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dleexlff t1_j2238q6 wrote

apple doesn’t need china. we only needed china for the cheap labor… now china doesn’t hold that spot anymore, obviously. not only do we have cheap labor with india and south america, but they also have the smarts that china never had.

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Fairuse t1_j23ifmo wrote

Apple needs China not for cheap labor but for the manufacturing infrastructure and scale. No many places can repurpose entire manufacturing line in under a year to pump out hundreds of millions of devices. Only other places can match manufacturing infrastructure is South Korea and some SEA countries, but they don’t have the scale to handle Apples volume needs.

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