Comments on: End of the Apple rumor gravy train

By: iPad: How 2011 will be like 2005 | FairerPlatform

iPad: How 2011 will be like 2005 | FairerPlatform — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:44:17 +0000

[...] is this good news for Apple? Well, Taiwan’s ever leaky supply chain has told us that the mothership plans to ship in the neighborhood of 40-million iPads next year — [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:30:44 +0000

If you have a culture and judicial system that has an explicit concept of intellectual property (IP) and a several hundred year history of enforcing it, you will still get 50% to 75% of the people in that culture who will take the IP when given the opportunity. That’s the situation in the West at this time.

If you have a culture without the concept of intellectual property and no history of enforcement, and combine that with that culture being significantly less wealthy than the West, you will get 95% to 99% of the people who will take the IP when given the opportunity.

Let’s say you’ve invented an electronic gadget or a tradeable card game or a double-handled coffee mug or something. If you go to Taiwan (for example), and show your plans to various companies to get bids to produce it, there will be copies made before you get on the plane to go back to the US.

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:40:00 +0000

The quality of information coming out of DigiTimes has never been good. If this is what Taiwanese investors use to make their decisions, there is nothing to worry about.