Re:Apple and IBM Deliver First Wave of IBM MobileFirst for i...
by happyscrappy on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @01:07PM
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>I hope I'm 100% wrong.
You are. Manufacturing is moving back to the US quickly as labor in China gets more expensive and fuel costs increase.
Re:Apple and IBM Deliver First Wave of IBM MobileFirst for i...
by final on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @02:18PM
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Fuel costs are not increasing. Shipping across oceans is extremely cheap. Way more more manufacturing is moving US -> China, than the opposite.
Re:Apple and IBM Deliver First Wave of IBM MobileFirst for i...
by happyscrappy on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @02:24PM
(#8731112)
Fuel costs are temporarily down because Europe's economy is so weak, but I wouldn't count on fuel staying this low. Also Chinese labor is not such a bargain as wages rise.
Except for the social-web-developers in SV(facebook,twitter and all that, though Tecent in China is already larger than Facebook in that front too, not to mention Alibaba, Baidu etc), we don't really realize how much of those big companies' products are R&D-ed and manufactured overseas these days from silicon design all the way up. When we wake up, it might be too late already. Sometimes I think the end result will be probably a war, as that's really what US leaves with these days. I hope I'm 100% wrong.