Re:China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide
by baybal2 on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:28AM
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Even among first tier brands, a lot of products/designs/parts come completely externally sourced.
Flagship, image making products like Apple Iphones are made with some level of in-house involvement, but even they were cookie cutter products based on Samsung reference design up until 3gs.
I myself once worked for a company doing sourcing for a company that did sourcing for Amazon when they were just started venturing into hardware with Kindel. Any such project is at least 50% external input, otherwise they simply don't have an ability to pull it out for the lack of hands on industry expertise.
Flagship, image making products like Apple Iphones are made with some level of in-house involvement, but even they were cookie cutter products based on Samsung reference design up until 3gs.
I myself once worked for a company doing sourcing for a company that did sourcing for Amazon when they were just started venturing into hardware with Kindel. Any such project is at least 50% external input, otherwise they simply don't have an ability to pull it out for the lack of hands on industry expertise.