Chapter 78 A Slightly Perplexed Meng Chang

May 7th, Monday.

In the afternoon, Pei Qian and Meng Chang rode together to Otto Technologies.

This trip to Otto Technologies wasn't about the G1 phone, but about the smart fitness clothes-drying rack.

The G1 phone had been met with an enthusiastic response upon its release, sparking a lot of online discussion. Of course, there was also a group of people madly attacking the phone, tearing it to shreds.

The G1 phone being trashed was actually quite reasonable.

Because the digital circle in China, especially the mobile phone circle, is a very deep pool. The act of hiring online commentators to attack rival companies is actually very common, but no one admits it.

This is normal because the mobile phone circle has a very bright future, but the competition is also very fierce.

It's bright because, in the foreseeable future, people will become more and more inseparable from their phones. Phones will integrate video playback, games, smart home control, calls, photography, and other functions, affecting all aspects of people's lives.

Continuous innovation in mobile phone technology means that mobile phones are updated and replaced quickly, in a year or two, and most people will replace their phones. The mobile phone market is a very broad market.

But the competition in the mobile phone circle is also very fierce. Not to mention foreign brands like Pineapple Phone, domestic mobile phone brands are also chasing each other, refusing to give way. Under this life-and-death competition, it is inevitable that the atmosphere is becoming more and more fiery.

Otto Technologies, as an emerging technology company, has so far only released two mobile phones, and its market share is very low. Logically speaking, it should be in a state of self-admiration and peaceful coexistence.

But the problem is that, regardless of how much these two phones sell, they are very popular online and naturally have topicality!

Moreover, the pricing of these two phones is too high, easily standing in the high-end field that many mobile phone manufacturers have struggled to reach, or cannot reach at all. What’s even more outrageous is that consumers are quite accepting of it. How could this not make people jealous?

Therefore, Otto phones are definitely going to be trashed, which is unavoidable.

Moreover, those who trash Otto phones are not necessarily hired commentators; they may also be self-proclaimed supporters or fans of other mobile phone manufacturers who can't understand why Otto phones sell so well and will also attack them online.

Pei Qian casually browsed the forums and found that people who were attacking the G1 phone were mainly focused on the following points: some technologies are not mature and reduce the user experience; the price is too expensive, suspected of being an IQ tax; most of the so-called "new technologies" are not self-developed. In fact, similar full-screen solutions are also being developed by other mobile phone manufacturers, and a batch of similar models will soon be launched.

Seeing Otto phones being attacked, Pei Qian was still very happy.

The more fiercely you attack, the fewer phones will be sold, and the more I'll lose!

But the problem is that Pei Qian carefully reviewed the discussion about Otto phones and found that these views were quickly refuted and did not affect the hot sales of the G1 phone...

Immature technology and impact on the user experience?

Nonsense, we knew that already. We bought it with the intention of being guinea pigs.

The price is too expensive? Suspected of being an IQ tax?

People who think this phone is an IQ tax are probably the ones with IQ problems. A little calculation will show that this phone is simply too cost-effective!

Other mobile phone manufacturers are also doing it?

Then other mobile phone manufacturers should take out their products and sell them!

Netizens argued fiercely, back and forth. In the end, the attackers trashed it for a long time but couldn't find any critical flaws!

This made Pei Qian feel very disappointed.

Too bad!

The public opinion war in the mobile phone field is actually very dangerous.

Some hired commentators will seize a certain shortcoming of a mobile phone brand and attack it madly, even if there are no shortcomings, they will fabricate them to attack. As long as similar remarks are repeated many times, they will form a kind of stereotype, subtly affecting many consumers.

For example, if you hire hired commentators to constantly promote that a certain mobile phone brand has "poor quality," "poor signal," "severe heat generation," "cuts corners," etc., as long as it is promoted a lot and repeated everywhere, it will give many potential consumers similar labels in their minds. When they encounter this brand of mobile phone in the future, they will subconsciously avoid it.

Of course, this kind of criticism is often not unfounded. It is possible that a certain model of this mobile phone brand does have similar problems, but even if future models are improved, most people will still retain this stereotype.

Otto phones obviously have many shortcomings, and there are many points for the attackers to grasp, but the problem is that these shortcomings have already been repeatedly mentioned and thoroughly discussed at the press conference...

Attackers want to launch a discussion on a certain shortcoming. If it were another mobile phone, netizens would reply: "There's such a problem? I'll pay attention!"

But if it were Otto phones, the netizens below would reply one after another: "You just found out? You just got internet in your village? It was already said at the press conference, didn't you watch it?"

How can you attack it any further!

Pei Qian originally thought that if the online public opinion about the G1 phone was relatively poor, he could consider buying some hired commentators to fuel the flames at his own expense, but looking at the current trend, he gave up this idea.

In the current situation, hiring commentators at his own expense is basically the same as throwing money down the drain.

With this money, it's better to keep it to increase the profit margin.

During the last settlement, the system activated a new mysterious reward. Pei Qian could consume a certain amount of personal property to increase the profit margin of a certain industry, with a ratio of 1:100, and the maximum personal property consumed per cycle was 100,000.

That is to say, Pei Qian can spend 100,000 of his own money to open a 10 million profit margin for a certain industry and start a crazy money-burning mode.

Spending it on this is much more cost-effective than hiring commentators!

Of course, Pei Qian hasn't decided which industry to use this quota on yet.

But there's no need to rush, after all, there are still more than two months until this cycle's settlement, so there's plenty of time to consider it slowly.

Meng Chang was also sitting in the car, looking a little uneasy.

His original plan was to continue slacking off this week and wait until next week to start figuring out a publicity plan, but today President Pei specifically asked him to go to Otto Technologies to see the situation of the smart fitness clothes-drying rack.

Meng Chang really had no reason to refuse, so he had to come along.

His mood now is quite complicated.

Originally, Meng Chang both hated and feared President Pei, because he had been receiving a base salary for several months, and this was obviously all thanks to President Pei.

Meng Chang was being played by President Pei, but he had no choice but to be furiously incompetent.

But recent events have changed Meng Chang's impression of President Pei, and he can't figure out what President Pei is thinking.

Originally, Meng Chang wanted to make a publicity plan for the Otto G1 phone, but President Pei stopped him. Meng Chang thought that the G1 phone sales were dismal, but when he went online, he saw nothing but praise!

Meng Chang couldn't help but feel a little scared. If he had made the publicity plan early, he would have received zero commission again!

So President Pei didn't let me make a publicity plan for the G1 phone to protect me?

If I make this publicity plan, I can basically forget about the commission this month; if I don't make this publicity plan, if I can do some reverse publicity for the smart clothes-drying rack, I might be able to get tens of thousands of commission.

After calculating back and forth, Meng Chang found that President Pei's preventing him from making a publicity plan for the G1 phone was actually beneficial to him, which made him even more confused.

So today, he came with President Pei to see the specific situation of Otto Technologies' "smart clothes-drying rack."

Judging from the name, it seems to be a somewhat unorthodox product.

No matter how strange the phones made by Otto Technologies are, they are still phones after all, and there is still a chance of success; but a "smart clothes-drying rack"? Just listening to it makes it sound like the chances of failure are high!

Of course, Meng Chang didn't dare to take it lightly, after all, there was the "fully automatic smart argument machine" as a precedent.

He still had to see the specific functions of this "smart clothes-drying rack" on site before he could make a judgment.

...

Soon, the two arrived at Otto Technologies, and Chang You had already come to greet them in advance.

Jiang Yuan was in charge of the mobile phone business and was busy with the G1 phone, while all of Otto Technologies' smart products were now under the responsibility of Chang You.