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When it floods, they can hold their hands up and say "well we tried".. then get back to business as usual in China
Ask any AI, they say Apple has the best marketing of any company in history. All this tracks. Anyone else getting bombarded with WSJ youtube videos about Apple manufacturing?
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> Something about having the whole supply chain in one place I can't find the source but I thought I read somewhere that the major manufacturing cities in China are all geographically laid out like giant assembly lines. The companies that process the raw materials are located mostly inland, then the companies that form those raw materials into metal and plastic stock are next door, and then the companies that take th…
This reminds me of a great freakonomics podcast that talked about China being run by engineers and America being run by lawyers. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/china-is-run-by-engineers-a...
Mac minis are sold out in NYC these days because everyone gets them to try out openclaw. Even if this move by Apple is unrelated to the recent demand, it certainly was timed right for the policy and market makers.
why were mac minis so popular for this compared to any other machine, cloud VPS or local VM?
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This reminds me of a great freakonomics podcast that talked about China being run by engineers and America being run by lawyers. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/china-is-run-by-engineers-a...
Authoritarian central planning isn't an inherent trait of engineers and nor should we aspire for it to be.
Apple is very tied to Chinese manufacturing in a way that is hard to replicate in US. They will agree to make some high margin simple to assemble thing in the US to appease government, but if it goes as well as last time, they will stop as soon as they can. In china they were often able to iterate on designs and have custom screws and other parts made and ramped up in very short times. Something about having the whol…
And, to be clear about one thing (which I believe is also raised in the book): Much of this is the direct result of Apple investing literally a quarter trillion dollars and exporting critical western IP toward developing Chinese advanced manufacturing capability (among other American technology companies). The story of startups only being able to manufacture in China is a cute tale that is true for startups. For Appl…
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Weirdly the first thing I thought was "Why Texas"?
Likely a combination of business-friendly policies (low tax, no employer payroll tax, etc.) and proximity to ports. Houston is the 6th [1] largest port in the USA. [1] https://pangea-network.com/busiest-and-biggest-ports-in-the-...
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/economy/article/ap...
Apple is very tied to Chinese manufacturing in a way that is hard to replicate in US. They will agree to make some high margin simple to assemble thing in the US to appease government, but if it goes as well as last time, they will stop as soon as they can. In china they were often able to iterate on designs and have custom screws and other parts made and ramped up in very short times. Something about having the whol…
> In china they were often able to iterate on designs and have custom screws and other parts made and ramped up in very short times. This becomes less of a problem as the product matures. The Mac Mini is a good example of a design they likely stabilized a while ago.
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Probably referring to the CHIPs Act? Technically Biden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act
Technically Kamala. — As Vice President, Kamala Harris was a key proponent and promoter of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, which aims to boost U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.