Chapter 628 Sending a Coat

"Mr. Fan said that, is it a bit too much? After all, Microsoft has invested a lot in this project. They can't see the risks in the market, right?" Some people expressed their opposition to Fan Wubing's statement.

Fan Wubing said with a smile, "Microsoft also has a lot of failures, but everyone is used to publicizing their successes and deliberately ignoring other failures. Besides, the investment of billions of dollars in Microsoft's As far as I’m concerned, it’s really nothing.”

Everyone felt that it made sense after hearing this. After all, it was an indisputable fact that Microsoft was huge. People were wealthy, could afford the money, and could afford the loss.

Microsoft is not always successful. There have been several major failures in its development history. The first one was in December 1987, when Microsoft cooperated with IBM to develop os/2, the successor to ms-s. And claimed that the performance of os/2 will be better than s. However, the sales momentum of s3.0 was extremely good, which eventually caused Microsoft to part ways with IBM and abandon the os/2 project, and os/2 gradually withdrew from the market.

Secondly, in March 1995, Microsoft announced that the launch of the computer system was mainly to meet the needs of entry-level computer users. Although it had a good idea, it was too simple. It only explained how to use the computer, but the price was as high as one hundred dollars. , and ended up being eliminated without a market.

The third time was in February 1997. When Microsoft tried to enter the toy market, the S or Ie, which sold for up to one hundred dollars, were just as popular. The toys called Mates launched by Microsoft are mainly targeted at education, but children are obviously not interested in these toys. Now Microsoft has completely abandoned this expensive toy.

All in all, many companies let people see their successes, but are unwilling to let others see their failures. This makes many people look forward to those big companies, but they don’t know that others have also experienced it. After many winds and rains, they gradually grew into towering trees.

But Fan Wubing also said, "The term "information appliances" covers a wide range of content. We can't just focus on set-top boxes and follow Microsoft's baton. In fact, we at Fan's are also developing similar products recently. Information home appliances, mainly PDAs and other products, as well as some digital products.”

Director Li of BdL Home Appliances Group Company was more interested in this, so he wanted to ask for details.

Fan Wubing simply talked about his plans. After all, he had made considerable progress in research and development and was able to start his own business. However, his production capacity would not expand much in a short period of time. He hoped to become a Upstream manufacturers sell mature chips and systems to various downstream manufacturers, so that the market risks they have to bear will become very small, and the profits will indeed be quite high.

Therefore, the cooperation between Fanshi Investment Group and various domestic appliance manufacturing companies has

It should be a win-win situation, and it will be even more significant for Fan Investment Group to become a truly influential large enterprise.

"Of course, this is my idea. It remains to be seen how far pda can go. This market cannot be built in a short time." After talking about the bright prospects, Fan Wubing also mentioned Difficulties you will encounter now.

The development of information appliances originated from computers. Because information appliances have similar system structures, operating systems, and CPUs to computers, information appliances inherit the characteristics of some computer products and have the unique essence of information appliances.

If computers are a locomotive industry, then information appliances are an extended industry. Computers are a newly emerging locomotive industry that has grown from scratch. Information appliances are an extended industry formed by the combination of computers, networks and many existing technologies. At this stage, the PDA, the iconic product of the information appliance industry, is still just a miniature computer, and the vast majority of users are computer veterans extending it to portable applications. In other words, pda is still limited to the scope of computers and has not expanded to the broader market of non-computer users.

In addition, computers are an independent industry, while information appliances are a dependent industry. Computers have independent and complete functions and can operate on their own. The unique appeal of information home appliances is that they can be used anytime and anywhere. Therefore, the vigorous development of information home appliances must rely on the maturity of broadband communication networks. In the short term, when mobile broadband communication networks have not yet been fully established, information appliances will not be able to outperform computers.

