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Chapter 1194: Chapter 1052: Only the Screen Can Be Trusted (Please Subscribe!)
"If it looks good.
That would steal the iPhone’s thunder.
...
January 12.
While the entire United States and the entire Western world were heaping praise on the iPhone’s epochal significance, and as all the major communication giants were announcing their own smartphones one after another.
A few images leaked.
And once again became the hot topic.
It was a strangely shaped mobile phone, if it wasn’t for a comparison picture next to an iPhone, they would have thought it was a glass artifact, and it looked very disharmonious overall.
With a screen much larger than the iPhone’s, it probably couldn’t be held in one hand.
A back cover thicker than the iPhone’s, it looked like a small brick.
There were even three buttons under the screen, buttons that looked impressively mysterious.
To the discerning eye.
This was a smartphone.
Accompanied by the headline "The battle of smartphones officially kicks off, iPhone’s first opponent—Huaxia’s domestic richest man, Tang Qing.", it was very provocative, and seemed full of gunpowder.
In the article.
It introduced this as the smartphone developed by Qingyuan Technology.
Immediately.
The American public’s enthusiasm was stirred.
"Such an ugly mobile phone, trying to challenge the iPhone, overestimating its own abilities."
"An Eastern-style joke?"
"This is a smartphone too? We only recognize the iPhone."
"Whoever uses it must have water in their brain."
"..."
A one-sided criticism.
To Tang Qing.
Many people held an admiring attitude.
The influence of ’Civilization.’
Already allowed them to correctly recognize Tang Qing.
They would not deliberately smear or hold obvious biases. But this mobile phone just could not endear them; compared to the iPhone, it was completely from a different era.
Even if some Chinese netizens left messages of support, they were drowned out by the rolling tide, and at this moment, it was still night in Huaxia, so no war of words had broken out, but the editors on duty at various major media outlets had already become excited.
Just two days ago, the iPhone had created a milestone for smartphones.
And today.
A Huaxia company had already caught up, and it had been exposed in the United States.
Excellent.
It’s just... that picture really was a bit ugly.
...
A new day dawned.
Seeing today’s finance headlines.
Netizens got excited.
"Great, my boy Tang Qing is on the headlines again, editor, why isn’t there a photo of Tang Qing, thumbs down."
"Damn, so Tang Qing’s smartphone looks like this, so strange and huge."
"What’s that section at the top?"
"The earpiece."
"What about the sides? Why aren’t they flat?"
"If it’s flat, wouldn’t it be just like the iPhone, are you dumb?"
"Feels a bit odd."
"You’ll get used to it after seeing it more."
"..."
Regarding the mobile phone style that seemed to have been finalized in the images, netizens commented profusely, and in the end concluded... apart from the screen design being quite good, the rest still didn’t have the bold innovation of the iPhone.
This was still a relatively conservative evaluation.
After all, it was domestically produced, and it was Tang Qing, the domestic richest man, venturing into the field of high technology, where the domestic start was late, so domestic companies should be granted more tolerance.
Word of mouth spread.
As if.
This was the finished product of Qingyuan Technology’s mobile phone.
...
Qingyuan Technology.
After reading the news.
Luo Qiang was unhappy.
Their mobile phone’s final appearance design hadn’t been decided, and these guys had spoofed it, besides being ugly, it was irritating, and he wondered what Tang Qing would think if he saw it.
Called together all the executives and above.
Luo Qiang said, slapping the table.
"Look into it, thoroughly check who leaked our screen design."
"President, it’s a bit difficult, quite a few people know about it, including us, the Design Department, Samsung and Sony also know, it’s hard to find out." A vice president said with difficulty.
"Then tell me, how am I supposed to explain this to the Director?" Luo Qiang was very dissatisfied.
"..."
At this statement.
No one dared to respond.
After all, it was a problem within the company, and the buck couldn’t be passed.
While everyone was silent.
Luo Qiang’s phone rang.
Seeing it was Tang Qing’s number, he immediately picked up.
"Director, this is Luo Qiang."
Luo Qiang stood up, as a sign of respect.
"I’ve seen the news online, don’t mind it, just a small matter, the purpose was to provoke public opinion to dig out our product, so don’t get flustered, just carry on with what needs to be done."
After knowing that Steve Jobs hired people to do this.
Tang Qing was also speechless.
He hadn’t expected.
That Steve Jobs would do such things, and it seemed he was very skilled at it indeed, he had to admit, this move was pretty good, achieving multiple goals in one fell swoop, the biggest benefit was having Huaxia media provide free advertisement for Apple.
Riding on Tang Qing’s popularity.
Fine.
Let him ride it out.
Eventually, it would only become a stepping stone for him.
Apple’s first-generation device, he estimated wouldn’t sell much in Huaxia, it was impossible to sell none, because all the ambitious domestic companies that wanted to make mobile phones would definitely buy some units to dissect.
This part of ’disassembling demand’.
Would at least amount to thousands of units.
Of course, that was where the sales figures would end.
"Yes, Director."
Luo Qiang breathed a sigh of relief, Tang Qing had spoken, so this matter was considered over.
Tang Qing spoke again.
"However, we can’t stick our heads in the sand like ostriches, so on behalf of the company, issue a statement denying this design, but you can confirm the screen size, that thing really is quite ugly."
"Understood, Director." Luo Qiang replied.
"Mm."
Luo Qiang hung up the phone.
He said to the others, "Alright, the Director says it’s nothing, the company will issue a statement later..."
Less than ten minutes later.
Qingyuan Technology issued a statement.
It was reposted by major media.
"Firstly, regarding the leakage of this commercial secret, Qingyuan Technology reserves the right to pursue it further, and secondly, we confirm that this is the screen of Qingyuan Technology’s smartphone, but the rest, we fully disavow."
The statement was brief.
Revealing two messages.
First, there was a leak.
Second, only the screen could be trusted.
And this statement.
Once again stirred up heated discussion.
"Damn, a commercial secret leak? That serious, I thought it was a marketing ploy by Qingyuan Technology, makes sense, with such an ugly design, Tang Qing is so handsome, how could he allow such a thing to be made."
"How is Tang Qing being handsome related to the mobile phone looking good?"
"Above comment, your sentence has already exposed your level of attractiveness, beautiful people have aesthetic sense."
"..."
"Good it’s not that one, you scared me, looking forward to the release of Qingyuan Technology’s product, it can’t lose to iPhone, at the very least, it shouldn’t be too bad, as long as it’s not this one, I’ll spend money to buy it."
"No matter what it ends up being, I support it."
"What if it’s too expensive?"
"I come from a wealthy family."
"Looking to be kept."
"Looking to be kept +1."
"..."
...
United States.
When Steve Jobs saw the statement, he wasn’t worried, now that Tang Qing’s mobile phone had caught everyone’s attention, as long as people were curious, there would be people probing for truth, in any case, he wasn’t interested in spending his energy on that anymore.
