It would be Courageous to move all production out of the PRC, or any other totalitarian state.
Interesting to note the article mentions iPhone 6, 6s and 7. I wouldn't have guessed these were still in production!
Interesting to note the article mentions iPhone 6, 6s and 7. I wouldn't have guessed these were still in production!
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>Interesting to note the article mentions iPhone 6, 6s and 7
This is pretty much why Apple or other OEMs can't move all production out of PRC. Mainland supply chain and expertise is critical to rapidly refining and launching new products. Once manufacturing matures, the process can be exported to other countries. Apart from Indian, I don't think any other country can replicate Chinese scale and specific expertise, the latter being particularly limiting due to demographics. Both would take generations to develop.
For all it's 'courage' and self righteousness, Apple is a profit seeking entity like every other.
https://www.apple.com/environment/
https://www.apple.com/diversity/
https://www.apple.com/privacy/
https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/
Those are some fantastic values. It's our job as the public to demand companies stick to their values and to cause a ruckus if they act like hypocrites. And it's our job to pass laws to encourage better values. My 2 cents.
curious, what do you mean by that?
"China will spin up African manufacturing"
you think that will work? also, my limited understanding is that china is after africa's natural resources, infrastructure etc, not people.
As for Africa, they're already paying for the infrastructure, if resources is near by, it makes sense to consolidate manufacturing. And geopolitical it's preferable to boosting the development of India, an immediate regional competitor. Also Africa is fragmented and easier to negotiate with, have similar demographics to India (lots of young), more willing to learn mandarin. Alternatively, we're not even sure if massive manufacturing nations are viable with automation. Regardless there's
Hardly, they're building it themself since there isn't any
[1] https://singjupost.com/tim-cook-at-apple-wwdc-2018-keynote-f...
This trend honestly makes me feel dirty to work in software. If you only use a few core apps, iOS 12 looks and feels just like iOS 7, yet it needs several times the horsepower to work. And unlike on the web, we can't blame it on JavaScript ads. It's just shoddy engineering that aligns with Apple's incentives.