Leave China and start new plants in Brazil. Let China burn.
Invest more in the Philippines as well. I think there are many options open for Apple to get the heck out of Red land.
Leave China and start new plants in Brazil. Let China burn.
There is always a 3rd option:
Just engrave the iPads in a different country. Ship them without the engraving and no device infringes any name right. Then, maybe just over the water in Taiwan, you engrave the back ot the iPads. Done.![]()
Invest more in the Philippines as well. I think there are many options open for Apple to get the heck out of Red land.
Look beyond this issue to what Apple COULD do if they wanted:
"Attention world. You won't get your iPad3, nor ANY Apple product made in China until this case is settled. As of today, ALL shipments of ALL Apple products from China are being suspended by us. We are asking for all Apple customers to boycott ANYTHING made in China until this issue is resolved. We have the money to wait this out, and you have the power to bring China effectively to it's knees in a few days."
Game. Set. Match.
If by "stole" you mean licensed years before they ever brought their product to market from the company that owns Proview. It's possible the language was fuzzy enough that Proview's lawyers simply saw a payday.
I read or heard somewhere that it would cost the consumer 24% more for Apple products to be produced in the United States. For a company with a profit margin as large as Apple it seems like they could swallow part of that.
Look beyond this issue to what Apple COULD do if they wanted:
"Attention world. You won't get your iPad3, nor ANY Apple product made in China until this case is settled. As of today, ALL shipments of ALL Apple products from China are being suspended by us. We are asking for all Apple customers to boycott ANYTHING made in China until this issue is resolved. We have the money to wait this out, and you have the power to bring China effectively to it's knees in a few days."
Game. Set. Match.
... and half a billion Apple users WORLDWIDE boycott Chinese products and manufactured goods for the rest of their lives. Ouch...
China can't be that insane.
Look beyond this issue to what Apple COULD do if they wanted:
"Attention world. You won't get your iPad3, nor ANY Apple product made in China until this case is settled. As of today, ALL shipments of ALL Apple products from China are being suspended by us. We are asking for all Apple customers to boycott ANYTHING made in China until this issue is resolved. We have the money to wait this out, and you have the power to bring China effectively to it's knees in a few days."
Game. Set. Match.
Apple will do what any other big corporate company does. They will simply buy off the government. Nothing to see hear move along.
That would be rewarding bad behavior. Proview is a struggling company. Apple bought the rights to the iPad name worldwide from their Taiwanese affiliate, but somehow missed or were misled that the affiliate didn't actually own the rights to the name in China. Proview would like nothing more than a big payoff from Apple to go away.
Look beyond this issue to what Apple COULD do if they wanted:
"Attention world. You won't get your iPad3, nor ANY Apple product made in China until this case is settled. As of today, ALL shipments of ALL Apple products from China are being suspended by us. We are asking for all Apple customers to boycott ANYTHING made in China until this issue is resolved. We have the money to wait this out, and you have the power to bring China effectively to it's knees in a few days."
Game. Set. Match.
... and half a billion Apple users WORLDWIDE boycott Chinese products and manufactured goods for the rest of their lives. Ouch...
China can't be that insane.
China enforcing copyright and patent laws?
When did that start?
I'm wondering why the news stories don't mention the parent company in more detail. Whatever the Chinese subsidiary might extract from Apple - Apple just turns around and claims against the parent.
Nope. Apple will leave. The US has seen from many companies; No one has to stay. So many countries want to manufacture the most popular devices on the planet.
I read or heard somewhere that it would cost the consumer 24% more for Apple products to be produced in the United States. For a company with a profit margin as large as Apple it seems like they could swallow part of that.
A company like apple with such a rabid fanbase could charge more for there items, make slightly less profit but get a TON of customers because of their "Made in America" policy.