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Chapter 559 0547 [Hongmeng Must Go Overseas]

The criticism of Mo from all sectors of society did not begin after he won the Nobel Prize.

The first wave of criticism appeared in early 1990, mainly criticizing him for writing every book in the same style and lacking any innovation in literary creation. He was also criticized for fabricating stories and distorting facts.

The second wave of criticism occurred in the mid-to-late 90s, when the publication and award-winning of "Big Breasts and Wide Hips" aroused collective anger among veterans of the Anti-Japanese War in Shandong Province. The magazine "Zhongliu" interviewed numerous veterans, the highest-ranking of whom was even [redacted - likely a censored text].

The criticism he received after winning the Nobel Prize is actually the third wave.

Just two days after Chen Guiliang's live broadcast, 15 writers and scholars jointly published an open letter entitled "Chinese Civil Communities Opposing Mo Yan's Awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature".

These people also believe that the Nobel Prize in Literature is sacred and authoritative, and that Mo Yan is not worthy of the award, calling on the Nobel Prize to revoke Mo Yan's eligibility for the award.

Following this, two PhDs in literature from Soochow University and Nanjing University initiated the editing of an academic book called "A Critique of Mo Yan," inviting more than 40 scholars and critics from across China to contribute.

At the same time, a large number of posts criticizing Mo Yan appeared on some left-leaning websites.

The first two only caused a sensation within literary circles, and the latter only generated buzz on niche websites. Only Chen Guiliang's live stream broke through to a wider audience!

Chen Guiliang's remarks during the live broadcast also sparked great controversy, with supporters and opponents almost evenly split.

Most of the netizens who support Mo Yan are motivated by the Nobel Prize. In their eyes, whoever wins the Nobel Prize is a hero for all of China. To put it bluntly, even a dog would be a hero if it won the prize.

Anyone who dares to criticize Mo Yan is unpatriotic!
Chen Guiliang: ? ? ? ? ?

Even more outrageous is the official media, which almost unanimously praises Mo Yan, completely ignoring what Mo Yan has ever written.

Yu Hua chimed in, saying, "Mo Yan could win the Mao Dun Literature Prize at least ten times, and nine out of ten of his award-winning works are not as good as his worst one."

Chen Guiliang and Yu Hua have always had a good relationship, but he still couldn't help replying on Weibo: "Teacher Yu, I can't agree with what you said. I can still tell whether something is shit or not. There are many people who shit in the Chinese literary world, but it's rare to see someone shit so badly and bizarrely. Mo Yan's book is even more disgusting than 'Wolf Totem'."

Faced with Chen Guiliang's direct criticism, Yu Hua remained silent. However, Yu Hua's Weibo comment section exploded, with supporters and opponents evenly split.

Many netizens also criticized Chen Guiliang for being ungrateful and for saying such things to Yu Hua, who had helped him in the past.

Chen Guiliang was too lazy to say anything more and let netizens argue it out, since this kind of argument wouldn't lead to any results.

……

"Big brother, grandpa, you're a living ancestor!"

Upon seeing Chen Guiliang, Ye Peng complained, "You're supposed to be China's richest man, why are you getting into a conflict with a writer? There are already netizens organizing to boycott HarmonyOS and stop buying our phones."

Chen Guiliang laughed and said, "Do you really think someone like Mo Yan has many die-hard fans? Most of them are just here to watch the show. Those netizens who boycott HarmonyOS phones wouldn't have bought our phones in the first place. You're telling me this as soon as I get back to Beijing?"

Ye Peng said, "Our brand and channels have already been established. I think HarmonyOS can no longer be strongly tied to you. We should try to minimize the impact of your outrageous remarks on mobile phone sales."

“Okay,” Chen Guiliang said. “From now on, I will only personally attend the launch events for flagship phones each year. You will be in charge of other models and products.”

Ye Peng couldn't help but complain, "I've never seen any other tycoon as nosy as you. Mo Yan didn't provoke you, so why make those controversial remarks?"

Chen Guiliang said, "I've been very restrained these past few years, but I just couldn't resist this time."

"Sigh!" Ye Peng sighed.

Chen Guiliang said, "Speak, what important business do you have with me?"

Ye Peng said, "Mobile phone manufacturers in the HarmonyOS camp are producing more and more Android models this year. I think this phenomenon is very dangerous."

"What do you think we should do?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Ye Peng said, "Let's try going overseas and see if we can build up an overseas ecosystem."

The biggest hidden danger of the HarmonyOS operating system is that it can only build an APP ecosystem in the Chinese mainland market.

Take Huawei's smartphones as an example. Although its market share in China is far less than that of HarmonyOS, Huawei's global smartphone sales are on par with those of HarmonyOS phones.

In other words, more than half of Huawei smartphones are sold overseas with the Android operating system!
Huawei's Android models that sell well overseas will definitely be brought back to the domestic market for sale.

There are many similar cases, such as ZTE.

This has led to a surge in Android phone models being released in China by HarmonyOS-based manufacturers. Given time, to save on R&D costs, Huawei and ZTE will likely reduce their HarmonyOS models and increase their Android models.

Because these manufacturers who develop HarmonyOS models can only sell them domestically. However, those who develop Android models can sell them both domestically and internationally.

If this continues, there will be more and more Android models, while there will be fewer and fewer HarmonyOS models.

