Google Is Reportedly Planning To Move All Pixel Production Out Of China
https://www.engadget.com/2238895/google-reportedly-planning-move-pixel-production-out-of-china/
https://www.engadget.com/2238895/google-reportedly-planning-move-pixel-production-out-of-china/
23 Comments
VeganBtw@piefed.social · 25 pts · 27d
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 25d
Probaby just across the border so the trucks with parts from China dont have to go too far.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 27d
Can't have the ccp getting into googles spy game...
LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip · 48 pts · 27d
That's not why. Slave labor in Vietnam and India will be cheaper.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 27d
I was being ironic as both are mass surveillance apparatuses.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 26d
The only correct answer. China has gotten too expensive. It is all about money.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 25d
neither of you are right...it's about tariff avoidance. The factories will still be owned by China.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
You may be right about this particular instance. Do you have evidence the factories will still be owned by China? From what I can tell they are using Foxconn so that is not the case.
Samsung also exited from China as will many more companies. Corporations have been exiting China for awhile now because manufacturing prices are lower elsewhere. They also get sweet deals from governments doing this and in a lot of ways it is predatory in nature as they will leave Vietnam if it is more profitable somewhere else in the future.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 25d
Why would Google care about tariffs when the money will inevitably be funneled toward them anyway?
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 25d
Luckily they informed you of all of their plans and reasonings and we have you here for to tell us all of how the world works.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 25d
Don'tBe Evil.NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 27d
Honestly I'm tired of the Chinese slave labor. My phone battery life is terrible. Plus, they didn't even add removable batteries so I could swap it out. Geniuses, can't take the battery out if you don't put in a back cover 🙄
master94ga@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d
The two problems you are reporting are result of Google bad design, not chinese manufacturing
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 26d
The comment was a joke.
sanitation@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 26d
Fairphone is selling in us now.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 25d
All the tiny electronics parts will still be made in china.
Solrac@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 26d
Then we need Graphene elsewhere
philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 26d
Grapheme is coming to some Motorola models next year
darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
Not going to hold my breath when Motorola is involved. Full me 6 times shame on me.
philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 25d
Fair enough!
I think a major benefit to Motorola being onboard is pixels arnt sold everywhere round the world, plus it means not financially supporting google.
Are Motorola unreliable? I haven't had much experience with them
darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
They have repeatedly promised and failed to deliver android updates to both their flagship and affordable phone lines.
Ilandar@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 25d
Yes, in my experience they do not deliver on their update promises and are extremely inconsistent with their timing which creates unnecessary security gaps.
SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 25d
Motorola is owned by Lenovo since 2014, which is also Chinese: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/motorola-smartphones/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility