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22july2013 said:

dhawkins541 said:

Why don't they make the HD model at least somewhat cheaper it's got an A8 which is older than the iPod touch they just discontinued? Just a thought $99 that would be a way easier sell to people that want 4K but want in on the apple hardware. 

Do you mean with, or without, the $50 remote?

Yeah, they could probably afford to drop the price of the remote to $50, too. 

Looks like Jony got taken for a ride. When I click the link for the torque wrench it says it’s $399. Maybe it’s that Apple Tax I keep hearing about. 

We’re really starting to see the impact on the bottom line from those aggressively priced polishing cloths.

waveparticle said:

To the China haters posting above, please understand it is Foxconn a Taiwanese company making iPhones for Apple in India. It is not Apple. Foxconn is a contractor a part of the global supply chain. 
My question is if a Taiwanese company can do this why Indian with a population over 1,3 billion cannot have an Indian company producing iPhone for Apple? There are numerous Indians holding CEO position in top US companies like Google, IBM, Microsoft, and the list goes on and on. Supposedly Indians are highly smart and capable than Chinese. Right ? 

It’s not just a question of having smart people and access to relatively inexpensive labor. There is a lot of specific manufacturing expertise, sophisticated logistics and myriad supplier and transportation relationships required to produce millions of complex, high quality devices quickly. And China is the only country with the ability to produce a lot of the smaller parts at scale in a timely manner, which isn’t going to change anytime soon, so you’d need to have deep roots in China regardless. Otherwise, if an Indian company could do it, why not, say, an American company operating a factory just about anywhere with cheap labor?

I got an Express VPN subscription a few years ago to use my movie streaming services for a few weeks in a foreign country. After I signed up, they demanded a scan of my driver’s license, but I protested like crazy and they eventually said they didn’t really need it, it had just been a mistake on their part. That was creepy enough that I have been leery of VPNs ever since.