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trashman69 said:

And Tim Cook screamed

“How did Disney achieve this?  They have zero Oprah Winfrey content”.

Ha ha, exactly. Little known fact: when you have decent content you get tons of subscribers.

I wonder how many are paid users?

rotateleftbyte said:

It is not just Apple that is losing key skills. Almost all Engineering and Tech companies who contract out work are doing the same.

Outsourcing to cheaper locations might be good for the beancounters (note... their jobs hardly ever go overseas) but the skills drain is immense.

It happened to me twice. The last time I refused to train my Indian replacements. They had two people just to do my job.

The experiences of the first episode made me think long and hard about training people who really didn't care about the job and who were unable to ask relevant or hard questions for fear of losing face with their boss.

I have warned my grandchildren away from going into the IT business as there is no future for it in the west.

Exactly right. And, it is not just computer tech and IT. I'm a chemist and work for a smaller company ($0.7B market cap) that does internal R&D and also contract R&D for all the large pharma companies (worldwide). None of these pharma companies do any chemistry any more; it is all contracted out to china (Wuxi) and India. They literally have giant buildings filled with thousands of low paid chemists that are way cheaper than using domestic talent, even if that means risking IP. It is so competitive to be a Western chemist today that you need a BS (4-5 yrs), PhD (5-6 yrs) and several post-docs (each one is 2-3 yrs) just to have any hope of being hired in the US or Europe. You basically need more training than an MD. There is zero security no matter how good you are. And, most western chemists quickly pivot to project management and are no longer in the lab. I'd say most of the high paying jobs in the US/Europe are in finance, project management, alliance management, logistics, MBA-related, etc..., not in hard skills. Sad really what we've become.

StrangeDays said:

6502 said:

apple ][ said:

If this is behind schedule, then that clearly has to do with Foxconn. Foxconn still says that they remain committed even though it is behind schedule. 2032 which is mentioned in the article is 12 years away. Get some perspective.

Trump has nothing to do with the actual operations or the building of the factory, obviously. He enabled the deal, it's up to Foxconn to do their part.

Sorry libs, and to all those who like to mention his name in the comments. Trump will get re-elected again, despite the best efforts of the desperate leftist media, such as the Verge, who have been running nonstop anti-Trump propaganda for a long time now. Their hard work will all be futile.

Agreed. It's amazing and sad how many Americans want America to fail just to spite Trump. I fear for our future.

Shining a light on the failure that is Trump isn’t wanting failure. It’s being a realist and not living in a cultist fantasy bubble. 

Hillary literally tweeted how she's happy we're #1 in china virus deaths because it happened while Trump was president. In 2009 12,000 Americans died from H1N1, who was president then? Who sold our uranium supply to russia for speaking fees and our pork supply to china (not that I care as I don't eat meat).

Who withdrew from TPP, finally stood up to China on IP, trade and currency, renegotiated NAFTA (passed by a democratic house and republican senate), made new trade deals with S. Korea, and Japan, defeated ISIS, stood up to Assad and closed our porous border to illegal immigrants? Doesn't sound like failure to me.

apple ][ said:

If this is behind schedule, then that clearly has to do with Foxconn. Foxconn still says that they remain committed even though it is behind schedule. 2032 which is mentioned in the article is 12 years away. Get some perspective.

Trump has nothing to do with the actual operations or the building of the factory, obviously. He enabled the deal, it's up to Foxconn to do their part.

Sorry libs, and to all those who like to mention his name in the comments. Trump will get re-elected again, despite the best efforts of the desperate leftist media, such as the Verge, who have been running nonstop anti-Trump propaganda for a long time now. Their hard work will all be futile.

Agreed. It's amazing and sad how many Americans want America to fail just to spite Trump. I fear for our future.