To be blunt, the name "Dynamic Island" is shockingly awful. Android already had a much more playful name for this design, "Bubble".
Of course, it's not true to say that Apple has no creativity. Apple has contributed many unique ideas and innovations to the entire mobile phone industry. Later, Android phones followed suit, deeply absorbing their essence.
For example, the removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack, using a single port for both headphones and charging cables.
See how brilliant this idea is? It instantly removes an unsightly exposed port from the phone, increasing its dustproof capabilities. While there's still one port, dust can still enter, but surely less than with two ports!
Of course, Apple then took the opportunity to launch its own Bluetooth earbuds, AirPods, selling them for 1899 yuan a pair. This was absolutely not about profiting from accessories. It was genuinely to enable users to enjoy better Bluetooth music. After all, you can connect to Apple with 20-30 yuan Bluetooth earbuds from Pinduoduo!
What, you say AirPods sold over 100 million units globally in their first year, with total revenue exceeding 150 billion RMB? That just means users support Apple; it's definitely not an attempt to drain the wallets of Apple fans. There's no way!
Of course, two years later, Apple announced they would no longer include power adapters in the box, selling them for 149 RMB each. That was also definitely not to continue draining Apple fans' wallets, but for environmental protection.
As everyone knows, an Apple fan typically replaces their iPhone every two to three years. The previous iPhones all came with power adapters, so many fans accumulated four or five such chargers. These power adapters would eventually be discarded, leading to environmental pollution, which is truly terrible.
Even if you don't discard them and keep them at home, if Apple were to continue including power adapters with every phone, it would inevitably lead to massive resource waste during production, which is also an act of environmental destruction. This behavior absolutely must be stopped.
Therefore, Apple's decision not to include power adapters was absolutely, absolutely for environmental protection, with no consideration for its own interests.
What?
You ask why Apple phones didn't lower their prices after stopping the inclusion of power adapters, and instead increased them?
That's naturally because our Apple phones' performance is improving, manufacturing costs are also rising, so the selling price naturally has to increase. Apple's prices increase every year. This year, we reduced the included power adapters, so the increase was slightly less. Otherwise, we would have had to raise the price by another one or two hundred yuan.
What, you ask again, if you don't want to produce them, why do you continue to sell power adapters?
That's naturally for consumer convenience. Besides, previous power adapters were only 10 watts or even lower. There's also the latest Apple that supports 20-watt fast charging. So, considering that some users have shorter charging times and need 20-watt chargers, we reluctantly offer them for sale.
Please, absolutely do not buy them. Buying them means you don't care about the environment.
Of course, next, Apple sold its own phone cleaning cloths for 100 yuan, headphone lanyards for 88 yuan, and so on. These are all generous gifts from Apple to its users and fans, and the prices are simply too cheap to be true.
What, you say Apple is stingy?
Let me tell you, if Apple hadn't also environmentally removed the phone charging cable, that would have been the greatest courtesy we could offer you.
This is the innovation Apple has brought to the entire mobile phone industry, and Android phones have followed suit, learning all these bad habits.
Of course, Android doesn't have the same audacity as Apple. They dare to remove phone ports, but they haven't yet dared to remove phone power adapters.
Instead, some Android phones are even using phone power adapters as new creative material, introducing 100W and above power adapters that can fully charge a phone in 20 minutes. Apple, on the other hand, will have you patiently wait two hours.
All in all, the era of major innovation in mobile phones will have to wait until after 2016.
But Boss Huang didn't expect that he would be so upset, and major terminal innovation began in 2011, even bringing forth the full screen.
"Brother-in-law, why do I feel like you're not very happy?" Leng Zhiruo asked, looking at her man's expression with some confusion.
"Here, this is the prototype of the Tianzhou 5 sent by Scorpio Sky!" Boss Wang threw a terminal in his hand to Leng Zhiruo helplessly. After giving birth, Leng Zhiruo had shifted almost all her focus to her child and didn't pay much attention to the development of her own company, so this was the first time she had seen their new terminal, which would only be released eight months later.
As soon as she took a look, Leng Zhiruo couldn't help but laugh, because the Tianzhou 5 was also a full-screen design, almost identical to the Xiaomi Mix.
Clearly, Boss Huang's original plan was to make the full screen the biggest selling point of the Tianzhou 5, to show off to all users in October. But now, this "showing off" opportunity had been snatched by Xiaomi.
"Forget it, brother-in-law. Xiaomi is also something we helped establish. We have a significant stake in it, so it's like our own company. Don't be upset!" Leng Zhiruo comforted him tenderly.
