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Apple’s Shift from China: What iPhone Exports from India Mean for the Tech Sector and Emerging Markets

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India seeks report on iPhone factory hiring practices

The Indian government has sought a detailed report from Tamil Nadu state following media reports that Apple supplier Foxconn was allegedly rejecting married women for iPhone assembly jobs.

A Reuters investigation alleged that Foxconn had excluded married women from jobs at its main India iPhone plant near Chennai, citing their greater family responsibilities compared to unmarried women.

The federal labour ministry says the law "clearly stipulates that no discrimination (is) to be made while recruiting men and women workers".

Neither Apple nor the Tamil Nadu state government responded to requests for comment from Reuters.

The BBC has also reached out to Foxconn and the Tamil Nadu labour department for a response.

Foxconn, the largest supplier of Apple iPhones, set up its first factory in Tamil Nadu in 2017 but has since been aggressively expanding its operations in India.

In 2023, it began assembling the iPhone 15 in the state and earlier this year, Foxconn tied up with Google to make Pixel smartphones in Tamil Nadu.

Rights activists say the reports about the firm's hiring practices in India are concerning, given that thousands look to its factories for employment opportunities.

Reuters said it spoke to numerous employees and Foxconn hiring agencies for the story.

The report said that hiring agents and Foxconn HR sources "cited family duties, pregnancy and higher absenteeism as reasons why Foxconn did not hire married women at the plant".

This isn't the first time the firm has come under the scanner for its labour practices.

In 2018, a US-based rights group had accused the firm of overworking and underpaying temporary workers at its factory in China that manufactured products for Amazon.

In 2022, its iPhone factory in China saw protests by workers who claimed that they had not been paid certain dues.

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India plans new security testing for smartphones, crackdown on pre-installed apps

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India plans to force smartphone makers to allow removal of pre-installed apps and mandate screening of major operating system updates under proposed new security rules, according to two people and a government document seen by Reuters.

The plan for new rules, details of which have not been previously reported, could extend launch timelines in the world’s No.2 smartphone market and lead to losses in business from pre-installed apps for players including Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo, and Apple.

India’s IT ministry is considering these rules amid concerns about spying and abuse of user data, said a senior government official, one of the two people who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity as the information is not yet public.

“Pre-installed apps can be a weak security point and we want to ensure no foreign nations, including China, are exploiting it. It’s a matter of national security,” the official added.

Chinese manufacturers account for more than half of all smartphone sales in India.

India’s minister for state for IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, however, said the news was “plain wrong” and that “there is no “security testing” or “crackdown” as story suggests”.

He added, in a post on Twitter, that there was an ongoing consultation between the government and the industry.

He did not elaborate.

India has ramped up scrutiny of Chinese businesses since a 2020 border clash between the neighbours, banning more than 300 Chinese apps, including TikTok. It has also intensified scrutiny of investments by Chinese firms.

Globally too, many nations have imposed restrictions on the use of technology from Chinese firms like Huawei and Hikvision on fears Beijing could use them to spy on foreign citizens. China denies these allegations.

Currently, most smartphones come with pre-installed apps that cannot be deleted, such as Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s app store GetApps, Samsung’s payment app Samsung Pay mini and iPhone maker Apple’s browser Safari.

Under the new rules, smartphone makers will have to provide an uninstall option and new models will be checked for compliance by a lab authorized by the Bureau of Indian Standards agency, the two people with knowledge of the plan said.

The government is also considering mandating screening of every major operating system update before it is rolled out to consumers, one of the people said.

Reuters was first to report the deliberations on Tuesday.

A Feb. 8 confidential government record of an IT ministry meeting, seen by Reuters, states: “Majority of smartphones used in India are having pre-installed Apps/Bloatware which poses serious privacy/information security issue(s)”.

The closed-door meeting was attended by representatives from Xiaomi, Samsung, Apple and Vivo, the meeting record shows.

The government has decided to give smartphone makers a year to comply once the rule comes into effect, the date for which has not been fixed yet, the document added.

The companies did not respond to a request for comment.

‘MASSIVE HINDRANCE’

India’s fast-growing smartphone market is dominated by Chinese players. Xiaomi and BBK Electronics’ Vivo and Oppo account for 47% of total sales, Counterpoint data shows. South Korea’s Samsung has a 20% share and Apple has 3%.

While European Union regulations require allowing removal of pre-installed apps, it does not have a screening mechanism to check for compliance like India is considering.

An industry executive said some pre-installed apps like the camera are critical to user experience and the government must make a distinction between these and non-essential ones when imposing screening rules.

Smartphone players often sell their devices with proprietary apps, but also sometimes pre-install others with which they have monetisation agreements.

