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Why Apple Backed out from India?
rmunaval writes "BusinessWeek reports an interesting article on why Apple might have backed out from India. The prime reason being, India has grown at a much more rapid rate than expected and is no longer the cheap destination for the companies. It grew at an astonishing rate of 9.3% last quarter."
We have to pay them close to a living wage?
That wasn't part of the deal.
Forget it, we're out of here. . .
I am standing beside myself with amazement. Such growth brings a tear to my leg.
"They just don't have any style." -Steeve Jobs
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Not Apple Records, silly!
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Homer taught all the Indians about paid vacations and golden parachutes and casual fridays and health plans, just a couple of weeks ago.
Actually, that episode was good social commentary... It's basically what's happening. The Indian labour force is developing the sense of entitlement so near and dear to our hearts.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I gotta wonder if the person who submitted this article worked as a translator for Zero Wing...
"All your base are belong to us."
"India has grown at a much rapid rate."
Yeah, seems like the same guy...
Don't be stupid, that's so ludicrous it's not even funny
Clearly the ocean receded.
You write that as if it's a joke. Sub-Saharan Africa is a big emerging supplier of tech labor, in the position that India was 20 years ago. We're already seeing major efforts in Nigeria, don't think for a minute that much of the rest of Africa won't follow.
It's already well underway; I get emails from nice people in Nigeria all the time offering to share their money with me. They must be working pretty hard coding all those emails!
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First the number formatting and now this:
Why Apple Backed out from India? [redundant question mark]
rmunaval writes "BusinessWeek reports [reports??] an interesting article on why Apple might have backed out from India. The prime reason being, [redundant comma] India has grown at a much rapid rate than expected and is no longer the [better - 'a'] cheap destination for the [redundant] companies. It grew at an astonishing rate of 9.3% last quarter."
Incidentally the anyone with the slightest degree of familiarity with Indian English will recognize the syntax, which means the submission is from a particularly clueless Indian or a troll seeking to rouse Slashdot's never-starved Grammar Nazis.
Obviously, Slashdot is outsourcing its editor jobs...
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Just junk food for thought...
> (those penguins will work cheap )
I'm Free, never cheap.
--Tux.
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I'm sure in some way, Paul McCartney is making money... I mean, aren't most songs just Beatles ripoffs anyway? I'm sure he's getting royalties... at least for every Oasis song sold.
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Apple='cheap';
//error. does not compute.
The article describes Jobs as "a tough-minded executive who knows when to cut and run."
What? Cutting and running is always the wrong thing to do, in all situations, under all circumstances. It is always a craven act of cowardice. Nervous-Nellyism.
A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Stay the course. Never give up the ship! Now matter how deep you are in the Big Muddy, the right decision is always to push on. Where would the lemmings be if they had turned back? What if Custer had chosen to retreat?
Doesn't Jobs remember the Think Different posters with the pictures of Icarus, Captain Ahab, and the Earl of Cardigan?
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
You know, there are easier ways to commit suicide than taunting Liam Gallagher in an online forum.
Liam only browses Slashdot at +5. My comments will go unnoticed.
That premise is just ridiculous. Liam Gallagher reading Slashdot? Noel maybe...
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Painstakingly.
Typos.
Insert "and" just before "came".
Indeed.
1) That's disappearing.
2) It-apostrophe-s is a contraction for "it is". "Its", on the other hand, is possessive. Counterintuitive, but that's English for you.
So to recap, you should have written "disappearing up its own asshole.". Have a nice day.
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Too true. If it wasn't for the activities of the various unions of computer programmers, including the infamous Federated Union of Computer programmers and Keyboardmen, and the Association of System Specialists, programming jobs wouldn't be being outsourced to India all the time. If only computer programmers were, as a group, more anti-union, and didn't keep joining trade unions at the drop of a hat, maybe some of these jobs would stay in America.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Their IT industry is in it's infancy, labor is cheap and it's producing some quality engineers. Not to mention infrastructure in big urban cities is almost the same as India's
I bet someone was sold on an idea that moving jobs to India...
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How about a slight change in punctuation
"I bet someone was sold on an idea that moving Jobs to India..."
My Suburban burns less gasoline than your Prius.
That would be surprising. In India the temperatures are given in celsius and if a tech doesn't know what it is, I would wonder if they are from India.
As to your example:
And of course, the USA's finest... *drumroll* being told that component cables would not increase the quality of picture on my PSX games
Here is a similar example experienced in USA. I once went to the Radio Shack store in International Mall in Miami, FL and asked for a wireless keyboard. The salesman laughed at me in his loud voice for all the customers to hear and said that there was no such thing as a wireless keyboard.
Clueless people exist everywhere.
And I bet you thought you were joking.
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