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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Thanks for sharing. Shall watch tonight.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I saw a snippet of an interview with Tim Cook recently where he said Apple couldn't build its products in the USA *for any price* because the large-scale manufacturing expertise — people who know how to build & maintain factory tooling — is largely gone, whereas in China it's readily available/accessible<br></div><div><br></div><div>This seems a rather difficult situation to recover from. How can you even teach it if the remaining experts are rapidly disappearing? How can you even get enough people interested in that career path when ~nobody knows anyone (locally) that does it?<br></div><div><br></div><div>John<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 15 Dec 2023, at 00:13, Mike Bryant wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">I've got all my established contacts and find them excellent, but I still see comments here obviously not trusting Chinese suppliers and paying over the odds instead to suppliers who probably get their supplies from China anyway. <br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Even if you don't buy the book, it's well worth watching this video just to appreciate the scale of the Shenzhen market and how it totally dwarfs anything in the West. There's also huge warehouses backing up these operations which she doesn't show, and of
course all the PCB manufacturers and assemblers.<br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt;"><a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/machinery-enchantress/the-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-in-shenzhen" id="qt-LPlnk112384">https://www.crowdsupply.com/machinery-enchantress/the-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-in-shenzhen</a></span></span></span><br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt;"></span></span></span><br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt;">In over 20 years of buying thousands of packages from China, I've had one faulty set
of ICs due to bad packaging, and two counterfeits. All three refunded.</span></span></span><br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div id="qt-appendonsend" class="qt-elementToProof"><br></div><div id="qt-divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><br></div><div>________________________________________________________<br></div><div>This is the Synth-diy mailing list<br></div><div>Submit email to: <a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br></div><div>View archive at: <a href="https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/">https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/</a><br></div><div>Check your settings at: <a href="https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy">https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br></div><div>Selling or trading? Use <a href="mailto:marketplace@synth-diy.org">marketplace@synth-diy.org</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>