Regarding the quality of music not being comparable to professional-grade sound systems, video clarity not matching that of a movie screen, internet speeds being slightly slower than computers, and the resolution of photos and videos falling short of professional cameras and camcorders, and other issues, large and small.
These problems didn't require Ding Yun or anyone else to answer.
Those who bought the phones would directly shut down anyone raising these concerns.
What was the price of professional-grade sound systems? Any single unit cost tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, and to put it bluntly, some could reach millions. How much did a complete movie theater screen setup cost? How much did professional cameras and camcorders cost? Each of these was measured in the tens of thousands, with some starting not with a single digit before the decimal, but with double or triple digits.
And how much did this smartphone sell for?
The cheapest was only 1999.
At this price, with such complete functionality, any further criticism wouldn't be criticism but deliberate fault-finding.
After all, at that time, any flip phone cost two to three thousand, or even four to five thousand.
And the cost-effectiveness between the two was incomparable.
It could be said that once Ding Yun's phone was launched, it almost swept through the market, causing some industries to collapse entirely, such as mid-to-high-end phone retailers, mid-to-low-end camera and camcorder sellers, and some computer stores.
The number of businesses significantly affected was even greater.
This wasn't just selling phones; it was an electronic industry massacre. Many owners of related businesses were screaming in despair, "The wolf is coming!" not a false alarm, but the real wolves were starting to eat the sheep.
Only those truly low-end businesses, pirate electronics factories, were less affected.
This was because their phones sold for only a few hundred yuan, and their electronic players were tens of yuan, at most a hundred or eighty yuan each. The products were mostly pirated, the technology was copied, and even the appearance wasn't self-designed. Simultaneously, costs were kept very low, and profit margins weren't high. The quality of the products couldn't be expected to be very high either.
Their target audience and Ding Yun's target audience were basically not overlapping.
Therefore, the impact was naturally smaller.
Not only was the impact small, but they also actively bought Ding Yun's phones and were pondering how to imitate them.
Of course, at the same time, those companies that were severely affected did not sit idly by. They actively tried to bribe people within Ding Yun's company or find ways to acquire the technology.
While simultaneously protesting through various media.
They accused her of dumping and monopolizing.
Some companies in certain countries even united and pressured their governments, hoping the government would take the lead in helping them by punishing or banning the sale of the new phones.
At the very least, they demanded an anti-monopoly investigation.
In short, they tried every means possible to delay and prevent Ding Yun's company expansion and product sales, buying themselves some time to formulate a response plan.
However, Ding Yun was no pushover. She understood that human nature differences between different worlds were not that significant, and she had experienced countless business wars.
So, how could she not have countermeasures?
As long as they were willing to abide by the rules, and only played dirty tricks behind the scenes without completely tearing down the facade and disregarding the rules in their targeting, she could easily handle it. If they broke the rules, became utterly shameless, and even resorted to state intervention to target her, then Ding Yun would be helpless, and could only protect her own assets from loss.
After this period of overt and covert struggle, Ding Yun's overall losses were not significant.
Her expansion pace was not significantly impacted.
Including the profits earned, those losses were negligible. The phones were sold in more than eighty to ninety percent of the places globally. And this was not her biggest gain. Her biggest gain was that through this, she finally determined which companies could cooperate and which could not, which countries could increase investment, even build factories there, and which countries could not.
Even if they were adversaries, as long as they abided by the rules and were willing to act according to them, without resorting to underhanded tactics, cooperation was possible, even deep cooperation. At least for this generation, it was definitely possible.
Companies that abided by the rules, and at most engaged in some underhanded tactics but didn't openly tear down the facade, could maintain some superficial cooperation and ease relations. While such companies couldn't be deeply befriended, normal business dealings were perfectly fine.
However, smart people would have to be sent to cooperate with them. If their intelligence and strategy were insufficient, it might not be cooperation, but being sold out and counting money for others.
Ding Yun knew very well that achieving complete monopoly was very difficult, so she didn't plan to monopolize all industries and all production processes.
She didn't intend to make no money for anyone else.
After testing which companies could deeply cooperate and which required caution, Ding Yun naturally arranged meetings with the management of those companies and held a very in-depth conference with them.
They exchanged benefits and signed contracts.
Then, all mid-to-low-end mobile phone manufacturing was outsourced. Even some related technologies were licensed. Ding Yun only retained profit sharing, technological equity, and the high-end mobile phone business.
Simply put, she only kept the most cutting-edge technology and its achievements. The rest of the mid-to-low-end business was given to others to share in the spoils. However, she would continue to collect huge patent fees from their share of the soup.
Although the final profits would definitely decrease, this saved Ding Yun eighty to ninety percent of her effort. At the same time, it created a host of partners. Everyone was on the same boat, with intertwined stock exchanges and exchanges.
In the future, they would bear any burdens together.
This was much easier than facing the world alone.
After completing the mobile phone business, Ding Yun continued to assign tasks to the hardware department for computer hardware upgrades. She herself took the materials and corresponding achievements for communication network upgrades and base station upgrades to communicate with the government.
She was preparing for a comprehensive upgrade of existing internet speeds and communications.
In reality, Ding Yun was capable of manufacturing better quality phones, adding video call functions to current social apps, and improving phone resolution.
And the clarity of images.
But the key issue was that high-definition video couldn't be supported by current internet speeds. High-definition images might not even open with current internet speeds, let alone be forwarded or sent. The data charges would break people's hearts.
Therefore, the first phone she launched was a stripped-down version based on the existing situation.
High-end phones, besides having better performance, were sold at an exceptionally high price, mainly to screen out those who were truly capable and could afford the exorbitant data charges for the phones.
Ding Yun's current plan to cooperate with the government was mainly to solve this problem. Only by increasing internet speeds and reducing data charges could her phones continue to be upgraded, and her software could also be upgraded.
And new revenue streams could be added.
Currently, due to internet speed limitations, she dared not add extra functions to some software. Everything was being designed to be as simple as possible. Because if she were to add pop-up windows, advertisements, or other ancillary functions to the software now, the final running speed would be frustratingly slow.
The user experience and comfort would also decline significantly.