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Apple Hit With $530,000 Chinese Lawsuit Over Unauthorized Sales of Animated Films
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It's not remotely practical to verify that third parties have the rights-- you would need to spend thousands of dollars per app, and even then you couldn't be 100% sure. You could get them to sign a statement assuming liability; this is a pretty standard thing, so undoubtedly it's already being done. The question is, would such a statement be recognized in the bizarro world of Chinese contract "law"?
The ones the Chinese seem intent on stirring up.
Well put!
All above, interesting angles. Definitely, food for thought.
Something tells me that
1. The studio didnt inform Apple of the conflict before filing the suit so they could just pull the app etc
2. The amount they are asking for could be and probably is way over that 30%
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And with the huge cache of rare earth metals found in Japan they may soon no longer be forced to play by China's all production must be in China rules.
Heck if Foxconn opened a factory in Mexico many of the migrant workers allegedly coming to the US to make money to send home could just stay home and make it. Solving part of the immigration issue without Obama looking like an ass or a wimp (depending in your party opinion)
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If Apple pulled out they would likely go for the nuts and find a way to force China to stop such imports. And or find a way legally stop them at our borders
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You assume, before any facts are out, that Apple is guilty. You may be surprised in the end to find out that they are not. How about we wait for some facts before either judgement is deemed fact.
exactly what i was thinking. apple should just pay up to save themselves of the trouble. but then more people will want to take a bite of apple
Ok then!
I'm fine with Apple being sued. They are the first ones to sue everyone & their mother & farmer daughter for the stupidest crap.
No need to fear, Apple will sue you too & take every last cent from you without blinking an eye if you infringe on their copyrights.
I'm fine with Apple being sued. They are the first ones to sue everyone & their mother & farmer daughter for the stupidest crap.
No need to fear, Apple will sue you too & take every last cent from you without blinking an eye if you infringe on their copyrights.
I don't think you've done the math at all. The lawsuit is for half a million dollars. Apple makes that much money for roughly every 3000 mobile products they sell. Unless I'm mistaken, Apple sells about 26x that amount of phones in China on a daily basis (they sell 400K phones a day worldwide, and 20% of their sells are in China, right?)
Anyways, this has me thinking. I should write a book, copyright it, then make a free app that distributes my copywritten book but I don't give myself permission to do so. Put it on the App Store. Sue apple for distributing my copywritten work. Totally makes sense. Totally fail proof. It's like printing money.
China is going to hit a wall soon and it is going to be very interesting to see how it pans out. Rising labor costs plus rising fuel costs mean Chinese manufacturing is going to take a big hit. When this puts an end to their trade surplus, it's very possible that it will also end their programs of currency deflation, which could result in a huge poverty spike beyond what they're already struggling with. Would the people then be willing to crawl out from under the Communist party? Should be interesting to see how this all pans out.
Blood on the water! Apple has been bitten is China, and Sharks are circling all over!
China will defend China. APPLE gonna bleed all over the place!
Time to move the factory! APPLE got the money!
APPLE it's time to copy Google and go to Hongkong,
Open factories in Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, anywhere!
YOU GOT THE MONEY! YOU CAN DO IT!
China will defend China. APPLE gonna bleed all over the place!
Time to move the factory! APPLE got the money!
APPLE it's time to copy Google and go to Hongkong,
Open factories in Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, anywhere!
YOU GOT THE MONEY! YOU CAN DO IT!
And those are the one we know about. Personally I do not care about any of them.
1) There is nothing "alleged" about this. They ARE coming over, and have been for many, many decades, and have completely changed the payscale value of labor as-well-as the available job opportunities for legal citizens. They also receive free help with medical and child education needs.
Every time immigration becomes a hot topic, they pardon everyone for coming across illegally, saying we are a free country and that we do not discriminate on skin color, race, or nationality.
Which is why we have one of the most open and liberal immigration policies of most nations.
This has happened multiple times already. It is not a new issue, but keeps repeating itself over and over again. It's also why politicians in DC ignore this issue in their campaigns.
I have no problem with Mexicans wanting to live here or being my neighbors (many of them are cool people), but I do have a problem when they come here illegally, disrupt many aspects of our whole economy (for which I pay), then get pardoned for their illegal activities because the government can't call it a crime without everyone turning it into a racial issue.
