I’ll take the more positive angle that i appreciate sing a more diversified supply chain, no matter how small the change.
You can’t lift and shift production off the entire widget overnight.
Start with the less consequential components to get the flywheel running and continue adding more production. Little manufacturing successes have the ability to snowball into bigger ones.
This article would be so much better if the author wasn’t so overt with their biases.
This one article has more swipes than Tinder, which makes it hard to read.
I find much reporting similarly painful. The style where they start with something like "John Smith was riding a bus to work [...]" and go on a whole narrative journey really annoys me too.
The irony is that on-shoring high-end manufacturing would be a good thing. But the approach of "do it right now, or I'll put tariffs on your product(s)" is not the way to get any lasting change. It's a way to get the performative changes we're seeing, that will drift right back offshore when this administration mercifully ends.
I can’t tell if this article is whining that Apple is working with partners to make too many parts in America or whining that Apple isn’t making enough parts in America.
Reality is that people in Western countries need TSMC to make high end chips outside of Taiwan, because we’ll all be screwed if China decides to invade Taiwan. This has nothing to do with how you feel about Trump. It’s just the cold hard facts.
If you want stable access to technology in the future, you should be demanding secondary sources of high end chips, because none of us want to die fighting China in a war a few hundred miles off China’s coast line and 5,000-6,000 miles from most western countries (excluding Japan/Korea).
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Start with the less consequential components to get the flywheel running and continue adding more production. Little manufacturing successes have the ability to snowball into bigger ones.
For this reason I prefer sources like the Associated Press or Reuters. TFA could be replaced with https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-adds-bosch-cirrus-log... for example.
You can also ask an AI to rewrite using "neutral, factual, inverted-pyramid" style.
If you want stable access to technology in the future, you should be demanding secondary sources of high end chips, because none of us want to die fighting China in a war a few hundred miles off China’s coast line and 5,000-6,000 miles from most western countries (excluding Japan/Korea).