In hindsight, this thread probably should have been designated a "politics" thread, but that's hindsight.
Regardless of your feelings about Tim Cook kissing China's Pigu (Let's face it, he does. Timmy knows who butters his bread) the worldwide impact of COVID-19, or the Chinese response to it. The responses in this thread are characteristic of how the world is going to perceive China and Chinese made goods for the foreseeable future.
People in the "Western world" are going to lose their appetite for lower cost Chinese made goods. The perception will be that so much manufacturing was moved to China, costing domestic jobs (US mostly will be the perception) and for what?
So a cell phone can be a couple $100 cheaper? So some "rich" company could buy back some stock? So now hundreds of thousands (maybe millions worldwide) of people are dead because China couldn't keep people from eating bat soup and bushmeat in wet markets. For what? For who?
Three MILLION three hundred thousand people filed for unemployment in the US in the past week. If you were to ask those people in the next 5 years (keep in mind this doesn't include people who lost love ones, got sick, or have friends who got sick) if they were willing to pay more for an iPhone (which they can't buy now because they have no job), have it made domestically, and probably NOT have this business going on, you're going to get an emphatic yes.
In a few short weeks, any cost savings of off shoring manufacturing to China, at least for Joe the Consumer evaporated.
My uncle died from COVID last night. You think my Cousin cares how much an iPhone costs ever again? Or what Apple's stock price is?
Cook and Apple are incredibly myopic anymore. This company is doomed.
