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Even if China market is probably larger than that of North America and EU combined, still seems like they have huge number of mobile phone producers. I don't know if subsidized by state, carriers, etc. but if they form backbone of strategic plan it's likely. At one point in 1990s there was a US push to recapture consumer electronics with HDTV. We know how that went. But it's all the more puzzling that much media in US is hostile to Apple, arguably the only successful US based consumer electronics company for ages. Thanks for collecting these bloopers! Might make a good video.

Despite the turmoil, much useful info resulted. My concern (as a heavy Apple user and stockholder) is that average users who know nothing about Javascript or the profusion of defaults will have more screen space commandeered by ads. This risks alienating people. Anyone who buys stuff online and lives in a prosperous neighborhood in US should be able to replicate my browsing experience (outlined above). I'm not sure execs at Apple realize what a potential horror this is if it remains unchecked.

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baka-dubbs said:

Yes, and if he follows his typical MO, he will try to refute a few critiques through deflection, give up, then repost the same spin in his next "Editorial"(he literally copy and pasted sections from his article yesterday).  He rarely addresses the actual points being brought up without trying to move the goalposts.  Check out the comments sections of his "Editorial" from yesterday to see the same pattern.

If you had a valid point or concern, you could just say what it was rather than making a generalized personal attack that demands somebody else spend time researching what your point must be and then an argument showing why it is invalid, while you jump to another generalized personal attack.

That's a pretty well established pattered among the 10 people who show up and post negative insults in the comments of every AI article. 

 

DED pieces welcome differentiators for AI,  perhaps why the lightning rod effect. ;-) Seriously, this guy relibly delivers insights, and is recently widening his reportsge. 

Might be time to switch to ARPU, where average revenue per user comprises phone, watch, Airpods, iPads, iMacs, Services, watch bands, etc. taking into account refresh rates and offsets. For instance, if I skip buying this year's new phone, likely spend more "Apple dollars" elsewhere. Ditto institutions. Sooner or later the diversity of Apple's ARPU compared to rivals will tickle more neurons.

Most in US might know about Chinese aggressive conversion of disputed islands, the Hong Kong and Taiwan snafus. Maybe moon landing. But how many aware of Arctic ambitions? Of giant coal plants in places like Sri Lanka and Pakistan to tie into their coal and sea lanes? Chinese people, while generally admirable, don't have much choice in their leaders. That's why global hegemony by a dictatorship surveillance state is a different animal.