Actually the thought that it's just a touch screen blah blah is silly. I've been authoring software for more than 33 years now. What it takes to put together something of this magnitude, with the kind of interface ease and "Action inevitability" is barely imagineable. Mind boggling. There's no other entity that has pulled off the entire package as Apple has. It's a tour de force.
I heard this song and dance before. Reminds me of when i made my first comercial program 10+ years ago. "Professional" company said it would take them 6 month with 6 programmers, they wanted $50K upfront. isthisthingon posted the article about Continous Intergration. I used that methology except it did not have a name back then. I realized that the biggest problem was how to store data in mysql DB. Traditional methods with the rows and colums do not work too hot with CI. In a nutshell i made my own "Object Relational Manager" that way as I added more fields to the tables, the manager could add and delete fields and rebuild the tables. At the time when i showed what i had done to a DB "expert" it was all wrong. I was able to get a POC ready in 3 weeks. And after 3 more weeks with users testing program, it was fully functional.
Problem is most companies are run by "bean counters" who might be good accountants, but have no idea about operations. Initially when they take over a tech company they increase profits greatly because they cut out things like research etc.
Innovation in western companies is dead. Instead of thinking up new ideas, much easier and safer to follow someone else. There are tons of chinese smartphones out there. 99% of them are for the chinese market. I have a few chinese friends who are in the import/export buisness. When they go to mainland china they bring back some POS smartphone. Biggie right now is smartphone with a TV in it. The smartphones they make right now are pretty shitty
, but for $100-150 what do u expect. Probably will be the same story as the car industry. First jap cars where POS, but the japs kept on plugging at it. Now jap cars kik american car ass.
Americans have been sold out. In Asia there is not copyright/patents (legally there is, but they are not enforced). So instead of making something new, it is much more profitable to sue each other. Screw inventing a new device, lets just go sue ________ and parasite off them.
In fairness by developing country standards, very high wages ($220 per month) and it also includes room and board.
Wages are cheaper in China compared to PH, but $250 a month is what u might pay for a com sci graduate, while an assembly line worker who requires no educational skills can make the same wage.
$220 a month goes a long way in china. Also that is take home way where the employees do not have to pay for lodging or food (this is implied since it saids workers are fined if they do not finish their rice. For some of the workers this could be a cultural thing.)
Many filipinos work in cellphone factories in Taiwan or even mainland china as OFW and the ones i have talked to said it is very good work.
