Where is apple going for production of its hardware if not to china? What other country has the knowledge, capacity, experience, time-to-market, factories and workers available to build all the iphones, iwatches, imac, ipads and macbooks?
Apple's threatened moving a lot of production to India (which has its own problems, but shows moving is possible). The new Mac Pro is to be made in Texas, and I think Apple at one point was considering a chip plant there for the iPhone too.
China holds a lot of weight, but a company with a trillion dollar market cap also can make its own decisions.
Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
by dpkonofa on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:45PM
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That's the entire point. Even if Apple was going to be able to go somewhere else (India, US, etc.), it wouldn't hurt China much if every other tech company maintains course and/or doubles down on China. Unless China is hurt economically by their actions, nothing will change.
The tech decoupling had already happened.
Arguably the one and only big tech that has a significant Chinese stake, is Microsoft.
Google/Facebook/Netflix is banned, Amazon retreated. Oracle had just closed its research center.
This would have to be done on a federal level. Just because Apple stopped doing this doesn't mean China would be any worse off. Google, Amazon, and every other tech company would still get in line to do whatever it takes to get that sweet, sweet money.