Apple, Google CEOs Bring Star Power as China Promotes Censorship (bloomberg.com) 38
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."
Cyberspace? (Score:5, Funny)
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Maybe it was a reverse translation problem. Cook said something that translated into Chinese translates most closely back as "cyberspace".
Is it really that awkward of a term? I mean they're all awkward, and at least that one has been around for a while and isn't the latest marketing buzzword.
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Is it 2004?
Well if it is, I'm sure Steve Jobs is about to have a revelation about the wonders of modern medicine.
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It isn't the '90s (the time when it was most popular IIRC) but what's wrong using that rather than any new term describing the same thing?
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Are you trying to say something? Because your post seems to be lacking content.
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Are you trying to say something? Because your post seems to be lacking content.
To be fair to the OP, you'd first have to possess the ability to think outside the fantasy ideological/political cognitive frameworks that you've been fed and by all appearances swallowed hook, line, and sinker without verifying their viability or accuracy.
An ability you sadly appear to lack based on your reply to the OP.
Strat
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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 In
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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)..
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"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'
Re: Remember that when they "Stand Up" to Trump (Score:2)
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.
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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.
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Re: Remember that when they "Stand Up" to Trump (Score:2)
Creepy fake-progressive capitalists sure do love totalitarian restrictions on speech.
apple can just pull out and make iphone's in usa (Score:3)
apple can just pull out and make iphone's in usa.
Just the idea of doing that can make china change.
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Now that's a way to look at it. Completely crazy way but still...
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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.
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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.
Such bravery (Score:3)
I mean seriously, what a crock of shit. I've been phasing Google out of my life and Apple too. Good riddance.
Remember when trade was going to force China to 'o (Score:1)
"LOL. Human rights are funny!"
- Tim Cook
Help find peaceful protesters? (Score:1)
Tim Cook didn't want to help the FBI find possible accomplices to Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik [wikipedia.org]. But Apple will help the Chinese government have "more aggressive government involvement online to combat terrorism and criminals".
If there were enough profit for Apple, I wonder if Cook would help the Chinese government track down peaceful protesters like Liu Xiaobo [nytimes.com]. I hope not. RIP, Liu Xiaobo. 1955-2017.
Apple and China (Score:1)
Both are very fond of control and walled gardens.