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by betterThanTexas 399 days ago
Well then Asia is de-facto doing the hardware. Apple is just paying for it.

Apple is famously sitting on a mountain of cash. How easily do you think they could replicate the supply chain of even one of their products without outsourcing it?
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drob518 399 days ago
Apple is designing the hardware in the USA, not Asia. Asia designs the manufacturing process, which they are quite good at.
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mschuster91 399 days ago
> Asia designs the manufacturing process, which they are quite good at.

Not even that, for some parts like the aluminium cases ("unibody") or the laser-bored microholes in their old magsafe connector for the LEDs, Apple designed the whole process.

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