Given that the patent & regulatory issues are already being accounted for, there's no blocking issue unique to the US.
This will end up being some sort of piece of relabeled junk with a poorly translated manual for being targeted to China first. With a First World focus, it would be a product more in line with the wants of the First World - the only market that matters.
Apparently you have forgotten about how the N900 and N9 have sold, where the latter outdid the whorephones combined. Salespeople were complaining that they couldn't move the Lumia devices while they could move plenty of N9's if they could stock them
While you feel strongly enough to defend the guy - as if you had a non-trivial interest - by using the "x doesn't have to y" handwave. A device made in China will be a lower-end device that gets cloned or will use cloned hardware.
They don't have to conquer the world on the first day.
They just have to conquer the First World, which is relatively easy given the interest for such a device.
Lenovo was the division of a US company allowed to make the mistake - of national security - of selling to the Chinese government. That can't really be called Chinese.
I think the same kind of evolution is possible in China in the next few years. The only thing they are lacking is the ethics and values, but maybe its not necessary.
The only kind of evolution is in how they steal technology from the First World or to punish their own. Everything else is stolen.
Unlike the First-World focused N900 and N9, hardware will be cut down to appease the Third World market - and be a non-starter with the real target market, the First World.
When it is made for the First World markets first - the quality does not decrease and it generally does well. These phones are made with the First World audience in mind.
When it is made with the Third World in mind, quality suffers. What the First World gets is largely a defective product with no thought or attention to the First World user aside from the poor quality translation of a manual in GB2312.
When they decide to put countries like China on the backburner and start making things like this available in more conventional markets, this might be an improvement. Otherwise, it's just the N9 situation all over again.
Arizona (amongst other states) is doing the job that nearly every other state won't do. That is, the state is enforcing immigration law in ways that may not let you overlook your fraud.
First of all, you've taken in H1-b holders, most likely by fraud. Second, your thought that you're above being subject to US immigration laws is arrogant in itself. Finally, nothing prevents someone outing you as in need of disclosing your status; any HR-type retaliation on your part would make it that much worse.
I don't know what country you come from, but the only thing fit for you is to have the business and assets handed over to a loyal US citizen, and to kick you out of the US.
H1-B workers already are here under fraudulent pretenses, perhaps this could make it that much less palatable to have them over US citizens.
I applaud Arizona for doing what they do in enforcing immigration law to the benefit of citizens. Perhaps with all the enforcement, citizens could find jobs without the fraud perpetuated at all skill levels by business.
The ideal situation is to get rid of all guest worker programs. You want a job, get citizenship.
Then how does that address multiplatform code availability/readiness? Consider that Nvidia hardware does run on non-PC hardware as well - such as PowerPC/POWER platforms as an example.
Unfortunately most companies here go through (a handful of) employment agencies, and they're making a packet.
This is one of the reason why employers are at fault. Instead of using as intended, contingent/casual/contract/indirect/non-FTE labor is used as a benefits dodge and a means of controlling employees.
Start by making the mode of labor as much a choice as it is to join a labor union. That is, you get the choice to work directly, indirectly, full-time, part-time, etc. with the assurance that the benefit level is the same. It would make the mode of work flexible such that you would not be required to join an agency or take temporary work.
Choice is so bad that we're going to get rid of this thing called freedom. This time around, there will be no pesky DOJ, or even an IBM to stop us. That, and we've bought out the last folks who opened up the WP7 platform - cant have users doing what they want with their devices!/s
Someone needs to remind Microsoft and Apple that hardware and software work better when there are more choices to come together - where all layers are in control by the user. Not the other way around.
Not only is the platform not as open as Nokia's Maemo, or Meego/Harmattan, it actively antagonizes the developer and end user in favor of some shiny device flogged by a carrier.
I'd rather buy another N900 or rework an N9 to use a keyboard than even consider the Nokia Whorephones.
In the case of Thinkpads, service plans are also quite necessary - as they've papered over various defects such as:
Thinkpad T40p-T42p series, A30/A31p series, T61/T61p w/ Nvidia GPU : Various design-level thermal issues with the GPU were only fixed with mainboard replacements.
Thinkpad W520: Various display artifacting issues exist that Lenovo refuses to quantify - but are common enough to know they exist.
