For a long time, the chinese government had almost no leverage on a apple as a company. In 20 16, they blocked a apple eye movies and eye books from the ap store in china. Apple manufacturing was providing so many jobs in the country. And at the time, one of the big headlines was, apple invest a billion dollars into dd,. At the time, everybody like, why would apple ever do this deal?
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Timestamps:
- 0:00:00 – Intro
- 0:03:36 – Decentralized Brands + Adidas-Bored Ape Collab
- 0:10:14 – Larva Labs Punk #4156
- 0:23:30 – Adidas In The Metaverse + Picasso
- 0:28:33 – Value vs Labor
- 0:33:39 – Jack’s Character NFTs
- 0:48:24 – Apple in China Controversy
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