WingNews logo WingNews
top | item 43945954

(no title)

betterThanTexas | 9 months ago

Well then Asia is de-facto doing the hardware. Apple is just paying for it.

Apple is famously sitting on a mountain of cash. How easily do you think they could replicate the supply chain of even one of their products without outsourcing it?

discuss

order

drob518|9 months ago

Apple is designing the hardware in the USA, not Asia. Asia designs the manufacturing process, which they are quite good at.

mschuster91|9 months ago

> Asia designs the manufacturing process, which they are quite good at.

Not even that, for some parts like the aluminium cases ("unibody") or the laser-bored microholes in their old magsafe connector for the LEDs, Apple designed the whole process.