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Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by abritinthebay on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:01PM (#14267155)
I think Cook was more talking about representatives from each company - not everyone employed by them.

There are an order of magnitude more people employed as tool and die makers in China anyhow so, even if you do use that as a metric, the broader point still stands.

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Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by flubert on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:55PM (#14267646)
>There are an order of magnitude more people employed as tool and die makers in China

Do you have a recommendation for a source for employment statistics like that for China? In English? A quick search hasn't turned up much, but there must be something out there like that.

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Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by abritinthebay on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:55AM (#14274369)
Numbers are sparce it's true. I based the order of magnitude comment on a line saying there were "over 100k companies" doing similar work in China on a Business Insider article.

It's probably reasonable to assume a decent company size so... seemed ballpark accurate

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