Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European markets

Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by mindfulplay on Thursday July 11, 2019 @09:48PM (#20417445)

Western concerns imposed on developing countries is not a good idea.

Life here is safe and sound for us to think about climate change and other things. When people in India don't even have clean water or electricity they shouldn't give a shit about environment or other things.

It took the US 200 years of development before it started working about these things. And the US is / was a developed nation.

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by solarkraft on Thursday July 11, 2019 @10:04PM (#20417518)

This does not make climate change less of an issue. We're at an important turning point and the developed nations just can't stop it alone.

Of course they should be doing way, way more and support ways of cleaner development financially.

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by mindfulplay on Thursday July 11, 2019 @10:32PM (#20417628)

Every single one of these new fangled issues was not an issue thirty years ago in the US. So...

What makes the West the arbiter of such issues for other countries?

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by rorykoehler on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:35PM (#20417907)

This isn't about east and west it's about today and the past. In fact if you look at the air pollution levels in New York and Chicago in the 70s they were very high and something was done about them. Currently developed nations had the advantage of being able to externalise the environmental cost of pollution without it affecting them as much immediately during development. Developing nations today don't have that luxury. Time is running out.

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by bildung on Friday July 12, 2019 @06:31AM (#20419605)

> This does not make climate change less of an issue. We're at an important turning point and the developed nations just can't stop it alone.

India really isn't much of an issue on that front. The 1.3 billion people living in India produce less than half the greenhouse gas emission of the USA, which has less than 1/4 of India's population.

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by rorykoehler on Friday July 12, 2019 @09:17AM (#20420442)

We all know the US is the worst offender for greenhouse gases but there's more to pollution than global warming.

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by bildung on Friday July 12, 2019 @09:44AM (#20420646)

Absolutely! My response was specifically adressing the climate change aspect, not pollution in general.

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by krageon on Friday July 12, 2019 @09:36AM (#20420570)

If all the "developing countries" don't learn from developed countries' mistakes everyone will be poor 100 years from now, because it'll keep going to shit same as it is now.

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by mindfulplay on Friday July 12, 2019 @11:35AM (#20421462)

Again a priority for the US.. Imagine if British in late 1700s had said and made sure that "we will only hand off this beautiful country to you if you abolish slavery". It took a whopping 100 years before anything happened.

These are all imagined, self-righteous concerns.

Leave a country to sort out its own misery in its own time. We have meddled and tortured enough out of these countries already.

If there is any priority or imposition, I would want to think like Bill Gates... His priorities are aligned with the well-being of the developing nations not the US.

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by krageon on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:56AM (#20439124)

I don't know why you're so into the United States and more importantly, I don't follow what you're saying at all. Are you implying here that country-level concerns are more important than global concerns?

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Re:Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European mar... by danmaz74 on Friday July 12, 2019 @08:17AM (#20420106)

Not giving a shit about the environment isn't such a great way to get clean water.

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