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Apple, Google CEOs Bring Star Power as China Promotes Censorship (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Bloomberg report: Apple's Tim Cook and Google's Sundar Pichai made their first appearances at China's World Internet Conference, bringing star power to a gathering the Chinese government uses to promote its strategy of tight controls online. Apple's chief executive officer gave a surprise keynote at the opening ceremony on Sunday, calling for future internet and AI technologies to be infused with privacy, security and humanity. The same day, one of China's most-senior officials called for more aggressive government involvement online to combat terrorism and criminals. Wang Huning, one of seven men on China's top decision-making body, even called for a global response team to go well beyond its borders. It was Cook's second appearance in China in two months, following a meeting with President Xi Jinping in October. The iPhone maker has most of its products manufactured in the country and is trying to regain market share in smartphones against local competitors such as Huawei. "The theme of this conference -- developing a digital economy for openness and shared benefits -- is a vision we at Apple share," Cook said. "We are proud to have worked alongside many of our partners in China to help build a community that will join a common future in cyberspace."
Did he really say cyberspace? Is it 2004?
apple can just pull out and make iphone's in usa.
Just the idea of doing that can make china change.
I mean seriously, what a crock of shit. I've been phasing Google out of my life and Apple too. Good riddance.
Are you trying to say something? Because your post seems to be lacking content.
Now that's a way to look at it. Completely crazy way but still...
apple can just pull out and make iphone's in usa.
of course they can... but that would cost money.
Just the idea of doing that can make china change.
Nope! First of all, "China" doesn't make much money for their involvement in producing Apple products. Secondly, a shitload of other things are made in China so it's not a big deal.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Haven't you figured it out yet? As a market, America is dying. Too much wealth at the top and too many people spiralling down into poverty. How many cell phones can you sell to the 1%? How many cars? CEO's stand up to Trump because he has little to offer and even less to threaten with.
Smart corporations are positioning themselves to get first crack at new, developing markets in the Third World. China's emerging middle class will be enormous, and it will have money to spend on technology. Same with India. If getting access means kissing some totalitarian buttock every now and again...well, it's a small price to pay.
What's truly pathetic, though, is that so many US workers believe their jobs will come back if only the government cuts corporate taxes a bit more. And so many Americans still think their country is a desirable place to do business.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
"LOL. Human rights are funny!"
- Tim Cook
Really? Seriously??
Do you really see it as THAT bad in the US?
I mean, where do you live man?
Nowhere that I go or live, do I see things as dire as you seem to pronounce them to be.
I see plenty of thriving middle class neighborhood, lots of folks out shopping, buying cell phones and products, I see people having kids (and seemingly able to afford them)....the private schools certainly haven't dried up and blown away....
And NONE of these people are in the 1% class.
I just don't see where you see all this poverty that is overtaking America.
Agan..where do you live that you see it that bad?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Comfy up there? Because should American split into a have and have-not society, it will be civil war after civil unrest when people go hungry. And that's when it goes to the shitter. You might be the top 1%, but that doesn't mean someone wont pull your ass down to the ground to make a statement. But yeah, those stupid back-woods trump voting morons...they should just eat dirt...right?
Life is not for the lazy.
"Since economists first began keeping track in 1970, every decade has ended with fewer people in the middle class than at the start. And 2015 was the first year on record when Americans in the middle-income bracket did not make up the majority of the country: that is, those above and below the middle class (rich and poor combined) make up half the population..."
https://www.npr.org/2016/07/07/484941939/a-portrait-of-americas-middle-class-by-the-numbers
Just because you don't know where to look, or how, doesn't mean it isn't happening. But hey, you just went to the mall and there were people there, so it's all good.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Creepy fake-progressive capitalists sure do love totalitarian restrictions on speech.
Almost none of us are really in the middle class, part of the borgiosie. "Middle class" in America just a euphemism for "educated working class". Stop working and we die.
The upper middle class became rich, and the poor didn't go anywhere.
Look at a chart with time on the X axis and income on the Y and you'll see. The middle class is shrinking because half the boats are rising. The gap between rich and poor is getting wider.
iPhone is assembled in Taiwan. You know, the "other" China. Not the one with censorship.
Also the Apple custom chips are made in Taiwan. Also known as the Republic of China.