This thread is drifting, but to be clear Apple has invested tens of billions into China. Who do you think made that manufacturing equipment? The Chinese?
Foxconn is owned by Taiwan and not China. China has very wisely encouraged this investment and then copied all of it. Cheap aftermarket products being resourced to China are of inferior quality in many or most cases to what they were before resourcing. Marine products in particular. I have tried to stay on marine products. Comparing with Apple and Honda do has nothing to do with my posts.
Just like Japan, it will take time for them to learn from, and improve on, the things they have learned from others early on in their manufacturing ascent. There is no free lunch. Just nearly free labor and government subsidies which American businesses have been all too happy to line their pockets with.
Today the paper is filled with stories of the Russians and the Chinese hacking onto our most sensitive government systems. Imminent threat it is called. These people are not our friends and we need to quit acting like they are. In the end though, we are getting our butts kicked by them. They need simply take it. Nothing unified about our front. While our civic mud ball fight goes on we are being attacked. This is our fault, and no one else. That was the point of my original post.
Foxconn is owned by Taiwan and not China. China has very wisely encouraged this investment and then copied all of it. Cheap aftermarket products being resourced to China are of inferior quality in many or most cases to what they were before resourcing. Marine products in particular. I have tried to stay on marine products. Comparing with Apple and Honda do has nothing to do with my posts.
Just like Japan, it will take time for them to learn from, and improve on, the things they have learned from others early on in their manufacturing ascent. There is no free lunch. Just nearly free labor and government subsidies which American businesses have been all too happy to line their pockets with.
Today the paper is filled with stories of the Russians and the Chinese hacking onto our most sensitive government systems. Imminent threat it is called. These people are not our friends and we need to quit acting like they are. In the end though, we are getting our butts kicked by them. They need simply take it. Nothing unified about our front. While our civic mud ball fight goes on we are being attacked. This is our fault, and no one else. That was the point of my original post.
First, Apple didn't build, doesn't own the manufacturing facilities where it's product is built in China.
Second, whether China or the US your quality is directly variable based on your level of oversight of the manufacturing. I've seen horrific quality out of poorly monitored contractors in the US and excellent out of well monitored in most of the world. If you're putting your name on it and not monitoring the production, you're taking very unwise risks. But it's like getting a boat built and not having anyone ever on site or getting repairs done and not monitoring.
There is nothing unique in this regard about being located in China. Quality control and quality assurance require effort wherever you are. The US Auto Industry was a disaster at one time and opened the doors to huge inroads by Japanese builders. This had nothing to do with being in the US as they then proved by manufacturing in the US. It had to do with poorly run companies and lousy quality standards.