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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by seanmcdirmid on Sunday July 12, 2020 @04:12PM (#23814374)
That boat had already mostly sailed 30 years ago. We have to go back to the 60s or 70s to change course, and the use of outsourcing created a lot of wealth for the USA, I do think we should have done it differently.
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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by jjoonathan on Sunday July 12, 2020 @08:58PM (#23816082)
It created a lot of wealth for some in the USA. It destroyed a lot of wealth for others in the USA.
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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by seanmcdirmid on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:45PM (#23825381)
Yes, but that is true of any advancement. In the long run, it just means we should have stopped devoting jobs to low level manufacturing and changed to higher level ones (e.g. software).
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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by aphextron on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:38AM (#23821218)
>the use of outsourcing created a lot of wealth for the USA

More like it transferred that wealth to the managerial class, while the US worker is flipping burgers for minimum wage now.

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