142: Chapter 142 If you can't win an argument, you complain.

Five minutes later, Big Mouth Yu posted on Weibo:

"Is what you get for 1998 a real Xiaomi phone, or a PPT Xiaomi phone? After all, it hasn't even hit the market yet."

The attached image was a screenshot from Lei Jun's Weibo of the Mi 1 Phone launch event, with four characters photoshopped onto it: "Please look forward to it."

Big Mouth Yu's statement caused the already lively comment section to instantly explode.

"CEO Yu couldn't stand it anymore and entered the fray himself."

"Haha, CEO Yu is so savage. 'PPT Xiaomi phone,' that's classic."

"Huawei Fans, charge!"

Seeing that they had backing, the Huawei Fans were full of energy. Originally, there were only about 30 groups bickering there.

After all, these people, plus a few passersby, were enough to play around with those spec-obsessed fans.

But now it had expanded directly to 80 groups, and the number of people had doubled.

The Xiaomi Fans, who had originally held the upper hand, were crushed like dead dogs in the face of such a powerful team.

Naturally, the Mi Fans weren't going to take it lying down. Since the other side had too many people, they had to change tactics and start fighting back.

"Big Mouth Yu, are you just being salty? If Honor was also a 'PPT phone,' would anyone even care?"

"honor play is selling just fine, why target Xiaomi?"

[Historical Revisionism: The Mi 1 Phone bursts onto the scene, powerfully crushing the honor play. Big Mouth Yu, unable to take it, starts smearing Dami Company.]

"Is this the level of Huawei's integrity..."

"Industry hooligans, just wanting to dominate the market alone. We should file for an anti-monopoly investigation."

Some people even ran to @Lei Jun, requesting heavy fire support.

"Mr. Lei, Big Mouth Yu has made a move."

...

Seeing that his side was losing ground, Lei Jun chose to enter the fray as well.

This heated battle had to continue. The first batch of Mi 1 Phones would be assembled in two days and ready to ship within a week, so the hype had to be kept up.

Xiaomi still had to be the victim...

"@Big Mouth Yu Thanks for the competitor's concern, but good food is worth the wait. A true flagship processor is worth waiting a while for. However, isn't it a bit much to bully us like this? It seems we haven't offended your company."

The attached image was a real photo of the Mi 1 Phone, with a pile of Qualcomm chips and some finished products next to it.

[Historical Revisionism: Lei Jun accuses Big Mouth Yu on Weibo of malicious suppression and disrupting industry development.]

The comment section under this Weibo post immediately became the base camp for Mi Fans.

"Well said, Mr. Lei."

"Good food is worth the wait, so we'll wait."

"No one can catch up to Qualcomm's single-core performance in the short term. It's worth waiting for. Some people are truly afraid."

The Huawei Fans didn't care about the dirty water Lei Jun was splashing. They had started this, so it was up to them how it ended; otherwise, they'd all be cowards.

"Wait how long? Until the honor play 2 comes out?"

"Buying a PPT phone for 1998, that's truly worth it."

"Mr. Lei's words make it sound like the honor play isn't a flagship phone."

"To the person above, it actually isn't, though you could call it one based on the timing. Slander? Why didn't you say anything when the Mi Fans were screaming?"

...

Big Mouth Yu saw Lei Jun's reply and smiled.

So now he was the victim. He didn't want to bother with this guy trying to leech off his popularity anymore, so he put his phone aside and prepared to get back to work.

But just then, the head of the marketing department walked in.

As soon as he entered, he saw Big Mouth Yu signing documents and hurriedly handed over his phone.

"CEO Yu, please continue. Don't get caught up in trying to prove yourself; just keep roasting him. Your Weibo post was great; our buzz has increased by 40%, and the shipments of both the honor play and Mate S have increased significantly."

After speaking, he held up two fingers, likely meaning 200,000.

Because of the argument between the two companies and the fact that Xiaomi was only on pre-sale, most of the traffic went to Honor.

The volume of discussion about the honor play on social media like Weibo and Tieba skyrocketed, and the discussion volume for the Mate S also increased significantly. A portion of this naturally converted into shipments.

