Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say

Post by neximo64 » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 4:10 AM UTC

bergstromm466 wrote: post #16

kodablah wrote: post #12

> With India’s labour cheaper compared with China, and the gradual expansion of its supplier base here, Apple will be able to use the country as an export hub While there are negatives, I appreciate how globalization of manufacturing helps lift poorer economies (albeit it slowly and not always agreeing with the politics of the newly-built middle classes). One might expect manufacturing in mid-Africa in two decades.

> I appreciate how globalization of manufacturing helps lift poorer economies I really think we have to move to a Commons-based peer production paradigm. Ask yourself, would I want to work for Foxconn assembling $1k iPhones for meager pay? [1] And I am not asking you from a hypothetical standpoint where you pretend to be an Indian in the context of the country India. My question is: would you accept a job starting wo…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 4:12 AM UTC

pankajdoharey wrote: post #20

kodablah wrote: post #12

> With India’s labour cheaper compared with China, and the gradual expansion of its supplier base here, Apple will be able to use the country as an export hub While there are negatives, I appreciate how globalization of manufacturing helps lift poorer economies (albeit it slowly and not always agreeing with the politics of the newly-built middle classes). One might expect manufacturing in mid-Africa in two decades.

Actually I think, the most ideal countries to expand manufacturing to are African countries, they have some of the same advantages once china had. 1. Mineral Resources. 2. Cheap Labour. 3. High Density of Lanthanide and Actinide group minerals. China also has a fourth advantage which is a good mix of Production, Manufacturing and Electronics Engineers. Which Africa doesn't have. On the other hand India doesn't have t…

Post by cko » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 4:19 AM UTC

tesseracted wrote: post #37

pankajdoharey wrote: post #20

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Actually I think, the most ideal countries to expand manufacturing to are African countries, they have some of the same advantages once china had. 1. Mineral Resources. 2. Cheap Labour. 3. High Density of Lanthanide and Actinide group minerals. China also has a fourth advantage which is a good mix of Production, Manufacturing and Electronics Engineers. Which Africa doesn't have. On the other hand India doesn't have t…

Chinese people are also relatively intelligent. That is relevant, I think.

Post by petre » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 4:23 AM UTC

adventured wrote: post #29

throwaway4425 wrote: post #14

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I think this will depend on how much of an ally they are in the future. If they are seen as an economic threat, like Japan in the 80s, the media will probably start to report more on the atrocities committed in Kashmir along with the new Citizenship Law that appears to target or disadvantaged Muslims. Vietnam might he another alternative, but they are also a communist country, so the optics might not be better than C…

> Vietnam might he another alternative, but they are also a communist country, so the optics might not be better than China. It's already a booming manufacturing alternative center to China. It's also a center of booming tech manufacturing. Samsung has invested a huge amount of money into factories there. Their GDP has gone from $35 billion in 2003, to $261b in 2019. They've had one of the fastest growing economies f…

Post by thewhitetulip » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 4:26 AM UTC

nsenifty wrote: post #35

d3nj4l wrote: post #31

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This is blatant disinformation by omitting context. The CAA itself is discriminatory, since it does not apply to muslims, but in the context of the National Register of Citizens ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizens ) it becomes even more sinister. The NRC requires people to prove their citizenship through documentation, which is very difficult for large parts of India's population, who might…

> The CAA makes it easier for non-Muslims to claim citizenship while Muslims slip through the cracks; that is the point of contention. No it doesn't. Here's the relevant part of CAA( http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2019/214646.pdf ) that mentions non-Muslims > Provided that any person belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who entered into…