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I’m glad to see the most sensible response float to the top. It seems a lot of people having given any thought, or plain don’t understand, how complicated a pro

I’m glad to see the most sensible response float to the top. It seems a lot of people having given any thought, or plain don’t understand, how complicated a program like this would be to implement at a company the size of apple. Just think about how complicated this might be from a supply chain perspective. How about a support perspective?

Closi 5y ago
Absolutely - it's different doing this for a small business and doing it at 'Apple Scale'. Setting up distribution for this alone via an already-established 3PL multiuser facility will take 6-8 months if you include all the contract negotiations (and do them for all regions simultaneously). That's of course assuming you can't squeeze it in your existing facility - and that you go down the 3PL route (if you are setting it up yourself and don't have space in an existing facility it will take longer). And that's just distribution, it doesn't include all the work that has to go into 'consumerizing' all the parts (i.e. presumably they need to come with proper packaging, instructions, disclaimers etc). The people claiming that this can be done (well) in a few weeks have clearly never worked in ops or supply chain development.
- ksec 5y ago
  This is making the assumption a lot of consumer will be doing self repair. Basic Distribution are already done with current programme. Especially in US. > presumably they need to come with proper packaging, instructions, disclaimers etc. This will be the same as current Apple Authorized Service Provider. Except for a few parts which has MOQ. >The people claiming that this can be done (well) in a few weeks People are only claiming this isn't prepared in years. Not to mention it only begins launching in early 2022. It is basically building on top of what they announced in 2019, and later expanded or updated in 2020. The biggest obstacles for Apple is likely legal clearance.

Closi 5y ago

Absolutely - it's different doing this for a small business and doing it at 'Apple Scale'. Setting up distribution for this alone via an already-established 3PL multiuser facility will take 6-8 months if you include all the contract negotiations (and do them for all regions simultaneously). That's of course assuming you can't squeeze it in your existing facility - and that you go down the 3PL route (if you are setting it up yourself and don't have space in an existing facility it will take longer). And that's just distribution, it doesn't include all the work that has to go into 'consumerizing' all the parts (i.e. presumably they need to come with proper packaging, instructions, disclaimers etc). The people claiming that this can be done (well) in a few weeks have clearly never worked in ops or supply chain development.

ksec 5y ago
This is making the assumption a lot of consumer will be doing self repair. Basic Distribution are already done with current programme. Especially in US. > presumably they need to come with proper packaging, instructions, disclaimers etc. This will be the same as current Apple Authorized Service Provider. Except for a few parts which has MOQ. >The people claiming that this can be done (well) in a few weeks People are only claiming this isn't prepared in years. Not to mention it only begins launching in early 2022. It is basically building on top of what they announced in 2019, and later expanded or updated in 2020. The biggest obstacles for Apple is likely legal clearance.