The other worry is more testing could prolong approval timelines for smartphones, a second industry executive said. Currently it takes about 21 weeks for a smartphone and its parts to be tested by the government agency for safety compliance.

“It’s a massive hindrance to a company’s go-to market strategy,” the executive said.

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Kyocera VP-210, the first camera phone in history

Kyocera VP-120: Today we take for granted that we can take relatively good pictures with our mobile phones. These incorporate increasingly sophisticated cameras and some manufacturers are even taking the first steps to place the front sensor below the screen . However, two decades ago this feature was a real novelty.

In 1999, the world's first camera mobile phone launch. It was the Kyocera VP-210. A terminal that, like many other models. Was only sold in Japan. The device featured a 0.11-megapixel CMOS sensor and a 5-centimeter (2-inch) reflective TFT LCD screen capable of displaying 65,000 colors.

Kyocera VP-210: The first with a camera and front!

In fact, we can see in the images is that it was a front camera. Of ocurse, it's internal storage space (and the only one available). Allowed a maximum of 20 JPEG images. Which could be sent by email. Also, the mobile phone could make video calls.

After all, Kyocera marketing also explained benefits of the video call system. "If a builder takes this phone to a construction site then they can show how the place is. Of course, video calls worked at only 2 frames per second. And it's operator DDI Pocket (now Ymobile) charged additional charges for data usage.

It also used the PHS mobile network (mainly available in Japan, China and Taiwan) whose antennas had a maximum range of hundreds of meters, as opposed to the range of kilometers of CDMA and GSM technologies.

Kyocera VP-210 Limited, but at the same time advanced for its time

At that time mobile phones only allowed voice calls and, in some cases, SMS, but Kyocera wanted to add one more functionality: to communicate with another person by seeing their face on the screen. Thus, the company worked for two years with its research and development team to bring the VP-210 to life.

However, the phone was not as successful as expected. Such as the fact that it was more expensive than the average of the time (it cost 40,000 yen. About 325 US dollars ) and it arrived at a time when the size of the components had not been reduced so much. For what its dimensions and weight were generous (140x54x29 mm and 165 g).

In June 2000, Samsung launched the SCH-V200 (on the left in the image above) in South Korea , with a 0.35 MP camera. In November of the same year, Sharp did the same in Japan with the J-SH04 , with a 0.11 MP sensor (on the right).

Kyocera VP-210: The truth is that mobile phone cameras have been improving considerably over time, an evolution that has caused a strong change in the industry and in consumers. Statista data makes it clear : digital camera sales fell 87% between 2010 and 2019.

nowadays We have ambitious terminals when it comes to photography. Among the best that we have been able to test this year is the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra , which has four rear cameras and a laser sensor. iPhone 13 Pro incorporates three rear cameras and the support of computational photography.

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Vietnam, India will produce 50% of iPhones by 2025

Vietnam, India will produce 50% of iPhones by 2025

Wedbush’s technology analyst Dan Ives made his comments when looking at Apple’s current supply chain situation. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was speeding up plans to move most of its iPhone operations to other countries. In a report on December 5, analyst Ives commented that zero-Covid policy in China has caused Apple to have an unprecedented shortage of iPhones in the…

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Apple Could Be Exploring Moving Some iPad Production to India

Apple Could Be Exploring Moving Some iPad Production to India

The government is exploring options to bring some of Apple’s iPad production to the country from China, CNBC reported on Monday, citing two sources close to the Indian government. Apple is holding ongoing discussions with officials, according to the report. The iPhone maker did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Last month, the Economic Times business daily reported that…

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Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India

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history

“I’m from Malaysia. 

China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. 

Admiral Zhenghe came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. 

In 1511, the Portuguese came. 

In 1642, the Dutch came. 

In the 18th century the British came. 

We were colonised by each, one after another. 

When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire. 

Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. 

After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). 

The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. 

After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 

 1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. 

 2. Make opium legal in China. Insane requests, Qing government said no. 

The British and French (with supports from the US), started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. 

The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. 

Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. 

In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance (Empire of Japan, Russian Empire, British Empire (including India), France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary). 

Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. 

In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. 

Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous 'black-cat and white-cat' story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. 

The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from. 

In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. 

They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. 

The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China.

Everything China does is negatively reported. They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. 

They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. 

They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. 

China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US. When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices: 

1. Re-educate the Uighur (CENSUDED by Youtube) before they turned (CENSUDED by Youtube). (**Here I could not copy the exact word, since today it is censored by YouTube if I write it next to the indicated ethnicity. It is the one used to identify those crazy people who are killing people thinking that by doing this they will be able to go to paradise**). 

2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. 

How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. 

During the pandemic, When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman. 

When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers. 

When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. Western Media always have reasons to bash China. Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad things, but the China government overall has done very well. 

