Foxconn could make all US iPhones outside of China if needed, says company

[Hamartia Antidote]

https://www.theverge.com/platform/a...ne-production-china-usa-tariffs-import-duties

 

[Yaseen1]

Apple can continue manufacturing iphone at china and other place simultaneously in order to evade tarrifs.For non u.s customers iphone can be produced in china like in past but for u.s customer they can produce iphone outside china so tarrifs not effect u.s customers as countries other than u.s are not in tradewar with china

 

[khail007]

Who stops them and why they didn’t implement it? Mean there is something, which doest not let them do it so easily as they are only lingual in their claim and not practical.

 

[nang2]

Who stops them and why they didn’t implement it? Mean there is something, which doest not let them do it so easily as they are only lingual in their claim and not practical.

Apple. Foxconn, like all other commercial companies, serves its customers. As I said before, if Apple is willing to pay unlimited amount of money and demand iphones to be made on Mars, Foxconn will do it.

 

[khail007]

if Apple is willing to pay unlimited amount of money and demand iphones to be made on Mars, Foxconn will do it.

So this is the main essence, 'unlimited'. Where Apple sees it more feasible, they are investing there. Rest is only imagination.

 

[antonius123]

Sure they can, but additional supply chain cost will make iphone more expensive for non US market.

 

[rishav]

Foxconn may start assembling iphone X and other newer models of iphone in india . Hope they do

 

[nang2]

So this is the main essence, 'unlimited'. Where Apple sees it more feasible, they are investing there. Rest is only imagination.

Or large enough. The main essence is "money". Commercial companies are trying to make money. If it is more profitable to make iphones outside of China, they would have done it already or in the process of doing so. Businessmen are actually very simple minded. What Foxconn said is very simple: dear customers, we will do whatever you ask us to do as long as you also pay our bills.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Or large enough. The main essence is "money". Commercial companies are trying to make money. If it is more profitable to make iphones outside of China, they would have done it already or in the process of doing so. Businessmen are actually very simple minded. What Foxconn said is very simple: dear customers, we will do whatever you ask us to do as long as you also pay our bills.

50% of Foxconn’s revenue is from Apple so they are going to be accommodating. But as you noted that doesn’t mean the cost will be the same.

 

[Zapper]

There is already a thread running on this topic
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/appl...side-of-china-if-needed.622722/#post-11535944

@waz could you please merge these threads

 

[nang2]

50% of Foxconn’s revenue is from Apple so they are going to be accommodating. But as you noted that doesn’t mean the cost will be the same.

Eventually it is the end users whom both of them are going to accommodate. If iphone users appreciate non-made-in-China iphones so much that with $5000 a pop, non-made-in-China iphones fly off shelves like nobody's business, Foxconn will be in such a hurry in setting up plants in US that they are willing to hire drug addicts off the streets.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Eventually it is the end users whom both of them are going to accommodate. If iphone users appreciate non-made-in-China iphones so much that with $5000 a pop, non-made-in-China iphones fly off shelves like nobody's business, Foxconn will be in such a hurry in setting up plants in US that they are willing to hire drug addicts off the streets.

Certainly the startup costs of creating a new factory are going to be enormous. Plus if the wage is still at $0.60/hr in China they’d have to find another third world/developing country to beat it. So this is going to limit them to South East Asia or Middle Asia. Not sure if South/Central America would be viable.

 

[nang2]

Certainly the startup costs of creating a new factory are going to be enormous. Plus if the wage is still at $0.60/hr in China they’d have to find another third world country to beat it. So this is going to limit them to South East Asia or Middle Asia. Not sure if South/Central America would be viable.

Hourly wage is just one of many factors to consider. Government regulations, corporate tax, labor law, union practice, transportation, etc, etc. It is not easy to make a decent profit anywhere.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Hourly wage is just one of many factors to consider. Government regulations, corporate tax, labor law, union practice, transportation, etc, etc. It is not easy to make a decent profit anywhere.

Well the robot armada may solve some of the issues but not all.

 

[nang2]

Well the robot armada may solve some of the issues but not all.

It not only doesn't solve any of those issues (you have to hire people to operate those robots), but also brings in new problems, like the wrath of social crusaders: who like you to invest in their local towns without bringing in any meaningful employment?