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This isn't news -- Apple opened factories in a bunch of SE Asian countries IIRC, and now stands poised to play them off each other since the old model of showin

This isn't news -- Apple opened factories in a bunch of SE Asian countries IIRC, and now stands poised to play them off each other since the old model of showing up and being shocked there are human rights abuses in... not just Xinjiang. Apple's real affair, along with the rest of the tech industry, is with countries like Ireland and Austria are "neutral" in the sense that they allowed untaxed gains to flow into them much like Switzerland did in WWII. They need to adjust to a world where people may buy their devices every two, three, even five years and hold onto them -- especially since China has control of those rapidly depleting rare earth mineral deposits that you need for the overly thin batteries. Or folks can switch to Android, who seemed to have gone full Pirates of Silicon Valley and stolen the good features from iOS, last I poked around someone's phone. (Let's be real: at this point they're just doing tweaks, not coming up with major enhancements.)

gambiting 4y ago
>>who seemed to have gone full Pirates of Silicon Valley and stolen the good features from iOS .......I'm sorry, what? It seems like iOS is "stealing" features from Android every few years, they basically let Samsung and others implement something first, improve it for a couple iterations, then finally they add it to iOS and say "look this is a massive step for iOS!", and I'm sitting there being like......we've had this for at least 5 years, what's the big deal? Just that it's nice and polished? Cool, well done, have a cookie.
- dontbenebby 4y ago
  >.......I'm sorry, what? It seems like iOS is "stealing" features from Android every few years, they basically let Samsung and others implement something first, improve it for a couple iterations, then finally they add it to iOS and say "look this is a massive step for iOS!" Who knows -- there may have been a time where one was superior and the other inferior but slowly pilfering features, but for right now moving from iOS to Android is like an American considering emigration... (Where you gonna go... Montreal? If I rolled my eyes any harder, my retinas would literally detach.)
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  I still think that widgets are an unnecessary Android import that bloats the simplicity of the iOS UX. At the very least they should’ve called it something else. Gadgets?

gambiting 4y ago

>>who seemed to have gone full Pirates of Silicon Valley and stolen the good features from iOS .......I'm sorry, what? It seems like iOS is "stealing" features from Android every few years, they basically let Samsung and others implement something first, improve it for a couple iterations, then finally they add it to iOS and say "look this is a massive step for iOS!", and I'm sitting there being like......we've had this for at least 5 years, what's the big deal? Just that it's nice and polished? Cool, well done, have a cookie.

dontbenebby 4y ago
>.......I'm sorry, what? It seems like iOS is "stealing" features from Android every few years, they basically let Samsung and others implement something first, improve it for a couple iterations, then finally they add it to iOS and say "look this is a massive step for iOS!" Who knows -- there may have been a time where one was superior and the other inferior but slowly pilfering features, but for right now moving from iOS to Android is like an American considering emigration... (Where you gonna go... Montreal? If I rolled my eyes any harder, my retinas would literally detach.)
Apocryphon 4y ago
I still think that widgets are an unnecessary Android import that bloats the simplicity of the iOS UX. At the very least they should’ve called it something else. Gadgets?