Apple Inc. had deep pockets and did not care about losing ground here and there.
Although Bedi knew that Phantom Immortal Technology also had deep pockets, as far as he knew, its spending had always been enormous as well.
He had no idea just how enormous, but the raw materials and infrastructure projects alone would have cost tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars.
From that perspective, Phantom Immortal Technology probably did not have much liquid capital left.
That was what gave Bedi confidence! Even if its phone really was better than the Apple 10, there was no way it could be cheap.
You got what you paid for, after all. Would Phantom Immortal Technology really sell at a loss?
Then Bedi began demonstrating the phone.
Everyone in the audience discovered that the Apple 10's operating system was every bit as intelligent as Phantom Immortal Technology's Dragon Scale System. As for its app layout, the Apple System retained the company's usual style, giving the audience an immediate sense of familiarity.
Apple Inc. followed its previous naming convention for this operating system, calling it iOS-i, meaning the iOS System, Artificial Intelligence Edition.
It was a carefully chosen name, one that highlighted both its glorious history and its current capabilities.
More importantly, the iOS System already had a massive following, and a name like this would appeal more readily to those users.
The launch Bedi hosted lasted a full two hours. By the time it ended, news reports in all sorts of languages were already circulating online.
The ranks of Apple fans were undeniably vast. Websites and forums lavished praise on the Apple 10, calling it the single most successful phone in history, bar none.
Well, that achievement hardly seemed remarkable for Apple Inc. Since the Apple 4, it had received