Chapter 1535 If you want to carry the crown, you must bear its weight (Second update, please subscribe)
What is a routine?
For Li Yi'an, who comes from the "white prostitution era", he is well aware of the depth of the so-called "free" routines of Internet companies in the 21st century.
Li Yian said while recalling the so-called free routines of Internet companies in another world.
"GPS charges mainly include equipment costs and service costs."
"This equipment cost refers to the cost of purchasing GPS equipment and related accessories, including the purchase price of the GPS equipment itself, installation costs and subsequent maintenance costs. The price of the equipment will be affected by the brand, model and feature richness. In the early days, you can The market is still very broad by making profits through authorized production and other methods.”
Can it not be vast?
There are many industries that require navigation and positioning work, such as land geodesy, fishing boats, private yachts, oil tankers, cargo ships, etc., aircraft, surface ships, submarines, offshore drilling equipment, oil exploration ships, oceanographic survey ships, hydrographic survey ships, mobile buoy.
That's it, not including cars, not including mobile phones.
Why are countries such as the UK, Canada, and Australia willing to spend billions to participate in the deployment of global satellite positioning systems? It is because this is a market visible to the naked eye. Just the authorized production of positioning systems accounts for hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Billions of returns.
Of course, they definitely want to charge monthly. In that case, the income will definitely be higher. However, Li Yian does not intend to adopt this charging method at all. After all, the major Internet companies in the 21st century told him a truth from reality.
Free is not only the fastest to promote, but also the most expensive.
The free ones are the most expensive. Not to mention that no one has realized this problem yet. Even in the era of free services, many people thought that free services were a waste of money. I don’t think free is a disadvantage.
Although the U.S. Meridian Global Navigation System is primitive, GPS technology is almost 20 years ahead of it.
But in order to monopolize the market as much as possible, promoting it for free as a gimmick is the best choice. After all, after the emergence of the "Beidou Navigation System", the United States has realized that their Meridian Global Navigation System is lagging behind. The U.S. military has proposed a similar plan. In terms of their technical level, they will definitely catch up in the future.
Therefore, we must completely seize the market before Americans enter this market, and use the first-mover advantage to occupy and monopolize the market. This is the key to staying ahead.
"I understand this. According to calculations, it will take us 8 years to complete the global network deployment of GDS. Although we can earn more than 200 million US dollars in profits every year, satellites have a lifespan. In order to provide good services, we need to continue The launch of new satellites ”
After expressing his agreement, Yuan Jialiu said:
"The reason why Britain, Australia, Canada and New South Wales are willing to join is because they see the huge potential application market."
As a long-established maritime power, they are well aware of the profits of the navigation market, so they understand how huge the market is without any explanation.
"More than just potential!"
Li Yian waved his hand and said:
"But in the real market, we can provide basic satellite positioning services for free. As long as they purchase positioning equipment, they can use it for free. In addition to this basic service, we can also provide further membership services, which are VIP services!"
Yuan Jialiu couldn't help but open his eyes wide and said:
"VIP service?"
As a member of the country club, he certainly knew what VIP was, but he never thought that there could be VIPs in space services.
“Yes, it’s VIP service!”
Li Yian explained:
"This VIP service means that there is a certain distinction in the process of using GPS services. Ordinary users have limited accuracy. Through certain interference, they can only meet basic positioning needs, while the VIP service has higher positioning accuracy. These fees are The size mainly depends on the frequency and scope of user use, as well as the quality and stability of the service. ”
By setting up VIP customers to provide differentiated services, the other world is simply not too normal, from the simplest network disk download speed, to VIP members of major video websites, and later even VIP members. Not only that, there are even VIP members.
In short, in order to harvest leek capital, you can rack your brains and come up with various tricks. If you are not careful, you will become a leek.
However, the capital also gave Li Yian enough experience to use the global positioning system to harvest leeks around the world.
No, it should mean providing high-quality services around the world. Of course, this kind of service comes at a price.
Listen to your talk about differentiated services and differentiated charges. Yuan Jialiu was completely shocked.
Obviously he was stunned by this cross-era business model.
But Li Yian didn't notice his dumbfounded look, but said proudly:
"...So, monopoly, as long as we monopolize the market, we can use various means and methods to get as much return as possible. Then we will make money...it will be easy."
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What’s the only obstacle to making money by then?
That is, my own conscience.
Hearing this "business method" that transcended the times, Yuan Jialiu was shocked and looked at his old friend in front of him for a while before speaking.
"Hey, maybe it would be a great blessing for all mankind not to continue doing business."
Um?
The sudden comment made Li Yian stunned for a moment, and then laughed. "Haha, capital, from the day it came into the world, sin permeated every pore."
That is to say, only old friends can joke like this. Now that there is a way to make profits, when free services are provided in the future, we can also convince those partners.
After talking about this issue, Yuan Jialiu asked Li Yian what he was busy with recently.
