86 The Big Manufacturers are Alarmed

Due to the appearance of the Divine Dragon Optimization App, all the major mobile phone manufacturers in the country were alarmed.

There was a buzz at all the major phone manufacturers. Several senior vice presidents took overnight flights to Jinshan Province. Even the chairman of Heyme Corporation personally rushed to Jinshan Province.

Even Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent sent their personnel to Tianyi City, where Divine Dragon Software Company was located, to hold talks regarding the Divine Dragon Optimization App.

Zhang Qinglan, the senior vice president of OPPO, was also on his way.

“President Zhang, we just received news that all the manufacturers’ app stores have removed the Divine Dragon Optimization App. At the same time, they have issued a security warning on the App.” Zhang Qinglan, the senior vice president in charge of mobile operating system secondary development, was rushing to the airport when Secretary Liu Ping carefully updated him on the information she had just obtained.

“Liu Ping, it seems that the other manufacturers have already realized the terrifying potential of the Divine Dragon Optimization App,” Zhang Qinglan said in a low voice.

“I suspect that negotiators from the other manufacturers are also rushing to Tianyi City in Jinshan Province. Like us, they want to buy the source code for the Divine Dragon Optimization App.” Zhang Qinglan said in a low voice.

“President Zhang, the major manufacturers communicated with each other three hours ago. Firstly, they removed the Divine Dragon Optimization App from the app stores to reduce its popularity. Secondly, they want to monitor the situation first and thus would not be making contact with the Divine Dragon Software Company for the time being.”

“Wouldn’t it be unscrupulous of us to rush to Tianyi City to talk to the Divine Dragon Software Company now?” Liu Ping, who was a recent hire, asked in puzzlement.

“Liu Ping, you’re still too young. The purpose of the company’s existence is to earn money. If we play fair, who will support our company’s tens of thousands of people? Moreover, will the other companies also play by moral and ethics? Impossible!” Zhang Qinglan lectured.

“Oh! I understand now!” Liu Ping nodded with a look of understanding. She still had a question in her heart. “President Zhang, do you think the boss of Divine Dragon Software Company will be very mad at us for removing the Divine Dragon Optimization App from the app store?”

President Zhang smiled and explained, “I’ve already gotten someone to investigate this company. It’s a small company that has just been established. They have two products. One is the Data Restoration software, and it has already clinched a 10 million yuan contract this year. The other is the Divine Dragon Optimization App. It has just been released.”

“The boss of the company is called Li Chengqian, a third-year student. He’s a talent. He just won the provincial championship in the Jinshan Province Junior Informatics Programming Competition.”

“His parents were ordinary workers. They used to work in small companies.”

“Before Li Chengqian founded the Divine Dragon Software Company, his family wasn’t rich. He was born into an ordinary family, the kind that would worry about mortgages.”

“So, even if Li Chengqian is very angry, he can’t do anything to us because we’re going to give him money.”

“I’m also prepared to offer Li Chengqian 100 million yuan to buy out the source code of the Divine Dragon Optimization App. Do you think a child from an ordinary family will still be angry with me because I removed his App from the app store after hearing the 100 million yuan offer?”

“His original intention in developing the Divine Dragon Optimization App must be to make money. If I let him make money, he will only thank me and not be angry with me.” President Zhang smiled at Liu Ping. Liu Ping was only 21 years old and had just graduated from university this year. She had a graceful figure, delicate and fair skin, and a youthful aura. Her looks were also top-notch. To the 50-year-old Zhang Qinglan, she was very attractive.

This was also one of the reasons why Zhang Qinglan was willing to teach her.

“Hiss… 100 million! I can’t even earn that much money in 10 lifetimes.” Liu Ping’s eyes widened. She was shocked by the price Zhang Qinglan mentioned. This was an unimaginable wealth.

“That’s right!” Zhang Qinglan looked at Liu Ping with a smile. In fact, he knew very well that 100 million yuan was definitely not enough to buy the source code. He was just a soldier sent to the frontline to recce the terrain.

Back then, Alibaba had developed a yunOS. It was similar to the Divine Dragon Optimization App in nature. They were both virtual machines. After spending five billion yuan in two years, the yun virtual machine was not up to mark, and it paled in comparison to the Android virtual machine. It didn’t solve the problem of Android’s lag at all. The project failed in the end.

HarmonyOS, which was developed by Huawei, was essentially a replacement for the Android virtual machine. It did well, but its performance was only comparable to the Android virtual machine.

However, it took five years and no less than eight billion yuan to develop the HarmonyOS.

The Divine Dragon Optimization App was obviously more advanced than these two virtual machines. It was almost an era ahead in terms of hardware performance. It was wishful thinking to want to buy it for 100 million.

Some experienced mobile phone experts say that whoever has the Divine Dragon Optimization App will become the next Apple.

If the Divine Dragon Optimization App was open source like Android, it could even eliminate Apple in the near future.

Meanwhile, the chairman of Heyme Corporation, Lei Che, was carefully reading the information his secretary had gathered.

“The Divine Dragon Optimization App is a secondary concern. If Li Chengqian is willing to join Heyme Corporation, I’m willing to give him 5% of the company’s non-diluting shares, the kind that can be listed and circulated in five years! I want him to be my collaborator.” Lei Che had decided on his game plan.

