For years, iPhones (or their boxes) have said that they were "designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China." But thanks to an escalating trade war between the US and China, that might not be true in the coming years. Reuters reports that two of Apple's biggest manufacturing contractors, Foxconn and Pegatron, are working to expand their facilities in Mexico with an eye toward eventually building iPhones there.
[...] This isn't Foxconn's only effort to diversify away from China. Last year, Foxconn announced plans to begin manufacturing iPhones in India, and the company is now manufacturing the iPhone SE there.
Sources told Reuters that Taiwan-based iPhone contractor Pegatron is also considering a shift to Mexico, but few details about its plans are known.
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(2019-12-14) Exclusive: Documents Show Foxconn Refuses to Renegotiate Wisconsin Deal
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @04:15AM
I think software is a different thing than physical goods.
As someone who has outsourced initial R&D work to eastern europe and later transitioned that to India for BAU, as long as you invest in the right controls to mitigate your risks, it is doable.
I've also seen the opposite where something was completely in-house developed over the course of 15+ years with on-shore folks, but poor investment in the controls means the knowledge gap keeps widening and the code base keeps snowballing into a big pile of dung mountain that it is no longer maintainable.