Again do you not understand the word "hyperbole"? Look it up. You look silly here.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Unity in Memo to Staff Following Trump Victory
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Again do you not understand the word "hyperbole"? Look it up. You look silly here.
So because they're the largest company in the world, they're suddenly supposed to be manufacturing experts?
The reason iPhones aren't made in America is simple: Americans sucks at manufacturing. They have for years.
Your going to be disappointed - you'll see a lot of backtracking and u-turns on trump. More than average for a leader.
Do you think for one moment California will exit? It's mostly a reaction to the election result. I'm sure things will settle down.
I see a lot of parallels in the reaction - usa election results vs brexit.
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Do you think for one moment California will exit? It's mostly a reaction to the election result. I'm sure things will settle down.
I see a lot of parallels in the reaction - usa election results vs brexit.
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Apple gave money to both parties. Tim's letter was to Apple's employees. This campaign has been a very ugly one. I haven't seen such ugliness in politics since I emigrated here. He must recognize that this campaign has created a divide amongst his employees and is trying to mend that.
Not that strange. When the lunatics over in Blighty voted for Brexit, our CEO sent a similar message the following day because the lines of division were real and emotion was a tinderbox.
The overwhelming irony is we've all been f-d by the establishment, just a different brand of it.
In case you were referring to me, note that I never said anything about Apple having unfair or abusive workplace practices. But I did allude to the fact that most Americans would be unwilling to work under the sort of conditions and for the sort of pay that workers tolerate in China.
For the Chinese, it's a win-win, because most of those workers grew up in rural areas with very low standards of living. For them, those jobs are a step up. Just as Mexican migrant workers happily accept grueling agricultural jobs in the US that pay a pittance by American standards. But in both cases, employers would have a very difficult time finding American workers willing to do that sort of work for that sort of money.
I don't have a Mac Pro. I have a 27'' iMac. Link
With Apples current strong focus on handhelds and poor reveal of Macbooks, one could question if they are about to abandon the computer market all together.
tim crook == wuss
trumpo should give apple a hard time.
trumpo should give apple a hard time.
Few general observations after reading a year of forum political comments around the web. Many Trump supporters are terrible at grammar and spelling.many trump supporters have so much impotent rage and they will be surprised to learn it gets them nothing in the end. Pretty clear that buyers remorse will be interesting to watch during his term. Losing the popular vote isn't a landslide or mandate. Alexander Hamilton was right.
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Would you do business with Trump? If you are owed money, would you expect to be paid? Good luck.
Users send Tim Cook a memo. Please stick to updating the Mac lineup.
To all the Trump supporters. Please choose kindness. Choose kindness. That goes especially for the president elect.
He's not going to. His actual plan is favorable for Apple. He's going to lower the tax to repatriate money, so Apple will have the best opportunity to move their money from Ireland should they choose.
Trump is a businessman who worships the dollar. He and Cook could have lunch and suddenly all that animosity regarding overseas manufacturing will go away.
Right, surely they were all born with silver spoons in their mouths... Apple isn't shutting people out by making premium products, that's their place in the industry.
"Apple may be taking some of the burden of assembling the new iMac off Chinese supply partners by performing parts of assembly in the U.S."
I genuinely believe that Apple would love to manufacture their products in the US if it were economically and technically feasible to do so. This article cites one example of their attempts to make progress in that direction.
But it's important to remember that we're talking about "assembly" here. There's not a lot of money for workers in the final assembly of products. The most capital-intensive elements of product manufacture lie in the electronic components (most of which are made in Korea and Japan) and in metallurgy and precision machining (which is largely automated.)
I think that's inevitable. The only real question is a matter of timing.
As Steve Jobs once explained during an interview, America used to be an agrarian society and most automobiles sold were trucks. As people moved from farms into cities and suburbs, trucks were increasingly replaced by cars which provided better comfort, features, and fuel efficiency. Today we still have trucks, but they now make up a small percentage of the automobile market.
What we think of today as a PC is the equivalent of a truck. We will always have a need for them, but they will increasingly be limited to a small subsegment of the market.
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We couldn't survive 4 more years of Obama's dictator socialist policies that were destroying this country
Thank GOD voters made their voice heard and the lamestream media was proven so so so wrong with all their BS polls
I agree. But it's one small step in the direction that benefits the US worker.
I grew up in Southern California, and I worked in the Silicon Valley. In theory, that would make me a liberal, but I also served in the military, so I believe it helped to balance my perspective. As I've grown older, I inherited my father's interest in world events and politics. I have friends that are 'died-in-the-wool' conservatives and bleeding-heart liberals. I love them both as friends, but I've noticed that liberals are typically hypocrites. They wave the flag for diversity but when others disagree with their particular view; they throw a hissy fit. So much for their intellectual and caring ideology.
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Tim Cook is truly an amazing man...Those are beautiful words. We are a divided nation but rather than focus on what divides us, lets focus on what unites us. I am sure there are some Trump supporters, Hillary supporters, Johnson supporters, and people that wrote in Homer Simpson on this forum but we are all here because we enjoy discussing Apple related topics.
Yes, we shovel billion to corporations with little to show for it. However, for practical purposes we also have the highest corporate income taxes in the world. Addressing both ends of the issue can only help as it reduces economic distortions which always decrease productivity.
Good post
As someone with a true moderate political leaning, lean right for fiscal issues, and left for social issues, I have noticed the same.
As an outsider, you have little idea what the climate is like right now among the American public. We have just gone through one of the most ridiculous, embarrassing, and exhausting election cycles in history. It was anything but normal.
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Trump first needs to separate himself from the huge conflict of interest he has with being the commander and chief, and owning large businesses, before he should start dictating what other businesses can and should do.
Trump first needs to separate himself from the huge conflict of interest he has with being the commander and chief, and owning large businesses, before he should start dictating what other businesses can and should do.
While I agree with your sentiment, I would offer one counter point.
Yes, Apple products and prices exclude a majority of the world's population, but pushing technology forward costs money. A lot of money.
However, that tech eventually makes its way into products that many more people can afford. An example would be how much cheaper SSDs have become because (mainly) Apple is pushing that as a sole option in laptops. Even though its a bit of a stretch now, one could argue that this is allowing for computers such as the Raspberry Pi to become more capable at it's affordable price point and form factor.
I guess my main point is that the people who can afford it are buying Apple products and subsidizing the R&D for those who can't.
Too bad we couldn't vote Cook out in 2015.