I think the split between asia making the hardware and america the software is working very well for both sides. The world is round after all. Of course it's cheaper for us this way, but there's also quite a bit of know-how accumulation in asia, that we might find hard to emulate. Like pumping out millions of high DPI Displays in just a few month - don't underestimate that.
I would be really more concerned that asia starts making it's own software and are some-what surprised that they are struggling so much to come up with anything useful.
Of course, that feat of producting millions of a product in a short period of time is also because of how much harder laborers for lower pay over there.
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I think the split between asia making the hardware and america the software is working very well for both sides. The world is round after all. Of course it's cheaper for us this way, but there's also quite a bit of know-how accumulation in asia, that we might find hard to emulate. Like pumping out millions of high DPI Displays in just a few month - don't underestimate that.
I would be really more concerned that asia starts making it's own software and are some-what surprised that they are struggling so much to come up with anything useful.
Of course, that feat of producting millions of a product in a short period of time is also because of how much harder laborers for lower pay over there.