Xu Linfeng stood there with a smile on his face, looking at Big Mouth Yu.

Big Mouth Yu understood instantly; this was telling him to keep going.

For the sake of the honor play experiencing a second spring, he would continue...

So he picked up his phone and continued to work: "A flagship processor? You have the nerve to call a 1.25 GHz single-core chip a flagship? The Taishan 900 processor, dual-core with a maximum clock speed of 1.45 GHz, that is what you call a flagship. Huawei Mate 2, see you in May."

Lei Jun looked at the bombshell he had unleashed and was instantly speechless... It was like playing cards; he had just thrown out a small card, and the opponent came back with a pair of jokers. Who plays like that?

He wanted to give up the argument, but looking at the expectant Mi Fans in the comment section...

He ultimately forced himself to say: "The performance of the Qualcomm 8255 is still the strongest chip currently available. Besides, high frequency doesn't represent everything; you still have to look at the tuning and the benchmark scores."

"It's definitely not the strongest chip. As for benchmark scores, let's wait until the mass-produced units are out, shall we?" Big Mouth Yu retorted, with an image of a hen trying hard to lay an egg...

"It's coming soon. We just got a batch of chips from Qualcomm, and the Xiaomi Pioneer Program is about to launch. Please look forward to it." Lei Jun.

"Pioneer Program, how many units can you sell? 1,000? 2,000? 20,000..."

The two went back and forth, the comment section completely spiraled out of control, and the netizens watching the drama split into two camps, arguing incessantly.

Some passersby placed orders for the honor play once again...

"Support Lei Jun; he's the one who brought down the price of flagship phones."

"To the person above, don't steal other people's credit, okay? The Mtk6573 was last year's flagship chip; the honor play is the real hero."

"Support Mr. Lei, he's steady and dignified."

"Keep going! I just want to know who wins in the end?"

Many people followed both sides just to keep up with the ongoing drama.

Big Mouth Yu's personal Weibo and the Huawei Terminal Weibo both took advantage of this event to break through the 3 million and 2 million follower marks, respectively.

...

As the argument went on, the Mi Fans found themselves losing ground. They hadn't expected the hooligan Big Mouth Yu to have such strong combat power.

[Big Mouth Yu: This is nothing? Back in the day in Europe, I roasted N people at once and didn't fall behind.]

Just as the Mi Fans group chat fell silent, someone suddenly thought: if they couldn't beat the hooligan Big Mouth Yu, couldn't they just go to his boss and get him disciplined?

After all, Big Mouth Yu was just a product manager...

He wasn't the founder; changing their approach would surely be enough to deal with him.

So someone posted: "@Shen Fei CEO Shen, what do you think?"

With the Mi Fans going all out, this comment was pushed to the top, and more and more people started @Shen Fei.

"CEO Shen, come out and say something. Is this how the internal management at Huawei and Transsion is? Publicly acting like hooligans on the internet..."

"Big Mouth Yu and Lei Jun are fighting; is the boss going to do anything about it?"

"CEO Shen, are you just watching the show?"

...

Yangcheng, Transsion headquarters.

Shen Fei sat in his office, leisurely drinking tea. His "in-house slave" Zhang Mingzhu was there helping him review reports, picking out the more important matters for him to sign off on.

While he was watching Zhang Mingzhu, his phone kept vibrating non-stop.

Zhang Mingzhu stretched, wearing a resentful expression, and walked over.

She pointed at the files: "These are the important ones. Take a look in a bit and just sign them."

"By the way, what's up with your phone?"

"A fight started on Weibo. I guess the Mi Fans couldn't beat that trash-talker Lei Jun, so they had to come find me to mediate."

Zhang Mingzhu glanced at him, her eyes revealing shock.

They couldn't win an argument against Big Mouth Yu.

Although the two of them hadn't met many times, the impression Big Mouth Yu gave Zhang Mingzhu was that he was the type of product manager who did real work. Surely not?

And asking him to snitch, didn't that seem a bit wrong...

"What, you don't believe me?"