Why can’t Apple ask those supplier companies to move to India and Vietnam? I just don’t understand.
If there was an easy path, Apple and the Western world had taken it straight forward. India has a completely chaotic infrastructure and fundamentally different attitude to work than we know. Moreover, they have been politically quite close to Russia since 1971, so it did not condemn the terrible Russian war against Ukraine.
India still imports almost 100 percent of its semiconductor needs in 2021, it is a developing country that has great difficulty in successfully deploying investments (TSMC).
Vietnam: Apple is already outsourcing iPad production from China to Vietnam. This is one of the first pilot tests, so we can be curious.
Apple tries to react to the political and economic changes in the world with all reasonable possibilities, but this is always difficult - any serious president the world doesn't have to laugh at knows that.
No one can wisely shape the future through compulsory leadership; the world and its societies have become too complex for that. Those who want a simple world are welcome to take refuge in computer games, but should never confuse this with the real world.
TheYayAreaLiving: I know that you personally know that anyway. 😌