But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. 

Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. 

The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. 

A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. 

USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. 

But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. 

First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. 

When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. 

The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. 

Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. 

 China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not by looting the world. I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China.”

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Headlines

Stocks fall as coronavirus spreads (Foreign Policy) The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by more than 1,000 points on Monday--its biggest drop in over two years--on the news that the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, could become a global pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday that while it hasn’t reached that level yet, it’s highly possible--an opinion increasingly shared by epidemiologists amid outbreaks in South Korea, Iran, and Italy.

Warren Buffett finally got a smartphone (Business Insider) The billionaire gave up his signature flip phone for an iPhone 11 after purchasing 5.6% of Apple. “My flip phone is permanently gone. The number’s been changed,” Buffett said during an interview that aired Monday morning on CNBC. “You’re looking at an 89-year-old guy who’s barely beginning to be with it.” Buffett is a billionaire many times over, worth $88.9 billion, according to Forbes, but he told CNBC that he didn’t actually have to buy his iPhone. That’s because Apple CEO Tim Cook, among other people, gifted Buffett with an iPhone.

New Rail Blockades in Canada Emerge as Talks Continue (AP) Protesters erected new rail blockades Tuesday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government said it was working to calm tensions with a British Columbia First Nation at the heart of demonstrations disrupting train traffic across Canada.

Cash-starved Cuban state sells used cars for dollars for first time (Reuters) Cuba’s cash-strapped government on Tuesday began selling used cars for dollars at a single Havana outlet, a first for the Communist-run state and a further step toward the dollarization of a segment of its retail sector.

Trump warns of more U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan oil sector (Reuters) The United States is preparing to impose more sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, in an attempt to choke financing to President Nicolas Maduro’s government.

Macron’s war on Islamism (Foreign Policy) Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a landmark speech to launch his government’s strategy against political Islam. France’s concerns about Islamism go well beyond terrorism, extending to nonviolent Islamism. The shift suggests that these concerns are no longer being expressed exclusively by those on the right of the political spectrum

Sandstorm in the Canary Islands (Foreign Policy) A sandstorm of rare intensity is wreaking havoc in the Canary Islands, where flights were grounded, traffic disrupted, and schools closed on Monday. Regional President Ángel Víctor Torres said that the storm--known as a calima--was the worst to hit the Spanish islands in 40 years. The red sand traveled from the Sahara over the Atlantic Ocean on a burst of warm wind. The sandstorm has raised concerns about wildfires, particularly on Gran Canaria.

Iran and the Coronavirus (The Economist) Religious pilgrims, migrant workers, businessmen, soldiers and clerics all flow constantly across Iran’s frontiers, often crossing into countries with few border controls, weak and ineffective governments and fragile health systems. Now, as it struggles to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Iran is also emerging as the second focal point after China for the spread of the disease. Cases in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates--even one in Canada--have all been traced to Iran, sending tremors of fear rippling out from Kabul to Beirut.

India to buy U.S. military equipment (Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump said that India will buy $3 billion worth of military equipment, including attack helicopters, as the two countries deepen defense and commercial ties in an attempt to balance the weight of China in the region. India and the United States were also making progress on a big trade deal. Negotiators from the two sides have wrangled for months to narrow differences on farm goods, medical devices, digital trade and new tariffs.

Indian PM Modi Calls for Calm in Delhi After Sectarian Clashes (Reuters) India Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for peace in Delhi on Wednesday after days of violent clashes between Hindus and minority Muslims over a citizenship law left at least 20 people killed.

New Chinese Billionaires Outpace U.S. by 3 to 1: Hurun (Reuters) China minted three times as many new billionaires than the United States in the past year, with fortunes made in drugs and online entertainment after a mini-boom from the coronavirus outbreak, a ranking of the world’s wealthiest people shows.

Egypt’s Mubarak, ousted by popular revolt in 2011, dies aged 91 (Reuters) Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for 30 years until he was ousted in a popular uprising against corruption and autocracy, died on Tuesday at the age of 91.

U.N.-backed Libya talks falling apart (Foreign Policy) Lawmakers from parts of eastern Libya controlled by Gen. Khalifa Haftar have said they will not participate in U.N.-brokered peace talks with allies of the internationally recognized government set to begin on Wednesday in Geneva. The move deals another blow to the United Nations’ effort to call a cease-fire in Libya after a months-long offensive by Haftar’s Libyan National Army to seize Tripoli, the capital. The talks will still go ahead, though the U.N. has not commented on the participation of either side.

