Chapter 564 Congratulations from Qualcomm
“What’s the difference between a contract phone and a regular phone?”

After Zhou Jing finished the call, Gu Jia came out of the bedroom and asked.

"The functions of the mobile phones are the same. They are operated by designated operators and cannot be replaced with SIM cards. For example, if it is a China Mobile model, China Unicom and China Telecom signals will be automatically blocked. The advantage is that it is cheaper than non-contract phones and comes with free phone bills."

Zhou Jing took the baby from Teacher Gu’s arms and went to eat.

“Will it have an impact on our profits?”

What Gu Jia is most concerned about is the impact on ideal technology.

"It will be affected a little. It doesn't matter for low-end phones. They are selling at low prices. The Changxiang 1 contract phone will be launched in the spring of next year. The price is expected to be around yuan. However, the cost of contract phone sales will be borne by the operators, and the gifts will be purchased by the operators."

Zhou Jing sat at the dining table, crossed his legs and put the child on his lap, holding the child in his left hand and eating with chopsticks in his right hand.

"That's okay."

Gu Jia understood that the price of the Vision 1 contract phone to be sold at around 1 yuan next spring is also suitable. The Vision 1s will be released in the spring of next year, and the cost of Vision 1 accessories will drop. If the contract phone is sold at yuan, the profit will be more than yuan. Based on the actual experience of Vision , the sales volume will explode if it is priced at yuan, which will be a win-win situation for both Vision and the operators.

"I'll make you eat the porridge first."

Wu Suqin put the food on the table and said.

"No, let's eat together."

Zhou Jing holds the child while eating.

"You look so comfortable. Are you happy sticking to your dad?"

Gu Jia said as she looked at her obedient daughter sitting on Zhou Jing's lap.

“Wow wow wow.”

The little girl swung her short legs playfully.

"Will you come with grandma?"

Wu Suqin clapped her hands and said.

The little girl leaned on Zhou Jing's arm indifferently, her eyes fixed on Zhou Jing's chopsticks, watching Zhou Jing pick up the food, watching Zhou Jing put the food into his mouth, and was full of curiosity about the adults' meals.

"Mom, come eat too!" Gu Jia pinched her daughter's feet and said, "Do you want to eat our meal?"

"what!"

Zhou Jing tore off a piece of steamed bun skin and handed it to the child.

The little girl turned her head away, saying that she was not hungry because she had just finished her milk.

"You dote on her so much that now that she can walk, you have to take her to work with you."

Gu Jia looked at the father and daughter and said.

"Little Cotton Jacket is the most obedient, isn't she?"

Zhou Jing looked down at the little one in his arms and said.

"Uh~"

The little girl babbled, and I don’t know if she understood.

After dinner, Zhou Jing took the child to the bedroom and coaxed him to sleep. After the child fell asleep, he and Gu Jia went to the company. He sent Gu Jia to the downstairs of Chuangzhi Technology, and Zhou Jing went to Xingguang Youke.

"Please come in, Mr. Zhou."

Qin Zhengyu, the nominal general manager of Xingguang Youke, took Zhou Jing to his office and gave him the information about the company's reorganization.

"Sit down and talk."

Zhou Jing took the information and spoke while reading it.

The structure of a game company established as an independent company is more reasonable. The main departments include game planning department, development department, human resources department, finance department, etc. Each game team also has different departments. Taking King of Glory as an example, there are development department, planning department, backend operation department, skin planning department, mobile game version development department, etc.

Summoning the King is the biggest project of Starlight Games, and it is still being developed and optimized while being tested.

Last week, Penguin sent a game development team to Starlight Games, saying that they wanted to communicate and learn about Starlight Games. After all, Penguin is the second largest shareholder of Starlight Games, and to put it bluntly, they came to learn from Starlight Games. Starlight Games now firmly sits in the position of the mobile game overlord, and Penguin, as one of the top Internet giants and game companies in China, will certainly not be left behind.

Zhou Jing was certain that Penguin would release a pirated version of the King's Summon mobile game.

Qin Zhengyu said: "When does Mr. Zhou plan to launch the King's Summoning mobile game?"

