Thread  RSS Why Apple plunked $1 billion into Chinese ride-hailing



# 13673 8 years ago on Fri, May 13 2016 at 7:14 pm

Check this out. Have you heard?

Apple new $1 billion investment in the Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing is as much about currying favor with regulators as directly expanding its own business, analysts said. Apple might need the help; it faces slowing iPhone sales and tougher restrictions on its services in the country.

Source - user link on phys.org

Um... so, yeah.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

-- Eric Hoffer

# 13674 8 years ago on Fri, May 13 2016 at 7:21 pm

Apple makes good products but when the factories that supply their products have to put up suicide nets at their factories, something's wrong. Very wrong.

# 13683 8 years ago on Sat, May 14 2016 at 11:49 am

Apple definitely has some human rights problems plaguing its image, as do a lot of technology firms that use overseas labor.


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