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Radbot
Aug 12, 2009
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I'm no master of global logistics - why would Apple create the sapphire in the US and then ship it to China? Is this a special proprietary tech that only GT has?

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Radbot
Aug 12, 2009
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Molten Llama posted:

Yes, the process is proprietary to GT.

In addition to what's already been mentioned, it's also hellaciously expensive to open up that kind of precision manufacturing where the infrastructure's not up to snuff. Most of what's going into your China-assembled tech toys is not coming from mainland China; it's frequently just not feasible to produce there. The shortest hop most components are making is from Taiwan or (South) Korea, both of which have had decades of development to meet the tech industry's current needs.

The Gorilla Glass on everyone's current phones was shipped to China too.

My laptop, phone, and Moto 360 all come from China - are you saying that the labels are inaccurate? Those seem like pretty difficult things to assemble.

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But remember folks, only Android would have what amounts to an insta-root zero day in use by spying groups for three loving years.

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Biodome posted:

With iPhone you need some government level Israeli poo poo to get hacked and it gets patched right away. With android it can be some poo poo you download on purpose. I'll take iPhone.

Yeah I can see how a security flaw that requires you to download random APKs from androidwarez.tk is worse than one that can be put on your phone by visiting a loving link in safari

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