All-Purpose Guru

AppleExposed said:

Looks like Apple gains no monetary value from this.

In that case, bravo Apple!

Especially when you consider Apple had to pay someone to code it up in the first place.

chasm said:

Super Micro should sue Bloomberg for libel and make them prove the story in court, once and for all. Spoiler: Bloomberg would lose because the story was entirely made up.

There are laws in place that protect Bloomberg from this, but those laws shouldn't allow this behavior.

I agree. It's not fair to have a scammy piece like this hurting the workers and investors in SuperMicro.

maciekskontakt said:

lkrupp said:

Apple really has no choice but to continue to manufacture in China. India is a possibility but it would take a years to develop a trained labor force. There is literally no way for any company to mass manufacture electronic products in the Western democracies because of labor costs. We have become addicted to low prices and are completely dependent now on a totalitarian, communist dictatorship to maintain our first world lifestyles. 

Well we have been addict to high margin profits. That is what causes outsourcing to Asia that is not exactly run on democratic principles as opposed to common beliefs.

It's not really 'high margin profits' it's the fact that:

1. if you move final assembly to the US you have to import all the modules from Asia.
2. if you move the module assembly to the US you have to import all the module components from Asia.
3. If you move the module component manufacture to the US you have to bring the chips in from Asia.
4. If you move the chip fab to the US...

You see where this is going.

Each of these steps is specialized manufacturing, separate from the kinds of manufacture you do to do the final assembly, requiring plants, technologies, and a labor force. That's why Apple attempted to do BTO manufacturing in Utah, but they still had to ship everything to DO that BTO manufacturing from Asia.

Moving ALL that manufacturing, or shipping the subassemblies or parts from Asia, *substantially* increases the cost of the product, more than the "high margin profits" can cover.

The *reason* why all the manufacturing is in Asia is because all the manufacturing is in Asia. It's a vertical monopoly.

Oh, jeez, I'd love to see someone reverse engineer/update Glyder and Glyder 2.  Exceptionally relaxing games abandoned by Glu Games when they discovered the money in dressing up slot machines as video games.  I'd pay good money for a new version of either of these games.

jbdragon said:

insync88 said:

I don’t know if it’s just me....But I’ve never been this excited for a credit card before 

It's just you!

But really, if the Credit Card number is always changing, how do you use it to pay some of your bills like Garbage, or Water, etc. How do you have automatic payments without going back to the site every month and enter a new token number?

It doesn't constantly change.  The card number on the stripe is never divulged, except the last 4 digits.  In general, the card number given to you in the app is a virtual card number (as offered by other cards) that you can change any time, but it doesn't automatically roll.  I dunno if you can generate multiple virtual card numbers (which is handy for paying bills and suchlike) or if the previous numbers are invalidated when you create a new one.