>but will it be true 5 years from now? Yes. Apple is never going to leave China. They've already expanded assembly to other countries like Brazil and India to

>but will it be true 5 years from now? Yes. Apple is never going to leave China. They've already expanded assembly to other countries like Brazil and India to get around protectionist barriers, but there's never going to be a time in the next 5 or 10 years where no assembly takes place in China. The scale Apple is operating at is just too big. And just like Brazil or India, China can implement its own protectionist barriers at any time so there'd still be a reason to do assembly locally.