East Africa’s huge locust outbreak now spreads to Congo (AP) A small group of desert locusts has entered Congo, marking the first time the voracious insects have been seen in the Central African country since 1944, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency said Tuesday as U.N. agencies warned of a “major hunger threat” in East Africa from the flying pests. Kenya, Somalia and Uganda have been battling the swarms in the worst locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in 70 years. The U.N. said swarms have also been sighted in Djibouti, Eritrea and Tanzania and recently reached South Sudan, a country where roughly half the population already faces hunger after years of civil war.

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The Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships runs from January 20-29. This is its thirtieth anniversary. Sixteen teams, some flying in from remote parts of the world, created art out of twelve-foot high, 25-ton blocks of snow. I stopped by last night to see what they sculpted.

Wisconsin artists do know something about snow. Their entry, Quality of the Soul came in third place. Nice! Go Wisconsin! I’m partial since I grew up in Madison.

Nice to Meet You took second place in an entry from Great Britain. So cute!

Greed created by artists from Mexico took first place. I love the humor and the technical difficulty of the conical cup, supporting the gluttonous man, who eats marshmallows. Hilarious!

This intricate entry, Triumph over Evil from India won Artist’s Choice, chosen by the other sculptors. Beautiful!

There were several others that caught my eye.

Bride by China, Square Dance by Vermont artists, and my personal favorite Twister by France.

On Wednesday, January 29 all of the stunning snowy masterpieces will become part of a snowbank somewhere in Breckenridge.

Which is your favorite? Had you heard of the International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge? Are you a snow person or do you prefer sandcastles?

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Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships 2020! The Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships runs from January 20-29. This is its thirtieth anniversary. Sixteen teams, some flying in from remote parts of the world, created art out of twelve-foot high, 25-ton blocks of snow.

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Something about property rights

I felt like I needed to rant yesterday and decided to adapt the discord messages into a tumblr post.

I spent most of a class this morning thinking about the Anglo interpretations and notions of property rights, trying to actually contrast it with workable alternative notions of property rights and feeling kind of hopeless about it and finding it hard to actually come up with anything that isn't literally communism.

And in retrospect it made the whole “philosophically questioning the whole notion of property rights” feel more, idk, respectable than it had before, when it just sounded like the USSR and China opposed its inclusion in the UDHR for technical reasons or pure self interest in covering their own atrocities.

The whole thing started with thinking about the Zapatist slogan “la tierra es de quién la trabaja”. “The land belongs to those who work it.” To me, the Zapatistas were pretty cool guys, who sided with the little guy and the indigenous peoples of México. But I thought immediately about how a colonial American might react to it, and I couldn’t escape the idea that they’d hear the slogan and go, “ah, yes, we should kill the savages and steward the land correctly”.

As much as the magna carta is held up as this great precursor to democratic rights in this country, its origins are far more dismal and petty. It wasn’t really a democratic impulse, it was more like a bunch of petty-kings coordinated to overwhelm a high king. But it doubtlessly had a strong effect on feudalism and came to be a part of English identity before that even really made sense from a modern perspective. In short it came off almost as a promise that “every man is a king of his own home” and that helped to make property itself sacrosanct.

So when capitalism changed the people’s relationship with the land, the serfs were “liberated” as the commons were siezed by their de jure owners. The collapse of the commons fundamentally changed people’s relationships with property, exacerbating the whole “every man is a king of his own house” issue, and making property the be-all-end-all of basic needs like shelter. To the degree that the Magna Carta made property sacrosanct, in a literal “this is a divinely appointed right” sort of sense, the collapse of the commons codified exactly what that meant, making that sacrosanctity intrinsic to thriving.

So because of tying these issues together so deeply, it made sense to steal the lands of people “not working it” according to how you might work it. So that it made sense to go to war because the yankees were stealing your chattel, and horror of horrors not even repurposing them! So that telling South Africa “hey, no, black people are people too” was unholy, violating their sacred authority to clean their own house. So it makes sense that Australia continues to break promises to its Aboriginal communities, if, say, their homes have a potentially profitable mine to work. So it makes sense that Canada breaks promises to its indigenous population, if there’s an oil pipeline they can lay. So that it made sense, paradoxically, for the US to strong arm México into changing articles of its constitution about indigenous land rights in order to pass NAFTA and be able to threaten to go United Fruit Company on the people for not being profitable to the corporations. And the EZLN, which formed directly because of the anxieties of these moves as the Maya genocide was still very fresh on everyone’s minds, are neo-Zapatistas; the land belongs to the one who works it! The Maya who always has, or the companies that want to (exploit it)? 

I remember once as a teen confronting the attitudes this bears on a small chan.

Before the BLM stuff, actually regarding OWS and those "rich punks arguing for socialism with their iphones" and shit;  I'd made an off hand comment about things not being worth more than lives at some point and someone replied "I'd totally kill someone if they stole my phone".

