Once the nest smart thermostat was released, it immediately caused a sensation across North America and even Western Europe through continuous media reports and instigation. ◇↓
In terms of the use of air conditioning and electric heating facilities, North America and Western Europe are absolutely different from us Chinese and even people from most other countries.
Take China for example. Needless to say, heating is used for heating in winter in the north. Basically every room has one.
But except for winter in the north, when it is the hottest and coldest time, we Chinese still use air conditioners.
How is it generally used?
Of course, there is an air conditioner for each room, one for the living room and one for each room, so that it can be turned off and used within the area at any time without wasting electricity.
Only a small number of families will install central air conditioners at home. To put it bluntly, although this kind of central air conditioner includes all rooms and living rooms, the cooling and heating effects will not be fast and effective.
Secondly, it places a heavy load on the circuit and consumes a lot of power, making it impractical at all.
But people in the United States and Western Europe are different. Except for the poor who live in low-cost apartments, basically every household is equipped with central air conditioning or electric heating equipment.
As long as they are at home, as long as the weather is hot or cold, they are all on, sometimes 24 hours a day.
Everyone can imagine what a huge waste of resources this is.
In this way, they still have the nerve to say that China has too many people and consumes too many resources. It is really shameless.
Of course, it’s not that Americans don’t know that it’s good to save, but they didn’t have the means to save before—well, their brains are really short of energy. Couldn’t you just turn on the air conditioner less?
Now that the Nest smart thermostat is out, it not only has a dazzling appearance and intelligent control, but can also save people about 20% of their electricity and heating bills every year. This is the best of both worlds!
People find it very interesting, and the government has grasped its connotation even more, which is to save energy!
To be honest, today's European and American countries, especially most of the developed countries in Europe, have basically become a country of lazy people. They are lazy and lazy, and their national finances are almost completely ruined by them.
Allowing these people to save some energy and consume less resources will be a great thing for both the country's finances and the green and clean direction of the country's future development.
Therefore, on the same day, an official from the U.S. Department of Energy stood up and said that although the government has not yet formulated measures, he will definitely buy Nest smart thermostat personally. He also actively pushed the federal government to formulate a bill to support the development of nextlabs company and provide
Subsidies are issued for the promotion of nest smart thermostats.
Following closely behind the United States is Canada. The lifestyle of this country is basically the same as that of the United States, so the official in charge of their environmental affairs department directly came out to say that Canada is willing to open a green channel for Nest smart thermostat, including tax exemptions, policy support, etc.
, allowing them to better develop in Canada.
At the same time, officials from the Ministry of Interior of the United Kingdom and Germany also stated that they are very much looking forward to the arrival of nest smart thermostats in their countries to contribute positively to energy conservation, emission reduction, and green living in both countries.
After all this hard work, people's interest in Nest smart thermostat has greatly increased, and they want to buy it to see if it is as magical as the legend.
The price of the nest smart thermostat is not cheap. Xiao Qi priced it at US$288, which is about 12% more expensive than the US$250 when it was first launched.
But it's worth the money.
Because Xiao Qi not only made a product that surpassed the first generation of Nest smart thermostat, but also used some skills of Lyric, the mortal enemy of Nest smart thermostat, on it.
Lyric was originally preparing to release its products in 2014, but many of their details were revealed in 2013, making it convenient for Xiao Qi to use them.
Now there is not even a shadow on Lyc, so Xiao Qi feels at ease with it.
On the day of the launch, 30,000 Nest smart thermostats were sold online at Amazon, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart supermarkets. The sales volume the next day reached 80,000 units, and the number of inquiries and reservations on the Internet was even higher.
skyrocketing.
Nextlabs' spot inventory is in short supply, and it has greatly exceeded the expectations of the company's senior management.
Xiao Qi was also shocked, because a year after its release, the previous Nest smart thermostat only maintained a monthly shipment volume of 40,000 to 50,000. As a result, in just two days, the sales volume of the Nest smart thermostat was equivalent to that of the original Nest smart thermostat.
The sales volume reached 3 months after the device was released.
Xiao Qi originally thought that he should wait for a while and wait for the government to fully provide subsidies before Nest smart thermostats would slowly become popular - you know, in the previous life, if the U.S. government had not taken the lead in giving everyone who bought Nest
Users of smart thermostats are subsidized, and God knows how long it will take for Nest smart thermostats to become popular.
