And they sell them for hundreds of dollars more than they’re worth; plus awkward to use.
Liar. You like slave labor. I’ll use two cans and a string before I buy a rotten Apple.
Can’t we get unemployed coal miners to code these apps here? /s
Yeah, Americans can’t program despite inventing most of the languages used today.
China is profoundly hampered by the very high level of corruption in Chinese society.
Imagine pulling from the available unskilled labor pool in this country.
LOL
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? :-)
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?
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.
China has tens of millions of skilled labor techs.
The US has tens of millions of millennials.
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.
“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.
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
Workers in China do what they’re told and don’t complain. That’s where they got us.
I was talking with a friend last year and he was saying that it was cheaper for his company to hire up a team of electrical engineers in Spain than it was for them to do it in Shenzen. also, the ones in Shenzen are more likely to job hop. China has enormous production capabilities and are no longer the cheap labor express.
And so we pay China to develop state of the art engineering and manufacturing capabilities deployed in China rather than the US. And it’s cheap. It’s win-win.
naw....I'll reserve my opinion of the "quality of people" in China...
It’s more than the money. It’s treason. It’s the Bush doctrine, Trilateralist, Globalist, that props up a third-world commie regime. It gives them technology to compete with the US, gives them money to build a military, and in turn, causes our military-industrial complex to ramp up, i.e., big $$.
Who funded Hitler? Who funded Lenin? Now who funds Mao? Brought to you by your iPhone.
They can always outsource for ‘better’ labor and costs overseas. There simply isn't a need for companies to care about their ‘home’ country anymore.
Apple and other companies are free to criticize and push for change in America, put leave out such concerns for China and their abuses. But, it's not like America cares. The US has constantly said China puts people in camps and cheats on currencies and IP, but we still are keeping our new trade deals. Nuts.
Well, if you send all of your manufacturing capabilities to China, don’t be surprised that in a generation China has people trained to work in such environments and the US does not.