Apple Having a Hard Time Trying to Invalidate HTC Patents in a U.S. Court

[Xplorer4x4]

Considering that Apple doesn't actually manufacture the products in question (they design them and farm out the manufacture of the devices to other companies), let alone manufacture the devices in the US (they are all built in China), how would a product ban result in lost jobs in the US? Do you really care if some underpaid assembly worker working under sweatshop conditions in a foreign country is laid off?

Besides, it would be just desserts for Apple to have their devices stopped at the border, as they did the same thing to HTC when they had the ITC delay the release of their One series of phones.

At least in the US the employee could find another job. It might not be the same line of work but I have always been of the belief that if you need a job that bad take your ass to the nearest fast food place. It may not pay all the bills, but at least it's money! It's better then doing nothing! Over there it's not that easy.

 

[jseah]

At least in the US the employee could find another job. It might not be the same line of work but I have always been of the belief that if you need a job that bad take your ass to the nearest fast food place. It may not pay all the bills, but at least it's money! It's better then doing nothing! Over there it's not that easy.

That's because we Americans are fat and lazy. What incentive does an unemployed worker have to look for a job? If they got laid off, they can collect unemployment for up to 99 weeks....money for doing nothing. And if they get hired at a fast food joint, then they lose the unemployment. And if they cannot get unemployment, then they go on welfare....again money for doing nothing. And better yet....the more kids they push out, the more money they get. This is why the US depends on the illegal immigrants and migrant farmworkers, to do the jobs that needs to be done, but no Americans are willing to do them. How many "Americans" do you see out in the fields picking lettuce or in the office buildings at night picking up the trash or cleaning toilets?

In China, if Foxconn isn't manufacturing iPhones because they can't be shipped into the US, then the company will manufacture something else that can. And for every employee that quits, there are 10 waiting to take their place.