However, when I thought about it, the current good situation did not fall from the sky.
First of all, with Xiao Qi’s diagrams and concept reminders, as well as Xiao Qi’s various algorithm ideas, the nest smart thermostat has not taken any detours from the beginning.
Then Xiao Qi also gave Fadell and Rogers the most generous R&D funds. Whatever professional equipment they wanted, Xiao Qi approved the funds without hesitation. Whatever professional talents they wanted, Xiao Qi also worked hard to recruit them with high salaries. They can be said to be elite soldiers.
Strong generals gathered together.
But even so, almost a year and a half has passed since the concept was proposed, and nextlabs has just launched its first smart product, which shows how serious and professional they are about the Nest smart thermostat.
How could a product made with such excellence not be successful?
For this reason, there is absolutely no problem for the investment department of Standard Chartered Bank to give nextlabs a valuation of US$1 billion.
In fact, the valuation given by HSBC in the second bank has exceeded US$1.5 billion.
But none of this has anything to do with Xiao Qi.
Nextlabs is a very core component of Xiao Qi's future smart home and even life. In such a valuable company, Xiao Qi will not only not sell shares, but also Fadell and Rogers' shares will continue to be diluted. In the end, the management
It can only hold up to 5% of the shares, and the rest will be held by Xiao Foundation member companies.
Therefore, no matter how high the external valuation is, even if it reaches 10 billion US dollars or 100 billion US dollars, it is impossible to buy NextLabs shares.
Of course, a Nest smart thermostat cannot be called a smart home life.
Another protect smoke alarm is also built based on intelligence. It is also different from traditional smoke alarms and is very dazzling and colorful.
The protect smoke alarm is even more versatile than the nest smart thermostat.
Because nest smart thermostats can basically only be used in homes, or small restaurants, etc., they cannot be used in large companies, business buildings and the like - if you want to save energy and reduce emissions in these places, then you will definitely
You will be scolded to death, and many people even think that you are underpaying your employees because you have no money.
When it comes to face, it’s not just Chinese people, it’s the same for people everywhere in the world. The difference is whether they have the ability to want face.
But the protect smoke alarm is different. It can be used everywhere, whether it is at home or in the office, whether in an office building or a shopping mall, or even on a ship.
The protect smoke alarm has been developed for a long time, and the product has been produced and stocked together with the Nest smart thermostat. However, releasing two products at the same time involves a lot of energy, which is not in line with Fadel's principle of concentration, so we have to wait until the Nest smart thermostat
After the sales and feedback are good, it will be released in a few months.
When it comes to this specific operation, Fadel is an expert, so Xiao Qi will naturally not interfere.
However, in terms of production, Xiao Qi paid Fadel a favor and put Nest smart thermostats and Protect smoke alarms in the Winter Pavilion for production from the very beginning. They still chose OEMs.
The factory was not located in Rongcheng but in Sichuan. When Zhang Zhanzhao was chatting during the New Year, he even half-complained about Xiao Qi.
But Xiao Xu didn't care much. On the one hand, he was not a stingy person in the first place. On the other hand, Xiao Qi also told him that if all the factories were placed in Shuchuan, they would undoubtedly attract hatred.
Benefits cannot be shared with everyone, but must also be shared with a few people, so that you can have reliable friends.
That's why Xiao Qi has cloud computing and cloud storage centers, circuit board factories in the East, and factories of Mingxing Electronics and Yinhuang Electronics in Nanwan and Dongguan, etc.
This time, the Nest smart thermostat and Protect smoke alarm were produced in the winter hall, mainly because of the industrial and technological advantages there and the most detailed industrial supporting facilities.
After the European and American markets are fully opened, the annual shipment volume of Nest smart thermostats will be about 3 million units, and the annual shipment volume of Protect smoke alarms will be about 5 million units. The number of workers required is not large, but the added output value is good.
Also because Xiao Qi's OEM fees have always been very high. When we were discussing cooperation in the Winter Pavilion last year, Baodao and Mainland OEMs were competing for their heads. Even Guo Taiming, Yan Chenglong and Li Xiaochao got involved.
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