Posted on 12/20/2015 8:13:36 PM PST by Swordmaker
As expected, this weekend’s episode of 60 Minutes on CBS was chockfull of Apple news and anecdotes. Retail chief Angela Ahrendts, design head Jony Ive, CEO Tim Cook, and many more all joined host Charlie Rose to discuss a wide range of topics, including encryption, terrorism, design, retail, and much more…
First off, Cook again talked about how users shouldn’t have to choose between privacy and national security. “I think that’s an overly simplistic view,” Cook explained. “We’re America. We should have both.” Building on that, Cook reiterated the fact that there shouldn’t be a backdoor for anybody into consumer devices. This is a stance Cook has taken many times in the past, despite the recent issues of terror around the world.
Cook explained that iOS devices nowadays hold so much personal information, including health data, financial data, intimate conversations, and much more. It takes a special key to access that data, Cook said. And that’s a key to which even Apple doesn’t have access.
"If there's a way to get in, somebody will find the way in. There have been people who suggest that we should have a back door. But the reality is if you put a back door in, that back door's for everybody, for good guys and bad guys."
Moving on, Cook and Rose discussed Apple’s use of Chinese labor and some of the issues that go along with it. Cook said that Apple’s use of foreign labor has nothing to do with wages, but rather with the skills that those workers possess and many American workers lack. This, Cook explained, is due to China putting an enormous focus on manufacturing, while the U.S. moved away from a focus on vocational skills:
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What Watch fiasco? The iPad was the best selling new product in history when it was introduced turning in the best intro quarter of ANY product both in units sold and dollar volume. That record stood until this year when the Apple Watch introduction eclipsed the iPad introduction and its first quarter on the market outdid the sales of the iPad's first quarter in units sold and dollar volume. The Apple Watch is expected to finish the year with total sales of over 10 million in just seven months on the market and approximately $5 BILLION in revenue, with $2 BILLION in profits. That is nowhere near "a fiasco," Rome2000.
Typical ad hominem attack from a rude nobody without facts, evidence, or civility.
Flunked geography, too, Baron won Munchausen? You've hit a new low in factual content. 42 Pinocchios for this post, Baron. Do you need a chainsaw for your nose?
The flight distance from San Francisco, California to Shanghai, China is:
6,165 miles
Chump!!!!!!!!
“This, Cook explained, is due to China putting an enormous focus on manufacturing, while the U.S. moved away from a focus on vocational skills ...”
The US has added a new category to the list of possible skills groups can possess, like vocational skills, manufacturing skills, etc. Now, thanks to a near totally failed educational system and the requisite and accompanying failure of political will, we have, here in the US, the category so many citizens excel at - consumer skill.
There are many Chinese citizens, who otherwise would have to still live in the impoverished countryside, that now have what passes for a good paying job in China. They heartily endorse and applaud the Americans who have done so much to improve their lives.
The near perfection of this new skill has led to spending on an epic scale - for individuals, states and particularly the federal government, which, having the privilege of printing money, has nearly managed to spend more than can be printed, an act most individuals practicing this new skill would die for ...
“The US has added a new category to the list of possible skills groups can possess, like vocational skills, manufacturing skills, etc.”
I thought you would add self-esteem. Students today think they should be rewarded for being, not for excelling.
Well that is so, but self-esteem isn’t really a skill involving money which was the theme of the article.
I am sure, however, that the current crop of totalitarians masquerading as liberals/socialists/Democrats will adopt it as a skill set as soon as they grow tied of the consumer skill and find some way to monetize it.
Kind of touchy aren’t you? Just wanted to find out about the land.
Leave Apple alone!! Ha!
And you said originally:
"Three thousand miles away the Chinese/Asians take care of the other stuff. . ."
If you wanted to find China at 3,000 miles, Baron Chump, you'd wind up 700 miles beyond Hawai'i, drowning in the middle in the Pacific Ocean. You not only FLUNKED geography, you FLUNKED basic arithmetic. . . and you call ME names?
That means you have no grasp of logic, or common sense. Flunked those courses too, no doubt.
No, you didn't. You came across as typical anti-Apple troll, trying to find a means of attacking Apple's new headquarters for killing animals and destroying the environment. You put icing on the cake by calling the construction a "monstrosity." You had no concern for the land at all. Your purpose was to slam Apple as not being "green" when they claim they are. Nice try.
More evidence of your ad hominem attacks. Delusional.
Hey there one trick pony! You post repeatedly about a leftist company on a conservative board and call me delusional - maybe DU is more your speed.
Worry more about your overbought Apple stock taking a swan dive because this is what it is poised to do. That crappy stock has lost ~20% since July. AAPL is going from “darling of Wall Street” to scorned ex-wife who ripped me off in the divorce.
AAPL stock has NEVER ripped you off, because you've never owned any AAPL. You've claimed it, but your comments demonstrate otherwise, Baron.
“Your snarky question says a lot about you. None of it good.”
Your using FR as a social media advertising outlet for Apple says nothing good about you.
“Typical ad hominem attack from a rude nobody”
As apposed to you, some sort of publicly know genius?? Arrogance, Apple has it, as do you.
You're the thread troll, Honk. You are the one insulting over 700 of your fellow Freepers who CHOOSE to be members of the Apple Ping List who are interested in this topic and have ASKED ME to post these threads. No bug off. You are NOT required to read these threads. You merely have to move on. There are also ping lists and posts about Microsoft (which is actually more leftist than Apple), and Android, which is socialist at heart. Good going if you support THOSE over a completely, and unapologetic, CAPITALIST company.
And you've been told multiple times that I am not a social marketer. YOU are not the moderator of FreeRepublic, nor are you the social marketing police. Bug off, asshat. Your repeated trolling of Apple threads says nothing good about your fixation of invading these threads either, asshat. You are just as delusional about YOUR opinion being superior to the 700 plus of your fellow Freepers who do not appreciate your trolling and disruptions of the Apple threads. You've been told by many of them to bug off, as well. You don't listen very well. You've even had your comments deleted by the authorities on FR in these threads but YOU continue your uncivil behavior because of YOUR arrogant belief in YOUR superior opinion over that of the owner of this forum, who had given his OK numerous times to these threads. CUT IT OUT.
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