I Found A Planet

Xinghai Technology.

High-level conference room.

Regarding the "Work Assistant 1.0" that is about to be launched on the market, Xinghai executives discussed the pricing of this product.

It is more appropriate to discuss how much to set.

"Mr. Chen, our work assistants are 'software tools'. The hardware used is only a supercomputer with a computing speed of 1 exascale, and more than a dozen cloud servers for storing data. The cost of hardware is relatively low. Xiaoxing Learning Machine produces hundreds of millions of client hardware, so you don’t have to worry about getting stuck in one way or another.”

"Yeah, making hardware products is too troublesome, not to mention the risk of getting stuck, the tax in the middle, and the later maintenance... It's very troublesome, and the actual profit is not very high."

"You can see how much money making software makes by looking at Microsoft. Bill Gates has topped Forbes' world's richest man more than 20 times, and has never fallen out of the top three... Making software makes more money than making hardware."

Hou Xiaofeng said, he suggested to the boss a long time ago to use the company's technological advantages to make more software products, but until now he has come up with a decent software product and realized that the huge profits come from software.

Chen Jin, who sat at the top, nodded. It's not that he doesn't know that software = huge profits, but everything has a priority. There are too many profitable products, and it's impossible for him to take care of all of them.

After listening to the analysis of the executives, he found that the focus of Xinghai Technology's future profitability must be shifted to software.

If you don't transfer, you have to be forced to transfer.

Because the Wawa sweeping robot launched by Xinghai Technology can generally be used for ten years.

The small star learning machine can be used for about five years.

The stick robot has an average service life of more than ten years.

The quality of the products is so good. After harvesting this crop of consumers, it will take many years to harvest the next crop.

For example, there is a company selling mountaineering shoes in country M. Their mountaineering shoes are of very good quality, they can be worn for five years, and the price is very affordable, which attracts a large number of consumers to buy them. However, this conscientious company closed down five years later. The reason It's the customer's shoes that haven't worn out yet, and they're bankrupt because of excess inventory.

Although the price of Xinghai Technology's products is not low, the quality is absolutely conscientious, so after the market is saturated, Xinghai Technology will definitely face the plight of a sharp drop in sales.

Fortunately, Chen Jin has considered that problem. The software tool "Work Assistant 1.0" is Xinghai Technology's new profit growth point.

According to the statistics of CSDN, there are about 5 million+ programmers in country Z, which is a market of 5 million users... This market is not very small.

Programmers generally belong to the high-tech group. Those who have worked for more than three years generally earn more than 10,000 to 15,000 yuan. If they are asked to spend 1/10 of their monthly salary, their work efficiency will be increased by 10 times and the code quality will be greatly improved. Extremely cheap.

Li Yuanliang, the marketing manager, said: "Mr. Chen, the usage fee for the work assistant should be set at 1,500 per month. If all programmers buy it, it can bring 7.5 billion in revenue to the company every month. The revenue is the same, but the net profit margin is more than 50%!"

"1500 per month?"

Song Bojun shook his head and said: "The price is a bit high, and senior programmers can fully afford it, but a considerable number of programmers are junior programmers with only one or two years of programming experience. Their salaries are not very high. 1,500 a month, they can hardly afford this price."

"Don't use it as a junior programmer. Learn the technology for two years first. After you learn the technology, it's not too late to buy a job assistant."

"No, they have no chance to learn technology."

Song Bojun said solemnly: "He was fired directly! After the introduction of the work assistant, the programming efficiency has been greatly improved. Many companies will lay off some programmers out of cost saving considerations! At least half of the people will be laid off, resulting in several programmers. Millions of people are out of work."

Li Yuanliang opened his mouth wide, millions of programmers lost their jobs, this...

No matter how profitable Xinghai Technology is, it is impossible for it to be indifferent to the loss of so many jobs.

Before launching the "job assistant", the impact and impact on society must be considered to avoid destroying too many people's livelihoods... Profit comes second.

After some discussion.

Everyone finally came up with a compromise plan.

Achieved "one guarantee" and "one limit".

That is to ensure that every programmer can use it.

There are certain restrictions on the powerful capabilities of the "work assistant".