"Next fall or '14."

Currently, the performance of smartphones is not good enough to run large games such as King of Glory. Many low-end phones have lags when playing Run and Rhythm Master. King of Glory is mainly played by college students. Currently, the smartphone penetration rate among college students in China is less than 40%, and most of them use low-end phones and cannot play King of Glory.

Zhou Jing looked at Qin Zhengyu and continued, "When making games, we should combine more of our culture. We can learn from mythology, history, and folklore. The planning team can recruit some people majoring in history, Chinese studies, and folklore."

"The folklore major does not require academic qualifications, as long as you are proficient in certain folk culture, such as Xiangxi corpse-driving, traditional funerals, ghost marriages, etc. Ghost marriages are to marry the dead."

Zhou Jing took a pen from the pen holder and wrote on the paper.

"it is good."

Qin Zhengyu learned a lesson. He thought of recruiting people who were familiar with mythology, literature and history, but did not think of folk customs. Domestic culture is diverse, and it is indeed a good idea to plan games based on folk customs such as corpse-driving, traditional funerals, and ghost marriages. It is also a good idea to show Chinese horror through games.

The boss is the boss, Qin Zhengyu feels inferior to him.

Zhou Jing put down the restructuring documents of Starlight Games and picked up last month's financial report to check. The game company had a revenue of more than 40 million in August and a net profit of more than 15 million. For a newly independent game company, this is a very good result. This performance can rank it among the top ten domestic game companies.

After reading the financial report, Zhou Jing walked around the lobby and returned to Chuangzhi Technology for nothing else.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Zhou."

At the front desk of Chuangzhi Technology, the company mascot stood up and said.

"Ah."

Zhou Jing nodded, went to the lounge, got a pomegranate and brought it back to the office.

"We received an email from Qualcomm headquarters congratulating us on the great success of our first generation of smartphones."

Gu Jia looked back and said.

“Then the first release of the chip next fall is certain.”

Zhou Jing smiled faintly and was not excited. In 12, mobile phone chips were still relatively mixed. Ideal smartphones used Qualcomm chips. The success of Ideal smartphones meant that Qualcomm chips had won another victory. Qualcomm must have seen the potential of Ideal smartphones and sent an email to congratulate them personally.

It seems that Qualcomm not only wants to use Samsung chips, but also wants to compete for iPhone's market share.

"Do you understand?"

Gu Jia turned the computer to Zhou Jing and said with a smile.

The email was written in English, with a picture attached below the main text. The picture was a photo of an Ideal mobile phone counter in the United States, with several people looking at Ideal products in the photo.

"translate."

Zhou Jing could understand it, but pretended not to.

"." Gu Jia translated it, stood up, poured Zhou Jing a cup of freshly brewed black tea and said, "How do you reply?"

"The success of Ideal smartphones is inseparable from Qualcomm. We hope to establish deeper cooperation with Qualcomm."

A real man can bend and stretch. Now Zhou Jing can only choose Qualcomm chips and develop in a humble way.

The email was concise. Gu Jia expressed Zhou Jing's meaning in English and sent it after confirming that it was correct.

Zhou Jing picked up the teacup, took a sip and said, "Have any competitors released new models in the past few days?"

"Yes, ZTE and Coolpad have released new models. ZTE's price is 2199, which is OK if you don't compare it with Ideal. Cool Run is priced at 1099, and its performance is average. The reviewer will automatically quit when playing Cool Run every day."

Gu Jia was originally planning to go to the store to buy new ZTE and Coolpad phones to try them out, but after reading the reviews, she felt it was unnecessary.

Zhou Jing smiled. The processor level of low-end mobile phones nowadays makes it difficult to play games such as Tiantian Cool Run and Rhythm Master. Not to mention the ones released last year, the low-end mobile phones launched this year with a price of one thousand yuan are the Imagine 1. All other brands have failed to run Tiantian Cool Run. The reason why Imagine 1 performs well is that the software applications developed by Chuangzhi Technology are consistent with the ideal mobile phone system architecture.

