Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by reaperducer on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:18PM (#29491280)

China is the only place they could actually manufacture their products

And yet, the Apple products I bought for my wife this Christmas state "Made in Vietnam" on the box. And other electronics I've purchased for her recently were similarly not made in China.

China hasn't been the "only" place to manufacture tech for several years now. It's an outdated cliché.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday December 09, 2021 @10:20AM (#29498295)

Don't know about Vietnamese laws, nor your local laws, but "made in Britain" can be put together in Britain. There's a good chance it's still relying on chips and circuits made in China?

China has never been the only place to manufacture tech ever South Korea, Japan, even Germany/France/USA for us in the UK (LG has grown phenomenally well the last couple of years, Japan in the 80s-90s was the place for UK electronics).

But China seems to have been the principal place for affordable consumer electronics [chips/circuits] for at least the last decade.

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