The confirmation of the boutique supermarket strategy meant that Far Away Retail had completed its comprehensive customer distribution.
Whether it was the general public or the elites, they could all find their niche in Far Away.
Of course, the investment was not a small amount.
…
While Far Away was busy making arrangements for various industries, the others were not idle.
On the 10th of March, Li Dong received a call from Ma Huateng.
Tencent had completed the distribution of the fund company!
Tencent did not choose to buy shares, but chose to cooperate, and the partner was still Yi Fangda.
As the second largest fund company in terms of assets under management, Yi Fangda was not weak, and neither was its background.
Tencent did not choose to control a small fund company for safety reasons.
Tencent's current strength was far from Far Away.
In terms of cash flow, it was also far behind.
Once there was a risk, Tencent's controlling stake was a small fund company, and it had no ability to manage and bear the risk.
Just like Tianhong Fund, if there was a risk, Tianhong would not be able to bear it, and could only rely on Far Away.
Large fund companies like Yi Fangda were different. They had their own risk management mechanism and emergency response capabilities.
Tencent chose Yi Fangda at this time, which showed that Ma Huateng was more stable.
Controlling stake wasn't necessarily a good thing. Even if there were more profits in the future, it would be in the future.
Compared to Ma Huateng's stability, Ma Yun preferred to gamble.
Soon after Ma Huateng called, Ma Yun also called. Ali was discussing cooperation with a small fund company, and it was progressing well. They should be able to reach an agreement by the end of March.
As for completing the preparation before the 1st of May, Far Away was not a problem, and Tencent's choice of Yi Fangda was not a big problem either.
The only thing that could go wrong is Ali.
But Ma Yun's tone was still confident, and it would not be slower than the two Far Away companies.
Li Dong didn't have much to say about Ma Yun's choice. He just reminded him over the phone, "It's better to take it easy. You're not in a good situation right now. They privatized Ali, kicked out Yahoo, and even had to face our competition. Ali, I'm afraid you're out of money now. Once there is a risk, tsk tsk, it will collapse on its own, and I might be able to take advantage of it. Don't forget, if we really go bankrupt, I'll take over Taobao and Alipay. You can find a suitable buyer for the rest. "
Ma Yun was already used to his tone and was unmoved. He continued, "Very soon, our tenth anniversary celebration will begin. This time, I'll be going on stage to perform 'Three Against Li Dong'. If you're interested, I'll record a live video for you. You can enjoy it slowly. "
Li Dong also laughed and said, "Then why don't you just invite me to watch it live? Wouldn't that be even better?"
"Du du du …"
Ma Yun didn't say anything else and hung up the phone.
Invite my ass!
If this b * stard really went to the venue, he was worried that Ali's biggest celebration and annual meeting would be ruined.
At that time, people would even call him stupid.
Last time when he said he would invite Li Dong, Liu Chuanzhi and the others looked at him as if he was an idiot. Ma Yun still hadn't forgotten about it until now.
As for Ma Yun's rudeness, Li Dong generously forgave him.
Look at me!
I didn't even frown when you said 'Three Against Li Dong'. That's the demeanor of a general and a great entrepreneur.
Look at you, I just said I'll go and you hung up the phone. Breadth of mind determines height. Obviously, I'm a bit taller.
After a few narcissistic words, Li Dong didn't indulge in it.
Currently, the progress of the three companies was fast. It shouldn't be a problem to launch a virtual currency fund in May.
Before that, the key was the promotion of smartphones.
The mobile version was the mainstream of online financial management. The key was convenience and anytime, anywhere.
When it came to money, everyone valued it more.
If they could hold their phone and get their money anytime, even if it was just a virtual number, these people would feel at ease.
If the scale of smartphones couldn't be expanded, there would definitely be a minority who chose to conduct their financial management online.
In mid-March, all the major mobile phone manufacturers started to introduce their own smartphones.
Coupled with the subsidies from the home appliance to the countryside policy, mobile phones were covered by the subsidies. In an instant, the smartphone market was extremely popular!
The government subsidized 13%. In order to occupy the 3G market, all the major manufacturers started to vigorously promote.
Huawei and a few other giants from the Association also reached an agreement with Far Away. Far Away Mall helped to promote online. The promotion was amazing.
As OPPO was the holding company of Li Dong, Li Dong naturally wouldn't forget about his family. Far Away Mall continued to promote OL02 mobile phones.
Once the 3G mobile phones were released, Hua Xia's mobile phone manufacturers started a war!
The emergence of a new industry chain didn't matter if they suffered losses in the early stages. The key was the market share.
