#WR: The sales of devices have limits despite the periodical introduction of innovative phones, tablets or computers. The way to increase revenues and profits is through more and more better services.
SOURCES: Apple, WSJ
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
MY WSJ BLOG COMMENTS - July 31, 2019
- Domingo Trassens
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Posted In Opinion | Smearing Mitch McConnell
- Smearing the rivals is normal in the current political environment.
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Posted In What to Watch for in the Detroit Democratic Debates
- At this moment, Democrats need the first definitions. Twenty candidates talking and talking is not a solution. Personally, I would like to see who are the better candidates and their propositions.
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Posted In U.S.-China Trade Talks Resume With No Breakthroughs in Sight
- I don't expect significant progress. A permanent agreement with China is near impossible because U.S. cannot accept the Chinese conditions about Huawei. If Huawei enters into our institutions, we will lose the control of them.
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Posted In Scrap-Metal Market Targets the Cloud as Its Next Recycling Project
- Frequently, the storage (hard and solid state drives) has sensitive information, the rest of the hardware no..
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Posted In Facebook Posts Strong Earnings, Revenue Growth
- They are making money with with the data of millions of blind (or stupid people) people!
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Posted In Facebook Posts Strong Earnings, Revenue Growth
- Yes, the company is incredibly arrogant, but it has the magnetism to capture the minds of millions of blind people.
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Posted In Facebook Posts Strong Earnings, Revenue Growth
- Despite complaints and complaints, Facebook's earnings reflect a brilliant horizon.
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Posted In Facebook Posts Strong Earnings, Revenue Growth
- Who says that Facebook is in trouble? With all the money it earns, the fines that it has to pay are not problem.
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Posted In Opinion | Xi Changed My Mind About Trump
- Definitively, President Trump is forcing Chinese President Xi Jinping to rethink his actions twice or more.
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Posted In Boris Johnson to Become U.K. Prime Minister After Winning Party Election
- Today, as U.K. prime minister, Boris Johnson is in the same dead street that Theresa May. It is early to determine if he will find the "exit" to this alley.
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Posted In Opinion | The Bipartisan Spending Party
- The bipartisan solutions work in the case of spending bills because nobody want to damage their own money.
Posted In Boris Johnson to Become U.K. Prime Minister After Winning Party Election
- It is early, to answer this question. Boris Johnson will have a lot of problems. We have to see how he handles them.
Posted In The New Humble Facebook Is Playing With Fire in Washington
- Facebook likes to play with fire because in this way it can grow more its "bubble".
Posted In Opinion | Cryptocurrency to the Rescue
- It is your opinion...
Posted In Opinion | Cryptocurrency to the Rescue
- In two or three years, it will be impossible to buy special stuff, if you don't access to the online stores through social media: Facebook, Twitter or a platform like Amazon. The classic retail stores of special stuff are dying. Also in big metro-cities, now it is very difficult to find retails of special products.
Posted In Opinion | Cryptocurrency to the Rescue
- Yes, till now the use of Facebook is voluntary... Before Internet was voluntary too. Today, if you don't have an Internet account, you are isolated.
Posted In Opinion | AOC Is the Gift That Keeps Giving
- If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to abolish the Department of Homeland Security, she is irresponsible.
Posted In Opinion | Defining Politics Down
- I didn't say current situation is a bad or good thing. I only said that the Squad will destroy the Democratic Party. (Please, don't assume something that I didn't say.)
Posted In Opinion | Defining Politics Down
- The really Democrats have to put distance from the Squad. These four women will destroy the Democratic Party.
Posted In Opinion | Defining Politics Down
- The four lawmakers are only fighters. They don't look brilliant politicians, but the Squad gang is dangerous.
Posted In Opinion | I Come to Bury Biden, Not to Praise Him
- More Democrats than Republicans want to bury Joe Biden because he is a Democratic politician able to walk the bridge and talk together with the Republicans.
Posted In Opinion | Pelosi’s Prima Donnas
- In my opinion, "The Squad’ is playing against the stability of the Democratic Party.
Posted In Catholic Church Offers Cash to Settle Abuse Claims—With a Catch
- "Cash" is only a way to reduce pressure of the sexual abuse victims. However, money never heals deep internal wounds of the human being. The Catholic Church has to make a strong cleaning of its aisles and institutions and punishes to everybody involves in the abuses.
