Age of Dreams

Chapter 580: The declining giant (Hey the mighty lord of the heaven of life!)

Motorola’s charity party, on Stara Island, New York.

Although the area of ​​Stara Island is more than twice the size of Manhattan, its population is very sparse, and it is also related to the too many holiday villas on it. Rich people like to come here for vacation, and you can see the Statue of Liberty when you look up. Looking at the busy New York Harbor, living here is really pleasant.

Riding a Motorola cruise ship, departing from New York Harbor to Stara Island, Xiao Qi looked at the familiar Motorola's expression on the cruise ship, and thought again and again.

In his previous life, Xiao Qi had witnessed the glory and decline of Motorola in China before he went abroad.

As the first large foreign communications company to develop in China, Motorola relied on its tyrannical strength to make a fortune on pagers and then moved to the mobile phone field. At its peak, it occupied almost 90% of China’s market. .

At that time, Motorola was synonymous with excellent products and high-end mobile phones.

Even the first mobile phone equipped for Xiao Xu in the unit was Motorola's V998. Although the price had been reduced from the peak of 9,000 to more than 5,000 at that time, it was still unattainable.

Xiao Qi, who was still a child, held his father's mobile phone and played novelly for a long time, even putting it on a pillow to accompany him to sleep.

At that time, Xiao Qi really thought that there was no better mobile phone in this world than V998, and no company greater than Motorola.

As a result, Nokia entered China in large numbers. Relying on the friendly policy of building signal base stations for China Mobile and Unidata for free, it just turned Motorola into a "bad signal phone", while Nokia phones that adjusted the frequency of reception were "in A cell phone that can talk anywhere".

As a result, the arrogant Motorola was beaten up by Nokia. After entering the new century, China's market share has fallen sharply for several consecutive years. By this year, it has only 25% of the market share.

But Motorola is still very proud. Their overall profitability in the world is still good, at least before the emergence of the smartphone NE, they have maintained a proud record of profitability for more than two decades.

However, after Xiao Qi's DreamPad was born, even if their leadership was stiff, they also saw intelligent electronic products. How much share will it occupy in the future, so this is the heart to start the research on intelligent products.

Motorola and Nokia are actually very, very disappointing in terms of intelligence.

The first mobile phone in the world is Motorola, the first touch-screen mobile phone is Nokia, and the first mobile phone with integrated chip is also Nokia...

They have already occupied all the opportunities, but they are too arrogant, thinking that mobile phones exist for calling, and those fancy functions will be spurned by real middle and high-level income earners. Because these customers simply don't have time to play mobile phones.

So later, the keen leader of Joe’s gang succeeded, Samsung, etc. also swarmed on with their smartphones, hitting the two mobile phone companies directly into bankruptcy. This is probably now in 2006, and most people don’t have it. Think of it.

In 2013, when Nokia announced the closure of several flagship stores in China. Countless mobile phone users ran to the closed store and took a group photo to commemorate their youth.

After all, Motorola and Nokia have grown up with the memory of a generation of Chinese people, including Xiao Qi, have deep feelings for them-not because of the mobile phone itself, but because of the growth process carried by the mobile phone.

With this kind of melancholy, Xiao Qi got on a special car and arrived at the "Motor Manor" built by Motorola.

Ok.

Said it was Motorola. In fact, it’s a bit inaccurate. It should be said that the protagonist today is Motorola Mobile. Its parent company Motorola also involves the military’s rights and interests in weapons and electronic equipment, communication equipment in major departments, etc., that’s really true. Just like the existence of IBM, they are all illegitimate children of the United States.

Unlike the parent company, which involves strict confidentiality by the military, Motorola's mobile phone company is for civilian use. So acting can be very high-profile.

No matter how high Nokia's market share is around the world, in the current US market, Motorola is still the number one in the US before NE starts to sell. It is still a behemoth that ordinary companies cannot look up to.

Like today, when Xiao Qi arrived at six o'clock, there were already crowds inside and out. The Manor of Nuo Da was occupied by two or three hundred well-dressed gentlemen and ladies, and the popularity seemed very strong.

Wade was very enthusiastic. Knowing that Xiao Qi didn't know anyone, he called and contacted him early, then waited at the door and walked in with Xiao Qi.

"Mr. Griffin, vice president of Motorola Mobile, would like to meet you with Qi Shao before the charity dinner begins." Wade said as he walked: "Griffin has served as the president of Greater China, and he is pretty good. I did not rashly agree to him, because they are likely to mention DreamPad."

"Go and meet." Xiao Qi said, "These evil wolves will come sooner or later. Except for investment banks, these mobile phone companies are not fuel-efficient lamps."

"it is good."

Wade breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took Xiao Qi to another road.

The two passed through the two lobbies, Xiao Qi entered a relatively small second-floor lounge, and Wade waited outside the door.

Here, a gray-haired old man is holding a book to read.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the old man raised his head, smiled heartily at Xiao Qi, stood up and gave him a warm hug: "Wonderful boy~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I finally see you!"

Xiao Qi raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Mr. Griffin, I am also honored. When I was a child, you were the president of Motorola Greater China. At that time, you could only see it on TV. The big man!"

"Yeah, watching the appearance of young talents like you, I feel more and more old." Griffin smiled bitterly and greeted Xiao Qi to sit down, "I have not much time in Motorola, and I should retire next year. , So I took the liberty to invite Mr. Xiao to come today because I want to do something for Motorola at the last moment."

"Mr. Griffin, please say." Xiao Qi smiled.

"I watched the DreamPad of Fairy Company, it was great! It was great! It reminds me of the first mobile phone call from Cooper more than 30 years ago..." Griffin showed memories of his face. " He opened this door for us mankind, and you, Mr. Xiao Qi, opened another wider door for us!!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to start (m) Voting for recommended votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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