On Oppo, I get that their business model no longer made sense to their Chinese Overlords, but why not sell their designs and IP to another manufacturer ? Something doesn't smell right.
I have this sneaking suspicion that this is a Chinese power play and we haven't seen the last of it. Apple is completely dependent on mfg. in China by Foxcon among others. How much of the mfg. process does Apple own ? What if the Chinese want to play hardball with Herr Drumpf and say "no more" hardware for Apple but you can buy our Oppo iPhone clone ? I don't see how we stop them since the Fortune 500 has very little on factories or labor in the USA for over 20 years.
The Communists / Mercantilists used to have a definition for Yankee Trader / Capitalists. They said a capitalist is the guy who will unwittingly sell you the rope to hang himself with. So true. As Herr Drumpf would say "SAD".
I have this sneaking suspicion that this is a Chinese power play and we haven't seen the last of it. Apple is completely dependent on mfg. in China by Foxcon among others. How much of the mfg. process does Apple own ? What if the Chinese want to play hardball with Herr Drumpf and say "no more" hardware for Apple but you can buy our Oppo iPhone clone ? I don't see how we stop them since the Fortune 500 has very little on factories or labor in the USA for over 20 years.
The Communists / Mercantilists used to have a definition for Yankee Trader / Capitalists. They said a capitalist is the guy who will unwittingly sell you the rope to hang himself with. So true. As Herr Drumpf would say "SAD".