Song Bojun said to Chen Jin: "Mr. Chen, in the process of generating codes, the assistants need to use computer computing power. The more complex the function of the code, the more computing power is used."

"The supercomputer used by the work assistant has a computing power of about 100 billion times. If we divide it into 100 million shares, we can sell 100 million computing power."

"The purchase price of each computing power is 500 yuan/month. If it is not enough, you can purchase more. Each account can superimpose up to 100 computing power."

"According to the calculations of our technicians, even if your work assistant only buys 1 share of computing power, this work assistant can also increase the programmer's work efficiency by 2.5 times."

"General middle and senior programmers, buying 10 copies of computing power is basically enough, unless it is an advanced programmer who may use more than 100 copies of computing power."

"So if you are a junior programmer, spending 500 yuan a month to buy a piece of computing power is enough to implement some simple functions... This is within their tolerance."

"If you are an intermediate or high-level programmer, you can buy a computing power stacking package. You can stack one, two, ten, or one hundred copies. The more you stack, the more powerful your job assistant will be!"

"But it also costs a lot."

For example, purchasing 100 copies of computing power can help programmers improve their work efficiency by ten times, but the monthly fee for working assistants is as high as 50,000. Instead of paying this expense, the boss should hire five more junior programmers. Using all the work assistants, multiple people working on projects at the same time is definitely much faster than a big cow.

The quality of the code generated by the job assistant is very high, so recruiting junior programmers is not much different from recruiting intermediate and senior programmers.

This avoids the embarrassing situation that the majority of junior programmers may lose their jobs in large numbers... Of course, because of the general improvement in work efficiency, unemployment of some programmers is still unavoidable.

Xinghai Technology can only control the impact within a small range as much as possible.

Chen Jin nodded: "Let's make it so! The bosses of those IT companies should not think that work assistants are cheaper than programmers, but let them know that programmers who can use this tool are more valuable! But..."

"If programmer unemployment is still unavoidable, Xinghai Technology will build multiple software centers and recruit tens of thousands of programmers to make domestic operating systems, domestic special effects engines, domestic office software, and domestic industrial software... Others don’t do software, Xinghai Technology does it! On the one hand, it fills the gaps in these fields;

"President Chen is very thoughtful."

Song Bojun nodded: "We have too many gaps in the software field. If domestic IT companies are willing to fill these gaps, the number of programmers in country Z will have to increase by 2 million. Now that the job assistant is launched, if there are programmers who don't want to Unemployed, love programming work, it is quite a good choice to let them fill in the gaps... Those shortcomings in the software field of country Z that no one is willing to fill, now no one is afraid that no one will fill them."

Appropriate unemployment has turned into a good thing.

All the executives nodded repeatedly.

The pricing standard for "work assistants" has been determined in this way.

The release time of the work assistant is scheduled for March 22. At that time, all programmers can download the "work assistant" client and pay for computing power.

However!

On March 20th.

Google has released the latest version of Android 12, and from this day on, the free era of the Android system will end, and every new device that uses the Android system will have to pay a certain fee to Google.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained: "A certain fee is charged to make better products and to bring users a better experience!"

This is generally expected by companies and netizens in country Z.

"Google has been calling for fees for two years, and now the boots have finally landed, and the wolves have finally come."

"No matter how much licensing fee Gu Ge charges for each device, our mobile phones, tablets, smart homes, and all products equipped with the Android system will increase in price."

"Android, which claims to be permanently free and open source, has fallen. Is it because Gu Ge is really short of money, or are we fat sheep growing up and they are going to start harvesting?"

"Hey, why is there no Xinghai Technology in the authorized list of Z country enterprises in the Android system, but Xinghai Technology is included in the list of prohibited authorization?"

"Google strictly prohibits Xinghai Technology from using the Android system? Illegal use will bring judicial proceedings!"

"That is to say, the Xiaoxing learning machine must not be equipped with the Android system, and can no longer be sold?"

"Why did Gu Ge do this?"

Netizens in country Z were very surprised and angry.

...

"Oh, the crackdown from Brother Gu is here?"

After hearing the news, Chen Jin was not surprised, but three words popped up in his mind: Such a coincidence?

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