I thought Samsung phones were made in Vietnam?

Ask the locals if it sticks their country was chosen

Illegal doesn't mean nonexistent. We know it's banned, and we know it's still a problem.

Samsung isn't American and Adam Smith was brilliant.

They might, but their manufacturing now has huhe defect rates. Its not a false perspective.

Could we not please? Terrible idea

I agree the skilled labor issue would solve over time, but choosing to manufacture their most complex flagship product is what is ballsy here, when Apple is struggling on even making their lower end and simpler products in India.

Its relatively common to manufacture the latest product in country A and migrate production of that product to lower cost countries over time. For example, Gillette has always done that with their razors. But setting up your flagship manufacturing in a new country which doesnt have the needed infrastructure is a supremely risky move.

And as I mentioned - beside the labor issue, there is also the cultural issue. It's telling that Vivek Wadhwa is saying the solution is for Apple to learn "jugaad"; when the choice is developing a new set of jugaadu skills in India vs. setting up manufacturing in other SE Asian countries, the appeal of Indian manufacturing diminishes.

Just EMP the whole freight compartment. Might zap a PS5 or a TV, but hey, thats what insurance is for.

So what you're saying is, its fine for a worker to be surveilled and harassed by customers?

Where do you work? How would you react if customers surveilled your every move and harrassed you because you took a leak or got a coffee instead of dedicating your every second to their task?

Yes, there are shitty moving companies. But oh my god, are there shitty customers!

Our prison are government owned and slavery is banned. At least learn something before commenting.

That's happens when you shift you manufacturing plant to another country which may lack skilled labour to make those components. Given time it would solve. Samsung though already manufacture many things in india so won't face such problem.

It's not really a gatcha as you might expect.

For all of the Face ID components and LiDAR scanners it’s there regardless, they’ve made it so it integrates beautifully into the phone. You have to have one and see it first hand to realise how cool it is.

Don’t hate something you can’t afford.

I feel it'll take time. A lot of young people don't know about the past Japanese products' bad reputation. Even China hasn't risen above the stigmas yet.

While I don’t disagree with your history of the stigmatization of the producing countries, I feel that you kinda point out that previously stigmatized production countries rose above those stigmas. Why not India?

Oh you have no idea what you're missing on.

I think there's a stigma when production shifts to a new country. I remember comments about Japanese stuff being terrible and how if you want quality you should buy stuff made in the USA. Once things started getting shifted to China, then it's how everything made in China is terrible and you should buy stuff made in Japan only!

The first few generations of Korean cars had the same stigma, at least for the cheapest stuff.

They are both being tracked, you get that right?

I think this taps into a fear that is larger then the actual threat. I use them on bikes and luggage I’ll probably find some more uses.

Well the title is actually correct as it does work. Again this might seem to many as a joke but it's a huge thing and the initial part is done, from now on it's just steady improvements.

Can’t blame tsa for the luggage handlers losing your stuff!

Good point. Some reShoring is going on, but not large scale, yet. I stand by my oxcart remark.

We’re folding things up and moving to India…

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Well, that “was” NEWS in 2021.

Why