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Chapter 157 Increase Costs to Seize the Market

Wen Ming, who was going to go back to the company for an inspection and then left, stayed longer because of Tomdin's script.

"It's quite satisfactory, but it's just a commercial film, and it doesn't need too much reason."

After reading the script, Wen Ming put forward his own opinions and guided Tomdin to make some revisions. Although this made Tomdin a little reluctant, the "Jurassic Park" series from another world that swept the box office all over the world left Tomdin speechless.

Looking at Tom Ding who was polishing the script, Wen Ming was filled with emotion. Because when he first came to this world, he wanted to go to Hollywood to be a screenwriter.

Many companies and products in this world are similar or even identical to those in another world. But it may be because Wen Ming's ability is to "daydream", and the content of the dream is a movie from another world, so there is a big difference between Hollywood in this world and another world.

But none of the movies involving sci-fi content is the same, and there are even very few similar ones.

At that time, Wen Ming was still very melancholy, he had no foundation at all, how should he survive in Hollywood, you know, there are really tens of thousands of screenwriters in Hollywood, how many of them are in their early years?

Even, he once raised a plan to return to China and become a foreign language teacher. Or a plan to stay in the United States and become a Chinese teacher.

However, only one year has passed, and he has been called the richest man in the world by many people. This kind of transformation is really incredible.

(ps: I want to make complaints about my slow pace. I have already become the richest man in the world after more than a hundred chapters. How fast can I go? Cover your face...)

"Boss, you are really a genius."

There is a very obvious admiration in Tomdin's eyes. Wen Ming couldn't understand this kind of eyes before, but after seeing a lot in recent months, he can already understand the meaning of this kind of eyes.

Smiling, Wen Ming said: "I just understand a little bit more, just a little bit."

Let Tomdin be responsible for developing an Apple TV and occupying a little territory in Hollywood, Wen Ming no longer cares about this matter.

After all, only James Cameron can make Titanic and Avatar. How many other movies can you make in a year even if you want to make more money?

It's not as profitable as the sales of the iPhone series on the first day of release.

Otherwise, Wen Ming would not have put this Apple TV under the banner of Apple, because if he did so, Apple TV would be equivalent to Apple's property, and all shareholders of Apple would enjoy the profits created by Apple TV.

Of course, because Wen Ming owns almost all of Apple's shares, there is almost no difference whether Apple Movies and TV is listed under Apple's banner or separated separately.

It’s only a few billion dollars if it’s exhausted. Teresa Roy and Bill Gates add up to 5% of Apple’s shares at most. How much can 5% of billions of dollars be?

"Boss, sales of iPads are even hotter than we expected."

In the conference room of Apple's headquarters, Peter, who was originally in charge of Apple's mobile phone business, has begun to coordinate Apple's digital product business because of his very good ability.

In fact, at present, it is just an extra ipad.

"Since the official launch, we have sold 8 million units, and there are still 2 million scheduled. That is to say, our global sales have reached 10 million units in half a month."

At this time, it was only half a month before Christmas in 2009. Ipad sales work also began to accept global reservations from the first day after Christmas.

Based on the previously established iPhone global sales system,

The marketing and sales work of ipad is much simpler. It is worth mentioning that Apple's official experience stores, which have been expensively established in major cities in various countries, are no longer the only experience product of the iPhone.

Peter continued: "The key problem now is back to the problem we encountered when we launched the iPhone, that is, insufficient production capacity, which led to insufficient supply capacity."

When the iPhone was released, Apple had no money, so the number of stocks was small and the cycle was long. But the production capacity of the ipad is insufficient, but it is because of Wenming.

His time to develop the ipad is so fast that Apple and those parts suppliers have no time to breathe.

If it weren't for the fact that many parts of the iPad are common to the iPhone, let alone 10 million units, even 5 million units would be enough in such a short period of time.

Because from the establishment of the final model of the first-generation iPad to Wen Ming's global press conference, there was only more than two months.

Peter concluded: "In order to seize the tablet PC market as soon as possible, we have asked Foxconn and our component suppliers to start reducing the supply capacity of the iPhone. But this can be done before other manufacturers launch tablet PCs. The leading position in the tablet industry, even the industry standard position, but the sales of iPhones have slowed down a bit."

Wen Ming frowned and looked at the report, which showed that the global iPhone sales had successfully exceeded 35 million units, and the speed had slowed down compared to when it was first released.

However, based on the fact that the iPhone is a brand-new mobile phone product, it will take some time to establish the trust of users, and let those users who have already purchased iPhones help Apple determine word of mouth.

This slowdown is completely acceptable, and it can even be said that it is this slowdown that will allow the iPhone to remain the best-selling mobile phone in the world in the next few months.

"Except for parts such as processors that have fixed standards, you cannot choose two suppliers."

Wen Ming put forward his own opinion: "Similar to batteries, gyroscopes and other components, we can add new parts suppliers, as long as they can guarantee our acceptance standards. And foundries, I think they can also start looking for new suppliers. That’s right, we can’t just let Foxconn be our foundry, they can’t keep up with us now.”

Peter nodded and said: "Boss, we also mean the same thing. After a period of investigation, we have selected 17 new parts suppliers and foundries. However, if we increase suppliers and foundries , then our costs will go up because the order quantity from the same supplier is reduced.”

"At present, the optimal cost we calculate is 0.89% higher than the previous standard."

This is like wholesale. There must be a difference between the wholesale price of buying 1,000 pieces and buying 10,000 pieces.

Wen Ming didn't mind this at all.

"Sales volume represents how many markets we have occupied, and even our position in the industry. Therefore, this cost can be increased."

The meeting time was longer than Wen Ming expected. Although he spared time every day to deal with company affairs, many problems still needed to be discussed and resolved in person.

After the meeting ended, Wen Ming signed some documents and left Apple in a hurry. The most important goal of his return to the United States this time is to go to Tesla.

Because he has solved the technical problems that Tesla cannot solve, this time, he is going to apply those technologies to Tesla's electric vehicles, and then make Tesla the leader in the pure electric vehicle industry.

"Lilith, help me see when the private jet will be delivered the soonest, and help me buy one as soon as possible."

Lilith asked in surprise: "Boss, don't you choose a model yourself?"

Wen Ming said with a smile: "Just buy the most expensive and the best.") Download the free reader!!

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