"Where do you plan to make your first stop at sea?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Ye Peng said, "The United States. Most of the popular apps in Europe and America come from the United States. We must persuade major companies like Twitter to develop apps based on the HarmonyOS system, otherwise the mobile ecosystem will never take off."

Chen Guiliang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

It's impossible to persuade them entirely by throwing money at them. There are so many apps in Europe and America; it's impossible to spend money to convince every single one.

Even if they manage to persuade them temporarily, it's still like being held hostage indefinitely. For example, if ByteDance becomes a competitor with a major international company, that company could simply stop updating the HarmonyOS version of the relevant apps. But no matter how difficult it is, they have to try.

Especially now that HarmonyOS has gone public, its cash flow is unprecedentedly abundant, making it an excellent time to go global in one fell swoop. Moreover, the mobile phone ecosystem is not as complex as it is in later years, users are not as dependent on Google mobile services, and even the Symbian system is not completely dead yet.

Chen Guiliang said, "We need to contact big companies like Google and Facebook. We'll definitely have to spend money to get them to develop HarmonyOS versions. We'll also set up an incentive program and spend money to attract global developers to make apps for us."

At this point, asking major companies like Twitter to develop HarmonyOS is relatively easy. Their codebases are still small and simple, making it very easy to create a HarmonyOS version. If it drags on for a few more years, it will become a mountain of garbage code, which would be a serious problem.

After discussing it with Ye Peng, Ye Peng convened a meeting of middle and senior management and, after making a preliminary plan, sent a team to the United States.

You have to use money to persuade them.

For example, HarmonyOS provides upfront development costs and increases the revenue share for app developers.

At this point, Google Play, like Apple, takes a 30% cut, while HarmonyOS can promise to take only 20%. Once Google Play's cut drops to 15%, HarmonyOS can reduce it to 10%.

Moreover, in the early stages of HarmonyOS's overseas expansion, Chen Guiliang's HarmonyOS phones were not very competitive; the real pioneers were Huawei and ZTE.

At that time, Huawei and ZTE's smartphones were selling better overseas than in China!
As more and more apps based on HarmonyOS become available in Europe and America, Huawei and ZTE will definitely be willing to expand the HarmonyOS version, which is currently only sold in China, to the global market. They have global sales channels!
At that time, Chen Guiliang was even willing to make concessions to cooperate with Lenovo, because Lenovo also had global sales channels.

……

"Mr. Chen, CCTV's Annual Economic Figures invites you to be an award presenter and, as a previous winner, a member of the on-site judging panel."

"Okay, I agree."

"The China Internet Entrepreneurs Conference invites you to deliver a speech and participate in the main forum of the summit."

"I agree."

"There's also the China International Internet Culture Expo, hosted by the Ministry of Culture, which invited you to be a guest speaker and deliver a speech. This year, a new mobile game exhibition area has been set up."

"promise."

"besides……"

There are a ton of events scheduled for the end of the year, and they've already started sending out invitations in October.

If Chen Guiliang agrees to all of them, he'll have to participate in a dozen or twenty events. He'll definitely have to screen them, trying to keep it to around five.

Companies like Tencent, Baidu, and NetEase all hold annual product launches or developer conferences in the fourth quarter to outline their group strategies and major products for the coming year.

ByteDance was no exception, and Chen Guiliang had to participate in person.

The internet industry is currently engaged in fierce competition, with some major battles even going beyond its traditional boundaries.

First, there's Alibaba's Singles' Day shopping festival. Even though it's still more than two weeks away, the promotional campaign is already in full swing. They've done this before, but this year's scale is unprecedented, marking a milestone in e-commerce history.

Secondly, Tencent and 360 started fighting again.

Or rather, it's been going on for half a year, and it's getting increasingly intense. The last 3Q war was on PC, and now the battle has spread to mobile.

But Baidu and NetDragon are the most talked-about companies.

Baidu wants to acquire NetDragon's 91 Assistant. NetDragon is probably deliberately leaking the information to attract more big companies to compete and drive up the price.

Tencent and Alibaba have already made moves and are quietly negotiating with NetDragon.

ByteDance also contacted NetDragon, but NetDragon's asking price was too high and completely exceeded ByteDance's acceptable range.

91助手是目前中国最大的APP分发平台，超过50%的安卓应用、超过45%的鸿蒙应用、超过80%的苹果应用都是通过91助手来下载。

It is evident that the app market at that time was very chaotic, and the official app store was not doing very well.

The HarmonyOS app store is already quite good, with nearly 55% of app downloads completed through the official store.

The situation in the app market in Europe and America is actually quite similar.

Therefore, this is the last chance for HarmonyOS to go global. While the APP market is in chaos, we should quickly establish cooperation with major European and American companies.

Baidu saw 91 Assistant as a powerful tool for entering the mobile market. After news broke that Alibaba was going to invest in 91, Baidu ultimately decided to spend a staggering $19 billion to acquire it!

They're definitely rich and powerful, but also foolish and have too much money.

Chen Guiliang dared not touch it, partly because the price was too high, and partly because there were too many pirated apps on 91 Assistant. There were even fraudulent apps!

Whoever buys 91 will definitely face daily complaints and even monthly lawsuits, and will have to assemble a huge litigation team to deal with them.

All I can say is that 91 is quite suitable for Baidu.

There are too many lice and it doesn’t itch.

(End of this chapter)