That is one of the questions, the other is do they have the factories that make all the other, lower tech, but necessary inputs to the production pipeline. It does not make sense to ship these parts somewhere, they need to be made locally.
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Apple Shifting More iPhone and iPad Production to India and Vietnam
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I lived in India for about 9 months out of 2 years working there. Employees are definitely not joyous for nothing. The biggest issue I had was dealing with local corrupt officials in Bangalore and Mysore. Any new development or foreign business they waddle down there to get their cut to ensure in their words “everything is going smoothly”. In other words if you want any permit or adherence to laws that just materialize out of no where you gotta grease the wheels or they will delay things.
Apple is a different beast and more legal eyes to scrutinize. I only had 150 employees out there.
There is no where here in the U.S. with enough people that have the requisite skills and enough suppliers of the low tech, low value input components needed to make it possible to build the devices here.
Nope!!
Think about what you said:
Communist China allows their longtime enemy Taiwan to set up shop in Communist China??
Read a Book!!
Which semiconductor manufacturers have large factories there? What consumer electronics products are manufactured there? What is the size of the largest factory and where is it?
Intel has in Costa Rica. As one point, all Intel first generation i3, i5, and i7 CPUs came from Costa Rica. Also, all Intel motherboards came from Costa Rica. Get a sense how big it is? The site is still active but switched to other electronic component production.
Car part manufacturers for LED and driver controller PCB boards have facilities in Honduras (Lear and Empire Electronics). Those companies already employ 20k people in total. That's for Ford, GM and Chrysler.
Brazil has component assembly facilities for several companies, not sure how big as I don't have the details.
I can go on and on....
I had thought they were mainland Chinese, but nope:Nope!!
Think about what you said:
Communist China allows their longtime enemy Taiwan to set up shop in Communist China??
Read a Book!!
"Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group and better known as Foxconn, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer with its headquarters in Tucheng, New Taipei City, Taiwan."
The CCP has no problem allowing foreign investment into China as long as it doesn't threaten their power. Even from Taiwan. Why would they object to getting money, infrastructure, and IP from a country they plan to invade later?
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There are a lot of Taiwanese companies that "set up shop" in China.Nope!!
Think about what you said:
Communist China allows their longtime enemy Taiwan to set up shop in Communist China??
Read a Book!!
Nope. US employees ask for too much in salary, they're more poorly educated for comparable jobs, their sense of entitlement is too high, and you can't get them to work long hours without constantly whining. Forget the USA. It's dead. It's over.
Someone doesn't know how to read. I never said the US. I said South and Central America. US != America
Name 5!!
I double dare you!!
ETA: I see you're right about Foxconn-Hard to believe really.
I guess when they invade Taiwan they'll take the Profits back!!
AcerName 5!!
I double dare you!!
ETA: I see you're right about Foxconn-Hard to believe really.
I guess when they invade Taiwan they'll take the Profits back!!
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Taiwan province is tightly integrated with the mainland. When China finalizes the remains of the civil war and reins in Taiwan, it will not have any other impact than driving away #2 (USA) from the South China Sea, as their continued presence there is neither wanted nor of any use.Name 5!!
I double dare you!!
ETA: I see you're right about Foxconn-Hard to believe really.
I guess when they invade Taiwan they'll take the Profits back!!
Cai Yingwen can continue to rule the island, and the Chinese Confucian Party will certainly not have any interest in meddling with any Taiwanese companies. They do, however, want TSMC to deliver chips to Huawei.
You mean invades Taiwan?
Well that and taking away the civil rights of all those residents of Taiwan, just as they have done in Hong Kong, reneging on the promises they made. Certainly seems the people of Taiwan are happy to have the U.S. presence in the South China Sea, so I guess you meant that the invaders will not like it. Got it.
Ah, bull. The Chinese in Hongkong have as much liberty as Americans. They used to have more, but now they can't occupy the parliament anymore (just as Mericans can't occupy Capitolium unpunished), and they also can't ask foreign powers to intervene in the politics of Hongkong (as that would be treason, just as in the good ole US land of the free).
As for the Chinese in Taiwan, a substantial part of them live on the mainland, where they make their money. There is no majority for independence, and never has been.
I would love to buy an an American made Apple product! but im happy they are at least moving some business out of the CCP!
Spoken like a Good Communist!!
Yeah the Uighur camp excusers are way to spot.
Not that it would serve the idea of communism in any way but these thought exercises usually end up being oppression states anyway.
Says who and where? Michael Moore failed to convince Nike to build anything in the US 20 years ago and he was way more public about it.
Americans as a whole don’t care for simple labour jobs, a common theme in most developed countries.