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> but unwilling to brunt the cost that companies will then pass on to those same customer HUGE "citation needed" here. Apple did a study years ago (when Obama
by erichocean 4y ago
> but unwilling to brunt the cost that companies will then pass on to those same customer
HUGE "citation needed" here. Apple did a study years ago (when Obama was President) and the cost to manufacture iPhones in the US was well under 10% of the total cost, by their own calculations.
The cost of labor in China has only gotten worse since then (hence the move to Vietnam in the OP).
- upupandup 4y ago> years ago No longer the case obviously but more importantly, Apple studied themselves and found they were only saving 10% in costs? This makes no sense lol
- lancesells 4y ago10% is many billions every three months. I don't think it's wise or ethical to manufacture in countries that have human rights violations but there's nothing ethical about a corporation.
- sneak 4y agoWhere do you propose that Apple move their Texas plant then? (The US, like China, also runs concentration camps. As far as I can tell there is no country on Earth that uniformly preserves human rights.)
- dirtyid 4y agoThat quip was over cost of labour specifically. The broader point was US no longer had the manufacturing base or expertise pool to manufacture advanced Apple products at scale or timelines of modern release cycles at all, i.e. Cooks observation that PRC had enough tooling engineers to fill multiple stadiums vs US a room. The entire point was that cheap labour wasn't what was keeping Apple in manufacturing in PRC.