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Post by FabHK » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:22 PM UTC

blahgeek wrote: post #204

perihelions wrote: post #171

> "Greater China" Irredentist pro-war language, Tim Cook? I am so done with Apple. They knew what they did when they chose the words; they certainly spent thousands of hours deliberating them. This is Lebensraum with Chinese Characteristics. > "The term is often used to avoid invoking sensitivities over the political status of Taiwan.[16] Contrastingly, it has been used in reference to Chinese irredentism in national…

I think it's a common term used to loosely describe the geographical region. It's used by many other companies like Microsoft [1] and Google [2] [1] https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/locations/gcr.htm... [2] https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-apac/collections/gre...

Post by FabHK » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:23 PM UTC

perihelions wrote: post #252

blahgeek wrote: post #204

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I think it's a common term used to loosely describe the geographical region. It's used by many other companies like Microsoft [1] and Google [2] [1] https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/locations/gcr.htm... [2] https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-apac/collections/gre...

It's a large step up from "it's used for job postings in (or closely working with) mainland China", to "it's featured in Apple product announcements targeting a global audience of millions". Has it been used in an Apple product announcement before? My search is imperfect, but I actually can't find an example (on their /newsroom subdomain). As recently as two months ago, with the Airphone announcement, they weren't do…

Post by coffeebeqn » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:24 PM UTC

nluken wrote: post #230

nathan_compton wrote: post #73

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The pants cost around 500 bucks? I don't necessarily believe that a priori spending $500 on a pair of pants is irrational, but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money unless they are lined with gold or something. I usually buy cheap clothes and mend them and ten years for a pair of pants isn't unusual for me. I probably haven't spent $500 dollars on clothes in a year ever in my enti…

Different strokes for different folks. I'm a fashion lover but a fan of cheap cars, and I could equally say something similar about people who drive new luxury cars when there's plenty of reliable functionality to be had under $10k. There's a lot of craftsmanship that goes into nice clothes, and you can get way more expensive than $500. And fashion is a form of art in a way. What makes a painting worth thousands of d…

Post by kridsdale1 » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:25 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #418

nathan_compton wrote: post #73

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The pants cost around 500 bucks? I don't necessarily believe that a priori spending $500 on a pair of pants is irrational, but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money unless they are lined with gold or something. I usually buy cheap clothes and mend them and ten years for a pair of pants isn't unusual for me. I probably haven't spent $500 dollars on clothes in a year ever in my enti…

I don't necessarily believe that a priori spending $500 on a pair of pants is irrational, but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money unless they are lined with gold or something. I don't think Steve Jobs went shopping for pants. Nor do many of the people who buy this sort of garment. They either have an assistant who buys things for them, whose goal is to keep them happy and not bl…

Post by non_obsolete » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:25 PM UTC