Are you for real? Apple is not doing this to end peoples suffering* (if so, they wouldve cared more for the people that created their fortune). Only reason for Apple to care about robots vs. man is price.
* Also, Apple - the richest company in the world - has donated how much to the millions of starving children on africas horn? Zilch, zip, nada? Yeah, i bet they really care about some chinese workers. I surely do.
please cite your claim that it was Apple that decided to automate. i didnt read that in the story i read:
you do realize the suicide rate w/i Foxconn is less than the national chinese and US averages, right?
what, you never heard of a place called ChinaIntellectual Property Rights....ha ha ha ha ha....
Well then let's just build a bunch of factories in the US and build everything here.
I lived in Hong Kong and had dealings with China. In one area in CHina 90 % of the goods produced was a straight copy - the Chinese do not have a concept of intellectual property rights. So the west has brought all their know how to China to manufacture there cheaply - they even have happily all their students coming to the west to educate them in how things are being done. China will keep on thumbing their nose at the west and keep on producing goods cheaper than anyone else and the consumer will keep on buying where he can get it the cheapest. (consumer is forced to buy the cheapest since the workforce has been exported to China as well so what is the poor consumer going to do to get something?) Thank the big firm's greed for this mess.
Alas, I remember the sad saying about selling 1 thing there only to be cloned many times, oddly with government help so the rumor goes, and the sadder notion that you'd lose money on each item but hope to make it up on volume.
Why is Macrumors republishing information from stolen diplomatic cables? Why lower yourself to the same level as these crooked wiki leaks criminals? It's disgusting. Shame on you Macrumors.... revealed in documents from U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks last week.
Until China gets this under control they will never be a real super power.
Are you willing to get paid as much as the chinese do and work for 12 hours a day? Then welcome back to the U.S.A. Apple!
Well.Well, look at all the crooks liars and fools posting how Apple needs to wake up.
Problem is the Genertation today is full of lazy undeserving fools that want hands outs, not willing to fight or to work for anything.
You bunch off fools wouldn't know how to support yourselfs if the economy collapsed with out getting handouts.
All we have here is a bunch of blowhards that think they know how the real world functions but never even left the town they live in let alone leave the country of there origin.
It's funny to see how this site is full of teenybopper idiots that can't wipe there own asses or get out of there parents houses bolstering on how things should work and why everyone else is entitled to free free free everything.
Now it would be very different if you lost everything and had no home, no money, no job, and no one to turn to, but you still keep pointing to your idealist belief that only exist in your own pathetic little minds.
Look at the country involved in this story people, communist that control everything down to government telling you how many children you are allowed to have and where you can work and what type of work you are allowed to perform.
The USA is headed to that now, not because of some person, but because people are lazy and unwilling to fight for the freedoms that so many millions have died for.
Wake up, and learn to live off the land, you might think it sounds funny but in a short time everyone will be thrust in a world they will have no clue on how to survive in. It's coming sooner then you think.
Why blame a single company for protecting their rights, wouldn't you do the same to protect something you worked long and hard for, or would you just give up like cowards and walk away like all these Haters say should happen.
In any case you see some very good posts with logical information and breakdown and then you need to weed through all the regular haters that have a better way of tucking tale and running.
What side are you, a fighter or a coward....
Seems we have a mix of both.
CHINESE AUTHORITIES IN 'UNCOOPERATIVE AUTHORITIES' SHOCK!
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Maybe to much of the profit goes into the PA and reverse engineering from all the designs they steal at a break neck pace... { counterfeiting in general I mean.
The west has been trying to "correct" China since Victorian times. If copying is in their culture and they see no wrong in it, then the US should just f-ck off.
That's the point. I can see the next war supported by US: the Intelectual Property war (of course, CNN will show that China is producing mass destruction weapons and the usual bsht they use to justify wars).
China is doing what USA always dreamed China did someday: neoliberal, capitalist, free market oriented. I don't love China's social and economic model, I prefer the sustainable growth like in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and so on, but I respect their practices. Maybe there wouldn't a better economic/social model in a billion people country.
China already is producing weapons of mass destruction, that isn't news at all. They have been making them since they tested their first nuclear weapon in 1964.
They probably got those plans from the Russians and counterfeited them though.
The designs that Apple steals?![]()