Apple is desperate to keep profits flowing while the iPhone and iPad stagnate in sales performance. Services is on the rise; but not fast enough.
So they are being absolutely militant to squeeze any and all profit out of the supply chain they can regardless of what that means.
We know countless US and EU based suppliers who have been replaced by cheaper equivalents in this pursuit of profit. In some cases Apple has even been complicit by helping lower cost vendors improve to displace higher cost US based ones.
Without government trade restrictions this is a logical thing to do when under profit pressures.
The Mac Pro decision was clearly similar. Save a couple % on a 6K machines production costs is all that matters.
So they are being absolutely militant to squeeze any and all profit out of the supply chain they can regardless of what that means.
We know countless US and EU based suppliers who have been replaced by cheaper equivalents in this pursuit of profit. In some cases Apple has even been complicit by helping lower cost vendors improve to displace higher cost US based ones.
Without government trade restrictions this is a logical thing to do when under profit pressures.
The Mac Pro decision was clearly similar. Save a couple % on a 6K machines production costs is all that matters.