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johnrlott said:

Here are a few examples. I have a relative who was involved in auto regulation in the Swedish government 

Volvo invests in a new laboratory in Shanghai - Electric Motor Engineering
batteries and electric engine motors designed and built in China.
https://www.electricmotorengineering.com/volvo-invests-in-a-new-laboratory-in-shanghai/

even by early 2014, Less tan 4 years after merger major engine plant for Volvo was finishing being built in China. 
Volvo has launched manufacturing in China and a Chinese engine plant is almost done. 
https://www.engineering.com/story/what-happened-to-volvo-engineering-and-plm-under-chinese-ownership

The merger with the Chinese company Greeley has also had a significant effect on design resources a as operations have been “streamlined.”

Volvo building trucks in China, engineers also there

https://www.truckinginfo.com/10153146/global-news-roundup-volvo-trucks-to-build-new-models-for-chinese-market

sdw2001 said:

techconc said:

DAalseth said:

Maybe Apple has decided that €50 million is just the cost of doing business. 

Yeah, just to do a little perspective on this.  Using the back of the napkin math...   Apple made $34.6 Billion USD profit last quarter.  Convert to Euros, that's 30.6+ Billion Euros.  Divide by 90 (days in the quarter) and that's 340+ million Euros profit per day or roughly 14+ million Euros per hour they make in profit.  So, the maximum fine represents the profit Apple makes in about 3 hours.  I suspect they can't be bothered by such nonsense.  

Exactly.  I'll go even further...I don't see anywhere that Apple has actually paid any of the fines.  What will the Netherlands do about it? Send it to collections?  Put people in jail? I hope Apple really is ignoring them.  In fact, I think they should threaten to pull out of the country completely.  Apple is currently worth 50% more than that country's entire economy (1.6 Trillion to $1 Trillion).  Let that sink in.  

viclauyyc said:

Xed said:

Apple was defrauded out of $1M, but the time, effort, many varying costs of the scam, and all the people involved that would need to get paid means that this was not a very profitable "business" for going on for nearly 4 years.

PS: If he's going to do be this unethical I would question if he cheated on his work to get his masters degree.

Many of these Chinese get their degree by shady methods. 1. Hire someone to do the research/school work for them. 2. translate a Chinese language paper into English. Even if the paper was published before, but since it is in Chinese or other languages. The professor has no way to know if it is a direct copy. 

My ex study electrical engineering master degree in canada. One of her fellow student is from China. She can barely able to communicate with the professor with English. It makes you wonder how can she get accepted by the program in the first place.

bestkeptsecret said:

Seems highly unlikely that someone would make an unsolicited/ unannounced visit from Apple to discuss something like the Apple Car. Any in-person meeting would have probably been preceded by lots of calls and emails.