Ye Zhi had downloaded hundreds of applications using her old phone. When she opened one, the phone immediately froze.
Ye Zhi was speechless. She waited for a while, and seeing that the phone had no reaction at all, remaining frozen, she could only resort to the most brute-force method: a forced shutdown.
But after restarting, Ye Zhi angrily discovered that the Qian Bai application had automatically started! In the blink of an eye, the phone was frozen again. Ye Zhi restarted it several times out of unwillingness, finally realizing that no matter how many times she turned it on, the result was always the same. She didn't even have a chance to uninstall the software, and a perfectly good phone was rendered unusable!
She should have noticed earlier. Before, Chen Wei had handed over his own phone, intending for her to try it, but then he sneakily put it back. This clearly indicated that the consequences of downloading it were severe.
She had been too careless!
"What's going on with Qian Bai?" Ye Zhi asked, confused. "How could they cause such a big accident?"
"I think they only tested it on An Guo's new system," Chen Wei explained. "But An Guo's new system is very different from the old one. All the bugs they fixed were based on the new system. However, the fixed program conflicted with the old system, which is why it directly caused the freeze. Even restarting couldn't solve it."
"How dare they go live without testing?" Ye Zhi was greatly bewildered.
Chen Wei said, "I think... Ou Minghan was too eager to break through today's predicament, which is why he went all out like this. Even if some minor issues arise, as long as they are fixed quickly and good public relations are handled, people will soon forget about it. After all, the internet has no memory."
Seeing Chen Wei looking at her with a gaze that clearly said, "You forced him," and "The responsibility is all yours," Ye Zhi didn't know what expression to put on.
She had actually anticipated that Qian Bai's system would have an accident. Her original plan was to wage an public opinion war, exposing Qian Bai's true face of releasing half-finished applications and treating users as guinea pigs.
She had even thought about contacting tech influencers and even preparing to contact paid commenters, planning every step of the attack. But before she could even make a move, Qian Bai collapsed on its own!
Downloading Qian Bai's application caused the phone to freeze immediately, rendering it a brick. It couldn't make calls, send texts. Anyone would see that this software had major issues, and anyone would be furious. No, just cursing a couple of times would be too mild.
Ye Zhi truly hadn't expected that to defeat an opponent, one simply had to do nothing, and the opponent would self-destruct. She even felt like she could open champagne and celebrate right then and there!
She couldn't help but have an epiphany. No wonder the original work rarely mentioned anything about business matters. Perhaps, maybe, possibly... Ou Minghan's business acumen was truly very ordinary.
"I'll use your computer for a moment," Ye Zhi said.
Chen Wei stood up and moved aside.
Ye Zhi opened the forum and found that long post. If for no other reason, she just wanted to see if the poster's face would hurt.
There were already quite a few replies under the post. Initially, many people reminded the poster to download the application and asked him to quickly reply with his user experience.
But then, some people started cursing Qian Bai's application as garbage in the replies, saying it had caused their phones to freeze. However, there were also many refuting posts, saying that they had downloaded it on their new phones, and it only lagged, but didn't freeze at all, and that the other party must be a hater.
Just as both sides were arguing fiercely, Ye Zhi suddenly found the poster's reply.
"Ahhh! I'm so angry! What kind of garbage mobile application is this? It made my phone shatter!"
"That's not right. This application can at most cause the phone to freeze; it can't directly shatter the phone, can it?"
"I kept turning it on and restarting, on and restarting, but it was useless. In my anger, I threw my phone, and it flew out the window, falling from the 30th floor and smashing to pieces! Damn Qian Bai company, I'm officially switching from a fan to a hater today!"
Upon seeing the poster's reply, the previously argumentative replies all turned into merciless ridicule of the poster.
Ye Zhi also found it amusing. She couldn't help but reply, "Do internet companies have fans these days? What do they have fans for? For fleecing you in various ways?"
Chen Wei, standing beside her, couldn't help but be speechless when he saw the content of her reply.
He reminded her, "President Ye, your company is also an internet company."
Ye Zhi pushed away the keyboard and said with a straight face, "The same applies."
Chen Wei: ...You're ruthless.
"Alright, the entertainment is over. Let's get down to business," Ye Zhi coughed twice.
Chen Wei: ...Was I entertained? I wasn't browsing forums during work hours.
"Qian Bai company is currently at its lowest point in public opinion. This is a good opportunity to beat a drowning dog!" Ye Zhi's expression turned solemn, and she asked in a deep voice, "Chen Wei, are those phones salvageable?"
"Yes, but it requires cooperation from the phone manufacturers," Chen Wei said. "I can design a program for them that, upon startup, automatically upgrades the phone's system and forcibly uninstalls Qian Bai's application."
"Good, I'll go contact those two old friends from M family and W family," Ye Zhi slightly curved her lips. "It's time to provide some help to our allies!"
***
At Qian Bai company, Feng Jie was truly about to cry.
Ou Minghan had run off directly, leaving this mess to him. They had been focused on An Guo's new system, but who knew the old system would have such a big problem!
By the time they realized it, it was already too late. Their previous promotional efforts were significant, so many netizens had their expectations raised. At 10 o'clock, they downloaded it immediately.
Although they rushed to take down the application when they discovered the issue, there were still few phones using An Guo's new system. Most phones were still using the old system, which directly led to widespread freezing incidents.
Angry users poured into Qian Bai's official website in large numbers, leaving comments.
"Trash software, you broke my phone, quickly compensate me! If not, I'll report you to the Administration for Industry and Commerce!"
"Family, stop scolding, stop scolding. Qian Bai is doing this for your own good! As long as you download this software, you can have a new phone. It really works, I'm crying!"
"Trash Qian Bai! Absolutely disgusting! Why is it only the old system that has problems? An Guo's new system has no issues at all? Did you take money from those phone manufacturers to force us to buy new system phones?!"
These comments were considered civil. Other comments directly cursed Ou Minghan by name, and the language was particularly foul.
Feng Jie hurriedly had people shut down the comments on the website, but while he could shut down his own website's comments, he couldn't shut down those on other websites.
On major forums and discussion sites, an explosion of posts denouncing Qian Bai emerged, and Qian Bai's public opinion front completely collapsed.
"Assistant Feng, what should we do now?" someone asked.