Steven Philips on Patrick McGee blames Apple's Tim Cook for empowering China - 'Well, at least NYT has a reporter hanging around the gates of the White House asking about working conditions! A Pulitzer in the offing?'
on Patrick McGee blames Apple's Tim Cook for empowering China - 'typo, I think – mitigate, not migrate'
on Patrick McGee blames Apple's Tim Cook for empowering China - 'IMO, John, the way they treated the workers there had a lot to do with that. What goes around comes around. Sadly, it’s for that very reason we’re going to be paying for the stinkers presently in control of our country for a long time to come….'
on It has never cost so little to move into Apple's walled garden - 'Wow, Joseph, what are you planning to do with that? Launch your own satellite? '
on Patrick McGee blames Apple's Tim Cook for empowering China - 'so now THAT is the problem? You definitely can’t make them all happy all of the time. JFC'
on Patrick McGee blames Apple's Tim Cook for empowering China - '“ It has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in the mainland” To be fair, Apple has revenues of about $65B per year in China so they may have extracted more cash from China than they invested there. (FY greater China revenue ~$65B for 2024 and 2025 per Apple financial report.)'
on It has never cost so little to move into Apple's walled garden - 'Me too, not quite as high end as that, Apple M5 Max, 2TB, 48gig RAM, 18 Cores (6 Super and 12 Performance). 40 GPU Cores. What a machine.'
on Patrick McGee blames Apple's Tim Cook for empowering China - 'Interesting article from Inc. from 2025 addresses this point https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/steve-jobs-quote-on-american-manufacturing-still-applies-today/91181530 edit-this was a reply to Greg Bates post'
on It has never cost so little to move into Apple's walled garden - 'Maybe Apple’s next low-priced entrant should be named GOIW–for glass of ice water.'
on Trump threatens UK with 'big tariff' over 2% digital service tax on Apple et al. - 'It’s about time someone did something about this worldwide extortion of American Big Tech.'
on Apple bores the Atlantic - 'Despite the occasional exploit, Apple never gets credit for SUBSTANTIALLY raising the bar for cyber security.'
on Patrick McGee blames Apple's Tim Cook for empowering China - 'Using China’s standards, poverty in 2000 was 70%. In 2021 it was 21%. Apple had a lot to do with that. There are no World Bank numbers past 2021, but I would think it has continued to get better.'
on Apple bores the Atlantic - 'That’s really funny Joseph – upvoted! 🙂 And I’m going to add: But as of today, Apple does not yet own the entire stack…'
