Yeah, like all the old American companies went through that process... Ford and GE come to mind. It's a good way to externalize some risks like labor and capita

Yeah, like all the old American companies went through that process... Ford and GE come to mind. It's a good way to externalize some risks like labor and capital investment, and ramp faster by delegating some optimizations to natural contractor competition. There's a clear cost when it comes to all-up cost and velocity of innovation of tightly-integrated components.