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i-Device Manufacturing Unprofitable To China
N!NJA writes "One of my favorite facts of this past year was the proof that China makes almost nothing out of assembling Apple's iPads and iPhones. From the article: 'If you want lots of jobs and lots of high paying jobs then you’re not going to find them in manufacturing. They’re where the money is, in the design, the software and the retailing of the products, not the physical making of them. Manufacturing is just so, you know, 20th century.'"
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Who cares if the summaries are misleading or don't tell the whole story?
You mean iNerd, don't you?
Do you really believe what you are saying? That everyone who has bought an iPad is just some mindless zombie who slavishly buys whatever Apple produces with no thought whatsoever?
They've sold over 45 million of the things. During one of the worst economic recessions in a hundred years.
But the millions of "sheeple" (which you're not one of, of course) seem to be happy to pay over the odds for an Apple-branded product, when they could do perfectly well with another product by another company, for a fraction of the price.
I've bought loads of Apple Macs since the mid-90s. I've got an iPhone. I'm going to buy a new iMac. Surely, I'm one of the "sheeple" who buys Apple products out of a "pseudo-religious following"?
But I haven't bought an iPad. It's on my wish-list, but at the moment, I can't justify it financially. WAIT! How can I possibly resist the iPad, because everyone buys Apple products out of "gullibility", rather than rational decision...?
Maybe, just maybe, people actually think for themselves and decide what they want and don't want? But that would mean you would have to come up with another reason why so many people have bought iPads. Howabout: they fill a need, serve a purpose, and work well? Nah, can't be that. Must be the "Sheeple" thing.
Twat.
iPads are iConic? How iRonic! :P
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