Recently, the "Earthquake Early Warning" App developed by the Chengdu High-tech Disaster Reduction Research Institute has been providing free services for the Android system, but now it has announced that it has "reached a relevant agreement with Apple" to charge only 10 yuan/year service fee to Apple system users.
Some netizens believe that such a discriminatory practice is unfair to Apple users, but what is even more interesting is that there are many non-Apple system users who are more likely to target "fruit fans" and ridicule them on the Internet in a variety of ways.
In fact, software charging itself has become more and more a very normal thing - "there is no free banquet in the world", even if the so-called "free software", in fact, it is still "wool out of the sheep" after all!
And this time, the "earthquake warning" App charges are also a common thing - because most of the similar software also charges, but the focus of the controversy is obviously that "the Android system is not charged, and the charge is only charged by the Apple system", which is a bit of a "watch people cook" approach, which is the root cause of the controversy.
Of course, this also has a lot to do with Apple - because, the so-called "Apple tax" is based on the commission income of these settled software, and if the earthquake software and Apple can reach an agreement, then the APP and Apple will obviously be a "win-win" situation.
But for Apple users, it will feel that they have been "deliberately or maliciously targeted" again!
In particular, many non-Apple users have added fuel to the fire in such a carnival, which can be regarded as their "fruit fans" of China, and they have found another opportunity to sprinkle salt on their wounds.
Many people ridiculed: "Apple users are not bad for money, and this little annual fee is not a drizzle!" "I like American apples, and I just want to give dollars to your kneeling and licking American imperialists" "Aren't all people who use apples rich and highly intelligent? Now it just so happens that Apple can extract your 'IQ tax'."
From these various arguments that ridicule "fruit fans", it is not difficult to find that what people ridicule is not the two companies of paid APP and Apple, such a difference in treatment is unfair, but aimed at Chinese consumers who use Apple, and has risen to the level of "ideology" madness, and at the same time, it also implies that there has always been a strong "hatred of the rich" in the traditional culture of the Chinese people.
Is the "Apple Tax" really an "IQ Tax"? Is the origin and logic of the matter really so? Obviously, this kind of understanding is too superficial and ridiculous.
Our implementation of reform and opening up, rapid economic development and progress, to a large extent related to foreign trade, then, if we all treat world trade with the attitude and logic of these mocking Apple users, then foreigners should also regard Chinese goods as an "IQ tax" for harvesting leeks?—— in this way, everyone will go to a "lose-lose" situation.
For a product that can be produced, operated and sold in China in accordance with the law, it should not have the "original sin" of being artificially pressed on the body!
Is the state not allowed to use Apple products? If it is possible in accordance with the law, then the Chinese people's choice of these high-quality foreign products is a normal market consumption behavior. It's just that people buy what suits them by comparison.
Users who use the Android system are not necessarily more advanced and noble than users who use Apple, and they cannot be used as a standard for a person's "patriotism or not" - Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei personally admitted that he loves to use Apple mobile phones, does he also want to call Mr. Ren "unpatriotic"?
In fact, even the Android system originated in Western countries, do we all have to boycott it? And our domestic software is basically under the open source of Android, stepping on the shoulders of giants - therefore, there is no such thing as "using the Apple system is tantamount to unpatriotic", nor is it "being harvested IQ tax".
Second, when people choose products, they mainly seek goods that suit their own consumption ability, level and value, which is just an extremely ordinary and normal consumption behavior, rather than taking money to show their ideology and political stance, turning market consumption behavior into a "politically correct" tester.
Therefore, to regard Chinese consumers who use Apple products as "traitors" and to scold them as "big breeders" is obviously a kind of blind xenophobia mentality, which is completely contrary to and incompatible with our market economy policies, concepts, and regulations.
Of course, we can advocate the use of domestic brands - but this cannot be a kind of forced consumption, but only the freedom of individual choice, and this has nothing to do with ideology or political correctness.
If we insist on artificially confronting and boycotting foreign products, it will not only hurt the global merchants who cooperate with us for a win-win situation, but in essence, it will also be a backstab to the development of China's economy. Think about it: we have been engaged in the introduction of foreign capital for many years, is the purpose of these foreign brands introduced is to let some people use them to resist?
This APP charges Apple system users, which is a normal thing of "one is willing to fight, one is willing to suffer", but some people think that it is a good opportunity to ridicule and humiliate "Apple fans", and begin to make 360-degree jokes to them, and will hurt the pain points of the killer, riveted on the two major focuses of "hatred of the rich and xenophobia"!
Regarding "xenophobic thinking", in our country that thinks it is "middle", it is also very traditional. If we are so self-isolated, then why bother with reform and opening up? It is better to go back to 40 years ago overnight, or to learn from our northeastern neighbors, or not to be able to do so?
It's just that, just like Sima Nan and Chen Ping, don't look at the "anti-American" shouts in their mouths that are earth-shattering, and they also support the two neighbors in the north frantically, and even shout the bloody intimidation slogan of "whoever dares to affect the relations between the two countries, don't be punished", but you can see that Sima Nan bought a house at the "goose goose goose" or "Cao County"?
In fact, when more and more Chinese brands begin to surpass foreign brands, I believe that people will naturally consume their own products rationally without anyone mobilizing. In the same way, why do they practice "beauty is life"? This is the best reflection of inner honesty!
In the shallow cognition of many people, the "hatred of the rich" always likes to absolutize "egalitarianism", and the thinking of "equal wealth and poverty" is deeply rooted in the bone marrow of the Chinese people.
Therefore, when we now put forward the great goal and ideal of "common prosperity," some people believe that we should go back to the old "eating in a big pot" and engage in the set of complete egalitarianism; we will be completely intolerant of the relative gap between the rich and the poor and the actual differentiation of classes; in fact, this is tantamount to completely cutting ourselves off from the market economy, and it has obviously been proved by the laws of history that it is a dead end that will not work.
In the face of the reality that the great policy of reform and opening up has made China truly develop and progress, if we are still clinging to the inadequacies and complacent, it is equivalent to returning to the old road of backwardness and failure.
There are still so many people who "heal the scars and forget the pain", perhaps, it really responds to the sentence that has been widely circulated on the Internet: "When you have a deep understanding of the people on this land, you will find that their thoughts are sometimes really worthy of their suffering!"