chutzpah

waveparticle said:

mikethemartian said:

waveparticle said:

JP234 said:

Probably a good move, given what Xi said yesterday.

If Taiwan is peacefully reunited with China, is it the end of Western civilization? LOL

There is not going to be anything peaceful about it.

Hong Kong was peacefully returned to China in 1997. 

And the world has seen how that has gone.  No one will be falling for those obviously false assurances again.

danox said:

hekg said:

Hey American companies, how about you stop hiring Chinese employees?   

Everything high tech that china has is all a bad copy of an American product.  Including and especially military technology which one day they soon they will use against the US!

Stop hiring chinese people that still have any ties to china.

They shouldn’t be hiring anyone who isn’t a citizen of the United States, particularly from countries known to hold family members hostage, China, Russia, and probably Turkey. For example.

Will make it pretty hard to staff the stores in China and Turkey.

ravnorodom said:

It reminds me back in the old days when Soviet Union stole lots of American and European inventions and ip. Concord airplane and Manhattan Project's Atomic bomb are just to name a few.

It’s not exactly unusual for a young, undeveloped country to steal from a more industrialised one…

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-us-news-ap-top-news-theft-international-news-b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88dc53

tundraboy said:

chutzpah said:

zomp said:

 Curious to know the percentage of people who own and use any branded phone over 5 years old. The only reason why I'm so negative to this story is that I feel Europe would love to bring down success. I'm sorry, but if you don't like a brand, then buy the other brand. It's a simple as that - I haven't purchased a ford car since 2002 because they didn't last long, so I moved to Hyundai. Why doesn't France just say "don't like apple, buy Samsung" or visa versa. Back before apple, all phones were junk and didn't make it past a couple of years.

You're joking right?

Feature phones lasted ages.  Nokia phones in particular were famous for being basically unbreakable unless you went massively out of your way and threw them under an actual bus.  The software was simple and solid, so didn't stretch the hardware, battery life was measured in weeks rather than days, they just went on and on.

They were junk in terms of what they could do in comparison to a modern smartphone, but lots of them were built to last.

Seriously?  You're putting up Nokia and feature phones as an argument to prove that Apple is intentionally designing iPhones to be obsolete in 5 years?

No?  I was quite clearly responding to the post saying "Back before apple, all phones were junk and didn't make it past a couple of years."

Where is Nokia's phone business now?  Nonexistent.  Why? Because they were stuck on feature phone tech and couldn't innovate fast enough, well enough to the next level i.e. smartphones.

So?  Whether the business still exists 16 years later is no reflection on whether the phones were built to last.

Smartphone innovation goes at breakneck speed.  There is no reason to build hardware that lasts well more than 5 years if it it won't be able to run the software and handle the data bandwidth that will come out in 5 years.

There are people who are quite happy running phones without the latest software, or the fastest data bandwidth, or the breakneck latest release.  And it appears that their phones might be suffering from artificial restrictions on repairability, which sucks.  If you enjoy being on the bleeding edge, that's fine, but it doesn't benefit you for Apple enforcing this.

zomp said:

 Curious to know the percentage of people who own and use any branded phone over 5 years old. The only reason why I'm so negative to this story is that I feel Europe would love to bring down success. I'm sorry, but if you don't like a brand, then buy the other brand. It's a simple as that - I haven't purchased a ford car since 2002 because they didn't last long, so I moved to Hyundai. Why doesn't France just say "don't like apple, buy Samsung" or visa versa. Back before apple, all phones were junk and didn't make it past a couple of years.

You're joking right?

Feature phones lasted ages.  Nokia phones in particular were famous for being basically unbreakable unless you went massively out of your way and threw them under an actual bus.  The software was simple and solid, so didn't stretch the hardware, battery life was measured in weeks rather than days, they just went on and on.

They were junk in terms of what they could do in comparison to a modern smartphone, but lots of them were built to last.