Posted In Amazon to Retrain a Third of Its U.S. Workforce
- Maybe, if Amazon.com will retrain the third part of its workforce in US is because, it plans a massive layoff of the employees with low skills and with difficulty to update their skills.
Posted In Amazon to Retrain a Third of Its U.S. Workforce
- The re-training is necessary in all the companies that use technological tools that periodically are updated with new software packages and systems. Myself, I feel that I need to update periodically my skills too.
Posted In H. Ross Perot, Texas Billionaire Who Twice Ran for President, Dies at 89
- Mr. H. Ross Perot: Thank you for you visionary mind about technology! R.I.P.
Posted In The Declaration of Independence Unites and Divides Us
- The most important was the idea of united in the pursue of life, freedom and happiness.
Posted In Opinion | John Adams Was the Most Ingenuous Founding Father
- Paula Marantz Cohen: You gave us an interesting lesson of American History. Thank you!
Posted In Trump’s Fourth of July Speech to Break From Tradition
- July Fourth is not a Republican or Democratic celebration. It is national commemoration of the foundation of the United States of all the Americans.
Posted In Opinion | The Troubles Beneath the Surface of California’s Comeback
- California is a rich state, but this doesn't imply all its population is rich. Walk a little through the streets of Los Angeles or San Francisco!
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- I never said that Iran can produce cars with own technology. .. But your version of history is different from the real history they know who have traveled across all the world including the Muslim countries, Asia, Africa and more.... (Please, I didn't offend you. You must not offend me.)
Posted In Opinion | The Democratic Opportunity
- Good question: "Can Biden withstand the left’s assault?" Through the first debate, we will see if the Democratic Party till now exist. If not, Biden has not more chance,
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- Shahid Ahsan: I agree with you that the "last forty years of sanctions left Iran stronger and self sufficient". The economic sanctions have opposite effect from the idea our American politicians think.
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- I agree with you.
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- In my opinion, we have to find the way to humiliate the Ayatollah.
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- Of course, the economic sanctions don't produce enough punish in our enemies.
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- I agreed with the first Trump's plan to bomb some Iranian targets.
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- Of course, we have to stop giving our technology to the Chinese.
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- I don't like Iranians and I was fighting with them every time some discussions started across schools and companies in Europe. Iranians are really our enemies!!!
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- Today China provides our best American technology also with the "Chinese labels" to all the countries that have American sanctions. How do you believe that Huawei grew from the night to the day selling billion of dollars in networking equipment and mobile devices? Huawei, ZTE and all the Chinese tech makers are the best providers of the best technology to all the countries we refuse to sell. And inside their devices /machines. there are Intel, Qualcomm, AMD chips.
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- It looks like you believe in the "Iranian propaganda" to touch the "heart" of the naive people of the world. (By the way, across my international trips I met Iranians who use the last models of iPhones and better clothing than you and me. )
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- These are the comments of the media and the own "propaganda" to generate compassion from the naive and stupid people of the world.
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- They will hurt nothing. All they, they have in a triangulation business through China or Russia. They are expert in triangulation to reduce effects of the western sanctions. This is a fact.
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- But the Ayatollah buys all he wants in the "Chinese market". He and his followers don't buy American smartphones directly from U.S. They have learned to reduce the effects of our sanctions long time ago.
Posted In Trump to Impose New Sanctions on Iran
- Will the new economic sanctions on Iran to produce enough pain in the Iranians to force them to change their aggressive behavior?
Posted In Opinion | Liberalism Isn’t What It Used to Be
- Democrats want to innovate ideas, but probably they have to return to their roots because today they have a mess of ideas in their heads.
Posted In Trump Says He’s ‘In No Hurry’ to Confront Iran
- My suggestion is to measure any step against Tehran carefully. The next logical step is to put a pause in the confrontation for a while, but maintain us in combat position.
Posted In Google Maps Littered With Fake Business Listings, Tormenting Competitors and Customers
- In front a Google Map, I only browse addresses and directions, never business references. It is not new, that in the social media era, fake information is the engine of important profits for the producers of these info.
Posted In Apple Explores Moving Some Production Out of China
- If I am a CEO, I would weight political, economic and social factors of the place where I think to move operations. Enemy countries of U.S. or countries with very unstable social conditions are risky, thinking in long term operations.
