[Black Agnes]

https://www.cnet.com/news/a-tale-of-apple-the-iphone-and-overseas-manufacturing/

Interesting article from ‘12

Tech companies won’t recover quickly from this if China is indeed shut down for more than a cpl weeks.

[Black Agnes]

https://money.cnn.com/2012/10/17/technology/apple-china-jobs/;

[mrsmith]

And consider a variation on an old aphorism...
“If you owe 10 products to a buyer, you’re in trouble.
If you owe 10,000 products to a buyer they’re in trouble.”
(Or something like that)
We’ll see China using this in ways we can never imagine. Tricky, dirty ways.

[redlegplanner]

never mind circuit boards - there will be more basic issues to deal with:

https://www.foxnews.com/world/hong-kong-toilet-paper-robbery-coronavirus-outbreak

[justa-hairyape]

Yeah we know that cause the usual suspects from the chamber of commerce have been pooping skittles in these threads.