This will be a good move for Apple... the Chinese market is unique in many ways and having local talent to help make iOS and other Apple products more friendly to these cultures will help. A smart move for Apple in the long run.
How so? Aren't there enough talented or skilled Americans?
Really? With STEM unemployment at record highs, a LOT of proof will need to be put out, because people don't believe it anymore...
Apple obviously wants to increase their level of innovation, but most of their cash ($97bn) lies overseas. So if they put their R&D overseas in like China, they could take advantage of all that unused cash.
I think this is a smart move by Apple to utilise the cash. The economy is better now than a 3-4 years ago, holding so much cash is not necessary.
No, this is Apple obviously wanting to increase its profit margin, at our expense (as customers, workers, and/or as taxpayers) and you can bet real money it will continue to take US taxpayer dollars in the form of subsidy.
And with several hundred billion in its bank, you really think holding/hoarding is an issue?
Is the economy better now? Which economy are we talking about, Wall Street's or Main Street's, since it's Main Streeters taking the time and money to get educated to be of use to these companies, whose work is what make these companies successful...
Why? China's economy advancing and them becoming an engineering powerhouse is a good thing for everybody. It increases the world's wealth.
How so?
Has your wealth increased in the process? Plenty of articles already say the opposite; wages have gone down. Complete with graphs and other forms of evidence.
Do you want to be a serf?
Why? Because china is invading my origin country as we speak. Though it won't make the news.
Other way around. China isn't invading us. Not directly... Nor is the US invading it, since multinational companies have zero loyalty to any country, regardless of how much corporate welfare and/or other entitlements they get.
Some articles claim China's economy isn't doing so hot, either... it doesn't take much to see how, what with jobs and working class wealth dropping and all...
Yes, yes, child labor and environmental abuses and all that... let's not forget the long history of melamine and lead and sulfur in drywall, US and other countries flags, counterfeit military equipment being bought by the US military, and - yes - malware embedded in hardware chips to not be detected by malware...
And, ofcourse, iFixit and others showing - time and again - excess levels of poorly slopped thermal grease, warped screws, puddles of oil under fans, etc, made by Foxconn, in Apple's products... Foxconn's history is not exactly stellar, but Apple would rather shroud the problem or blame customers... "You're holding it wrong" being one example and the CEO of the time knew about the phone's defect long before it was released.
The high cost of cheap prices, and Apple isn't doing what it is doing to help anybody. Except itself. For-profit doesn't espouse altruism, not unless there is a greater benefit to itself - and regardless of "collateral damage" caused, directly or otherwise, in the process.
But is it China doing it for itself, or at the behest of these companies that think they'll survive in the end - if we're assuming every country and every corporation is playing some sort of game, of which I doubt they're all playing together, in the form of collusion...
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Apples push into China is not unexpected. I'm sure there is a large Chinese talent pool that a lot of U.S. Companies are not fully tapping into. Plus by generating jobs in China, I'm sure the government will be more willing to help Apple expand there retails stories and market share.
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If it is one of the macs that will be built here in the U.S. it could be
Designed by Apple in China, Assembled in the U.S.
In a purportedly free market, what is any government doing helping any company and in any way? That's corporatism - look up Mussolini, why he coined it, and - best of all - who he was and why he was fought 70 years ago.
And please understand that "there" and "their" are two different words and you used "there" incorrectly at one point. Sorry to be pedantic.