Alex_V

Anyone who has spent any time in both countries will understand how far behind India is in terms of infrastructure, workforce, and so forth. The Chinese are also, hands down, superior in work ethic. (Don’t get me wrong — human beings are the same the world over.) Now, Apple, having established themselves in the marketplace, must diversify their supply chain. It’s prudent, no matter the geopolitics. I haven’t read the Financial Times article, but it sounds like speculation. They merely are describing normal behaviour, under the circumstances, by all the actors: Apple, China, India, the US etc., and turning it into a drama. 

kkqd1337 said:

Good decision

news notifications should be protected from manipulation 

That’s not an example of ‘manipulation.’ It’s AI, which is “searching and copying web data and pasting into plausible sentences.” The errors occur because AI is mindless. It has no understanding of the context and not able to grasp the subtleties of written language. 

Incredible! That's a good use for technology — to help, to connect people together to comfort, guide, and assist each other in our hour of need. Not… to spy on us, exploit us, and screw all and everything. 

I’m glad to see that your setup is not wall-facing. As I work from a home-office, I cannot contemplate spending all my time facing a wall. Plus, your wall-facing colleagues really ought to head over to Etsy and pick out some pieces of original art for their walls. 

Having watched a few international film festivals over the years, I noticed that most of these excellent, truly outstanding films never get shown at my cinema or on my TV. There is an enormous world catalogue of excellent feature films, short films, documentaries, etc., that we never see. Someone explained to me that the studios force TV channels to buy packages of content. So, for every one good movie or TV series that they want, they must buy (licence) half a dozen crap movies and TV series. Having licensed all those shows, TV execs feel obliged to broadcast the crap too, as they paid for it. The excellent foreign content gets crowded out of the market, or has no way in. And thus, most of the stuff on our screens is this formulaic US crap.

Back to Apple: I wonder if they can do a deal with excellent independent distributors, like Criterion, to bring some real gems to our screens…