"Yes, we won't be angry. Let's just consider it as world line convergence, and this thing has returned to its rightful owner!" Boss Wang grumbled, muttering some words that Leng Zhiruo didn't understand. However, Leng Zhiruo didn't mind; her genius husband occasionally said things that were incomprehensible.
But as the world's richest man, he must have something extraordinary about him, otherwise, how could he be the world's richest man?
"But brother-in-law, don't be angry about these things. Others may not understand, but I do. Although there are many terminal brands bustling with activity outside, and the market is in a golden age, even our Tianzhou 4 has been pushed to eighth place. But no matter how much money those brands outside make, doesn't the money eventually fall into our hands?"
"I just happened to look at the financial report submitted by the finance department for the entire last year a few days ago. Good heavens, the entire terminal market was valued at 400 billion US dollars, and in the end, 100 billion US dollars ended up in our hands. And these US dollars are all stable, risk-free returns. We are the true big winners!" Leng Zhiruo said with admiration.
At this time last year, when Huang He proposed that Tianzhou terminals would only focus on the high-end market and completely withdraw from the main mid-to-low-end market, Leng Zhiruo was still somewhat reluctant. But now, seeing the data, she was filled with admiration for her husband.
After Tianzhou terminals withdrew, while the consumer market was ceded, it was precisely the market facing terminal manufacturers that Jiangnan Group seized.
Because the Tianzhou terminals and their system had already formed a monopoly over the entire terminal market at the opportune moment, other manufacturers could only purchase components and systems from Jiangnan Group.
Of course, Boss Huang also understood the principle of "casting a long line to catch a big fish" and did not exploit his monopoly position to set unreasonable prices. Instead, he set the supply price at an extremely reasonable, even slightly low, level, leading almost all manufacturers to praise Boss Huang for his benevolence.
But even at a slightly lower price, Jiangnan Group sold 30 billion US dollars worth of its five-element chips for terminals in a year.
After all, it was the only entity in the world capable of producing 5-element chips; no other enterprise had the ability to produce them.
Moreover, even if certain investigations were initiated under such circumstances, they would be ineffective. This is because Jiangnan Group did not hold a patent monopoly on the market. Instead, it simply did not apply for patents at all. If you had the capability to replicate their 5-element chips, you could immediately copy and sell them, without any issues of infringement.
But the problem is that no enterprise can replicate this technology, thus forming Jiangnan's de facto monopoly today.
Furthermore, Jiangnan Group does not sell in any other regions, only within China. If you want to buy, you can only send someone to China to place an order. There are no sales points abroad, so it does not constitute a violation of other countries' laws.
In addition to the core chips, there are also other core technology products that only Jiangnan Group can produce. These also brought Jiangnan Group over 10 billion US dollars in profit.
The final, largest sales performance, amounting to 60 billion US dollars, came from the core of Tianzhou terminals, namely the Zixiao System.
Under Jiangnan Group's unrestricted authorization, the Zixiao System has almost become a completely open-source system. Enterprises can choose to use the official version of the Zixiao System directly, or they can choose to heavily modify the system themselves and produce their own unique systems.
Many terminal manufacturers have gained market share by having their own modified versions of the system that are considered more user-friendly than the official system.
However, the Zixiao System is not entirely open-source. There is a critical point: the Zixiao System has never been open-sourced. In fact, the authorization agreement has very strict clauses stipulating that no enterprise may make any modifications to this part. They must strictly use the rules customized by Jiangnan Group, otherwise, they will face fines of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of US dollars, and their authorization to use the Zixiao System will be revoked entirely.
This part naturally refers to the app store within the Zixiao System. According to the authorization agreement, any terminal manufacturer using the Zixiao System or its related modified systems must have the Tianzhou Terminal App Store as the built-in and only system application within the entire system. No means of changing or transferring it are permitted.
All application downloads within the terminal must, at the official level, be downloaded through the Tianzhou Terminal App Store. Furthermore, game applications can only be recharged and value-added services purchased through the app store.
Any attempt to bypass the Tianzhou Terminal App Store is a strict violation of the cooperation agreement. Similarly, any attempt to download software through jailbreaking is absolutely prohibited. Jiangnan Group has successively sued dozens of organizations that engaged in jailbreaking and continuously updates relevant anti-jailbreak programs to ensure the security and reliability of the entire software installation system.
Of course, considering the profit interests of mobile phone manufacturers, the revenue sharing rules for the Tianzhou Terminal App Store have also been modified. First, all application developers will still receive a 70% revenue share, unchanged.
Of the remaining 30% share, Jiangnan Group takes 10%, and mobile phone manufacturers take 20%. However, all fund settlements must be handled by Jiangnan Group or oo Network; no manufacturer can touch a single cent of the cash flow.