Lu Ping'an's strategy, in truth, was fairly simple and crude, even bordering on excessive.
This was a classic mindset of the internet era: burning money in the early stages to seize market share, tolerating losses for however many years, as long as everyone ends up using your products.
However, due to the internet of this worldline (Spirit Awakening Machinery) being rather tragic—merely used as a tool—many technologies had taken alternative paths, which naturally left this developmental route wide open.
"I can afford the losses, and so can the other major corporations…"
Lu Ping'an shrugged. While it sounded like a losing game, this was probably the most ruthless form of market competition.
From the results, the end scenario might look like this: five or six thousand armed setups, but for companies and manufacturers outside this joint effort, the costs would exceed a hundred thousand.