Even if they are both Android devices, there will be differences in the modifications made to the Android open source system.

One of the characteristics of Android is that it has high software compatibility, even if the software is not strictly developed based on Android. The advantage of this model is that the software is easy to adapt, and the disadvantage is that it is prone to bugs. The reason why iPhone is smooth and fluid is because software adaptation must follow the requirements of iOS. In order to ensure the smoothness of the software, iPhone even uses a tombstone mechanism.

The application software developed by other companies is obviously not as smooth as the software of Chuangzhi Technology, but it is better than the best and worse than the worst.

“What do you do on the weekend?”

It’s Friday, and we’re almost into the weekend, Gu Jia looked at the boy and said.

"Are there any movies you want to see?"

With children at home, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia cannot leave home for too long, and the only thing they can think of is watching movies.

"Let me check." Gu Jia checked the popular movies on the computer. "Let's watch a horror movie. I haven't seen a horror movie in the cinema yet."

"It's best to watch it at night. Let's go watch it tomorrow night after the kids go to sleep." Zhou Jing looked at the introduction of the film, "Horror Stories". The name looked ordinary, but the film was good and the heroine was pretty.

"Okay." Gu Jia said with a smile, "Are we taking care of children inappropriately?"

"Enjoy life while someone is coaxing the kids."

Zhou Jing was very worried when he carried the child out for fun during the day. He felt more at ease with the child than with himself, and at night the child would not wake up for a while after falling asleep.

"That makes sense. Young people are more insightful. Huawei's Bluetooth speakers are about the same price as ours, and Xiaomi's are cheaper than ours. Should we lower the price?"

Gu Jia opened JD.com on her computer to check out electronic products. Bluetooth speakers from domestic brands Huawei and Xiaomi are already on the market. Although Ideal has already launched a smart speaker, Bluetooth speakers still have a large market.

"Need not."

Zhou Jing doesn't care about the small market for Bluetooth speakers. The profit is not much to begin with, so there is no need to raise the price.

"I don't know how good their Bluetooth speakers are. Do you want to buy one and try it out?"

Gu Jia was quite curious about what it was like for other companies’ pirated products.

"If you want to buy one, buy one."

"never mind."

Gu Jia gave up the idea. There were more advanced smart speakers available, so there was no need to buy a Bluetooth speaker.

There was no important work on Friday afternoon, so Zhou Jing checked Weibo to see how anxious competitors were. Competitors seemed really anxious, especially Xiaomi, which had just become the second largest domestic brand in the first half of this year, but was surpassed by Ideal Mobile in September. As soon as Mi 2 was released, it faced a strong rival, Ideal 1. Mr. Lei has been on the scene a lot these days, and all major media in BJ reported on Mi 2.

It is normal for local places to prefer local enterprises. Tangdu has also worked hard to promote Ideal mobile phones. Since the launch of Ideal smartphones, they have frequently appeared on Tangdu Satellite TV. Undergraduate and junior college universities across the province have promoted and sold Ideal mobile phones since the opening of the school year.

The capital's media is indeed powerful. In the past two days, the popularity of Xiaomi mobile phone on Weibo has successfully surpassed that of Ideal mobile phone.

A few days ago, P站 received a traffic promotion application from Xmi, and Zhou Jing chose to agree. Although he did not ask P站 to deliberately discredit Xmi before, he had promoted traffic to posts that complained about Xmi. If the matter was really called, he would inevitably be accused of unfair competition. Zhou Jing changed his strategy and agreed to any friendly business that used P站 to promote traffic, as harmony brings wealth.

"A project invested by Jinlin."

Gu Jia looked at the project information sent by Jinlin Capital and handed it to Zhou Jing.

Zhou Jing took a rough look and decided not to worry about investments below 10 million yuan.

On Friday, after everyone got off work at five o'clock, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia went home. As soon as they entered the door, they heard the child mumbling to himself in the bedroom.

"Aww!"

Zhou Jingxue called out like a child.

After a second or two, a babyish voice came from the bedroom, "baba~mama~"

"Not Mom and Dad."

Gu Jia said with a smile.

