89: Chapter 89: Responding with Telepathic Communication!

"What about Apple..."

Wang Jianzhou extinguished another cigarette, a hint of ruthlessness on his face, and then extinguished yet another.

"Apply to Apple for increased promotional efforts, and launch nationwide simultaneously. Stop this step-by-step market approach; if we keep this up, Huawei will snatch everything away.

Sell as much as we can, damn it."

With these profanity-laden words, the meeting officially ended.

Wang Jianzhou looked at the giant Huawei logo outside the window and suddenly felt a wave of emotion.

Huawei's development speed was too fast.

He still remembered that a few months ago, most of the advertisements here were for Nokia or Samsung, but now they were basically all that giant Huawei logo.

Looking at these ads, he suddenly recalled what Steve Jobs said at the negotiating table: "Most users don't know what they want until you put it in front of them."

Coupled with the belief that "foreign monks can chant better scriptures," he had agreed to this condition.

Now, the market seemed to be voting with its feet: "What they need doesn't seem to be some high-and-mighty 'divine machine,' but a product that understands consumer needs."

His phone rang again; it was a call from his secretary: "CEO Wang, the head of Apple China is on the line. They are questioning why our sales data hasn't been synced to headquarters yet?"

Wang Jianzhou hung up the phone directly and threw it onto the table beside him.

A huge crack instantly appeared on the screen of this iphone 3gs. At this moment, he truly felt that the 15-billion bet might really go down the drain.

What was even more terrifying was that this seemed to be just the beginning.

...

Yangcheng, Transsion headquarters. A strategic meeting was also being held in the strategic conference room.

On the big screen were two columns of data. On the left was Apple's first-day sales after entering China: 2,787 units sold, with a return rate as high as 8.2%.

Online reviews were polarized. True fans raved about it being a "divine machine," claiming this product crushed everything and was worthy of being a Smartphone crafted by Apple Inc., simply better than other products.

But more consumers complained: No WiFi, poor localization, relatively high price... and the system wasn't much better than the mate series.

On the right was the data for Huawei mate: 2.75 million, with daily growth still maintaining around 50,000 units.

Although user satisfaction wasn't 100%, it reached a staggering 91.7%.

At this moment, the core teams of Transsion and Huawei were sitting in this conference room. After all, Huawei's sales volume concerned China's market share, so Shen Fei decided to clear out some minor pitfalls for them.

"So that's how Apple's sales look after entering China. I thought it was a catfish, but it turns out to be a small fry."

Seeing that the product crafted by Steve Jobs hadn't beaten the mate series, Big Mouth Yu's face was full of pride.

"They are too arrogant! Our products focus on serving users, while they still maintain that high-and-mighty attitude; failure is inevitable."

"CEO Yu, don't be happy too soon. Apple definitely has things we can learn from."

Watching them discuss heatedly, Shen Fei didn't say much.

The sales gap was many times over, so a little pride was normal, but it had to be moderate.

After discussing for a while, Shen Fei clapped his hands on the table!

"What's this? You've been selling for so long and only sold 2.7 million units. Very proud?"

Shen Fei looked at Big Mouth Yu with a serious expression. The excited expressions on their faces immediately faded, replaced by the look of people getting scolded.

"This sales figure is indeed very good, but the cumulative global sales of the iphone 3gs have already exceeded 18 million units. You haven't even caught up to their fraction, and you're all floating like this. If you actually catch up, wouldn't you... go to heaven?"

"That won't happen." Big Mouth Yu understood that Shen Fei was knocking them down a peg, so he interjected in a low voice.

Seeing that Shen Fei didn't continue scolding him, he continued to interject: "CEO Shen, we are despising them in language, but taking them seriously in strategy. Just now, we were just livening up the atmosphere. We know very well what Apple is like. Don't you worry. Honor's testing has finished; we are speeding up our actions and have already started stocking up."

Hearing this answer, Shen Fei just rolled his eyes at Big Mouth Yu and continued speaking.

"You discussed it just now; Apple is a catfish. The Smartphone market will be instantly activated next, and more consumers will realize: 'Oh, so phones can be used like this.' Although we can play such a role, it's far from being as easy to use as Apple."

Everyone nodded quickly.

They could indeed let Smartphones enter a broader market through ads and pricing, but in this era, being easy to use was indeed reliable.

But more importantly: "Foreign monks can chant better scriptures." This saying was even more reliable.

Changing their thinking was very difficult; it would take at least a few years of subtle influence.

"Yes, they are a catfish, and also a shark. If we let them gain a foothold and establish an iOS ecosystem, then our Taishan ecosystem will likely be in trouble," Huang Tianya said.

The issue of the ecosystem immediately received everyone's attention, and they began to discuss it.

Seeing that everyone wasn't actually getting carried away, Shen Fei directly pointed out the problem with Apple's phones: "Fortunately, Steve Jobs is too arrogant. He thinks all consumers will unconditionally accept his perfect product. But sometimes his perfect product is actually a reaction-based one. This Apple launch, except for those die-hard fans, actually caused our mate series sales to double."

Big Mouth Yu continued: "CEO Shen is right. Moreover, since they went on the market, we have also studied three major problems. It's the WiFi issue everyone is talking about now. Domestic 3G rates are so expensive; who would be willing to keep using data?"

Speaking of this, Big Mouth Yu also showed a look of heartache.

This wasn't him pretending; it was genuinely expensive.

There was a very popular complaining post on Tieba: I accidentally fell asleep while browsing on my phone at night. The next morning, the three major scoundrels would come to say that this house belonged to them.

"Secondly, most high-quality applications on the App Store require payment, but due to regulatory issues in the country, many applications cannot be launched. Finally..."

Big Mouth Yu took out two mate phones and gently placed them on the table: "They are too expensive. The pricing of 4,999 yuan is enough to buy two of ours."

Laughter erupted in the conference room.

"But we cannot underestimate the enemy," Shen Fei emphasized again. "Apple's industrial design, system smoothness, brand value (remote farming)... these are real advantages. If Steve Jobs reacts and creates a special edition for China..."

"Steve Jobs: My design is beautiful; they will get used to it."