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> so there is nothing stopping foxconn workers fro installing spyware on the factory floor. Which would mean that Tim Cook would be getting a late-night phone
by lenerdenator 3y ago
> so there is nothing stopping foxconn workers fro installing spyware on the factory floor.
Which would mean that Tim Cook would be getting a late-night phone call from an alphabet soup agency explaining to him in no uncertain terms that Apple's days of manufacturing devices in China are over, starting five minutes ago.
There's a business interest in not compromising hardware made in PRC for foreign companies. That doesn't exist when the CCP controls the company too.
- sofixa 3y agoIt's an interesting theory. Doing such a thing (Apple stopping to manufacture in China abruptly) would severely disrupt Apple manufacturing and sales, and probably tank its stock price while they take years to ramp up manufacturing in alternative places in India. Such an event would have big ramifications for the US stock markets and wider economy. Do you think the US government as a whole would accept the risk of a stock market run by ruining a $2.6 trillion market cap company?
- Wytwwww 3y ago> would severely disrupt Apple manufacturing and sales, and probably tank its stock price And the whole thing becoming public knowledge wouldn't cause that? Anyway... realistically they'd take some "measures" to make sure this never happens again while staying in the same factories and then probably accelerate their plan to move somewhere else long term.
- lenerdenator 3y agoIt might not be "abrupt" (was taking poetic license with "five minutes ago") but there would probably be tremendous pressure to accelerate the creation of production capacity in countries less adversarial to the United States and its allies.
- xanthor 3y agoThe late-night phone calls would be about the US government losing the ability to spy on its own citizens.