Overbearing Immortal Doctor Chapter 1765: Market Share
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Chapter 1765: Chapter 1864: Market Share
If possible, we can have Saban Company, a subsidiary of Baoneng, transfer the system authorization to you.
Currently, only we and Siemens have obtained this authorization for this mobile operating system.
The two largest mobile phone manufacturers in Asia aren’t even aware of this system’s existence. The largest in Asia
are, of course, Samsung and Panasonic, but together they only hold less than 12% of the market share. Frankly, the three giants
completely dismiss the two centers.
personally looked eagerly at Azhe Su, waiting for him to agree. To them, only a fool would refuse such a good deal.
Although Azhe Su’s release of the Saban-based phones isn’t enough to impact the three giants’ position in the global
mobile phone market, Azhe Su would definitely still earn a profit.
At least in the domestic market of China, selling hundreds of millions of units shouldn’t be a problem. Saban system?
Azhe Su had already guessed this upon receiving the brochure.
How could he not be aware of this mobile system, having used no less than 20 Nokia phones in the past life,
including more than ten with the Saban system?
But the experience of using them was essentially the same.
So much so that many consumers in the previous life gave Nokia an advertising slogan: Technology by changing
shells. At Nokia’s peak, it occupied 70% of the world’s mobile phone market share, launching more than 100 models a year.
But in fact, out of these 100 models, the vast majority were essentially the same under different shells. Many models, never mind
the chips, cameras, and batteries, even used the same motherboard, meaning they just changed the phone’s
shell and launched it as a new product. At least Apple later squeezed in a bit to change chips and
cameras yearly, with a system update once a year. Nokia couldn’t even be bothered with that, just changing a shell
and selling it at a new phone price.
Saban system, sold for a full 15 years.
Even then, before 2008, there were still many people scrambling to buy.
Hadn’t it been for the sudden rise of the iPhone, Nokia would have continued this profiteering sales model.
The reason, in fact, was due to user stickiness; they couldn’t break away from the Saban system. Initially, Saban
also authorized Motorola, Siemens, and other companies, but by 2004, Nokia started monopolizing it,
turning exclusive, meaning the Saban system served only Nokia’s phones, and other phone manufacturers
could not use the Saban system.
This directly resulted in Nokia monopolizing the system.
You can imagine if Microsoft’s Windows system wasn’t available to Lenovo, Dell,
and other computer manufacturers but was instead made only by Microsoft. After that, would laptop sales have? Nokia planned
the same; users wanted a smartphone experience.
Fine, only my Nokia phones carried the mobile system. If you wanted to buy a smartphone, you had to buy my product. This directly led to worldwide mobile manufacturers’ outrage.
But without a new system substitute, this let Nokia stand invincible in the market for years. Microsoft
didn’t do the same as Nokia, why not?
Actually, Microsoft understood very well that selling systems was more profitable than selling computers. If you monopolized both,
what would others eat?
Authorizing the system to various manufacturers, counterparts would need to cooperate with you, being polite to you, like a frog slowly boiled.
No one would then think of developing another computer system. With a system in use, why spend tens of billions to develop a new computer system? Success would be good, but failure would surely be a loss. So, Microsoft’s strategy, no doubt, was successful.
And Nokia’s failure was inevitable.
By eating alone, leaving no room for other manufacturers to live, they would have to seek alternative paths, developing their mobile systems. So whether Microsoft or Google, Apple, they all started to venture into the mobile
systems business. Samsung, which never got to taste the monopoly on systems, invested heavily, directly betting on
Android.
A company, once looked down upon by the three giants, could eventually become the world’s first mobile manufacturer.
Noah couldn’t have thought, neither could Motorola.
Su Zhe clearly knew the future miserable state of these three companies and understood the pros and cons of thickly filled systems,
prior to acquiring Microsoft’s WM mobile system, he might have been tempted.
But now?
Azhe Su had countless paths to choose from!
He acquired Google, and Android was destined to be within his grasp?
OS isn’t easy to say, but with WM and Android, Azhe Su had a lot of cards to play, so why settle for a surely doomed system?!
The three executives, I’m really sorry!
Litech is a newly established electronics company, and its mobile business has just launched. Frankly speaking, they haven’t manufactured a feature phone yet, and you want us to immediately launch smart phones carrying operating systems!
That’s not realistic at all. Sorry, I’m optimistic about the Saban System, but I don’t need its authorization, Azhe Su said,
words that left the three people dumbfounded.
Azhe Su actually refused.
Refused the offer for mobile system authorization.
The executives of the mobile giant couldn’t believe it at all.
After all, the impression Azhe Su had given them was that of a genius extremely versed in the internet. His views and the future of
the internet were very optimistic.
In their view, Azhe Su should have recognized the potential in the Saban System!
For it is the future treasure vault of mobile internet.
Mr. Su, you must know Microsoft’s current market value!
Capitalizing on the computer system, it became the most powerful company in the world: whereas mobile internet will only have a wider horizon than the internet. This Saban System, even if not on par with Microsoft, can surely take the step towards a new era in mobile phones; Ericsson’s executive Kedew said excitedly, feeling that Azhe Su was just short-sighted.
Such a powerful mobile phone system placed before him, yet he ignores it? I can say that once this
system launches, it will be doomsday for other mobile phone manufacturers, the executive of Motorola, Cross David, said somewhat proudly, Su Azhe didn’t have the heart to break it to him, but in reality, once this system launches, the first to meet doom
would be their original Motorola.
This century-old communications enterprise accomplished countless glories as a mobile giant. Being the company that developed the world’s first mobile phone, it ended up bankrupt; it’s an undeniable lament!
The three executives’ good intentions, I’ve taken them to heart. If you want to sign an agreement for G** connectivity authorization,
I quite welcome it; if you’re here to promote mobile systems, I can only say, sorry, I’m not interested at all.
Even though I haven’t managed to complete my WM system yet, spending big money on Saban’s authorization, only to be sandwiched by Nokia in the end, such a thing Su Xi would never do.
Besides, the Saban System isn’t invincible in the world.
If it were Windows, Azhe Su might have thought it over. The three executives from the communications giants,
were at a loss for words.
They didn’t expect this kind of outcome.
He would regret it, for sure.
The CEO of Nokia, Yoma Ollila, walked out of Su Azhe’s hotel, still grumbling about it.
Kedew and Cross David by his side were equally furious.
They had come with good intentions to discuss the mobile system authorization with Su Azhe, ultimately not reaching an agreement, leaving with such a situation; the more they thought about it, the more dissatisfied they felt.
In the end, they didn’t even sign the G** connectivity authorization, just left directly; they hoped to let
Su Xi calm down, yet Su Shi heard those old guys murmuring those things, Is this communications
giant determined to give him a hard time?
Old Li… I remember there’s a communications company in Europe, right?