Apple CEO Tim Cook said the reason they manufacture in China is not because of cost but because the manufacturing technology and ecosystem simply does not exist anywhere else.
Maybe somebody should inform Tim Cook that their lack of investment in America is why America doesn’t have the manufacturing infrastructure like it used to.
“Apple CEO Tim Cook said the reason they manufacture in China is not because of cost but because the manufacturing technology and ecosystem simply does not exist anywhere else.”
Hopefully Trump’s people understand that. It’s the stuff you DON’T see that was outsourced to China, like the refining of the alloys needed to make Ball Bearings in landing gear that can handle 5000 carrier landings, rather than 50 landings, before pitting.
We USED TO do that refining, but a combination of regulations, Karens, Niby’s, UNIONS, and other crap made the siren song from China irresistible...and so all those problems went away with China. As to the refining being a defense-critical technology, that was lost due to being fourth-tier subcontractor work...so no concern that China would do something that we no longer could was simply ‘lost’.
You can’t fight this stuff at the top level, you have rebuild from the bottom-up and just figuring out what skills and technologies we lost will likely take a decade...and solving those problems will be even tougher since we still have regulations, Nimby’s, Karens, and, especially UNIONS to deal with.
China also doesn’t have to listen to ‘environmentalists’.
Indeed. China is the closest to the US in the 1940.s See
How ridiculous was American production in World War 2? Quora ^ | 2019 | Chris Morehouse This is Willow Run. It was a B-24 plant built by Ford to mass produce the bomber. It ran its line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and produced a complete B-24 every 63 minutes on average. At peak, it produced 100 bombers in just two days.
US companies have a pathological obsession with controlling expenses because they are run by accountants. There is no vision for the business, only for reducing money going out to an absurd level. The company stagnates and has to outsource what should be their core competency just to survive.
China upgrades the factories anyway because they aren’t under the thumb of US companies’ accountants.