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The US market is still 3-4x China in terms of market size: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_markets https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis

The US market is still 3-4x China in terms of market size: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_markets https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_mar...

y4mi 7y ago
Not if you're thinking of growth. They already'captured' so much of the us market that catering to it has sever denimishing returns. Most people already in the ecosystem will keep buying it no matter what Apple does. I'm China, they stand to gain a lot of new customers by catering to their wishes (or more specifically the wishes of their government)
- lettergram 7y ago
  I mean, it’s still the 2nd largest market. I wasn’t trying to make any claims, just pointing out the US market is indeed the largest market by a large margin.
scottlocklin 7y ago
Doesn't really matter if your entire supply chain is in China. Globalist economic ideologues forget to mention this. You stick your supply chain in a totalitarian state with artificially cheap labor costs, and you pretty much have to do as they say. Good luck sourcing chips for future military systems.
- q3k 7y ago
  > Good luck sourcing chips for future military systems. There's still comparatively little high-tech silicon fabrication in mainland China.
- lettergram 7y ago
  Intel has a large portion of their chip manufacturing in the US...
- thawaway1837 7y ago
  It would be so much better for the people in HK if Apple and the US had no economic influence there at all I’m sure. Apple and the Americans that work for it would be so much richer if the majority of its revenue (international vs US) just disappeared.
- kerng 7y ago
  Majority of silicon chips are not made in China - this is one if the big misunderstandings
  - remarkEon 7y ago
    And an even bigger misunderstanding is thinking that this negates or somehow neutralizes the fact that so much high tech manufacturing takes place in mainland China. I get it - China hasn’t done complex silicon fabrication yet (at least at scale). But the risk here isn’t a Chinese company replacing e.g. Intel and the US Military (stupidly) putting those chips in their hardware. It’s China MITMing the supply chain as it exists today.

The US market is still 3-4x China in terms of market size: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_markets https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_mar...

y4mi 7y ago

Not if you're thinking of growth. They already'captured' so much of the us market that catering to it has sever denimishing returns. Most people already in the ecosystem will keep buying it no matter what Apple does. I'm China, they stand to gain a lot of new customers by catering to their wishes (or more specifically the wishes of their government)

lettergram 7y ago
I mean, it’s still the 2nd largest market. I wasn’t trying to make any claims, just pointing out the US market is indeed the largest market by a large margin.

scottlocklin 7y ago

Doesn't really matter if your entire supply chain is in China. Globalist economic ideologues forget to mention this. You stick your supply chain in a totalitarian state with artificially cheap labor costs, and you pretty much have to do as they say. Good luck sourcing chips for future military systems.

q3k 7y ago
> Good luck sourcing chips for future military systems. There's still comparatively little high-tech silicon fabrication in mainland China.
lettergram 7y ago
Intel has a large portion of their chip manufacturing in the US...
thawaway1837 7y ago
It would be so much better for the people in HK if Apple and the US had no economic influence there at all I’m sure. Apple and the Americans that work for it would be so much richer if the majority of its revenue (international vs US) just disappeared.
kerng 7y ago
Majority of silicon chips are not made in China - this is one if the big misunderstandings
- remarkEon 7y ago
  And an even bigger misunderstanding is thinking that this negates or somehow neutralizes the fact that so much high tech manufacturing takes place in mainland China. I get it - China hasn’t done complex silicon fabrication yet (at least at scale). But the risk here isn’t a Chinese company replacing e.g. Intel and the US Military (stupidly) putting those chips in their hardware. It’s China MITMing the supply chain as it exists today.