The reasoning was simple. Just imagine: everyone was used to using Penguin's chat app, but because it lost the bidding, the Strange Fox Company and the Yigou Company ended up getting the Instant Messaging interfaces instead. What a lovely mess that would be.
Everyone had built up highly developed technology in their respective fields. It was best to avoid crossing into other fields.
Adding a weighting factor to the bids could not eliminate that possibility entirely, but it could at least discourage it to some extent.
"I agree with Chairman Shen," Zhou Hong said first.
Everyone else could not help shooting him resentful looks. Of course he had no objections. The Strange Fox Company had already secured a project and made a killing from it. Naturally, he was happy to agree now.
The crucial point was that when he secured that project, no other companies had competed with him. It had been nothing like this, with hungry rivals circling on every side.
Take E-Commerce, for instance. Three of these twelve companies specialized in it: Taobao, Jindong, and Yigou. Clearly, under the rules Shen Bing had established, one of them would inevitably be eliminated.
That did not mean the company would no longer be able to operate in E-Commerce. It would simply lack the support of Artificial Intelligence.
That might not have much impact in the short term, but as time passed, the company that failed to obtain an interface license would inevitably lose users, perhaps even fading away altogether.
It was a brutal process!
Without a doubt, those three companies were the most hesitant now.
Shen Bing looked around at everyone, fully aware of what they were thinking, and said with a smile, "What I've laid out is only a general framework. In other words, for each category of interface