Super Tycoon

As soon as Duan Yongping arrived at the company this morning, he received a call from Secretary Wang asking him to come to the president's office.

He was still muttering, nothing happened recently, and all the businesses he was in charge of were operating normally. But if it's okay, the president wouldn't come to the company so early, and he wouldn't be in such a hurry to let him go.

Could it be that he changed several suppliers and the president was unhappy? But it was all in accordance with the rules, and he didn't fill his own pocket or anything.

With some doubts, Duan Yongping came to Zhang Yang's office and saw the president playing with a gadget in his hand.

"President."

"Old Duan, sit down. Have you seen this thing?"

"mP3, Wanyan Company's product, of course I know, and bought one for my daughter. Isn't this developed by our company and later sold to Wanyan Company?"

At the beginning, Duan Yongping wanted to produce this thing by himself, but later the company didn't have the production capacity and no funds. After all, the focus at that time was Zhiduoxing g2.

But what does the president mean by saying this? Is there any problem with mP3?

"I bought this technology back from Wanyan Company for 30 million yuan. I also promised that if we make a breakthrough in technology, we will give them priority in licensing."

"By the way, in terms of appearance design, we also have to make changes with Wanyan's products. I made a picture, and you can see if it can be used."

Zhang Yang took out a piece of paper and put it in front of Duan Yongping.

Duan Yongping glanced at it, it was a rectangle half the size of a cigarette pack, with a small screen on it, and the buttons on the bottom turned into a circle, this was modified from the gamepad?

There is also a button on the side, marked with a line, which is the button to switch the machine on and off.

Wait, why does this seem to be very thin, so there is no way to put a battery in it. This is like a mobile phone, get a special battery board?

"Look, this ring button actually contains five buttons. The up and down are used to control the up and down selection, the left and right are used to control the sound, and the middle is the confirmation button. The one on the side is the power button."

"The one on the side is the data interface. Through the data cable, it can be connected to the usb port of the computer for data transmission. At the same time, it can be used for charging when it is connected to the charging head."

"My mission to you,

It is to find a powerful battery, so that our product can listen to music for more than six hours when it is fully charged. "

"The outer shell can be made of two materials. One is the plastic commonly used on the Zhiduoxing Z3, which is very light and not so brittle. The other is made of metal, which is not easy to deform when it is dropped, but it is expensive and has a feeling of falling. .”

"There is a headphone jack here. This product has no speaker function, and it doesn't need it. Take a look, what else needs to be improved?"

Duan Yongping shook his head: "President, I think this design is already perfect. It's so small that it can fit in a shirt pocket or trouser pocket without looking too bulging."

"What we need to do is to improve the performance of the cPu, increase storage space, and reduce energy consumption. For the screen, I suggest using backlight LEDs to increase brightness, so two buttons to adjust the brightness of the screen should be added on the side."

Zhang Yang thought about it for a while, and it seemed to be okay. With the current technology, using that kind of particularly bright screen, the battery life is definitely not guaranteed.

When LCD technology improves and battery technology improves in the future, this will not be needed.

"Yes, you think well. So how long will it take for you to make this product?"

"Normally, the test can be completed in one month. The only difficulty is the length of use. However, our company has cooperated with several battery manufacturers to see if their technology can meet the requirements."

In fact, many times the technology can meet the requirements, but the cost cannot. A battery costs thousands of dollars, how much do you have to sell this product for?

"Okay, you are in charge of this project, do you have the energy?"

"Yes. Should I also be in charge of the music download website? I find it very difficult to deal with the charging issue." Duan Yongping hesitated.

Of course, he knew about the company's products. Monthly subscription downloads are very cheap, and single-track downloads are not expensive, which are cheaper than tapes and CDs, but many people are still reluctant because there are free ones online.

"Yes, you are also responsible for the website. It is still the same model. The monthly subscription is 10 yuan for unlimited downloads, and the single download is changed to 30 cents per song, including the genuine synchronized lyrics. The cooperation model with the music copyright owner will also be done. Make some changes."

"And we will join hands with Wan Yan and agents to set up multiple mP3 download websites to provide users with song downloads in multiple languages."

"As for those free downloads on the Internet, we don't care. That's something that the music copyright company should take care of. Let's talk about the share with the music copyright company. Even if it loses a little, it shouldn't be too big."

Just like Microsoft in the Chinese market, knowing that there are many pirated system software and office software, but ignore it. It is to let these software occupy the market, and then slowly change the usage habits of many people, and finally find some representative accusations, so that their genuine software can be sold well.

Although you will lose a lot in the early stage, you can quickly occupy the market and earn more money in the future.

"Okay, I understand. President, what is the sales expectation for this product?"

"I hope that this year's sales will reach one million units, next year it will reach five million units, and the year after that it will reach ten million units!"

This data seems difficult to achieve, but Duan Yongping did not say no, but nodded, turned and returned to his office.

The annual sales of Walkmans can reach hundreds of millions of units, and there are tens of millions of portable CDs. Why is it impossible for the mP3 to grab a piece of the market and sell tens of millions of units?

The advantages of the product are very clear, that is, it is lightweight, and the direction of improvement is also very clear. In terms of the system, I asked Li Junsheng to optimize it. In terms of cost, he will make some efforts. It is best to reduce the retail price to less than two hundred dollars. It worked!

Seeing Duan Yongping go out with confidence, Zhang Yang picked up the phone and called Kurishenko.

"Hey, Lao Ku, me. I have a good project and I want to cooperate with you. Let's see if you are interested."

...

Takeshi Kutaragi looked at the sales statistics of the first month of Ps2 at Suuni Company, with neither sad nor happy expression on his face. This sales data can only be regarded as qualified, far from excellent.

It seems too difficult to follow in the footsteps of Zhiduoxing g2. But they won't give up, who knows what the future holds, what if some of their games become more popular?

Don't look at Zhiduoxing g2 leading their sales of nearly 40 million units, but it is not impossible to catch up from behind.

It's just that during this period of time, the propaganda of the Zhiduoxing Group seems to have decreased. What are they doing, do they not pay attention to Sunny?