"baba~mama~he~baba~mame~"

The little girl continued to shout, and from her voice one could tell that she was shouting more and more urgently. Zhou Jing went to the bedroom and picked her up. She pedaled her legs in the air like she was riding a bicycle, and she looked so happy that it seemed as if they had not seen each other for a long time.

"Forehead!"

Zhou Jingxue learns how to speak like a child.

"Uh~"

The little girl clung to Zhou Jing and babbled at him.

"Oh."

Zhou Jing nodded.

"Ha~"

The little girl smiled, as if she had gotten the secret signal, and kissed Zhou Jing on the face.

"Mommy wants a kiss too."

Gu Jia put her face in front of the child.

The little girl pouted and kissed Gu Jia's mouth.

"What did mom give Zhou Zhou to eat this afternoon?"

Gu Jia looked at Wu Suqin and said.

"Pumpkin pulp and milk powder. Jiajia shouldn't be hungry now. Eat it and then feed her milk."

Dinner was ready and Wu Suqin brought it to the table.

"Let's eat!"

"Don't hold it while eating, put it in the car."

Gu Jia pushed the stroller over and said.

"Can I take the bus?"

Zhou Jing held the child's arms with both hands and put her into the stroller. The little girl didn't want to, so she curled up her short legs and made noises to express her protest.

"You won't let Dad eat?"

Gu Jia pulled the child's feet and said.

"bo~ daddy bo~"

The little girl twisted her short legs in the air and spoke anxiously. Her pair of small bread legs were chubby to begin with, and they looked even chubbyer in socks.

"Okay, okay, daddy will hold you while you eat."

Zhou Jing has seen what a clingy person is. If he doesn't pamper his little cotton-padded jacket, who else will?

"If I ask you to hold her while eating, you won't be able to put her down!" Gu Jia patted the child's butt and said, "You scabby dog."

"Let grandma hold the baby. Wait until daddy is full before holding the baby."

Wu Suqin put down the bowl and hugged the child.

"e~he~"

The little girl clung to Zhou Jing and was unwilling to separate.

While eating with the child in his arms, Zhou Jing put the bowl farther away, where the child couldn't reach it. The little girl was clingy but didn't move around. She sat on Zhou Jing's lap and watched the adults eat. From time to time, she looked at Gu Jia and Wu Suqin opposite and shouted "mama~nene~"
"Are you not afraid of Dad getting tired?"

Gu Jia looked at her daughter and said.

"baba~"

The little girl probably only understands her father.

"Daddy is not tired, how heavy is the little one."

Zhou Jing rubbed the child's head with his chin.

The weather was getting cold, so after dinner Zhou Jing went to the bedroom and put on the teddy bear jumpsuit for the child to wear outside. The clothes came with socks and a hood, which kept the child warm in all directions. With the hood on, the little one looked very cute.

"Let's go out and play first and say goodbye to mom. Say goodbye, mom."

Zhou Jing held the child in front of Gu Jia and said.

"Mom, oh~"

The little girl didn’t know how to say goodbye, so she used other sounds instead, and her little mouth pouted when she said “oh”.

"Oh, Zhou Zhou, goodbye. Mom will come to see you later."

Gu Jia said, imitating the way a child speaks.

Without a stroller, Zhou Jing held the child while walking and looking at the flowers and plants on the roadside. When he arrived at the community square, Zhou Jing noticed people playing with their mobile phones. In a city like the capital, smartphones are quite popular. All young office workers use smartphones. Some middle-aged people use smartphones, while others use traditional phones. Most of the smartphone users are iPhones, followed by Samsung and Huawei. Other brands are rare.

Ideal smartphones have sold less than 1.5 million units so far, and their market share is too small.

The aunties who dance square dance are keeping up with the trend and using the Ideal portable Bluetooth speaker which costs thousands of dollars. The young people who see it keep calling her "your auntie". Many young people have never used a Bluetooth speaker.

After carrying the child around for a while, Zhou Jing found an empty bench and sat down, playing with the child while looking at his phone.

[Secretary SW will come to Ideal Technology next Wednesday, and the TV station staff should follow]

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