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Chapter 590 7.4 units a day, is that bad? Zhou Hongyi: What's wrong with me relying on a powerful figure?
On the last day of March, Liu Qiangdong went to New York to officially launch the IPO roadshow and obtained the stock code 'JD'.

The deep partnership between JD.com and Pinduoduo has led North American investment institutions to have higher expectations for JD.com's valuation.

At the same time, Cao Weiguo of Sina Weibo also announced its listing plan, which will be listed on Nasdaq on April 17.

At 10 a.m., Weibo users suddenly discovered that WeChat public account articles they had previously shared to their personal homepages were now all inaccessible, but were working normally within the WeChat environment.

The keywords "Weibo blocks WeChat" quickly topped the headlines of major news websites.

"Could it be that Weibo is about to go public, so it doesn't even care about Tencent anymore?"

"Ma Liyun: WeChat blocks Taobao links, so I use Weibo to block WeChat links. Is there a problem with that?"

Weibo: I only listen to Jack Ma!

Netizens made many jokes about it.

Many people only realized after seeing the comments that Weibo had long become Ali's "adopted son".

Following this, many users discovered that if content from Baidu Tieba, Baidu Zhidao, or Baidu Baike appeared on the Shenma Search results page, clicking on it would immediately bring up a pop-up window that said, "The search engine you are using is not recognized. Please switch to the more secure mobile version of Baidu."

To put it bluntly, in order to prevent user churn, Baidu has stopped pretending and is using tactics such as forcibly hijacking traffic and holding users hostage to bring UC Browser users home.

According to the explicit regulations of the China Association of Industry and Information Technology, Internet information service providers shall not maliciously interfere with users' use of other Internet information service providers' services.

Li Yanhong's actions clearly demonstrate a lack of martial ethics and treat the "Internet Search Engine Service Self-Discipline Convention" signed last year as nothing more than toilet paper.

Clearly, Baidu has been pushed to its limits!
Yu Yongfu, who had just become the chairman of UC, criticized Li Yanhong on Weibo for not treating users as human beings, hijacking Shenma Search's traffic, and engaging in unfair competition.

Baidu's official Weibo account responded with a lengthy article titled "The Five Crimes of UC Browser and Shenma Search in Infringing on Baidu's Intellectual Property Rights," which listed evidence of Shenma Search's misappropriation of Baidu's intellectual property rights from five aspects.

Half an hour later, Yu Yongfu refuted each of the five accusations listed by Qiandu.

For a time, the three giants of BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) were caught in a fierce battle.

Ma Liyun is competing against two rivals: Tencent in the instant messaging, e-commerce, and internet finance sectors, and Baidu in the search engine industry.

Ma Wenteng appears low-key, but he is ruthless in his actions, completely blocking all product links of the Ali Group on QQ and WeChat.

The collaboration between Tencent Search and Sogou Search has proven to be just as effective as 360 Search in capturing market share.

Li Yanhong suffered the most. On the surface, it seemed like a three-way battle, but in reality, it was Baidu that was being attacked unilaterally.

If Shenma Search were to seize a portion of the market share, Baidu Search's market share would fall below 30%.

Therefore, Robin Li gave a firm order: Shenma Search must not be given the opportunity to rise to prominence.

However, Shenma Search is backed by UC Browser and has 5 million users worldwide. If it simply changes the entry point for its search service, Baidu Search's market share will decline.

Just as the two Mas and one Li were locked in a fierce battle, Orange Technology was busy relocating.

The headquarters of Senlian Capital is located in Baohe District, Luzhou.

In front of a skyscraper about 100 meters high, a group of senior executives, including Zhou Shouzhi, Wang Teng, Yan Peng, He Shuang, Ding Houmeng, and Wang Xueting, all wore bright smiles and looked at the camera.

Chen Yansen, wearing a white shirt and holding a glass of lemonade, stood in the middle.

With a "click," the photographer pressed the shutter button.

At this time, all six office buildings of the first phase of the project have been put into use. Building No. 1 is the main building, with a total of 27 floors and a height of 108 meters, representing the group's external image.

Orange Technology, Tiangong Technology, and Chen Yansen's offices are all in Building No. 1;

Pinbei Mall is located in Building 2;

Today's technology is in Building 3;

Orange Payment is located in Building 4;

Semir Online has moved into Building 5;
Orange Communications is located in Building 6.

Buildings 2 through 6 are medium-sized office buildings, all with 13 floors, primarily for use by core business units.

The seven small office buildings in the second phase of the project are designed to be eight stories high, with a height of about 32 meters, and are currently vacant.

In addition, there are three three-story supporting buildings, which house a canteen, a shopping mall, and a gym.

After taking the group photo, Chen Yansen walked into the lobby on the first floor and took the elevator to his office on the top floor.

The money tree that was originally placed in the virtual city was also packed up and brought over by the administration department, and it is now placed on the office desk.

Compared to the office in Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park, this room is several times larger, with a total area of ​​over 200 square meters. In addition to the water bar, reception area, office area and leisure area, a temporary rest area with a one-bedroom unit has also been specially installed.

Of course, although it's called a temporary rest area, the space inside is not small at all; even the bed is 1.8 meters long, big and soft.

Chen Yansen walked to the computer, sat down, opened the editor, and continued writing the architecture design module that he hadn't finished before.

at the same time.

The 360 ​​V1 beauty-enhancing phone is now available. Through built-in algorithms, it offers users facial optimization features such as skin smoothing, whitening, face slimming, and eye enhancement. It features a 1600-megapixel camera on both the front and back, and supports 12 levels of adjustable beauty modes. Powered by the Tiangong A100 chip, it has a 5.7-inch touchscreen, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage, and is priced at 3999 yuan.

