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CurtisHight said:

AppleZulu said:

waveparticle said:

JWSC said:

Assuming this is true, the recent Shanghai lockdowns have provided Apple with a politically acceptable excuse (from a CCP perspective) for Apple to move a large percentage of its supply chain outside China.  Apple can point to 'supply chain instability' as a business reason, rather than the more concerning aspect of being reliant on business entities within a totalitarian regime that thinks little of human rights.  Apple doesn't want to talk about that with China for fear that it would put them in bad standing with CCP officials.  But the supply chain excuse can be viewed as non-political.

As defined by western culture. China fighting hard to combat covid is not regarded as human rights by western culture. The western culture regards freedom far supersedes human life. Because Christianity thinks our life is given by God. Death is not regarded termination of life. 

I think you misunderstand Western culture. 

Tracking and judging culture and history can be sticky business. I trust that I could find many Chinese with deep respect for the value of each human life, even if not themselves Christian as the ones I know best are. With that being said, I note that British Historian Tom Holland’s Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind (U.S. subtitle How the Christian Revolution Remade the World) gives support to Waveparticle. Here from The Guardian review:

“Holland is surely right to argue that when we condemn the moral obscenities committed in the name of Christ, it is hard to do so without implicitly invoking his own teaching.”

Terry Eagleton, “Dominion by Tom Holland review – the legacy of Christianity,” Guardian, November 21, 2019, (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/21/dominion-making-western-mind-tom-holland-review).

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I read the book two years ago. Here are two selections from the preface:

“Just as the Bishop of Oxford refused to consider that he might be descended from an ape, so now are many in the West reluctant to contemplate that their values, and even their very lack of belief, might be traceable back to Christian origins. I assert this with a measure of confidence because, until quite recently, I shared in this reluctance.”

He goes on to write:

“The more years I spent immersed in the study of classical antiquity, so the more alien I increasingly found it. The values of Leonidas, whose people had practised a peculiarly murderous form of eugenics…. Assumptions that I had grown up with—about how a society should properly be organised, and the principles that it should uphold—were not bred of classical antiquity, still less of ‘human nature’, but very distinctively of that civilisation’s Christian past.”

AppleZulu said:

waveparticle said:

JWSC said:

Assuming this is true, the recent Shanghai lockdowns have provided Apple with a politically acceptable excuse (from a CCP perspective) for Apple to move a large percentage of its supply chain outside China.  Apple can point to 'supply chain instability' as a business reason, rather than the more concerning aspect of being reliant on business entities within a totalitarian regime that thinks little of human rights.  Apple doesn't want to talk about that with China for fear that it would put them in bad standing with CCP officials.  But the supply chain excuse can be viewed as non-political.

As defined by western culture. China fighting hard to combat covid is not regarded as human rights by western culture. The western culture regards freedom far supersedes human life. Because Christianity thinks our life is given by God. Death is not regarded termination of life. 

I think you misunderstand Western culture. 

lucidcg said:

I'm sorry to see all internal expandability be eliminated by Apple (and apologists spin it as to be expected or a good thing).  My much smaller mac mini server can house two 2.5" drives (also two ram slots).  This chunker is much bigger than a mac mini and has no spinning drives in it.  This machine would have been perfect if it also had two m.2 slots.  A $500 playstation 5 has an m.2 slot.  

It's sad to see Apple crippling expansion in every Apple silicon machine that currently exists (also no eGPU anymore) and - maybe - only reserving it for a single machine sometime in the future that will start at $6k+.  Apple users accepted the end of expansion in laptops and later all-in-ones but killing it off in desktops is not something to be celebrated.