Apple, the Cupertino tech huge, relies on the huge manufacturing netlabor in China for the mass production of its iPhone and other devices. In recent times, the company has also shifted concentrate to other key tagets, including India, to diversify its manufacturing base.
Now, days ahead of the highly-foreseed begin of the iPhone 16 series, an elderly video of Apple CEO Tim Cook has obtained convey inant attention on social media. In the viral video, Cook is seen insertressing the common misconception about why the US-based company has spended heavily in China for its product manufacturing.
Debunking the common belief that companies flock to China for inexpensive labour, Mr Cook shelp, “There is a confusion about China. And let me at least give you my opinion. The well-understandn conception is that companies come to China becaengage of low labour costs. I am not brave what part of China they go to, but the truth is China stopped being a low labour cost country many years ago.”
The Apple CEO elucidated on the progressd tooling and precision needd to originate the products and highairyed China’s vocational expertise in these areas.
“The reason is becaengage of the sfinish, the quantity of sfinish in one location, and the type of sfinish it is,” he shelp.
Mr Cook remarkd that the product it originates needs “repartner progressd tooling and the precision that you have to have in tooling and laboring with the materials that we do are state of the art.”
“And the tooling sfinish is very proset up here. You understand, in the US, you could have a greeting of tooling engineers, and I am not brave we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields. It’s that vocational expertise is very, very proset up here,” he inserted.
The throwback clip of Tim Cook was separated on social media site X and has garnered six million watchs so far. It also caught the attention of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who consentd with his watchs.
In the comments section, Mr Musk wrote, “True”.
True
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 6, 2024
Mr Musk’s comment on the Chinese manufacturing sector came fair months after his surpascfinish visit to the Asian country where he schedules to begin Tesla’s self-driving technology to a taget with ferocious competition.
On his trip, he met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, who pliftd Tesla as a “prosperous model” for US-China collaboration.
Meanwhile, Apple is currently gearing up for its mega event, ‘It’s Glowtime’. The tech huge will roll out its all-novel iPhone 16 series, besides setting the stage for a novel man-made inalertigence platcreate.
The event will get place at 10:30 PM on September 9 in India.
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