I bought it specifically for the Meitu 1 Pro, which was 889 yuan cheaper!
Zhou Hongyi released the phone before the Xiaomi 3 Pro Beauty Edition.

The first batch is limited to 10 units!

However, only a little over 4000 units were sold within an hour of the sale starting.

Logically speaking, these sales figures are quite good.

But compared to Meitu, it was instantly utterly crushed.

Upon learning this, Wu Hongxin smiled dismissively.

Meitu phones are popular because they have accumulated hundreds of millions of potential users and invited Yang Tianbao to be their spokesperson, posting promotional videos on Douyin, Kuaishou, and Meipai every day.

The overlap between Zhou Hongyi's 360 users and users of beauty-enhancing phones is not high. Although he spent a lot of money to find some beautiful female celebrities to endorse him, such as Dilraba Dilmurat and Gulnazar, the effect was far below expectations.

More importantly, Meitu has been deeply involved in the field of image beautification for many years. From Meitu Xiu Xiu to Meipai, it has long established the perception of "professional beautification" in the minds of users. This kind of brand accumulation cannot be achieved by hiring celebrities as spokespeople in the short term.

Although the 360 ​​V1 and Meitu 1 Pro use the same algorithm, users still feel that Meitu is more professional than 360.

By 5 p.m., after a total of 7 hours, the 360 ​​V1 had failed to sell 50,000 units.

Some media outlets published articles predicting a decline in sales, but Zhou Hongyi retorted online: "4.9 units in 7 hours, is that bad? Let me ask you, some competitors can't even sell 5 units a month, should they withdraw from the mobile phone market?"

After seeing this, netizens immediately tagged Luo Yonghao, the founder of Smartisan phones.

The reason is simple: among all mobile phone manufacturers, Smartisan phones had the worst sales. Since its launch, in the eight months since, the total number of units shipped was only 30, which averaged out to just over 3 units per month.

This perfectly matches the role of the 'competitive business' that Zhou Hongyi mentioned!
After finishing his work, Luo Yonghao opened Weibo as usual, intending to browse the trending news for a while. However, after seeing Zhou Hongyi's Weibo post, his face immediately turned green.

The other person's insults were so vulgar that he couldn't even refute them.

But he couldn't swallow his anger.

Luo Yonghao gripped his phone, his knuckles turning white. He stared at the sales report of Smartisan phones on his computer screen, then glanced at Zhou Hongyi's provocative Weibo post, and a surge of anger welled up inside him.

Zhou Hongyi is clearly using Smartisan phones as a stepping stone, stepping on their failure to cover up the declining sales of 360 V1. This is even more upsetting than directly criticizing him.

In his view, Zhou Hongyi was nothing more than Chen Yansen's lackey, and only by relying on his powerful connections could he make 360 ​​Mobile so successful.

"Is Zhou Hongyi out of his mind? His own beauty-enhancing phones aren't selling well, so he's taking it out on our Smartisan?"

The assistant standing nearby couldn't help but complain.

Luo Yonghao took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

He knew that if he argued with Zhou Hongyi, he would only fall into Zhou's trap, which would not only make him look petty, but also make Smartisan phones a laughing stock in the industry.

However, if they don't respond, netizens will think that Smartisan phones have tacitly accepted the label of "poor sales," making it even more difficult for them to open up the market in the future.

He opened the Weibo input box, hovered his fingers on the keyboard for a long time, and then deleted it again and again.

Finally, he typed out a sarcastic comment without using any profanity: "Some manufacturers treat making phones like it's a fad. They rush in as soon as they see beauty filters are trending, but their sales plummet. Instead of reflecting on their own product problems, they use others as targets."

While Smartisan phones may not be top-selling, each one embodies an extreme pursuit of design and user experience. Compared to some garbage phones that rely on belittling competitors to gain attention, we at least live up to the words "making phones seriously."

The post immediately went viral.

"As the saying goes, if you're heading in the wrong direction, all your efforts will be wasted! I don't know if Smartisan Technology is 'seriously making phones,' but Smartisan phones are absolutely garbage!"

"Hey Xiao Heizi, have you ever used a Smartisan phone? I have, so I have the right to speak on this. The Smartisan phone's system is a piece of crap. I don't know where Luo Yonghao got the courage to insist on creating his own Smartisan OS operating system."

"Teacher Luo, listen to me, let's not make mobile phones anymore. You don't have the talent for this."

At least 30% of the netizens in the comments section were criticizing Luo Yonghao.

The Smartisan OS system on Hammer phones is essentially a reskinned version of Android 4.4, with only minor UI changes and the addition of some ecosystem applications.

Coupled with its mediocre optimization, it barely sold over 20 units before the Deep Blue Battery was released; after the Deep Blue Battery was released, it couldn't even sell 2 units per month.

When Zhou Hongyi saw that Luo Yonghao dared to insult him, he immediately laughed and retorted, "I never said it was Smartisan phones. Some people shouldn't be so sensitive. In fact, if you hadn't spoken up, I wouldn't have known that there was a mobile phone brand called Smartisan in China."

After reading Zhou Hongyi's response, Luo Yonghao's expression turned even uglier.

He was a former lecturer at New Oriental, with excellent verbal skills. He immediately questioned in a sarcastic tone: "What does 360 mobile phone have to do with 360? It's a counterfeit, a special edition! From the system to the hardware configuration, what part of it can do without Orange Technology?"

"I can't be bothered with you, you're just someone who tries to gain attention everywhere."

Zhou Hongyi replied arrogantly.

Luo Yonghao's face darkened; he had lost his composure!
The two exchanged barbs, delivering one of the most exciting verbal battles of late March.

By midnight that day, the total sales of 360 V1 reached 74,000.

(End of this chapter)