That would have been a super disaster for the Geek smart phone system. If things had gotten serious, even Meizu, Coolpad, Gionee, Tianyu, and other mobile phone manufacturers might have betrayed Geek Technology because of short-term benefits from Google, switching to the Android system camp and stabbing Geek Technology in the back!
Needless to say, under such pressure, the technology research and development department of Geek Technology increased its efforts again.
The slogan of '14 hours a day' had openly appeared in the technology research and development department!
All the personnel in the technology research and development department held their breath, wanting to save the crisis of the defeat of domestic smart phones.
In the meantime, the marketing department, under the guise of 'clearing inventory', directly carried out a massive price reduction and promotion for the Geek S1 smart phone.
They attempted to curb the crazy sales growth of Nokia's 5230 and Nokia N9 smart phones.
Therefore, the price of the standard version of the Geek S1 smart phone was directly reduced by one thousand several hundred yuan, with the selling price directly reduced to a super cost-effective price of 1999 yuan, and the high-end version was only 2499 yuan.
This price was still quite affordable compared to the Nokia 5230.
After all, the standard version price of the Nokia 5230 in this life was 2499 yuan, and the high-end Nokia 5230 was even more expensive at 2999 yuan.
It could be said that this time, the Geek S1 smart phone really underwent a bone-breaking price reduction, willing to be in a micro-profit mode rather than making money, just to curb the rise of the Android system!
As for whether the bone-breaking price reduction was effective?
The effect was naturally there.
Those consumers, seeing that the price of the Geek S1 smart phone was only a mere 1999 yuan, and the high-end version was only a mere 2499 yuan, were completely crazy.
After all, the Geek S1 smart phone had become quite famous in these 8 months, and many people had wanted to buy one.
But because of various reasons, they didn't buy it. Now that Geek Technology had such great discounts, what else could they say?
Buy it directly!
As a result, the sales of Geek Technology directly ushered in an explosive growth, with the monthly sales trend soaring from hundreds of thousands of units to two or three million units!
In contrast, the sales of Nokia's 5230 and Nokia N9 smart phones ushered in an epic plunge. Although the performance and configuration of the Geek S1 smart phone were not comparable to the Nokia N9, let alone the Nokia 5230.
But the price of the Geek S1 smart phone was super cheap, and the screen was big enough, a full inches, and it also had many interesting games and software.
Compared to the Nokia N9, which cost 4599 yuan for the standard version and 5399 yuan for the high-end version, it was simply too tempting.
As a result, the sales of Nokia N9 and Nokia 5230 smart phones directly ushered in a round of plummeting. The original explosive sales trend of hundreds of thousands of units per month.
Now, because of this wave of operations by Geek Technology, it was forced to drop to about one or two million units per month.
This naturally made Nokia furious.
What made them even more furious was that their smart phones had just been released. If they followed suit with a price reduction at this time, Nokia would become a global laughing stock.
Therefore, Nokia could not follow the price reduction, and could not play the marketing model of bloodletting and not making money with Geek Technology.
Of course, there was also a price to pay. Although the Geek S1 smart phone could attract huge sales orders through bone-breaking price reductions.
Thereby indirectly suppressing the explosive sales growth momentum of Nokia N9 and Nokia 5230 smart phones, and suppressing the rapid growth of the number of Android system installed users.
But the problem was that Geek Technology's competitors felt very hurt. After all, they couldn't compete with Geek Technology in terms of cost.
After all, the mobile phone screen of the Geek S1 smart phone was from its subsidiary, Jingji LCD Screen Company, which had a huge price reduction space.
And the cost of mobile phone screens often accounted for between 20% and 30% of the total cost of a smart phone.
Under such circumstances, Geek Technology could afford to engage in marketing competition with bone-breaking prices, but they couldn't afford the same price range.
If they really accompanied Geek Technology in playing bone-breaking price reductions, if it was the same configuration, let alone profit, they would really lose money on every unit sold!
Therefore, Geek Technology's competitors expressed that they were very hurt, and were quite dissatisfied with Geek Technology's behavior. This dissatisfaction quickly reached Gao Nian's ears, and then Gao Nian also convened a high-level meeting.
The final decision was to drastically reduce the price of the Jingji IPS capacitive screen, in order to quell the anger of the competitors!
This also meant that from this point on, the future IPS capacitive screen would truly enter the hands of more consumers.
Was this good or bad?
The good thing was that future mobile phone screens would become larger, directly expanding the number of consumers.
After all, a mobile phone screen that was too small was really a disaster for middle-aged and elderly people whose eyesight was not very good.
Now that the mobile phone screen had become larger, the fonts and content could become larger, and they would not be afraid of accidentally touching it when operating smart phones.
In addition, for game developers, they could also better display game content and software content, without it appearing crowded.
As for the disadvantages?
A larger screen naturally required higher hardware performance. In the end, the exclusive advantage for Geek Technology was indirectly reduced.
After all, after the IPS capacitive screen became a basic configuration on the street, what else would Geek smart phones have besides a brand and the advantages of high and stable quality of self-produced mobile phones?
Nothing!
Therefore, if they wanted to maintain their exclusive advantage, they could only develop a new generation of mobile phone screens with larger screens!
Therefore, Gao Nian's pressure increased by a large amount. These all had to rely on Gao Nian to lead people to complete.
Gao Nian had to use his own system of quick learning and accumulation of experience to guide the research and development personnel on what to do first and what to do later, and to solve problems for them.
It could be said that being overwhelmed was really not enough to describe it!
Therefore, Gao Nian's urgency for top scientific research talents became more and more intense, because Geek Technology really lacked top scientific research talents.
And time passed slowly like this. While Gao Nian, Ni Guanghai, and Academician Ni Guangnan were busy to the point of being numb, the actions of Nokia, Samsung, Google, and other Android system alliances never stopped.
On July 15, 2009, after several months of advance promotion and open registration, and after several months of preparation, the world's first 'Android Game Software Development Competition' was still held as scheduled.
This competition lasted for a full 3 days. During these 3 days, Google took out 300 million US dollars as a bonus as promised, causing a global sensation.
As a result, during these few days, Google and the 'Android Software Game Development Competition' directly dominated the global news channels.
Domestic and foreign Internets were discussing Google, discussing the 'Android Software Game Development Competition'.
Calling Google a local tyrant.
Of course, the focus of people's discussion also included Google's announcement that it would take out 300 million US dollars again on December 26, 2009,
To hold the second 'Android Software Game Development Competition'.
