Hodar0

Didn't we hear this same, tired old UNSOURCED rumor when the Apple Watch was announced?

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If you don't have any data, isn't it best to just sit back and wait?

dougd said:

I've still zero interest in this device. If they develop to a point where the battery lasts a week, maybe.

Just got mine a couple of weeks ago.
If you are old enough to remember when microwave ovens were first introduced, they were marketed as cooking a hot dog or cup cake in 30 seconds or so.  And people thought, "Wow, that's neat, but how often will I need a hot dog or cup cake cooked like that?".  The Apple Watch is very similar to that.  My first thought was "neat gimmick, but how useful is it .... really?".  After 2 weeks, the answer is "It's almost indispensable".  It reminds me to be active - as an engineer, I sit at my computer all day, this reminds me to get up and go for a walk, to stand, to simply breathe, to wind down and go to bed.  Simple things - but you know - after a few weeks, these little reminders add up to making me feel better.  I feel more rested, and my diet is working better.
When I'm driving and I get a call - the watch is a speaker phone - hands free phone device that sounds GREAT.  People don't realize I am not wearing a handset while I conduct my conversation as I drive along the country roads.  ( I have a 90 minute commute each way to work - I work in the space industry, so my job is remote).  In meetings, a text comes through with a haptic vibration and I can easily respond discreetly that I will get back to them shortly.  When I need to navigate in a city, I get turn by turn instructions on my wrist so that I don't even need to look at a screen.  And that's just the basics.  It's only going to get better.

And these people, who are no smarter than you, write policies that bind you, limit you, restrict you, and punish you for any infraction for how you do you job. These policies are now a primary defining method of monitoring you perform your job, and they are inflexible. In Gov't, you sacrifice economic growth potential, for job security. You sacrifice freedom of defining your career path, the way you define your job, how you do your job, for security. You are now a cog, in a very large, slow moving and inflexible system.

Whether you like Trump, or don't.  Whether you think like a  liberal, or a conservative.  What has been done in the past has lead us to ~95 Million Americans simply not participating in the work force, a massive exportation of jobs, and college grads without jobs.  We have more people on welfare than we have ever had before, the jobs created under the Obama administration have been primarily minimum wage, part time, service level jobs.  We have lost a bulk of the manufacturing jobs that America once had.  These are simple facts.  Trump is a business man - not a community organizer.  Trump understands how businesses work, they work by creating wealth.  Businesses exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to generate a profit.
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Perhaps, changing the tax laws, and actually ENCOURAGING manufacturers to invest in America is the right answer.  Raising corporate taxes has shown us that it is NOT the correct answer.  Trump has said that his plans include reducing corporate taxes, including a re-patriating tax so companies CAN bring home billions of dollars with relatively low tax rates.  Currently, the USA has the highest corporate tax rate in the world - this is one of the reasons why companies are doing business elsewhere.
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Now, let's realize that there is NO WAY that we will move everything back here in the span of a year or two.  As other posters have stated, we currently lack the support structure, and the manpower to support the manufacturing that Foxconn currently has in China.  But, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.  Isn't it about time we start taking a few strides in the right direction?