Pants down, botties in the air
Seems like they barely understand what has happened to them.
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Uber doesn't own it's vehicles, or technically employ the drivers, so it's overheads in those areas is vastly reduced.
Running robotaxis it'll own the vehicle/device, be responsible for insurance, fuel/charge and obviously maintenance. So per hour running costs need to be low to offset the huge rise in costs.
The Chinese government not only caused the property crisis, but then spectacularly failed to deal with the aftermath which has lead to such longer term issues.
Promoting domestic consumption isn't going to help when they've actively avoided dealing with the key issues slowing economic growth.
A recurring theme people use in their defence is that 'someone else' told them the system was fine and that was that.
Who are these 'someone else'?? Why did even the head of IT have 'someone else' telling him everything was hunky dory?
Sooner or later names will have to be named, if it's not the head of IT then who was it?
"Apple would have known exactly what phones were sent out in this scheme, at least most of them. Wouldn't they be able to remotely disable them, justified under "receiving stolen property" laws? Or have service providers block them based on IMEI?"
Jailbreak phone, send to another country. Job done.
American support for Ukraine is plenty vocal, but material support recently has been lacking. Just look how long it took them to finally approve the latest wave of support.
If they give up on Ukraine you can bet they'll give up on Taiwan, China will see a green light and go for it.