"Trash, still trash!" Jobs angrily threw the second generation iPhone in his hand aside. This was the second generation product the company was about to launch, but after playing with it for a while, Jobs found that this product was even inferior to the first generation Tianzhou terminal. If Apple held a press conference with this thing, who knew how much it would be ridiculed.
But what was even more fatal was that the second generation product could not be held back. Otherwise, this thing, into which Apple had invested all its capital, would become a discarded piece of the era.
It was just that Apple's first generation Cp had endured the most tragic treatment in history.
At the beginning of the launch of Cp generation 1, the situation was very good. Thanks to long-term marketing, both Cp and pt had attracted a lot of attention. The initial 2 million units were all sold out immediately, which made everyone at Apple feel extremely excited.
But with the emergence of the Tianzhou terminal, everything was different.
In the face of the Tianzhou terminal, whether it was their own Cp or the pt of their rivals, they were completely crushed into dregs. Not only were they crushed in terms of device fluency, but even the price was no match.
With the price of the ordinary version of the Tianzhou terminal locked at $300, Apple initially insisted on selling it at the original price of $500. As a result, sales were incredibly bleak. In three months, less than 100,000 units were sold.
So, it can be said that Apple in another world also followed a high-priced route. But Apple in that world was the first to take the risk, and the user experience of the mobile phone truly crushed all Android phones. In terms of performance, it was truly number one. Everyone accepted Apple's price, and some even felt indignant if you sold it at a low price.
But after Boss Huang arrived in this world, the situation was completely different. So, Apple still held the first press conference, but its product quality was crushed into dregs by the Tianzhou terminal.
Compared with the Tianzhou terminal, this thing simply couldn't sell.
However, Jobs never gave up hope, and he believed that Apple had more than a 90% chance of killing its opponent, because the opponent actually used a market-reversing five-进制 computer system and programs.
For such a system, it was likely that no third party other than Jiangnan Group itself could develop programs for it. Without programs, the Tianzhou terminal might seem lively now, but when their program software libraries were not on the same level, it would be the time for the Tianzhou terminal to be crushed.
But even Jobs himself did not expect that Boss Huang would come up with the ingenious trick of exchanging launch codes for stocks.
This led a large number of program companies to develop programs for the Tianzhou terminal under pressure. In just three months, the Tianzhou terminal's app store reached over 100,000 applications, and now the total number of applications in the app store has exceeded 300,000.
In contrast, the iTunes store currently has just over 10,000 applications, being outmatched by a factor of 30 by the opponent.
Facing this situation, Boss Qiao could still comfort himself at first, saying that the applications in the Tianzhou terminal's app store were all trash programs specifically for exchanging launch codes, with quantity but no quality, and not worth mentioning.
But with the listing of 00 Network, the rules for exchanging stocks changed from quantity to quality. Although most of the shell companies stopped developing applications for the Tianzhou terminal, and the growth rate of applications in its program store slowed down significantly, various programs launched by third-party development companies gradually appeared in the rankings of the Tianzhou store.
Of course, at this time, Jiangnan Group's own developed applications were still the main ones dominating all the rankings.
While finding ways to encourage third-party app development, Jiangnan Group has never neglected the most important aspect of self-development. After all, the combined third-party five-进制 development capabilities at this time could not compare with Jiangnan Group's own five-进制 development capabilities. Therefore, the focus of various program software development still fell on Jiangnan Group itself.
Then Jiangnan Group launched various program applications at a terrifying speed of double digits every week. The earliest super-dominant social app WeChat is not to mention, and later launched Beauty Camera, Tianzhou Office, Tianzhou Photo Editor, Tianzhou News, Tianzhou Video, Tianzhou Music, etc. Various applications with various functions were continuously developed and launched, constantly enriching the various functions of the Tianzhou terminal and firmly occupying the top positions in the application rankings.
But the speed of application launches was still low. What was truly terrifying in terms of launch speed were game-related applications. When Tianzhou was first launched, a game called Cut the Rope built into it became a hit game at the time, causing a sensation across the entire network.
After that, the Tianzhou terminal launched an explosive game almost every quarter. For example, in the first quarter of 2008, the game Fruit Ninja was launched, which reportedly caused many terminal screens to smoke.
