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  • Google's new 'Gboard' for iPhone lets you Google while you Google

    avidthinkeravidthinker
    the modern-day trojan horse.
    calilolliver

  • FBI director says legal war on encryption far from over

    avidthinkeravidthinker
    you've lost all credibility, director comey.  please stop talking.
    londorlatifbpcalinumenoreanuraharajbdragontdknoxlostkiwi

  • Apple's Tim Cook flying to meet Chinese officials later in May - report

    avidthinkeravidthinker
    sog35 said:
    sog35 said:
    good. 

    Do more of this Tim and less time on social issues.
    Or at least be consistent. If he's going to speak out on social issues in the USA do so in China as well. 
    Thats why its so tricky.

    Cook can preach about human rights, privacy, and being green in the USA.
    But in China they abuse their workers, government has backdoors, and pollute like crazy.

    IMO, Cook should just STFU about social issues.  It really brings little to no benefit to Apple, but opens a can of worms.

    Cook needs to STFU about privacy, being green, human rights, ect.  That's the governments job, non profits job, politicians. Cook needs to STFU and just give us the best products and services. That's how he can change the world.
    "We do things because they are right and just and that is who we are. That’s who we are as a company. I don’t…when I think about human rights, I don’t think about an ROI. When I think about making our products accessible for the people that can’t see or to help a kid with autism, I don’t think about a bloody ROI, and by the same token, I don’t think about helping our environment from an ROI point of view."

    ...

    "If you only want me to make things, make decisions that have a clear ROI, then you should get out of the stock."  --Tim Cook


    Amen, Tim.
    palominetdknox

  • Apple loses exclusive rights to 'iPhone' trademark for non-smartphone products in China

    avidthinkeravidthinker
    the thorough disrespect for IP and property rights in general will come back and bite the communists in the ass one day.  i am assured of this, maybe not today or tomorrow, but the day of reckoning is coming.
    magman1979calijbdragon

  • Indian government turns down Apple request to import used iPhones for sale, report says

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    sog35 said:
    Cook needs to build some phones in India. 

    That would be a smart move and give Apple more leverage against China.
    That makes no sense.  The hardware manufacturing and assembly are located in close proximity between Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Shenzhen.  Indian operations means additional transport costs vs what is in place now.  Not to mention the decades of expertise developed in Shenzhen is replaced for what?  Cheaper labor?

    Those idiotic socialists in India are playing that age old import substitution card again.  The people these policies hurt the most are their own population as the local phones would surely be mediocre by comp to the iPhone, and iPhone prices would be cost prohibitive.
    damonf