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  • If China invades Taiwan, TSMC can wreck Apple's chip production line remotely

    sbdudesbdude
    I was hoping for a self-destruct sequence a la star trek. I am sadly disappointed.
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  • Apple's iPhone factory shift has left a ghost town behind in China

    sbdudesbdude
    avon b7 said:
    sflocal said:
    avon b7 said:
    tmay said:
    BYD replaces Foxconn, and Huawei replaces Apple, which is wonderful for indigenous phone sales, but not so much for exports. It's hard to imagine that BYD and Huawei will be better for the workers and local economies than Foxconn and Apple, but that's what the PRC will end up with.

    I appreciate that Apple is interested in adding more countries, like Indonesia, to its supply chain, while vacating a portion of its supply chain in China.
    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/foxconn-reportedly-paying-huawei-workers-more-than-iphone-builders
    From the article:
    "Xu told the SCMP that FIH employees are often paid higher but that the group that makes iPhones "typically offers better welfare programmes for workers than others," suggesting better benefits."

    Nice try.
    'often', 'suggesting'... Is vague at best but I have no issue with including all the article references. 

    A 'nice try' would have seen me quote only the wages part. 

    I simply countered the original claim with factual information: the higher wages. 

    That's balance in the discussion. 

    It's worth noting that benefits vs wages is often a trade-off situation but it's more likely that higher wages will stimulate the local area economies more than 'benefits'. 


    Yes, we've all seen what higher wages does to local economies. It's called inflation.
    tmay

  • Apple's iPhone factory shift has left a ghost town behind in China

    sbdudesbdude
    Despite my best efforts, the only thing I can think to say is "good." The over-reliance on CCP-made goods was always tenuous at best, what with the CCP's relationship with Taiwan and the rest of the world, frankly.
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  • House passes bill saying ByteDance must sell or spin off TikTok or face a ban

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    longfang said:
    longfang said:
    Tik tok is basically heavily invasive spyware on behalf of China. 

    It literally crawls your entire device and sends the data back home. 

    Yikes. 

    Good that it is either banned or sold to someone who must comply with consumer protections. 
    And I should care why? Chinese, American, all of you are spying.
    Basically it works like this: Civilian Americans care about Americans being spied on by adversarial nations - the same nations that force American companies to hand over all data traffic to said governments in order to enable censure and spying on not only its own citizens, but those they communicate with.
    I asked why I should care. Makes no difference to me what happens to muricans. 
    I think you answered your own stupid question. Begs the question of what you're doing on an American website and an American forum.
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  • Game emulator Delta arrives on App Store after controversies

    sbdudesbdude
    Downloading all of these before they get pulled . . .
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