not even the US government trusts the US government
Not even the US government trusts the US government
Daniel Williams
Daniel Allen
Reminder that the pentagon vetoed stronger sanctions against huawei wanted by the glowies.
Isaac Johnson
What's the reason why the US hates Huawei again? Because it competes too hard in the US market or they're the ones with 5G technology that the US don't have?
Charles Adams
spying
Jordan Kelly
Because Huawei beat the iPhone in things like indisplay fingerprints scanners and indisplay cameras, so now Americans are terrified of the competition so they banned them.
But China doesn't care because they'll just sell them to Africa/India/Europe.
Michael Russell
Huawei was threatening to dominate the market, so Apple cried to the government about how it was being outperformed. The government then made up some shit about Huawei phones being used by the Chinese government to spy.
Elijah Thomas
Well the USA is at like 55k deaths while Trump tweeted it would stop at 60k so something needs to be done I suppose.
Jacob Rogers
They placed backdoors in their products for the Chinese government and used them to steal confidential military reaserch.
Asher Ross
Right. Only Apple has the monopoly to track and record your movements despite having the phone powered off or the battery dead. I forgot about comments where people talk about privacy issues as if American phones don't have that issue as well.
It's fucking scary. I talk about how shit here and then I see ads for what I'm talking about. Or YouTube starts recommending me videos of shit I'm talking about. Or worse yet, I type "pork chops", and when I type "p" into the address bar, the first fucking link isn't "pornhub" which I frequently visit.
Logan White
Actually it was a national (read American) security issue exactly because this time China could do the spying as well. It was never implied other phones weren't being tracked by the US government.
Benjamin Hill
Quantum communications. It threathens the 80 billions $ the US spend each year in spying to place friendly puppets like Bolsonaro.
Carson Scott
What's the market share of American phones in China? I know Japan are trend followers and they have the largest market share of Apple phones by far compared to any other country in the world.
Surely if China has a lot of Android/Apple users, the US government can spy on them as well? Or maybe they're already doing that.
Cooper Ramirez
Market share of Apple products is almost 1:1 tied to shit like average income. So it's very low since a Chinese person cannot afford a $1000 phone.
Daniel Bell
James King
>be Chinese sweatshop worker
>get paid $1/hr making iPhones that cost $200 to manufacture
RIP
Aiden Ross
that's quite funny considering Apple and the valley are doing everything they can to not pay taxes
Elijah James
The thing most people don't understand is that the US is run by special interest groups and big corporations. The officials elected means fuck all, the corporations always get their way.
Owen Davis
People REE'd that the Feds should invoke emergency powers over supply chain then get mad when they do just that.
USA has always been a balance between Federal and State power. Just is what it is. I honestly don't think the EU is any more coordinated, if anything they might be less so.
Anyway the jannie can decide for himself, but I think this is a Zig Forums post.
Asher Rogers
Looks like they're getting forced out of the market. But still, 8% of a market of 1.4 billion people is still a lot of people to spy on.
I remember that story about Apple hiding $700B in Ireland.
Joshua Jenkins
Isaiah Ward
see what was leaked about Xiaomi today
Jaxson Powell
Makes sense, I mean Apple products are expensive af but people are still buying their stuff anyways. So why not producing in the US?
I bet they would be as expensive as before, only the profit for Apple wouldn't be as high
yea, I member when the EU said "well aggsually we would love Apple to pay their taxes properly". End of story.
Jose Butler
Damn....freethoughtproject knocks another one out of the park. Really deep shit
Juan White
I'm more worried about Windows 10.
Something about them literally logging everything you do and forced Windows 10 updates meaning there's nothing you can do to block or prevent them from spying on you.
Lincoln Hill
Yes. This isn't the first time. America makes up publicity stunts and hoaxes every time a foreign company imports a superior product.
Oliver Reed
Tell it like it IS!
Landon Lee
>states telling the federal government to fuck off
That’s how it should be
Thomas Reed
I wonder if they could get people who own foreign phones to smash them and burn them. But I guess Samsungs are already pretty good at burning on on their own.
Tyler Ross
Nathan Lee
Is the state or DC in charge of its National Guard?
William Perry
They are under dual control I think. National Guard is the successor to State Militias.
If EU ever gets around to creating their own army it might be similar there