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1. Third quarter China smartphone ranking: OPPO first, Huawei / vivo / millet top four;
Set micro-grid November 2 reported
Today, Counterpoint, a world-renowned research organization, released the latest smart phone market shipments in the third quarter of the year in China. The report shows that compared with the third quarter of 2016, shipments to the Chinese market in the third quarter of 2017 slowed down. Overall, Shipments fell 1%.
Specific to the manufacturers rankings, OPPO in the third quarter with 18.9% market share won the first.Huawei and vivo this quarter, market share continued to be 18.6%, ranked second and third.Millet strong growth, with a 13.8% share Ranked fourth in this quarter, Apple share increased simultaneously, but still ranked fifth.
James Yan, research director at Counterpoint Research, said: "Although OPPO and vivo experienced a slowdown in quarter growth over the previous year, the overall pace of growth remained stable and healthy with OPPO R11 being the best-selling model for the quarter. Quarterly growth (+ 23% YoY) was stronger than the same period last year, mainly due to more product portfolio at different price points and adaptation to different consumers.
For millet quarter results, Counterpoint Research analysts said millet strong recovery is mainly to strengthen the supply chain, access to key components.However, millet sales of most products are still biased toward the low-end, high-end models millet mix 2 success will be able to pull Brand Value.
2.OPPO first full screen mobile phone R11s release, Wu Qiang said OPPO is after the first fight;
Set micro-grid November 2 reported
OPPO today also ushered in its first full screen mobile phone OPPO R11s. Based on the previous generation explosion models R11, R11s in the camera, exterior design and system applications and other aspects of a comprehensive upgrade. It is reported, R11s will be online and offline November 10 for sale, priced at 2999 yuan.
Wu Qiang, vice president of OPPO: dare to be the best in the world after the competition
Press conference started, Wu Qiang, vice president of OPPO first analyzed some of the data, and described some of OPPO for themselves and industry.
According to the well-known domestic research organization Sino data, OPPO R11 won the single-product sales champion in the price range of 2,500 to 3,000 yuan in the month after its listing in mid-June and remained the first for 4 months in June-September. At the same time, Wu Qiang pointed out that R11 users, young users under the age of 30 accounted for more than 80%, OPPO become more and more young people choose the camera phone brand.
In fact, we found that OPPO burst is not a paragraph, but a continuous variety of sales point of view, from R7 in 2015 to R9 and then to R11, OPPO R series each product is a blast. Why OPPO can Do you continue to burst?
Wu Qiang said that the way OPPO people think about the problem has always been from the user, starting from the product, the product to the extreme. 'This means that OPPO continues to burst the core is to do the traction based on user needs, with the ultimate consumer products to win the consumer Recognized.
Wu Qiang at the same time throw a point of view, OPPO a business philosophy is 'dare to be the best in the world after the first fight.' For example, this is not the first to adopt a full screen OPPO manufacturers, but in full screen, OPPO R11s Red Edition The looming glow of the frontal effect is just like integrating the entire sky, which is the star screen that belongs to the OPPO.
'When we enter a market or create a product, we do not necessarily have to be the first to market, and we do not necessarily have to be the first to use the latest technology or devices, but when we enter this market, we must do it in some ways Leading. "Wu Qiang said.
According to Wu Qiang, at present, OPPO has set up research centers in frontier areas of science and technology in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Silicon Valley and Tokyo etc. Especially in the field of imaging technology, 5G, artificial Smart and other key areas OPPO invested a greater manpower and resources.In addition to independent research and development, but also with the supply chain upstream leading enterprises such as Sony, Samsung, Shangtang technology and other in-depth cooperation.Wu Qiang said there will be more technology in the future Results gradually applied to the product, to provide users with a better experience.
OPPO R11s three major upgrades: full screen, camera, system
Appearance, the OPPO R11s uses a 6.01-inch 18: 9 full screen, the size of the fuselage and the previous generation R11 is almost the same, so the proportion of screen increased to 85.8%, OPPO has the highest proportion of screen screen models in the A full screen is also quite good.
R11s full screen will focus on how to allow users to better enjoy the full screen. Immersion, simplicity, comfort is OPPO R11s full screen of the three features. Among them, the red version of the R11s, OPPO's first 'Star screen 'Design, blur the boundaries of the mobile phone border, the screen becomes even larger, the horizon is no longer due to the constraints of the border and halted, bringing more immersive visual enjoyment;
In simplicity and comfort, the front of the R11s is only the front of the receiver and the front lens, simple and beautiful screen vividly; upper and lower borders crescent curved design unique, not only scattered in the past in a hole stored in one hand when holding More comfortable.
Hardware configuration, OPPO R11s equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor, supplemented by 4GB storage + 64GB fuselage storage; charging, R11s Micro USB interface, the battery capacity of 3205 mAh, support VOOC flash charge. Top Technology Fingerprint Identification Technology.
Another OPPO R11s Plus will upgrade the screen to a 6.43-inch screen, shipping upgrade to 6GB, and equipped with 4000 mAh capacity battery.
