China has always been considered the world's factory, the country where most electronic devices are manufactured. However, a decade ago, things began to change when workers began to demand better pay for their work.
To that, we have to add that due to the trade tensions between the United States and China, many companies began to move the manufacture of their products to other countries such as India, Vietnam ... The last straw has been the coronavirus.
During the months of February to May, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus, almost completely paralyzed, affecting not only the manufacture of devices, but also components that affected practically all sectors, not only technology.
The latest news related to the decentralization of China as a manufacturing center for Apple, we find it in the middle Nikkei. According to this medium, Apple will begin to manufacture the iPad in Vietnam, a country where it also will focus the manufacture of the MacBook. in the middle of this year. Mac production moves to Malaysia and the production of the iPhone 12 has started to increase in the India.
Those who thought that with the change of government in the United States, things were going to change, they were very wrong. Apple wants to decentralize its manufacturing, as it does with the manufacturers of the components of its products, so that its dependence on China for practically everything, cannot affect the manufacture of its products in the future.
Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, has assembled various factories in India and in Vietnam Therefore, the only people affected by the decentralization of the manufacturing of Apple products are the employees of the factories.