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Apple has been deeply involved in the mainland market for many years, accounting for up to 18% of the mainland smartphone market, not only has a huge user volume, Apple also has a lot of supply chains in the mainland.
Such as Foxconn, this must be known to everyone, in addition to BOE, OFILM, Luxshare Precision and other well-known companies are Apple's supply chain.
However, in the past two years, Apple has begun to move its production lines out, and at most it has even moved out of 6 production lines in just one month, which has made some suppliers only follow them and then arrange production lines overseas.
For example, this year, Apple has continuously moved its production lines to India, Vietnam and other regions, and Foxconn, as Apple's main foundry, can only follow to build factories in India.
Apple CEO Cook has said that he hopes that domestic suppliers can expand their business scope overseas to facilitate subsequent cooperation.
Foxconn CEO Terry Gou even said: China can not do without Apple.
Foreign media: Apple is inseparable from China
But now the American broadcasting company CNN has issued a report saying that Apple cannot do without China. Why does CNN say that?
CNN gave a simple and rude example, Apple has not cut prices in the world, but in China's official website has begun to do discount activities, from July 29 to August 1, that is, today, Apple's many products the highest price reduction of 600 yuan. CNN said: In fact, Apple's products have never had to worry about sales.
And from the perspective of several revisions of Apple's mobile phone, such as canceling the 3.5nm headphone hole of Apple's mobile phone, launching wireless Bluetooth headsets, and then directly canceling wired headphones, charging heads and other "mobile phone standards" on the grounds of energy-saving sanitation, so that customers have to spend extra money to buy these accessories that should be included in the product.
In this series of actions, Apple not only made great cost savings, but also made high profits, and Cook was undoubtedly a shrewd businessman who knew how to maximize profits.
Apple is inseparable from the mainland market
To say that Apple can start doing activities and promotions for no reason is that no one believes. There is only one reason why the iron rooster can pluck the feathers, that is, Apple is now less confident in the face of fierce market competition.
With the change of consumers' consumption concept, the choice of products is more objective and more rational, coupled with the global public health problems brought about by the downturn in consumption, global mobile phone and computer shipments are declining.
As a huge consumer market in the mainland, we mentioned at the beginning that Apple occupies 18% of the market share in the mainland smartphone market, which means that on average, one person in 6 people uses an Apple mobile phone. If the mainland also starts not to buy it, the losses that Apple will face are indescribable.
Apple is dependent on the continental supply chain
On the other hand, Apple has more than two hundred suppliers in the world, but there are nearly a hundred suppliers in the mainland, which is at least half of Apple's supply chain in the hands of mainland producers, and the mainland is also an important production place for Apple. For example, Foxconn has hundreds of thousands of employees assembling Apple products every day.
Although Apple has been thinking about relocating the production line in the past two years, the results have been seen by everyone, and it is true that the labor costs in India and Vietnam are now much cheaper than those in the mainland, but whether it is the perfection of the industrial chain or the manufacturing process, including supporting facilities, etc., it is completely incomparable with the mainland.
More importantly, leaving aside these external production elements, only looking at the quality of employees, these regions cannot catch up with the mainland. Therefore, Apple's relocation work is actually not ideal.
The cost of labor in the mainland has indeed been rising, which also shows that our economic level is rising. At the most important time, we have basically bid farewell to the era of manual labor, entered the era of mechanical production, more production and manufacturing has entered automation, fully automatic, and many industrial fields have used artificial intelligence.
The name of the mainland's "world factory" is not a vain name, it is impossible to rely on a low labor cost, but more because of the high level of technology, and fast production efficiency, the world has "Made in China". To take a more intuitive example, when many people mention "domestic goods", the first word that comes to mind is definitely "good quality and low price", which has a very high cost performance.
Especially now, consumers have abandoned the previous erroneous consumption concept of "the moon abroad is relatively round", and "foreign goods" are no longer synonymous with "tall" in our eyes. On the contrary, it must be weighed, which should not have any quality problems.
So we can see that Apple has not only begun to slow down the relocation work, but even began to move back. This is more fully illustrative that Apple is inseparable from the mainland.
Write at the end
Many companies believe that entering Apple's supply means high profits and no longer need to worry about the company's revenue.
In addition, being able to enter the Apple supply chain also means that the strength of the company is recognized, after all, Apple, as one of the top two companies in the world, has extremely high requirements for parts performance and quality.
But entering Apple's supply chain does not mean that you can eat and drink without worry, nor do you have high profits as the outside world imagines. Previously, the well-known enterprise "Renbao" voluntarily withdrew from Apple's supply chain because the gross profit was too low to exploit.
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