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Apple Watch Chips Now Being Made in the U.S. for the First Time (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 2 months ago by cantankerous_cashew to c/apple_enthusiast

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Should lead to increased apple profits, maybe? Actually don't know. Foxconn slave camps are very cheap, even with the nets installed to catch the suiciding child workers.

[–] DrCake 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Can’t see Apple doing it if they don’t get any financial benefit from it

[–] Dead_or_Alive 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

China isn’t the dependable partner it used to be. Basing your entire supply chain in China introduces too much risk. Apple has been sourcing production to other countries for a while.

[–] flop_leash_973 1 points 1 month ago

Yep. Tim Cook is a logistics and supply chain guy after all.

[–] YourAvgMortal 1 points 2 months ago

They probably got a few tax breaks from it

[–] scarabic 2 points 2 months ago

The nets aren’t to save the ones jumping but to keep them from smashing anyone else when they hit. Sad but true: sometimes suicides from a great height strike and kill someone else walking by.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Probably mostly automated