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The 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
by calbear81 10y ago
The 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?