I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1.7 per hour

Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by tomcam on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:09PM (#19949729)

> The only factories able to produce the required volumes are, by virtue of great planning by China, there

I take a nuanced view of these things. I understand that in vast swathes of rural China job opportunities like this were until recently the only way to make a decent living for many people (most of my family is Asian, and I have investments there). And I also know that most companies could not in fact replicate that technology.

But Apple is rubbing everyone’s nose in their social virtue. If they really believed what they were saying they could definitely replicate a factory like Foxconn’s in Texas for, say, $100 billion. Dell couldn’t, HP probably couldn’t, but they aren’t telling me how to live my life either.

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by HillRat on Saturday May 18, 2019 @07:43PM (#19950378)

Beyond that, you could definitely migrate iPhone production to, say, Foxconn’s production facilities in Guadalajara with appropriate production guarantees from Apple and satellite investments from other entities to replicate the PRC supply chain advantages. Not tomorrow, not even in the next few years, but the opportunity to reshore high-tech manufacturing is completely attainable.

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by tomcam on Monday May 20, 2019 @06:37AM (#19958993)

That’s a great idea. I had no knowledge of the Guadalajara location.

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