Is it true that Meitu's new machine is priced close to iPhone?

Although the camera hardware configuration of this Mito mobile phone is good, its pricing is still somewhat surprising-the standard version is priced at 5099 yuan, and the advanced customized version is as high as 6999 yuan. Some people joked that the price of the latter had surpassed that of the iPhone 8, and the discount was double 1 1.

Compared with the previously released Mito mobile phone, this price is also a lot higher. The T8 mobile phone released by Meitu last year, which mainly takes selfies at night, costs 3,399 yuan, while the M8 standard version costs only 2,999 yuan. In other words, the pricing of Meitu's new mobile phone has more than doubled than before, and it has a higher positioning among domestic mobile phones.

Interestingly, as a company that started with retouching, Meitu's current income mostly comes from smart hardware (that is, mobile phones) business. In the first half of this year, the financial report showed that Meitu's intelligent hardware business revenue accounted for about 88.7% of the total revenue, and Internet service and other business revenue accounted for 1 1.3% of the total revenue.

On August 20 17, at the interim report meeting of Meitu, Wu, founder and CEO of Meitu, said when talking about the positioning of Meitu: "Meitu will always be an internet company and will be an artificial intelligence company in the future. We regard smart phones and apps as similar products, but with different forms of expression. To put it simply, we regard smartphones as Internet App products. In the future, with the continuous introduction of artificial intelligence, you can see more innovations on the App on your mobile phone. "

At the press conference of165438+1October 23rd, Meitu introduced Andy, a painting robot based on artificial intelligence, and the technology of reconstructing pictures by machine.

That's great.