Your point is very strange. Apple did not just suddenly decide in 2018 to manufacture in China. It is what they have been doing for like 10-15 years before that

Your point is very strange. Apple did not just suddenly decide in 2018 to manufacture in China. It is what they have been doing for like 10-15 years before that. If you count from iPod on. In mid 2000s it certainly was not an option to manufacture just anywhere and certainly not by them. > Not necessarily a decade. Intel is promising ~4 years for their fabs, and hoping to be online by 2025-ish if I recall correctly. Fab production is also, it seems, going quicker than expected. Ok and how many generations is Intel behind TSMC now and how many will they be in 4 years? You think Apple investors and customers are suddenly going to be OK with a new version of the iphone being worse than its predecessor? To be feasible they can't just catch up, they have to surpass.