> “In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I’m not sure we could fill the room,” he said. “In China, you could fill multiple football fields.”
Then perhaps Apple needs to start training some tooling engineers?
Companies like Apple outsourced everything and killed domestic manufacturing in the pursuit of a couple pennies are now complaining that domestic manufacturing is dead?
I'm currently listening to the world's tiniest violin.
"Tech" companies like IBM used to own such prosaic things as low radioactivity lead mines in order maintain access to the resources required.
Vertical integration got sacrificed to the financial gods in favor of Always Late Inventory(tm). And, now, everybody is finding that it's really hard to reverse.
Suck it up and do it yourself, or bend over for China, Tim.
Then perhaps Apple needs to start training some tooling engineers?
Companies like Apple outsourced everything and killed domestic manufacturing in the pursuit of a couple pennies are now complaining that domestic manufacturing is dead?
I'm currently listening to the world's tiniest violin.
"Tech" companies like IBM used to own such prosaic things as low radioactivity lead mines in order maintain access to the resources required.
Vertical integration got sacrificed to the financial gods in favor of Always Late Inventory(tm). And, now, everybody is finding that it's really hard to reverse.
Suck it up and do it yourself, or bend over for China, Tim.