Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America
theregister.comI’ll take the more positive angle that i appreciate sing a more diversified supply chain, no matter how small the change. You can’t lift and shift production off the entire widget overnight.
Start with the less consequential components to get the flywheel running and continue adding more production. Little manufacturing successes have the ability to snowball into bigger ones.
This article would be so much better if the author wasn’t so overt with their biases. This one article has more swipes than Tinder, which makes it hard to read.
That is very much the house style of The Register, isn't it? Love it or hate it
Just because he's biased, doesn't mean he's wrong.
The irony is that on-shoring high-end manufacturing would be a good thing. But the approach of "do it right now, or I'll put tariffs on your product(s)" is not the way to get any lasting change. It's a way to get the performative changes we're seeing, that will drift right back offshore when this administration mercifully ends.
Korea started with low value manufacturing through protectionism and state policy. They moved up to the top level of the value chain in just 25 years!
I can’t tell if this article is whining that Apple is working with partners to make too many parts in America or whining that Apple isn’t making enough parts in America.
Isn’t whining the point of theregister though?
The only reason Apple is doing this is to brown-nose Trump to keep him from tariff-ing them into lower profitability.
The comments on El Reg's article are... not the types of comment that will further the discussion of onshoring manufacturing.
Low value add manufacturing is not coming back to America unless people are willing to work for $2/hour and the government lets factories dump waste into rivers.