In addition to full screen, OPPO will still focus on taking pictures. Different from the traditional dual-camera program to distinguish between the main camera and the vice OPPO R11s equipped with self-developed 16 million +2000 million pixel dual camera. Both lenses are the main camera, the same powerful, are using f / 1.7 large aperture. 16 million pixel camera high resolution, more natural during the day shooting; 20 million pixel camera in the dark will be synthesized by pixel polymerization technology 2.0μm Large pixels, dark light shot more clearly; two lenses according to the light when the smart camera switch, combined with a new upgrade of the OPPO gradient blurring algorithm and photo optimization techniques, and ultimately achieve a more clear shot, the background is more natural.
Pre-20 million AI wisdom beauty, through the acquisition of facial features 254 points to identify facial features information, and then from the age, gender, color, skin and other dimensions for different users with different beauty effects, beauty just right , Allowing users to take pictures more beautiful.
On the system, this OPPO R11s is also equipped with a new ColorOS 3.2 system, AI-based smart albums to create user-specific albums, and can find the photos they want more quickly; and unique album storage space optimization features are greatly Which reduces the occupation of mass storage for local photos.In addition, it promotes the terminal application of the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine together with Qualcomm.It gives full play to the computing power of GPU and DSP while the AI application is running, greatly improves the R11s On the AI application runtime processing speed, and power consumption has also been greatly reduced.
At the end of the conference, OPPO announced the release of new products: OPPO R11s will be online and offline on November 10 for sale, black and champagne priced at 2999 yuan, the red version priced at 3199 yuan; OPPO R11s Plus will be 11 On the 24th line online and offline for sale, priced at 3699 yuan .As a pop product R11 successor, I believe OPPO R11s will once again refresh the market record!
3. Knight Island: who is in support of Jiayue Ting's pride?
According to several media reports, a number of former members of the Public Procurator Committee (IPO) members who participated in the music video IPO audit were recently inspected and they were accused of covering up the big financial news headlines again on the last day of October Music Watch IPO approval for alleged financial fraud. Followed by the music Watch a series of financial fraud, bribe officials allegations. This time, no one cares about when Jia Yunting back home, take over the music as a mess Sun Hongbin whether Tears. Everyone is asking, LeTV will be delisted it? Le Watch how long?
happen
The occurrence of the incident is quite dramatic.
On October 31, a number of media reports said that among the members of the first GEM issuance examination committee, 3 to 4 members were investigated in late July and early August 2017, of which two were from accounting firms.
According to informed sources, the final number of suspects in the case will be more than 10 people, 'mainly related to the music Watch IPO, do not know the Commission intervention or public security investigation.'
Has been listed seven years of music Watch, finally escape the turmoil in the market.
I still remember that in August 2010, as the first video site in the capital market, Lotte could be described as an upheaval. The price for listing and trading exceeded the issue price by 60% and the opening price reached 49.44 yuan.
But the reason behind this brilliant, may not be simple.
As early as 2016, LeTV has been involved in the controversy of the false IPO, and has aroused the attention of all walks of life.
The line that was pulled out at the time was the former director of the Securities and Exchange Commission Investor Protection Bureau.
According to the accusation of Yangzhou Municipal People's Procuratorate of Jiangsu Province: From 2000 to 2012, the defendant, Li Liang, took the position of authorizing the issuance of a division director and the deputy director of the regulatory board of the GEM on the issuance of the regulation by the CSRC. Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and other 9 companies to apply for public offering of shares or listing to help, and from 2000 to 2013 to accept the company to send the company's property, a total amount of 69.3622654 million yuan.
Although in November 2016, LeTV clarification on the announcement made nothing to do with the matter, but in the trial, Li's plea of guilty in court, or let Letv suffered a lot of trust crisis.
It is noteworthy that on the afternoon of July 20, 2017, the Central Discipline Inspection Commission's official website disclosed that the case brought by Yao Gang, former vice chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission who was taken away for 20 months, has made some progress:
Interestingly, during the trial of Yao Gang, more than one person under his control came down one after another, including Li, who previously helped nine companies such as Music Watch publicly offer shares or go public.
Obviously, the music IPO to IPO and these officials are inextricably linked.
Finance
However, regarding the allegation of the false listing on the music net, the public actually has long had psychological expectations.
As early as June 2010, the music approved the IPO IPO came out in the industry caused no small reaction.At that time, Huaxing capital CEO Bao who once ridicule: 'a ranked 17th video site, there are industry One of the financial indicators, tricks ah.
Where the package where the words? Let's look at the prospectus when the listing of the prospectus.
According to its prospectus, LeTV's main business is the online video services and video platform value-added services, video advertising is an important part of revenue.