I made a comment in utter exasperation (this was on a board that was like /pol/ before that was really what it is now and there was no reason to believe they weren't serious), saying something like "Is, what, a month's pay really worth a human life to you?" ($800 really was more money than my mom was making at the time, let alone taking out rent and shit first, and I gave them benefit of the doubt that they weren't rich first world fucks who could afford to take a hit. At that point I’d learned that most people in India, even dirt poor people who couldn’t afford water, generally had smart phones in order to help with work and things; conscientious of this, the fact that I know and knew dirt poor almost homeless people in the US who needed phones for work, I was trying to allow for “if I lose this phone, I lose my job, my home, my health, and my life” which is a reality a lot of people live with, and at least somewhere to come at this issue with).

(But) the commentators, both the user I was arguing against and several people using trips, proceeded to mock me for apparently living in a 3rd world country for thinking a phone cost more than one paycheck.

To these people a phone wasn’t even worth a week’s pay, let alone two. And yet, to them, another person’s life, no matter how desperate they were, no matter how hungry or sick or anything they were, they were worth less than that.

This exchange was about the time I started nurturing (or giving in, depending on your perspective) the idea that "maybe some people aren't just, mistaken, or seeing something I don't, or have some complex network of beliefs making them bite a bullet, but like, actually goddamn legitimately evil in terms of their fundamental values". I gather absolutely that there’s a lot going on with this; that you could understand the guy to mean “I think thieves should be killed” as opposed to ““humans”“ or whatever. But, like, still.

Traumatizing is an overly dramatic word for what that conversation all those years did to me, but maybe it was. And it’s not like a phone’s *nothing*. But the way the users undercut me, and revealed not only how worthless the phone was to them, but how little human lives were worth to them in relation to the phone just kind of knocked the wind out of me

This made the rounds recently. This is the legacy of that property is sacrosanct bullshit.

And, like, fuck, this is the whole cultural underpinning of what’s been going on with the gun shit here. It’s why guns are so important to us. Why we feel it’s absolutely justified to shoot a kid in the back for lifting a $2 bottle of beer from a convenience store and leaving him to bleed to death without so much as calling the police. The entire fucked up thing we got going on w/r/t race here in the land of the free? It’s because of our relationship to property rights.

At the same time, you get climate change from people who feel it’s their right to do whatever to their property. Oil’s money. Dairy farms, meat, cash crops like almonds. You don’t like your water dirtied? But I’m only fracking over ma plotte!

What’s going on in Brazil? Some natives won the right to their lands against farmers who wanted to clear the forest, and mysteriously within a few weeks everything’s lit on fire. 𝅘𝅥 Dark torrents shake the airs, as black clouds blind [São Paulo] ♫

You even get the nimby zoning shit out of this. How dare you let colored people into my neighborhood! That’s stealing from my property values! A tall building? That’s stealing my sunlight!

In a more mixed sort of way, you got homeless shelters, oil wells, chemical plants, industrial parks, military bases, fracking, wind turbines, desalination plants, landfill sites, incinerators, power plants, quarries, prisons, pubs, adult entertainment clubs, concert venues, firearms dealers, mobile phone masts, electricity pylons, abortion clinics, children's homes, nursing homes, youth hostels, sports stadiums, shopping malls, retail parks, railways, roads, airports, seaports, nuclear waste repositories, storage for weapons of mass destruction, cannabis dispensaries, recreational cannabis shops and the accommodation of persons applying for asylum, refugees, and displaced persons - a list i just lifted from wikipedia’s articles on nimbies. Looking at that, there’s some clearly sympathetic issues too. I mean do you really want a train cutting through your farm, no matter how well you’re recompensated, no matter how much it will objectively improve the lives of the people in the cities, no matter much better it is for the environment to commute together?

But, like, what exactly are the alternatives?

We could look at other cultures. What did Belgian property notions look like? Leopold of the Congo? What do French notions look like? Forcing Algieria to pay back the “investment” France made by colonizing them? Well, the English and the French go back a long, long ways, maybe we could look at Germany?

The first genocide of the 20th century is often recognized to be that of the Herero, in Namibia’s, Germany’s biggest steal  in the struggle to carve up Africa like the Black Dahlia.

I already mentioned Brasil.

What about China? Surely they aren’t western!

By some notions they were the first feudal nation in the world, and yet only left the system really in the 20th century. That’s a lot of cultural baggage that underlays the reality the Chinese live under today.

The early republican period saw the rise of warlords and other petty bastards effectively continuing the feudal reality in much the way sharecropping and jim crow continued chattel slavery in the US. The successor states aren’t pretty either; Taiwan, continuing republican ideals, cleared out much of its indigenous population for the Han in ways analogous to what European powers did to the natives of their countries; the PRC, which was born to challenge the ideals of the old republic for its own, took back “what was theirs” with Tibet.

