Posts by peter236

Quote: Originally Posted by ascii Very labor intensive! The same factory in the US would be done very differently. These gadgets just cannot be made by robots, not in the near future. There are no robots that can, by themselves, make...

This 25% increase is just in line with the general increase in wages in China.

Quote: Originally Posted by macarena The point is not whether Foxconn will ever make and market their own branded products. What if there is a dispute in the future? Foxconn, with all its foxconnections in the Chinese establishment will...

Apple just needs to pay for using the name iPad, rather than infringing on other people's copyrights. They are just playing the game American companies love to play.

If they have enough reasons, then Apple will have to shut up and then pay the money for violating IP rights. Apple has already stolen the iPad form factor from another Chinese company. Maybe Apple products will be banned in China, after...

Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Besides, Foxconn is going to be replacing many of their increasingly expensive workers with robots (more than a million robots to be used). I heard that China's robot technology is improving...

Quote: Originally Posted by rbryanh One of the great ironies of the 21st century is that most of our marvelous hi-tech toys are made entirely by hand, in sweatshops, by desperate people whose pitiful wages can't purchase even one of the...

Maybe Apple should spend the $100 billion to buy FB for the next leg of growth LOL.

Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Several of my former Apple and earlier, NeXT Engineers went to work at Google with huge incentives, to work on the same area of work they did at Apple. I won't name names. Great people, but...

Quote: Originally Posted by jason98 What's the point in buying a newer phone for yourself, staying in a huge line, the phone that looks the same as the previous one (in the culture where image is everything), the phone with the main...