It has nothing to do with race!
There are many Mexican-born American citizens who went through the immigration process correctly and legally who would agree with me!
I'm sorry many Mexicans have such a financially difficult time in their country, but it is not our responsibility to make their lives better. We can choose to help when we want to or are able to (and yes I have!), but we should not be obligated to pay for their expenses while here.
2) Google "Remittance" to learn more about it, but 80% of illegals are sending home more than $14 Billion/year. It is almost Mexico's highest grossing industry.
3) Mexico already has a lot of maquiladoras. They also now do at least some assembly for US car manufacturers. I doubt one more maquiladora, even Foxconn, would make much of a difference.
4) Have you ever even met any of these illegal Mexican migrants? Your comments seem more ignorant or naive than of any particular political slant.
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should be real interesting indeed.
10 years from now i am curious to know where Apple will be making their products
Then the next step is to pull all jobs out of china to the Americas causing a massive layoff at foxconn and the collapse of Foxconn - i guess we had to wait it out as the Chinese Economy grew to fast and two large for its own gov to control. I hear the new Chinese leadership wants to wean china away from exports to building its own infrastructure as the chinese people can not substain the growth without benifits of there own which could eventually lead to a Chinese Civil War. With troubles brewing in Korea which could directly effect samsung if not destroy them literally if something should go wrong for the south Koreans. It is time to leave Asia and rebuild the Americas. Make Apple a true US company again and cut off Asia - I know Apple gets other parts from samsung ect but that could easily move to another company or better yet do everything in house creating millions of jobs in the US.
Given that China is Apples second largest market, I'm sure all of these lawsuits add up to a very small percentage of Apples profits from China.
But at some point it could be a fine line between all the lawsuits and profitability.
It would be nice to see Apple pull completely out of Chine for both sales and manufacturing and see how the Chinese government likes loosing the billions in manufacturing revenue and how the people like doing without some of the finest products in their classes.
It sounds like Apple will be transitioning Mac Mini's from Chinese manufacturing to USA manufacturing this year. A small trial balloon perhaps but if it works out I think we'll see a lot more of the same.
There's a lot to be said for US manufactured goods. While many companies off shored products to lower costs and thus make more affordable products they should realize that all that manufacturing money leaves our economy and never comes back, making for a customer base that can't afford as many products.
Personally I'd rather pay more for a product made here that I can choose to buy or not than to pay more in taxes (which I have no choice on) to a government trying to prop up a poor economy.
Think of the billions of dollars Apple spends in China now, staying in our economy, going to wages in our communities, and supporting our tax base.
But at some point it could be a fine line between all the lawsuits and profitability.
It would be nice to see Apple pull completely out of Chine for both sales and manufacturing and see how the Chinese government likes loosing the billions in manufacturing revenue and how the people like doing without some of the finest products in their classes.
It sounds like Apple will be transitioning Mac Mini's from Chinese manufacturing to USA manufacturing this year. A small trial balloon perhaps but if it works out I think we'll see a lot more of the same.
There's a lot to be said for US manufactured goods. While many companies off shored products to lower costs and thus make more affordable products they should realize that all that manufacturing money leaves our economy and never comes back, making for a customer base that can't afford as many products.
Personally I'd rather pay more for a product made here that I can choose to buy or not than to pay more in taxes (which I have no choice on) to a government trying to prop up a poor economy.
Think of the billions of dollars Apple spends in China now, staying in our economy, going to wages in our communities, and supporting our tax base.
Please don't, otherwise the mainland Chinese will again rush to Hong Kong to buy new Apple products, making us Hongkongers unable to buy one.
it is but gray market is almost a part of daily life, Apple went in and try to make things legit, now they are getting sued left and right by for copyright of all things? Are you kidding me? They can shift manufacture to another country, close stores in China but guess what, the Chinese will still have ways of obtaining the products, how do you think they got their iPhones before?
There are also now trying to slap Apple around for their return policies, everyones looking for a loop hole to rip Apple off and now they are saying they are using loop holes to try and stop people from obviously abusing the return policies. I'm am not shocked that small companies are trying to sue their way to riches but now that the gov has joined in the fun is a bit disturbing.
From a country that encourages theft of other people's stuff. Nice. Time to move production to Indonesia and some place called the US.