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by judge2020 1284 days ago
For reference, this seems to have started with Airpods which have been (in part) assembled in Vietnam since 2020: https://redd.it/gokl90
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Which means it took them over a decade to start moving their assembly lines out of China. The GP comment still stands, Apple clearly had no urgent interest in ending their relationship with China. A cynic might even suggest that they're only doing it now that the geopolitical tensions are favoring the US...
What exactly are you thinking of as the starting point? Apple only started production of iPhones in 07 and things didn’t instantly fail.