Re:Be careful how you pay the bills
by ido on Thursday July 21, 2022 @01:09AM
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I wonder how much of iPhone assemblage hasn't been automated because workers in east asia doing the work earn so little it's not worth the effort to eliminate them?
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It’s not just the cost of labor it’s also time to market for an expensive item etc. If manual assembly is 10x more expensive but it’s the difference between 1% and 0.1% of the sales price then other things can be the driving force.
Getting the next iPhone to market even 1 month sooner is extremely valuable, but they don’t manufacture the same phones for that long.