[ls15]

> And I will not be surprised Apple will cease the plan in India as soon as China steps back from the zero-covid policy, as if all the blood has not been spilled.

I doubt it. The disadvantages of being dependant on a single source are well-understood in 2022.

[usrnm]

They were understood just as well 50 years ago, the problem is, all these disadvantages are long term. Short term profits always win

[abrouwers]

I disagree, for long term sourcing. It takes awhile to get relationships, supply chain, etc. established.

[TrapLord_Rhodo]

Not OP, but the way i read their comment is the problems only become apparent in the long term.

When you do a cost to benefit analysis on china it always sounds great.

Yeah, you have to deal with a couple minor PR blunders since you are hiring slave labor, 2-3 weeks ARO boat time kinda sucks but they are fair trade offs for World class manufacturing for half the cost, and obscene payment terms since the CCP is involved in the deal making (120 days Payment terms on each milestone for CapEx is normal in china).

Only do you realise that you are manufacturing in a entirely foreign regime and that regime can do whatever it wants do you realise it's a problem. You are at their whim from a import/ export tax, wars (trade, economic and real), etc.

But all the benefits are real and easy to quanitify. The negatives are ethical and imagined until they are not.

[ibeckermayer]

*Short term profits always win in a system of de jure financial bailouts and de facto cartels (via regulatory capture, such as the patent system).

[yarky]

Well understood? I doubt many organizations had a pandemic SOP/DRP before 2020.

[runamok]

There's no reason more should not have had one. Here are CDC notes about SARS from 2004.

https://www.cdc.gov/sars/clinical/preparedness.html

[iso1631]

> I doubt it. The disadvantages of being dependant on a single source are well-understood in 2022.

How many businesses rely entirely on AWS? How plausible would it be for them to move to Azure or GCP or similar?