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rain22 said:

asdasd said:

Most of what he said was spot on. However Apple is probably the best player in the business for investigating abuses in its supply chain. Its not like the cheap Chinese android manufacturers care. 

Ever hear of ‘Public Relations’? Or understand what it is they do and how they do it? Yo do know there is a room full of incredibly intelligent psychologists, lawyers, media spinners and behaviouralists who get paid a lot of money to sit there and devise strategies to make you believe whatever it is they want... like Apple actually cares or does anything of merit to curtail sweatshops and child labor. Your assertions show they have done an effective job - if you honestly believe Apple is probably ‘the best player’.

No I believe they are the best player because they release reports on how they investigate their supply chain, which is not an easy task as the cobalt mines are not supplying to Apple directly but to an intermediate supplier, or suppliers. 

Heres last years report. 

https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple_SR_2019_Progress_Report.pdf

Do a search for cobalt. 

Could be all spin? I doubt it. It would be easier to investigate supply chains rather than hire a room full
of shrinks, lawyers, marketing people and behaviouralists to tell a lie, and most importantly it’s less likely to bite you on the ass. 

In fact apple needs more marketing people to sell that Apple is not just the best product, but the most moral. 

Cobalt of course is in all batteries and yet it’s apple that tends to be singled out;  a company that investigates abuses, rather than cheap Chinese and other manufacturers who don’t have the spotlight on them, or the margins, or the inclination to investigate abuses. 

Most of what he said was spot on. However Apple is probably the best player in the business for investigating abuses in its supply chain. Its not like the cheap Chinese android manufacturers care. 

Except for street view, Apple maps is as good as or better than Google maps. I use both all the time. This is outside the US.

SpamSandwich said:

The “See” series, which started out as a pretty good looking show (irony noted) has become a bit of a depressing slog. In their attempt to mimic the formula of Game of Thrones something has been lost in the translation. I’m about to give up on this series.

See is the one major misfire. The rest are ok to very good. In general I’m impressed. 

lkrupp said:

I can’t help but think this article was posted for the express purpose of generating responses here. Here we have a Russian oligarch, one of Putin’s  army of yes-men, talking down the Apple Card. The CTO of the state bank of a totalitarian dictatorship that puts on the airs of a democracy comments on innovation? This is so bizarre I can’t wrap my head around it. But then we now kowtow to the mighty Chinese Communist/Capitalist blended juggernaut. Meanwhile the West slowly devolves into a socialist dystopia. How long till we are a Communist/Capitalist blend with established social scores? Oh wait, we already have them, they’re called “credit scores”. 

It looks like the west should adopt more socialism if the Red Commie Chinese are doing so well.