Epilogue

In the international market, Samsung's projector products were like a fleeting flower, blooming brightly before quickly withering. In less than five days, the Phantom Projectors produced by the five major home appliance companies had taken their place, rapidly becoming the mainstream product and completely crushing other TV projector products.

The powerful capabilities of the Phantom TV System 2.0 rendered Samsung's projector products completely unattractive.

Whether online or in reality, a considerable number of consumers were discussing the powerful features of the Phantom Projector products.

The methods employed by the five major home appliance companies in selling their goods were not something Shenma Technology Company could compare to.

The international market was like a gold mine. If everyone's products were roughly the same, then the major companies would be like honest miners, each using their own products and pickaxes to dig for ore. How much ore they could extract would depend on the quality of the pickaxe and the miner's physical strength and experience.

However, in this mine, if one miner suddenly had a pickaxe that became incredibly sharp, a melee would begin.

There was only so much gold. With a sharp iron pickaxe, this miner could kill all the miners using stone pickaxes, taking the entire mine for themselves or joining forces with other companies that had equally powerful pickaxes to monopolize the entire mine.

It was like the transition from the traditional mobile phone era to the smartphone era. Smartphones rose in just a few years, and traditional mobile phones vanished without a trace.

The current international TV projector display market was no different. Samsung, as the first to launch projector products, used an iron pickaxe with their powerful individual capabilities, slaughtering all the miners who were using stone pickaxes in just a few short days.

However, just as Samsung was about to turn around and start digging for gold in earnest, the five major home appliance companies appeared with steel pickaxes, even more formidable than iron ones.

Although individually, the five major home appliance companies could not compare to Samsung, they could form formations and fight cooperatively.

Using their superior weapons to form the Five Elements Formation, they completely decimated Samsung, leaving them utterly defeated.

After defeating the others, these five miners then cooperated to mine.

There was no need to worry about internal conflict. These five miners were all from the same hometown, with decades of friendship. Even if there were minor disagreements, they could be resolved. Furthermore, behind them was the big boss who lent them the steel pickaxes. If internal conflict arose, the steel pickaxes might be repossessed.

Therefore, in the international market, after the major home appliance companies defeated Samsung, they divided the sales territories and entered the happy stage of mining for profit.

Every day, tens of thousands of Phantom Projector products were sold, and the profits were extremely high!

There were no product research and development costs. Except for the projector driver board, LED light source, and Phantom TV System 2.0 version mastered by Shenma Technology Company, the technological content of the other components of the Phantom Projector equipment was not high, and the manufacturing cost was not expensive.

A Phantom Projector product sold for 6,000 yuan (5,000 yuan in Daxia, slightly higher overseas due to tariffs and transportation costs, etc.). After deducting various import and export taxes, corporate value-added tax, and other fees, the cost was approximately 3,000 yuan.

For every Phantom Projector product sold, the profit was also 3,000 yuan, which was already higher than the profit margins of most digital technology products!

Compared to the products produced by the major home appliance companies previously, the profit difference was even more enormous. Didn't you see how products have been in intense competition in recent years? To sell, you had to offer lower prices than your competitors while also maintaining better quality!

With the permission of Shenma Technology Company, the five major home appliance companies were even discussing whether they should slightly increase the price.

When earning money from foreigners, of course, the more expensive it sells, the better!

After all, with the unique quality of the Phantom Projector products they held, they were not afraid of consumers not buying them!

Currently, every batch of goods was sold out as soon as it was stocked, and consumers were in a frenzy of buying.

The citizens of developed countries had plenty of money; Daxia companies should earn more!

Especially for the Phantom Projector Super Edition, although the cost was only five to six thousand yuan per unit, selling such powerful performance for 100,000 yuan was not excessive!

It was very reasonable!

There were many wealthy individuals abroad, and perhaps if they sold it too cheaply, foreigners wouldn't like it, as it wouldn't highlight their status.

The sales of the five major home appliance companies' products had entered the right track. Meanwhile, within Samsung, the company's high-level executives were still in a meeting to decide the company's future development.

Currently, hundreds of thousands of projector units had accumulated in the warehouse, but they were not selling.

With the actions of the five major home appliance companies, Samsung's projector sales had plummeted in the past two days, dropping to only a few thousand units per day.

This was in a global market of billions of people, and a sales volume of a few thousand units was completely insufficient, and this sales volume was still declining!

This was another crisis of unsellable products, similar to when Shenma Technology Company rose in Daxia and Samsung's products saw a sharp decline in sales there. Now, the crisis had spread to the global TV projector market.

Even in Samsung's home market of South Korea, the projector market had been completely seized by the Phantom Projectors from the five major home appliance companies.

Although Samsung's influence in South Korea had grown year by year, it was not without its drawbacks. When Samsung was powerful and had close ties with the government, it was often the government that stabbed them in the back when Samsung fell into decline.

The government had been intentionally or unintentionally weakening Samsung's power for years. The current situation was opportune. Since Samsung could no longer bring substantial benefits to the government, allowing the Phantom Projectors of the five major home appliance companies to enter and cripple Samsung was a viable option.

"If our products can't compete with the Phantom Projectors, what about controlling the supply of the main components for the Phantom Projectors?" a Samsung executive asked during the meeting.

Another executive asked, "How do we do that?"

"Spend money to hire assassins. Spending hundreds of millions would be worth it."

Shaking his head, someone denied, "Do you know their location or appearance?"

"That... we don't know, but we can investigate."

"That won't work."

"I've considered your idea, but there are several problems that need to be resolved before it can be implemented. First, the Phantom Projectors and Samsung are currently competing in the international market. Although Samsung is retreating steadily, if the boss of Shenma Technology Company is assassinated, or the factory is destroyed, leading to the inability to produce Phantom Projectors, then Samsung would be the biggest beneficiary. This would be tantamount to announcing to the world that Samsung did it! And then blowing up the factory with a bomb. Next door is that ancient and powerful country. Do you think Daxia would not intervene? This would be equivalent to a terrorist attack! Can Samsung or South Korea withstand the wrath of Daxia?"

Secondly, as I mentioned earlier, we don't even have a grasp of the target's location or appearance, so how can we implement the plan?

We only learned through unofficial channels that the target is a young man in his twenties, exceptionally handsome, and usually keeps to himself.

Are we supposed to go on a killing spree next to their company, killing anyone who's good-looking?

This is a price Samsung cannot afford to pay."

"At this critical juncture, killing Shenma Technology Company's boss, Ning Yifan, wouldn't be an assassination; it would be a direct declaration to everyone that I did it. Samsung is outmatched in product competition and commercial tactics against the five major home appliance companies.

Assassination is a foolish choice, and it could even lead Samsung to utter ruin."

"Then, what about lowering prices and engaging in a price war?"

"According to information from our commercial spies, the final cost for the Phantom Projector products from the major home appliance companies is around three thousand yuan, hundreds of yuan lower than Samsung's cost. We can't win a price war either."

Samsung's meeting lasted for a full two days.

The final outcome was that Samsung would completely abandon the market for television projector displays.

By severing an arm to survive, continuing to fight against the major home appliance companies of Daxia Country would inevitably lead to Samsung's defeat and even bankruptcy.

Now, we've only lost an arm, and if I continue to drag this out...

Moreover, there's another very significant reason for Samsung's decision: Shenma Technology Company's technological research and development capabilities have instilled fear in Samsung's engineers.

Even if Samsung continues to delve into the technical data obtained from cracking the Phantom Projector technology and develops new products, Samsung fears that, just like this time, Shenma Technology Company will suddenly release even more powerful products, rendering all of Samsung's efforts futile and wasting countless human and material resources.