Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Influential Chinese University Board (scmp.com) 44
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been appointed chairman of the advisory board at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing, a role that could provide access to top Chinese leaders at a time the iPhone manufacturer is facing mounting challenges in the world's second largest economy. From a report: Cook will assume the role for three years and replace Jim Breyer, the founder and chief executive of Breyer Capital, according to a statement from the university released on Friday. Cook said he would work with other members on the board, who have not been named, to make the Beijing-based school into a "world-class" education institution. Apple's market share in China is sliding as nationalist rhetoric calling for consumers to switch to Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei has gained momentum amid the trade war between China and the United States. New appointments to the board, which is usually stacked with business and political leaders, could offer clues on the relationship between Beijing and some of the world's most influential business leaders at a time when trade tensions have reached new highs.
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What a joke (Score:3)
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Apple ? you mean America, their entire "tech" sector is built on Chinese manufacturing technology, from servers to clients, they put a glossy cover on it and call it theirs, sure they might design the cover but the internals, the machines that physically make their "designs", all of it built using Chinese components with Chinese machines assembled by Chinese labor, even the software is now being built by Indians, America in 2019 actually makes very little when it comes to technology/engineering.
iam reminded of this quote "we will sell them the rope by which we will hang them" and its true, sold out their children for a hot tub and shiny trinkets
Is there even one claim in your screed that is supportable?
Yes, like all large tech companies, Apple builds many of their products (but not all) in China, using Chinese Labor and most likely, machines from all over the planet, including several Custom machines designed and built by Apple itself.
But this is not actually to Apple's liking, and a situation for which Apple has been actively searching for a viable solution. In fact, Some of their Products are now built in Vietnam (AirPods, and possibly others),
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cook and apple are Chinas puppet.
Actually, since he is Chairman of the Board, I would say that the Puppet has become the Puppeteer.
Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
could offer clues on the relationship between Beijing and some of the world's most influential business leaders at a time when trade tensions have reached new highs.
I think that relationship has become quite clear in many cases over the past month or two.
FTFY (Score:5, Informative)
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been appointed chairman of the advisory board at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing, a role that could provide top Chinese leaders access to Apple.
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I can't shake the feeling that Cook's angle is of "keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer". Time will tell. It's one helluva risk regardless of your POV.
I agree; his friends are in the Chinese Government, and his enemies are here in America where he lives and works.
what a weasel (Score:1)
Talk about a greasy, weasely bastard. Sucking Chinese anus for the almighty dollar.
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Chinese don't buy iPhones using dollars. He's doing it for the renminbi, no question.
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Talk about a greasy, weasely bastard. Sucking Chinese anus for the almighty dollar.
Um, he's the Chairman of the Board.
So, to a large extent, the Chinese will be sucking Tim's anus.
Free Hong Kong! (Score:5, Insightful)
$searchengine Uyghurs.
Re: Free Hong Kong! (Score:2)
Hong Kong (an area that by all means legally belongs to China)
I'm not too sure [native English-speaking] hongkongers agree with you on that, Shill.
Re: Free Hong Kong! (Score:4, Funny)
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Hmm...now that I think about it, Texas is rather a pimple on the butt of the U.S.
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Hong Kong (an area that by all means legally belongs to China) has nothing to do with Uyghurs (a race, on the other side of the map in Xinjiang).
Free Tibet, and free Xinjiang. As for HK, well.. let's see how happy USA will be if Texas does the same thing and decides it needs to be free. Then come and discuss politics with the rest of the world.
It has nothing to do with Uyghurs... yet, for now; as soon Hong Kong is becoming Uyghurs as Hong Kong now is a police state; and it is predicted to soon start building camps to detain protestors with different political view with Beijing.
Stop drawing the parallels with USA; Texas residents have their right to vote; Hong Kong residents only have the so-called right to vote only for candidates who are "pro-Beijing" and intolerant of people with different views.
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Buy then where would they get their next generation of axolotl tanks?
GET THE FUCK OUT MY COUNTY! (Score:4, Interesting)
You bow down the demands of RED china but do not want the help the USA when they need help.
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You bow down the demands of RED china but do not want the help the USA violate the rights of its citizens when they need help conducting illegal searches.
Maybe Tim is thinking about Steve Jobs (Score:2)
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Jobs jumped ahead in the line to get a pancreas. Problem is, he waited too long before deciding he needed it.
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Jobs jumped ahead in the line to get a pancreas. Problem is, he waited too long before deciding he needed it.
He had a liver transplant.
Pancreas transplants are still fairly rare, and probably more so 10 years ago
Tim is being assimilated ... by stroking his ego. (Score:1)
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate. ~ Sun Tzu
Putting Communism (Score:3)
over the people of Hong Kong.
over Taiwan, the real China.
Enjoy the optics of a US brand thats happy to support more Communism.
Wow, it's so easy to be rich (Score:2)
How much did you get for your soul? (Score:2)
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So I guess the going price for removing HK demonstrator apps from the appstore is chairman position at a Chinese university.
Hey, everyone who is so verklempt about Apple removing the HKMap App needs to know two very important facts:
1. The information displayed by the HKMap iOS App is readily available on a website. No "App" needed.
2. All of the copies of the HKMap App that had already been downloaded and Installed from the iOS App Store continue to function.
But feel free to keep pushing that Anti-Apple agenda; don't let facts get in your way!
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WHEN will that man be tried for Treason?
Shouldn't anyone breaking the laws find any consequences post millennium?!
I don't know; but somehow Trump still sits in the Oval Office.
Corporate Communist Overlords (Score:1)
I am so sick of these elitests who think they know better about everything and want to run our lives!