Chapter 2763 Relative Advantage

The first Android smartphone, officially named G1 and customized by T-Mobile Telecommunications Company, has been very popular after it was launched simultaneously in Europe and the United States over the weekend.

While critics have expressed different opinions on this first mobile phone of the Android camp, in the United States and Europe, the sales of G1 exceeded 200,000 on the first day of its launch, which is an unexpected figure. An unexpected number.

Although Apple no longer releases specific sales figures, based on the data compiled by various telecom operators, it can still be roughly concluded that iPhone 3G sales should be around 2 million units per month.

Considering that G1 has just been launched and has the gimmick of being the first Android smartphone, 200,000 per day and 2 million per month are not comparable, but in any case, this is enough to illustrate the success of G1.

There are many reasons for its success.

Because of the location of HTC's headquarters and its advantages in manufacturing, as well as sufficient preparation time, and of course thanks to the road paved by the pioneer Apple, G1 was able to achieve mass distribution before it was launched.

T-Mobile and its parent company Deutsche Telekom are obviously preparing to use the launch of G1 to develop a group of users, so they also show great sincerity in sales.

Although the price is not much different from the iPhone, because the price of G1 is only 299 US dollars, and the 8G version is only 199 US dollars, which is low enough, so the 288 US dollars G1 does not have the same price in terms of price. Advantage.

But they have targeted offers in terms of packages.

The mainstream iPhone packages in the United States, taking AT&T as an example, the monthly rental fee for iPhone is US$10 to US$30, the monthly rental fee for 200 text messages is US$5, and the unlimited US$20... T-Mobile is very unstyled and direct. Got a 10% discount.

In addition, users who had not bought Apple before due to various reasons chose G1 at this time. It should be said that many of them really came here for Android.

In developed countries like Europe and the United States, users are very individual. Apple is good and sophisticated enough, so it is somewhat arrogant. Some people just like this, and naturally some people don't like it very much.

In any case, compared to the closed Apple, the open source Android is inherently morally higher than Apple.

When receiving a series of surprise calls from HTC, Feng Yiping felt that the reason why G1 achieved such good results once it was launched may also be related to the nature of most consumers.

Although for products like this, we can only choose one in the end, or even become a big fan of that company, but if there is only one similar product available on the market, even if it is your favorite, you may feel a little vague in your heart. Discomfort.

As consumers, we have an innate aversion to monopoly.

The efforts of Mr. Wang and HTC have suddenly made up for the faint feeling of uneasiness in many people's hearts.

Therefore, in many cases, acting proactively and always striving for first place will really pay off well.

Rubin, who was a little restless before the press conference, seemed particularly quiet on the return flight. He didn't even care about the evaluation of the Android system by professional reviewers, because he was preparing for the development of the next version at this time.

And he is really confident that this first Android mobile phone is enough to make Apple drink a pot, and it is enough to make Steve Jobs, who always scolds him by name, depressed for a while.

Although he didn't realize it when he was developing Android, after the company was acquired by Feng Yiping, he was quickly instilled and accepted the concept that in the future, the difference in smartphones, hardware, is only part of the difference in software. , is the key.

For this reason, the Android team has invested a lot of effort in the Android store from the beginning, creating a very good environment for third-party application developers, including providing them with very powerful development tools. Bao and other efforts.

As for Apple, because of Jobs's arrogance - as we all know, he always believed that the products he developed were the best and the best. For this reason, he was unwilling to install other third-party applications on the iPhone at the beginning, because He thinks those applications will affect the performance of the iPhone.

Although there were improvements later, the results were naturally not as good as Android, which was given such great attention at the beginning.

Rubin was right. There were still many people "actively" working overtime at Apple's campus this weekend. Even those who didn't work overtime would spontaneously compare the differences between G1 and its own products, and there were many things they disliked. " "So thick," "So heavy," "So cheap to the touch,"

Or, "The camera has 1.2 million pixels higher than ours, so the photo effects must be better than ours?" - It is really better than them.

But the interface of the Android system and the smoothness of its operation... all make it difficult for them to relax.

In particular, the richness of applications in the Android store was far beyond their expectations - there will naturally be a big difference in the effect between being proactive and being passive.

And they all know at this point how important the application is to their bottom line.

In the first 30 days after they officially launched the Apple Store in early July this year, Apple users downloaded 60 million apps.

During the same period, iTunes, which has been launched for more than 5 years, has nearly 200 million music downloads worldwide, which means that in one month, the download volume of the Apple Store is equivalent to 30% of the download volume of iTunes!

Among these more than 60 million applications, although most of them are free applications, they still bring in more than 30 million US dollars in revenue.

According to the 30:70 split ratio, Apple's revenue has exceeded 10 million US dollars.

With the increase in the number of applications and the increase in iPhone users, this will soon be a billion-dollar market.

The important thing is that this money comes so easily and unexpectedly - because they never thought there would be such a piece of income before.

But it seems that Android will quickly surpass them in this regard in the future.

Being surpassed by others in the field they have created is not a pleasant thing for anyone, especially for Apple people.

But this is a very helpless thing.

They all know that as more and more manufacturers launch Android phones, Android phone users will soon surpass Apple, and there is no possibility of reversal.

Because they know very well that their own system will never be free and open source.

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Now every time I return to Silicon Valley, I don’t go to Mountain View or Los Gatos, but to the house outside Los Gatos. It seems to have become a routine.

Feng Yiping felt that after communicating with each other in his two original homes in Silicon Valley, he seemed to be expelled by the mothers of his two children at the same time, so he had a third home.

But he was not lonely in this third home, on the contrary, it was the most lively one.

The car was still on the mountain road, and he saw two small figures, followed by a dog wagging its tail, running out of the yard.

Looking at the two children from a distance, his hard work and fatigue these days immediately disappeared.

He had just got off the car and just said "Hi," and was almost knocked to the ground by the two running little guys.

This is not the lawn in the yard, this is an asphalt road.

"Dad," "Dad," Feng Yiping squatted down with a pair of children in his arms, feeling unusually satisfied.

Candy stuck out his tongue and circled around them. There was no place for him on the face of the little master's father, so he could only kiss Feng Yiping's hands holding the two children.

"Wait, Vincent, hold tighter. Okay, let's go," Feng Yiping held a child in each hand and stood up with some difficulty, "Do you miss me?"

"Yes," "A lot,"

"How much?"

"I've discussed with my brother that if you don't come back, we will go find you," Amanda said.

"Oh, you are all so thoughtful, not bad," he was quite proud to be remembered by the two children.

But the two children suddenly talked about another topic, "Dad, I saw you interviewed by that aunt yesterday," Amanda said.

"Dad, that aunt is not pretty," Vincent said.

"Dad, why are there so many aunts interviewing you?" Amanda asked.

Feng Yiping: ...

He was very sure of one thing, the reason why the two little guys paid attention to this matter must be because they were influenced by others.

"This is because there are many aunts in the host industry... Oh, Vincent, take out my phone... I have to answer this call,"

"There are gifts in the car, can you go get them yourself?"

He should have said this earlier, because the two children immediately forgot the previous topic and sprinted to find gifts at the speed of a 100-meter sprint. They wanted it very much. Maybe there was a gift?

He smiled and pressed the call button, "Hello, Mr. President,"

"Hehe Feng," little Aohe smiled, "Do you have time now?"