Galaxy Domination Guide

Bai Zhongqi made the final decision; the Flashpoint app was approved to officially go live. However, Bai Zhongqi believed that Flashpoint Company's advertising campaign still needed some time to brew. If they were to launch hastily at this point, the effect would inevitably be suboptimal.

Bai Zhongqi suggested that Nan Ma should carry out a week-long intense advertising campaign before launching the app.

Naturally, Nan Ma readily accepted this suggestion. Even though not a single well-produced commercial had been released yet, the outside world had nearly no recognition of Flashpoint.

Bai Zhongqi was also quite concerned about the advertising. With countless resources at his disposal, promoting an app was all too easy for him. By allowing state-run TV stations to interview in Ruyi City and even on Emerald Sea Star, Bai Zhongqi secured advertising spots on thirteen state-run TV channels at bargain prices, ensuring ads were pushed at all times of the day.

Major portal websites, video platforms, and well-known clients also received collaboration invitations from Flashpoint Company. Although IT companies backed by Iridium Star's background had put existing major IT companies on alert, every company understood that if they could not acquire Iridium Star technology in the future, it would spell the end for them.

Now was precisely the time to ingratiate themselves with the people from Iridium Star.

Even though Country C was the main market, Bai Zhongqi did not give up on overseas markets. However, he had no intention of paying foreign companies. Iridium Star sent a letter directly to IPple Company, implying in a "polite" manner the hope to see prominent advertising on various regional app stores on the day Flashpoint went live.

The big overseas companies also didn't dare offend Iridium Star. Even for the slightest favor from Iridium Star, they had to do as requested.

After all, as Iridium Star's first civilian product launched on Earth, though it was just a software application, it still caused a significant stir. Many people were imagining what normal life with alien technology would be like. Some thought it would be flying cars, others imagined robots, but very few guessed that the first thing to enter their lives would be a social networking application.

The services provided by Flashpoint were still quite basic and could all run on currently available Earth devices. Especially after Nan Ma's jaw-dropping promotional videos were released, they piqued the interest of many.

However, Bai Zhongqi understood that Flashpoint app's advertising relied entirely on the resources behind Iridium Star. People were actually more interested in the future lifestyle of the spacefaring era, so it was the content like interstellar travel, alien exploration, and robots appearing in the promotional videos that drew even more attention.

On the largest domestic knowledge-sharing platform, Zhi Ye, some very insightful respondents started speculating about what future lives might look like, based solely on the promotional video.

"...Many might be disappointed why the first civilian product that Iridium Star (to be precise, Star Alliance) launched in the Earth market, would be a social networking software. However, we don't need to feel down about it, because from the short promotional video of less than a minute, the Star Alliance's ambition to completely transform the society and people's lives has been clearly revealed.

Not to mention that the production quality surpasses many of today's movies—it's, after all, the handiwork of Iridium Star people, so being powerful is to be expected. The few scenes shown in the commercial have already unveiled at least what the future, in Star Alliance's vision, might be like for us.

Interstellar travel will become as easy and convenient as us taking airplanes now, a fact that is already evident from the operational commercial flights from Ruyi City to Imperial Capital. Traveling to other galaxies and planets won't be an issue in the future.

Adventuring on alien planets could possibly become the hobby of a select few. The scene in the promotional video, where the adventurers are chased by a 'dinosaur,' is probably not an effect but actual footage. I specifically looked up similar images of this 'dinosaur' on Star Alliance's websites and found it is called the Unihorn Lizard, which appears on the Legendary Continent of Emerald Sea Star.

What I want to talk about is not this creature, but the small robot accompanying the adventurer in the film. With just a few seconds of footage, we can't infer what kind of robot this is, but we can imagine that in the future there will undoubtedly be a large number of handy robots entering the consumer market.

Finally, we have seen Iridium Star people using highly realistic holographic images in many places. The movie also mentions this, and it's projected from a compact smartphone.

We know that Sky Net is about to go live, offering a stable transfer speed of up to 100TBps as a public network service, but according to the introduction from the new telecom company, the initial use of existing smartphones will only achieve an average speed of around 2Gbps.

Sky Net was designed with such a high operating speed not with Earth's smartphones in mind as the access point, which means Star Alliance will surely launch more powerful phones—I suspect it is the glass tablet-like phone that the actor holds in the commercial."

This powerful speculation was subsequently reprinted by some media outlets. Some commented with such confidence that Bai Zhongqi couldn't help but admire some people's sharp observational skills. Indeed, Iridium Star had included many directional elements in this small promotional trial. It looks like an ad for a social networking application, but in reality, it advertises many things.

In terms of civilian products, in addition to some relying on infrastructure updates, Iridium Star also planned to launch a large number of disruptive products that could be directly utilized. Smart devices and robots were among the headliners.

In the field of smart devices, Iridium Star had no intention of completely dominating Earth's market because it was unnecessary. In the future, more enterprises from Country C would gain Iridium Star technology and launch their products. However, for now, Iridium Star manufactured smart devices would lead the revolutionary trend.

The Sunarmon Mobile Phone, designed with Bai Zhongqi's participation, was a civilian-grade smartphone, the same one featured in the Flashpoint app commercial. It was a photonic computing phone made with crystal synthetic materials. Its processor's performance was not comparable to the mainstream computing realm of Iridium Star, but was sufficient to meet all the usual needs of people.

Its computing speed reached 10PFlops, equivalent to the level of Earth's current TOP10 supercomputers. Equipped with an AI assistant system—and considering ecosystem compatibility—it offered cross-platform optimization. That is to say, all software from various Earth platforms, including PC, iOS, Android, and others, could be migrated and used on this phone's operating system.

It featured holographic imaging and, when paired with wearable devices, a VR system as well.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

The cost of producing this device was negligible for the people from Iridium Star, and it was tentatively priced at 3658 RMB on Earth.

Once this phone hit the market, it would inevitably cause a groundbreaking transformation in how people used everyday smart devices. In fact, as technology continued to advance, even if Iridium Star's military or scientific technologies were extremely advanced, civilian smart devices had actually entered a relatively stable period.

Iridium Star people with more demanding needs could naturally obtain more powerful smart devices, often with specialized functions. For ordinary usage, whether for life or work, the performance of the Sunarmon Mobile Phone could already meet all the daily needs of Iridium Star people.

Now, launching the Sunarmon Mobile Phone in the Country C market, users would probably be unable to fully utilize its capabilities for some time. This situation was also common on Iridium Star—after all, no matter how technology advances, people's daily foundations tend to simplify.