How important is it? Prospectus wrote:
In 2007, LeTV advertising revenue of 5.28 million yuan, Le TV ads accounted for 100% of revenue, which is 5.28 million yuan from a company - Beijing Xin Rui Li Advertising Co., Ltd.,
In 2008, LeTV's main advertisers were Beijing Xinruili Advertising Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhongsheng Longsheng Advertising Co., Ltd., Guangdong Advertising Co., Ltd. and Minsheng Bank. The advertising revenue of the four major customers totaled 17.3534 million yuan, accounting for 99.95% ;
In 2009, LeTV customers included Beijing Xin Rui Li Advertising Co., Ltd., Beijing Activation Advertising Media Co., Ltd., Beijing Spring Autumn Tiancheng Advertising Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhongshi Long Sheng Advertising Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Advertising Co., Ltd., 34.7268 million yuan of revenue, accounting for 94.02% of the proportion of advertising revenue.
See here, everyone is already started to question? Advertising revenue is the main source of revenue from the video site, which is understandable.But LeTV advertisers are not a little too focused? With such three or four companies, will be able to Years of propping up the whole site revenue, Jiayue Ting the level of doing business simply God!
After all, in the face of this performance, the same period listed on the NYSE, the domestic market share of video sites in 2009 Youku ranked first, you may also want to shout: 'concubine can not do!
According to Youku's prospectus, although its number of advertisers was only seven in 2007, it increased to 141 and 303 in 2008 and 2009, respectively, and in the past three years Youku's revenue from branded advertising sales Accounting for 65.2%, 89.0% and 91.6% of net revenue respectively.
In the field of economics, there is a term called Too good to be true, that is, if a company's revenue figures are too good, then it is often not credible.
The truth is unbelievable.
According to the 2014 media survey: its largest advertisers Beijing Xin Rui Li Advertising Co., Ltd., office staff long-term only 2, but the development of millions of advertising business; the other two advertisers Beijing Zhongsheng Long Sheng Advertising Co., Ltd. and Beijing Spring and Autumn days into Advertising Co., Ltd., the legal representative is the same person, called Chen Jie, the former office for Beijing Tongzhou District Zhenxing Street 564, the latter in Huairou District of Beijing in the second district, a building, Building 4 The two companies were established only three months apart, with a registered capital of 500,000 yuan.
The story already shows everything.
question
So, LeTV network will have the situation today, in the end who is the pot?
Undoubtedly, as the founder of LeTV and the manager of the past ten years, Jiayue Ting is at fault.
If the music financial fake fraud and bribe officials sit tight, according to China's "Criminal Law," the relevant provisions of the then legal representative Jia Yuanting and the responsible person must pay legal responsibility.
In fact, if we look closely at the words and deeds of Jia Yunting in the past two years, we will find that all his dream of suffocation is likely to be a hat-trick.
In July 2017, just as music faces a series of financial chain ruptures and employee debt collection crisis, Jia Yueting resigned from all the roles of LeTV and claimed to go to the United States to realize his dream of a car.
But he has not returned so far.
He posted on his Weibo a factory video of FF, a US auto company, saying 'the FF91 high-end factory is in full swing. The future is opening.'
However, according to an investor in Hong Kong and some technology media, FF Company has gone bankrupt and is currently in the process of changing hands and there are no so-called thousands of employees. Although the truth is not known yet, the public's trust in Mr. discount.
More seriously, it may be the allegation made by all parties about their illegal reduction of shares.
According to media reports, since June 2015, Jia Youting reduced its music-related shares to a total of RMB5.7 billion at an average price of RMB68.5. Subsequently, his sister Jia Yuefang also opened the high reduction model and made three reductions of 22 100 million yuan.
Where did Jiayue Ting's money go? No one put it plainly. He said he had made 10 billion repairers, but no one had ever read the books of Lesu cars.
Not long ago, a public document entitled Dr Gu Yingqiong said the world said Jia Yunting wants to leave 75 million U.S. dollars left to her daughter through her irrevocable prior trust, while several other children have received similar amounts of trust funds.
Jiayue Ting rare response, prosecute Gu Yingqiong, the reason is rumor defamation, but no further.
behind
All along, Jia Yueting are Shanxi 'bitter kid' inspirational image, claiming that their success is not attached to any government relations behind, but also for a time touched so many investors.
However, this point has also recently been questioned.
There is a person called Li Jun is the key.
According to the initial music prospectus and related annual report, this person in December 2008 by the transfer of 2 million yuan Jiayue Ting contributions, accounting for 3.36% of the shares. Since February 2009, vice president of music as the network, 2013 January 14 due to leave due to expire.
As of September 2013, Li Jun has occupied the top ten shareholders of music as the net position, holding the ratio remained at 2.52% since the end of 2011, with Shenzhen Venture Capital, Huijin Cube, etc. Other investors exit, Li Jun, the ranking of shareholders jumped from sixth to fourth, second only to Jiayue Ting, Jia Yuefang, Liu Hong (music as co-founder) 3. Then at the end of 2013, Li Jun holdings of 17 , 552,060 shares, out of the top ten list of shareholders.
Why do you specifically point out Li Jun and several investors? Because the relationship is very interesting.
Everyone knows that Huijin Cube Capital Management Co., Ltd. is an important investor in the early development of LeTV, but few people may know that Li Jun's brother-in-law is the chairman of Huijin Cube Capital Management Co., Ltd. Wang Cheng, while Hong Kong media was Reported that Wang Cheng is a pseudonym made by a Shanxi-based land-based businessman and ordered to be a big tiger.
