Chapter 2175 Opportunities and Risks
"Yes, everyone, you heard it right. I said a new era," Feng Yiping said affirmatively, seeing the doubts in everyone's eyes.
He also said the word "new era" in Chinese and English.
He could understand everyone's doubts, especially in the context of Chinese, the word "new era" is not a simple word.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, we entered a new era, and after the reform and opening up, we entered a new era... Each time, it represents the establishment of a new and more advanced order, and represents the gradual disappearance of the order and things that many people originally adhered to and were accustomed to.
Some are similar to an irreversible, nirvana-like evolution.
Wu Qian was interpreting for Mei Yiliang and Xingyu, who were not very good at English at the table. "Of course, the new era I'm talking about is mainly a new era in the commercial sense,"
"In this new era, many old models and products will be quickly abandoned by the world. I can foresee that many world-class companies, including those that are still industry giants now, will be abandoned by this new era. The old business landscape will soon undergo earth-shaking changes..."
Wu Qian listened carefully to the boss's words, and her tone became a little excited.
Although she was not very clear about the specific content of the boss's words, she clearly felt the boss's understanding of this new era and his confidence.
She felt the power of this new era and the power of the boss.
To be so confident in such a new era, it is naturally powerful.
"... The opening of this new era is the inevitable result of our technology in all aspects developing to a certain stage; it is the inevitable result of our extensive application of various new technologies and inventions to production and life..."
"... Every era has a landmark product. The invention and application of the steam engine opened the first industrial revolution, electricity and internal combustion engines brought about the second industrial revolution, and the invention of computers brought us into the information age,"
"And the new era I am talking about will be the product that Apple is about to launch. Some of us already know what this product is. I can tell you clearly that it is a brand new smartphone - but please keep it secret for a few days,"
"The smartphone that Apple is about to release will represent our true entry into this new era,"
"We can call this new era the mobile Internet era,"
"In fact, it is not unfamiliar, right," Feng Yiping said with a smile, "I guess some of us have already used a product called 'Mobile Dream Network' from China Mobile,"
"The characteristic of the mobile Internet era is to combine mobile communications with the Internet,"
"Of course, in Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, 3G has been widely used, so their understanding of mobile Internet is more intuitive,"
"The current mobile Internet is mainly controlled by operators. For example, although we don't use it much, China Mobile launched a "treasure box" business a few years ago,"
"But with Apple's redefinition of smartphones and the increasing excellence of smartphone hardware and software, the upstream of the industry will be quickly mobilized, and more and more developers will enter this industry to develop more and better products than China Mobile's treasure box..."
"The further development of mobile communication technology will greatly promote this process. I am mainly talking about the 4G technology that is currently being actively developed and prepared internationally..."
Mei Yiliang and Zhou Xingyu, who are not very good at English, will find that their Chinese seems to be not very good either. They can hear the words clearly, but they don't understand what they mean.
Wu Qian is actually the same, including Pan Shimin.
But the others, especially the people from Facebook, were all smiling. Engineers like Hong Haoyu and Rubin were also thinking, and it was obvious that they understood what Feng Yiping was talking about.
Feng Yiping noticed their doubts, "Or we can just say that the so-called mobile Internet, as the name suggests, is based on mobile terminals, that is, many of the tasks we need to complete on computers now will be transferred to mobile terminals in the future, such as smartphones,"
Oh, now no one does not understand what this means.
"This seemingly simple change contains many risks and opportunities, especially with the popularization of 4G technology in the future, we will find that many traditional boundaries, limits, and barriers will gradually disappear,"
"What does this mean? Simply put, it is very likely that some of the world-class companies now may have failed before they even understand what is going on,"
"In the future, professionals will often die inexplicably at the hands of non-professionals,"
"If you don't understand this, we can look at the current situation of the yellow giant, Kodak,"
"In the film industry, Kodak successfully defended against all its opponents, but the reason why they are struggling now is not because of their competitors, but because of the development of various technologies outside the industry,"
"First of all, not many people use film cameras anymore; secondly, people don't develop or type out most of the photos like before. I can put them on my computer and browse them very conveniently, and it's easier. Save, so why pay to type it out?”
"Similarly, we can predict that those camera companies that seem to be doing well now will definitely decline in the future, but the ones who will defeat them will not be their peers, but...,"
"Mobile phone?" Many people said at the same time.
Although they were not sure from their tone, they obviously understood the meaning of what Feng Yiping said.
"Yes, although this may take time, in the future, when we travel, more often than not, we will just bring our mobile phones with us," Feng Yiping said.
"This time, our Facebook application will be installed on Apple's upcoming smartphone. Of course, the smartphone Apple launches this time can still only support 2G mobile networks, but the next generation will definitely Will support 3G network,"
"This means that from now on, more users will choose to use mobile phones to follow the updates of themselves and their friends on Facebook,"
“In other words, although our Facebook is currently the most popular social product, it is very likely that there will be a product that is not targeted at computers, but only targeted at smartphones and other mobile terminals that may appear in the future. However, users may like it more than our Facebook,”
"The same applies to our e-commerce," Feng Yiping glanced at Lao Ma, "In the future, there are likely to be many girls who will choose to use their mobile phones during various breaks, such as on the way to work or when eating in a restaurant. Some e-commerce apps are used for shopping,”
"This is what I call a crisis. The achievements we have made so far only represent the past. In the future, whether we can continue to be the leader in the industry depends on how we exert our strength on mobile terminals including smartphones,"
"If we do a good job, we may still maintain our current lead, and we may even kill some old masters with random punches,"
"For example, our e-commerce group is currently limited to the field of online shopping. Who knows the boundaries of our business in this area in the future? I think when the time is right in the future, we will naturally develop other areas that seem to be open now. , a business that has nothing to do with online shopping,”
"To put it simply, in the future, what do you eat, where do you eat, and how do you eat? Will these problems be solved by our e-commerce platform? Who knows? After all, Amazon is already developing their rockets and spacecraft,"
"From a more relevant aspect, will our Alipay become a thorn in the side of our current close partners, banks, in the future?"
"I think it's possible,"
"Similarly, will our Facebook be the biggest rival of telecom operators in the future? Well, I hope it will be. Xiao Zha, please note that next, you will develop a mobile chat tool,"
"That is, I hope that in the future, when our users contact their friends, they can easily send and receive instant messages through Facebook's mobile chat application without making phone calls,"
"Oh, okay," Zuckerberg agreed slowly. It seemed that he was digesting Feng Yiping's words and already thinking about how to implement this function.
"This means that if we do well, but if we don't do well, it is very likely that we will become a master who is punched to death by others,"
"This is no joke," he said.