I own a lot of Apple products including Apple TV, a few Macs, iPhone, etc...However Apple has gotten really complacent lately. I love the consistency of the iPhone but apple releasing another spec upgrade to the iPhone this year is rather lackluster in my opinion.Because India and all its poverty and filth is in a position to define what is cutting edge and what isn't.
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Apple Not Able to Open Retail Stores in India Without Selling 30% Locally Sourced Goods
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I can partly understand where India is coming from with FDI. To India, allowing FDI willy nilly smacks of planting the seeds of a new kind of imperialism. The British Raj began as a trade arrangement with the East India Company. After the 1857 uprising, the British Crown took over the East India Company.
With that said though, I am skeptical of the Indian government talking so much about protecting domestic industry when it is that very government that stifled domestic industry. The License Raj, born out of Jawaharlal Nehru's idea of a command economy modeled off the Soviet Union, except that India would be a democracy, was a complex system whereby 80 different agencies had to be satisfied before one could do any kind of business, and even then, the government would control everything. India's regulations designed to protect domestic industry did nothing to actually protect domestic industry. Instead, those regulations stifled the economy and continue to do so today. The skeptic in me sees regulations like the 30% rule as nothing more than a way for politicians to ensure they remain relevant.
With that said though, I am skeptical of the Indian government talking so much about protecting domestic industry when it is that very government that stifled domestic industry. The License Raj, born out of Jawaharlal Nehru's idea of a command economy modeled off the Soviet Union, except that India would be a democracy, was a complex system whereby 80 different agencies had to be satisfied before one could do any kind of business, and even then, the government would control everything. India's regulations designed to protect domestic industry did nothing to actually protect domestic industry. Instead, those regulations stifled the economy and continue to do so today. The skeptic in me sees regulations like the 30% rule as nothing more than a way for politicians to ensure they remain relevant.
Probably right. The smaller local stores or the larger electronic stores (is there an India version of Best Buy?) would lose a lot of business. I bet they are lobbying to keep Apple out.
Dang regulations killing the market...
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Or what the people are convinced or led to believe.
Or to create a need based driven by emotional want as opposed to actual need. Otherwise everyone would be offering actual necessities for less but in harmless ways.
A company being for-profit means its first goal is to bring in profit. And the issues that are related therein. No company exists out of altruism, which is the core off the phrase "those of the people" since altruism is about other people and profit is about "the one".
Most Apple products do the same thing as competitors' products. Even Linux. Apple offers a shinier chassis and bigger cost, even though the products run warmer, ostensibly by design as pundits say but that would not be a good thing since warmer temperatures reduce the lifespan of said products and support forums do show a consistency based on usage... So it has to do something else to attract and keep customers. Applications a person buys, locked into the platform, also help keep customers as such - you can't afford to vote with your wallet and move to a competitor every other year, can you? Of course not... Remember the furore when Rosetta was dropped?
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Phew, thankfully Americans have been training their H1B replacements for several years now and most H1Bs are from India. (Nobody surely believes "developing countries" didn't get a helping hand, and help is not a bad thing in of itself. But it gets a little more complex from there...)
But India wants protectionism and whines when other countries' peoples want it, especially the US. If nobody else can have it both ways, why does India feel so entitled? Is it ran by millennials?
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Or what the people are convinced or led to believe.
Or to create a need based driven by emotional want as opposed to actual need. Otherwise everyone would be offering actual necessities for less but in harmless ways.
A company being for-profit means its first goal is to bring in profit. And the issues that are related therein. No company exists out of altruism, which is the core off the phrase "those of the people" since altruism is about other people and profit is about "the one".
Most Apple products do the same thing as competitors' products. Even Linux. Apple offers a shinier chassis and bigger cost, even though the products run warmer, ostensibly by design as pundits say but that would not be a good thing since warmer temperatures reduce the lifespan of said products and support forums do show a consistency based on usage... So it has to do something else to attract and keep customers. Applications a person buys, locked into the platform, also help keep customers as such - you can't afford to vote with your wallet and move to a competitor every other year, can you? Of course not... Remember the furore when Rosetta was dropped?
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I find it funny that people compare paying only one's fair share, with trying to avoid paying anything at all.
Very few of us go crazy with a cadre of lawyers and accountants, setting up cleverly connected shell companies around the world to shuffle our income through
The policy hasn't been around that long. Takes time to get takers, and they've constantly relaxed the rules every few years. Some think they've gone too far that way, which is why the government is cracking down on Apple.
Getting an Apple Store is pretty meaningless. Everyone has already seen what happens when a big name retailer moves into an area. Quite often all the other related stores and suppliers fold.
Forcing the 30% requirement ensures that if foreign companies come in, they have to transfer technology and jobs to India, which benefits India. At best, that means investing in Indian factories. At the least, it forces those companies to invest in modernizing the supply chain.
It's win-win for India either way.
Phew, thankfully Americans have been training their H1B replacements for several years now and most H1Bs are from India. (Nobody surely believes "developing countries" didn't get a helping hand, and help is not a bad thing in of itself. But it gets a little more complex from there...)
But India wants protectionism and whines when other countries' peoples want it, especially the US. If nobody else can have it both ways, why does India feel so entitled? Is it ran by millennials?
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You got it wrong it is just a condition to open Apple store. If the product is sold from a local retailer Apple can still sell its products. I think this is already happening in US and Apple is designing their products in US but manufacturing is happening outside US to keep the costs competitive. As the labor costs are on rise on China I think it is moving some manufacturing to India so that iphone can still be affordable. If each and every component of iphone is manufactured in US price will go up with 2-3 times and profits will go down.
If US government enforces it are we ready pay 2 to 3 times more than what we are paying now?
Speaking of pure rhetoric, and no substance, in the face of your complete failure to objectively refute a single point which I made, particularly the fundamental ones, you continue to parade around as though the case you have articulated is intellectually superior. Because you reject reality, in favor of your whims, wishes, and desires, and the only way you can permit this to yourself is by an act of conscious evasion.
I quote verbatim from my previous post:
"The views you hold are self refuting in reality. You cannot assert the "right" to initiate force, and every policy which has been defended here ultimately lies on the premise of granting exactly that. Any attempt to continue to assert your policies, and escape these facts, will inevitably result in wild self contradiction, and can only be held by consciously evading the truth; by consciously, willingly, and disgracefully negating the very faculty which makes your existence possible, and asserting that your will, and desires are more powerful than the reality by which we are all surrounded."
Damn, it's like I know where you're going before you do.
Don T will be looking for a Vice President soon. I think you should apply, you will fit in very well. Best wishes for you.
Pure rhetoric... No substance..... Jeez... Where have I heard this before.........
God, this is gonna bug me...