The subsidies this time could be said to be the biggest in history.
The government subsidized 13%. In order to promote their TD3G system, Mobile also gave a large amount of subsidies. The amount of subsidies was as high as tens of billions!
Unicom and Telecom did not want to be outdone. They started to subsidize the mobile phone manufacturers and promote their own customized phones.
This was an industry promoted by telecom operators, mobile phone manufacturers, distributors, and even the government!
The emerging 3G era quickly became a hot topic in China.
According to the January 2009 data report, Hua Xia's mobile phone users reached 700 million!
This was an extremely scary number. Currently, there were less than 20 million 3G users. It was a very small percentage.
The arrival of 3G might not be a complete replacement, but it should at least cover more than half of the current users.
This meant that in the next few years, there would be at least another 400 million users who would upgrade and use smartphones.
Such a huge scale would affect the market in the trillions.
Not only the domestic companies were tempted, even the foreign companies were tempted!
In an instant, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, and other companies started to introduce their own 3G mobile phones.
Apple, which did not enter the Hua Xia market previously, could see the future of the Hua Xia market.
Also, Hua Xia's 3G market was still in its initial stages. If they did not enter now, they might not have the chance to enter later.
On the 12th of March, Unicom announced to the public that it had reached an agreement with Apple to introduce a contract phone.
Apple chose Unicom not because Unicom was the strongest.
At this time, among the Hua Xia operators, Mobile was the strongest.
The key was that Apple's current iPhone 3G standard supported the WCDMA standard.
On New Year's Day, among the major operators in Hua Xia, Unicom was the one who got the WCDMA license.
Of course, this does not mean that Apple cannot customize other versions of mobile phones.
If there was business to be done, no one would mind.
The main reason was that among the three major operators, Mobile was the strongest and was unwilling to sign a sharing agreement with Apple.
The sharing agreement meant that during the bundled sales, the users had to pay for Apple's mobile phone, and Apple still had to collect money from the operators.
This was what Apple did in Europe and the US.
But in Hua Xia, Mobile said that it would be better to work with OPPO than to sign such a harsh agreement with Apple.
OPPO might have just risen, but it was about to overtake Apple in the 3G market.
In Feng Yu's previous life, when Apple entered the Hua Xia market, other manufacturers' smartphones were not influential and had not reached a certain scale.
At that time, Apple's smartphones were the mainstream in the market and even the world.
At that time, everyone chose to work with Apple, sign an agreement, and seize the market share.
But at this time, the domestic manufacturers had quickly introduced their own 3G phones. They were not much slower than Apple, and OPPO was much earlier than them.
As for the brand effect, it was not formed yet.
Or rather, except for a small number of people in China, no one had heard of Apple at that time.
To the average consumer, only familiar brands were considered big brands.
Everyone was familiar with the name of OPPO. That was why to the Chinese, OPPO was the big brand and the guarantee of quality. As for what Apple was, 99% of the people did not know.
In terms of advertising, promotion, and preferential pricing, Apple was far behind OPPO.
This also caused when Unicom made the announcement, only the industry insiders paid attention to it. No one else paid attention to it.
It wasn't as long awaited as he had imagined, nor was it as a flood of good reviews as he had imagined, nor was there a long line of people waiting in line as he had imagined.
On the contrary, the OL02 phone, with Far away and OPPO's strong promotion, reached a new peak!
…
March 13th.
OPPO announced to the public that the OL01 phone had been released from New Year's Day until March 11th. It had been exactly 100 days.
And within 100 days, the OL01 phone had sold more than 7 million units!
On the other hand, the OL02 phone had been released on March 1st. By the evening of the 11th, the sales had exceeded 3 million units in 11 days.
Two smartphones had created tens of millions of sales within 100 days!
As for the iPhone 3G, which was previously famous around the world, it took only five months for it to break the 10 million sales mark.
This result was hailed as a miracle.
But without the support of Hua Xia's market, this miracle seemed a little weak.
Although OPPO had only achieved 10 million sales with two smartphones, it had taken a total of 100 days. The O2 phone had only been released for 11 days, and it had exceeded 3 million sales.
And the iPhone 3G had exceeded 1 million sales within a week. It had been the focus of the entire world.
…
When OPPO made the announcement, Li Dong was not in the office.
At the Provincial Party Committee Compound.
After Shen Xuehua left, Shen Qian moved back.