All along, Jiayue Ting have denied the relationship with the Ling brothers and Shanxi business circle, but the music behind the network is really worth investigating.
In fact, the investment community already has its own views.
Many investors, including Shen Meng, the executive director of Hongsong Capital and Huang Li-chong, co-founder of Hsia Chang Strategic Management Group, both believe that this investigation, to a certain extent, is the fermentation of planned events.
The road
So, LeTV network will go where?
In the words of an investor, it is out of sight.
Recently, LeTV announced much-watched industry quarterly earnings in the first quarter of this year, LeTV first saw a loss; the first half of LeTV 673 million loss; the third quarter, although the company changed its name, but the single-quarter loss has been pulled up To 1.015 billion.
On October 31, another 20 fund companies cut their valuation of music videos, of which China Post Fund and Harvest Fund announced that the stock price of LeTV was adjusted to only 7.83 yuan and 7.82 yuan respectively. Compared to the stock price, almost cut.
In addition, music Watch also encountered the collective resignation of executives.
On October 27, Liang Jun, the general manager of LeTV, resigned in 2012. On the same day, LeTV, Zhang Minxiong, Jiang Xiaolin and Yang Yongqiang, deputy general managers of LeTV Group, resigned.
Succeeded in becoming the new head of Jiayue Ting Sun Hongbin can save it? Prior to the financial performance at the meeting, Sun Hongbin was asked Jiayue Ting, tears that Jia Yunting no Wang fly.
Recently, Sun Hongbin himself was also exposed by the media is being concentrated to investigate the risk of funds, and even the Shanghai Stock Exchange's 10 billion corporate bonds have also been terminated.
And the industry's most concerned about whether the resumption of music video stocks issue, but also a dilemma: If long-term non-stop trading, once the music video IPO fraud false rumors, will trigger a large area of investor claims; if the resumption of trading, in debt And the dual dilemma of the music network share prices are also hard to fall sharply fate, the direct result of this is: Sun Hongbin 15 billion investment and efforts will also be put to waste .Korke Island
4. heavy! 360 will be backdoor Jiangnan Jiajie return A shares;
Text / Tencent science and technology Wang Pan
Yesterday evening, the listed company Jiangnan Jiajie Elevator Co., Ltd. (stock code: 601313) announced that 360 Chairman Zhou Hongyi (microblogging) and the two companies it controls will jointly acquire Jiangnan Jiajie.
This means that the speculation that the long-awaited 360 return A-share shell company officially surfaced, then the 360 will be officially backdoor Jiang Jiajie return A shares.
Just this morning, Zhou Hongyi expressed her thanks to the team through her personal WeChat circle of friends. 'Thank you for persisting strong and tough in the past few years.'
It is reported that Zhou Hongyi control of these two companies were Tianjin Qixin Zhicheng Technology Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Zhongxin Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership).
Qi Xin Zhicheng controlling shareholder and actual controller Zhou Hongyi, Zhou Hongyi I directly hold odd letter Zhicheng 17.38% of the shares, as the largest shareholder, in addition to including Sequoia Capital, Sunshine Life, Ping An home buyers and other major shareholders of Tianjin. Tianjin U-letter controlling shareholder and actual controller Zhou Hongyi, holding ratio of 99.1%.
In this transaction, Jiangnan Jiajie will, as of March 31, 2017, own all assets, liabilities, businesses, personnel, contracts, qualifications and all other rights owned by Jiachen, a wholly-owned subsidiary, and all other rights The obligation transferred to Jia Jie Electrical and Mechanical Services.On the basis of transfer and restructuring, Jiangnan Jia Jie will JJ Electromechanical 90.29% stake in cash to Jin Zhifeng, Jin Zuming or its designated third party, the transaction price of 169,000 yuan ; 9.71% equity of Jiajie Mechatronics will be replaced with the equivalent part of 360% equity owned by all shareholders of 360, and all shareholders of 306 will then transfer 9.71% equity of Jiajie Electrical and Mechanical Equipment Co., Ltd. to Jin Zhifeng, Jin Zu-ming or Designated third party.
According to the announcement, after the completion of the transaction, Qixin Zhicheng will hold 48.74% of the total share capital of Jiangnan Jiajie, being the controlling shareholder of Jiangnan Jiajie. Zhou Hongyi directly holds 12.14% of the shares of Jiangnan Jiajie, indirectly through Qixin Zhicheng Controlled 48.74% shares of the Company, indirectly controlled 2.82% shares of the Company through Tianjin Zhongxin and controlled 63.70% shares of the Company in aggregate, being the actual controller of Jiangnan Jiajie.
In this transaction, the total amount of assets and transaction amount to be put into assets is RMB50.4 billion, accounting for 1789.27% and over 100% of the total assets of RMB2.817 billion of listed companies at the end of 2016. Therefore, the transaction constitutes a restructuring and listing Submitted to the China Securities Regulatory Commission, mergers and acquisitions audit committee reviewed and approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission before implementation.