“Chairman Lei, with Heyme’s market value of 250 billion yuan, 5% shares is 12.5 billion yuan! Isn’t that too much?”

“You don’t understand what a genius can do for the company!” Chairman Lei shook his head. With the talent Li Chengqian had displayed, he could perhaps transform Heyme Corporation into another Apple, or even better than Apple…!

Meanwhile, over at the CEO’s office in Huawei, Wang Renfei, had finished reading the report on Li Chengqian. He pondered for a while and then started making arrangements.

“Give him an annual salary of 80 million yuan and 3% of Huawei’s shares. As long as Li Chengqian is willing to join us, I’ll let him take over my job after two years if he meets the criteria! If he’s not talented enough in management, I’ll let him take charge of Huawei’s software department.”

“Do your best to get him to join us. If Li Chengqian is unwilling to come, offer him 3 billion yuan to buy back the source code of the Divine Dragon Optimization App.”

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As for Li Chengqian, who was the cause of this storm, he had already returned to his class and was quietly listening to the teacher’s lecture.

He applied for a week’s leave from the school after he got back from Tianbao City because he needed to follow up on matters relating to the Data Restoration software.

“Li Chengqian, have you had breakfast? I brought some cake. It’s quite delicious. Try it.” The morning session had ended. Jian Qingli’s voice was gentle, and her eyes were filled with anticipation.

“Thank you. I’ve already eaten this morning.” Li Chengqian shook his head and rejected Jian Qingli’s offer.

“Oh.” Jian Qingli was a little disappointed. Then, she pretended to ask casually, “By the way, why didn’t I see you this morning?”

Knowing that Li Chengqian was going back to school for class, Jian Qingli waited at Li Chengqian’s door for a long time in the morning, but to no avail. Later, when she saw Chen Li leaving her house, she asked and found out that Li Chengqian had not returned the night before.

“I had to deal with something at the company, so I didn’t go home,” Li Chengqian answered casually.

The Divine Dragon Optimization App was taken off the shelves. Li Chengqian had already arranged for Zhao Na to contact other promotional channels. There was no response for the time being. Other than continuing his work on the operating system core, he could only read.

“Li Chengqian, you’re already so wealthy. Actually, there’s no need to work so hard.” Jian Qingli’s eyes lit up. She had always been worried that Li Chengqian would go out to play with other girls and stay out all night.

At this moment, Zhao Peng jogged to the classroom of Grade 12 Class 5 and stood beside Li Chengqian. “Captain, didn’t you say that the Divine Dragon Optimization App is already on the shelves of various app stores?”

“I just searched, but I couldn’t find anything. I even received a security risk notification. It said that there’s an issue with the Divine Dragon Optimization App and there’s a risk of damage to the phone system.”

“These mobile phone manufacturers must know how powerful the Divine Dragon Optimization App is. They think that it will affect the release of their new phones, so they deliberately took down the Divine Dragon Optimization App.”

Those who were planning to purchase a new phone downloaded the Divine Dragon Optimization App and realized that their old phones were even more useful and worked faster than new phones. Who would still want to purchase a new phone?

“Not only did they remove the app, but they also deliberately misled consumers into thinking that there was a problem with the Divine Dragon Optimization App. They are trying to discourage consumers from downloading the app through other channels.”

“They are even threatening users that using the Divine Dragon Optimization App would impact the validity of the warranty!”

“This is too much!” Zhao Peng’s tone was full of anger.

He had personally participated in the development of the Divine Dragon Optimization App. Although he was only inputting the codes, he knew that there were no issues with the App.

Because he was the first user of the Divine Dragon Optimization App!

He had installed the Divine Dragon Optimization App on his phone. After installing the App, he only needed to charge his phone every other day, instead of every day as before.

In the past, he had to turn off his phone every day to use it. If he didn’t turn it off, his phone would lag and it would also overheat after some time.

After installing the Divine Dragon Optimization App, no matter how it was used, the phone was still the same as when it was turned on. There was no lag.

Therefore, the security notification that was put out on the app stores was completely nonsense.

“Captain, you have to think of a way to negotiate with these app stores. Tell them that your App is not risky and let them put the App back on the stores?” Zhao Peng said anxiously.

“I have contacted the relevant app store at the first instance. They said that we need to provide our source code for their review before they would put the App back in the store,” Li Chengqian said calmly.

“What nonsense! The review is fake. Their real aim is to steal your software!” Zhao Peng immediately understood the other party’s evil intentions.

“Captain, we can’t let them bully and slander us like this. Let’s call the police,” Zhao Peng said angrily.

“I’ve already consulted the professionals. It’s useless to call the police.” Zhao Na took a screenshot of the relevant pages and consulted several well-known lawyers. However, all the major app stores had exemption clauses. At the same time, their security notifications were crafted with template clauses. They used words such as “may cause damage to the system.”

These major manufacturers have been around for decades. They have a team of leading professionals and talents managing all aspects of the business. Naturally, there wouldn’t be any loopholes in these matters.

“Captain, are we just going to let them take down the Divine Dragon Optimization App that we worked so hard to develop? Are we going to do nothing and let them bully us?” Zhao Peng was indignant.