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Man, outsourcing the hardware production is now a sign of decline? Globalism really is dying, you wouldn't have gotten away with just flatly saying something l
by SiempreViernes 4y ago
Man, outsourcing the hardware production is now a sign of decline?
Globalism really is dying, you wouldn't have gotten away with just flatly saying something like that in 2007.
- Sakos 4y agoGlobalization and the associated outsourcing has always been a contested issue. A lot of people who tried to pretend it wasn't were either trying to make a buck or willfully ignorant (see Germany's intentional utter dependence on Russian gas).
- etangent 4y agoif you read the article, it also talks about outsourcing software production. In the broad sense, if one outsources both hardware and software production, what is one even left with? Does one produce anything besides putting one's name on fashion apparel?
- jacobr1 4y agoManaging a distribution system, such as a sales and marketing organization is itself a feat. Plenty of tech companies no longer really innovate and just buy startups ... yet they still provide value (to their investors at least) by cross-selling the products to their clients, at a scale the startup might not have been able to reach organically (within the time window of their product remaining sufficiently innovative before it in turn in disrupted).