Comments by "林子倫" (@zilun) on "Bloomberg Technology" channel.

  1.  @YSKWatch  At this point, I think people are paying for pocket cameras, not phones. A friend who used to buy fancy travel cameras like I do, suggests I sell all my cameras and buy the newest phone.
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  2. LOL. Then ask Chinese talents to stay in China. Talents want U.S. H1 because U.S. has more opportunities than those talents' own country can create. It's not U.S. fault that those talents prefer U.S.'s environment. Next thing you're going to say is blame U.S. for CCP's high ranking officials' family members getting U.S. green cards.
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  3. I own Apple stocks worth millions and I'm still on iPhone 7. Still runs great. But I'm old and prefer computing on desktop. I use my phone just for calling, calculator, and occasional map use.
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  4. The biggest consumer market is U.S., not China.
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  5.  @MrBitviper  Not this again. You are tasked to design an electric car. When its battery is not optimal, you have two options, lower its max stats to ensure it still runs without problems, or accept whatever chaos that comes with its parts not getting juice. It's a simple concept. I don't understand why Apple let it turn into a marketing disaster. Android phones run "artificially slow" brand new, Android phones are never optimal because Android phones come in gazzillion combos of parts so performance have to be compromised to make sure it runs smooth on all possible parts combos.
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  6. meowmeow  Jobs was stubbornly wrong on several key decisions that led to Apple's success and had to be convinced. He isn't as tyrant or "always right" as people think he is. It's just that when he has a clear vision, he knows he's right. And has the quality to make Apple believe if they work on it, they can make it happen. Which, is the same for those in Apple who risked losing their jobs by confronting him on ideas he rejected, but they believe is right. Yes, Jobs made AT&T changed their entire data collection infrastructure so we don't have to listen to messages in chronological order. But Jobs was also the one who didn't believe Apple had the capacity to build App Store for Apple's phones, and felt it could be a major distraction of valuable resources. Jobs also wanted all Apple products be made in U.S. with strict monitoring over manufacturing tech ownership. It was Tim Cook who convinced Jobs to forgo all that, be partners with suppliers in engineering efforts, in exchange for speedier delivery of innovation to the masses. Apple is doing just fine. They are still following one philosophy Jobs held against Apple shareholders. No cheap, slow phones for the sake of market share because those phones will create bad experiences as apps gets more and more complex. Tim Cooks' biggest Apple product that no other tech company is offering is: privacy. It is so well implemented, it's just pure genius.
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  7. Other countries aren’t trying to wage “unrestricted warfare” against U.S. Did U.S. catch any Vietnamese, Taiwanese, South Korean researchers and tech veterans in industrial espionage? Nope. Did other countries ship opium into U.S.? Nope. Do other countries subsidize their exports or manipulate currencies? Nope.
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  8.  @brighamalbrecht8084  Nope. Look at Philippines, bunch of highly trained educators and health care professionals working as housemaid in Singapore. Why? No proper education industry and heath care industry opportunities for those talents in their country. Talents still need investments that need those values talents can provide. If China has better opportunities, they won't have left China in the first place. Plus, https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203718/apple-self-driving-trade-secrets-china-titan https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2140353/chinese-scientist-gets-10-years-us-prison-stealing https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/29/fbi-director-discusses-chinese-espionage-threat-us-academic-research https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/texas-cancer-center-ousts-3-scientists-over-chinese-data-theft-n997151 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-13/the-u-s-is-purging-chinese-americans-from-top-cancer-research So, U.S. will be the one gaining from not taking those losses. Those Chinese talents could have had great careers, and then contribute their experience in China *WITHOUT* stealing. But no, CCP just has to use those people to play dirty. Why? Because a win-win situation in a free and fair trade, tech collaboration, isn't what CCP wants. CCP wants invisible war to weaken U.S. 2025? Shit is about the hit the fan for China's economy, because no one trusts CCP anymore. Good luck with, "China is the greatest above everyone else". I've checked all official numbers released for the public by China's government regarding China's economy, it's looking really, really bad. Only that very few are putting those scattered data together to paint a grand narrative.
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  9.  @texascowboy7359  Yes. It's the same for Taiwan. But I didn't claim Taiwan is better than U.S. in attracting high value talents, did I? Taiwan is better than other countries in terms of Taiwanese are just lovable and super friendly. But opportunities for talents? U.S. takes the lead far ahead of everyone else. Both because those opportunities exists and because talents are well rewarded.
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  10.  @texascowboy7359  Other things Taiwan is different than China in this war. Taiwanese weren't caught stealing tech from U.S. And Taiwan wasn't caught shipping opium into U.S.
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  11.  @tonywoo3211  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act Also, it may seem like it's easy for China to take Taiwan by force, but it isn't, even without U.S. intervention.
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