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Chapter 1410: Chapter 1257: I Believe in Your Evil! (Please Subscribe!)
Apple Headquarters.
Steve Jobs watched the lively media.
He was speechless.
You carry on with your festivities.
But why drag Apple into this and trample on us?
I’m a victim too, okay? I too was caught off guard, struck unexpectedly on the head. It’s uncomfortable for anyone. Your behavior, rubbing salt into the wound, is the real disgrace of the United States.
These media.
Really have no bottom line.
I was once considered a hero of the United States, alright?
At this moment.
In his hands.
He was holding the new model of Apple, temporarily named Apple II, which was finalized after the disastrous performance of their first-generation model. Frankly, Steve Jobs thought it wasn’t as attractive as ’Epoch’.
In terms of specifications.
They are quite similar.
If you talk about appearance, it’s not ugly either.
However.
In terms of user experience, he felt there was still a gap compared to ’Epoch’, and that gap would have been even larger if Apple hadn’t adopted the ’Sirius’ system. Without it, the operating system alone would let ’Epoch’ completely outshine Apple’s current IOS.
No.
Not ’Epoch’.
But ERV.
Damn it.
ERV, this company that popped out of nowhere, developed such an outstanding mobile operating system at an unimaginable speed and even swallowed Google’s Android whole.
Its initiation of the ’Open Handset Alliance’.
Established its absolute monopoly.
Now.
Apple had no other choice.
If Apple had taken the lead, its system would have been the best, or at least one of the best. But now, Apple’s IOS doesn’t stand a chance to shine at all.
The future.
Will belong to ’Sirius’.
Besides hardware and system.
Since the birth of ’Epoch’, its application updates have been rapid, starting from the initial ’Epoch Store’ with numerous apps being launched, to almost weekly updates of minor features.
This made ’Epoch’ even more appealing.
Also.
’Epoch’ in terms of peripherals.
Has also won people’s hearts with phone cases, screen protectors, portable chargers, Bluetooth earphones, smart speakers, selfie sticks, and thoughtful external designs, as well as phone beautification features, photo editing, navigation, etc.
Frankly speaking.
Steve Jobs also felt at a loss on how to defeat this rival.
There was a moment.
He even thought.
This task.
Could only be handed over to ERV.
Besides.
He didn’t think any other company could defeat ’Epoch’, not even his Apple, and this wasn’t self-deprecation but a judgment based on rich industry experience.
"Mr. Chairman, I heard that ’Epoch’s’ tablet is about to go public. It’s another huge step forward in the mobile device market, do you have a corresponding product?"
On the TV.
The journalist was interviewing the Chairman of ERV.
Hearing this.
Steve Jobs perked up his ears.
He saw the young chairman confidently nodding, "Of course, we have also developed our tablet and it will soon meet consumers. Please look forward to it."
Journalist asked: "Can you disclose any details about the tablet?"
"That’s not possible, it’s currently a business secret."
"And do you estimate it will surpass ’Epoch’ in sales?"
"We are confident that our tablet is one of the best in the world. We will focus on the European and weekly markets, and also pay attention to the Huaxia market..."
"..."
This statement.
Not only Steve Jobs.
But also many other mobile device giants were complaining: I don’t believe your nonsense! Last time you said ERV’s smartphone would launch in August, and many of us manufacturers had to keep postponing our press conferences.
Waiting and waiting.
Eagerly awaited until October, and you had no movement whatsoever.
If not for our consecutive launches.
Who knows when you would have delayed it to.
It’s infuriating.
This man.
Cannot be trusted.
Also.
What does it mean to focus on European and American markets, isn’t that indirectly saying: I just want to smash them? If you have the guts, go to the Huaxia market and knock down ’Epoch’! Why pick on us.
It’s so infuriating.
However.
They just felt annoyed.
To really go against ERV.
Honestly.
They didn’t have the confidence.
At the moment, ERV held too many aces, having acquired ARM and controlling the architecture technology of mobile device microprocessors, and they recently ventured into chip design, making even Qualcomm a bit nervous.
Moreover.
The Sirius System dominated the scene.
Defeat?
Joking.
How easy is that to achieve.
...
The next day.
October 3rd.
At the crack of dawn.
Following the heated discussions among American citizens.
The awakened people of Huaxia also joined the ’crusade’, with American netizens advocating that ERV will definitely win, while Huaxia’s netizens thought ’Epoch’ was the best phone, all others were just ’following the trend’.
Since ERV’s phone was not on the market.
Naturally.
There was no one to advocate for it.
Huaxia’s public opinion was overwhelmingly one-sided, with no one speaking for ERV.
Subsequently.
Huaxia’s media also began to speak up.
While reporting.
Naturally advocating for ’Epoch’.
After all, ’Epoch’ pioneered consumer smart phones, creating a ’Huaxia Creation’ business card, something that could be deemed a ’National Pride’.
Thus.
The resulting effect was. 𝚗o𝚟pub.𝚌𝚘𝚖
By 8 PM.
’Epoch’s’ official website had an additional nearly 50,000 domestic orders, something even Tang Qing hadn’t anticipated. 50,000 units, plus peripherals, brought in sales close to 2.9 billion RMB.
Indeed.
Tied to national pride.
People’s spending is a bit ’bias’, and this craze will likely continue for a while as the smartphone market is far from saturated.
You see.
Now.
’Epoch’s’ shipping volume is still over a million units away from 20 million, but if all goes well, this month-end they might achieve the goal of 20 million units.
This data.
On its own looks good.
But in the larger picture, it’s actually ’very poor’, because in the ’Year One’ of smartphones, the year iPhone 4 was introduced, global smartphone sales were 370 million units.
This number.
Sufficiently illustrates that the current ’Epoch’.
Still has extensive room for growth. Of course, that 370 million units, mostly consisted of ’budget phones’ and ’pseudo-smart phones’.
"Tan Tang, making tens of millions in one day, really is ’a blessing in disguise’."
Seeing the sales numbers.
Even Tang Kai was astounded.
"There’s no misfortune, only fortune," Second Aunt Youman corrected.
"Looking forward, five years from now, the global annual smartphone shipments will be at least 500 million units, and in ten years, even more. So, for the short term, it’s a market where everyone has something to gain."
Tang Qing calmly said.
What he referred to.
Were real smartphones.
Not ’pseudo-advanced smartphones’.
"With that said, I’m no longer worried. Haha, making tens of millions in one day, how nice!" Tang’s father couldn’t stop grinning, although he didn’t know what to do with all that money.
But more is always better than less.
