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The big picture here is not whether this ruling is just. It's that China has protectionist impulses, and that if Apple is to maintain the kind of volume of sma
by aetherson 10y ago
The big picture here is not whether this ruling is just. It's that China has protectionist impulses, and that if Apple is to maintain the kind of volume of smartphone sales that propelled it to its 2015 valuation, it needs China. And China may be inclined to throw up a bunch of nasty speedbumps in its way.
That said, there's plenty of value in Apple selling iPhones at the rate necessary to maintain the mostly saturated markets in the West, so don't get myopically focused on China.
- buro9 10y ago> It's that China has protectionist impulses So do US juries, hence the Apple lawyers continually referring to Samsung as Samsung Korea. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/as-4th-trial-nears-samsung-asks-judge-make-apple-stop-talking-about-korea/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/as-4th-trial-near... The idea that China is doing anything that the US wouldn't is ridiculous, every country engages in this stuff the only difference how is complex the US, UK and other Western countries do it. China does it simplistically and obviously, but meh... every country does it, and Apple have been wrong to encourage this stuff to their advantage when everything comes around eventually.
- OedipusRex 10y agoExactly, China's massive cheap labor force and emerging markets give it the position of "fuck you". China knows that first world TNCs want a piece of the pie and China is grooming it's domestic (see "state run") corporations to reap the benefits.
- aetherson 10y agoSure. I wasn't making any implicit contrast with the USA. But all this focus on desert and who did what first isn't really the issue.