Under Chen Simian's guidance, the mobile phone franchise business was progressing smoothly.
After Huanyu Technologies announced a series of franchise standards, many partners from all over the country expressed interest. In particular, they could get subsidies for renovations, and they could get the goods directly from the security deposit, etc … This made many partners less worried. In addition, Huanyu Technologies had been performing well recently, and the brand had been steadily rising. If they chose to join Huanyu now, the future market potential would be huge.
In addition, Zhou Yifei did a good job with the dual SIM and dual standby authorization.
Especially when it came to the authorization fee.
At that time, Chen Yu's idea was to give the authorization fee to the major mobile phone manufacturers based on the annual amount.
This way, as long as the major mobile phone manufacturers paid a sum of money every year, they could use the patent for dual SIM and dual standby.
However, Zhou Yifei felt that the annual authorization was not flexible enough.
Some companies were big and did not think much of the authorization fee.
However, for some small businesses, there was a certain amount of difficulty in paying the licensing fee.
In addition, Huanyu Technologies wanted to create an ecosystem, so they should let more companies participate.
Instead of taking a fee every year, it would be better to settle it according to the number of mobile phones sold.
That was to say, for every mobile phone sold, they would take a patent fee of one yuan.
According to this calculation, some small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers were willing to pay this fee.
At the same time, Zhou Yifei also considered that to prevent other mobile phone manufacturers from developing dual SIM and dual standby technology, Huanyu Technologies could also use a long-term authorization fee of ten or twenty years for these mobile phone manufacturers.
In short, what Huanyu Technologies needed to consider was to make them feel that instead of developing their own technology, it would be more economical to buy other people's patents directly.
After all, compared to other areas, the investment in research and development was often much larger than the investment in marketing.
"Boss Chen, these are the patent authorization contracts signed with the major mobile phone manufacturers."
Zhou Yifei wrapped up the signed contracts and placed them on Chen Yu's desk.
Chen Yu took a look and saw that there were more than thirty contracts.
"That's a lot."
"It's not much. Many small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers did not sign. Of course, they will still use our technology patents. "
Since the authorization had been given out, the patent would not be protected. Some cell phone manufacturers would infringe on the patent.
The big cell phone manufacturers would not do such a thing.
However, some small phone manufacturers or micro phone manufacturers did not care so much.
Chen Yu didn't mind. "It's fine. If some small phone manufacturers want to use our patents, let them."
As long as these companies used Huanyu Technologies' patents more, the ecosystem of Huanyu Technologies would be more complete.
Chen Yu wasn't going to sue them either.
Of course, Chen Yu had the right to sue them.
Speaking of which, in his previous life, China was also in the lead when it came to patents for dual SIM cards.
It was a pity that the Cool School, who was the first to come up with the dual-card dual-standby technology, had decided to make the patent public for free.
However, this kind of gratuitous disclosure soon made the dual-card dual-standby technology popular.
However, the Cool Faction did not gain much from this.
Chen Yu would never learn to be cool.
On one hand, he needed the dual-card dual-standby technology to build his own ecosystem.
At the same time, he needed to use his dual-card dual-standby patents to build his own patent barrier.
As long as he had this series of patents in his hands, he would have all sorts of trading conditions even if he had to fight with a series of international giants in the future.
"Boss Chen, there's one more question."
"What is it?"
"Our dual-card dual-standby patents have been given out. This will put a lot of pressure on Huanyu's cell phone sales. I can predict that Lenovo, Waveguide, and even some other cell phone manufacturers will come up with their dual-card dual-standby phones in a short period of time. They will even cooperate with Mobile and Unicom. "
Due to the lesson learned from the previous contract, the contract between Mobile and Huanyu Technologies was no longer exclusive.
Since it was no longer exclusive, Huanyu's cell phone would naturally have to face competition from all the mid-range phones.
The competition for mid-range computers had always been the fiercest in the country.
Not only were there domestic giants like Lenovo and Waveguide among them, but there were also global giants like Nokia, Motorola, Siemens, Sony, and Ericsson.
"Yifei, don't worry. It's not like you don't know that our Huanyu Technologies doesn't only have dual-card dual-standby."
Chen Yu, on the other hand, was rather calm.
If it was only the dual-card dual-standby innovation, how could Chen Yu authorize this patent?
If he wanted to enter the mid-range phone market, he had to have some tricks up his sleeve.
Dual-Card dual-standby was just one of them.
In Huanyu's cell phone, there was a series of hidden benefits waiting for everyone to discover.
For example, one of the hidden benefits was the mobile version of YY.
It should be said that the mobile version of YY had always been available.
However, the mobile version of YY had always been in cooperation with Mobile's DreamNet.
Although it was called a mobile version, it was actually a mobile web version of YY.
Before this, to use YY on a cell phone, one had to enter a mobile web interface.
Although YY could be used this way, the web version's functionality was more or less limited.
Moreover, in addition to the functional limitations, the web version of YY was crudely made. It wasn't exquisite or beautiful.
This wasn't to say that Huanyu Technologies didn't have the technology to make it.
It was just that the mobile web interface was limited in all aspects because of the limitations of the web page.
In order to truly create a beautiful mobile phone version of YY, one had to install a mobile app in the phone.
In other words, the user had to download an installation package first.
It was just like when a smartphone wanted to log into a certain software, it had to download an application software installation package first.
For user convenience and to save user traffic, Huanyu's cell phone had a built-in YY app before it was installed.
However, in order to confuse other cell phone manufacturers, the temporary built-in version still had the same effect as the web version.
However, as long as a group of cell phone manufacturers started to compete with them, then the YY app in Huanyu's cell phone would receive the company's order to update the product.
Was it surprising?
Was it a surprise?
Don't blame Chen Yu for being too greedy.
It couldn't be helped. It wasn't easy to confuse cell phone manufacturers.
The competition for mid-range cell phones was fierce to begin with. As soon as Huanyu's cell phone went on the market, it would definitely be torn apart by a group of competitors.
If they took it and studied it, they would immediately discover that the mobile version of YY in Huanyu's cell phone was different from the mobile version of YY in DreamNet. Then they would probably use another method to compete with them.
Rather than that, it was better to give them a surprise when the time came.
At the very least, once they discovered it, it wouldn't be so easy to change it.
(End of chapter)
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
