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Apple CEO Tim Cook: This Is the No. 1 Reason We Make iPhones in China (It's Not What You Think). China is much more than a source of low-cost, low-skilled labor.
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Posted on 09/05/2020 7:22:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/05/2020 7:22:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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And they sell them for hundreds of dollars more than they’re worth; plus awkward to use.


2 posted on 09/05/2020 7:26:40 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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Liar. You like slave labor. I’ll use two cans and a string before I buy a rotten Apple.


3 posted on 09/05/2020 7:27:09 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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Can’t we get unemployed coal miners to code these apps here? /s


4 posted on 09/05/2020 7:29:14 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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Yeah, Americans can’t program despite inventing most of the languages used today.


5 posted on 09/05/2020 7:29:34 AM PDT by Shadow44
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Think what a competitor China would be if it actually adopted Capitalism tempered by Christianity, as happened in the United States.

China is profoundly hampered by the very high level of corruption in Chinese society.

6 posted on 09/05/2020 7:30:51 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Imagine pulling from the available unskilled labor pool in this country.

LOL


7 posted on 09/05/2020 7:30:55 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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I will never understand how someone can post such a long and important thread and not make a comment :-) do you have no opinion on it?

Or do you believe the Chinese are superior at a work level I’m every single conceivable area and just are too afraid to say it?

Here’s 5 bucks. Go buy some courage

I heard so practically perfect in every single way Chinese sell it cheap.

Of course it has nothing to do with the fact that it is a totalitarian regime and you better heap tons of phrase on it if you want to keep making incredibly cheap products there

now he has an idea genius. Why don’t you list all the defective and deadly products that have come out of China?

Or did they go to the bad schools? :-)


8 posted on 09/05/2020 7:30:59 AM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO?? ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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The number one reason why we like to be in China is the people. China has extraordinary skills. And the part that’s the most unknown is there’s almost two million application developers in China that write apps for the iOS App Store. These are some of the most innovative mobile apps in the world, and the entrepreneurs that run them are some of the most inspiring and entrepreneurial in the world. Those are sold not only here but exported around the world.

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Why does that set off my BS detector?


9 posted on 09/05/2020 7:32:00 AM PDT by Moonman62 (http://www.freerepublic.com/~moonman62/)
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While we’re on the subject, I was watching a TV ad for masks the other day. The was an American flag at the bottom of the screen. And next to the flag, in large letters: “Shipped from our warehouse in the United States.”

But no mention of where the masks were actually made. I guess somebody forgot to include that info.


10 posted on 09/05/2020 7:32:34 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

China has tens of millions of skilled labor techs.

The US has tens of millions of millennials.


11 posted on 09/05/2020 7:33:16 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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Apple is there because - like all multi-nationals - they see China’s brand of authoritarian capitalism as the future, and they are working hard to bring it to the USA. To them, China is not a competitor nor a military rival nor a human rights violator - it is simply a better reality for BigCorp than the one they operate in now.


12 posted on 09/05/2020 7:33:28 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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“Liar. You like slave labor. I’ll use two cans and a string before I buy a rotten Apple.”

So, which other phone do you use that’s made in China?


13 posted on 09/05/2020 7:34:26 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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RE: Yeah, Americans can’t program despite inventing most of the languages used today.

I think you’re confusing software with assembly pf the hardware.


14 posted on 09/05/2020 7:35:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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RE: Why does that set off my BS detector?

Well, don’t just write a one liner... tell us why it’s BS.


15 posted on 09/05/2020 7:36:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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RE: I will never understand how someone can post such a long and important thread and not make a comment :-) do you have no opinion on it?

Because I want to read YOUR OPINIONS on it before I make my comment. So, go at it and tell me what’s wrong (or right ) about the article.


16 posted on 09/05/2020 7:37:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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“In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I’m not sure we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields.”

That is because you and all the other corporations first went to China because of their labor costs, you idiot. You went when that was the only benefit and you created the skills that you now lambaste the US as “not having.” It’s not in the least true.

We have engineering grads in lesser roles because you’ve made the jobs go away.


17 posted on 09/05/2020 7:37:32 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Is an LG made there? I’ll have to check. If so I’ll have to use two soup cans and a string.


18 posted on 09/05/2020 7:37:35 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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One thing the Chinese are really, really good at is stealing.


19 posted on 09/05/2020 7:37:56 AM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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They have really talented people — that make 1/10 what talented Americans do because chinese citizens don’t own cars, boats, houses, freedom or much of anything


20 posted on 09/05/2020 7:38:52 AM PDT by Pollard (You can’t be for “defunding the police” and against “vigilantism” at the same time.)
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