522: Global public opinion earthquake, unifying global mobile phone system

At this moment, the Global world was frantically reporting on Pingguo Company's iOS Mobile System, the stock market situation of Pingguo Company, and the actions of the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants.

The reports explored what this event represented, how it would affect the future, and what kind of impact it would have on everyone's lives, and so on.

Along with the release of these news reports, the reputations of Pingguo Company and the other Four Major Mobile Phone Giants were utterly ruined on the Global internet and among the public.

When people talked about this matter, they couldn't help but spit and curse Pingguo Company for being too greedy and shameless, daring to pull off such a thing.

Of course, while people were cursing Pingguo Company and Steve Jobs for being greedy and shameless, they also cursed Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson, the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants.

Because according to reports from media with keen noses, the reason these Four Major Mobile Phone Giants so fully supported the Apple iOS Mobile System was that Pingguo Company had bribed the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants!

As long as the profit exceeded 50,000 US dollars, Pingguo Company used 5% of the 10% profit share, meaning a 50-50 split, to bribe the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants.

Under these circumstances, how could Global consumers, upon learning the truth, not join in cursing the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants?

Therefore, at this time, the reputations of the five mobile phone companies, including Apple, were completely ruined.

However, although their reputations were ruined, it actually had little impact on those five mobile phone companies, because consumers had no other good choices besides their phones.

Currently, the only viable alternative was Huawei Mobile Phone.

But Huawei Mobile Phone, whether in brand power or technical strength, still had a certain gap compared to the five mobile phones, so people naturally ignored Huawei Mobile Phone.

So people had no choice; they either bought Shuguang Mobile Phone or Dami Mobile, or they bought mobile phones from the five mobile phone companies.

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At this time, on the famous BBS Forum, Tianya Forum, a post titled "Four Mobile Phone Companies Forcibly Update iOS Mobile System, Where Do They Put Our Consumer Interests?" quickly became popular.

In less than a day, the post's reply count exceeded 6.83 million, and the number of views reached 8 million, which shows that this article resonated with many people.

As for what this article was, it was actually a complaint from a Nokia Smart Phone consumer accusing Nokia and other Four Major Mobile Phone Giants of forcibly updating the iOS Mobile System.

However, while the core of this article was to accuse Nokia and other Four Major Mobile Phone Giants of their greedy faces and how unreasonable and illegal their forced system updates were, it also listed many data points.

These data points all indicated how huge the cost would be for his Nokia Smart Phone after updating to the Apple iOS Mobile System.

Reading through the entire article, consumers who were using the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants' Smart Phones felt the same way, full of complaints and anger towards the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants.

So they all posted various replies, complaining about their dissatisfaction with the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants.

They protested and opposed the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants' illegal and unreasonable behavior of forcibly updating their systems to the Apple iOS Mobile System.

As for why this post could generate such an incredibly high number of replies, in addition to the complaints from many users of the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants' Smart Phones, other users who did not use the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants' Smart Phones, such as users of Shuguang Mobile Phone, Dami Mobile, and Huawei Mobile Phone, all expressed that they were truly pitiful, and felt sympathy, regret, and relief for their tragic experiences.

And such words of sympathy, regret, and relief were naturally like sprinkling salt on a wound, making users of the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants' Smart Phones and even Apple Mobile Phone users feel extremely uncomfortable.

However, no matter how uncomfortable they were, Global consumers had no way to change the outcome of their old Smart Phones being forcibly updated to the Apple iOS Mobile System.

Moreover, in the following period, users of other mobile phone brands, such as Blackberry and Dopod Smart Phones, sadly discovered that their Smart Phones were also forcibly updated.

After all, Pingguo Company did not only offer concessions to the Four Major Mobile Phone Giants; these concessions were for the Global mobile phone market.

Therefore, the Apple iOS Mobile System dominating the Smart Phone system world seemed to be an inevitable outcome.

Although many consumers used various methods to prevent the system from being updated to the iOS Mobile System.

For example, their Smart Phones would never connect to Wi-Fi or use lower-end 2G networks to prevent forced updates and other opposing measures.

But these methods were destined to be futile and ineffective, because those mobile phone companies successively announced that they would abandon the Saipan system from then on, and any losses incurred by users continuing to use the Saipan system would not be related to the mobile phone companies.

And such announcements naturally greatly shook those stubborn individuals, causing a large portion of them to give up resistance and join the Apple iOS Mobile System camp.

Therefore, the Apple iOS Mobile System dominating the Smart Phone system world is already an inevitable outcome!

It can be said that in the future mobile phone market, a situation will be formed where only the Apple iOS Mobile System and the Dawn Smart Phone System coexist!

Under these circumstances, what good was consumer opposition?

Of course, after this incident, many companies Global also announced that they would develop "free" Smart Phone systems.

But those words were only worth a laugh, after all, mobile phone systems are too easy to form monopolies and a situation where the strong get stronger.

The most valuable asset of a mobile phone system is its software and games. If a newly developed mobile phone system has no games or software, who will use your mobile phone system?!

And what's even more regrettable is that now all five major mobile phone giants Global use the iOS Mobile System. Under these circumstances, even if the Android system could be launched immediately, it would be too late!

Therefore, in the coming days, the Global Smart Phone system will only have the Dawn Smart Phone System and the iOS Mobile System coexisting!

And in such a situation, as Pingguo Company announced that the number of iOS Mobile System users officially exceeded 300 million, Pingguo Company's stock price also kept soaring.

On December 10, 2006, Pingguo Company's stock price finally created a miracle again.

It officially broke through the 500 billion US dollar mark, becoming a member of the 500 billion US dollar club.

In response, the news, once released, naturally shook the Global world like a super earthquake, leaving countless people dumbfounded.

They never expected that Pingguo Company would be so terrifying, creating an astonishing market value of 500 billion US dollars, only slightly less than Shuguang Technology; this was simply incredible.

However, amidst the wails and regrets of countless stock investors, Pingguo Company once again created a huge news topic under such circumstances.

This news topic was Pingguo Company's announcement that they would invest 5 billion US dollars in the research and development of the next-generation iphone phone, which would be released in June next year!

In response, the news, once released, naturally left countless people dumbfounded!

They never expected that Pingguo Company would invest 5 billion US dollars to develop a mobile phone; if this were true, then how incredibly powerful must this mobile phone be.

After all, this was 5 billion US dollars, which, converted into Xia Yuan, is equivalent to 24.8 billion Xia Yuan.

With so much money invested in the research and development of a single mobile phone, just how powerful is this third-generation Apple iphone phone? (End of chapter)