It is learned that the market value of the shares 360 that were previously delisted from the US stock market was 9.3 billion U.S. dollars (about 61.5 billion U.S. dollars). However, public opinion generally believes that the market value of the 360 stocks will probably be realized once the 360 is returned to A shares according to the current PE differences between the U.S. stocks and A shares. Several times the growth, will become A shares truly 'giant.'
Just this morning, Zhou Hongyi expressed her thanks to the team through her personal WeChat circle of friends. 'Thank you for persisting strong and tough in the past few years.'
5. Apple's third-quarter net profit rose 19% over the fourth quarter is expected to surge in revenue over Liu Cheng;
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 morning news, Apple Inc. today announced fourth quarter fiscal 2017 results report shows that Apple's fourth-quarter revenue of 52.579 billion US dollars, 46.852 billion US dollars more than the same period last year growth 12%, setting a record; net profit of 10.714 billion US dollars, 90.14 billion US dollars over the same period last year increased 19% .Among them, Greater China revenue of 98.01 billion US dollars, 8.785 billion US dollars over the same period last year increased 12%.
Apple's fourth-quarter earnings per share and revenue exceeded Wall Street analysts had expected, first-quarter fiscal 2018 results also exceeded expectations, boosting its share price rose more than 3%.
Apple's board of directors announced that it will pay a cash dividend of $ 0.63 per share to common shareholders of the company, which will be paid on November 16, 2017 to registered shareholders whose business hours ended on November 13, 2017.
Detailed performance:
For the fourth quarter ended September 30, 2017, Apple posted net profit of $ 10,714 million, an increase of 19% over the same period of last year; diluted earnings per share of $ 2.07, an increase of 24% from the same period of last year. Quarter, Apple's net profit of 90.14 billion US dollars, diluted earnings per share of 1.67 US dollars.
Apple's fourth-quarter operating profit was $ 131.20 billion, up from $ 117.61 billion a year earlier.
Apple's fourth-quarter revenue was 52.579 billion U.S. dollars, up 12% from 46.852 billion U.S. dollars in the same period last year, of which international sales accounted for 62%.
Apple's fourth-quarter earnings per share and revenue exceeded Wall Street analysts had expected.According to Yahoo Finance statistics show that 31 analysts had expected Apple's fourth-quarter earnings per share of 1.87 US dollars, 29 Analysts on average expected Apple's fourth-quarter revenue of 50.79 billion US dollars.
Product sales:
Apple sold 46.677 million iPhones in the fourth fiscal quarter, up 3% from 45,513,000 in the same period of last year; a total of 10,326,000 iPads were sold, up 11% from 9,267,000 in the same period last year; and 5,386,000 iPhones were sold Mac, an increase of 10% over the 488.6 million units in the same period last year.
By region:
Apple's fourth-quarter revenue in the Americas segment was $ 23.099 billion, up 14% from $ 20.229 billion in the same period last year.
Revenue for the European sector was $ 130.09 billion, up 20% from $ 10.842 billion in the same period last year.
Revenue in Greater China was US $ 9.801 billion, up 12% from US $ 8.785 billion in the same period of last year.
Japanese department revenue was 3.858 billion U.S. dollars, down 11% from 4.324 billion U.S. dollars in the same period of last year.
Revenue from other parts of Asia Pacific was 2.82 billion U.S. dollars, up 5% from 2.672 billion U.S. dollars in the same period of last year.
By product:
Apple's fourth-quarter revenue from the iPhone was 28.846 billion U.S. dollars, up 2% from 28.6 billion U.S. dollars in the same period last year.
Revenue from the iPad was $ 4,831 million, up 14% from $ 4,255 million in the same period last year.
Revenue from Mac was 7.17 billion U.S. dollars, up 25% from 57.39 billion U.S. dollars in the same period last year.
Revenue from services was $ 8.501 billion, up 34% from $ 6.325 billion in the same period last year.
Revenue from other products was $ 3,231 million, an increase of 36% from $ 2,373 million in the same period last year.
Performance expectations:
Apple Inc. made the following first-quarter results for FY 2018:
Revenues were 84 billion U.S. dollars to 87 billion U.S. dollars.
Gross profit margin is 38% to 38.5%.
Operating expenses were 7.65 billion U.S. dollars to 7.75 billion U.S. dollars.
Other income is 600 million U.S. dollars;
The tax rate is 25.5%.
Apple's fiscal first-quarter fiscal 2013 revenue expectations range of 85.5 billion US dollars, exceeding analysts had expected.According to Yahoo Finance statistics show that 27 analysts on average expected Apple's first-quarter revenue of 853.1 Hundreds of millions of dollars.
Capital Return Program:
Apple's board of directors announced that it will pay a cash dividend of $ 0.63 per share to common shareholders of the company, which will be paid on November 16, 2017 to registered shareholders whose business hours ended on November 13, 2017.
