Every iPhone should be lovingly handmade by Tim Cook in his home in California.Diversifying production away from China is terrible? Why?
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Every iPhone should be lovingly handmade by Tim Cook in his home in California.Diversifying production away from China is terrible? Why?
They are for Chinese Market. 😂
India isn't far off from what China is these days. Things are really turning bad over there.Diversifying production away from China is terrible? Why?
Remind me again why Apple can’t have their products manufactured in the USA?
Doesn't work. India is not a part of RCEP, so no RECP countries, especially China, will accept anything from India without hefty tariffs. The best bet would be the US market.
Remind me again why Apple can’t have their products manufactured in the USA?
And I’m discussing why this bothers you when there are much bigger issues that are worth having concerns over.We are starting to be talking different things. I'm only expressing my pet peeves when tech bloggers use the verb manufacture willy nilly. That's all. About China, that's another discussion.
The sarcasm bounced right over you didn't it ? lolDoesn't work. India is not a part of RCEP, so no RECP countries, especially China, will accept anything from India without hefty tariffs. The best bet would be the US market.
Not really there are wealthy people in India too and Apple products are popular.they’ve been assembling other iPhones there for some time but only for Indian market.iPhones are too expensive for millions and millions of India’s mobile users. The Apple phones (at least 14’s) are for export.
Vietnam is fine ,Samsung been making their phones there but India is just not known for electronics assembly or quality.hope they would shift fully to India and Vietnam. manufacturing in China has been a pain for many businesses.
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Also Steve Jobs told Barack Obama that it would take at least ten years to make up the education and manufacturing base gap. Well that was more than ten years ago and the US didn’t work hard in that direction so nothing has changed.
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I don't think that's the real reason. Take Samsung for instance - the company is Apple's #1 competitor and also the largest smartphone maker in the world. It took them only about 3-4 years to build out all necessary infrastructure in a country previously known for agragrian and textile output/exports and move South along with 200+ suppliers out of China. Samsung closed out their last China smartphone operation in 2019.
I agree that it doesn't make sense to bring low-tech, low-value assembly/packaging/testings part of the supply-chain to the US, but that's not b/c there is some sort of "education" or "manufacturing" base gap.
I don’t know if you actually live in tech world or not but Samsung has largest factory in the world for mobile phone in India. India makes 28% mobile phone in the world.Vietnam is fine ,Samsung been making their phones there but India is just not known for electronics assembly or quality.
Apple is a premium brand and shouldn’t do this.
a few missed points there:Moving to Korea from China is different than moving to the United States.
Not sure what you mean took 3-4 years, and how you consider Korea to be an agrarian country in the timeline we’re talking about. Samsung had been operating many business units for many years and Korea has been known for technology manufacturing for some time now and not just Samsung.
Maybe it took them 3-4 years to move their smartphone business out of China and into Korea, but if anything that should tell you just how difficult it would be for Apple to move it to the US. Seems like ten years is about right then, and that’s if the government and industry is serious about it, which they have not been until very recently.
To be clear I’m not saying it shouldn’t be done, just that we shouldn’t be surprised it hasn’t yet. Nobody has taken it seriously, and I don’t mean just Apple.
We’ve been digging this hole for ourselves regarding China for at least the last 30 years. No surprise now when we look up and can barely see the sky anymore from the bottom. I seem to recall someone a few years ago making it an issue but that seems to have gone away…
true true. VN is epic for electronics now. won't be surprised to see Made in VN on the productsVietnam is fine ,Samsung been making their phones there but India is just not known for electronics assembly or quality.
Apple is a premium brand and shouldn’t do this.
Spoken like someone who has never learned anything about history or China.Very nice, the sooner we get away from China, the better. Helped them enrich their state enough already..
India isn't far off from what China is these days. Things are really turning bad over there.
Spoken like someone who has never learned anything about history or China.
People forget that just 200 years ago, China had a higher GDP than Europe and the US combined. This significant advantage was eroded by drugs, colonialism, and wars. Unfortunately, people still think that the rise of modern China is a fluke and only because they steal US tech or US helped them. You can argue that China is simply regaining its world status that it had before it was eroded by the West.
Samsung makes it's flagship / higher end devices in Vietnam / Korea / ChinaI don’t know if you actually live in tech world or not but Samsung has largest factory in the world for mobile phone in India. India makes 28% mobile phone in the world.
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Samsung makes it's flagship / higher end devices in Vietnam / Korea / China
It's only their budget low end devices that are made in India and I think only for certain Asian market,the rest of budget line is made in China.
I've never seen any Samsung device that says made in India and I work in a firm that buys/sells refurbished electronic devices online.
Apple only makes premium / mid range
Samsung makes premium / midrange but also lots of cheap low end products as well.
different business models.