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Chapter 1265: Chapter 1121: Don’t be a Mobile Phone (Please Subscribe!)
May 24th.
Shanghai Stock Market.
Chai Ren took the earliest flight and arrived at Pudong Airport.
Today,
was the day Tang Qing was leaving for the United States. Chai Ren had also received a wedding invitation from Ge Feng, so he planned to catch a Shunfeng Aircraft. Since Zhan Xi had to take care of his daughter, he didn’t come along. Tang Qing had also requested a few days off from school.
Morning.
Nine o’clock.
Tang Qing and Lin Jiaxue arrived at the airport.
"Here."
"Hehheh, thanks." Chai Ren grinned as he took the box. Due to the lack of time, Chai Ren could only wait for Tang Qing to deliver food to him, saying that one could not simply eat ordinary food upon visiting Shanghai.
Afterward,
Tang Qing, pulling Lin Jiaxue,
and Chai Ren, cheerfully carrying the box behind, walked through the airport. Eating food made by Tang Qing’s cook was a pure delight.
Twenty minutes later,
the airplane soared into the sky.
The modified Gulfstream G550 had a very large fuel tank.
It was enough to ensure a direct flight from Shanghai to New York, but this time the destination wasn’t New York, rather a private airport on a manor owned by the Ge Family. Having operated for many years, the Ge Family were significant landlords.
They held control over more than three million acres of farmland.
And not all of it was located in the United States.
Most of it was actually scattered around the world, one of the purposes being to mitigate risk. As Chinese, the Ge Family had always been walking on thin ice in the United States, fearing that capitalists might swallow them whole.
Nevertheless, they had quite a few fallback plans.
However,
these "pieces" of land
were somewhat lesser than those controlled by the fighters.
Even if you discounted the vast land in Burma, just the other countries alone, purchased for the Industrial Alliance Plan, had three times more land than the Ge Family, reaching nearly ten million acres.
And this number was still increasing.
These were truly fertile lands.
The closer to the end,
the slower the growth rate.
The strategy of the fighters also shifted from buying cultivated land to "reclaiming" it, especially in Africa and Australia. One had a low land utilization rate, and the other was sparsely populated; both were great places for reclamation.
In North America, land was relatively expensive, and most farm owners weren’t short of money. You might want to buy, but they might not want to sell. In the end, only some "ownerless" lands were somewhat easier to acquire.
...
On the airplane.
Chai Ren was happily enjoying breakfast.
"Tang Qing, do you think there’s a future in mobile phones?" Chai Ren suddenly asked.
Tang Qing looked at him.
"You’re thinking of getting into mobile phones?"
"I’m considering it. High-end phones are hard to sell, but there should be a better market for lower-end ones. Didn’t you say that soon there will be smartphones costing around a thousand yuan? By then, the market will widen," Chai Ren analyzed.
This wasn’t considered stealing business.
Tang Qing had made it clear.
He only dealt with high-end phones.
Hearing Chai Ren’s thoughts, Tang Qing shook his head slightly.
"Major Chai, mobile phones aren’t that easy to do. When the era of thousand-yuan phones arrives, the market will face enormous price competition. Don’t think today’s mobile phone companies are making a lot of profit."
"But soon, a large number of companies will turn mobile phones into a low-profit industry. Profit margins won’t exceed five percent, even. Many will likely sell mobile phones at cost price. That will be the most brutal price battleground."
"What? They won’t make money?" Chai Ren was startled.
"How will they survive?"
"Financing, continuous financing, and then it’s making money through software, such as developing other chargeable software projects, games and the like, or even selling peripherals. There are many ways to survive," Tang Qing explained.
Later on.
The smartphone industry’s overall slim profit margins.
Only Apple can earn considerable profits, leaving entrants with little chance of survival. A wave of bankruptcies will turn many entrepreneurs into ’classic cases’.
"What is a smartphone? The phone is just a vessel. Intelligence is the core; the countless applications it brings are the core. Therefore, in the smartphone entrepreneurship, there is only one way out: make money with software and peripherals," Tang Qing explained.
"Just selling mobile phones doesn’t work?" Chai Ren asked disappointingly. He didn’t understand software at all. Hardware is different from software; hardware can differentiate with ’Epoch’ without conflicting.
But software.
Can be installed on all mobile phones.
He didn’t want to compete with Tang Qing in the ring.
"In the domestic market, it’s almost a dead end," Tang Qing nodded.
"Then forget it. I was just asking," Chai Ren said with a sad face. This cold water was really a bit chilly, but it also showed Tang Qing’s exceptional nature. ’Epoch’ definitely belonged to the category of money-making.
Tang Qing smiled and said, "Young Master Chai, your current business has great prospects, unlike me who has no resources and has to struggle everywhere. You have your family’s protection, but me, I can only rely on creating by myself. I’m actually quite envious of you."
"..." Chai Ren was speechless.
You call this having no resources?
You call this blind struggling?
But...
That’s true when you think about it.
He, Chai Ren.
With a deep background, whatever business he wanted to do, he would obtain advantages others can hardly imagine. In contrast, Tang Qing had to rely on himself. Even with the help of these friends, it wasn’t much.
With this thought.
Chai Ren felt instantly balanced in his heart.
"But your life is not as exciting as yours," he said.
Tang Qing shook his head.
"What is exciting? What is ordinary? Both are the same. Exciting represents taking on more attention and responsibility, and one will encounter lots of messy situations, like with ’Epoch,’ how many faces I’ve slapped. Will they let me be?"
Chai Ren became anxious, "Heard any rumors?"
"No need to hear, the market competition is always like this. I’m like a prominent tree in the forest; soon, when the wind accumulates to a certain extent, they’ll want to shake the existence of this tree and compete with me for the limited sunshine," Tang Qing said.
Chai Ren understood, "Right, how could the major mobile phone manufacturers not covet this piece of cake? Are you confident?"
"No."
"I don’t believe it."
"Confidence comes from strength. I can only try my luck," Tang Qing said with a smile.
That smile.
Convinced Chai Ren that Tang Qing was brimming with confidence.
Listening to her man’s words.
Lin Jiaxue only was aware of the countless competitors that would come after her man’s company, gripping Tang Qing’s hand tightly. The only thing she could do was silently support him from behind.
Tang Qing rubbed Lin Jiaxue’s hand.
And gave her a decidedly confident look.
...
16 hours later.
A Gulfstream G550 landed at the Ge Family’s private airport.
The airport was located between two pieces of farmland, occupying a very large area. A typical private airport has only a single runway, but this one boasted three runways, even capable of accommodating large airliners, which was very ostentatious.
At this moment.
Through the window.
Tang Qing could see a row of private jets parked on the platform.
There were even two large Boeing airliners; Tang Qing had Fighter check—one was the Ge Family’s, used this time to transport relatives from Japan, and the other belonged to an Australian tycoon.
It was only for long-distance travel.
That they would fly such large planes here. The rest were medium and small private jets, densely packed. Tang Qing’s Gulfstream G550 was just a medium-sized aircraft among them, not particularly eye-catching.
