Chapter 3037 Strike While the Iron Is Hot (Part 1)

It was quite quiet in the helicopter flying over Mumbai. Even Lao Ma, who was always more active than Feng Yiping, was quietly and hard looking at the scenery below through the porthole, looking completely absorbed and having no time to speak.

Otherwise, what should I say?

Although at first glance, Mumbai has many commendable buildings or scenery, but none of them are worth mentioning in front of the overwhelming slums that fill your eyes.

It’s even hard to praise Ambani’s home. Although it has only 27 floors, it is actually equivalent to a 60-story ordinary house. It has a unique shape and has a name like Antilia, which means a mythical island. The super mansion is so unique and impressive.

Facing the slums as far as the eye can see, and millions or more of the poor who earn less than one pound a day, a family of six can live safely in this slum, which costs more than 650 million pounds and is larger than the Palace of Versailles. For normal operation, it requires hundreds of people in a mansion... From most values ​​​​points, it is really not an honor or something worth showing off.

Feng Yiping also said nothing.

Although it was not his first time to come to Mumbai, it was his first time flying over Mumbai for such a long time, and it was also his first time to see the slums of Mumbai comprehensively for so long.

No wonder that after the mansion was built, the Ambani family rarely stayed in it, especially the hostess. I heard that she spent most of her time in the United Arab Emirates. Anyone who wanted to look out the window would see more of the slums and be in a bad mood. That would be great.

But in the luxurious United Arab Emirates, this problem obviously does not exist.

It seems that even the shrewd Ambani sometimes makes wrong decisions...

The two hosts must have been accustomed to the silence of their guests. They still looked calm and calm, but occasionally smiled and introduced them to the important scenery below, "...This is the main road of the city, Gandhi Avenue..."

"...That's the Prince of Wales Museum..."

"...That's Tata headquarters..."

Soon, they ended this unforgettable journey and landed in south Mumbai.

This can be said to be the best area in Mumbai. It is an urban area that will completely make you forget everything you have seen before, with pleasant sunny beaches, continuous boulevards, and historical and majestic buildings...

This gives people a sense of traveling and tearing apart. Am I in a coastal city in England?

Lao Ma also became active, looking at the distinctive building in front of him, "This is more beautiful than it looks in the photo!"

That is, after all, this is a big project of three-party cooperation!

The value of this building is really not a small amount. In other aspects besides population, there are many gaps between Mumbai and our domestic first-class cities. However, in terms of housing prices, it is really catching up. posture.

Emall's executives had been waiting around the tarmac for a long time, and they all came over to greet them. The leaders were several Indians whose ethnicity could be distinguished at a glance. This is also Feng Yiping's company's current strategy in India. , that is, the top person in charge of a company in India must be an Indian.

This is of course also to let Indian users clearly feel that you value them.

Fortunately, it is not difficult to find suitable candidates. More than 20,000 Indians from India's most famous university, the Indian Institute of Technology, have chosen to settle in the United States, and most of them are concentrated in Silicon Valley.

At this time, most of Feng Yiping and Lao Ma's entourage should still be stuck somewhere in the city. Only a few assistants arrived in the second helicopter. Considering that they also came from a long distance, The four of them just took a brief tour of the company and then entered the small conference room for closed-door talks.

The person in charge of the e-commerce company did not enter, but Mosseri, the person in charge of Feng Yiping Company in India and one of the leading members of Facebook's "Next Billion" project team, joined the meeting.

"You really don't need to go to the hotel first?" Ratan Tata asked with a smile.

Feng Yiping also looked at him with a smile, "No need. The advantage of switching to a larger plane is that it will be more comfortable on such a long-distance flight."

This old guy really never forgets to make fun of him.

Lao Ma didn't know, but Feng Yiping knew that someone would be waiting for him in the hotel at this time.

"We all know that the schedule for these two days is very tight, so I want to talk about the plan I mentioned to you now," Feng Yiping said straight to the point.

Although compared with other countries, in terms of revenue, all the businesses in India combined are very inconspicuous, but India has undoubtedly become the most important market for his company.

Including Facebook, Facebook's Whatsapp, Instagram, Snapchat, etc., as well as Twitter, the number of users in India has been, or it seems that it will soon become a country with a higher number of users than the United States and the entire Europe.

Considering that at least a quarter of the people in the world who do not have access to the Internet are in India, and India does not yet have a family planning policy, the future potential in this area is even more exciting.

Therefore, what Feng Yiping needs to do now is to further establish his company's advantages in India, that is, to better occupy the Indian market. Specifically, of course, it is to develop more users in India.

"In this regard, Feng, you have to understand the reality we are facing," said Ambani, whose company is a telecom operator. "Although there are enough choices for smartphones, the biggest obstacle for most people to give up feature phones and choose smartphones is not the future cost, but the high price of smartphones, relative to their income."

Since Feng Yiping mentioned it, Ladan naturally also did some research on this aspect. "At present, hundreds of millions of Indians use feature phones, which are mostly priced within 20 US dollars, but there are few choices for smartphones priced within 100 US dollars."

Although due to the efforts of my country's smartphone companies, many attractive smartphones priced within 1,000 yuan have appeared on the market since last year, but even those products are still a very large expense for many Indians.

At present, many Indians earn less than 1,000 US dollars a year, and smartphones priced around 100 US dollars are real luxury goods.

If we consider the traffic costs that will definitely be incurred in the future, it will make many people stay away.

"In this regard," Feng Yiping smiled easily, "We are confident that we can encourage mobile phone manufacturers to provide more reasonable choices for Indian people,"

"For this purpose, we have developed a lighter system based on Android, Android Go,"

"This is a system that can run on smartphones with lower hardware configurations," Feng Yiping threw out a heavy information, "After testing, we are very happy to see that Android Go can run smoothly on mobile phones with 1G memory and also provide users with a good user experience,"

To get more Indian people to replace feature phones with smartphones, Apple, which is extremely expensive, is of course not to be relied on, and Android can only find a way.

Therefore, launching an Android system suitable for hardware with lower configurations is of course one of the good directions to work on.

The current high price of smartphones is mainly due to the high hardware cost.

From a large perspective, reducing hardware costs is the direction that a system provider should work on. Otherwise, why has Microsoft been clamoring for the industry to produce lower-priced PCs over the years?

Because only in this way can their systems be installed on more terminals.

Ambani was delighted, "When will this system be put into commercial use?"

As a telecom operator, he knows the significance of this matter best.

"We have communicated with many manufacturers, and they are very welcome to this. I think that by the third quarter of this year at the latest, there will be smartphones equipped with this system, so the price will be lower," said Feng Yiping.

"So you two," he looked at Ambani and Tata, "in order to attract more Indian mobile phone users to choose smartphones by then, I urgently hope that we can jointly launch mobile packages that are very attractive to price-sensitive users,"

"My initial idea is that new users can use data for free in the first three months when using this package,"

Lao Ma also added, "From our experience, the popularization and development of mobile terminals has a very big role in promoting our e-commerce,"

ps: Happy Dragon Boat Festival!