While the defects exist, second-tier manufacturers like MSI, Asus, Acer, and the like don't have Lenovo/IBM's supply chain and maintenance-friendly designs. In addition, there are options such as onsite service that get around the depot screwing things up - as has been done for ages w/ Thinkpads(look up the whole Solectron issue).
When the time the longest warranties run out(or sometimes before), the Hardware Maintenance Manuals and the designs allow for replacement of parts, or unexpected upgrades such as model-level board swaps(e.g. Thinkpad T42 chassis with T43 insides, or replacing the chiclet Thinkpad X230 keyboard/palmrest with a proper X220 replacement).
If it's EFI setup is locked from the user, I wouldn't be surprised. Asus has done so for their later Transformer models, with no functionally equivalent alternative that does not have UEFI unlocked.
For those snarky folks who say "don't buy it", that doesn't work in practice. That requires a like-for-like alternative to exist which does not have the encumbrances of UEFI locks.
It is unreasonable to expect to collect corporate income taxes from corporations that are not actually domiciled in the taxing entity. Legally speaking, it is essentially impossible. Tariffs and GSTs are about the only options.
Tax collection cooperation between countries to moot jurisdictional issues would be a way to handle it as well. For the remaining countries, there's always the military & intelligence departments of a large country, such as the US or Australia.
'In reaching this decision, I have considered the FCC's report, some favors offered by Google to me in a legal way, and don't consider that a new investigation would reveal any information that would change our original finding.'"
Select between Lenovo(Thinkpad) and Apple refurbished, then drill down to whatever models fit the criteria. Then do a favor for them and get them to have the longest warranty obtainable. For Lenovo, this would be 5-year(?, maximum may be 4) onsite service. For Apple, whatever Applecare does is going to have to do.
Either company has some thin and stylish laptops in that price range. Lenovo just happens to make them more maintenance friendly.
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Given that the patent & regulatory issues are already being accounted for, there's no blocking issue unique to the US.
This will end up being some sort of piece of relabeled junk with a poorly translated manual for being targeted to China first. With a First World focus, it would be a product more in line with the wants of the First World - the only market that matters.
Apparently you have forgotten about how the N900 and N9 have sold, where the latter outdid the whorephones combined. Salespeople were complaining that they couldn't move the Lumia devices while they could move plenty of N9's if they could stock them
While you feel strongly enough to defend the guy - as if you had a non-trivial interest - by using the "x doesn't have to y" handwave.
A device made in China will be a lower-end device that gets cloned or will use cloned hardware.
They don't have to conquer the world on the first day.
They just have to conquer the First World, which is relatively easy given the interest for such a device.
Lenovo was the division of a US company allowed to make the mistake - of national security - of selling to the Chinese government. That can't really be called Chinese.
I think the same kind of evolution is possible in China in the next few years. The only thing they are lacking is the ethics and values, but maybe its not necessary.
The only kind of evolution is in how they steal technology from the First World or to punish their own. Everything else is stolen.
China is the very place where technology gets stolen if introduced by anyone else.
Despite that, the N9 has outsold the entire Whorephone platform.
Given the plethora of cut-down devices and knockoffs, quality will suffer if they target the low-quality market that doesn't matter.
Unlike the First-World focused N900 and N9, hardware will be cut down to appease the Third World market - and be a non-starter with the real target market, the First World.
When it is made for the First World markets first - the quality does not decrease and it generally does well. These phones are made with the First World audience in mind.
When it is made with the Third World in mind, quality suffers. What the First World gets is largely a defective product with no thought or attention to the First World user aside from the poor quality translation of a manual in GB2312.
When they decide to put countries like China on the backburner and start making things like this available in more conventional markets, this might be an improvement. Otherwise, it's just the N9 situation all over again.
Even if it harms the businesses and the fellow travelers that aid and abet such a hostile regime, it is time that the world plays hardball on China.
Things like this are why Faustian deals of getting a pliant slave-labor workforce are always a bad idea. Trade is no excuse for appeasement.
Arizona (amongst other states) is doing the job that nearly every other state won't do. That is, the state is enforcing immigration law in ways that may not let you overlook your fraud.
First of all, you've taken in H1-b holders, most likely by fraud. Second, your thought that you're above being subject to US immigration laws is arrogant in itself. Finally, nothing prevents someone outing you as in need of disclosing your status; any HR-type retaliation on your part would make it that much worse.
I don't know what country you come from, but the only thing fit for you is to have the business and assets handed over to a loyal US citizen, and to kick you out of the US.
