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Ooh, yeah, hadn't thought of Detroit - I'm from Indiana myself and the GP mentioned Indy, and away I went. Point being you could find much better locations tha
by Vivtek 10y ago
Ooh, yeah, hadn't thought of Detroit - I'm from Indiana myself and the GP mentioned Indy, and away I went.
Point being you could find much better locations than Brooklyn without going straight to China (while keeping your own self in Coolsville).
- calbear81 10y agoThe challenge is still that you can build ANYTHING in China and if you can get the same quality and lower prices significantly, why would you choose a middle of the road solution in the US? I think the cost differential still overrides any sort of boost you might have from having a Made in the USA stamp on the machine.
- Domenic_S 10y ago> if you can get the same quality That's a pretty big if. But truth be told, most things don't need to be ultra-high-quality with ultra-tight tolerances.
- sokoloff 10y agoI'm pretty convinced that you can get any quality you're willing to specify, pay for, and inspect for in China. Where's your iPhone made? China gets a bad rap for the lowest, barely passable spec crap that gets made and sold by vendors seeking the lowest possible COGS. It's not that China can't make iPhones; it's that they get asked to make cheap shit in a lot of cases. And they can happily do that, too...
- Domenic_S 10y agoSure, but there's the rub - how many iphones get made in a year? Your volume has to be stupid big to make high quality chinese manufacturing make sense.
- Vivtek 10y agoWell, why aren't they moving their corporate offices to India or Thailand instead of Brooklyn? I mean, cost is the only metric, right?