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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by CharlesW on Monday December 17, 2018 @04:00PM (#18702175)
> Apple can walk away from China whenever it wants to.

Not unless they've spent the last decade building a secret duplicate supply chain ecosystem.

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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by munk-a on Monday December 17, 2018 @05:04PM (#18702668)
It would take money and time but it's something they're very able to do. And, yes, they couldn't make this decision and instantly pivot, there are real physical things that would need to be built before they could.
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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by Apocryphon on Monday December 17, 2018 @05:24PM (#18702810)
If they can already spend all this effort into making alternate chipsets...
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Re:Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After I... by bitxbitxbitcoin on Monday December 17, 2018 @05:02PM (#18702644)
Complete with access to rare earth metal deposits that are currently secret from the world.
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