Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 153 Audience and Protagonist

Three days after TalkBox went online, the situation was very good, but Guo Bingxin was told that Shanda had sent someone to visit him specifically.

After asking, he found out that they were here to invest in him, which was a bit unexpected for him.

The visitors were Wang Gang and Wu Feng from Shanda Capital.

In fact, as soon as TalkBox was released, Shanda's Chen Tianqiao saw an opportunity, an opportunity to challenge QQ.

For this reason, Wang Gang and Wu Feng of Shanda Capital were personally instructed to "take down the TalkBox team immediately, at any cost. If they can't do it, they should stay in Hong Kong and fend for themselves and don't come back!"

In the following days, after friendly negotiations between the two parties, one party was eager to get it done, while the other party was overjoyed, and the result was a natural outcome.

Shanda Capital eventually invested 2000 million in the TalkBox team.

In fact, from the behavior of some Internet giants, we can see that some giants never do one-time deals. After sending people to invest in TalkBox, Chen Tianqiao still felt a little unsafe.

He gave a strict order to his younger brother Chen Danian, asking the Shanda Innovation Institute, which he was in charge of, to initiate an internal project to develop a voice instant messaging application.

Chen Tianqiao even turned into the chairman of the committee and personally communicated with the product manager in charge of the voice project, who was eight levels lower in rank than him, via email, asking him to move a button on the product prototype 8 mm to the left, and personally replied to several emails with suggestions for product improvements.

This shows how much importance Chen Tianqiao attaches to this matter.

At the same time, Tencent Guangyan Center.

After a whole day of meetings and discussions, Zhang Xiaolong finally made up his mind to change the steering wheel from chasing WeChat to chasing TalkBox, and added voice chat to the product plan for the next version update.

WeChat chat gathers the strengths of various parties, learns from the foreigners and uses them to defeat them!
However, according to the analysis of the technical team, it will take about a month for the voice technology to mature and be implemented.

Zhang Xiaolong called Pony Ma and gave him the order to start working on it right away. He even took several technicians from the QQ technical team who were originally responsible for the development of voice messages and gave them to the Guangyan Center, which greatly boosted the momentum of the Guangyan Center!

Chen Mo, who considered himself a pioneer in voice chat, was stunned when he saw TalkBox walking in front of him.

After experiencing it, Li Jianchao was directly given an optimization target.

First, the time for voice encoding and decoding must be shortened as much as possible while ensuring call quality, in order to improve user experience.

Second, under the premise of ensuring the quality of voice calls, the traffic should be only half of that of TalkBox or even lower.

This is consistent with the two hard indicators that Chen Mo previously proposed for WeChat: stable operation, improved experience, and optimized traffic.

In this way, the mobile communications war gradually developed into an arms race among emerging forces. Many netizens were discussing which company had updated what new features, while the top two companies, QQ Mobile and Fetion, did not see any response.

This puzzles many people.

What they don’t know is that the QQ team’s attempt to reform failed and they were unable to do so.

The situation on Fetion is just the opposite, with more than enough strength but less ambition.

In fact, the members of the Fetion team have seen that there have been a lot of newcomers recently and the speed of version updates is getting faster and faster.

It's like the iteration cycle of the Fetion team, which is one version every few months, compared with the iteration frequency of other competitors. It's like the Eight-Nation Alliance attacking a 50-year-old woman who loves to be nervous and always out of tune. How can she defend it? It's good enough if it doesn't get stranded.
Especially when they saw that TalkBox had released a voice function, which was backed by China Mobile's powerful resources and capabilities, it would only take a dozen days or no more than a month to develop and debug it.

And if it affects hundreds of millions of users, then Fetion can really grow its wings and become "Fetion"!

The members of Fetion's technical team were extremely anxious, especially Hong Xiaojun, the underlying architect. He quickly wrote an email to report and apply, and then nothing happened.

The email fell into oblivion, no reply, and I don't know whether it was received or not.
No reply is a reply in itself.

He then found his immediate superior, the technical director of Fetion, and the two of them even went to higher-ups, but they both returned in despair.