Executives Comments:
Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said: "We are very pleased to report that we have had a very strong ending in FY 2017 with a record fourth quarter revenue and all product categories Our service business achieved the best quarterly performance ever thanks to the year-over-year growth, and outstanding new products such as iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, Apple Watch Series 3 and Apple TV joined our portfolio, prompting us to look forward to holiday shopping The season was a great performance, and in addition, the iPhone X is now officially available, and we're excited about it because we're starting to work hard to make the dream come true for the future. "
Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer, said: "Apple's revenue growth accelerated in the fourth quarter, driving earnings per share growth of 24% in the quarter. We also generated a strong operating cash flow of $ 15.7 billion and returned $ 11 billion in cash to investors through a capital rebate program.
Price changes:
On the same day, Apple shares rose 1.22 U.S. dollars in regular trading on the Nasdaq to close at 168.11 U.S. dollars, up 0.73%.
Apple shares rose another $ 5.45 to $ 173.56, or 3.24%, in the ensuing after-hours deal at 16:58 EDT (4:58 GMT). In the past 52 weeks, Apple Inc. The price is 169.94 dollars, the lowest is 104.08 dollars. (Tang style)
6. Secret: Huawei even engaged in 3 years of automatic driving!
Travel industry is under the impetus of artificial intelligence drastic change.This year, do not do self-driving big company is not a good company.Overseas, Google, Apple all the way from their own research and development of self-driving, domestic, BAT have entered. Listing of Huawei, also eyeing the travel industry, the first car news came out, and later, with its strong communications technology as the basis, reached the field of automatic driving.
Huawei how to sneak in the autopilot, what kind of hand in the hand holding the card, but also how to choose to play? Car thing combing in this one.
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Making cars or automatic driving: take the old apple?
Under the wave of motorization, new forces trying to get involved in repairers are numerous, with the exception of new car-making campaigns started by domestic and foreign start-up companies such as Fisker, Lucid, Wei Lai, Xiaopeng, etc. Internet tech giants such as Google and Apple also Had its own car repairer program, but the communications giants, it touches rarely made in the car activities on the rumored, but Huawei is an exception.
In October last year, Huawei was handed over to build a car by Canadian auto parts maker Magna, a Canadian OEM that sells BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar Land Rover, etc. in the body, chassis and powertrain. And Magna once said, 'If there is a demand in the Chinese market, you can buy a factory locally or start working with a local OEM.'
In fact, this is not the first time Huawei has been sent to set foot in. In 2015, the glory of the official microblogging once released a picture, Honor Honor As the car appeared in the front of an Audi models.At that time people have speculated that Huawei will make cars with Audi.After the mystery was announced, but glory of new models listed on the campaign.
In 2015, Huawei repeatedly stressed that it will not make its own cars, but to provide a 5G-based car networking service.However, a Gree air-conditioned, previously in the automotive industry can be described as no accumulation, are daring to flat From high buildings.While widely engaged in the automotive industry partner Huawei, came to make cars scandal is not difficult to understand.
More specifically, in the era of mobile Internet, Huawei, a mobile communications company, has personally made mobile phones to compete with each other in the communications industry. As the mobile Internet has matured, the stock market in the smart phone market has tended to Stable, and the car is considered the next generation of mobile terminals.At this time to create their own car brand, will help occupy the Internet car market, just as Huawei had cut into the smart phone market.
However, the technical difficulty of making cars, the cost and the risk are so great that even Apple has chosen to give up and turn into the road to build an autonomous driving system. And entering the automobile manufacturing industry means that with the existing OEM partners Therefore, under the trade-off, Huawei is not likely to make much repairs in the moment, and more auto talents are absorbed in assisting the development of automatic driving technology. The high technology of autopilot occupies a considerable position in Huawei's future strategy, And its layout is much broader than we thought, and it's no less than Apple, which is also developing autonomous driving.
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Huawei automatic driving: car networking for the kernel
1, force V2X, build car network 'cloud pipe end'
Huawei has already begun to deeply intervene in another major new direction of the automobile industry - the car networking when the automatic air-access does not start. In 2013, Huawei launched the car-mounted communication module ME909T for cars and entered the car networking to fund Huawei's future autopilot It has laid a foreshadowing, this is the origin of Huawei and automatic driving.
In 2015, Huawei received orders for communication modules from Audi and Mercedes.
In the previous year, in October and November 2014, Huawei successively signed cooperation agreements with Dongfeng, Chang'an and FAW to jointly develop in the field of car networking and smart cars. At that time, no one would put the word 'smart car' and auto-driving Linked, because if only the introduction of a simple vehicle communication module, nothing more than let the vehicle has the ability to upload and download online data only, is closer to the phone.
1) Pull on Qualcomm and push C-V2X
Things started to change at the other end of 2015. This year, 3GPP started to standardize C-V2X research and Huawei was one of its key enablers, with C representing Cellular and wireless cellular networks, and V2X Vehicleto X , Vehicles and various types of terminals. The C-V2X is a set of technologies and standards based on wireless cellular networks that enable vehicles equipped with such communication modules to own and communicate with other vehicles (V2V), infrastructure (V2I), pedestrians (V2P) ), Which will allow the vehicle to keep track of other traffic participants' information, such as which car is on track and which of the green lights will turn red, while the control of global information will significantly reduce the number of traffic accidents Occurrence rate, to ease traffic congestion. Based on cellular network communication capabilities, motorists will have environmental perception of over-the-horizon. (Readers who wish to have a more systematic understanding of V2X can read the Automatics Series: , V2X Why become a self-driving clairvoyance)
However, prior to the birth of the C-V2X, a pioneer in the field of V2X, DSRC, dedicated short-haul communications, had a slightly different principle than the C-V2X and was similar to WiFi for more than a decade Due to the long development period and the push from the US government, DSRC now has a mature chip solution and an application example. On the 2017 Cadillac CTS, the DSRC is equipped with a DSRC communication module that can be sent to vehicles that also carry this communication module Tips, warnings, distress and other information.