When she saw Li Dong looking at the computer foolishly, Shen Qian could not help but laugh. "Even if it exceeded 10 million sales, you don't have to be so happy, right? After all, OPPO had the upper hand. All kinds of advertisements had covered the entire country. Coupled with the previous lack of market share, they had achieved such results. Later on, other manufacturers had also entered the competition, but they might not have achieved such results. And to be honest, OPPO's quality seems to be a little poor. Chen Mingyong has to be careful. This is the time to build a brand. Don't ruin it. "
Li Dong laughed. "That's not necessarily the case. The price is right here. OPPO smartphones are currently the cheapest among the brands in the market.
Other than the counterfeit phones, the lowest price of other manufacturers' phones is more than 2,500 yuan.
And the OL01 phone has been reduced to 2,000 yuan.
You get what you pay for. Besides, the quality is not necessarily worse than other domestic phones, and the price is so much cheaper. Everyone should be able to understand.
I'm not happy about the 10 million sales. I just don't know if Jobs has seen the situation in Hua Xia.
Previously, when Unicom announced to them that they would be launching the iPhone 3G, there was no commotion in the market.
But today, OPPO announced that it had exceeded 10 million sales. Look, everyone is talking about this.
If it were me, I'm afraid I would not feel good.
Apple still has great ambitions for the Hua Xia market. After all, we have a lot of people, and our economy is growing fast.
According to previous data, Hua Xia phones have 700 million users.
Even if half of them use smartphones, that's about 400 million.
Even if the phones are replaced once every three years, there are more than 100 million smartphones being replaced every year.
Which phone manufacturer in the world is not eyeing the Hua Xia market?
When Jobs first launched last year, Hua Xia did not support 3G. When 3G was supported, OPPO launched a 3G smartphone.
This time, the other party is probably stunned.
Thinking of this, I feel a little gloating. "
He laughed happily, but Shen Qian was puzzled. "Do you know him?"
"No."
"Did he offend you?"
"Not really."
"Then why are you gloating?"
Shen Qian was speechless. This guy is really boring. He does not know you, did not offend you, and you are a foreigner.
If you laugh at Huawei and the Association, it makes sense.
But you laugh at a foreigner you have never met before. Do you have nothing better to do?
Li Dong laughed awkwardly. I don't know him, and I have never seen him before. But in my previous life, this old man's Apple phone made Li Dong very unhappy.
The sharing agreement with Unicom was also implemented by Apple in the later years.
Anyway, as long as you recharge at Apple, Apple would deduct part of the cost first, and leave the rest to others.
As a result, reading novels and playing games cost more than other phones. It can't be helped. The cost is passed on to the user's account.
Shen Qian did not know what Li Dong was thinking.
She did not continue the topic. Shen Qian looked at the time and said, "Are we going to Qingyang in the afternoon, or tomorrow morning?"
Li Qing's wedding was tomorrow, and it was held in Qingyang.
Li Chengyuan had asked if they wanted to hold it in Pingchuan. Li Qing, Yao Bohe, and his family discussed for a while and finally chose Qingyang.
Although Li Dong was in Pingchuan, it would definitely cause a sensation if it was held there. There would be many guests and big shots.
However, the couple also knew their own limits and knew that it was not very useful to borrow this light.
No matter how many guests came, no matter how influential they were, they were not the target, but Li Dong.
They were giving face to Li Dong, not them.
In fact, the focus was on Li Dong.
It was the same wherever the wedding was held. If it was held in Qingyang and Li Dong could attend, it would be the most suitable.
If Li Dong said that he could not go to Qingyang and had to go to Pingchuan, the couple would probably not want to hold it in Qingyang and would go to Pingchuan.
However, Li Dong and Li Chengyuan had said before that as long as they were not too busy, they would attend the event.
Hearing that, Li Qing and his wife were relieved. They chose Qingyang, where they had the most relatives and friends.
Tomorrow was the 14th, and Li Chengyuan went back to help his niece yesterday.
Li Dong's uncle had passed away, and Li Nanming was not very competent. It was not good for the family to be without a man in charge.
As Li Qing's only uncle, Li Chengyuan naturally had to help.
Hearing Shen Qian's question, Li Dong thought for a moment and said, "Let's go early tomorrow. I won't go today. It will be troublesome if I go. If I go, everyone will be watching me. There might be too many people tomorrow. I don't know who will be the one causing trouble. I'll go tomorrow morning. It won't delay. "
Shen Qian nodded and did not continue.
But Li Dong was a little confused. Hu Xiaorui had said several times that she would also attend the wedding. Would she be there tomorrow?
In fact, Li Qing did not send an invitation to Hu Xiaorui for the wedding. After all, Li Qing did not know her.
But if Hu Xiaorui really wanted to go, how could he not let her in?
Shaking his head, Li Dong was too lazy to think about it. He would think about it when the time came.
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