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"[The] Future is cloud services, that's where the money is, not in hardware, any Tom dick and harry can make a phone."


Here's what I think....


"...not in hardware, any Tom dick and harry can make a phone," but Tom Dick and Harry are fighting each other with brainless schemes hoping to avoid poor house bankruptcies.


But you are totally correct in that "any Tom dick and harry can make a phone." 

LoneStar88 said:

smalm said:

"Corning is a great example of a supplier that has continued to innovate and they are one of Well, "As a non US customer" you certainly are "missing something", namely: American citizenship, and the accompanying pride and excitement this American citizen is feeling for my country under the leadership of President Trump.

You mean Lyin' Donald Trump? The one who told 5 different lies as to why he fired Comey?

When Apple funds and works in close partnership with Imagination, Imagination gets to market all new IP and performance advances to the open market. Apple, in effect, is making its competition stronger with its own funds and R&D. This is why Apple favors TSMC over Samsung. TSMC is simply a fab, not a competitor that will use Apple's advances against Apple.

"Why invest all this money in china? Why not build these r&d facilities here in the USA? And recruit talent from US universities?"

 
Remember: "We rob banks because that's where the money is."


Tech grows some R&D in China because that's where most of the developer and engineer babies are.


And perversely, since Trump is making it unattractive for foreign babies to work and live here, offshore R&D will grow because that's where the engineer and scientist babies are (especially since DeVos education is being implemented).


For the most part more and more of the educated babies are not white male Americans. (But America first!)

"Timmy's Apple is a far cry from Steve Jobs' Apple."

Regarding being wholeheartedly against "Right to Repair", Steve Jobs wrote the book.