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Isn't the biggest problem with iPhone production that the volume is so high that very few places aside from China have the requisite number of engineers to buil

• shagie 4y ago
  Remember hearing about Detroit back in the day? Where the transmission was made down the street from the auto factory. You probably didn't need to go more than 20 miles from the auto factory in Detroit to get 90% of the car parts. If one supplier had a problem, you'd just go to another that was only slightly more distant. Shenzen is like that. Everything you need for electronics manufacturing of nearly anything is located in the city. This means that if part of the supply chain is disrupted in normal times, you could go get the same part from somewhere else not far away. Today, the United States auto manufacturing isn't that way... and frankly it isn't even fair to say "United States auto manufacturing" - https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.corvetteforum.com-vbulletin/1300x818/5cbfbc71_471f_4736_92b5_20941e3169a1_733b116a4018aafc82994f5c7c7b191a1387202d.jpeg https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.corvetteforum.com-vbulletin... So, here's the problem that Anyone building an iPhone would have - where do you get the capacitors on the board from? how much lead time do you need to keep the supply going? What happens if the supplier isn't able to send them? How big of an industrial base do you need to make all the parts and how distributed is that industrial base?
  • mook 4y ago
    But the iPhones aren't assembled anywhere near Shenzen? The article mentions Zhengzhou which is about halfway up China (where Shenzen is at the southern edge).