"I'm here, are you surprised, are you unexpected?" Boss Huang said jokingly, holding a microphone as he walked onto the stage.
Boss Huang's appearance was indeed quite unexpected. According to the schedule for the Jiangnan Group's new product launch event, which had been announced in advance, there was no mention of Boss Huang giving a speech or making any explanations.
This meant that all the audience members present had a preconceived expectation that they wouldn't see Boss Huang at this new product launch event. Consequently, the number of media outlets attending wasn't as high as it could have been. Boss Huang's unexpected appearance was indeed a huge surprise, capturing a significant number of flashes from the cameras.
"However, for the reporters who couldn't make it to the scene, there's no need to be upset. The company's announcement clearly stated in the title that it was the 'Tian Zhou 2 New Product Launch Event.' As you all just saw, under the explanation by our great scientist Professor Zuo Sicheng, Tian Zhou 2 has been very thoroughly showcased to everyone. Although the price has increased slightly to a starting price of 2499 RMB per unit, the performance improvement is also very significant!" Boss Huang said with a chuckle. "My presence here naturally means that what I'm about to bring you isn't Tian Zhou 2, but a brand-new product series launched by Tian Zhou Company!"
"A brand-new product series?" All the audience members' eyes lit up. So this was the biggest surprise! Jiangnan Group was actually going to release a brand-new product here.
Then, everyone saw Boss Huang showcasing the tablet-like device he had been holding.
Due to the distance, many people hadn't seen it clearly before. But this time, the close-up shot from the on-site camera focused directly on this tablet, and the audience discovered... it really was a tablet!
"Allow me to introduce our Jiangnan Group's latest product. I call it a tablet... well, I'm not kidding. Its registered product name with the relevant authorities is actually 'Tablet.' Although some colleagues suggested I give it a more sophisticated name, like 'flat computer.' But I think 'tablet' is more approachable, so I indulged myself. This thing is called a tablet!" Boss Huang continued with a smile, leaving the crowd below speechless.
So, it turned out to be a tablet after all.
Of course, the name "flat computer" also made the audience understand that this tablet was essentially a flat computer, somewhat similar to a laptop.
"The birth of our tablet was somewhat serendipitous. Before February of this year, we never even considered producing such a thing. Until one day, my sister-in-law, who had just started her first year of high school this year, watched some TV on my terminal. After returning it to me, she complained that the terminal's screen was too small, the subtitles were hard to see, and it hurt her eyes!"
"I said, terminals aren't specifically designed for watching TV or videos. If you want a big screen, just turn on the TV at home. You can watch any video content you want with the Jiangnan TV Box!"
"But my sister-in-law said that watching TV and watching videos on a terminal are two different concepts. The former requires sitting on the sofa with a serious demeanor to have a sense of occasion. But the latter is suitable for lying in bed or lounging on a chair, being able to pick it up and watch TV or videos anytime you want, without having to go to the living room to turn on the TV!"
"I rolled my eyes and said you're being too demanding. Then you can just take a laptop to bed and watch it. The screen is bigger too. But she was still not satisfied, saying laptops are too heavy, inconvenient to carry around, and uncomfortable to use while lying in bed. You also need a mouse to use it, and watching TV on a laptop in bed is no better than watching TV in the living room!"
"I was getting a bit annoyed and asked her impatiently what exactly she wanted."
"Then my sister-in-law asked if it was possible to specially produce a terminal for her. Everything else would be the same as a regular terminal, except she hoped the screen could be as large as a laptop screen, for her convenience in watching videos."
"I thought about it and then told her, 'Go back to your homework and study!'" Boss Huang's words immediately elicited a burst of laughter from the audience. After the laughter subsided, Huang He continued, "However, I thought about it. It wouldn't be impossible to create a larger-screen version of the terminal for my sister-in-law. After all, it only requires enlarging the screen, and the rest can be the same as Tian Zhou's configuration. I'll have the factory cut a separate screen and produce a bezel for it!"
"So I called the factory under my supervision and asked them to modify a Tian Zhou terminal according to my sister-in-law's request. Later, after making that call, I forgot about it. I even didn't remember that it had happened. Until a month later, my secretary suddenly informed me that the new product I had instructed the factory to design and process was ready and asked me to review it."
