On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
With Apple saying that all Mobile Phones have reception issues the folks back in RIM, creators of BlackBerry have taken exception to these statements and have issued a statement of their own. Saying the BlackBerry have intentionally avoided Antenna mistakes like the one plaguing the iPhone4. Apple they say knew the consequences but choose to ignore. They also don't forget to poke some fun at Apple saying that at least their customers don't need to have a case to use their phone and avoid dropped calls. The statement below is the joint statement from RIM Co-CEOs in response to misleading comments by Apple as they say. Apple’s attempt to draw RIM into Apple’s self-made debacle is unacceptable. Apple’s claims about RIM products appear to be deliberate attempts to distort the public’s understanding of an antenna design issue and to deflect attention from Apple’s difficult situation. RIM is a global leader in antenna design and has been successfully designing industry-leading wirele...