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50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

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Re: 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

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> Thing is this is also still the really basic stuff. It's only going to get worse as they attempt to shift more complicated things. Indeed. And stats like that does make you kind of worry about pharmaceuticals where India is something like number two worldwide as supplier of APIs to the global Pharma industry. API = Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient, or typically described as "active ingredient" on the labelling of t…

> Disclaimer: I'm not making claims or insinuations here, I've insufficient knowledge of Pharma to do so. I said "makes you think" for a reason, i.e. pure speculation, probably wrong I don’t accept this disclaimer. “makes you …” is not a phrase people use when they’re trying to avoid implications or insinuations. the opposite, in fact, so much so that I’d say that it’s probably as often used seriously as it is humoro…

@permo-w

Get lost.

My disclaimer was written as is and means exactly what it says, i.e. making clear it was pure speculation and that I knew nothing of the Pharma industry.

In other words, I was openly inviting people to dismiss the comment as worthless.

There is no reading between the lines to be done.

Re: 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

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Anyone want to vouch for their great experience driving a Tata car? Not exported outside the middle east and India. Looks like they sold 5 of them in Europe in 2016. https://carsalesbase.com/europe-tata/#:~:text=Tata%20cars%20... .

You do know that Tata owns Jaguar and Land Rover... right?

Wasn't that a package deal? "Buy all of it or we won't sell you anything!"-style? IIRC they were shopping only for some tech not those brands.

Re: 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

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> Do you think Tim Cook made a strategic error here Honestly, yeah. Doubling down on China was a mistake, and now there are no easy outs for the hardware side of things. Apple tried manufacturing the Mac Pro in the US, but I doubt the numbers on that added up in the US' favor. Correcting course is the right move to make now, but people were right when they called Apple's Chinese supply chain a deal with the devil. No…

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I'm not the one using ad-hominem attacks to make their argument, so I'm not sure who the bigger troll is here.

Re: 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

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post #21

I am an entrepreneur & a small business owner in India. I did a small manufacturing in China & was blown away by their professionalism. The article mentions - `Chinese suppliers had a totally different attitude, aiming to exceed the Cupertino company’s expectations` - this is so true. In India, most manufacturing companies or businesses are trying to sell what they have or can produce (without any attention to detail…

The work ethnic thing is a real shame because I've seen this reflected through the consultancies I deal with.

It is just unbothered with a lack of pride from an engineering and effort stand point. Important not to generalise as there are the odd shining examples that come through.

Similarly in medicine in India, not a single drug has been developed in India that has come to market though it is a manufacturing centre house for cheap generics, how safe they are I'm very unsure.

Re: 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

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I'm not the one using ad-hominem attacks to make their argument, so I'm not sure who the bigger troll is here.

I'm not making an argument? My comment was asking a question, if you were unsure.

Have you confused me with someone else?

Re: 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

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I'm not the one using ad-hominem attacks to make their argument, so I'm not sure who the bigger troll is here.

I'm not making an argument? My comment was asking a question, if you were unsure. Have you confused me with someone else?

My email is on my profile if you want to ask me a question. You're responding to my comment though.

Re: 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

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I'm not making an argument? My comment was asking a question, if you were unsure. Have you confused me with someone else?

My email is on my profile if you want to ask me a question. You're responding to my comment though.

So 'smol at toast dot cyou' is a real email address?

You should probably clarify it on your about page lest other folks think it's meant to be a joke account.

Re: 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

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I'm sure there are political considerations. India of late has a capricious regulation problem which makes it difficult for tech firms to have predictability. And everyone already knows you can get decent quality manufacturing done in Vietnam. India would like to be considered in that same group. Therefore it's in Apple's interest to present India with the opportunity to demonstrate that capability, while giving Appl…

Does everyone also know about the outsize influence China has on Vietnam? If the goal is to de-risk a China / US Trade War scenario and prevent Chinese government from stealing chip tech etc - then you dont get much by going to their pals next door ;)

I wouldn't call China and Vietnam pals. If you look at history, the suspicion/animosity between the two goes back thousands of years.

Re: 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

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post #77

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> I wonder how a war over Taiwan would impact that time table? There won't be any war if China invades Taiwan, merely devastating impact. If China were to invade Taiwan, the most-advanced chip factory in the world would be rendered “not operable,” TSMC Chair Mark Liu said. “The war brings no winners, everybody's losers,” Liu said. He said an invasion would cause economic turmoil for China, Taiwan and Western countrie…

If China is cut off from Taiwan's most advanced tech that it can not produce on its own it might as well stop caring that the factories get destroyed.

Four months later...[1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/taiwan-signals-its-chip-f...

Re: 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge

#140

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My email is on my profile if you want to ask me a question. You're responding to my comment though.

So 'smol at toast dot cyou' is a real email address? You should probably clarify it on your about page lest other folks think it's meant to be a joke account.

The domain is real, you can whois it if you're too shy to send an email.
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