That night, Hong Xiaojun had dinner with several core members of Fetion. After three rounds of drinks, he revealed a little bit of the truth.

"My boss gave me a calligraphy piece with only one word on it. You may as well guess what it is."

Everyone present looked at each other, wondering what this was going to be.

Hong Xiaojun smiled bitterly, "It's the word 'mountain'! It seems to be enough for us to occupy one-third of the market, so the most reliable strategy is to stand still like a mountain!"

"Damn! I was wondering why it was so hard to connect the three networks before. I guess this is the reason."

"I really don't know how these guys who just sit there and do nothing got promoted."

"Well, I'm just lucky and I know who I am. I won't say more. Let's just drink."

"So fate comes first, luck comes second, and feng shui comes third. For someone like us who studied hard for ten years, we can only rank fifth. What else can we say?"

"Anyway, we have suggested it and tried our best. We have a clear conscience. Drink."

"It's such a pity. Damn, no more words, just do it!"

Then all the technical personnel of Fetion team went from having enough strength in the beginning to being exhausted. It was time to destroy it.

Those who want to lie down choose to lie down, while those who are unwilling to give up have already started thinking about changing jobs.

Therefore, once a person's power exceeds a certain limit, he will use the power to shirk his responsibilities.

The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. The greater the responsibility, the greater the pressure. The greater the pressure, the worse the mentality. The worse the mentality, the weaker the ability. The weaker the ability, the less power.

According to the formula of equivalent substitution, we can get: the greater the force = the smaller the force!

Products that do not adapt to the characteristics of the times will eventually be abandoned by this era.

Therefore, the fate of Fetion was doomed from the moment it was born in China Mobile's hands. On December 12, the Meizu authorized store in Zhongguancun, Beijing.

This store is one of the two exclusive stores opened by Meizu in Beijing, the other one is in Ciqikou.

The store manager saw that the store, which was only a few dozen square meters in size, was packed with people. The number of customers who came to experience the store far exceeded their previous expectations.

There were more people than mobile phones on display.

The four employees in the store turned into tour guides, explaining the functions of the Meizu M9 phone to the customers. Each of them was sweating profusely and had to face questions from at least four or five people.

Later, the store manager personally came out to explain.

“How long will this phone last?”

"The battery capacity of our Meizu M9 is 1370 mAh, which means it can be charged once every two days in theory."

“It looks similar to the iPhone 4.”

"It's still different. Our M9 is equipped with the latest Android 2.2 system, and the experience is still very good!"

"How do you sell this phone? How much is it?"

"Well, these three days are the early opening experience days. The official release will be at 1 am on January 1st. The price will be announced then!"

“Can I make a reservation now?”

"Pre-orders are now open. You can pay a 200 yuan deposit, and after the price is announced, you can get the phone after paying the balance."

At this time, a young man next to him interrupted, "Hey, why rush? Xiaomi will hold a press conference on the 1st. It won't be too late to see which one is better and then choose."

The person who asked the question just now originally wanted to pay, but after thinking about it, he felt that what the young man said made sense, "Yes, I will wait a little longer."

The store manager lowered his head to answer other people's questions, and frowned when he heard this voice.

He still tried to get everyone to make reservations, "You can't say that. I haven't seen how popular it is. Maybe the supply will be insufficient to meet the demand. We will have to wait. If you place an order now, you will definitely be in the first batch. You don't have to wait. Buy early and enjoy early."

"Ah, there is such a situation. Then I..."

At this time, the discordant voice appeared again, "Mobile phones cost thousands of yuan, they are not cheap. It is not easy for ordinary people to make money these days. You have to think carefully and compare prices. If Meizu is really out of stock, there is no need to worry. Wouldn't it be better to buy Xiaomi directly?"

Xiaomi on the left and Xiaomi on the right. No wonder there are so many people coming to experience it in the past two days, but the number of people who made reservations in the end did not meet expectations.
Looking at this guy who appeared out of nowhere, looks a bit handsome and looks like a human being, but does not do anything.
"Hey, how can you talk like that? How much money did Xiaomi give you to say something nice? I, Meizu, will give you double that."

