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I don't agree with your assessment, so we have a disagreement, no biggie :) Car assembly lines were changed to include adding the seat-belt and the catalytic c
by passivate 5y ago
I don't agree with your assessment, so we have a disagreement, no biggie :)
Car assembly lines were changed to include adding the seat-belt and the catalytic converter, etc, etc due to regulatory mandates. Heck they had to redesign their entire car to include crumple zones for safety! I don't think a screw is all that much.
And so, electronics companies will figure out how to optimize their assembly lines to comply with the regulations and they will figure out how to manage the supply chain and everything else. Apple employs tons of smart people, and there are many smart people in the world who can help as well.
- giantrobot 5y agoCars are big items. Phones are small. Worldwide car sales are tens of millions per year. Smartphone sales are hundreds of millions per quarter. So not only are phones orders of magnitude smaller than cars there's two orders of magnitude more manufactured every year. You can disagree with me all you want but it doesn't change the fact of those scales. Phones don't just pop out of a mold or an extruder. Manufacturing billions of them is a big deal and anything making them more difficult to manufacture affects volumes.
- passivate 5y ago>Manufacturing billions of them is a big deal and anything making them more difficult to manufacture affects volumes. Sorry, but the environment comes first. They'll will just have to deal with it. This problem is imminently solvable, and tractable. We put a man on the moon, we can figure out how to automate putting on a few screws and a gasket as is done with watches and other commonplace items. Or they can come up with another modular design that is still repairable. We shouldn't put an artificial limit or human creativity and ingenuity.