Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production to India

Re:Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production t... by sbaiddn on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:04PM (#33103471)

Designing a new iPhone that does everything the old one does slightly better has very little value added.

Being able to replace broken iPhone12s with new iPhone12s is real. An iPhone18XR on paper is just a piece of paper.

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Re:Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production t... by mattwest on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:14PM (#33103532)

Yea but Apple isn't just the iPhone. Apple has unmatched perceived goodwill, devout customer base, and whole patent portfolio

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Re:Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production t... by sbaiddn on Thursday October 06, 2022 @08:19AM (#33107298)

Patents are worthwhile only as far as they are respected. A factory is a real asset employing many real people.

Anyway, why does SV have a lock on design? If anything computer design has gotten very stale since the early 90s when all the competitors to American computer systems finally croaked

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Re:Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production t... by 9dev on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @11:50PM (#33104184)

That still doesn’t change the fact that a tiger without teeth may roar as loud as they can, but still won’t be able to bite you.

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Re:Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production t... by jupp0r on Thursday October 06, 2022 @11:17AM (#33109317)

If what you said were true, there would have been lots of Chinese phone manufacturers eating Apple's market share for lunch. There aren't.

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