"First of all, we need to clearly state that Geek Technology has never collected any so-called 'Geek Tax.' After all, taxation is the right of national authorities, and we have no right to collect taxes."
After saying that, Gao Nian continued:
"Developing the system requires a large amount of research and development funding, and maintaining the system also requires a large amount of research and development funding.
Upgrading to the next-generation system requires even more research and development funding, and promoting the system also requires a large amount of operating expenses.
These expenses ultimately have to be borne by all consumers, after all, money doesn't fall from the sky, and it certainly doesn't magically appear.
Therefore, our extraction of a commission fee is a reasonable and legal behavior, and it also complies with commercial rules and laws.
Among them, this commission fee is 30% of the total consumer spending, and 15% of this 30% commission fee is used as a channel fee, given to various computer manufacturers.
The remaining 15% belongs to Geek Technology, and is used to develop the next-generation system, to maintain and update the current version of the system.
Or it can be used to run advertisements or hold software and game development competitions, to promote and expand the software and game ecosystem of the Geek Computer system, and so on."
Hearing Gao Nian's words, the people present had different attitudes.
The vast majority of them frowned deeply, after all, although Gao Nian's words sounded very nice, they knew what the cost was.
The same thing, the Android system, because it doesn't extract the 'Geek Tax' or the 'Apple Tax'.
Ultimately, things on the Geek smartphone system and the Apple iOS phone system are 30% more expensive.
And the Geek smartphone system and the Apple iOS phone system almost monopolize more than 98% of the smartphone market share.
So consumers around the world can only grit their teeth and accept this fact, accepting the 'Geek Tax' and the 'Apple Tax'.
They didn't expect that Geek Technology would now also collect a 30% "Geek Tax" in the computer field, which is simply too hateful.
Because this will mean that buying things on the Geek computer system will be 30% more expensive than on the Windows system, which is infuriating.
Looking at the rather unhappy expressions of many people present, Microsoft CEO Ballmer showed a look of watching a good show, and also made a decision in his heart.
That decision is that Microsoft must fully promote the 30% "Geek Tax" in the future, so that people dare not buy Geek computers!
Of course, the microphone was still in his hand, so Microsoft CEO Ballmer immediately decided to lay an ambush in advance.
"Mr. Gao Nian, although you deny that what you are charging is not a 'Geek Tax'.
But the fact is that out of every $100 consumers spend, $30 goes into your pockets, what's the difference between that and taxation."
After a pause, Microsoft CEO Ballmer said with a sneer:
"Because you do this, it directly leads to things that originally sold for $100 becoming $130!
Therefore, the income you earn is actually several times that of the charging Windows system!
So free things are actually the most expensive!"
"Clap clap clap clap..."
The overseas audience immediately applauded warmly, cheering for Microsoft CEO Ballmer's words.
I have to say that Microsoft CEO Ballmer's words really spoke to their hearts.
Free things are indeed the most expensive things!
Every time they spend money, they have to pay a 30% commission, and in the end, the actual fees they pay in a year are several times that of the Windows system, which is not surprising.
Therefore, Geek Technology is simply a vampire, simply the most greedy company in the world!
However, facing the questioning gazes of the people, Gao Nian shook his head slightly and said:
A free computer system is not the most expensive, the most expensive computer system is actually the Windows system.
After all, as far as I know, the normal price of each generation of Windows system is $199, which is equivalent to 1254 Chinese yuan!
This 1254 yuan is a considerable amount.
And our Geek computer system is permanently free. If users don't spend money, we won't even earn a penny.
Finally, coupled with the fact that the consumption transaction supervision difficulty of the computer platform is far greater than that of the Geek smartphone system, there will definitely be a large number of companies violating the open source agreement for profit, secretly avoiding the commission fee.
So our actual income is naturally not comparable to the Windows system!"
Hearing Gao Nian's words, the people present couldn't help but think for a while, and then they couldn't help but nod in agreement.
The reason why the Geek smartphone system can successfully collect the 'Geek Tax' is entirely because the Geek smartphone system has the only Geek App Store and Geek Pay.
Users who want to download games and software can only download them from the Geek App Store and pay with Geek Pay.
In the end, the consumption behavior of users in the Geek smartphone system can be easily monitored by Geek Technology, and then a 30% 'Geek Tax' is extracted.
The computer platform is different. Although Geek Technology has created the 'Computer Version Geek App Store' and 'Geek Pay'.
But because the flexibility and permissions of computers are far greater than smartphones, users have too much operational space. They may be able to directly download games and software from the official website of the software or game, bypassing the 'Geek App Store', thereby avoiding being charged a channel fee.
Even in terms of payment, because there are forms such as UnionPay payment, bank card payment, phone bill payment, and scan code payment, all of which can bypass Geek Pay.
The final result is that Geek Technology has no way to effectively supervise, and at this time, there will naturally be a large number of tax evasion phenomena, so that Geek Technology cannot receive a penny of commission!
Therefore, from some aspects, Geek Technology may really not be making much money.
Understanding this, they naturally no longer accuse Geek Technology of extracting a 30% 'Geek Tax' in the computer system.
And this naturally made Microsoft CEO Ballmer's face turn livid.
He didn't expect Gao Nian to avoid such an unfavorable crisis, which is really too bad.
However, Gao Nian ignored the livid and ugly face of the Microsoft CEO. Next, Gao Nian continued to introduce the other hardware of the Geek computer.
This hardware mainly includes Geek Technology's Geek computer motherboard, Geek DDR4 memory, Geek solid-state drive, Geek Phoenix graphics card, Geek power supply, etc.
In general, this Geek computer is almost a completely new and independent computer hardware system.
It has its own computer-specific interface, and its own bus standard as high as 16GT/s. Of course, many interfaces are still compatible with old standards, especially external peripheral interfaces.
For example, network cable connectors, such as UBS connectors, power connectors, audio input and output connectors, etc., are all as compatible as possible.
After all, if it can be compatible with the existing peripheral hardware system, then it should be as compatible as possible with the existing peripheral hardware system, which is a beneficial thing for promoting Geek computers.
Of course, Geek Technology's behavior naturally disgusted Microsoft and Intel.
Both companies are thinking about how to attack the Geek computer system to prevent the Geek computer system from infringing on their interests.
However, no matter what their ideas and decisions are, this does not prevent the press conference from continuing.
When everything was introduced, the next step was to reveal the prices of Geek computer complete machines, Geek laptops, and various spare parts of Geek computers.
