Re:Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India
by sofixa on Sunday December 04, 2022 @05:42AM
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> Truth is, there is no way to profitably produce any durable consumer products without dealing with someone who treats workers like trash, simply because everyone else is also doing this
In some cases that's true, but in the case of Apple - the one higher cost "luxury" products, with double digit percent profit margins, tens of billions of cash and trillion dollar market cap - it doesn't really make sense as an excuse.
Re:Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India
by ekianjo on Sunday December 04, 2022 @06:23AM
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Apple has grown to this size because they had a much better margin than its competitors in the first place. If they built everything in America they would have disappeared long ago.
In some cases that's true, but in the case of Apple - the one higher cost "luxury" products, with double digit percent profit margins, tens of billions of cash and trillion dollar market cap - it doesn't really make sense as an excuse.