However, DSRC needs to be set up and needs to be re-established. When C-V2X is set up, the DS-R is based directly on the LTE network developed today (that is, the 4G network) and the cost of building base stations is greatly reduced.
After seeing this direction, Huawei is working hard with Qualcomm, a rival Qualcomm, to promote the C-V2X standard landing and testing.In September 2016, when the 5G Auto Alliance was established, the Audi BMW Daimler was in it, Huawei and Qualcomm also became sponsors to promote the C-V2X. In the same month, the V2V standard in C-V2X was also frozen first, and in March 2017, Huawei and Qualcomm announced that they would build a C-V2X system in Hong Kong Intelligent Mobile Systems (ITS) help reduce traffic accidents.
Compared with the solution of using the sensor to capture the environment information and make autonomous driving decision, once the C-V2X is completed and put into operation, the unmanned vehicle with this technology can get local information hundreds of meters away , Instantly convey the intent of traffic participants to change - that is, with the C-V2X, unmanned aerial vehicles can see farther, faster response, the natural ability and safety of automatic driving even higher.
However, the existing 4G network still can not meet the demand of high-speed autopilot in terms of bandwidth and delay, so Huawei has also directly targeted 5G on this basis.The theoretical downlink bandwidth of 5G exceeds 10Gb / s and the delay is only For a few milliseconds, at a speed of 100 km / h, if the cloud commands a brake, the delay caused by the delay is only 1.35 meters, while in the 4G network, the delay is more than 10 meters.
In February 2017, Huawei conducted a 5G autopilot test in its already active Germany, one of which was an emergency coordinated braking of vehicles - the vehicle was immediately braked and passed on to the rear vehicle in milliseconds, while the rear vehicle Immediately stop.Human drivers to deal with such a reflection of the time, approaching the limit up to tens of milliseconds, slow to 1 second up in high-speed scenes, more than 1 second response delay means more out Dozens of meters, which is often the distance between life and death.
▲ Japan is also developing test-intensive formation of unmanned convoy
It is also thanks to this capability that Huawei also tested the ultra-close fleet of high-speed unmanned transport fleets that, when the technology is mature, will likely support unmanned vehicles at high speed at densely spaced distances of less than 5 meters to take advantage of The airflow of the front car reduces wind resistance and saves energy.
2) Unmanned Another Dimension: Remote Control Driving
In addition to the driverless crowded fleet, Huawei has another set of 'driverless'.
In June this year, Shanghai World Mobile Conference, Huawei and SAIC, mobile cooperation, demonstrated a driverless vehicle. Accurately speaking, is the remote driving.
▲ SAIC iGS smart car
In the live demonstration, the driver faced three screens, just like driving a car in the video game city, and operating the SAIC iGS smart car in Jiading Park, 30 km away, started, accelerated, decelerated, and braked. People car 'can support the safe driving speed of 50 km / h.The back is still working is still 5G.Through the Huawei-designed 5G communication module, this iGS SAIC in the millisecond delay and driving 30 km The control center sends and receives signals.
▲ driver in the control of unmanned vehicles 30 km away
For some people, it's simply superfluous to let a driver sit in the steering wheel and control a car while roaring to liberate people, but remote driving has its own advantages. One of the most important points is that As future vehicles, and especially commercial vehicles, enter the truly unmanned phase, they will need a manual, remote intervention to deal with the failure of autonomous driving systems because there are no drivers on board.
Even in the present, we can find examples of the need for this technology, such as the highly hazardous special construction area, which can be used to remotely control car driving to ensure human safety.
Looking back, you can see that Huawei is based on the logic of a cloud-based end of the communication network, whether it is in the V2X network or in remote-controlled driving. Huawei, in turn, provides communications equipment for communications operators. The depot provides a communication module that opens up real-time communication pipelines between autonomous vehicles and the cloud to enhance the ability of such real-time communications to drive autopilot.
2, quietly recruiting team to explore new technology direction
However, even with a strong 5G blessing, V2X alone will not be able to complete true autopilot as V2X will never be able to detect those movements that are not part of its ecological mobility - even assuming that all people in the world, all cars, With all traffic lights connected to the V2X, there are still unforeseen scenarios on the road - such as dogs suddenly rushing to the center of the road, while a dog is obviously less likely to get into the road with a V2X-enabled device.
At this point, the importance of the sensor-based sensing solution adopted by today's self-driving startups is evident, and Huawei is not willing to let it out completely.
