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New York Times headline on September 13, 2009 - The phone that changed the phone! .

For the media, they never care about morality. As long as Apple is willing to pay a high notification fee, then it is not impossible for them to open their eyes and tell lies.

What's more, Apple's iPhone is indeed worthy of such headlines.

On the first day of release, the sales volume of iPhones in the United States has exceeded 1 million units. Among them, the 500,000 iPhones in stock that ATT has obtained have all been sold out, and the number of iPhones sold in Wenming’s Apple experience store has also exceeded 150,000. 10,000 units, plus the orders on Apple's official website, as well as consumers who pre-ordered and did not cancel, the total sales of iPhones have reached 1.2 million.

If calculated according to the standard price of 499 US dollars, then Apple’s revenue for this day has reached 590 million US dollars. Of course, the 500,000 iPhones of ATT are the agent’s price, and a 16G storage capacity version is only It costs $449.

But there is not only one version of iphone, it also has a version with 32G storage capacity, priced at $599.

A day's revenue exceeds 600 million U.S. dollars?

Wen Ming finished reading the headlines of today's New York Times. In addition to praising the iPhone as much as possible, the most important thing in the article was to publicize the sales volume of the iPhone on the first day and Apple's total revenue.

The relationship between Wen Ming and New York Times has always been good. This good relationship of spending money to buy news began with Wen Ming's first novel Robinson Crusoe. The publishing house Wen Ming chose at that time was for this It laid the groundwork for a relationship that would later lead to frequent sponsorship of The New York Times after Apple's games were released.

Wen Ming asked with a smile on his face: How much do you think the market value can reach if we go public now?

Apple's chief financial officer Mahler Gobihas was very emotional at this time. Originally, he only chose to come to Apple because of Sith's invitation. At that time, he didn't value Apple too much, because Apple was already Desperate 'to the extent that I want to sell all my products.

Plants vs. Zombies was sold, and the ins was also sold. Even if you entered the 1 billion dollar club because of this, there is nothing to show off, because there is no product, what can you do with cash?

No enterprise can guarantee the success of every new product it develops.

But now, he was really grateful for Sith's original invitation.

If we can go public now, based on the current sales of iPhones, our market value will definitely exceed 80 billion US dollars. Because Facebook's revenue last year is about the same as our revenue yesterday.

Sith next to him was a little puzzled, and asked, Why is it so high? The cumulative sales of Nokia's mobile phones are hundreds of times that of ours now, and their market value is only 110 billion U.S. dollars.

Mahler explained with a smile: That's because Nokia has no real users, but we, like Facebook, have real users.

Wen Ming clapped his hands, because Mahler pointed out the key point of Apple's skyrocketing market value.

Yes, Nokia is just a mobile phone manufacturer. If their mobile phones are not welcomed by the market, then they will face a very embarrassing situation. But we are different, because we also have APPStore application market, etc., all users who use iPhones , will register an Apple account, and these accounts will bind them firmly to us.

Why are apples from another world so valuable?

In addition to products and mastered technology, Apple's application market has definitely contributed a lot of value.

Sith suddenly realized: You mean, we can not only have users like Facebook, but also get hardware profits like Nokia. So, can our market value be so high?

Wen Ming nodded and said: Facebook's annual revenue is currently less than 1 billion U.S. dollars, but its valuation has reached about 30 billion U.S. dollars, and Nokia's cumulative sales of mobile phones are very high, but they How much is the net profit in the revenue? Mahler, have you figured out what is the proportion of our hardware profit?

Mahler said excitedly: Of course I calculated it. After deducting taxes and labor costs, our hardware revenue profit on the iPhone has reached 35%. That is to say, we sold 600 million US dollars yesterday. The profit exceeded 200 million U.S. dollars. This is 200 million U.S. dollars a day, can Nokia do it?

With a user base and a super high revenue-to-profit ratio, how can the market value be so low?

Unless, Apple's second-generation iPhones fall out of favor, which is unlikely. If it wasn't for the insufficient level of hardware development, Wen Ming could even directly make the iphonex, which is Apple's 10th anniversary commemorative version of the full-screen iPhone.

With a confused expression on his face, Sith said in disbelief: That is to say, we are now an 80 billion US dollar company?

etc!

Sith suddenly exclaimed: Wen Ming, aren't you the richest man in the world now?

Wen Ming and Mahler looked at each other and smiled. Mahler understood Wen Ming's eyes and began to explain to Sith: The market value we just mentioned is just what we think is the ideal market value. If we go public, we will definitely be able to reach this level. At that time, our boss must be able to become the richest man in the world. But when we are not listed, the money the boss has is only the money on the books of our company. Now, we only have 600 million U.S. dollars.

Wen Ming added with a smile: Moreover, the US$600 million has to be used as a deposit to be paid to our suppliers in the shortest possible time so that they can continue to produce iPhones for us.

Sith reacted, smiled awkwardly and asked: Shouldn't it be the final payment? And, don't we still have more than 8 million iPhones?

Wen Ming shook his head and said, The final payment can be postponed now, because the time we agreed to settle the final payment has not yet arrived. As for the more than 8 million iPhones, do you think it is enough to sell?

Sith shook his head and said, I think it's definitely not enough to sell, it must not be sold enough!

While the three were talking, Peter, who had just met with the people from ATT, walked in with a sad face.

Boss, I strongly request that I have to go to Foxconn and let them speed up the production of iPhones, otherwise, they won't be able to sell enough.

Wen Ming was stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought of Foxconn in his previous life, the factory of blood and tears, and the factory that jumped off the building. Maybe the reason was because the iPhone was too popular, so he worked too much overtime?