Western anti-China elites have been wishful thinking for the last two decades. China is always on the verge of collapse, according to their narrative.

Overcapacity: China exports a much smaller percentage of cars they produce than Japan, South Korea and Germany do. If China had a car overcapacity, then those countries have had much more severe ones for several decades now.
From Western AI:
Japan: 49%
"Japan's automotive industry shows a high reliance on exports, with about 49% of the passenger cars produced in Japan between April 2023 and March 2024 being exported (4.05 million exported out of 7.55 million produced)."
Germany: 70%
"Germany exports the vast majority of its cars, with many major brands exporting over 70% of their German production, though the exact percentage varies by brand."
South Korea: 65%
"Approximately 65% of cars produced annually in South Korea are exported, with a total of 2.77 million units exported in a recent period. This figure can fluctuate, but exports consistently represent a large majority of the country's car manufacturing output."
China: 23%
"In 2024, China exported about 7 million vehicles, which represented a small fraction of its total production of approximately 30 million vehicles. This means that roughly 23% of the cars produced in China were exported in 2024."

Then, you can blame the Chinese, Iranians, Indians, Vietnamese and/or Mexicans for stealing your jobs and destroying your industry.

EXACTY.

Those Netflix engineers didn't know and weren't part of the "inside baseball" of Wall Street.

Infinite growth (in terms of material wealth; not in terms of happiness) in a finite planet does not make sense unless you are okay with the unevitable fact that some people, a lot of people, will have to pick up the tab.

"As long as Americans continue to elect politicians that worship companies and the "free market" over their own countries interests [...]"

This is capitalism. Big corporations control politics. It doesn't matter who the American vote for. Capitalism is eating away democracy. In a culture that seeks infinite growth and ever growing profits, eventually more and more people will end up picking up the tab.

You misplaced your phone. It must be wiped ASAP per corporate policy . Two days later, you found your phone.

Thank you, come again.

Why is it so hard to imagine a technology that "only" stays relevant for 8 years or so? The iPod became relevant in 2004 and stopped being so shortly after the iPhone's introduction. That's less than 8 years of relevance. The iPad is in its Year 3. By the way, there are so much dissing around here that it seems Slashdot has become just another site where haters and fanboys gather.

Slashdot story submitter should use better judgement. The picture taken on the BB10 phone wasn't even framed like the others were: http://forums.crackberry.com/attachments/blackberry-z10-f254/133209d1359583067-gizmodos-camera-review-low-light-performance-fail-wwzsmmo.jpg

Thanks. I'll take that as a career advice. :)

Thank you! I'm one of those dumb people who now wished he had gotten a BA degree instead. Wear a suit, go to meetings, eat lunch with well-dressed men and women, being highly regarded (because of the suit) and moving up the hierarchy without actually doing half of the real work I'm doing now. Engineering has been in a race to the bottom for a while now. The "engineer" title has long lost its prestige and real meaning because countries like India and China are producing cheap "engineers". Companies can hire plenty of cheap engineers to do *any* technical work. So yeah, why invest time and money to become a technician? So I don't blame our kids for not aspiring to become an engineer -- they are smart.

Using Apple as an example is stupid. For one thing, does Motorola have a cult following?

I wonder if your post was just an excuse to boast about how great Apple is.

Apple's success is not about new technology (tablets and smartphones already existed before the iPad and the iPhone, respectively); it is about creating a new market -- they transform a niche market into a maintream market. They have been incredibly successful in doing that because: 1) they make technology accessible and, more importantly, 2) they create awareness. They manage to create awareness not only with excellent marketing but, and this is their very unique advantage over any other company, because all eyes are on Apple. Whether it's tech media or maintream mass media, whether it's the Web, TV, newspaper or radio, every media is following and reporting Apple's every move. Any company can make technology accessible, very few, if any, can create awareness like Apple can.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This is just "business as usual" in American -- the business of fear and hate of the foreign. When we start seeing Chinese prominently portayed as the bad guys in Hollywood movies, we'll know America has changed target (ref.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_Bad_Arabs).

So are you saying that if the developer clearly states that it was a BitTorrent app, Apple would have accepted it? I don't think the developer was entirely surprised that the app ended up being rejected. They knew that if they advertised it as a BitTorrent app, it would have had no chance of being accepted by Apple. So they tried to trick Apple knowing that they might be caught anyway.