They are making iphones in India just fine. They know how they would move if they needed to, they just need a reason.
apple investors: how dare you wsj, moving manufacturing Around is impossible !!!All companies ever: Lets move manufacturing to China
WSJ: APPLE!!!!!!!!
I don’t get the point. This outbreak could’ve happened in any country.
No sir not at allNot only Apple but almost all large corporations rely on China. The Chinese got the USA by the balls.
I got a crazy idea. Bring home the troops. Call it a national security emergency. Invest the roughly $1 Trillion per year saved building infrastructure, investing in supply chain and other savings to rebuild our intellectual capital and stop policing the world. Maybe, I don't know, start reinvesting in semiconductor fabs, like the Chionese, South Korean and Taiwan governments all do.
We have a choice, police the world and fail, or invest in our people and succeed.
As the manufacturing engine of the world, China also makes the upstream materials used in the manufacturing of products.
If you're manufacturing an LCD, you need the chemical substrates, glass, optical films, and backlight modules, all of which come from China. The idea that you can separate it and suddenly manufacture in India or the U.S. is just silly.
Tim Cook has talked about the skills available in China. This is exactly what he's referring to. Workers in other countries don't suddenly gain the skills to make and research the above mentioned items. It requires decades of government investment and focus on education.
I got a crazy idea. Bring home the troops. Call it a national security emergency. Invest the roughly $1 Trillion per year saved building infrastructure, investing in supply chain and other savings to rebuild our intellectual capital and stop policing the world. Maybe, I don't know, start reinvesting in semiconductor fabs, like the Chionese, South Korean and Taiwan governments all do.
We have a choice, police the world and fail, or invest in our people and succeed.
MERS, Ebola, Dengue, Cholerea, Zika, Measles, and H1N1 outbreaks didn't start in ChinaChina has a poor track record, history is nor on their side when it comes to pandemics. Just look at the last 15 years all major outbreaks were out of China.
Not to worry, Uyghur force labor to the rescue, this is how china is fixing it and apple keeps a blind eye.
Production on Apple's devices has been stymied in recent weeks due to delays caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China. Many of Apple's China-based suppliers had to shut down for two weeks or more in February, and there are still staffing issues as factories work to ramp up production around travel bans, quarantines, and other problems.
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Amid the China coronavirus outbreak, which has caused Apple to announce that it won't make its March quarter revenue goals, The Wall Street Journal has taken a look at Apple's reliance on China and why Apple is likely to continue to be dependent on China for the foreseeable future.
Apple's operations team has been raising concerns about the company's reliance on China, and as early as 2015, there were suggestions that Apple relocate assembly of one or more products to Vietnam, allowing Apple to start training workers and creating component providers outside of China.
Senior managers shot down the idea at the time, and transitioning away from China has been "too challenging to undertake." Apple has, however, begun to move some production outside of China. Apple has moved AirPods Pro assembly to Vietnam due to tariffs, and now produces some iPhones in India, but a complete break "is impossible."
As The Wall Street Journal points out, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been downplaying the need for changes in the supply chain. On Friday, Cook said in an interview that if there are supply chain changes because of the coronavirus, it will be "adjusting some knobs, not some kind of wholesale fundamental change."
Apple is not able to break away from China because China has hundreds of thousands of employees, both skilled and unskilled, that have expertise in manufacturing Apple's devices.Should Apple decide to move production out of China, that could impact device sales in the country. China is responsible for close to a fifth of Apple's total revenue.
Apple's relationship with China began many years ago, when Foxconn began making iPods in 2001 and the iPhone in 2007. As Apple device sales have grown, the factories that assemble Apple devices have also grown in tandem, resulting in what The Wall Street Journal describes as a "triangle of interdependency."Apple did plan to assemble some iPhone 11 models in India, but the effort was halted before a single manufacturing line was set up, as Apple believed India was not ready to supply the skilled labor or robust infrastructure that Apple expects. iPhone 11 models were produced in China instead.
That's not likely to change in 2020 because there's no supply chain in place and workers in India aren't ready to produce the high-end iPhones that are expected to be released in 2020. As for U.S. production, Apple is manufacturing some Mac Pro models in the United States (those sold in the United States), but Mac Pro models sold in the rest of the world are still manufactured in China because the U.S. also doesn't have the skilled labor force that China has available.
The Wall Street Journal's full report on Apple's dependence on China can be read on The Wall Street Journal website.
Article Link: WSJ Examines Apple's Reliance on China Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
So ... innovate?In the US, the healthcare cost for your employees alone would crush your product pricing. Then there's the labor law, lack of supplier network, etc, etc. And don't forget China is one of the few countries in the world that has the rare earth resources that are needed to make electronics.
We are simply not equipped to be the mass manufacturer of the world. It would only make sense to produce high precision, small quantity and high value items (things like fighter jets, killer drones, missiles, see the pattern here?)
And the fact they can be forced to do the (btw low skilled) labor. And if no available china can summon more, now even uyghur are forced in to labor.. it’s a totalitarian regime, apple should not do business with them.. slavery cannot in any way be condoned, not even by proxy.its not just the skills. But the huge number of people with those particular skills in one place. That’s the most important part.
China has a poor track record, history is nor on their side when it comes to pandemics. Just look at the last 15 years all major outbreaks were out of China.
Wrong fact. They never moved it to China. iPhone was manufactured in China by Foxxconn since day one.
WOW. this is sad. Steve Wozniak and his wife might have the virus
they were both in Asia in January.
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Was it coronavirus? Steve Wozniak says he doesn't know if he and his wife were infected
Apple co-founder hinted on Twitter that he and his wife, Janet, may have been infected with coronavirus. He tells USA TODAY he can't know for sure.www.yahoo.com
Traitors to the American worker
These companies are getting what they deserve.
Really? So why do they always originate from the same one country? Did you see their food markets? Did you see what they do with animals?I don’t get the point. This outbreak could’ve happened in any country.