"In short, computers are necessities, and information appliances are non-necessities. From the moment they were launched, computers have become a necessity for enterprises and then for families. Therefore, the global computer market will exceed 100 million units this year. Information home appliances such as PDAs have not yet become a necessity. It is estimated that in three years' time, the global market size of PDAs will only be a little over 10 million units, and there is still a huge gap between the market size of PDAs and other information home appliances. Until breakthroughs in functionality can be made to meet the real needs of users, the information appliance industry will not be able to grow rapidly," Fan Wubing told everyone.

"Mr. Fan's interest is still in the computer!" Director Li said with a smile.

It can be seen that Fan Wubing's analysis this time had a relatively large impact on the participants. Many people are considering whether they should conduct a more careful investigation and research on this issue? However, some people disagreed with Fan Wubing's words and thought that Fan Wubing was a bit alarmist. After all, Fan's Investment Group has a relatively close relationship with Microsoft. It is hard to say whether Fan Wubing said this to scare off other competitors? It is difficult to say. It takes time to verify before a conclusion can be drawn.

In fact, the domestic interest in the Venus Project is based on the success of this project, but now it seems that many people are deeply skeptical about whether Venus-style set-top box products can be accepted by the market. Moreover, people who hold this mentality even account for the majority, including some domestic home appliance company CEOs who strongly support Microsoft this time, who are also waiting and watching.

Many media people also assert that this type of set-top box product is just a conceptual product prototype, just a big pie drawn on paper, and it is impossible to form a market. The most common reason is that the biggest barrier to Internet access in China is not the device, but the high Internet line fee.

China Telecom's tariff has always been a problem. Although it has repeatedly said that it will be reduced, there has been no obvious substantial change. Secondly, the current number of Internet users is not large, but the Internet speed has shown that it is struggling to pull a broken cart. The export and bandwidth are a real bottleneck. If a nationwide Internet access boom is set off, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Furthermore, the resolution of the TV screen is 300 lines, and the effect of displaying ordinary web pages will be very bleak. And it is even more counterproductive to let ordinary people upgrade their TV resolution. If they cannot surf the Internet normally, the existing online resources will be difficult to use the set-top box, and they can only browse simple web pages specially tailored for it, which will be difficult to really attract ordinary people.

Another point is that the key issue for ordinary people to catch up with the Internet is still content. At present, the domestic p development is still in the original start-up stage. The improvement of this market requires long-term investment and it is impossible to achieve qualitative improvement in just a few years.

The last problem is the price of the product. The system based on e has relatively large software and occupies a lot of hardware resources, so the machine cost is difficult to effectively reduce. For TV users, an extra one or two thousand yuan means the cost doubles. For set-top box products, the price is daunting. After all, the price of personal computers in China has dropped now, and you can have a full configuration and satisfactory functions within 5,000 yuan.

Based on various analyses, it is indeed not easy for set-top boxes to succeed in China, but people are still a little surprised when Fan Wubing directly asserts that set-top boxes are Microsoft's failure.

Others think that Fan Wubing's words are a bit exaggerated, but Boss Zhu doesn't think so. After all, he knows very well that the strength of Fan's Investment Group is far greater than Microsoft, and Fan Wubing's personal value is far above Microsoft.

After Fan Wubing and others dispersed, Director Li wanted to take Fan Wubing to the bar for a drink, but Fan Wubing declined. He basically didn't have much in common with these middle-aged men, and it was impossible for him to waste his precious night time in such a place.

When he and Davis and other executives of his company gathered together and prepared to leave, he found that someone was already waiting at his car, the extremely cool Bugatti Veyron.

"Miss Ye hasn't returned to the hotel yet?" Fan Wubing looked at Ye Jiarong, who was standing there with two bags with a complicated expression, and asked with a gentle smile.

Ye Jiarong nodded awkwardly, and then said, "I originally wanted to go back to the hotel, but I thought that Mr. Fan's clothes were still in my car, so I sent them over. Maybe there was some red wine on it, so I took the opportunity just now to go out and buy Mr. Fan a set of clothes, which should be able to wear."

When Fan Wubing saw Ye Jiarong opening a bag, he smiled and replied, "I'm sorry to let Miss Ye spend money, but I really feel a little cold now."