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Re:Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts by Alex3917 on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @10:08AM (#18503197)
I wonder if Apple is purposely trying to financially destabilize their suppliers in order to gain leverage over them.

I have a 6S and I'd love a new phone, but at the end of the day the trade off for getting to work on my startup is that I need to prioritize spending money on things that will actually contribute to my happiness or well being in some way. And since I know a new phone isn't going to improve my life in any way, that just makes it really easy to dump the money into crypto or whatever instead.

Re:Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts by kevin_b_er on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:16AM (#18503714)
The company is run by a former logistics expert. His background is how to extract maximal parts for minimal cost at the right time.
Re:Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts by klodolph on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:48AM (#18503961)
I'm not sure the word "former" is appropriate.