waveparticle

right_said_fred said:

waveparticle said:

hexclock said:

nicholfd said:

lkrupp said:

sdw2001 said:

maciekskontakt said:

I am touched. Wait a moment.I have never been on Twitter and left Facebook one year ago. Maybe changes to Meta and Dorsey leaving Twitter were result of that 

I quit both earlier this year.  Both are evil companies.  I don't suspect this will improve Twitter at all.  At Least Hipster Rasputin won't have his mug everywhere.  

Apple is not exactly a saint either. Maybe not ‘evil’ per se but tiptoeing around it sometimes.

WTF does Apple have to do with any of this?  They don't have a social media presence!

He’s not wrong though, as Apple sometimes treads in murky waters, especially in regard to China. 

In regard to Twitter, nothing will change about that company. Unfortunately he is still on at Square. 

Did Apple experience China haters' accusations in China? None! Nada! This is unlike what Twitter experienced in US. 

Twitter experienced USA haters in the USA? That’s what you’re saying? 

Jack Twitter Dorsey acted like a coward. His lack of courage undermined democracy in the USA

What act is coward? 

Forget about the performance comparison. I had used the new MacBook Pro 14 for a few days. A while ago, when I use TouchID to wake it up. The screen becomes frozen. Later it rebooted by itself. I never have this kind of crash before. A crash report was sent to Apple. 

macOS Monterey did not fix the problem of watching Youtube with Safari. Watching video for long period of time the screen will not refresh cleanly. The effect spread to other web page and other app and even the background screen. Even after restarting the problem still exist. The only better way is shutting down for a whole night. Hope the new MacBook Pro I will be getting next month will not have this problem.

sflocal said:

waveparticle said:

glennh said:

waveparticle said:

The chip shortage will continue under Biden administration. Companies will not manufacture chips in US. They cannot make money. If they try to raise prices they need to double or triple the prices. And this route is not working. Democrats have no concept of capitalism. 

Bullshit! This crap started under the Reagan Administration. I live in Silicon Valley and personally saw Intel strip and close chip factories in the past to move the equipment over seas to increase profits to enrich executives bonuses through excessive profits through cheap labor and not regards for either domestic and foreign workers, the environment or national security concerns. 

One would think that after the World’s Covid PPE shortages made worst by the hoarding, excessive profiteering and the arrogant Chinese Communist Party using its control of the manufacturing as a political weapon the world has learned the lesson of depending on a inherently corruption and authoritarian to deliver essential goods.

 The Biden administration is 1000 percent correct in trying to stop our “Capitalist from selling the ROPES to OUR and the ENTIRE WORLD HANGING!” 

You don't understand history of high tech. The chips have thousands times more transistors than forty years ago. The cost of equipment skyrocketed. Company need to mass produce chips in order to make profit. Intel is the largest chip manufacturer. It is now excluded from the largest chip sector. Those are used by smartphones. There is little to zero probability Apple or Android manufacturers will switch to Intel chips. Intel is hanging on the PCs. China is the biggest market for PCs I believe. Intel need to keep the cost of PC down to maintain PC sales in China. This is why it needs to increase chip manufacturing in China. Otherwise, China will switch to Apple Silicon macs in no time. 

A few years ago there was a Netflix documentary about the dangers of doing business with China.  The Boeing CEO (former?) admitted in the documentary about knowing that China's demand of having Boeing manufacturing planes in China, AND be partly owned by the CCP will result in China eventually ripping-off its IP and eventually throwing Boeing out of China once it is able to make a clone of their plane and that the CEO was only interested in retiring with a hefty monetary package.  He didn't care that China would steal Boeing's IP and eventually, use it against them. 

So no.  Screw China.  Selling globally does not have to mean selling one's soul to China in the process and if it takes a bloated, bureaucratic monolith that is our U.S. government to get involved to set a speed limit, so be it.

Apple knows how to deal with China. There are lots of Chinese companies try to copy Apple. Apple engineers make Apple products better and better. Boeing engineers forgot to stick its mastering on aircraft. It makes 737 Max with a huge bug. Two plane loads of passengers died of its crash. Boeing suffered as a result. Your use of Boeing as attack to China shows your ignorance of the facts. As a counter example, look at Tesla. Tesla almost went bankrupt a year ago. Its factory in Shanghai saved it and skyrocketed Elon Musk to become the richest person on earth. It is apparently due to China. 

Apple is returning the proper role of computer. Personal computer debuted as a device that every one can create things on it without being a computer scientist to understand how to use it. This is the dawn of information age and culture. There are four waves of information culture. We are in the third wave. The first wave is digitizing information on personal computer. Personal computer allows the whole world bring their culture on the computer. Apple made laptops so people can carry computer around. Apple tried to reduce its size and weight to make it more portable. The second wave is sharing information. It consists of two stages. In the first stage, internet was invented. People using computer to exchange information through email and accessing web sites counting information. In the second stage, Steve Jobs invented iPhone as a smartphone and telecommunications industry changed their network to allow digital information to be transmitted together with voice. The iPhone revolutionized information sharing. It becomes possible for everyone to be connected to the whole world at anytime in the day. This is the time Apple forgot the mission of personal computer: to create digital information. It is still concentrated on minimizing laptops. Luckily Apple regained its mission in the Apple Silicon and MacBook Pro 14 and 16.