The PRC, explicitly rejecting property rights as the west understands it, doesn’t even have a legal analog to eminent domain, and in effect can seize property on a whim without compensation, forcibly engaging in actions like people moving, which I feel it should be known when done to a community often results in genocide.

Something else illustrative of the conflicts of interest in the problem lies with the 3 Gorges Dam project. Ostensibly to control flooding to villages downstream, over a million residents of the Chongqing area were forcibly relocated, with rumors of people who resisted the project being explicitly drowned and because everything’s just hopelessly corrupt the money actually provided for recompensation never made it to the hands of farmers now stuck in a big city without the education for work.

Similar stories to Taiwan’s play out in other capitalist countries; similar stories to the PRC’s play out in countries that reject those notions.

Generally you just reinvent the same concepts drawing from the lord and serf mentalities of old. There’s shit like this going down in the Muslim world, in East Africa, South America, South Asia, whereever. It’s not just an Anglo thing, even though I’ve let myself believe it were, because of how I was taught about history, from my culture’s perspective.

Then you have to ask yourself, when there’s no net, when you have to provide for yourself first, do the commons necessarily make sense?

Is it even viable, economically or politically, to abolish private property and return to the commons like people have advanced? Would, to enjoy the benefits of something evidentally only stable under feudalism, we have to return to some kind of practice of feudalism? Is that even worth considering?

There are more people alive today than ever before. And that didn’t happen just by accident. We really, actually, seriously have made incredible improvements to agricultural yield and safety, ensuring that the only places on the planet that starve are those that are being starved, by monsters like the Saudis. But the scale we need, the scale we want, the scale we have - is much more than just what one farmer can provide for himself. And the fact that we do have other farmers do the mass farming with their bulk fertilizers, machinery, pesticides, and such, means that most of us don’t have to spend time every week tending to our gardens making sure we have enough staple foods to survive, so we can pursue our own hopes and hobbies and dreams and undertakings and services and so on.

All of it sort of leads to the question, Who deserves the land?

The worker whose blood sweat and tears are wrought into the soil? That could lead to the issue of killing my Yokuts friends' gatherer ancestors for stewarding their lands, husbanding their ecosystem and managing burns and wild populations, instead of raping the lands, burning everything to ash to farm foreign crops that aren’t even adapted to the water issues here. And it doesn't proclude the workers from choking us with smoke, if they feel they need to. The guy on the oil rig isn’t doing it because he endorses what the oil companies do or because he thinks it’s necessarily a good thing, he does it because it makes him bread. Why would worker’s self management solve that? Shareholders and workers alike would only care about taking home what they can.

The "owners” in the English sense? Taking subsidy after subsidy, fighting actively to drain our rivers, collapse the formerly self-renewing resources entirely, bringing us droughts, feeding even the lactose intolerant among us the lie that we need fatty heart clogging cheeses to be healthy? Illegally hiring, exploiting, and deporting the vulnerable? Big farms are just any other business, their owners are the same venture capitalist vultures preying on anything else in that world. South of me used to one of the biggest lakes in North America, virtually the entire south valley was lake Tulare. It’s a bunch of cities now.

So, the people who need it?

Maybe but who decides that? War for territory is a fundamental struggle built deep into us; war is even practiced by chimps. Military ration planning like we saw in the USSR and PRC cause Holodomors. United Fruit and their entire coalition caused the Silent Genocide. Abolishing private property entirely would, what, return us to the times when the lands were unclaimed? That would just lead to petty struggle after petty struggle, like a chimp disemboweling another.

And now, having written this a second time, I’ll end with what I wrote earlier

[nerzamski]

3 Chosen field of Expertise/Influencer

What is Social Media?

-Social media is computer-based technology that facilitates the sharing of ideas, thoughts, and information through the building of virtual networks and communities. By design, social media is internet-based and gives users quick electronic communication of content. Content includes personal information, documents, videos, and photos. Users engage with social media via computer, tablet or smartphone via web-based software or web application, often utilizing it for messaging.While social media is ubiquitous in America and Europe, China and India now lead the list of social media usage.

MUSIC

Alexander O'Connor, better known by his stage name Rex Orange County, is an English recording artist. He grew up in the village of Grayshott near Haslemere, Surrey. O'Connor has released three albums, bcos u will never b free, Apricot Princess and Pony. The name Rex Orange County is based on a teacher-given nickname, "the OC", after his surname O'Connor. "The OC" is a nickname for Orange County, California, popularised by the television show The O.C. In January 2018, O'Connor came in second in the BBC Sound of 2018 award after Norwegian singer Sigrid.

