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jungmark wrote: » you make it sound like Apple is the only company using China factories. The fact is, this "slave" labor is better than what the rural chinese have in terms of salary, benefits, etc. They are certainly not the only corporatio…
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Foxconn apparently has an ample supply of whips and chains.
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ha! It took Apple nearly two years to sell one million iPods, but it took them one weekend to sell around 5 million iPhone 5's. So Apple/Foxconn can't keep up? I guess they need to bus in some more poor Chinese slave-workers to fill demand than disp…
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"Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will." - Bono
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A recent video clip of Tim Cook on why Apple doesn't have their own factory in China and if they will ever bring products back to the USA @ I think it's rather obvious that Apple hides behind their Foxconn partner (gives them room from taking dire…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slurpy So you'd rather Apple use robots to build their machines instead, Im sure all those Chinese workers would be better off eh? Maybe then they'd just go live off their investments or something. Or…
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An insanely great video clip from 1990 of Steve Jobs talking highly about Next's American factory and it's use of automation @ This is interesting since Apple went to China to build their products, not to use the latest high-tech a…
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Isn't it amazing that we can send men to the moon and build, send, land, and drive amazing six wheeled robotic rovers on the surface of mars, but we can't make a California designed smartphone in America? I think many of us bought into a cleverly …
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When people build excessive wealth on the backs of the poor, these things will continue to happen, and throughout human history it's been a very profitable business model to have the poor make your products but history also shows that at some point …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Again, this is complete nonsense. There are already women for whom the iPhone has been too small and men for whom the iPhone has been too large. A 4" iPhone is in no way too small. F…
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I really don't want to see the Google Droid becoming the 'man brand' and Apple becoming 'the girl (and small handed man) brand' because Apple got stubborn on not making a larger screen for those who want it. Regardless if the larger size is for stat…
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The only absurd thing is that you believe the screen size will stay exactly the same for the next 5 years.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil So that's a yes to the 9" phone idea, then. From one extreme to the other, huh? If Apple keeps the screen as it is for too long, I think the brand will eventually morph into a wo…
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When it comes to the size people want their screens, we lost our sobriety a long time ago. Remember many of us buy iPhones because of their superior quality, yet many replace them annually as if they're broken or something. When there are legions o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Winter I feel the economy is partially to blame for that. People can't afford to walk out much. It's a long multi-decade trend in which prosperity( if anything) gives a person the option to have even more…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil So if the past predicts the future, the very next iPhone should be larger, since Apple takes ideas straight from the community without regard to their purpose or worth. But no,…
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My comments regarding video/TV consumption have nothing to do with politics. It has more to do with how the brain learns and retains info and information gathered by reading penetrates deeper and is retained better than information consumed via vi…
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I think these commercials kind of suck.
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The average American consumes nearly 150 hours a month of video/TV. Real progress would reduce that amount of consumption, not increase it. What gets advertised and marketed as progress today is nothing more than complete BS!
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“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".”- Marshall McLuhan