#174 - Discrediting opponents

After watching the entire launch event video of the Hongmeng X2 smartphone, Lee Jae-yong's body trembled involuntarily. In the end, even the usually refined Lee Jae-yong couldn't help but blurt out:

"Damn Huaxing Technology, damn Lu Haifeng."

In Samsung's view, their only true competitor was Apple. Huaxing Technology was just a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse, releasing a few smartphones with decent sales.

Samsung even designed its two newly released phones to compete with Apple, not Huaxing Technology.

The Samsung Note was designed to compete with the iPhone 6.

The Samsung S6 was designed to compete with the iPhone 6S.

But despite all their calculations, Samsung never expected that this Great Xia country's enterprise, which they looked down upon, would repeatedly target their company's phones.

Huaxing Technology releasing the Hongmeng X2 smartphone at this time was clearly a move to target the Samsung S6!

Lee Jae-yong felt extremely uncomfortable. He realized that the emergence of the Hongmeng X2 smartphone might cause the Samsung S6 to face sales difficulties in the Great Xia country's smartphone market, which was the last thing Lee Jae-yong wanted to see.

Samsung has always had several major smartphone markets, and the Great Xia country's smartphone market is among the top three in terms of sales.

Losing the Great Xia country's market sales would be a fatal blow to Samsung.

Lee Jae-yong shouted towards the door, "Someone, go and inform Pu Xingcai, the head of the Great Xia region, that this matter must be handled well no matter what. We must not allow Huaxing Technology to shake our Samsung's position in the Great Xia country's smartphone market."

If this matter was not handled well, and they were once again defeated by a Great Xia country's mobile phone company, it would become an indelible shame for Samsung.

This would be detrimental to Samsung's brand image.

Pu Xingcai, the head of Samsung's Great Xia region branch, felt an extra headache upon receiving instructions from headquarters.

He had already sensed a sense of crisis when the Hongmeng X2 smartphone was first released.

Facts also proved that the release of the Hongmeng X2 smartphone did bring a negative impact on Samsung's S6 sales.

From the moment the Hongmeng X2 smartphone was released, sales of the Samsung S6 in the Great Xia country experienced a cliff-like decline.

When the Samsung S6 phone was first released, it could sell tens of thousands of units a day, but after the Hongmeng X2 smartphone was released, Samsung S6 phone sales plummeted from five figures to four figures.

This caused Pu Xingcai, the head of the Great Xia region branch, to suddenly grow a lot of white hair overnight.

"Where should we start attacking the opponent?"

In his office, Pu Xingcai stared at Huaxing Technology's official website, trying to figure out how to deal with the onslaught of the Hongmeng X2 smartphone.

Pu Xingcai thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a good solution. In this situation, facing the onslaught of the Hongmeng X2 smartphone, Pu Xingcai found that there were only a few things he could do.

The most direct approach would be to lower the sales price of the Samsung S6 phone, thereby attracting more consumers to buy their own phone.

However, this method was the least desirable for Pu Xingcai. If he chose this price reduction method for sales, he would have to submit an application to headquarters, which would make Pu Xingcai seem very incompetent.

In this situation, Pu Xingcai could only choose another path to face the competition.

Smear the opponent's product, thereby improving the product image of their own phone and saving the current situation.

Moreover, Pu Xingcai felt that smearing was the most effective and inexpensive method.

After all, the Hongmeng X2 smartphone crazily rubbed against the Samsung S6 before its release, so his company could also use smearing to deal with the Hongmeng X2 smartphone.

"Is wireless charging really safe?"

"Samsung's first fast charging technology, Huaxing Technology shamelessly plagiarizes."

"Talk about the dangers of wireless charging technology!"

Now that the Hongmeng X2 smartphone has not yet started selling, many reports that are unfavorable to the Hongmeng X2 smartphone have suddenly appeared on the entire network.

These reports have invariably seized on the most core wireless charging technology of the Hongmeng X2 smartphone for a frenzied attack.

In Lu Haifeng's office at Huaxing Technology, Lu Haifeng saw Liu Jianyu walking in with an angry face and said, "President Lu, the voices on the Internet are very unfavorable to the launch of our phone. In the just-concluded pre-sale, more than 100,000 people chose to refund."

Obviously, as the person in charge of mobile phone products, he was also very angry about the online smear campaign against the Hongmeng X2 smartphone.

These posts and reports on the Internet that smear his company basically denigrate his company's products to nothing, but instead blow the Samsung company's mobile phones to the skies.

Liu Jianyu now hates these rumors on the Internet. Originally, the momentum of the Hongmeng X2 smartphone was very favorable for this sale.

However, with the emergence of online rumors, Huaxing Technology, which was in an advantageous position, instantly turned into a disadvantage, and even many comments questioning Huaxing Technology appeared on the Internet.

Lu Haifeng couldn't help but feel a headache after receiving such news. Judging from the posts released on the Internet, the people who released these posts and news are basically some Weibo big V in the technology circle.

Lu Haifeng could roughly see which company's handwriting it was from the content they released.

Just as Lu Haifeng was thinking about how to face this crisis, Zhao Lan, from the public relations department, knocked on the door with a notebook computer with a look of embarrassment and said, "President Lu, look at this news."

After Lu Haifeng watched this video, his face was very ugly. Just now, Pu Xingcai, the head of Samsung's Great Xia region, made a statement publicly accusing Huaxing Technology of false advertising and stealing his company's fast charging technology.

He now understands that the other party wants to rely on the brand's influence and guide public opinion to put pressure on Huaxing Technology.

Samsung is, after all, a top brand in the international mobile phone market, while Huaxing Technology is only a little famous in the Great Xia country. No one has even heard of Huaxing Technology internationally.

With the accusations of the head of Samsung's Great Xia region, the entire Internet is now filled with abuse against Huaxing Technology and the Hongmeng X2 smartphone.

"Bah, I thought Huaxing Technology was very powerful, but I didn't expect that they stole Samsung's fast charging technology in terms of fast charging."

"I originally wanted to buy a Hongmeng X2 smartphone to see, but now I want to say that the Hongmeng X2 smartphone is trash."

The netizens who were still skeptical began to verbally attack Huaxing Technology under the leadership of this trend.