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And maybe also a trickle-down/tracer bullet for on-shoring? If the world goes further mad and US-Chinese relations sour, and/or if the institutional racism of
by the_other 3y ago
And maybe also a trickle-down/tracer bullet for on-shoring?
If the world goes further mad and US-Chinese relations sour, and/or if the institutional racism of globalisation is finally dismantled, such that manufacturing costs a similar amount the world over, Apple already have a functioning PoC for US assembly.
- philwelch 3y agoApple is just going to move manufacturing from China to India; in fact, they already are. Mac Pro can be assembled in the US because it’s a low volume high margin product. Manufacturing MacBooks, let alone iPhones in the US would still need to be bootstrapped from scratch, because the scale of Mac Pro production relative to the scale of other Apple production basically is scratch.