"Well, I guess Huang Zhang can't afford it. Come on, young men, please make way for me~" After saying that, Chen Mo put the M9 he had just experienced on the counter, then he pushed down the brim of his hat and left the crowd.

In fact, after get off work, Chen Mo planned to go to the press conference for rehearsal. Seeing that he still had plenty of time, he suddenly decided to come to Meizu to take a look. After seeing it, he felt relieved that the M9 was no different from what he remembered, so the rest was easy.

After checking the time, Chen Mo hailed a taxi and drove to one of the country's top universities.
The full name of the Centennial Lecture Hall is the Centennial Memorial Lecture Hall. It was built in Yanyuan on the occasion of the centenary celebration of the school, hence the name.

International art exchange performances, large-scale ceremonies, lectures, reports and other activities have been held here, becoming one of the important windows for Jingcheng University to display its external image and export its culture.

The theme is the auditorium, which is divided into two floors, the stage and the below, and can accommodate events with a scale of 2000 people.

In fact, this Centennial Lecture Hall is like the Great Hall of the People. In addition to hosting events such as dignitaries and world celebrities from various countries, it is open to the public in its free time for concerts, speeches, and press conferences.

At around 8 o'clock in the evening, Chen Mo's preparatory team gathered in the Peking University Centennial Lecture Hall and made the final preparations for the event, such as debugging of lighting, projection screen, microphone, etc.

When Chen Mo finished his speech reading out the script on the teleprompter, even though he had turned into a ruthless reading machine and coordinated the changes in the PPT behind him, he still shocked the preparation team members sitting in the audience, including Li Jianchao, Huang Jiangji and Li Wanqiang. Where had they seen anything like this in these days?

After stringing the words together from beginning to end, Chen Mo said to the audience, "I'll give you a sample this time. In the future, KK and Chao Ge will handle the MIOS and WeChat parts of the press conference by yourselves."

Suddenly, applause rang out from the darkness in the back, and Lei Jun walked out from the shadows. He came over to see the rehearsal when Chen Mo was halfway through his speech.

Unexpectedly, it was better than he imagined. After listening to it, he wanted to change his phone.

At around 10 o'clock, the rehearsal for Xiaomi's press conference was completed and everything went very smoothly. Chen Mo thanked everyone for their hard work and everyone prepared to pack up and leave.

Chen Mo touched the backs of rows of chairs with his hand, silently walked up the stairs from the dark shadows below the stage, and then stood in the center of the stage, looking forward. It was pitch black. It was empty here tonight, but it would be full tomorrow night.

If there was only one person, with Chen Mo's heartless personality, he would definitely just have fun, just like when he joined the company before, when he competed with others, and when he attended the auction at the beginning of the month.

But tomorrow's press conference is different. It carries all the efforts of hundreds of Xiaomi people over the past six months, Lei Jun's dreams and hopes, and also proves what kind of changes he will bring since he came into this world.
Maybe tomorrow will change his fate? His fate? The fate of the young people who struggled with him? Even the fate of domestic mobile phones?

The pressure condensed around him swept in from all sides, making him a little breathless.

For the first time, he felt his shoulders getting heavy, and the weight on them was called responsibility.

This is the ultimate test that Chen Mo will face after traveling through time. Perhaps this stage is also the only way for him to leave the Novice Village.

Only by taking a step forward can you see the vast world.

"Xiao Mo? Let's go and have some midnight snack!" Looking at Chen Mo standing in a daze in the center of the stage, Lei Jun called out at the door.

"Hey, here I come!" Chen Mo jumped off the stage in a few steps. When he walked to the gate and looked back, he saw darkness everywhere, and there was a bright light ahead.

Chen Mo strode out with his head held high, and with a click, the door closed!

At the Xiaomi press conference in my previous life, I was just an ordinary audience member in front of the computer screen.

In this Xiaomi press conference, I will be the absolute protagonist on the stage, attracting everyone's attention!

(End of this chapter)