"Soon, the new internet café owners will come to me!" Yang Yuanqing thought to himself after signing the contract with Meiliang.
Although Yang Yuanqing had lost to Xiaomi in the internet café market, he can wait for the new internet café owners to come and do business with him.
Now, Xiaomi had lost the authorization to use Windows, and Meiliang owns the authorization to use all branded PCs. Unless the internet café owners buy assembled PCs, they can only buy Meiliang's authorized Windows PC.
After all, Microsoft wants to maintain the same pricing policy, so the original Windows PC is still priced at 900 RMB per computer. This is a price that no internet café owners can accept.
As for the Meiliang Internet Cafe, it was equipped with the authorized Windows version. Although the price was a little higher than the market price of the same model of assembled computers, after including the Windows system, this price was very competitive.
Previously, Meiliang had failed miserably in this market. The main reason was that Xiaomi had the support of a computer hardware manufacturer. Therefore, the price could be lowered to a lower level. They could even sell branded computers at a price that was not profitable at all. Anyway, as long as the hardware manufacturer behind them could make money, it was fine.
That's why the internet café's Xiaomi PC's prices had always been lower than Meiliang's by 100 to 200 RMB.
But now, it was different. Even if the Xiaomi PC could be cheaper by another 300 to 400 yuan, in the face of the Windows license, everything was worthless. Was there any internet cafe owner in this world who dared to not install the Windows system on his PC?
[PS: I've fixed a bug in the previous article. The Windows system is the authorization of Xiaomi computers and not the authorization of Bili Bili Internet Cafe's management system. Therefore, the old machines of the Internet cafe owners can still use the Windows system. I apologize to everyone for remembering such an important setting wrongly.]
That's why Yang Yuanqing had informed all the sales departments to prepare for the arrival of internet café customers. All the warehouses below also start to stock up on the internet café's computers. All they need to do is wait for the market to explode.
But Meiliang did not see the internet café's purchasing trend. Instead, Hua Xia's internet café industry association announced the establishment of the internet café industry association. The first president is a guy named Zhang Zahui.
Originally, these things were not important to Yang Yuanqing. Every industry had to set up their own association, and it was the same for the Internet cafe industry. Could they set up an association that forbade them from buying Meiliang computers?
Therefore, even though this information was placed on Yang Yuanqing's desk, he didn't pay much attention to it. Until the subordinate reported that they had already prepared twice the amount of goods, but the internet cafe's customers still hadn't increased. Moreover, it seemed that there were even fewer customers than before.
"It must be because the media has not announced that Xiaomi computers will not support the Windows operating system. The Daqian bastards are deceiving the consumers!" Yang Yuanqing cleverly detected the problem.
So, Yang Yuanqing ordered the Public Relations Department to release the news through the media. He wanted to let everyone know that Xiaomi's license will expire at the end of April. Then, they will not be able to use their own Windows operating system.
"Then, the customers should be here!" Yang Yuanqing said with satisfaction. However, in addition to the initial increase in sales and the signing of many contracts, the sales soon dropped again.
The scariest thing was that many retail outlets had received requests to return the products.
Meiliang naturally refused. In the end, the customers who came to return the products said that if they didn't want to return the products, they would refund the Windows operating system fees to them.
When Yang Yuanqing saw this news, he naturally didn't believe it. Who in the world doesn't want the Windows operating system?
"This is just a method by a few businesses to suppress the prices. Don't bother about it. At the same time, we will not return the products!" Yang Yuanqing ordered. However, deep in his heart, Yang Yuanqing was extremely uneasy.
This was because this was not an isolated phenomenon. It was the same situation that was happening all over the country. Not only did the sales drop, but they also stated that they didn't need the Windows operating system.
"Investigate! Investigate immediately! " Yang Yuanqing finally sent people to investigate the internet cafe's situation. However, it was already April 2nd. April Fool's Day had just passed, and the internet cafe association had been established for more than three weeks.
After Yang Yuanqing ordered a thorough investigation, the information finally came in. Yang Yuanqing looked at the information from all over the country, and his hands were trembling!
"These bastards. This is an overbearing clause. This is a blatant overbearing clause. This association must be set up by the Daqian. They actually forced the internet cafes to change their operating system. These bastards. For the sake of Xiaomi, for the sake of sales, how can they be so overbearing and do such a thing?!" When Yang Yuanqing saw the newly established internet cafe association asking all its members to change the Hongmeng operating system and brand new internet cafe management system, Yang Yuanqing knew that this was a scheme by the Daqian.
They were using their market monopoly to force the internet cafe owners to change their operating system!
Although Yang Yuanqing understood what was going on, he couldn't understand why the owners of these Internet cafes didn't fight back.
Why are they willing to change their operating system? Don't they know that once the operating system is changed, their software, games, and programs will all be messed up? Customers will disappear.
It's just an association, and it doesn't have any authority over the internet cafe owners. How can they be forced to change their operating system just because of a few words from the association?
According to the information, the internet cafe owners who joined the association accounted for two-thirds of the total internet cafe owners. But those who did not join the association were also changing their operating system. It was unbelievable.
After two to three days, more and more detailed information was gathered. Yang Yuanqing finally understood the ins and outs of the matter, as well as why the owners of the internet cafes made such a decision.
First of all, the internet cafe association did not consider the 5% price advantage. Yang Yuanqing felt that after calculating the cost of the Windows operating system, the price of the Meiliang operating system was still more advantageous.
The most important reason was the Bili Bili internet cafe management system.
This was the first time Yang Yuanqing heard of this software. In the past, he didn't care about the internet cafe management system. After all, it was a software that only internet cafe professionals would care about.
But this system had monopolized 100% of the internet cafe management market, and all the internet cafes were using this system. Now, this system announced that it will no longer support the Windows operating system at the end of April. It will only support the Hongmeng operating system. This forced many internet cafes to change their operating system.
When the internet cafe owners who wanted to join the internet cafe industry saw all the internet cafes changing their operating system, they naturally felt that the Hongmeng operating system was better.
After all, these internet cafe owners did not understand computers, and they only cared about the price. After all, the Hongmeng operating system was free, while the Windows operating system was charged. Although Yang Yuanqing felt that Meiliang's original operating system had a price advantage, the problem was that Xiaomi's operating system was 500 RMB cheaper!
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