Not true, contract component manufacturing made only 7% of Samsung profits last year. The value of the Samsung branded smartphones they ship out is by far their most important financial metric.
MS and Intel have the same partnership as airlines and hotels. Each wants their partner to make as little profit as possible, as that leaves more client money for grabbing.
Intel has been among the top 5 Linux kernel contributors for many years.
I work at a software consulting firm, that charges $300+ per dev per hour. Excellent salaries, benefits, gaming consoles, free drinks and meals at the office, etc. Still the majority of the developers we're capable of hiring are incapable of understanding and applying concepts like monads, SOLID, low level async. Maybe the higher supply will only drive down the salaries of PHP&Co crowd.
Hard to understand what you mean. It's not like the current resource managers are trying to maximize happiness, but just lack efficiency. Just the opposite - the majority of ambitions, rich, powerful people in the world are putting tremendous efforts into extracting as much resources from the poor as possible.
I haven't read the linked article, but this doesn't sound right. Assembly is mostly a manual process, workers salary must be the biggest cost. Salaries in US are way more that 50% higher than in China.
You are completely wrong. Easier is better, most of the time. In a 21st century developed economy it's vastly more efficient to spend your time thinking how to improve your income than how to optimize small expenses. Same principle as the famous "Premature optimization is the root of all evil".
Very interesting. I remember back in the late 60s and 70s when credit card adoption raised in the US, charge back was a key selling feature. Customers refused to use cards that didn't offer it.
Makes me wonder how the world is going to change when BRIC economies get bigger than the current "developed" ones (if ever). Banks and other oligopolies may get away with far lower customer, privacy, heath, etc. protection.