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The reason companies go to China for manufacturing right now is because they can produce the same quality products as other nations at a reduced cost.
How is that possible? Simple: cheap labor.
Cheap labor means cheaper raw materials, cheaper overhead, cheaper everything. To assume they can't produce quality products when the vast majority of the major electronics manufacturers use Chinese resources at some level is kind of silly.
As I mentioned, few would argue Apple products are poorly made or suffer from poor quality control. As a matter of fact, the opposite is true. Apple is constantly held up as an example of high quality products... and just about everything they sell is made in China.
Sure, there are crappy manufacturers in China just like there are crappy manufacturers in every nation. But to assume all Chinese manufacturing is poor is exceptionally naive.
How is that possible? Simple: cheap labor.
Cheap labor means cheaper raw materials, cheaper overhead, cheaper everything. To assume they can't produce quality products when the vast majority of the major electronics manufacturers use Chinese resources at some level is kind of silly.
As I mentioned, few would argue Apple products are poorly made or suffer from poor quality control. As a matter of fact, the opposite is true. Apple is constantly held up as an example of high quality products... and just about everything they sell is made in China.
Sure, there are crappy manufacturers in China just like there are crappy manufacturers in every nation. But to assume all Chinese manufacturing is poor is exceptionally naive.