[orenlindsey]

Apple can't build a factory to produce Apple Watches before the entire situation would be resolved. And if they could, it would be much more expensive to run compared to making it in Vietnam (where they make it now).

It would just be a stopgap solution.

[dijit]

I don't think anyone is seriously considering that, I think the broader point is that by outsourcing and being a tad greedy they have shot themselves in the foot inadvertently.

Of course, they'll have run the numbers and the cost of this fiasco is likely many-many orders of magnitude below the savings from using cheap labour.

[hn_throwaway_99]

They didn't shoot themselves in the foot, by any measure. If the watches were made in the US, Apple could still be sued in federal court for patent infringement. Masimo likely just filed in the ITC because it (correctly) gave them the most leverage (a sales injunction) for the smallest possible legal cost. Apple is going to appeal, so it's still going to get sorted out in federal court in any case.

[yftsui]

They are made by Luxshare's China factory, its Vietnam factory probably are trying to ramp up to it. Given how short Luxshare as a company and its capabilities to take shares from Foxconn, ppl may have over estimated the difficulty there.

[gorlilla]

Doesn't FoxConn already have empty factories up north somewhere? [0]

[0]https://www.theverge.com/c/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-...

[AlbertCory]

it would only be a stopgap if they didn't keep the US plant open.

I'm sure almost every state in the US would offer incentives to locate the plant there.