Previously Out-of-Favor Apple Supplier Wins New MacBook Air Orders

[SFjohn]

Time for Apple to diversify, start assembling out of China. I know it's a big ask, but we have to.

You mean like they are already doing?

 

[genovelle]

I really wish Apple would do more to diversify out of China. Manufacturing in a single country is a risk, not a feature.

The supply chain and the skilled workers willing to do manual labor is there. Apple rarely uses off the shelf parts and you think people complain about the Apple tax now. Even though a comparable configured win-box from a well known brand will cost the same.

 

[Le0M]

It varies drastically by location, a few places it’s zero, and others it’s around 10%, and pretty much everything in between.

So, let's say 10%, that makes the Italian new MBA price 120 USD extra compared to the US version. That's a 10% price increase.

 

[jav6454]

Not sure I like this. Maybe this is just a sign of how bad the supply chain really is that Apple has to use them.

This is a sign of the issues surrounding lockdowns at their main suppliers. They have been in lockdowns and China isn't letting up; hence, production is seriously disrupted.

 

[svish]

Hopefully there will not be any manufacturing defects/quality issues!

 

[Whathappened]

Well, from 1285 to 1650 USD makes it 365.
That's not as little!

About 1250 Euro without tax vs 1199 usd without taxes.

 

[Le0M]

About 1250 Euro without tax vs 1199 usd without taxes.

That's about 120 USD, or 10% extra.

 

[frownface]

isn't this the company that was using slave labour?


edit: looks like that was the previous company, who's factory was bought over by wingtech. Carry on apple

 

[Whathappened]

That's about 120 USD, or 10% extra.

As I said: isn’t that much. In fact it’s even less:

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finance.yahoo.com

 

[roygnelson]

so....anyone on here gonna protest and boycott because its from china and not india or vietnam? lol

I will with Wingtech getting the contract.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Jelly scroll not only depends on the orientation but the quality of the controller. It could have at least been mitigated with higher quality parts (ex. iPad Pro) but between the quality and design choice it was amplified.

Aside from literally the main thing you look at being poor quality you can add in things like poor response time (29ms), brightness is advertised as 500 but in tests barely hits 450, lower clock speed A15 clock speed than iPhone counterpart, users reporting screen pressure issues when writing or touching certain areas of the panel especially the outer edge, users complained about chassis “creaking” noises which I had as well, and lastly the buttons are of relatively poor quality as they have an unnecessary amount of play.

What you may call a design flaw I call poor quality.

I wasn't aware of most of them, and have since learned to live with the jelly scrolling.