Ahead of iPhone 16 launch, Tim Cook's old video on choosing China for manufacturing goes viral
A viral video of Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why Apple manufactures in China, emphasizing that it¡¯s not due to cheap labor, but rather China's vast pool of skilled workers and advanced tooling capabilities.
Your iPhone and iPad, among other Apple products, will all have the phrase "Assembled in China" printed on the back. Why the computer giant chose to relocate all of its production facilities overseas, mostly to China, is a mystery to many. A common misconception is that labour costs in China are low, which explains why so many IT giants have set up production facilities there.
Apple was accused of similar things quite a bit.
What did Tim Cook say in the old viral video?
Tim Cook explains why Apple chooses China for manufacturing. pic.twitter.com/jDEkpXUorp
¡ª Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) September 5, 2024
According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, the country's talent pool outweighs its cheap labour expenses as the company chooses China.
¡°The popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labour costs. The truth is China stopped being a low labour costs country many years ago,¡± Cook said.
¡°The reason is because of skill, the quantity of skill in one location and the type of skill it is,¡± he added.
Cook continued by saying that the items require sophisticated tooling and that precision is needed when utilizing cutting-edge materials and tooling. He added that China possesses "very deep" tooling capabilities.
Credit: X | Tooling engineers could pack a room at a US gathering, Cook emphasized
Tooling engineers could pack a room at a US gathering, Cook emphasized, while contrasting the US with China. However, you could fit numerous football fields in China.
How did people on the internet react?
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, responded, "True," to the statements made by the CEO of Apple. With six million views, the video generated comments.
True
¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 6, 2024
Here's what some other people wrote.
It started as cheap labor, then they became highly skilled and invested in manufacturing infrastructure, meanwhile we forgot how to build at scale and became reliant on them to do anything. Then they raised the costs of labor and now we have no other option.
¡ª SpiderMonkey (@SpiderMonkeyXYZ) September 5, 2024
Don¡¯t people literally throw themselves off of Apples factories so much that they had to install suicide prevention netting?
¡ª King Francis the Turd (@YourTurdliness) September 5, 2024
That¡¯s a kind way of saying ¡°China has more skilled labor per capita than the US or any other place on earth¡±
¡ª Nadeem (@codesciple) September 5, 2024
I¡¯m sure they do possess the skill he describes for manufacturing but they also have low labor costs!
¡ª Perpetually Annoyed (@PerpAnnoyed) September 5, 2024
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