It could be said that the "Geek Tax" is simply a vampire lying on the global consumers, a source of all evil.
Of course, there are also experts who don't just offer one-sided criticisms; they also point out the benefits of the "Geek Tax."
They explain that after collecting the 'Geek Tax,' Geek Company will have money to maintain the system and money to develop and upgrade the next generation of Geek smart phone systems.
However, even so, they still criticize the "Geek Tax," believing that the tax rate is too high and has reached the level of excessive profits.
Therefore, as soon as the experts' comments came out, overseas users, including domestic users, also angrily scolded Geek Technology for being too greedy, actually extracting a 30% channel commission fee.
Among them, many game developers and software developers, seeing this scene of universal abandonment.
Knowing there was profit to be made, they also successively issued articles to condemn the Geek smart phone system.
Among them, many game and software developers even publicly clamored that if the Geek smart phone system did not reduce the channel commission fee.
Then they would not develop games and software on the Geek smart phone system!
November 7, 2008.
Huaxia, Yueguang City, Geek Technology headquarters.
Looking at the uniform condemnation in the TV stations, newspapers, magazines, and internet media, Gao Nian showed a bitter smile.
In his previous life, in 2024, TV stations, newspapers, magazines, and internet media also uniformly condemned 'Apple's Apple Tax' and 'Hardcore Alliance's Android Tax'.
He didn't expect that at this time, the one enjoying the same treatment would become Geek Technology. Can only say, when you come out to play, you will eventually have to take this hit?
"BOSS, this time our trouble is big."
Marketing Director Zhang Feng said with a bitter smile.
The public opinion offensive launched by Goggle Company this time is very powerful, and now Geek Technology is almost in a situation where everyone is shouting to beat it.
Along with this, the sales of the Geek S1 smart phone have also ushered in a huge impact.
According to the marketing department's statistical analysis, if they cannot resolve this public opinion crisis.
Then the sales of Geek smart phones will gradually plummet, and in severe cases, they may disappear into history!
After all, brand image is crucial for a company. When a company is labeled with words like 'Yang Bailao', 'vampire', and 'disgusting company'.
Then consumers will naturally not continue to buy the brand's products, eventually causing the brand to disappear into history.
"Zhang Feng, announce our financial statements regarding the 'Geek Tax' for the past two months.
Let them see where we actually used this money, and whether we挪 (nuó - to shift/divert) this 'Geek Tax' to do meaningless things!"
Gao Nian said the solution to the current predicament.
Admit mistakes when you are wrong, and stand straight when you are beaten!
There are many reasons why consumers hate taxes, but the most hated and unacceptable is when some unscrupulous people take their tax money to squander or use it for personal and family enjoyment!
Conversely, if you take the tax money to do meaningful things, or things that are beneficial to everyone in the future, then consumers will not hate you for collecting taxes, and they will understand you.
The same principle applies to Geek Technology's "Geek Tax." The reason why people hate and dislike the "Geek Tax."
Is not that they feel the "Geek Tax" is too high, although feeling that it is too high is also a major factor.
But as long as Geek Technology exposes the fact that the iOS system also extracts a 30% 'Apple Tax'.
Then it can pass the buck to Apple, making people realize that the 30% channel fee is not high at all, because this is simply the market price.
Therefore, the essence of people hating and disliking the "Geek Tax" is just fear and worry that Geek Technology will use the collected 'Geek Tax' for other purposes!
As long as Geek Technology announces the use of the "Geek Tax" in the past two months, and then exposes the fact that Apple's iOS system also charges a 30% Apple Tax.
Then it can greatly quell this public opinion impact and eliminate the anger of domestic and foreign netizens.
After all, in this 30% "Geek Tax," 15% belongs to the mobile phone manufacturers, and only 15% belongs to Geek Technology, while what about Apple's iOS system?
The 30% 'Apple Tax' is all Apple's, why don't you go scold Apple at this time, but instead come back and scold me for being greedy, what kind of logic is this?
"I understand."
Zhang Feng said with a gleam in his eyes.
He also felt a burst of relief in his heart. Fortunately, Geek Technology did not really misappropriate the "Geek Tax" for other purposes, otherwise this incident would be difficult to avoid.
As for where this "Geek Tax" was used?
In addition to paying taxes to the Huaxia government and the Beautiful Country government, and even the governments of other local countries.
The remaining money, in addition to being used for research and development of the next generation of Geek smart phone systems and maintaining and updating the current version of the Geek smart phone system, is used for the Geek App Store.
The major expenses of this Geek App Store mainly have two aspects. The first major expense is the establishment of cloud servers.
In order to facilitate large, medium, and small game developers around the world, so that after they develop games and software, they don't have to worry about how to build and operate servers.
They can completely use Geek Technology's cloud servers at a low price, so this is beneficial to global game and software developers and even consumers.
As for why it is beneficial to consumers?
This is because after those game software adopt Geek Technology's cloud servers, it means that the stability of the game and software is super high.
They don't have to worry about the problem of stuttering due to too many server users, and they don't have to worry about hackers attacking the server, causing their data to be lost.
As for the second purpose, it is for the first "Geek Software Game Development Competition" which will be officially held next month.
Among them, this "Geek Software Game Development Competition" is an operating model that imitates the Apple Design Award of the iOS system in the previous life.
The awards are mainly set up in seven categories: compatibility and inclusiveness, fun, excellent interaction, social impact, visual images, innovative thinking, and spatial computing.
Then every three months, that is, every quarter, the winners will be evaluated once.
In addition, on the eve of the Huaxia Spring Festival, there will also be an annual grand prize evaluation, taking out a sum of money that is enough to make a small company crazy, stimulating them to constantly develop new games and software.
For this 'Geek Software Game Development Award,' Geek Technology's current plan is to take out 3% from the 15% 'Geek Tax'.
3% is used to support the maintenance and operation of the "Geek Software Game Development Award" every quarter and the annual grand prize.
So this is a developer competition that is enough to make global game companies and software companies crazy, and it is also a developer competition that can make them shut up honestly.
Of course, this alone is not enough to make game developers and software manufacturers vote with their feet to support the Geek smart phone system.
Although Geek Technology will take out 3% of the 15% "Geek Tax" to operate the "Geek Software Game Development Competition," if the pie is too small.
That is, if Geek Technology receives too little 'Geek Tax,' it will lead to too little funds in the prize pool, and it will not be able to attract those game software developers.
But soon Geek Technology will not have to worry.
Because what happened next directly made global game developers crazy, and then voted with their feet to choose to support the Geek smart phone system!
