263: Disregarding the overall situation for small profits?

In the news article on the Penguin Portal Website, the author reported with an angry and frustrated tone about the suppression of the Dawn S1 phone by the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants, resulting in only 50,000 high-end phones being produced per month.

"Can the Dawn S1 phone, priced at 6,999 yuan, recover its R&D costs with 600,000 units sold in a year?"

This was the headline on the NetEase Portal Website.

The focus of the NetEase Portal Website's report was to discuss whether Shuguang Technology could achieve a balance between income and expenditure, and their final conclusion was that Shuguang Technology might not be able to recover its R&D costs.

Because if only 50,000 units can be sold in a month, totaling a mere 600,000 in a year, even if a high-end phone sells for as much as 6,699 yuan, the actual total revenue earned is not much.

"After Great Xia developed the world's strongest phone, it actually received such a result!"

This was the headline on the Sina Portal Website.

The focus of the Sina Portal Website's report, like the Penguin Portal Website, was on the helpless situation of Shuguang Technology being suppressed.

"Is there any hope for the rise of domestic mobile phones? Can the Dawn S1 phone incident be prevented from reoccurring?!"

This was the headline on the Souhu Portal Website.

In this article, the author of the Souhu Portal Website reported and criticized giants like Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung with an angry tone.

They claimed that the actions of these Four Major Mobile Phone Giants disrupted market order, and that they should follow market rules instead of resorting to such underhanded tactics.

However, this article was destined to be useless; it served no purpose other than to provoke anger and contemplation among the Great Xia readers.

The Global Four Major Mobile Phone Giants would not change their strategy because of criticism in an article; in fact, the presidents of the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants were probably celebrating.

They were celebrating that they had fortunately restricted Shuguang Technology from purchasing high-end mobile phone components early on, otherwise, considering the current situation of the Dawn S1 phone, their high-end mobile phone market would likely have been significantly impacted by the Dawn S1 phone.

While it might not account for half of the high-end mobile phone sales, a 20% share was highly probable.

Now, because Shuguang Technology cannot procure high-end mobile phone components, the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants have, in essence, eliminated a powerful enemy.

How could this not make the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants feel fortunate and happy? As for the sales of 50,000 units per month, they could let Shuguang Technology have those 50,000 units.

The proportion of monthly sales of 50,000 Dawn S1 phones is estimated to be less than 1% of Global high-end phones, so a mere 50,000 units in sales is irrelevant!

In response, both the Great Xia populace and the internet were a sea of anger; people were extremely furious about the suppression Shuguang Technology had endured.

Previously, Shuguang Technology was restricted from purchasing mid-range mobile phone components, but because the quantity was 35 million units a year, people's feelings were not as sensitive.

But at this moment, the Dawn S1 phone is clearly such a good phone, yet it can only produce 50,000 units a month due to restrictions on high-end mobile phone components.

The difference is simply too great, and the contrast too obvious. In this situation, how could the Great Xia people not be angry?

However, the anger of the Great Xia people was destined to be futile, as the die was already cast.

In the time that followed, when domestic news reported on related matters, foreign media also reported on the Dawn S1 phone.

They marveled at the power of the Dawn S1 phone while also lamenting that this phone was born at an unfortunate time.

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Under such circumstances, time passed in a flash.

On the morning of the next day, Shuguang Technology also announced their first-day sales, which were also their highest sales for the month: 50,000 units!

To be honest, Shuguang Technology would actually prefer to obtain a year's worth of 600,000 high-end mobile phone components in one go.

But unfortunately, those mobile phone component manufacturers refused, and the reality was frustrating and infuriating.

Experiencing this, Shuguang Technology's resolve to develop its own mobile phone components only grew stronger.

At the same time, other domestic mobile phone manufacturers also felt a chill down their spines due to Shuguang Technology's experience.

Shuguang Technology's present situation could very well be their future; it could be said that many domestic enterprises at this moment have dispelled the lucky psychology of 'it's better to buy than to build'.

The Four Major Mobile Phone Giants have used their despicable and shameless actions to tell those who held onto a glimmer of hope just how shameless international giant corporations are, and how unscrupulous their methods are!

It can be said that although Shuguang Technology suffered losses, it also contributed to the strengthening of Great Xia's scientific research capabilities in an intangible way.

Because of Shuguang Technology's experience, the influence of those who advocated for 'it's better to buy than to build' was greatly weakened, and the strength of those who advocated for independent research and development naturally increased.

In this situation, the number of enterprises developing independent core technologies throughout Great Xia would naturally increase significantly, which can be considered the only good thing among many bad ones.

Presumably, if the relevant authorities in United States were to compile relevant data a few years later and discover that Great Xia's R&D investment funds had experienced vigorous development since the Shuguang Technology incident, they would probably be so angry they'd spit blood, and then curse the Global Four Major Mobile Phone Giants for sacrificing the big picture for small gains.

Thus, the release of the Dawn S1 phone caused a huge sensation Globally, and made countless people Globaly want to buy the Dawn S1 phone.

Even though the Dawn S1 phone was a bit expensive, priced as high as 6999 Xia Yuan, this could not stop people's frantic pursuit of the Dawn S1 phone.

However, what made them spit blood was that when they went to local mobile phone stores and even the Shuguang Electronics Direct Store to buy the Dawn S1 phone, they angrily discovered that there were no Dawn S1 phones for sale in the stores!

And what was even more infuriating was that even if they spent a few days or even a week, they still couldn't get their hands on a Dawn S1 phone!

This result of wasted time naturally made people quite angry; if they didn't know the reason, then the hat of 'Shuguang Technology playing tricks' would have been placed on Shuguang Technology's head.

At the same time, those people also gnashed their teeth in hatred towards the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants, cursing them for obstructing their purchase of the Dawn S1 phone.

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Time thus slowly flowed by.

In the following days, although the Dawn S1 phone caused a great sensation, the inability to keep up with sales naturally meant there was no way to maintain its popularity.

So, as time passed, in less than a week, news of the Dawn S1 phone disappeared from the media.

It was only occasionally brought up again as a negative example in certain articles.

Time quietly arrived at Christmas 2003, which was December 25, 2003.

On this day, Nokia held their product launch as scheduled.

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United States, New York, in a large stadium in the city center.

At this time, over three thousand audience guests and over a thousand domestic and foreign reporters gathered in this grand stadium.

This shows how much attention the Global public and media paid to the Nokia 5300 phone.