ENTERTAINMENT

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, known online as PewDiePie, is a Swedish YouTuber and comedian, known for his YouTube video content, which mainly consists of Let's Play videos and comedic formatted shows. On 15 August 2013, Kjellberg became the most-subscribed user on YouTube, being briefly surpassed in late 2013 by YouTube Spotlight and several times in early 2019 by Indian record label T-Series before being fully overtaken by the company. From 29 December 2014 to 14 February 2017, Kjellberg's channel was the most-viewed YouTube channel. As of August 2019, the channel has received over 102 million subscribers and 23 billion video views, ranking as the second-most subscribed and eleventh-most viewed on the platform, as well as the most subscribed and viewed channel to be operated by a single individual.

COMMUNICATION

Cody Michael Kolodziejzyk, better known as Cody Ko, is a Canadian YouTuber, comedian, podcast host, actor and rapper. Ko first gained public attention via his short comedy skits on Vine. He is part of the comedy/rap duo Tiny Meat Gang along with Noel Miller. After attending Duke University, Ko created the iPhone application "I'd Cap That", which adds captions to any photos. In May 2012, it was named the App Store’s Free App of the Week after amassing more than 4 million users in a few months.After pursuing his own interests, he worked as a senior iOS developer at Fullscreen, a subsidiary of AT&T‘s WarnerMedia. Ko first became popular on Vine for making short comedy skits. He now runs a YouTube channel where he uploads a variety of videos mainly critiquing and commentating on other personalities and videos on YouTube and Instagram. He is friends with former Viner and YouTube personality, Noel Miller, often collaborating with him on commentary videos, as well as making music together as comedy rap duo Tiny Meat Gang. Tiny Meat Gang has released Hip-Hop/Rap music albums Bangers & Ass on December 15, 2017 and Locals Only on December 20, 2018. The duo host a commentary series together called That's Cringe, as well as a podcast called the Tiny Meat Gang Podcast. Ko also often collaborates with his girlfriend Kelsey Kreppel. In 2017 Cody Ko joined the cast of Real Bros of Simi Valley alongside fellow Youtube star Jimmy Tatro.

CONCLUSION

In general, I wish if I could ever achieve is to make music and communicate like being a commentator on youtube. To achieve all that I must work and strive hard to know more about how much I could achieve my dream easily and become the best gamer, commentator, and musician in the whole wide world. Respect and courtesy is needed for me to move forward. Believing and focusing on my task is what will help me. Lastly having to keep your hopes and dreams awake where ever you go will help me strive harder.

[badtabbywhitecat]

China Phone, Indian Street Food, Cheap Dignity

Since its a joke, I'm not going to comment on it on Twitter -- there are enough people there who take jokes seriously and turn serious discussions into jokes.

One of Chinese Prabhas fan said she felt offended. I feel a little sad too when I read this post -- not offended, but a sence of powerlessness. I feel the same way when I see people mocking Indian street food online in Chinese or English. As someone who eats street food and uses a Chinese mobile phone myself, I would like to say a few words about my thoughts.

I don't want the pity from guys who resemble multiculturalists, the pity with definition -- "Oh it's their way of life and you have to respect them". And I'm also tired of hearing "there are good phones in China, you just can't afford them", "there are neat restaurants in India, you just can't afford them, or deliberately make eye-catching videos".

What really bothers me?

Why should I not be able to use a phone with the same configuration as other students because I am not as well-off as them?

When I buy that phone that I can afford, I will realise that the reason it is so cheap is that there are countless people like you and me who are being unreasonably exploited.

Why would a rich classmate at school think he deserves more respect than me because he uses an iphone?

Why should the government use the equipment we pay for to monitor us? Why should we have to pay extra to avoid being monitored?

Why do people say things like "you buy stuffs from this country, you deserve it", when a safety accident happens to a foreign-made things，making the consumer injured or even dead?

Just like dignity is so cheap that you can gain or destroy it with money and identity.

[indiandefencenewz99]

Apple looks to India for manufacturing of AirPods, Beats?

NEW DELHI: Apple Inc is asking its suppliers to move some AirPods and Beats headphone production to India for the first time, Nikkei reported on Wednesday, in what could be an another win for New Delhi in its push for local manufacturing. Apple iPhone assembler Foxconn is preparing to make Beats headphones in India and hopes to eventually produce AirPods in the country as well, the report said, citing sources. Luxshare Precision Industry, a Chinese supplier to the iPhone maker, and its units also plan to help Apple make AirPods in India, according to the report. However, Luxshare is focusing more on its Vietnamese AirPods operations for now and could be slower than its competitors in starting meaningful production of Apple products in India, the Nikkei newspaper said. Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment. The tech giant has been shifting some areas of iPhone production from China to other markets, including India, where it started manufacturing iPhone 13 earlier this year, and is also planning to assemble iPad tablets. The company announced last week its plans to manufacture the latest iPhone 14 in India. A Bloomberg News report from Tuesday said iPhone exports from India crossed $1 billion in five months since April and are set to reach $2.5 billion in the 12 months through March 2023. Apple's latest move is part of its gradual diversification from China, the Nikkei report said. India and other countries such as Mexico and Vietnam are increasingly turning important to contract manufacturers supplying to American brands amid COVID-related lockdowns in China and simmering tensions between Washington and Beijing. Source link Read the full article

