Competition.
They feared no one.
Currently,
ERV's first mobile phone model had been finalized and was ready to enter mass production at any time. It had incorporated the strengths of various others, especially potent potential competitors—Samsung, Apple, and Google.
As for Nokia,
they had lost their minds this time.
They still insisted on having a keyboard with subtitles on their smartphones. It wasn't utterly terrible; such smart phones had their market since they transitioned from physical keyboards to virtual ones.
It required time.
There would always be people who preferred keyboard phones.
For instance, Japan.
Or those of an older age.
Accustomed to keyboard phones, shifting them to use ones without keyboards required a change in their habits, similar to people who preferred automatic versus manual transmission, both of which could always present a plethora of reasons.
Because it was greatly configured.
If ERV's phones and "Epoch" went public together,