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tedd4uyesterday at 2:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

    'Q:What does China's competitive edge look like in practice?'
    
    'A: One example from The Times article: When Jobs decided just a month 
    before the iPhone hit markets to replace a scratch-prone plastic screen 
    with a glass one, a Foxconn factory in China woke up about 8,000 workers 
    when the glass screens arrived at midnight, and the workers were 
    assembling 10,000 iPhones a day within 96 hours.
    
    'Another example: Apple had originally estimated that it would take nine 
    months to hire the 8,700 qualified industrial engineers needed to oversee 
    production of the iPhone; in China, it took 15 days. Anecdotes like that 
    leave you "feeling almost impressed by the no-holds-barred capabilities 
    of these manufacturing plants," says Edward Moyer at CNET News, 
    "impressed and queasy at the same time."'
    
From: https://theweek.com/articles/478705/why-apple-builds-iphones...

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midnighthollowcyesterday at 2:31 PM

That's pretty amazing, honestly.

Here I can't even get a tradesperson to give me a quote, much less show up on a dime. I guess I need another eight billion dollars, give or take a penny

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apiyesterday at 3:42 PM

A popular misconception is that manufacturing is done in China because it’s cheaper. That hasn’t been true for a while. There are cheaper places, many of them. China is now simply the best, at least when it comes to electronics and adjacent stuff.

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