"Her words stunned me. When did I instruct the factory to design and process new products? I didn't even know what these new products were."
"So I immediately rushed to the factory and saw the sample they had just produced: a square-shaped product, slightly smaller than a laptop, but with a screen large enough, equivalent to six terminal screens combined. This is the product!" As Boss Huang said this, a beautiful hostess brought out a tablet that felt very metallic (actually, the casing was unpainted).
This was likely the first tablet sample produced by Jiangnan Group.
"Actually, this is a very unremarkable product. I don't particularly like it, at least not when I first saw it!" Boss Huang shook his head. "First of all, this product is basically a magnified version of the Tian Zhou terminal. Although the enlarged screen allows for video playback up to 12 inches, and the screen display effect is slightly improved, supporting up to 1080p display, 62 million colors, and a 60Hz refresh rate, etc."
"But it's only clearer when viewing photos and videos. I didn't see any other advantages. My engineers told me that watching videos on this screen allows you to see the actress's foundation makeup clearly."
"Excuse me, when we watch female celebrities, aren't we pursuing beauty? If you make me see the foundation clearly, what's the point of beauty?" Boss Huang's words again caused roaring laughter.
"Secondly, if there's any significant improvement to mention, it would probably be the thickness of the tablet. The thickness of both Tian Zhou 2 and Tian Zhou 1 reached 10 millimeters. I was actually quite dissatisfied with this thickness, still thinking it was too thick."
"But there was nothing that could be done. After all, fitting so many functions and components into such a small volume, a thickness of 10 millimeters was almost the limit we could achieve. Fortunately, our product is thinner than those of our competitors, which I am quite satisfied with."
"However, this aspect has been greatly improved with the tablet. Because the flat surface area of the tablet is larger, many components can be arranged more dispersedly, without being crammed together. Therefore, the overall thickness was smoothly reduced. So, what is the thickness of our tablet?"
"The sample unit I hold in my hand was 7 millimeters thick when it was first produced. Of course, this was to meet my requirements as the boss and for emergency production. The optimization was not yet complete. So, after our engineers spent a full 6 months optimizing the internal component layout of this device to the extreme, they finally managed to ensure that the thickness of this tablet, at its thickest point, does not exceed five millimeters!"
"That is, it's equivalent to half the thickness of Tian Zhou 1 and Tian Zhou 2!" As Boss Huang finished speaking, everyone present took out their Tian Zhou terminals and tried to pinch off half the thickness with their fingers to get a sense of the tablet's thickness.
It had to be said that this thickness was absolutely amazing.
"These are some of the advantages of the sample unit I just received. Then my engineers asked me a question that made me ponder for a long time. They asked me when this product would be available for sale!"
"I found this question very difficult to answer because I believe this product is fundamentally unsellable. The positioning of this product is very peculiar. First of all, the size issue alone dictates that users cannot carry the tablet with them as easily as they can carry a terminal, which means that in many usage scenarios, the tablet cannot replace the terminal."
"And if it's used as a large-screen computer device, then honestly, in terms of performance, it still cannot compare to a laptop! Moreover, a tablet cannot do many things that a laptop can do!"
"Therefore, I believe that the tablet product lacks market usage scenarios and its positioning is unclear, so there's no need to invest more effort in R&D. But because the R&D order was personally given by me, I felt embarrassed to tell them that the product's positioning was problematic. Wouldn't that be losing face!"
"So I told them that this product was not yet excellent enough and asked them to continue with R&D, and to hand it over to me when it became sufficiently outstanding!"
"Originally, I said this just to quell their enthusiasm, but I never expected that three months later, our engineers would deliver a completely revised version of the tablet, which is the latest version I have in my hand."
"In addition to the features I mentioned above, they actually completely redeveloped a new system for this tablet. Our previous Tian Zhou system was called Zi Xiao, while the system they created for the tablet is named Yin Yang. Although this system is derived from Zi Xiao, it is designed entirely according to the usage scenarios of a tablet."