Recently, many people on the internet had criticized me for disrupting the industry's order. What is the industry's order?
I think the industry's order should include the technology market order, talent market order, business market order, investment development order, etc. I am not an expert, and I don't know what to say. Today, I will talk about my views from a consumer's point of view.
As an IT product consumer, I will use the PC as an example. If I want to buy a PC, I can order it online or buy it from a physical store.
To use a PC, other than buying the PC, I still need to install the software I need.
That's why I plan to buy a PC and spend 6,000 RMB. I like a PC priced at 5,999 RMB. But the actual cost will be much higher.
This is because I need to install the software. The most basic software is the operating system. There are two main choices. One is Lenovo Kingsoft's XOS ROM and Microsoft's VISTA ROM.
The XOS ROM retails at 499 RMB, and the pre-installed operating system should be priced at 199 RMB. What about Microsoft? The retail price is several times higher. Even the pre-installed operating system is selling for close to 1,000 RMB.
This does not include the PC you need to buy. Normally, you will need a plug board, internet cable, and internet connection. All these related products cost a large sum of money.
That's why the actual cost of buying a PC = PC cost + software price + retail cost + accessories price + profits.
How much is the actual cost of a PC? How much are the profits? Who is making the biggest profits?
The retail rental, distributors' profits, PC manufacturers' profits, software manufacturers' profits … … there are too many people sharing the profits.
Who is the one making the highest profits? Microsoft.
Microsoft claims to have invested more than 10 billion USD to develop VISTA. But where did these 10 billion USD come from? The profits they earned from selling the XP system were enough for them to develop VISTA and XP more than ten times over!
Where did Bill Gates get his wealth from? It's all from Microsoft. What about my wealth? It's from various investments. The profits from IT investments is not the biggest part of my income.
I had invested in many industries, and each of these industries can bring in some profits in the future. My income had increased by a lot.
Speaking of which, as consumers, we all want to buy the products we like at a lower price. But as a producer and seller, we all want high profits.
I think it is best to use the concept of a supermarket to achieve a balance between the two. Simply put, it was small profits but quick turnover.
I want to build a computer industry with small profits but quick sales. Regardless of whether it is hardware or software, the manufacturers must have profits, but the profits of a single product should not be so high.
Now, I have invested in all kinds of hardware accessories, software, and PC manufacturers to give consumers a reasonable price.
And the result? I've offended the interests of those manufacturers, so they joined forces to attack me, slander me, and say that I'm disrupting the order of the industry?
Maintaining high profits, even if the products couldn't be sold, they wouldn't lower the price. Was this their order?
Defining a computer as a high-end electronic product and not an ordinary household appliance, was this their order?
If someone lowers the price and gives the consumer a cut, that's against the order?
If this is their so-called industry order, then I have to say that the companies I invest in will not abide by this "order"!
They turned order into a shackle, wanting to lock up other companies, lock up profits, and make consumers follow them, keeping consumers in the dark.
I want to break this shackle and break the order to build a new and reasonable order!
Many people had treated Bill Gates as a role model and dropped out of school to build Microsoft. But if it was not for Paul Allen, how can Bill Gates succeed?
Also, many people might not know that Bill Gates's mother was once a good friend of IBM's Chairman and CEO. They had worked together, and she was a senior executive of an intercontinental bank.
This was why Bill Gates's first software was sold to IBM, and why IBM could promote Microsoft's DOS and make it the industry standard with IBM's help.
Going to school and doing business are not conflicting. I had completed my studies, and that's why I can surpass Bill Gates in terms of wealth.
Those who treat dropping out of school as the golden rule and think the world waits for no one are fooled by this story. I don't deny Bill Gates is outstanding, but don't forget Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer, who started Microsoft with him. Without their hard work and help from Bill Gates's mother, Microsoft will not be what it is today.
What I want to say is that Bill Gates is not a good role model, and young people should not learn from him. Unless your mother also has an outstanding background, you should not learn from him.
Let's talk about Intel. They had always claimed that their products are the best in the world. But hundreds of media around the world witnessed their products losing to AMD.
We should all know that the higher the production volume, the lower the cost. But Intel's production volume is higher than AMD, and its performance is the same as AMD. Even if it is not as good as AMD, it is much more expensive.
That means Intel's profits are much higher than AMD's.
AMD's current selling price is enough to guarantee its profits, and Intel's profits should be higher. If not, there are only two possibilities.
First, Intel lied because of it. Second, Intel's technologies are not as good as AMD. I am also curious which one it is.
If Intel lied, then their profits would be exorbitant. If Intel is not lying, then their technology is indeed inferior to AMD in terms of research and development.
I would like to ask Intel's representative, which one of my guesses is correct? Or was there a third possibility, a combination of both?
Also, those PC manufacturers keep attacking Lenovo. Why? It is because their products are not as good as Lenovo's products. Their 10,000 RMB laptops are worse than Lenovo's 8,000 RMB laptops.
They do not want to lower their selling prices and want Lenovo to increase their selling prices. To be honest, although Lenovo's sales might drop if they increase their selling prices, but their profits will increase by a lot.
But we did not choose to do this. We chose to let more consumers buy computers at reasonable prices. We want computers to be an ordinary household product and not a high-end electronic product.
These are what I want to say today. These are the words of a conscientious entrepreneur!
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