1. Apple is a $700B company with >$100B in cash. Think about that for a moment. They could purchase Tesla ($25B) and GM (~$60B) without so much as taking out a loan.
2. Tesla has already shown that you don't need dealerships to sell cars.
Capitalism is decentralized and adaptive. It incentivizes innovation and productivity, both of which benefit the entire country. It attracts the best talent from around the world. Capitalism will beat communism (or any sort of heavily planned economy) pretty much every time, it much better optimizes for human biology (humans try harder out of greed and stop trying when someone hands them stuff for free). The US won the cold war with capitalism.
I haven't been following the story but I assume GT signed it because they were forced at gunpoint--otherwise you would be blaming the idiots who signed a bad contract.
It's all about socialization, that's pretty important at that age (at any age, really).
Generally you can find some sort of part-time kindergarten (half days or alternate days), that's a nice way to ease into the school system for your wife and your child. Don't underestimate the difficulty for your wife--but ultimately it is better for both of them to spend some time apart.
If after a year or two you decide to homeschool for awhile, then that's totally fine.
For all practical purposes Apple invented the GUI-based personal computer, the modern portable music player, the smartphone, and the tablet computer. It is really completely irrelevant that there were similar things in each of those categories that existed in tiny volumes or in a lab somewhere.
Sure it uses some internal components made by other companies, so does the iPhone, so does every consumer product. That's not an excuse to stop supporting a product made by your company.
On the occasional day when you have to travel further then a Volt can travel 350+ miles between fillups (on gas). Why is this so complicated? Most people don't have to drive 500+ miles everyday. If you do, then fine, enjoy your gas bill--but YOUR USAGE MODEL IS NOT TYPICAL.
If a single individual can make a mistake of this magnitude, without it being caught by checks and doublechecks, then the process itself is fragile and flawed. That is a systemic problem and deserves a systemic response.
Are you saying that there is no working health care in Germany, the Netherlands, Japan or Switzerland?
There is more than one way to make a "working" health care system. With sufficient regulation you can have an efficient health care system which utilizes private insurance companies (and private health care providers). Once properly regulated those insurance companies nolonger compete with eachother on who is best at denying care or filtering out the expensive patients, but rather on lowering administrative costs and incentivizing preventative care.
1. Lots of Windows users never upgraded past XP (>15%) and have no UAC at all 2. Lots of Windows users have disabled UAC prompting because it's so annoying (seriously, do a Google search for UAC and the top results are about how to disable it) 3. Nobody uses the Windows backup options 4. Malware can't delete a Time Machine backups
Theoretically Macs could be at just as much risk as PCs, but in practice it isn't anywhere close. There are well over 50 millions Mac users in the world, and they have plenty of money, but for some reason they are nowhere near as infected as PCs.
The Mac would have warned the hell out of you about running unsigned code downloaded from the Internet--you have to jump through several hoops (no just click & go). Mac Applications on the App Store are vetted and run sandboxed and users are naturally wary of any Application that isn't downloaded from the App Store--it's just not part of the Mac culture (even for nontechnical users) to click on random crap.
There are trivial backup solutions for Mac (Time Machine + Time Capsule/NAS, or iCloud) which make this sort of problem trivial to clean up after. On my Macs it would be a simple matter of running Time Machine and turning the date back a few days--I could literally do it one handed while yawning.
And nearly every Mac is running a recent version of OS X because Apple makes upgrading cheap, simple, and non-destructive. Any new vulnerability doesn't last very long before it is annihilated from nearly every Mac on the planet. For all these reasons virus authors just don't bother targeting Macs for the most part.
In theory Macs and Linux could be just as overrun with viruses and malware as Windows boxes but in practice both platforms are nearly perfectly immune to these sorts of attacks for a variety of reasons, including technical things (Macs warn the hell out of you before letting you run unsigned code downloaded from the internet, and nearly all Macs are running very recent versions of OS X) and cultural things (Macs and Linux users have no culture of randomly clicking on executable attachments--that's not part of the non-Windows zeitgeist).
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seriously.
1. Apple is a $700B company with >$100B in cash. Think about that for a moment. They could purchase Tesla ($25B) and GM (~$60B) without so much as taking out a loan.
2. Tesla has already shown that you don't need dealerships to sell cars.
It's just that simple.