Huawei has tens of thousands of people in R & D as a whole, and its technical superiority now comes from the input of manpower and financial resources. In order to ensure that it does not fall behind in technology competition, Huawei has established a huge research and development system. Starting with 2012 Labs, Ark Laboratories, Shannon Laboratories and other statements outside.
Huawei Research Center for Vehicle Networking and Research, part of the Central Research Institute under the Huawei 2012 Laboratory, is a powerful force in Huawei's research system. In recent years, this R & D department has recruited masters and Ph.D. students in vehicle engineering in large numbers. Driving, ADAS, vehicle control direction.From the recruitment situation, although the crown of the Internet of Things is the name of car networking, but obviously also interested in sensor-based automatic driving.
▲ Huawei open the car online, automatic driving related recruitment information
However, although Huawei has been hiring for a long time, but in this area is very low profile, has been a rare wind release its autopilot-related clearest leak map, but also a blurred outline of the vehicle frame picture. Humble suspicion test car, also can not help but wonder whether this is in line with Huawei and Tsinghua University "cooperation" identity.
Huawei's auto-driving hiring on the go-go and output on the dumb fire, people puzzled, while a Huawei insiders to the car things to answer Huawei's logic of this approach.
At present, from Huawei's partners, its customers who mainly face autopilot will still be a large number of OEMs who are relatively conservative and more value-conscious in the advancement of autonomous driving Demand is actually ADAS.Huawei's intelligent driving in cooperation with Dongfeng, Chang'an, FAW, and so on, the first specific form is ADAS, while Huawei will cooperate with suppliers of ADAS solutions and provide them with the main capabilities of ADAS, while Huawei will adopt its The C-V2X excels at gaining BVR visibility with limited field of view and further enhances ADAS functionality.
But on the other hand, Huawei also wants to ensure that it is not completely passive and becomes an "lay person" who can only rely on others in the sensor solution. Therefore, Huawei has also invested a lot of resources in sensor-based autopilot while carrying forward-looking and Engineering research and development.
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Communications companies across the board into automatic driving
In fact, Huawei is just a microcosm of technology companies joining the auto-driving tide, and companies similar to Huawei, including ZTE, Ericsson and Qualcomm, all belonging to ICT (Information, Communication, Technology), are also very active in layout.
In China, ZTE is Huawei's old rival in the field of communications - whether it is the communication of smart phones or the communication of smart cars. ZTE fought with both fists in new energy vehicles and autopilot, not only building a depot in Zhuhai but also making new Energy bus, but also in their own car to join the autopilot function, and even further to create a smart traffic city.
▲ ZTE smart city traffic model
Ericsson, based in Northern Europe, once used the brand "Sony Ericsson", which had been married to Sony in the era of 2g, and later faded out of handset manufacturing to focus on communications. When auto-driving and 5G were approaching, Ericsson and Huawei Similarly, based on the 5G network to develop a remote driving program, in October last year, Ericsson partnered with the Swedish Transit Corporation to provide pilot support for the unmanned bus EZ10 built by EasyMobile with a 5G signal and conducted a manned trial run.
Qualcomm, which previously had a lack of accumulation in the automotive electronics market, cut through the automotive market with a very thorough acquisition of NXP, the world's largest car-mounted semiconductor maker. On the one hand, Qualcomm and Huawei sought cooperation in the competition to jointly promote the C-V2X standard .Huawei Haisi two years ago were Audi and Mercedes-Benz car carrier chip orders, and Qualcomm is based on the mobile terminal Soc Snapdragon 820 launched the Snapdragon 820A available for ADAS. In September of this year, Qualcomm also released before Huawei First C-V2X vehicle communication chipset.
On the other hand, NXP, which has been plugged in by Qualcomm, has a wide variety of on-board semiconductor production lines and has a particularly important self-driving on-board computer - the first generation of Bluebox primarily for ADAS. Development and security needs, NXP last month introduced the main security and scalable S32 chip platform.
In addition to them, Cisco, Nokia Siemens is also ready to take a pledge for autopilot, or acquisition or research and development.
▲ Cisco's smart driving program on display at 2017MWC
▲ Nokia demonstrated 5G vehicle control at 2017MWC
Among the top names in the world for communications equipment, only Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent (which have been acquired by Nokia) are relatively quiet and do not engage in much big news on autopilot. It can be said that in the core terminals of the communications industry, automobiles The weight is driving, the rapid development of car networking under the gradual increase, make potential to keep pace with smart phones.
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Conclusion: Huawei's new challenge
Not listed but the remuneration level fame Huawei, always with a muffled big money show people.
In almost all major companies are eagerly chasing the autopilot, Huawei also uphold the tradition has always been to low-key to raise resources to prepare for the next big game.
While Huawei's most powerful is to provide communications capabilities, but its business boundaries, has long been beyond the scope of a communications equipment business.
But involved in the field of automatic driving, Huawei's rival is actually doubled - both with its competition in the mobile phone market, Apple, Samsung, but also in the communications market and Huawei hurriedly chase after the equipment maker giants. Huawei challenges , Will be more intense than the mobile Internet era