Still, a move to work solely with TSMC would not be unexpected from Apple. Until a few years ago Samsung was the exclusive producer of A-series processors at a factory in Austin, Tex.
While some will applaud Apple's move away from Samsung; this does have the side-effect of impacting U.S. jobs. What will become of the workers at the Austin factory, and how will that story come to be told in the press? Apple is already blamed for everything that happens to Foxconn. Will this move, if it results in layoffs at the factory, be portrayed as Apple cutting American jobs?
Still, a move to work solely with TSMC would not be unexpected from Apple. Until a few years ago Samsung was the exclusive producer of A-series processors at a factory in Austin, Tex.
While some will applaud Apple's move away from Samsung; this does have the side-effect of impacting U.S. jobs. What will become of the workers at the Austin factory, and how will that story come to be told in the press? Apple is already blamed for everything that happens to Foxconn. Will this move, if it results in layoffs at the factory, be portrayed as Apple cutting American jobs?
Of course it will, but if Apple decides that it will only do things that make it popular with an inherently hostile IT press, then they'll be out of business within the next five years.
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