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I am not sure if this is a good move on Apple's part in the long term, both parties, Republicans & Democrats, have shown a lot of ire for China. I don't think t
by partiallypro 7y ago
I am not sure if this is a good move on Apple's part in the long term, both parties, Republicans & Democrats, have shown a lot of ire for China. I don't think this will go unpunished. But perhaps they believe that the Chinese market is vastly more valuable than the US and are willing to eat any cost the US may levy against it in the future.
If I were them I'd have just moved it to Vietnam or India.
- ascorbic 7y agoThe main reason to manufacture in China isn't cost. It's far from the cheapest. It's supply chains. There's nowhere else that can compete.
- codeisawesome 7y agoCould you please link to any good self-contained material that covers the info on this advantage, for a layman like me? This sounds like a massive opportunity space.
- d-sc 7y agoTo picture the manufacturing capabilities of the US: Image trying to bake a cake, except all the ingredients come with a 8 week lead time and the people with the mixer, measuring cups and ovens are all 200 miles minimum away from each other. Then imagine 2 days before the cake is supposed to be done, the chef asks to change one ingredient. In China everything is one or two days away.
- ascorbic 7y agoIf you're in Shenzhen, you can have your parts in hours.