The name reminds me of Didi Kong racing. N64.
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Apple Given Didi Chuxing Board Seat Following $1 Billion Investment
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And you thought, Tim Cook was trolling us customers?
Anyone who thought, Apple wasnt focused on its core competence, tightly integrated software that just works and modern hardware in a beautiful box, should take a seat in a Didi Chuxing taxi first...
...and all your complaints and worries are forgotten...
Anyone who thought, Apple wasnt focused on its core competence, tightly integrated software that just works and modern hardware in a beautiful box, should take a seat in a Didi Chuxing taxi first...
...and all your complaints and worries are forgotten...
Please see the bigger picture here:
When Tim decides to sell his car to adhere to the sharing economy, Jony has to give up his Bentley and Dr Dre and Iovine will meet at their bus stop again...
So this isn't gonna work.
Therefore:
Put Music, Beats Stuff, Didicar, Tupperware with all their funky VP's in a separate company and start....
.....making computers again !!!
When Tim decides to sell his car to adhere to the sharing economy, Jony has to give up his Bentley and Dr Dre and Iovine will meet at their bus stop again...
So this isn't gonna work.
Therefore:
Put Music, Beats Stuff, Didicar, Tupperware with all their funky VP's in a separate company and start....
.....making computers again !!!
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It's actually better when a multinational like Apple "wins the approval" of foreign governments with these kinds of investments, instead of winning over foreign government officials by greasing their pockets with lobbying money.
It has been said over and over and over again that Apple, despite its huge size, spends a tiny amount of "lobbying money" to win over (bribe) foreign governments. In fact, inside the USA, even Samsung bribes Washington DC with huge lobbying cash much more than Apple. Dozens of articles have stated this.
How Apple's Anemic Lobbying Left It in the Dark About the EU Tax Probe
Apple's lobbying effort not yet ripe
"In the first three months of this year, Google and Microsoft spent a little more than $7 million on lobbying and related federal activities combined. Apple spent $500,000 — even less than it spent the year before.
Apple could have learned a lesson from Wal-Mart and Microsoft, corporate giants who established major Washington operations only after the government came gunning for them. And with a target now on its back, Google is on pace to pump $20 million into lobbying this year."
It's part of the human condition. Like the Chinese people's obsession with white / whiter skin.
Definitely a big reason. US should have a law requiring the companies to pay taxes even if they don't bring the profit back to the US, say, like in this situation, even if they directly invest this money outside of the US.
Nobody was talking about race until you brought it up. Please take that stuff elsewhere.
Apple could invest the same $1 billion in Uber, to help Uber crushing this foreign Didi Chuxing company. Apple obviously didn't take patriotism as the overwhelming top priority of their investment. BAD, VERY BAD!
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No. Before Apple's investment, Didi was already crushing Uber in China. Uber's China subsidiary was already a loser in China.
You want Apple to invest in a losing company? That doesn't make sense. Apple investors would think you are insane.
What does make sense is that Apple could also invest some money into Uber's US operations, or some other European nation where Uber is a growing thriving market. In USA, Didi does not exist, and Uber and Lyft are the kings. So it makes sense for Apple to support one of these two companies inside the USA.
But supporting Uber in the Chinese market would have been a loser strategy.
Yeah that would have played well with the Chinese. Not. Tim wants Apple to get in good with the Chinese people and their government. Helping Uber crush their national company would not have helped make friends.
Uber and Apple aren't going to form alliances in China just because they both originated in the US. Not without contracts being signed and money changing hands.
Also, Apple was over in China doing Appley things so it was Apple who was the foreigner, not Didi. Over there it's Apple's job to not stick out like a sore thumb and act like an invader. Japanese companies like Toyota and even Korea's Samsung don't try to come to the US and run roughshod over the locals and local businesses. They build plants or offices here and hire our people. They make products tailored to our lifestyles.
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They need to invest some of the money they make overseas because our tax laws suck and bringing money home is crazy.
Go, dare them to do that! It will only led them to be destroyed easily by US companies aligned together. In the end, our military force can crush all of the others combined together anyway!
Yes, our tax laws have loopholes. We should make them pay US taxes even if they use those money overseas.
Oh yeah, well Samsung will just take all of the Note7s they confiscated and create a super bomb that will destroy the US and slightly warm up Canada. So I say we all play nicely, Donald.
That would be nice. To go from reading a plea in a comment forum to a finished product on the market in two weeks. Only Apple could do that.
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What's the difference? It all comes down to financial.
I think this is where Steve Jobs is missed the most. He was passionate about the technology and wanted to make cool new products. Cook only thinks about money.This is why Macs are delayed... too much futzing around with other things!
Just because Apple is investing in areas that you aren't passionate about doesn't mean they aren't innovating.
Well, but they are NOT innovating. At least not as much as before or as much as other companies do.
Ok fair enough but... Your tax law is there for you to protect the dollar from crashing because of the (crazy) US National debt. Sorry for saying this but companies like Apple kill the dollar and disturb the balance of your economy.
I'm wondering if maybe Apple is concerned about US regulators when it comes to self-driving cars and such, especially when in the US it's going to be the feds plus 50 states regulating various aspects, not to mention the highly-litigious environment and a lot of anti-competitive behavior by taxi companies and such.
It's no secret that all these ride-sharing companies are really intending to replace human drivers with robotic cars ASAP, and I'm sure that's the case in China as well. A company like Apple might be able to develop and prove the viability of this sort of technology over in China where the regulatory environment will be more uniform and more relaxed, and not only get a billion customers there working with a popular, established service, but also be able to come back to the US, Europe, etc. with an already proven technology to compete with the likes of Uber who are working on their own technologies and struggling with excessive state and federal regulations restricting their innovative potential.
I sure know I wouldn't want to start a ride-sharing company in the United States, much less a self-driving car company.
It's no secret that all these ride-sharing companies are really intending to replace human drivers with robotic cars ASAP, and I'm sure that's the case in China as well. A company like Apple might be able to develop and prove the viability of this sort of technology over in China where the regulatory environment will be more uniform and more relaxed, and not only get a billion customers there working with a popular, established service, but also be able to come back to the US, Europe, etc. with an already proven technology to compete with the likes of Uber who are working on their own technologies and struggling with excessive state and federal regulations restricting their innovative potential.
I sure know I wouldn't want to start a ride-sharing company in the United States, much less a self-driving car company.
Fortunately for Apple, others such as Google have helped pave the way (no pun intended), with years of lobbying.
Granted, they still haven't gotten more than about four states to allow driverless cars yet, but they did get the NHTSA to say that an AI can qualify as a driver under Federal law.
The next step is, the Feds or the States must come up with a test that works for testing AI drivers, instead of testing human drivers. (I don't think any current self-driving car could recognize an examiner inside it, pointing and saying, "Turn into that driveway over there.")