"Running for peace, the situation in Saigon is very tense at the moment."
Li Yi'an looked exhausted mentally and physically for peace. Waiting is always difficult. Can't the United States act faster?
The United States must quickly increase its intensity over there so that we can seize the opportunity here. It is not possible to just take off in place!
"I am indeed very nervous. When I was in London, the newspapers there were also full of news about Saigon. Are you worried that Hanoi will further expand the war with the support of the allies?"
Although he doesn't care much about politics, Yuan Jialiu still expressed the same concern. After all, some things are always inevitable.
"That's not the case. Since the United States has intervened in Saigon, the deterioration of the situation there will not exceed a certain range! They will control Hanoi's expansion within the Saigon area."
Li Yian is very sure about this.
From a military point of view, the United States has never lost from beginning to end. According to the US military's own statement, they have won every battle. But this is the strangest thing about this quagmire. Although they have won every battle, A battle, but it does not prevent the United States from being in a defeated position.
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In fact, the reason is very simple. No country can win this kind of war.
Whether it was the United States in Vietnam, the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, and later the U.S. military in Afghanistan, to put it bluntly, fighting in such garbage areas is essentially consuming one's own strength and wasting wealth in a garbage dump.
The simplest example is that next year, the U.S. military began to increase its intensity in Vietnam and launched "Operation Rolling Thunder."
"Operation Rolling Thunder" lasted for a full 43 months. Before the plan was implemented, McNamara and his staff were foolish and naive enough to believe that Hanoi would soon succumb as long as it was bombed, otherwise the economy would collapse.
Think that's possible?
So what if the economy collapses?
Where are the two big brothers at the back?
During Operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft dropped 643,000 tons of bombs in the north. This amount of bombs exceeded the amount of bombs dropped in the entire Pacific War. These bombs indeed destroyed three-fifths of Hanoi's power plants and more than half of its main buildings. bridge, but did not achieve any strategic objectives.
Because like Saigon in the south, Hanoi itself is a backward agricultural country. All weapons and ammunition are provided by the Soviet Union and Dongda University. The production base is not in Hanoi at all. Even the airport used to intercept US troops is north of the national border. The United States No matter how busy people work, they won't hurt any weapons and ammunition production capacity. At most, they will interfere with the transportation line.
Operation Rolling Thunder later became a huge burden on the U.S. economy. The Americans themselves calculated that in order to cause Vietnam one dollar of damage, the United States had to throw in nearly ten dollars. No matter how you calculate it, this is a deal that cannot be compensated anymore.
A certain big country that plays a strong backing behind it has a much higher level of endurance than the United States. Anyway, the worst is not much worse. If there is no war, it will still be coarse grains and pickles. In the end, it's just a matter of tightening the belt.
So what are you afraid of? Just fight!
This is not the case in the United States. In order to continue this war, the United States had to issue more currency and increase military expenditures. All of this will ultimately have to be borne by the Americans.
The consequences are obvious. During the Vietnam War, the United States invested 250 billion in military expenditures, and the cumulative related expenditures exceeded 550 billion, and some even said it exceeded 1 trillion US dollars!
With such a huge expenditure, it would be strange if the economy does not suffer from problems.
Had it not been for the fact that after World War II, the United States had accumulated unprecedented wealth and its national power was unprecedentedly strong, and that its little brothers in Europe had not become disloyal, and that blood-sucking Europe and Japan had returned a wave of blood, and then the Soviet Union fell into a quagmire and collapsed on the spot, It is not certain who will lose or win the Cold War.
"That's true. The United States has intervened, so it shouldn't spread to other places!"
Yuan Jialiu's attitude represents the world's attitude and view of the United States in this era.
As a superpower, the United States has an extremely aloof status in the world. It sent troops to a land like Saigon and struck hard. From everyone's perspective, winning was simply a simple matter.
Because of this, this war, in which no one was surprised when it won and its allies were surprised when it lost, caused the United States to lose face.
If you win, it's normal, but if you lose, it's like Big Brother. Is that okay?
People's hearts are in chaos and it's hard to lead the team!
Because of this, when the United States showed its martial virtue in Vietnam and was disgraced, he could not leave the scene with dignity. When Big Brother showed his martial virtue in Afghanistan, the same dilemma also troubled Big Brother. .
This is the burden of a big country. If you want to carry the crown, you must bear its weight.
There is a price they have to pay.
Now, at a time when the United States is full of military virtue, Li Nian must carefully adjust its response. At this point in time, he also has to assist the United Kingdom in dealing with the independence of the East African Federation.
In fact, from the British perspective, the most important thing is to get rid of the worthless colonies, let them fend for themselves, and preserve the sphere of influence related to national security and economic interests.
And Britain has been doing this. In the past few years, they have been giving up those worthless colonies, but East Africa is different - now there is a cow!
How could it be possible to give up?
(End of chapter)