It frustrates me that this article conflates a true and serious problem (the harm to American innovation caused by bad immigration policies) with blatant hyperb

It frustrates me that this article conflates a true and serious problem (the harm to American innovation caused by bad immigration policies) with blatant hyperbole. The narrative is also totally inconsistent. Is the problem that foreign entrepreneurs don't want to come to the US at all (what it seems to start with/imply) or that our immigration policies make it exceedingly difficult even when you want to (the truth and meat of the article)? This would be a much better piece if it cut out the bullshit and focused on immigration. The iPhone 7 has literally nothing to do with foreign entrepreneurs not coming to the US, so why is that the lede? It makes the whole article start on terrible footing. > There are start-up incubators sprouting up all over India, and the quality of the start-ups is second only to those in Silicon Valley and China, which are running head to head. Only someone with their head in the sand could actually think this is true. I've spent time in non-US startup hubs, including Chinese ones, and they're definitely not neck-and-neck. Chinese startups might be catching up, but they're still a distant second place by any conceivable metric. > The reality is that America’s most innovative company is no longer the world’s most innovative company. Apple might not be the world's most innovative company but I would happily bet that the most innovative companies in the world continue to be in the US. > As technology designer Himanshu Khanna said, “Why should I move to Silicon Valley when I have a market 10 times as large here?” By what conceivable metric is the Indian market 10 times larger in general? It's farcical and defies basic economics to say something like that.