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Are Americans buying "high quality goods" from China all day?
by apercu 2y ago
Are Americans buying "high quality goods" from China all day?
- zelda420 2y agoIsn’t nearly every tech worker on this forum using an apple product ‘Designed in California’ but actually made in china
- silverlake 2y agoChina earns relatively little per iPhone/Mac. The complex components come from other countries like Taiwan, Korea and Japan. Apple earns a hefty profit for marketing savvy, iCloud services, and perhaps financing. China makes a pittance for screwing all the parts together. Where would you prefer to be in this product pipeline?
- apercu 2y agoYep, I buy an iPhone "all day" from China. That's kind of a straw man argument. Go pick up every single cord, speaker, lamp, etc. in your house and look at the label. That low quality shit that lasts a year is what I am talking about. Furniture used to be handed down for generations. Now, if you move apartments twice it falls apart.
- watwut 2y agoThe furniture used to stay in place and net be moved around distances all that much. Due to being heavy and difficult to transport. And impossible to disassemble and reassemble.
- ben_w 1y agoThe cost of all the tech bought in a year is not insignificant. Back when I was in full time education, my summer holiday job was making HVAC on a production line. The transformers I screwed into backing plates came from China. The furniature you complain of? The furniature I have comes mostly from Ikea, which is famously not Chinese.
- chucksmash 1y agoIkea may be famously Swedish, but are they making my ROCKSJÖN and my EKENÄSET in Stockholm?
- sneak 2y agoYes. Companies like Apple, Anker, Amazon, and DJI all manufacture their products in China. The highest quality products in the world come from China.