Capitalism is decentralized and adaptive. It incentivizes innovation and productivity, both of which benefit the entire country. It attracts the best talent from around the world. Capitalism will beat communism (or any sort of heavily planned economy) pretty much every time, it much better optimizes for human biology (humans try harder out of greed and stop trying when someone hands them stuff for free). The US won the cold war with capitalism.
Apple manufactures more computers in the US than anyone else does (Mac Pro line).
That's probably why.
I haven't been following the story but I assume GT signed it because they were forced at gunpoint--otherwise you would be blaming the idiots who signed a bad contract.
It's all about socialization, that's pretty important at that age (at any age, really).
Generally you can find some sort of part-time kindergarten (half days or alternate days), that's a nice way to ease into the school system for your wife and your child. Don't underestimate the difficulty for your wife--but ultimately it is better for both of them to spend some time apart.
If after a year or two you decide to homeschool for awhile, then that's totally fine.
Before Apple was printing money with the iPhone it was printing money with iPods. Microsoft had nothing to do with that.
For all practical purposes Apple invented the GUI-based personal computer, the modern portable music player, the smartphone, and the tablet computer. It is really completely irrelevant that there were similar things in each of those categories that existed in tiny volumes or in a lab somewhere.
It turns out that your are just wildly, fantastically wrong. Apple makes money by selling physical products that humans want.
Does your small company pay extra taxes just for fun?
We're talking about the unpatched Google Nexus stuck a 4.3, no option to upgrade.
Sure it uses some internal components made by other companies, so does the iPhone, so does every consumer product. That's not an excuse to stop supporting a product made by your company.
All those carriers sell iPhones too and every iPhone is software upgradeable--and has been from day one.
Seems more like an Android problem to me.
because the consumer often has no choice of ISP--that's why the enhanced regulation is justified.
You have plenty of choice in smartphone applications and operating systems.
Technological progress is not usually monotonic.
On the occasional day when you have to travel further then a Volt can travel 350+ miles between fillups (on gas). Why is this so complicated? Most people don't have to drive 500+ miles everyday. If you do, then fine, enjoy your gas bill--but YOUR USAGE MODEL IS NOT TYPICAL.
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If a single individual can make a mistake of this magnitude, without it being caught by checks and doublechecks, then the process itself is fragile and flawed. That is a systemic problem and deserves a systemic response.
Are you saying that there is no working health care in Germany, the Netherlands, Japan or Switzerland?
There is more than one way to make a "working" health care system. With sufficient regulation you can have an efficient health care system which utilizes private insurance companies (and private health care providers). Once properly regulated those insurance companies nolonger compete with eachother on who is best at denying care or filtering out the expensive patients, but rather on lowering administrative costs and incentivizing preventative care.
Done.
1. Lots of Windows users never upgraded past XP (>15%) and have no UAC at all
2. Lots of Windows users have disabled UAC prompting because it's so annoying (seriously, do a Google search for UAC and the top results are about how to disable it)
3. Nobody uses the Windows backup options
4. Malware can't delete a Time Machine backups
Theoretically Macs could be at just as much risk as PCs, but in practice it isn't anywhere close. There are well over 50 millions Mac users in the world, and they have plenty of money, but for some reason they are nowhere near as infected as PCs.
All good ideas.
The Mac would have warned the hell out of you about running unsigned code downloaded from the Internet--you have to jump through several hoops (no just click & go). Mac Applications on the App Store are vetted and run sandboxed and users are naturally wary of any Application that isn't downloaded from the App Store--it's just not part of the Mac culture (even for nontechnical users) to click on random crap.
There are trivial backup solutions for Mac (Time Machine + Time Capsule/NAS, or iCloud) which make this sort of problem trivial to clean up after. On my Macs it would be a simple matter of running Time Machine and turning the date back a few days--I could literally do it one handed while yawning.
And nearly every Mac is running a recent version of OS X because Apple makes upgrading cheap, simple, and non-destructive. Any new vulnerability doesn't last very long before it is annihilated from nearly every Mac on the planet. For all these reasons virus authors just don't bother targeting Macs for the most part.
In theory Macs and Linux could be just as overrun with viruses and malware as Windows boxes but in practice both platforms are nearly perfectly immune to these sorts of attacks for a variety of reasons, including technical things (Macs warn the hell out of you before letting you run unsigned code downloaded from the internet, and nearly all Macs are running very recent versions of OS X) and cultural things (Macs and Linux users have no culture of randomly clicking on executable attachments--that's not part of the non-Windows zeitgeist).