H1-B workers already are here under fraudulent pretenses, perhaps this could make it that much less palatable to have them over US citizens.
I applaud Arizona for doing what they do in enforcing immigration law to the benefit of citizens. Perhaps with all the enforcement, citizens could find jobs without the fraud perpetuated at all skill levels by business.
The ideal situation is to get rid of all guest worker programs. You want a job, get citizenship.
Then how does that address multiplatform code availability/readiness? Consider that Nvidia hardware does run on non-PC hardware as well - such as PowerPC/POWER platforms as an example.
Open up the hardware such that proper drivers can be written for any card (recent or not) and platform w/o the need of binary blobs.
That shouldn't be an impossible task given how much weight NVidia has towards third parties.
Unfortunately most companies here go through (a handful of) employment agencies, and they're making a packet.
This is one of the reason why employers are at fault. Instead of using as intended, contingent/casual/contract/indirect/non-FTE labor is used as a benefits dodge and a means of controlling employees.
Start by making the mode of labor as much a choice as it is to join a labor union. That is, you get the choice to work directly, indirectly, full-time, part-time, etc. with the assurance that the benefit level is the same. It would make the mode of work flexible such that you would not be required to join an agency or take temporary work.
Choice is so bad that we're going to get rid of this thing called freedom. This time around, there will be no pesky DOJ, or even an IBM to stop us. That, and we've bought out the last folks who opened up the WP7 platform - cant have users doing what they want with their devices! /s
Someone needs to remind Microsoft and Apple that hardware and software work better when there are more choices to come together - where all layers are in control by the user. Not the other way around.
Not only is the platform not as open as Nokia's Maemo, or Meego/Harmattan, it actively antagonizes the developer and end user in favor of some shiny device flogged by a carrier.
I'd rather buy another N900 or rework an N9 to use a keyboard than even consider the Nokia Whorephones.
'Those conditions would require Google to lower the height of its Street View cameras so they would not peer over garden walls and hedges
While it'd not be a complete 1:1 mapping of those features to large & gated-off mansions, one can see where that one came from.
While it may serve some use with the targeted person(audio), this seems targeted primarily towards the witnesses to the act.
In the case of Thinkpads, service plans are also quite necessary - as they've papered over various defects such as:
Thinkpad T40p-T42p series, A30/A31p series, T61/T61p w/ Nvidia GPU : Various design-level thermal issues with the GPU were only fixed with mainboard replacements.
Thinkpad W520: Various display artifacting issues exist that Lenovo refuses to quantify - but are common enough to know they exist.
While the defects exist, second-tier manufacturers like MSI, Asus, Acer, and the like don't have Lenovo/IBM's supply chain and maintenance-friendly designs. In addition, there are options such as onsite service that get around the depot screwing things up - as has been done for ages w/ Thinkpads(look up the whole Solectron issue).
When the time the longest warranties run out(or sometimes before), the Hardware Maintenance Manuals and the designs allow for replacement of parts, or unexpected upgrades such as model-level board swaps(e.g. Thinkpad T42 chassis with T43 insides, or replacing the chiclet Thinkpad X230 keyboard/palmrest with a proper X220 replacement).
If it's EFI setup is locked from the user, I wouldn't be surprised. Asus has done so for their later Transformer models, with no functionally equivalent alternative that does not have UEFI unlocked.
For those snarky folks who say "don't buy it", that doesn't work in practice. That requires a like-for-like alternative to exist which does not have the encumbrances of UEFI locks.
It is unreasonable to expect to collect corporate income taxes from corporations that are not actually domiciled in the taxing entity. Legally speaking, it is essentially impossible. Tariffs and GSTs are about the only options.
Tax collection cooperation between countries to moot jurisdictional issues would be a way to handle it as well. For the remaining countries, there's always the military & intelligence departments of a large country, such as the US or Australia.
'In reaching this decision, I have considered the FCC's report, some favors offered by Google to me in a legal way, and don't consider that a new investigation would reveal any information that would change our original finding.'"
Select between Lenovo(Thinkpad) and Apple refurbished, then drill down to whatever models fit the criteria. Then do a favor for them and get them to have the longest warranty obtainable. For Lenovo, this would be 5-year(?, maximum may be 4) onsite service. For Apple, whatever Applecare does is going to have to do.
Either company has some thin and stylish laptops in that price range. Lenovo just happens to make them more maintenance friendly.