Posted In Physical Strength of Pilots Emerges as Issue in Returning 737 MAX to Flight
- After two similar fatal accidents and the arrogance of the maker to fix the software problems before the second fall, I lost trust in it
Posted In Opinion | Elizabeth Warren Has a Central Plan for That
- What the Democrats are seeking now: a new defeat?
Posted In Opinion | Elizabeth Warren Has a Central Plan for That
- Today, Democrats have a lot of faces, but not brilliant ideas to return to the White House.
Posted In Opinion | Is China Finally Ready to Deal with Trump?
- I don't believe China is ready to deal in a serious way. President Xi smiles when he talks with President Trump, but after that nothing happens. We are entering to a cold war with China.
Posted In Opinion | Euthanasia And Organ Harvesting
- It is terrible to think in your own death and see a long line of organ-traffickers waiting to take different parts of your body. What we are now?
Posted In Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam Makes Televised Apology in Bid to Defuse Political Crisis
- The link of our politicians with Hong Kong and China doesn't make sense.
Posted In Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam Makes Televised Apology in Bid to Defuse Political Crisis
- Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is trying to stop the unrest. Hong Kong government has to apologize for the brutality of the police and put in trash the famous "bill".
Posted In Iran to Breach Limits of Nuclear Pact, Putting Bid to Save Deal in Doubt
- I really don't understand what you want to remark. The expression "rest of the world" is very ambiguous. China, US is not the rest of the world. And the way of thinking of the Europeans is not homogeneous, but also the Europeans that signed the nuclear deal don't trust in the the Iranians. I have experience about Europe because I lived in Germany and I went to the college there and I had problems with Iranian students.
Posted In Iran to Breach Limits of Nuclear Pact, Putting Bid to Save Deal in Doubt
- Iran doesn't fear to U.S. because it knows that it always will have in it side, Chinese and Russians; while Europe is in the middle with a dubious attitude.
Posted In Navy Responds to Suspected Attack on Oil Tankers in Gulf of Oman, Amid U.S.-Iran Tensions
- I don't believe the attackers were terrorists without the support of one or more powerful countries.
Posted In Navy Responds to Suspected Attack on Oil Tankers in Gulf of Oman, Amid U.S.-Iran Tensions
- Who planed the attack involved the Japanese tanker in purpose like when the started the World War I in Sarajevo. The damage of the Japanese tanker is forcing to Japan to react. It is more than a simple provocation.
Posted In Navy Responds to Suspected Attack on Oil Tankers in Gulf of Oman, Amid U.S.-Iran Tensions
- The attack of the oil tankers in the Persian Gulf is not a minor incident. It is part of a plan that involves a series of the countries: Iran, US, Saudi Arabia and probably Japan, Russia and China.
Posted In Opinion | China’s Million New Dissidents
- I agree with you, the most people don't care about the end of the new Cold War because they live in the micro-worlds and they never analyzed the mentality of Chinese. They are naive. Chinese want to be the No.1 of the world and the able to use all their power and evil against defenders of human rights and civil freedom and democratic countries.
Posted In Opinion | Americans Aren’t Ready for Cold War II
- Yes and yes! China is our enemy. Here there are a lot of naive people who believe in the Chinese friendship.
Posted In Opinion | Americans Aren’t Ready for Cold War II
- I agree that U.S. has to invest more in future technologies. In addition, it doesn't have to transfer our technology to China like it did during the last two or three decades. This was a huge mistake.
Posted In Opinion | Americans Aren’t Ready for Cold War II
- In the last years in the White House, Democrats didn't show a wise strategy against the advance of China either.
Posted In Opinion | China’s Million New Dissidents
- Hong Kong case is a serious warning for the pro-Chinese of Taiwan that dream in One China.
Posted In Opinion | China’s Million New Dissidents
- Yes, the people of Hong Kong have not power to defend themselves.
Posted In Opinion | China’s Million New Dissidents
- In a totalitarian state, police blocks all the rights of suspects of crime.
Posted In Opinion | China’s Million New Dissidents
- Hong Kong police works for a hard dictatorship regime.
Posted In Opinion | China’s Million New Dissidents
- The current Chinese regime wants to put all the world under their feet.
