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racerhomie3 said:

dblanch369 said:

Sell your stocks folks....

Apple is not 1 person. It’s legendary design team has had little turnover in the last 2 decades. Jony trusts his peers. That’s what is important.

bitmod said:

StrangeDays said:

bitmod said:

If you’re a Fortune 100 company... it’s going to be great!

Quality tools are expensive. Do you need a tool this powerful? If so, great, here it is, you can do your job and produce value with it. If not, it's not for you, and that's fine. The iMac Pro, iMac, and Mini are great options for desktops.

Uhhhh... yah. They designed a Mac Pro for Pixar and maybe 5 other massive design houses. What about the other 98% of content creators? 
Where is the Mac for the small business that makes up 98% of the market? The freelancers who need a solid machine that they can upgrade over 7 years. iMac isn’t it. 

This is looks like a fantastic machine - but it misses the mark for what the average pro user has been asking for.

holyone said:

kruegdude said:

holyone said:

seanismorris said:

AppleExposed said:

genovelle said:

mac_dog said:

OUCH! That’s going to leave a mark. 

The possible retaliation has the potential to  wreck havoc on our entire economy. 

One knockoff manufacturer will do nothing, unless you mean retaliation which will hurt both parties.

I don’t think you realize how large and influential Huawei is...

Is every company that uses Android in some of their products going to be a “knockoff” manufacturer?

From wiki:
Huawei had over 188,000 employees as of September 2018, around 76,000 of them engaged in Research & Development (R&D).[5][6] It has 21 R&D institutes around the world.[7][8] As of 2017 the company invested US$13.8 billion in R&D.[9][10]
In December 2018, Huawei reported that its annual revenue had risen to US$108.5 billion in 2018 (a 21% increase over 2017).[16]

Huawei might be #1 (in importance) in the 5G rollout globally if it wasn’t for the trade war.  I’m as concerned about the IP theft as anyone, but Huawei is also a global innovator.  Everyone is better off if we can get a deal in place ASAP.

My question is what exactly is stoping China announcing tomorrow that everything Apple Inc. is now banned and Tim has 3 months to fuck off ( in those exact words), it seems to me that this has potential to get real hilarious, what am I missing ?

 Though I get the crying over IP theft and the deficit I have to ask however, since no American company is forced to operate in China and all companies enter China knowing full well the cost and requirements why is no one asking Apple why the fuck  they give up their IP in China ? Isn't that a more prudent question ?

There's a price to pay for market access everywhere India requires local manufacturing for example, we may talk about those costs being too high and/or unfair but Apple doesn't seam to think so, otherwise why are they in China or any other place ? If that country is so despicable then why go there ?, also why is Apple or any America based conglomerates' IP always referred to as American IP ? What does America have to do with Apple property, doesn't that belong to its share holders around the world ?

Just asking coz I'm really curious i'm not American so this all seems just weird to me.

What’s weird to me are all these little straw man fetish plays that come out in the comments. As in “Tim has three months to fuck off”?

That was just cheeky take on how I think Huawei must be feeling, that this is Trump's way of saying to them as a company to leave/fuck off as a way of dealing with the Chinese Govenment on trade, not sure how that's straw man. There's really nothing compelling I've read here that could stop China from banning not just iPhone manufacturing but sale in China as a reply which would be funny.