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OAITW r.2.0

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13. I've been in more than a few Chinese factories.

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #8)

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 09:25 AM

Apr 2025

It always amazes me how focused the Chinese workforce is on doing repetitive assembly work. The hand/eye coordination is something to see in action. Most Americans could do this for about 15 minutes before they'd say "Screw this, I'm outta here". If Apple were to build in the US, they'd have to robotize almost the entire assembly process. Don't see that happening.

The US market is pretty well saturated with IPhones anyways. The big growth markets are in India, SE Asia, and Central/South America. I wouldn't expect this administration to understand this, though.

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