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22july2013 said:

I would expect average people to be turned off by a non-Intel CPU, in the short term.

RS232 said:

Why would Apple make a product with a gross margin of under 10%, a car?  I just don’t understand how a car fits Apple’s business. Help me understand.

GeorgeBMac said:

elijahg said:

GeorgeBMac said:

wizard69 said:

GeorgeBMac said:

It happened here in the U.S. at the turn of the 19th century where industry and government colluded with each other and government failed to protect the lives, rights and well being of its people.

That is what happened here:   A company took advantage of the fact it was operating in an environment where it had impunity from government oversight -- so workers had little choice but to either accept the worker abuse or to take things into their own hands -- just like American workers did in the violent strikes and riots through the 20 years before and after 1900.

I’m not convinced there is strong evidence of collusion here.  Maybe coming third world corruption at some level but it is pretty obvious here that the government has investigated here and apparently agrees with the workers.    It just looks like Apple and Wistron thought that they could get away with the same crap that is normal in China.  

India is well known for corruption.

This would not have happened in China -- it's a much cleaner place to do business in.   That's why businesses migrated there instead of India.

The only reason Apple went to India at all was due to their extortion:   "If you don't manufacture here, you don't sell here".  

So Apple gave them a token plant -- which they abused -- as they so often happens in that corrupt country.

It wouldn't have happened in China because protests are illegal and enforcement is you get shot or run over with a tank. Have you conveniently managed to erase Tiananmen Square from your memory? Or does your Chinese employer not allow you to mention such embarrassing events?

Well well it would seem that both China and India are both ranked 80 out of 180 on the corruption index. Isn't that odd - how do you explain your way out of that one George? 

https://tradingeconomics.com/china/corruption-rank
https://tradingeconomics.com/india/corruption-rank

Everyone that isn't you knows China is very corrupt. The CCP's policies almost require corruption for it to operate.

Yeh, but only if you believe the silly right wing spin and propaganda.

By the way, did you conveniently erase Kent State and the murdered black civil rights protestors from your memory?  Or is it selective for anti-China hatred?

GeorgeBMac said:

It happened here in the U.S. at the turn of the 19th century where industry and government colluded with each other and government failed to protect the lives, rights and well being of its people.

That is what happened here:   A company took advantage of the fact it was operating in an environment where it had impunity from government oversight -- so workers had little choice but to either accept the worker abuse or to take things into their own hands -- just like American workers did in the violent strikes and riots through the 20 years before and after 1900.