actually only prepared 3 million iPhones as the first batch to be put on the market.
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It was similar in his previous life. No matter how popular the iPhone was, no matter how hungry the Chinese market was, Jobs had no intention of expanding all of a sudden. As a result, for more than a year, the Chinese market could only be reached through parallel imports from various countries and regions.
Satisfied, this also led to the ground-breaking online pre-sale and identity restriction system at Apple Direct Stores in Hong Kong.
The same goes for the subsequent iPad, and Jobs was criticized by many people for not seizing the opportunity.
If iPhone and iPad weren't really invincible in the world, I'm afraid countless people would once again criticize him with words and writings.
Xiao Qi is now doing the opposite. Since he doesn't want Gang Leader Qiao to rapidly expand the production of iPhones, he should praise iPhones so much that Gang Leader Qiao's already low confidence will weaken even more.
Even a well-prepared person like Xiao Qi was overwhelmed by the fanatical dreampad fans in the end. The production volume was almost unable to be supplied.
Gang Leader Qiao was released two months earlier than in his previous life. During this period, the iPhone storage capacity was definitely tighter than in his previous life. By the time Gang Leader Qiao reacted, Xiao Qi had already been given a few months to breathe.
machine.
"Mobile phones are popular products, do you think they can be compared with the Dreampad?" Jobs asked noncommittally.
"Other mobile phones are just mobile phones, but an iPhone is an iPhone." Xiao Qi's words came from his sincerity.
"Haha, interesting!" Jobs laughed, but his smile was usually cold and did not bring warmth to people: "Since you said so, I feel relieved. Speaking of which, iPhone will also pay you.
As for the patent fees, if we sell well, you will get more."
"Thank you!" Xiao Qi raised the champagne glass and took a sip: "So you can now increase the goods reserve. 3 million units are not enough. The next 30 million units can be easily digested."
"30 million units?" Jobs frowned and shook his head.
The sales of iPhone will definitely reach 30 million units, this is what Steve Jobs firmly believed.
In his vision, IPhoe is the king of the world - a king created by him, the first IT person, specifically to break the old order, just like when he created the first personal computer, he typed
It's exactly what that classic advertisement describes.
But how long it will take is unknown.
Now he can't be sure whether smartphones are really as popular as market research shows.
Even though the Dreampad is already a big hit and best-selling, even if countless fans declare that they will definitely buy an iPhone, even if the forums are as popular as the Dreampad, after all, mobile phones are a mature market. With the characteristics of intelligence, can they seize the opportunity of Nokia and Motorola?
, in the market of giants such as Sony Ericsson, let alone Apple, even Steve Jobs was hesitant.
In his previous life, he only selected a dozen countries with the most enthusiastic responses to sell the first batch of iPhone products. This was for this reason.
With Xiao Qi's successful pre-sale experience, Jobs wanted to give it a try - this was already a sign of his confidence. Even though the Dreampad was selling so hotly, if another company did this,
, most likely it will fail miserably. Do you think users are in such urgent need of your product?
It’s not that Steve Jobs is unwilling to pre-sell in advance, but the time between pre-sale and official delivery must not be too long. This is an iron rule that everyone in business knows. Otherwise, after the second time, people will not
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Now, due to the supply of iPhone accessories, the official production schedule at the Red Sea factory will not begin until next month, in March. The process of going from unfamiliarity to familiarity will also take time to get used to, so that we can get 3 million iPhones in May.
It is already a very satisfactory result.
Jobs didn't say this clearly, but Xiao Qi knew that the Red Sea factory's expansion of production in the previous life was not all because the iPhone's popularity exceeded expectations?
At the beginning, the production lines of the Red Sea factory were mainly busy assembling mobile phones and computers of various brands.
Without the experience of later generations, a cautious person like Jobs would definitely not dare to mass-produce products from the beginning. Otherwise, if the sales volume does not meet expectations and so many parts are ordered, wouldn't Apple, which had just recovered, fall into losses again?
Chapter completed!