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Apple truly needs to get out of China, the amount of virtue signalling they do comes up sour considering their current manufacturing being heavily based in Chin
by Shivetya 6y ago
Apple truly needs to get out of China, the amount of virtue signalling they do comes up sour considering their current manufacturing being heavily based in China. Look, I am all for corporations playing the good guy and standing up for what is right but you don't get a Get Out of Jail Free card with just a message, actions speak louder.
This could be more along the lines of alarmist chatter but should the US get a new President China's best opportunity to act on some of its threats to Hong Kong and Taiwan is after February 2021. Guarantee they took the lesson to heart about how Crimea and Ukraine were handled with effectively little more than hash tag diplomacy.
- dan-robertson 6y agoI don’t think the dependence for manufacturing is sufficient to explain all the pressure Apple faces in China. Even if they were to move all manufacturing (not just final assembly) out of China they would still want to sell iPhones to the Chinese. The cynic in me would suppose that the move is merely in case there is a backlash against anything “made in China” by western consumers/governments, but maybe Apple really are trying to reduce dependence on China or just cut costs. In China I expect Apple to be just as craven as ever.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoApple USA and Apple China are, in a sense, different companies, even if they're owned by the same shareholders. If they're manufacturing for the USA market in China, it gives China leverage over Apple USA and not just Apple China.
- throw776432 6y agoIf that’s your reason, then Apple would need to move to Switzerland. India has its own atrocities with Kashmir, Pakistan, recently Nepal, and their discriminatory Citizensip policy.