[bzzint]

Apple ha comenzado a fabricar el iPhone 14 en India. El gigante tecnológico con sede en EE. UU. continúa cortando lazos con China luego de las interrupciones causadas por los bloqueos generalizados de Covid y las tensiones geopolíticas entre Washington y Beijing. En su anuncio, Apple reveló que comenzó a fabricar el iPhone 14 en India antes de lo esperado. Foxconn, la empresa que fabrica la mayoría de los iPhone, generalmente comienza a fabricar teléfonos en las fábricas indias meses después de que comience la producción en China, debido a las diferencias en la cadena de suministro entre los dos países. Apple y Foxconn pudieron comenzar a ensamblar iPhones en India antes de lo esperado después de superar los problemas de la cadena de suministro, según personas familiarizadas con el asunto. “India es ahora un lugar atractivo para la fabricación, ya que ofrece una mejor estructura de costos laborales, mientras que Apple busca reducir los riesgos geopolíticos”, dijo Jeff Pu, analista de Haitong International Securities. Las principales empresas buscan cada vez más complementar su fabricación en China con operaciones en otros países asiáticos. . . . . #tecnologia #apple #china #india #iphone #noticias #actualidad #breakingnews #noticia #jornalismo #journalism #periodismo #informacion #internacionales #ultimahora #informacion #viral #followback #comment #likeforlikes — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/oQL7WFu

[jasonblaze72]

Apple Is Making iPhone 14 In India After China's Human Rights Violation Headlines

Apple iPhone 14 is here, and just like every iPhone release, it has amassed a huge amount of attention. However, Apple decided to have a large amount of production done in India for many reasons. The company is making way for the country that has the largest working population in the world amidst the rise of uncertainty in China. But this is not something they decided overnight; it has been building up to this moment for a few years now. In 2017, the company started manufacturing in India with the production of the iPhone SE and has been picking up the pace since. It has worked with local manufacturers to make it one of the hubs for global production. By now, Indian plants manufacture 5% of the total supply, which amounts to 12 Million models for the world. Though the number may not seem much compared to China, the company has been upfront about ramping up the production as they move forward. Also Read: iPhone 12 Pro Launch Date, Expected Price, and Features Why did Apple decide to manufacture iPhone 14 pro there despite China's Human Rights Violation?  When the first iPhone got close to release, Steve Jobs decided that it should have a glass screen rather than a Plastic one. And with not much time left, the company couldn't have achieved that, but a Chinese company offered a solution and signed up a contract with Apple. In the contract, the Chinese company proposed that they would make workers do a twelve-hour shift with a strict schedule. And by doing so, the company assembled 10,000 glass-screen iPhones in a day. But in the process of doing so, the workers were made to work on biscuits and Tea to tackle the rigorous task. Apple has always dodged the issue of the violation of their human right in China every time they were asked to comment on it. But now, the same violation has risen to the level that the country is headed towards political instability. The rise in labor fee, unstable land prices, and lockdowns that restrict the work of manufacturing workers has been a big blow for the company. And seeing this, Apple has started shifting its manufacturing plants to other regions. But this does not mean the company seamlessly transitioned to India and will continue to do business as usual. But iPhone 14 pro is still being manufactured in China as of right now. Problems faced by The Company in moving to India for iPhone 14 manufacture and Future products. Apple is very strict with the secrecy of its product's design. This was one of the biggest issues the company faced when it came to manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India. Custom packages are opened the very first thing they reach the Indian manufacturers. There is no ill intent behind it; they do so to ensure the safety of the product. And seeing that company is not making many innovative changes, unlike their earlier launches, it would make sense they want the redundant design to be secret. Another major issue is the worker condition that has been prevailing since the company opened shop in India is the working environment. The workers complained about the poor working condition, environment, and money not long after Apple set up shop. There even have been revolts over the issue. It seems Apple is not used to giving a lot to assembly line workers, and the habit is carried from China. Not to mention Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, is notorious for not giving taxes, so the CEO's money-conserving habits might also be at play. But this issue can be fixed by simply providing better working conditions and increasing the pay of the workers. Also Read: iPhone 14: Release Date And Price Read the full article