China earns relatively little per iPhone/Mac. The complex components come from other countries like Taiwan, Korea and Japan. Apple earns a hefty profit for marketing savvy, iCloud services, and perhaps financing. China makes a pittance for screwing all the parts together. Where would you prefer to be in this product pipeline?
That's kind of a straw man argument. Go pick up every single cord, speaker, lamp, etc. in your house and look at the label.
That low quality shit that lasts a year is what I am talking about. Furniture used to be handed down for generations. Now, if you move apartments twice it falls apart.
The furniture used to stay in place and net be moved around distances all that much. Due to being heavy and difficult to transport. And impossible to disassemble and reassemble.
The cost of all the tech bought in a year is not insignificant.
Back when I was in full time education, my summer holiday job was making HVAC on a production line. The transformers I screwed into backing plates came from China.
The furniature you complain of? The furniature I have comes mostly from Ikea, which is famously not Chinese.
silverlake|10 months ago
apercu|10 months ago
That's kind of a straw man argument. Go pick up every single cord, speaker, lamp, etc. in your house and look at the label.
That low quality shit that lasts a year is what I am talking about. Furniture used to be handed down for generations. Now, if you move apartments twice it falls apart.
watwut|10 months ago
ben_w|10 months ago
Back when I was in full time education, my summer holiday job was making HVAC on a production line. The transformers I screwed into backing plates came from China.
The furniature you complain of? The furniature I have comes mostly from Ikea, which is famously not Chinese.