Posted In U.S. May Nonfarm Payrolls Increased by 75,000
- The tariffs are acting as "stormy clouds" in the economic environment. We have to observe the evolution of the economy for more months to determine if it is cooling.
Posted In Blocking Robocalls to Get Easier Under New FCC Policy
- Why I have to receive calls that I don’t want? Robocalls makes the phone unfriendly.
Posted In Opinion | Everyone’s Attacking Joe Biden
- I only said that Joe Biden is a vulnerable. I didn't talk about President Trump.
Posted In Opinion | Everyone’s Attacking Joe Biden
- Joe Biden is a vulnerable candidate.
Posted In Testing the Fix for the Troubled 737 MAX
- Never it is comfortable to fly an airplane model that fell two times in recent moments for software problems.
Posted In Opinion | Indicting the Parkland Coward
- What others do in the same circumstance?
Posted In ‘A Series of Trips’: What Eisenhower Wrote His Wife on Eve of D-Day
- This is my way of feeling, thinking and writing. In my personal life I don't use movies' prototypes or ideas of others.
Posted In ‘A Series of Trips’: What Eisenhower Wrote His Wife on Eve of D-Day
- "I am in crucial moment of our battle against a hard enemy; however I always think about you. With love..."
Posted In Opinion | The Case for Force in Venezuela
- Venezuelans have to solve the problem for themselves. If Maduro continues in power is because Guaido is not the right leader to replace him.
Posted In Opinion | When Democrats Jeer Democrats
- Mr. Hickenlooper is right, if Democrats want to beat Donald Trump, "socialism is not the answer".
Posted In Opinion | The Tiananmen Mothers Never Forget
- The Chinese Communist Party doesn't listen the Tiananmen Mothers. They are in other businesses.
Posted In FTC to Examine How Facebook’s Practices Affect Digital Competition
- There is not a "best way" to regulate tech giants that don't follow classic business models. Each case requests a careful analysis.
Posted In Opinion | Boeing vs. Pilots?
- When we work with technology we have to work according to the “limits” that technology put us.
Posted In 30 Years After Tiananmen, a Hazy Future for Protest in Hong Kong
- 1989 Tiananmen Square, a massacre that the human beings will never forget, despite the efforts of China to show that is a great country.
Posted In Opinion | Robert Mueller’s Parting Shot
- As conclusion of all the last declarations, Robert Mueller didn't point directly against Donald Trump, but he prepared the ground to others point against the President.
Posted In iPhone Privacy Is Broken…and Apps Are to Blame
- Good question, but without a real effective answer! (Probably, the Chinese Communist Party can advise us. (?))
Posted In Global Stocks, Bond Yields Drop on Mexico Tariff Concerns
- I agree with you that the previous blogger doesn't know about the supply chains that support modern American manufacturing. You are right.
Posted In Opinion | Mueller’s Exit and an Impeachment Alternative
- But now it is late to delete the Barr's version of the Mueller Report.
Posted In Opinion | How Democrats Can Avoid Losing
- Maybe, you are right. However, Democrats dressed as Socialists will have problems with independents because U.S. is not a Socialist Country.
Posted In Opinion | How Democrats Can Avoid Losing
- Good question: “How Democrats Can Avoid Losing?” Till now, Democrats don’t have a candidate to gain the heart of independent voters. Without independents, Democrats will lose. And independents don’t like socialist ideas.
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on Tuesday, July 30, 2019 - Hurdle in US-China deal
#WR: A permanent agreement with China is near impossible because U.S. cannot accept the Chinese conditions about Huawei. If Huawei enters into our institutions, we will lose the control of them.
#WR: If China continues putting Huawei in the middle of any negotiation, US cannot achieve a decent agreement with the Chinese.
SOURCES: WSJ, NYT
Monday, July 29, 2019
Sunday, July 28, 2019
WORLDRETHINK: Twitter tour on Sunday, July 28, 2019 - Where Hong Koing is going?
#WR: Where Hong Kong is going with the chaos? The news talks about new protests. Can this people defeat Beijing? Surely, Chinese President Xi is thinking in a plan to end with the rebellion. I don’t believe the Big Dragon will continues sleeping more. S: #dwnews #HongKongProtests
#WR: How the Hong Kong chaos will end??? p.dw.com/p/3Mqks?maca=e… Hong Kong: Chaos ensues as fresh protests kick off
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SOURCE: DW
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