In the second quarter, the game Tiny Crocodile Loves Bathing was launched again, topping the charts once more.
By the third quarter, which was a month ago, the Tianzhou terminal launched a game with an influence several times greater than the previous ones: Plants vs. Zombies.
This tower defense game, which relied on plants to fight zombies, quickly went viral online. Especially at this time, facing the subprime mortgage crisis, a large number of people were at home with nothing to do, and they happened to use the terminal games to relieve boredom. This indirectly led to a nationwide craze for the game Plants vs. Zombies.
Even many people, in order to keep up with the trend of the times, gritted their teeth and saved $300 from their already limited cash to buy a Tianzhou terminal. As a result, the first generation Tianzhou terminal experienced a sales surge in August, selling a full 6 million units in one month.
This sales data was more than two million units more than Apple's Cp's sales data for the entire year. Boss Qiao was so angry that he gave up his morning and evening classes for that day, and even unprecedentedly stated that Apple would also create its own game development department.
But Jiangnan Group developing games itself was not too fatal. After all, no matter how fast their development speed was, they could only produce a dozen games per quarter, and the number of high-quality games was ultimately not high. Moreover, major game manufacturers worldwide did not seem to be calling to join the terminal game battlefield, as they were also incapable of developing games for the five-进制 system.
Then 00 Network made a move. After completing its listing, 00 Network held a terrifyingly huge amount of cash flow. 00 Network didn't even know what to do with this cash, so they announced that they would carry out a major porting plan, allocating heavy funds to recruit personnel to port classic PC and console games to the terminal.
Because 00 Network stated that after the game porting was successful, the owner of the game IP would still receive a 50% sales share, so major game companies had no objections to this plan and allowed 00 Network to assemble a game development team, using their classic games to create terminal versions.
In just half a year, more than 600 classic PC and console games have been ported to the Tianzhou terminal. And also in August, 00 Network even announced that it would launch new simultaneous porting.
That is, when a game company is about to release its latest game, for example, if Nintendo is about to release the console game "Pokémon Angel and Demon," then 00 Network will release the terminal version of "Pokémon Angel and Demon" on the same day.
Of course, this is just an example. Nintendo is still stubbornly cooperating with the 00 game platform, sticking to the path of self-production, self-sales, and self-built sales networks, and is indifferent to the olive branch extended by 00 Network.
However, other game manufacturers are not so stubborn. Not making money when there's money to be made is stupid, and there is no reason to refuse at all.
So, although Apple and Google, and even Boss Qiao himself, firmly believed that without a large number of third-party developers, the Tianzhou terminal's performance, no matter how good, could never win this battle.
But after a year, classic programs and games on the Tianzhou terminal have been emerging one after another, with a large number of new applications being launched every month. In contrast, the growth rate of applications in Apple's and Google's app stores has begun to decline.
Now, the number of third-party applications launched each month is less than a hundred, and the vast majority of them are applications developed by unknown small companies or independent producers. Those major program manufacturers have almost given up on third-party program development for Cp and pt.
And it is rumored that these major program manufacturers have secretly established holding affiliated companies and invested huge financial resources in these affiliated companies to develop applications for the Tianzhou store.
Even if they do not have any five-进制 computer system development talent, they have no choice but to poach talent from other companies at high salaries, or even fly directly to China to camp at Jiangnan University to snatch people, just to get a programmer who understands five-进制 program development.
It is said that the average monthly salary for five-进制 program developers in the market has reached a terrifying price of $7,000, while the average monthly salary for binary program developers is only $4,300. The two have almost formed a crushing gap.
By the way, Apple specifically conducted a heartfelt survey, and Jobs himself personally chatted with some friends to understand why they would rather venture into a five-进制 computer system with no experience at all, rather than develop programs for the familiar iOS platform.
And the answers from these friends were sharp, simple, and clear: "There are almost no active users on your side now, and it's impossible to make money by developing programs for you. Although the development cost for Tianzhou is high, as long as you can produce good products, you can still make money!"
"The economy is not good now, and the sales of various industrial software have been declining, but the profitability of games has increased astonishingly, and the fastest growing among them is terminal games. If we don't seize this trend, we will fall behind!"