I disagree. I’m not talking about moving things tomorrow. I’m talking about a decades long plan to create a new manufacturing base through education, investment and cooperation. Much of the same stuff people want to do in the US, but in Mexico with highly specialized positions coming mainly from the US.
I disagree then. A decades long plan is too late and cant even come close to Asia in many ways. What about infrastructures? Know-hows? Labor skills? Systems?
Too late for what? I’m thinking long term.
Hence the stated need for investment and education.
Until they’re not.
It’s certainly not impossible to change a supply chain in the long term.
I suspect that since it’s such a small part of apple's business, it’s a loss leader aimed at placating trump. Tim can claim he’s moving manufacturing back to the US and just absorb the additional production costs to make a few minis.
How does long term solve anything? The labor fee itself is already higher than Asia which can not be solved forever. Literally, all electronic productions and infrastructure are based in Asia and you have no idea what you are talking about or it seems like you are acting like MAGA believing that Trump can revive manufacturing industry in USA.
That's not enough and totally pointless.
Hahaha, you must be dreaming. Even Apple relies on Asia to produce their own products and are there any well known tech companies with factories in North and South America? NONE.
You never provided any plausible solutions to replace Asia which makes it illogical.
I see where the disconnect here is. You assume I’m specifically talking about electronics manufacturing. I’m not. I’m talking about growing whatever types of manufacturing work best. I, like you, think moving manufacturing to the US isn’t practical. That’s why I proposed Mexico as an alternative.
Again, same for others. Besides, Mexico has a lot of fundamental problems while issues that I mentioned aren't resolved such as infrastructure, security, labors, and raw materials.
Considering Mexico is already one of the top manufacturing countries in the world (7th by output), I don’t see how you come to the conclusion that growth isn’t possible.
Because it lacks infrastructures and has other issues. Being 7th has nothing to do with that and will be very limited.
You might be on to something.
Being 7th certainly implies that it has infrastructure. But, again, my point was to focus on building out manufacturing infrastructure in Mexico instead of the US.
They don't migrate to work, they finish working and migrate to retire with a better cost of living. Expatriates.
These days, that sentiment is growing even stronger. People are increasingly frustrated with the U.S. due to rising prices, fuel hikes, and the anticipated increases in the general cost of living and utilities. Many are placing the blame squarely on the U.S.
Similarly for people WITHIN the US. Regardless of government issued statistics, costs have significantly increased this year for critical fuel, utilities (especially natural gas and electricity to support AI data centers), home financing, healthcare, and almost laughable (cry-able?) increases in food costs. Specifically for food, avoidable expensive items like truffles (3 black truffles for $28) have remained constant while bread ($5/loaf) and milk ($3.79/gallon) have “enjoyed” 30% increases in a year, with many other staples with even higher increases.
Mostly it's the control of hardware, software, cloud storage and payment systems mostly residing in the US. It's going to take a few years but the rest of the world can no longer look to the US as a reliable friend. Even if the administration dramatically changes in 3 years we are looking to ourselves and elsewhere.
It will come with pre-installed McDonald’s, Diet Coke and Depends ordering apps.
I don’t think so…it’s already happening, certainly in the EU.
Certainly .. as the decisions on many things in the US become crazier! Put simply, it's like staying away from the bad kids in the playground. Every day brings more madness.
As a result, their Anti-US efforts can only go so far. I don’t see them NOT buying iPhones or Android based devices any time soon. 🙂
The EU is being conquered without a shot being fired.
You need to ask yourself why the US is rapidly finding itself isolated and the answer is pretty simple.
