Chapter 49: The Functional Widgets of Tiantian Assistant

Chen Congnan held his phone to his ear with his right hand, still stunned and unable to react, when he heard the beeping tone from the phone; the call had already been hung up.

"Is there some big shot protecting him?"

"Isn't Su Xin from an ordinary family? Where would he know any big shots?"

"Even if Tianqi Technology has great potential, it's only in the startup phase right now; it's impossible for the authorities to value it that much, right? How could any big shot take the initiative to speak up and protect him?"

Chen Congnan pondered for a long time without coming to any conclusion, then made several consecutive calls before he found out who the so-called big shot was.

Just today, a big shot in Tianjing City, during a conference themed on promoting commercial prosperity and driving technological innovation, lavished praise on Tianqi Technology and proposed taking the media along to visit Tianqi Technology, designating it as a key Demonstration Enterprise and calling on all technology companies to learn from it.

Although it wasn't explicitly stated that they were protecting Tianqi Technology, taking the initiative to praise a company at such length in a conference like this spoke volumes.

"There really is someone in the upper echelons backing him."

Chen Congnan couldn't help but furrow his brows.

He couldn't suppress Tianqi Technology on the commercial level, and now he couldn't even use these underhanded tactics.

That the dignified Penguin Group could do nothing about a newly created small company was truly unbelievable to him and gave him a massive headache.

The instructions from the company's board of directors were to take down Tianqi Technology at any cost, otherwise he wouldn't have resorted to such base methods.

One must know that as Penguin Group grew larger and larger, it received more and more attention, and many small tricks that could be used in the past could no longer be used now because of the need to protect their reputation.

Therefore, for over a month, he had been waiting for the hype around Tianqi Technology to fade, while looking for a suitable opportunity to suppress the other party through upright commercial means.

But what he didn't expect was that the hype around Tianqi Technology never faded; instead, it became more popular as time passed, with the number of users hitting new highs consecutively.

Consequently, he had no choice but to disregard the impact and use various base, petty tactics to affect the operations of Tianqi Technology and suppress its development.

As a result, all the tactics he had arranged were declared ineffective due to the pronouncements from the upper echelons, and Yonghui Building also refused to cooperate.

He had to admit that he was completely helpless against Tianqi Technology.

He picked up the phone to report this news to the chairman, and after a long while, he heard the chairman say helplessly:

"Then let's give up for now."

……

On the other side.

After leaving, Xu Tiande, not caring that it was already late, returned to his car and made a WeChat call to Su Xin; this was the contact information they had exchanged when they signed the contract.

The call connected after a while.

"Hello, President Xu."

"Hello, President Su, there is something I need to tell you. Just now, Chen Congnan, the president of the Business Development Department of Penguin Group, found me..."

Xu Tiande stated Chen Congnan's demands one by one, expressed his own firm refusal, and earnestly warned:

"You must be extra vigilant during this time, especially since your Tiantian Assistant is having a major update tomorrow. He asked me to kick you out immediately, surely wanting to leave you with no time to react."

"Moreover, since he only found me tonight, I'm afraid he also figured that even if I refused his request and tipped you off, you wouldn't have time to adjust your update plan or prepare countermeasures. This suggests he likely has other tactics."

Su Xin's expression turned cold, but he didn't say much, only politely expressing his thanks: "Thank you for the reminder, President Xu. I will keep this in mind."

After thinking for a moment.

He made a call to Hao Zude and told him about being targeted by Penguin Group.

"Don't worry, the upper echelons have already communicated about your situation and specifically instructed the leaders in Tianjing City to look after you. Nothing will happen. I'll make a call later to have someone remind the people in Tianjing."

Hao Zude looked grave, and after finishing the call with Su Xin, he wasted no time in contacting the leaders of Tianjing City through internal connections.

……

June 12th, 9:00 AM.

All users of Tiantian Assistant received the update notification on time. Most people had been looking forward to it for a long time, so naturally, they updated immediately.

Although it was a major update, the update package was actually not very large, and it finished in about a minute.

People couldn't wait to open the new version of Tiantian Assistant and found that the changes were indeed very obvious.

The first thing was that the UI interface was optimized to be more aesthetically pleasing; secondly, the startup speed and the fluidity of the virtual avatar's movements were significantly improved.

And after entering the main interface, everyone noticed at first glance that a Level One interface had been added at the bottom, which was clearly the focus of this major update.

"Widgets?"

"Did it add any new features?"

Many users curiously clicked into the new interface and immediately saw several rows of exquisite small icons, including ten functional widgets such as an alarm clock, calculator, input method, and Translator.

At the same time, Tiantian Assistant began to proactively introduce the convenience these functional widgets could bring, and then began to specifically introduce the functions of each new widget.

Of course, small features like the alarm clock were just mentioned in passing; the focus was on the two functional widgets: the input method and the Translator.

"Tiantian Input Method is a brand-new input method developed based on the powerful voice recognition and conversion capabilities of Tiantian Assistant. It possesses features such as precise long-voice recognition, automatic segmentation, and automatic punctuation matching. It can not only be used for daily chatting and communication but also satisfy the all-weather text input work of text workers."

"According to multiple tests, Tiantian Input Method can complete the continuous entry of novels with hundreds of thousands of words, as well as the continuous and precise recognition of multiple classical texts. The highest test record is 72 consecutive hours of multi-person relay long-voice recognition, but this is not the upper limit of Tiantian Input Method, but the upper limit of the testers."

"Furthermore, because Tiantian Input Method belongs to the functional widgets of Tiantian Assistant, the two are highly compatible. Once downloaded, it becomes a feature of Tiantian Assistant itself, used directly by relying on Tiantian Assistant. It is not only convenient but also occupies minimal memory."

Hearing this introduction, many users subconsciously looked at the memory display behind the Tiantian Input Method widget and immediately exclaimed.

"It only takes 16M of memory? Are you kidding me? This input method is hyped up so much, with such powerful features, how can it only be 16M? Can this satisfy the basic functions of an input method? Don't other input methods usually take up tens of megabytes?"

Of course, everyone wasn't really doubting Su Xin's level. Shock was shock, but many people still couldn't wait to download and try it.

But at this moment.

Tiantian Assistant said with a beaming smile on the side: "Functional widgets belong to advanced features. Only premium members can download and use them without restrictions. Currently, there is only a one-month free trial period. Would you like to download the current widget for a trial?"