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Apple Now Assembles 14% of iPhones in India
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So is the push for efficiency so no one has a job? Does this end with only high paid skilled technical people who can create robots and systems to produce everything and completely remove the need for those who work in production factories?
Good Trend! More manufacturing out of China into other countries is good.
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What’s the motivation? They are doing it in India to avoid having to pay duties which would affect their ability to compete in India.
Also, Europe has lost access to cheap energy at least for now and a lot of manufacturing is moving out of Europe.
In the US, the cost of health insurance makes it impossible to manufacture competitively. Even most automakers are now moving to, or considering moving to, Mexico.
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The infrastructure (especially at a competitive cost) does not exist.
Imagine the whine-fest of epic proportions here if Apple created the infrastructure in the US and needed to increase the retail price.
It's insane that people are actually OK with this. Doesn't it bother you that these people are "basically owned" by the company? They don't get to have their own lives. I've never heard anyone put it so plainly
This is evil.
Apple needs to get away from a production model that requires a human hand to touch every single iPhone being made. The humans should be there to control and repair/troubleshoot the robots. That doesn't eliminate a human presence in factories, it just greatly reduces the number.
This is necessary because the number of humans, especially in China, is likely to fall a fair bit over the next few decades. By 2100, the population of China is expected to be less than half of what it is today. Most advanced countries are shrinking in population. The only reason the US isn't shrinking is immigration, but from a global perspective, that's just rearranging deck chairs.
So we need AI and robotics to replace humans because there just aren't going to be as many humans. The end result will be a smaller number of humans living much better and more fulfilling lives. And I suspect also much *longer* lives.
They will want to really diversify the manufacturing base more in the coming years... political instability and climate change are having huge impacts across the globe.
A mix of manufacturing in developed and developing countries is the best bet. It strengthens ties, creates jobs and makes for more resilient manufacturing.
A mix of manufacturing in developed and developing countries is the best bet. It strengthens ties, creates jobs and makes for more resilient manufacturing.
Oh no... racism again. I prefer facts like Quality Control needed improvement and it was done.
China Labour is not as cheap anymore as people believe. What makes production cheap is the ability to scale.
It is hard to ramp up iPhone number of production while maintaining quality anywhere but in China. India is slowly ramping up, but I can imagine producing for not that much of a higher price in the US. It's just getting comparable unit numbers out that would be a large challenge.
"...accelerating efforts to diversify beyond China..."
"...maximizing their profit beyond China..."
Has nothing to do with diversifying.
Apple is only interested in money... and lots of it.
No one knows better about the problems in China, assembly lines, government et al. than Tim Apple.
So let's just little by little move everything to other countries.
"...maximizing their profit beyond China..."
Has nothing to do with diversifying.
Apple is only interested in money... and lots of it.
No one knows better about the problems in China, assembly lines, government et al. than Tim Apple.
So let's just little by little move everything to other countries.
The current regulatory environment makes it very difficult to manufacture many thing here.
they are not owned by the company. On the contrary, wages are well paid according to local standards, the company PROVIDES housing, utilities, even gyms, food and people are happy to be employed