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They should be investigating Trump and the reason why he is receiving these “donations” to begin with. 

We all know if you don’t pay favors to Trump, you’re not on his good side. Extortion plain and simple. 

SmittyW said:

Smart move on Tim's part, I don't want Apple to get shafted by new tariff policies. Or maybe he's happy that Trump is getting rid of the bird and whale killing windmills, or maybe he wants and invitation to Mar a Lago to see another live performance of YMCA by the Village People.

This.

For all those opposed to Cook doing this, he's doing it for the benefit of the company, and in turn the benefit of the consumer.

Would you rather higher priced Apple products?

neoncat said:

jesusfreak said:

Why is it we can't reproduce this infrastructure?   It seems like it is more a matter of will, then not being able to do it?

Are you a parent? If so, ask your children: Do they aspire to work in a factory—a very modern and clean factory, but still a factory—doing highly repetitive, detail-oriented engineering assembly work that requires specific trade education, for 12 hour shifts, and living in factory-housing along with tens of thousands of other employees? 

The answer to that is why there is zero chance of skilled tech assembly ever coming to the U.S. beyond performative efforts like the TSMC plant in Arizona and little dog and pony shows like Apple building low-volume Mac models in Texas. We would need an entire generation of young adults to opt into that career path to make specialized manufacturing viable.

You forgot to mention pay. On average Foxconn workers in Zhengzhou make $3.55 an hour and average about $409.22-$545.63 a month.

Cue all the haters who think  should focus more on fixing bugs instead of coming out with new software. 

sflocal said:

lam92103 said:

Good. Apple's practices of forcing App Developers to use only their payment system, are clearly anti-competitive. Glad that someone is holding them accountable

As a developer myself, your comment just reeks of so much ignorance that I'd be wasting too much of my life explaining to you why it is.  You're  just not worth it.

As a non-developer, I agree with you. As a consumer, I side with Apple. For so many reasons. 

I think Apple needs to come out with a blanket terms in every country that they do business with that "this is how we operate, deal with it or we do not do business in your country." I mean obviously, do not abuse privileges but, yeah. People do have a choice in which platform they use, and generally speaking, people are very aware of Apple's stance on everything. If you don't like it, there is an alternative. I think foreign governments at this point just see this as a tactic to monetize off of Apple.

The one video I love to show people is where the solo developer of a video editor app made for iPhone gave his parents an envelop for Christmas one year. His parents puzzled, but opened it and immediately broke out in tears. It was a check to pay off his parent's mortgage. The dude, a solo developer, made an iOS app that was so successful he was able to pay off his parent's mortgage. Clearly the system works for Apple, developers and consumers. Apple has a right to charge a fee for a product that they provide and last time I checked, Apple was a for-profit company.