Global Monopoly of Technology

October 5, Sioux City.

At the single flagship store in Xiangcheng District, the number of consumers queuing up to buy has exceeded a thousand people. These people are enough to fight, and the National Day holiday is basically spent here.

Hundreds of people in the front row were the most hard-working. In order to be able to snap up the Azure-3 mobile phone for the first time, they lined up for a week, and set up tents in place for the night.

If that's not true love...

Such a grand event made the real friends and merchants envious, and at the same time, they were as excited as chicken blood, because this scene made them see that the market potential of smartphones is larger than they thought before.

The surprise of Wall Street is that this kind of thing can happen in China, almost all major offline retail stores across the country.

When did consumers here go so crazy?

Is the consumption potential of this market crazy?

Or is the competitiveness of the new Côte d'Azur products too strong?

It seems that all can be established.

By around 9 a.m., all offline retail stores across the country were open for sale at about the same time.

On average, each offline retail store has 47 employees, mainly sales staff, followed by six or seven security guards. Since there are too many people queuing at the scene, these staff must maintain order on the spot and cannot let Good things turn into bad things.

The consumers who had been queuing up for a week had no love, as if they were given a "weak" skill, but as soon as the storefront door opened, everyone immediately returned to their full state.

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"8GB version in black."

"Okay, sir, would you like to pay by card or cash?"

"Cash."

"8GB version, two white versions."

"Let me see, it's so confusing, is it the 8G version or the 32G version..."

"Beauty, if the phone is activated, it's okay to change it, but it's very troublesome.

"

"Hey, how long is your phone warranty?"

"Three years."

"Okay, get me a 32G one."

...

As soon as the store opened, it immediately showed a hot sales picture. The dozens of employees in the store were divided into multiple links, and their division of labor was very clear, which could be called an assembly line.

Line up here to make an order, confirm the model to be purchased, and then the customer will take the opened order to the next counter to complete the payment. The third step is to go to the next service counter. The warehouse staff will pick up the designated model. out and activate.

After completing these three steps, you can basically take the product and leave. If you have any questions, you can go to the customer service hall in the store to consult the staff, and you can ask anyone who is wearing work clothes.

Of course, there are also online customer service consultations.

The average investment cost of an offline store is as high as 35 million yuan, and the services are very thoughtful and extremely efficient.

Now is the first day of the new product release. Five counter windows are opened in the store at the same time. On average, each window can complete the shipment of four units within one minute. Closing business, the staff in the middle of the work will be rotated to rest.

In theory, this flagship store in Sioux City can ship more than 1.5 units a day, while flagship stores in first-tier cities like Shanghai can theoretically have a maximum daily shipment capacity of more than 20,000 units.

The size of stores in different regions will also be adjusted.

...

On the afternoon of October 5th, it was located in the bedroom of an apartment house in Pengcheng.

A man who lives here is called Wang Fu. He is a technology blogger. He is one of the early we-media practitioners. He is a video UP master who mainly produces personal evaluation videos of various new electronic products. So far, it has accumulated a lot of fans.

Cote d'Azur's new product is so popular, and naturally he won't let it go. After the first day of sale, he snapped up one at the first time, but instead of queuing up, he asked a friend to buy it, for which he had to pay double price.

After all, it took a week for the first purchase to the queue time.

The main platform for his video release is naturally Bluestar Video, but the monetization ability of this line in the mainland is really average, far less than the traffic monetization ability of the international version, which is currently the world's largest streaming video website BluestarVideo.

You must know that on the BV video website, some UP masters have a monthly revenue of 400,000 to 500,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 3 million yuan.

Wang Fu is naturally very envious, but he has no choice. He is targeting mainland audiences, and the main streaming media platform Bluestar Video is already the best platform in the mainland. Even so, the competition is fierce.

However, Wang Fu is now ready to eat. This is related to the evaluation of technology products he is engaged in. As his fans increase, the video content he produces is also quite popular, and some businesses will come to him to advertise.

The videos he makes are usually about 7 to 10 minutes. At this moment, after getting the first-hand products, Wang Fu started to make videos. It took several hours of production time, including some editing and subtitle editing before uploading. to the blue star video site.

After the video was uploaded, some scattered viewers began to click to watch, and gradually increased. The mechanism of Bluestar Video is similar to the international version of BV. After the new video is uploaded, it will enter a T1-level traffic pool, and then from the T1-level based on the ability The higher you go, the more traffic and exposure you can get.

[A good house was destroyed by a window, a good neighbor was destroyed by his surname Wang, a good girl was destroyed by taking off his makeup, a good man was destroyed by a gun, and a good video was destroyed by no one like it. 】

[Hello, fellow video viewers, I'm the 'confidant Pharaoh', the video of Azure-3 that my friends have been urging has finally come out, don't forget to give a like when watching the video. 】

[Before entering the official session, Lao Wang apologized to the friends. In fact, I already got the goods in the morning, but because this phone is so fun, I forgot to make a video. This machine is It's really fun. In this video, Mr. Wang definitely doesn't have a meal just like the Cote d'Azur, because people don't need it at all. Everyone knows how good Azure-3 is. 】

[As one of the die-hard believers under Archbishop Sheng, Lao Wang is also very fond of this meal, but the Archbishop and his old man probably don’t know that there is a cloud horse boy named Lao Wang. He talks too much and tears, but we are still together Fanatic. 】

Viewers who watched the video saw this and couldn't help but comment.

