In just the time it took for a press conference, Lingyun became the focus of national and even global attention. After all, releasing a computer operating system at this time clearly aimed to capture the Windows market.
Moreover, the system was released by Jiangnan Group, a terrifying enterprise whose estimated market value was definitely over 50,000 trillion US dollars, even though it hadn't gone public yet. Naturally, the market attention it garnered was sky-high.
However, after understanding the details of this system, media outlets and insightful individuals worldwide shook their heads, stating that the Lingyun system was likely a joke, as it natively came bundled with a five-进制 (five-进制) computer chip.
This meant that to use their system, you also had to be tied to a chip. This seemed like child's play no matter how you looked at it.
Of course, some people cheered, calling it Jiangnan Group's smartest decision. Because if this system were to be widely promoted, the market for Lingyun chips would be a terrifying scale of billions, enough for Jiangnan Group to feast on for over a decade.
Overall, whether domestically or internationally, the vast majority of people considered Jiangnan Group's newly released system an impractical product. If the Lingyun system were based on a binary computer chip, it might have been able to pry a piece of the Windows market away. But if it were a five-进制 computer chip, it was purely a pipe dream.
However, Jiangnan Group did not seem to consider its idea a pipe dream and actively began its promotional work. The first step was to blanket the world with advertisements, refreshing the presence of its system globally and telling everyone that a powerful system capable of replacing the Windows system had already been born.
Following that, major computer component manufacturers affiliated with the Huaxia Electronic Science and Technology Industry Development Alliance also announced their new product series based on the Lingyun system and Tiangong chips.
For instance, Gigabyte immediately announced its new GF series motherboards, releasing five motherboards of different models, each corresponding to five different models of Tiangong chips.
Then, other hardware manufacturers also announced that their products had undergone corresponding adaptation for Tiangong chips and the Lingyun system, launching new models. Users who needed to assemble computers could purchase and experience them.
Within a mere five days, 92% of the hardware manufacturers under the alliance announced that they would launch corresponding products.
This was an astonishing result, leaving everyone in the industry and outside with their mouths agape. It meant that the entire computer component industry believed that the Lingyun system and Tiangong chips would have a place in the computer market in the future. Was this possible? Were these hardware companies fools?
After a reporter painstakingly interviewed a senior executive from a related company, the answer was finally obtained.
The reason they launched corresponding hardware for the five-进制 system and chip almost simultaneously was that about two months prior, Boss Huang had treated them to a meal and asked them to help him out by giving his product some support.
"Just for a meal?" the reporter asked incredulously. "You're willing to launch a new series and products that might never sell just for a meal!"
"A meal alone wouldn't be enough!" the executive replied with a somewhat helpless smile. "But who wouldn't do it when the person inviting is Huang He? If he asks, how can we refuse?"
That's right, this was Boss Huang's standing in the entire business world at this time. Just for a meal and a request, almost all computer hardware companies had to grit their teeth and risk losses to help him. Otherwise, would they not give Boss Huang face?
"And our losses aren't actually that much!" the executive explained at the end of the interview. "Because apart from the motherboard pinouts, the rest of the hardware configurations are basically common with binary chips and systems. The only changes we need are software adaptations, and Jiangnan Group is taking the initiative to handle this part of the work. Their staff are actively helping us develop corresponding driver programs."
"So, in the end, the actual losses won't be too high. Those unsold new hardware models can be repurposed as components for binary computers by simply changing their internal driver programs."
Jiangnan Group's actions were also quite swift. Just one month later, in February 2016, Jiangnan Group's Lingyun system and Tiangong chips began to be stocked in major markets.
Simultaneously, the hardware manufacturers who had long been prepared also opened their sales channels.
Both the manufacturers themselves and the onlookers generally felt that the sales of these products would be extremely bleak. If they could account for about 1% of the total market sales in a day, it would be a huge success.
To everyone's surprise, the first batch of Lingyun systems and accompanying Tiangong chips sold by Jiangnan Group online were all sold out in just three seconds.
This was not a small number; it was a total of 100,000 sets, and they were all sold out in a mere three seconds. This achievement shocked everyone.
Initially, many people suspected that Jiangnan Group was artificially inflating its sales to avoid having ugly data. Then, on major video platforms, videos titled "Tiangong Chip Set Arrived, Let's Unbox and See Today" or "What is the Actual Performance of the Brand New Five-进制 Computer Chip System, Let's Test it Today" started appearing en masse.
Tens of thousands of such videos appeared across the entire network, whether from professional tech reviewers, beauty bloggers, fashion bloggers, lifestyle bloggers, or parenting bloggers, all of them started uploading videos.
Although the general public thought that buying this computer set was foolish, they were very curious about the actual performance and experience of this five-进制 computer. At this point, many people finally realized that the reason the first batch sold out so quickly was that it was bought by various bloggers. xxs壹贰
However, the fact also proved that the bloggers' choices were not wrong. The traffic for almost all bloggers who conducted related reviews saw a significant increase in a short period.
Some bloggers, due to their videos being quite entertaining, began to gain a massive number of followers. The most explosive was a blogger named "Pig Farm Manager."
This blogger had been consistently streaming games but never saw any improvement. However, when he humorously started narrating videos, his follower count saw an unimaginable surge, gaining over 200,000 followers overnight. He truly found the secret to traffic.
At the same time, everyone in the industry was very curious about how Jiangnan Group would solve the other challenge of entering the computer system and hardware market, which was the issue of applications.
After all, if Tiangong and Lingyun were products based on the five-进制 computer system, then products developed based on the binary computer language for the Windows system absolutely could not be applied to Lingyun. So, wouldn't these products still only be opened and transferred by their own official company constantly?
Therefore, everyone curiously clicked on various reviews online and witnessed a scene that made everyone dumbfounded.
That is, the system's built-in system app store had a staggering 42 million different programs for users to download freely. This number was ridiculously exaggerated.
However, soon, some smart people suddenly discovered that the rankings, icons, and other aspects of the programs in this app store seemed no different from the app stores on their terminals.
After a surprising comparison, these people were once again stunned to find that these programs were indeed all the software and assets from Jiangnan's official terminal store.
It was only at this point that computer users, who had been dominated by Microsoft for many years, realized that if they enlarged a terminal's mobile screen four or five times, it could also be considered a computer system.