Global Monopoly of Technology

meeting room.

Yao Jianhong is still speaking: "Our survey information shows that since the second half of 2015, Amazon began to open access to the third-party voice assistant Alexa, which has brought many third-party corporate customer partners, such as LG Group."

Speaking of this, Yao Jianhong's words changed: "However, judging from the market reports we have learned, LG Group, which has vowed to compete with Samsung in the smart home field, does not seem to plan to 'put all eggs in one basket' , we may be able to fight for it, but this is a 'two or five boys' and we can't expect too much."

Luo Sheng said succinctly: "How do you say it?"

Everyone couldn't help but look at Yao Jianhong, who turned a few pages from his paper document, and then said:

"At this year's CES exhibition, the participating LG Group announced its AI smart home sub-brand ThinQ for the first time. Among the first products of this sub-brand, all smart TVs, smart speakers and other products are connected to Google. The Google Assistant voice assistant service, and Amazon's Alexa technology is only available on smart kitchen products such as the InstaView refrigerator."

"However, it is worth mentioning that LG Group also launched a new intelligent robot brand CLOi for the first time at this year's CES exhibition. All the robot products under this brand use LG's self-developed ThinQ AI. The system does not have access to Google or Amazon’s voice assistant services.”

Another executive who attended the meeting also said: "It can be seen that LG Group is actually not very willing to use other people's technology. That's it, sooner or later, it will have to come out and do it alone. It really is a 'two or five boys'."

In fact, as long as any big company with a little ambition is unwilling to use other people's technology, they will be controlled by others if they ask for it. This is the truth that everyone understands.

However, with the rapid development of science and technology, sometimes the times will not wait for you, and using other people's technology is also a second-best choice.

Yao Jianhong flipped through a few pages of the document again, obviously he had put a lot of effort into understanding the current status of the industry, instead of doing it without thinking, otherwise he would not be able to achieve the second position in the Cote d'Azur.

"Corresponding to LG Group, Samsung Group, which just released its own voice assistant Bixby last year, also announced at this year's CES exhibition that it will add this technology to its own 2018 TVs and Family Hub smart refrigerators."

Yao Jianhong looked at the contents of the document and looked around at the participants with a smile: "The reason why I focused on this smart refrigerator that Samsung launched two years ago this time.

Mainly because of an interesting point from Samsung itself. "

Luo Sheng: "What's your point of view?"

Yao Jianhong explained briefly: "Unlike companies such as Amazon, Apple, Salesforce or Google, Samsung Group is noncommittal about the view that 'smart speakers are the most suitable hub for managing all kinds of smart hardware', but they believe that only The refrigerator is the electrical appliance that people turn on the most frequently in their daily life, so it is determined that the refrigerator is the most likely to become the central product of the smart home."

"Samsung Group even gave the Family Hub refrigerator the highest management authority of its own smart home platform, so that it can control all smart home products in the house that support Samsung IoT technology."

Luo Sheng smiled and said: "The Koreans' idea is tricky, but the Dabai robot we will launch next year is the real center-level product for smart homes. Whether it's a smart speaker or a refrigerator as the Koreans say, it's dead, no. It can move, and the Dabai robot can move everywhere, and our ultimate pursuit of this product is that it must be like a person in every aspect except not like a person."

Yao Jianhong nodded and continued to add: "In addition, Google, which participated in the CES exhibition for the first time this year, is still worth mentioning. In addition to the cooperation with LG Group in home appliances, Google has further cooperated with Sony, Lianxiang and ** L these three manufacturers will be equipped with Google's voice assistant service on their 'smart displays'."

Speaking, Yao Jianhong further explained: "This so-called 'smart display' is actually just the same as the Google Home and Home mini designed by Google before, but it is just an extra piece that can instantly display and voice commands. From the information display screen, it can be seen that Google, which has been widened in the sales of smart speakers, is trying to catch up with differentiated products that optimize the experience."

In the current situation of the smart home industry, Yao Jianhong has basically deconstructed several major manufacturers in the past 20 minutes. "Gao Leng" did not end up playing, but he knew the development status of this industry well.

Luo Sheng leaned on the chief seat, crossed Erlang's legs, and said indifferently with a smile: "In the smart home industry, in this sprint competition that may only last a few years, these players from different fields are competing in different competitions. The road is chasing each other, some specialize in real-sense computing solutions, some specialize in core chip equipment, and others are committed to integrating these cutting-edge technologies into a system.”

"Whether it's tech giants like Google, Amazon or Samsung, everyone wants to get ahead, and no one wants to be left behind... It's hard to say who will stand out in the battle for the smart home AI ecosystem. Of course, the premise is that I didn't come in for the Côte d'Azur."

The last sentence caused Yao Jianhong and others in the meeting to laugh lowly, not only Luo Sheng has great confidence in Dabai Robot, but also the company's internal management.

Although in terms of price, a big white robot can buy a bunch of Amazon's Echo smart speakers, which means that sales must be difficult to increase. It seems that this is not conducive to building an ecosystem for smart homes.

After all, the foundation of ecology is the scale of users.

The major technology giants are all racing to deploy in the field of smart homes, and all of them, without exception, have taken a fancy to the same thing - data.

In today's era of big data, data is the most valuable and the core competitiveness of a company, which can bring a steady stream of income.

Just imagine, when a family uses a company's smart home products, then the data of various consumptions in the family's daily life will be in the hands of the company, and it will know what products the family likes to consume and what they prefer. food, etc. data.

Knowing this information, there are N ways to make money for digital giants.

However, the value of data information is also divided into grades. Some data are extremely rich, but they are worthless, and occupying resources is equivalent to wasting resources.

And some data, albeit small, are of high value.

Cote d'Azur never thought that it would try to monopolize more than 80% of the entire smart home field. It is completely unnecessary, as long as it monopolizes more than 80% of the industry's profits.

The positioning of Dabai Robot follows the model of Azure mobile phones for smart consumer terminals, and is positioned as a high-end and high-premium consumer-grade product.

Obviously, after establishing its own positioning, the customer group that Dabai Robot faces is those families with middle income and above. These customers have money, they have the financial resources to buy Dabai Robot, and their data is also of high value. The premium depends on how wealthy they are.

Poor people, even the data they generate are relatively worthless. Those who illegally sell data, the data information of the poor are sold in packages of millions and tens of millions. They may buy tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a piece of data is worth a cent. Money is not worth even a penny, and the data of the rich may be worth a fortune.

This is a very tragic and very realistic question.

Since Côte d'Azur is late in the smart home industry, it simply doesn't play with those people, and just takes the high-end route and eats all the best quality customer groups. This requires real hard power and real core. Technology, and this is precisely the biggest competitiveness of the Côte d'Azur.

When the profits of the monopoly industry are overwhelming, the development speed of competitors is bound to be limited, and R\u0026D needs money.

On the contrary, for the Côte d'Azur, it has made sufficient profits. Whether or not the price will be reduced to extend the tentacles to the mid-to-low-end market, and a ruthless dimensionality reduction blow to competitors, will take the initiative.

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