You call a 25-year-old archbishop an old man? There can be a ghost meal...

[Closer to the subject, this video introduces Azure-3. As for what the Archbishop introduced at the press conference, we will not introduce too much. The 45nm process, the AOS3.0 version system, and the L3 chip are all very good. The world's leading, it's homegrown, and again, homegrown, that's why I'm one of the Archbishop's ardent believers. 】

[I believe that the majority of believers have already seen the conference, and there is a complete video review of the conference on the Blue Star video. In today's video, we mainly introduce a super cool feature that the archbishop did not introduce at the press conference. I don't know what the archbishop thinks. Anyway, after I experienced it today, I think this new feature is so cool, why didn't the archbishop introduce it? 】

[This is specially reserved for Lao Wang to introduce? emmm...]

[It's that Azure-3 comes with a smart program [Xiaolan], which is an intelligent voice assistant. In Lao Wang's view, this is definitely a super unexpected surprise. 'Xiaolan' not only makes you feel the powerful technology of the Azure coast Strength, the key is that it is so fun, how to play it well, I will show you later. 】

[Let's talk about the functions of this voice assistant first, as long as 'Xiaolan' runs in the background, you can input directly through the voice, for example, let Xiaolan arrange an alarm clock for you, schedule reminders, and even more cool is through 'Xiaolan' 'You can start all the applications in the mobile phone with almost no manual operation, including if you want to search the cloud song, you can also directly input the voice, it's too sci-fi. 】

The audience watching the video was also very shocked. If it is ten years or even five years later, this situation will not have any psychological fluctuations for the general public.

But in this era, it is really amazing, and it is like an unheard of black technology for ordinary consumers.

[Through this application, Lao Wang has kneeled down on the powerful voice recognition technology of the Riviera. 'Little Blue' not only has superb recognition of voice input, this recognition is not only limited to the voice content you say, but also Including your voice, yes, you heard it right, and your voice recognition. 】

[Everyone may wonder a question. For example, in some occasions, such as public places, when you are typing in the voice of 'Xiao Lan', it happens that it is very noisy next to you, and there are other people talking, which may cause the voice recognition of other people. Speaking of which, is this inconvenient? 】

[But the technical team of the Côte d'Azur solved this problem, how to do it? If you are using it for the first time, after starting the smart program of 'Xiaolan', first you need to register and associate it with your Azure account, and then you will be asked to enter three voices in a quiet environment, and you can say whatever you want. This is what locks your original sound. 】

[Completing this step, even if you are in the downtown area, 'Xiao Lan' will recognize the voice content you said in various voices and give feedback, while other noises will be filtered out, right? In this way, there will be no embarrassing scenes like "shut up, I'm talking to Xiaolan". 】

[If you catch a cold and your voice changes? It's very simple, can't you reset the original sound settings? This does not require your previous voice to judge, as long as you pass account password verification or other verification channels, you can change the original voice settings. 】

Next, the UP master confidant Lao Wang immediately gave a series of demonstrations in the video.

It is worth mentioning that the underlying technology source of Xiaolan, an intelligent voice assistant, is Nov, or Xiaona.

Including Hatsune Miku, the source of these AI technologies can be traced back to Xiaona.

There is no doubt that Xiaona is still in the stage of weak artificial intelligence, and Xiaolan, the assistant that comes with Azure-3, is definitely weak artificial intelligence. In a sense, whether it is Hatsune or Xiaolan, it is Xiaona's. It's just a projection.

Next, Wang Fu first demonstrated that the Blue Space application was opened through voice input. Before voice input, a prefix needs to be said, that is, the wake-up word "Little Blue". This name is not fixed, and users can open the program to personalize settings. , customize the nickname for the intelligent voice assistant, this nickname is the wake-up word.

However, "Xiao Lan" is the official name. It is impossible for companies or scientific research institutions to study artificial intelligence all over the world to modify this point only by the wake-up word. The problem of wake-up word is enough for them to study for a few years.

So in Luo Sheng's eyes, although he is "mentally handicapped", in the eyes of others, especially ordinary people, he is definitely a black technology.

Immediately afterwards, Lao Wang used "Xiao Lan" to perform voice input and search using cloud songs.

What he said was: "Xiao Lan, help me open the official website of Bluestar Technology."

Xiaolan: "Okay, master."

After a delay of about 1 second, the desktop of the mobile phone automatically jumps to the cloud song search and enters the official website of Bluestar Technology.

Afterwards, Wang Fu tried to make a phone call and send a text message through "Xiao Lan". The content editor said it was fine, and he could also arrange for regular release, which means that Xiao Lan could make arrangements in advance to determine the content and release time of the short message. But, when the time is up, Xiaolan will send this message to the recipient designated by the owner.

This is a proper black technology in the eyes of ordinary people.

Viewers who watched the video were shocked and fell in love instantly.

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