Apple Foxconn Manufacturing
The cluster discusses Apple's outsourcing of iPhone and hardware manufacturing to Foxconn in China, debates on shifting production to India, Vietnam, or the US, and the challenges of supply chains and in-house production.
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they outsource the manufacturing of the iPhone don't they?
Apple buys Foxconn? Or Apple builds massive factory in CA?
is it because Apple needs Foxconn?
Apple themselves maybe, Foxconn not so much.
Did Apple build these factories?
No more than Apple is "largely manufactured in China"?
Even the Chinese phone manufacturers rely on American software (Android), even if Google gives that away.If China refused to assemble iPhones for Apple, that assembly could easily be shifted somewhere else: the components are mostly not from China and even the machinery used to assemble the iPhones is mostly German. Apple/Foxconn do it in China because it is the best deal ATM, and shift iPhone assembly around as needed easily (eg iPhones are assembled in Brazil, and will be in India to g
Why doesn't Apple make their own iPhones instead of contracting them to Foxconn?
Look closer and I think you find Chinese company Foxconn building iPhones in India using Chinese labor and parts.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
Apple is pretty much an exception of a hardware company that still shine as a cool place to work. These traditional industrial jobs have moved abroad a long time ago. You will find at most prototyping in the US, however everything is manufactured in China. The pandemics has proven that. Even on sensitive medical equipment, the mass production takes place in China.